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| After this summer break the coding continues.. Patch 20 Released ! + Improved player controll + smaler Bug fixes Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| Summer time is coding time.. stay tooned witin 5 weeks. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| 2014-03-05 Patch 19 Released ! + Game.exe is now compiled it Blitz Max. With minib3d. + Alpha channel enabled on gui + Many new small featuers and tweaks. - Still manny buggs as conversion broke some featuers.. work in progress. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| 2013-07-15 Patch 18 Released ! + Locked game speed to 60 fps. + Mouse pointer now show item when drag and drop + Items movable between slots in inventory + Items can now be deleted by drag them from inventory to screen + Bug fix, If eating in battle the attack Stop. + FPS can be disabled via INI file or command #FPS ON or OFF 2013-01-28 Patch 17 Released ! + if no target select make fight not to take place at all. and display error message + Fix on server attack to agro attack sooner. + Battle spam removed from chat. attacking no longer logs in chat. + Kill spam removed from chat. if a kill is done its not logged in chatt anymore. + Hover over a Target now Brighten it up. + Bug fixed: Attacking npc will stop at 0.5 distant. and just fight. + Bug fixed: Dead is now displayed dead too for new players that dint se the kill. + Bug fixed: Server: npc with loaded status -health was walking around now fixed. 2013-01-21 Patch 16 Released ! + Floating battle text damage built. showing blood loss. + Auto attack on Right mouse click works good. had To tweak a lot. + New selection border GFX if auto attacking it. + Now friendly target is yellow and if unfriendly its red + as new fights works. the F key map is herby removed. to attack press 1 or right mouse klick on target to auto melee attack. + Implemented code on server and client to select target. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| 2013-01-01 With patch 14 we get following new things. +Select target inplementet. with a short left mouse click while hovering a NPC. that NPC will be selected as curent target. +Curent target information hud display now works. +Selected Target shaddow mark implemented. 2013-01-01 Happy new year.. we selebrate with a new forum runnin on localserver. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| Webb server up a new forum too. but still i ned to start up game server also. ill do that later this eve.. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| Matking another try now to code tiberion once again. this time on new domain www.tiberion.eu. we se how long i can keep that one :) Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| The server broke down at last.. tok some years :) anyway right now i am moving and have my head hands full for the moment. later in september i may continue to code. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| It was feb 19 i last worked on this game.. but now im back for another run.. New adds * Golum Sonte Monsters, just outsde city * Transparent catt background * XP tabble implemeted Level Cap 15 * New nice XP bar (Like runes of magic has) * Bugg fixed Death respawn.. to spawn at hospital. * Astrix then typing password at login. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| * Editor now support deletetion of objects. yes its obvius this editor is somthing more than editor. its accaly a MMO too sort of. so deleteing objects must send out to "editor" clients. tat was a risky thing to do but works. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| 2011-02-06 21:40 * Hidden Password enter while login. * Some new objects released. * Client updated * Varius bugg fixes.. but still much to do. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| 2010-01-09 12:02 * Hower over NPC implemented. displays name of npc in the right side of screen. 2009-11-22 09:22 * (Glitch) fixed so inventory shows direct after start of game. the #inv command still work. 2009-10-12 07:02 * New feature added. when mouse hower over inventory. the current slot sellected is highlighted. makes it like ordynary windows buttons. 2009-08-31 22:18 * Added support for moving speed in editor. its 1 and 0,1 and 0,02 - My Wow account expired.. no more wow for a while 2009-07-28 07:01 * Trying to startup server part of this FTS file Transfare Server. but right now iam banging my head against desk.. i will have to continue later on.. 2009-07-27 08:00 * Creating this ftp download is a pain. but i have get it to work quet well. i think it be ready this evening or tomorrow morning. i am usalu up at 05:30 am to code untill 07:00. and in evenings if time permits. no more coding after 22:00 it only gets buggy.. 2009-07-26 17:21 * Now i have written my own FTP rutine.. it works quiet well. at least better than ftp do. anyway its will come hando for editor to download from server.. 2009-07-21 20:43 -Coding a updater for editor. like automatic download of new objects. 2009-07-18 17:43 * New monitor 23 inc.. works like a charm and wide too * Imported some new objects to editor. - NEeds is some how to let editor people upload stuff.. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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I have not coded to much as i usalu do at summer hollydays. been lacy
