Edengrall News

Sorry we could not get the beta up this week, my brother is still trying to get the new spawn system working, it has a few bugs on save/load and on dropping items on harvest.



The city overhaul is done, the interiors are finished and using the new textures, so as soon as my brother finishes the spawn system we can release the beta.



The new system will allow for edible cat tails, violets and dandelions spawning over the map.

Sorry for the short report.

The city overhaul is almost finished, I just need to retexture the furniture, redo the navmesh so the NPC pathfinding will work on the new map and redo the occlusion mapping so things don't disappear when looking through a window.
I also have to wait until my brother finishes the bamboo and make interactable again, after that we can use the same system to add dandelions and other forage.



Have a look on the before and after of the city overhaul, there is much more color and the style now matches the characters more.



All new textures are more stylized, but I managed to recycle some of the realistic looking ones in some places as long as they don't conflict with the new style.



You will notice the many new gardens and pots around the town, some are cultivating clovers instead of flowers, these are placeholder for the vines we couldn't get working yet, we want to have vines climbing the wood structures specially around the shops and have some hanging down the bridges.

There should be a test version on the beta build somewhere next week, stay tuned.

The new city materials are almost all done, I had to go back to the .blend file and correct a lot of minor mistakes as i was adding and checking the materials, I also had a lot of trouble with the Height and Normal maps, but they look fine now.



In this screenshot you can see the new gardens and the new entrance to the Library

On the new forage system my brother managed to greatly improve the optimization, the forage now has a custom shader similar to the grass, making it much faster than the default Unity shader, he implemented LoD (you can see the LoD models in the back slowly gain more detail as the player approach)



He also properly finished the growth part of the code, now each plant grows individually and their age is properly tracked



All of it is being made to be compatible with any other forageable plant, so as soon as he finishes the forage system we can have cat tails, violets and dandelions using the same system

Bugfixes:
Confirmation boxes no longer can spawn offscreen, now it always consistently appears on the center of the screen on all resolutions

Changes:
Changed the talk scene text box width to match every single other game in the market

The town remodeling is finally done, the meshes have been fixed, collisions redone and all UV maps remade, I managed to optimize it reduzing the number of triangles by about 25% despite there being more stuff.



The biggest overhaul was on the library interior, it now has built in terrariums and aquariums as well as a basement, the circular stairs were also remade and there is more space to read the map in the wall that shows the planned content.



The tavern now has a balcony in the same floor as the custom player's room so you can jump of it into the roof of the shop area to reach Catarina's and the other shops faster.



I also added more shortcuts and paths like stairs behind the clinic to get up the wall.
Now I have to create the fbx file and transfer it to Unity (yuck) where I will need to create the new materials using the textures I made (mostly by modifying other textures), replace the whole city mesh, reapply the scripts, reposition furniture, check collision, redo the navmesh, etc... There is still plenty to do before the new city is playable.



My brother made progress on the bamboo, they can now grow, being harvestable as edibles while in the shoot form and harvestable as wood (placeholder) when it becomes an adult plant.