Edengrall News

I tried crafting my own textures, but they didn't look good to use on the large city walls (making good height/normal/occlusion maps is a pain), so I am trying materials from the Asset store, also instead of using a single flat texture I am mixing them up, the walls now use 3 textures splitting by the water level.


(the castellations and the floor are still textureless in this screenshot)

I want to add a lore more detail by switching up textures through the city and make it less flat.



While I try out some texture combinations my brother has been finishing the forage/creature spawner graph, now all points that can spawn critters or forage will exist in a graph that will be pre-generated instead of generating/randomizing during gameplay, speeding up loading times.



Again it has been a slow week, sorry for the lack of updates.

My brother has reworked the spawner distribution, so it works much better around edges and looks more natural now.

The main reason this is taking so long is that the system is being optimized to load and unload quickly to allow for a large map on the exploration update, so the player won't have to experience frame drops while traveling when critters and folliage are spawned and despawed.

The city meshes are all done, both the visible parts and the collisions, now I am checking the UV mapping (almost all done) and then I will be making and applying new textures, now different buildings will have slightly different wall textures, so each building looks more unique.

My brother is still experimenting with the cluster spawning trying to make the spawns look natural, but it is having problems on biome divisions with the clusters ending abruptly in the borders.



The city is closer to completion, the new INN and the shop district collisions are done, and I am finishing their UV maps, after the lighthouse I will only need to do the last checks and start making new textures.

This is pretty much it for this week, sorry for the lack of new content.

My brother is reworking the terrain/biome system to support the new features we will need for the exploration update, specially the new spawn system, which should be a lot more precise and easy to control as it will keep track of populations and spawn them in more natural-looking clusters instead of thinly spread through the entire biome.

My rework of the town is nearing its end, the new meshes are done, the collisions are over 65% finished (the selected buildings in orange below are done)



As soon as I finish all the collisions I will just need to check all UV mapping and I will be able to finally start replacing the old city models with the new ones, and then I will work on making new textures, the whole thing is probably going to take a month.

We are reviewing the roadmap again, here what our next updates will be about:

Exploration update: This hasn't changed much, but we are implementing something new, a new creature/forage spawn system that will track the amount of entities that have been spawned, and will spawn based on the season and the presence of other creatures, meaning the simulation of food chain populations. The exploration update also requires a review of the grass system to allow dynamic loading, so it will take at least 2 months.

City Remake update: I have been working on the city meshes for a while, and it is mostly done, But I do have to redo all UV mapping and make the new textures as well as the new collision models since many buildings changed. The new city will have plenty more gardens, lamp posts and a few buildings have been completely overhauled like the Museum.

Roguelite metaprogression and hardcore mode: This is new and will change drastically how the game works, when starting a new game the player will be able to choose either sandbox (game as it is right now) or hardcore where you start with a debt to pay weekly (amount rises every week), food will spoil, there will be death through suffocation, hunger and fall damage, failing to pay the debt or getting yourself killed will end the playthrough and award points based on your progress, these points can be spent give permanent bonuses on new hardcore playthroughs.