weeks. but i at least fixed out some new fetures. editor got a nice
preview wich show all models one can place in world Here comes long version.. 2009-07-17 23:45 Worked hard all day long for this one.. ! * Middle Mouse button put to use to display all available objects. so one can fast sellect em from display. A little buggy but now its rather fun to add objects. also ned to polish it some maby.. but it works ! 2009-07-16 23:55 - Working on improving editor. a gui for sellectin all kinds of objects. * Created some stone objects.. 2009-07-15 23:09 * Pressing enter now enable chatt text.. no more klick to speak * starting coding loot window. 2009-06-18 12:00 Ben gone for a while.. now i am back and stay ready for updates. 2009-04-25 17:50 *Compiled a second world. with just height map. and color map. *Client now can load levels. *Teleport command now works. (this may impact of player goes dead) need to fix. -Editor and server dose not support more that one level.. 2009-04-10 22:48 * Fixed swiming mode. it code was corrupted. still in fps mode swim dose not work. 2009-03-29 22:32 * Changed editor issues now you get step back in order to select a object * New feature in editor a fast help window * Updated game with new port in gaskil 2009-03-17 20:34 * Build 8 relaeased. * FIXED TAB so one can switch betwene third person view and First person view. * A Greate Wall has ben build around the whole down. with some guard towers. pretty nice if you ask me. 2009-03-14 09:39 New models added, Sword and shield. * editor updated with this new objects to place. - ned to code these on players... the bone animation is prepared but still i ned to attach em. - still has to fix that TAB key. so inventory can show up. 2009-03-08 14:56 Implementin FPS view. * Yep i have implemented fps view. - Major drawback. now gui is unusable.. maby "TAB" cold enable or disable gui. 2009-03-07 09:46 Progress of coding is well. some new features. * Inventory saves on logout player. even empty slots saves. * Inventory Loads in Login player. even empty slots loads. * NEW command #INV shows inventory. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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Pics of the new items :) Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| Here i put the progress repports. 2009-02-27 12:49 * Inventory shows up * one can use inventory item by klick on it. * empty slots is empty on client side too. 2009-02-26 22:21 * Server now sends inventory data. - Working on reciving this data. and put use of inventory buttons. the idea is to show a icon that represent the item. 2009-02-25 23:37 * Added inventory window to client.exe gui. now i only have to design a inventory packet from server. di let client to know whats in there. 2009-02-22 22:00 * Fixed item database on server. loaded from a items.dat file. this makes it easy to manage and creat all sorts of items. -TO do item inventory for players 2009-02-11 22:07 Client * Fixed the delta moves of npc to synk better. * Improved multi player movement position. rather good synk with difirent computer speeds. 2009-02-10 22:40 * More Tracking move for NPC and players. not devide position. rather moves players while in game. this makes moves more realistic for npc. but also it destroyed player vs player experience. i have to compromice here. * delta moves finished * turned out blitz3d had built in delta animation support.. lycke me * Released build 6 so every one who want to play ned to download ned client.zip * much tweaking has ben done.. to improve playability on slower systems. 2009-02-09 09:37 * Delta Moves and animation. depending on fps. this even out speeds for difirent computers so they are more equal. Screen Capture  Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| 2009-02-08 22:45 Server is up with Dynamic DNS so if ip change DNS will hopefully change too. Curently iam improving the npc movements on clients a lot. 2009-01-20 22:15 Critical error: Server has dynamic IP so it changed.. LOL Server DNS was way off fixed.. now its up and running again. woip: Adjusting server nework preformance. 2008-12-30 00:23 * Added some clutter. Inkwell, paintbrush. * Experment with new http function to download updates patches. - the idea is to eliminate the editor and editor server.. 2008-12-16 23:47 Build 5 * Updated editor. * Uploaded new client.zip * added a new house mesh. bigger sized. * added a painting of me - Editor patcher seam broken.. i ned to redo editor.. rethink it Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| 2008-12-14 21:44 Small works. * I merged editor object list and objects with game. this makes editor world be like real one. they where horrible out of order * Updated editor to use the new height map. * Removed all old world objects and puted in the new ones. 2008-12-07 17:12 Iam thinking of finalizing the terrain map. 2008-11-16 12:56 Smothing out all * Splittet terrain into 6 parts of height maps. * added loader for terrain that joins the parts into one terrain. the aboves gives better smother terrain. and i have much controll of everything. difirent layers for difirent height. mor layer may be added at wish. no limit for the height layers here. perfect world engine. 2008-11-15 23:29 Bug fixes * Fixed so players will not do y check att al to terrain. only npc do this now.. this alow cave exploring for players. * Updated both server and clients to build 3 every one neds to rewonload whole pack.. 2008-11-11 0:37 * Version check implemented. So now server will tell client if its using old version.. 2008-11-10 22:52 Adjusting * Adjusted next level from 150 to 600.. this makes its harder to level. 2008-11-09 12:02 Saving Starting position fixed. * Changed starting location to house just out of city * Position is being saved when logged out * Blood,maxblood value is being saved * XP,MAx_XP is being saved * Level is already saved by before - using a older laptop 1 year older. single Core i now se that game is lagging a lott.. so it may ned some optimaation. 2008-11-07 20:26 new time for coding... this time i be up untill late late.. * fix server to create a account if it aint created.. 2008-11-05 20:47 Registration gui * Made client send registration request to server. * VOP make server create the new account. 2008-10-21 23:40 Uploaded new client.zip * imported a new cave and placed it into world now there is 3 caves in world already. the new cave has railroad system. and lights. thoe cave dose not contain any light information. just standard light. 2008-10-21 02:08 4 hours coding gave ressults. jump in cave possible. * Fixed triggers a cavetrigger and a terrain trigger. * by implementing triggers now player can jump in the cave. it works by placing 2 triggers at entry/exit of cave Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| 2008-10-19 22:23 A hard day work * Fixed up editor. found a gigantic bug in vertex height edits. * One can now create Holes in terrain. this makes caves and dungeons avaiable. * Created one dungeon. * Fixed so player can walk in cave. Dont try to jump cause there is a bugg still.. just Walk in cave for now. * Uploaded latest client.zip so if you get some kind of errors download new client. 2008-10-08 22:32 * Coded a gui for Login and attached register button on login. (next step is to make client send registration request server) 2008-10-07 21:59 * server controlls where player spawns. 2008-10-06 23:01 * NPC Spawn now accurate. * NPC logging of or out of range is removed by clients. spare gameers cpu load. 2008-10-05 21:29 * Fixed bugg with npc goint integer. (it was the getangle() function containend int instead of float) * Added the city in delta. terrain is brief there right now. * Desert area terrain more interesting. * fixed whole island so its not taking all space.. now a second island fitt in same height map. 2008-09-28 21:12 * Recreating the world height map. i ned to do this casue of major fault in construction before. it will be a better height map indeed. 2008-09-25 22:15 XP implemented. * Now one get experince by killing the NPC * Leveling is possible * Blood increese by 1.1 each level. * Increesed hitt range from 0.3 to 0.6 more to come... 2008-09-23 21:45 Fighting back they do now these NPC. * Added ability to hurt player who attack npc. * Limited NPC cords send to client to 32 * stress limited server to 823 npc running at onse. with verry little lag. * Rat is implemented. they running all over place. 2008-09-21 08:03 NÅC now Talks and can wait. * Made new NPC commands * Added text line over npc when its talk. (Will fine tune this later) * There are now 31 NPCs online steady. * Fixed so NPC only Send messages when thay are close. exept then message ends with a "!" i am tinking of limit the amount of data sended to clients. i know server cope with 80 npc and we are at 23 but numbers of NPC will increese as game progress. i 2008-09-16 06:33 NPC is walking around. * Enabled Walk command on NPC. * Added guard that walks betwen main town and guard station * added a comnfusing Civial NPC at staring point. i hade to code verry much and i deservs to sleep now 2008-09-14 02:03 Starting to coding scrïpts for AI Curently iam coding the scrïpt and data structure for Ai npc. not implemented yet as i am parsing text files. yes its late night here its cause i gona work night tomorow. 2008-09-13 testing now there are 70 NPC in game all sended to client instant. this makes server send about 4 packets of 512 bytes per 200 millisecs. that whold be like 2k*5 = 10kbyts per second. or like 0.1 mbit Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| Here i put the progress repports. 2008-09-12 * Name over other players and npc. * health bar over player and npc. * Fixed so NPC can be killed. * made NPC stick to ground. * NPCs now walk in Cos Sin waves... soon i enable AI * Fixed 2 crash buggs consering killing npc. 2008-09-11 11:39 Updated Client and Server Chatt * Made chatt window broader 800 pixels. * Now chatt show "username: " to save length of chat lines * Moved chat window to always be at bottom of screen health Bar * Made client show Blood/Maxblood * Curent Avatar name also in top left corner. Statistics * Made server output statistic to file at http://server.tiberion.eu/log/event.txt 2008-09-10 09:00 New Client.zip updated client.zip * TAB now works while login (it changes text field) * Respawn Tested and works now 5 second * Mail Demon has ben created as separate program. that mails out to admins. * Client.zip is the one you shold use. Ti minimize confusion just us it ! 2008-09-09 08:00 progressing The light Client works so well so we can skipp the heavy one. had som mailer issue. fixed now thoe. 2008-09-08 01:03 LightClient I created a Light Client. this client splits upp world in to 32x32 chunks instead of 32 that enable camera range and camera fog work better. download this client if having problem with fps. its possible i will only code this client as its verry fast. and flexible. server.tiberion.com/lightclient.zip 2008-09-07 11:00 Big update on early client. Features PVP is enabled. NEW controlls to fight is as usual "F" DemoDog added a nice mouse pointer too. also i hided windows mouse while in game. but there is still some work to do before making a official alpha. for the one who cant wait there is a client server.tiberion.com/client.zip username for enter game user: guest pass: gurst stay tooned for real alpha soon. all coding is going well now. 2008-09-04 08:00 I Uploaded a early client about 8mb zip file. one can login as user: guest pass: guest.. also iam working on a emailar that mails user if somone goes online. 2008-08-31 18:06 Bug fixed. i managed to fix that bugg. so now chatting and login works good. next phase is to put in some of the bad rats. 2008-08-28 22:47 And you thougt you think of all. dint you Well i sure did ! bot soon to discover i missed somthing. Like now i have to sleap on how to fix the logout bugg. the world is sure square in intel processors. i forgot to clean out users net cache. this meant server was trying to send to invalid stream and its baaad. well i sleap about it and fix it some time.. now i am going away for 2 days.. i be back on saturday night or somthing.. neds to think.. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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We have decided in team to step back half yaar to old gfx engine. sens
the Zbuffer fault and GPU increese is just to much for uss.. Anyway i managed in a couble of days implement so one can se other players move around. and display what they are doing like jump,run,swim,stand still :)  Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| My friends and me had a meating a fast one on internet. how to puch the game forward. and we decided to back the tape a little bitt. and stick to color maps. there some reason for this. 1 faster devlopment 2 faster game FPS 3 Z buffred alpha will work correct :D 4 Compability increese. So now i am working on terrain height map. Also i explored som other know online rpgs. and discover some nice things like size of world. and height of player charters. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| We want an engine with 5000x5000 yards area. it was easy to create a demo Heres it is with source http://www.tiberion.eu/querenderengine.zip now i ned to make same engine to use .cell files. cell files is a own made fileformat i simply load the terrain and create theese blocks of files. offcurse there is trouble then generating terrain using blocks instead of one size heigtmap. its a real pain i says... im thinking of making other map smaler like 1000x1000 yards or haveing whole height map in memmory 5000x5000... Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| The world size in tiberion will be as big as media is. as my aim is not to limit mapsize by technical mean.s i have however strumble over unpredited errors.. problem is i am trying to load a 5000x5000 map and duplicate this giantic map. in order to smoth the data within it. this fails termenency. as i only have 2gb of ram on my vista laptop. it make a MAV. so i figuer out a plan-B it is to make a converter and a splitter so one can both smoth and cut out the data into segmnents this game will be a new kind of rpg. A Mix of wow and the other realtime loaded uppdated games on internet. Everything will be interactive. Big plans but i am stuck at the starting line for now.. :) Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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2008-07-07 08:27 Time to code some.. yesterday i have rethinked how the
data in the world shold be managabled. i have tryed to design it so one
can have several worlds. with difirent size. also i decided to do the tools to convert the height map images to worlddata. the tools will only work within blitz3d. so no gui. i am going to get the work done fast. and its the only way to to it fast.. no gui.. no commandlie. just pure coding www.tiberion.com is on vaccation. so i use www.voidrpg.com for a while. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| Engine is up to speed now. it runs in 60 fps on my laptop. World Of Dumbcraft only runs only at 30 fps as max on same laptop.. thats lapppower indeed :D Well i decided to go with vertex Alpha to paint terrain as it support light. and i can use the Texture blending to make shaddows on terrain.. as it suppose to be used anyways. well time to go and code.. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| Now engine holds about 56 to 60 fps. real smoth.. World of Warcraft on this PC is only 33 fps.. this means progress is sweet.  Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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Pic of Progress.. I made this giantic 5000x5000 height map in gimp. it alone eats system memmory of 200mbytes. cause its grayscale image.. anyway.. its looking prommesing. i hope to kep the mapsize up as world is going to be big. Questions. Q1: How do i manage to not overload GPU with 5000x5000x2 polys + 5000x5000 vertexes. A1: Simply by creating world at the fly. ie its created where camera is. and distant set to low 200. Q2: How fast dose it load up after klicking it on desktop. A2: 4 Seconds.. as its dynamic engine only renders start point. Q3: How to prevent the lag while creating the cells. A3: I have build a Render Que system. so the render takes bit to bit over time. not all at once. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| I am doing the impossible... Creating a world of 5000x5000 yards ! or 5x5 kilometers. if one create usch world it eats 10GB of RAM. Me have managed to push down size to only 200 mb.. basic i lett the world consist of cells.. that is rendered there camera is located. so no surface byond camera view exist.. but this cause a new issue LAgg to overcome the Lagg i am now trying to devide the cell creaton proccess over time.. it is starting to look as somthing.. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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i have managed to get vertex alpha work correct with zbuffer. final no
more flickering pics. so i made a walkable demo. still much work left.  Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| i have test run my engine in a simple lab env. and its working good to have blitz pus tcp in a mmorpg project. there was a roumor in the forums that blitz basic tcpip will halt program while sending data. usaly its works widout proble. at least untill the tcp timeouts comes :D anyway network engine is slow progressing.. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| I am coding a basic networking, it will use a diferent aproch then i had before. I will try to make NPC to GOTO X,Y,Z insdead of updateing every packet. this will make game work smother. Also it will enable more NPC at screen at one time. My coworker DemoDog is working on the Strategic part of game. the ability system etc.. i belive i also doing good. Some new models delivired from Melvin has ben importen into the editor. A new modeler Daniel Queen has ben added to Crew. We are now total of 4 in this team. so maby one cold say we are 1 working half time on this project now :D 2008 january seam verry prommising anyways. I thanks every one contributing to this game. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| I completed the Vertex height editor. Now then useres moves a vertex in heigt map it will be broadcast to all other users instant. it works pretty cool Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| Height map patch system complete. Now how to make this realtime is a hard question. Patch system works. but it takes verry long time to update coardinates that has ben editet. over 3.500.000 vertices to check every upates accure. Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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Today i have ben messingwith the height map and colormap. making them
stored in Int and floats instead of just a BMP image. Also i smothed the
landscape and it looks verry nice and flatt after that. I have modeled a portal and some new trees Herse a screen shoot of me testing out the world in the middle of night.  Fixed a bugg that caused the triss to increese incredible. making editor slow. now tris per screen is about 50.000 to 90.000 Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |
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| I forgot to start this new Worklog LOL.. Anyway www.voidrpg.com is now www.tiberion.com has now become www.tiberion.eu. Also new is jimmie he will write the main story. Right now i am coding a MMRPG editor. that is al online edit enabled. no data storage at my pc. its all on server. with chatt and all ... realy cool to se some one else edit the level :D Anyway i also modeling a Female.. its kind of cool too :D Edit: Red adm 2012 the name of domain is www.tiberion.eu Tiberion RPG a project in the art of faery! www.tiberion.eu |