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Karvi shouldn't have the same stats as the snekkja, the Karvi was meant to be a hybrid trader/warship whereas the Snekkja is just a warship (so the karvi should be weaker in combat) Maybe you could put some cargo on board of the karvi to illustrate that it can trade too? Nice work on the meshes btw!

@Alexandermb, military intervention often makes things worse (e.g. Libya, Yemen), unfortunately.

Done. See D1455

It's been a while since I've done any work on this but I've actually had quite a few improvements that I've made locally that I never made patches for. I had to update to the latest development snapshot but now I'm starting to push my backed up changes to trac. Some of the things I've got coming up: Shadow Filtering I replaced the old box filter with an 8 sample poisson disk filter. This should yield significantly smoother shadows with soft edges. Depth of Field The existing dof shader is unusable. The blur it uses is not correctly implemented and it tries (and fails miserably) to approximate a camera's focal distance, which isn't terribly appropriate for an RTS. I made a much simpler dof shader that just interpolates with a blurred/downscaled version of the screen image based on depth to approximate the focal behavior of the human eye. It basically softens far away objects slightly. It's subtle but noticeable, works properly, and is also a lot cheaper to apply than the current filter. Water As a minor tweak to my previous work on the water shader I increased the contrast of water reflections to accentuate shadows a bit more. Currently objects reflected in water tend to have a "washed out" look due to the lack of contrast. This will simply color balance them a little better.

Vae Victis.

I actually got into graphics programming in 0ad as a break from AI/unitAI programming in zero-k. Making shinies is fun! DoF can be disabled by disabling postproc, although making dof and bloom separately enableable would be pretty trivial. Anti-aliasing would indeed be nice. DoF especially makes aliasing painfully obvious (and you'd think that a blur would hide it, but no). FXAA is probably a bad choice though. It has a bad tendency to blur everything into oblivion, especially for small units or anything with a complicated texture. It's also potentially very expensive, especially when it's hitting false positives and blurring things that it shouldn't be. MSAA would be nice though. I guess I'll look into that soonish. I don't think it should be that difficult though, afaik all you have to do is set up a multisampled depth texture and then enable MSAA rendering in GL state. Bonus screen shot (it begged to be taken):

I barely understand what's going on here... But I like it! I love how the dof comes into its own now..

Venezuelan citizens are joyfull people and most of them won't give up easily, structures can be rebuilt, families are already lost because of what happened last year (and still being lost) whitout bombs the number of death citizens its even higher only that not all are public domain we may cry if we lost someone by accident if we got intervention someday but later we will keep on. The army is like a dog literally i cannot say its all because some of them are in jail for rebelion (even if they don't show any sign of rebelion) but most of them are criminals (literally there are a lot of recognized as wanted criminals) they may bite you one day because they are hungry but as soon as you give him a toy (bullets and weapons) and their ration of food (pathetic if i must say rice alone sometimes) they are okay thats for the low ranks soldiers, for the generals and liutenants they have an special treatment where they receive cars of this year, houses, tires for contraband and their own drug contraband territory (all of those are documented) they have their special ration of food so they never starve. And theres a second army not official but it is part of the regime, they are called "Colectivos" in spanish, they are mostly criminals and like saying mercenaries first time implemented by Chavez. Here can be see what colectivos are, the guy in the middle clearly can be recognized as a general and its called Fabio Zavarce, the right guy with glasses with red beret is Valentin Santana a wanted criminal leader of that zone. That day was a public political campaing for the reelection of Maduro. This is a picture of a facebook post where the guy literally ask for a bomb, the page response is: its because they haven't killed us yet with toxins. Later the guy: Venezuelan expresion You haven't drinked milk of the food boxes (CLAP). That milk has been analized by one of the best universities of Venezuela as harmful to health and i saw the milk after you prepare it it leaves something as a stone under the glass, others have pasta with cockroaches, other have small death rats.

Currenlty FXAA doesn't work perfect for the 0 A.D., but TXAA or MSAA may solve the problem. FXAA:

@Alexandermb Daaayum... Good luck... Please stay away from American bombs though... Things can always get worse (look at Syria), so be careful what you wish for... How come Maduro is so entrenched??? The army supports him, I guess, but isn't the army part of the people, or are there other divisions I'm not seeing, because even a socialist can see the guy is messing up the otherwise beautiful country...

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Óscar_Alberto_Pérez This was the last lider as well as his comrades however only he and other guy was ready to show the faces to the regime ( family outside the country and risking to loose everything). intervention is needed from anyone, Colombia, Brasil, Guyana, USA imagine theres a whole country kidnaped by the same military forces, and its not possible to vote for another president, last year in 16 july the "oposition" properly formed a massive votation (even i voted) reaching 7+ millions for properly change the government and their structures, but well as they are playing at the same side of the regim they didn't do anything. We have been waiting for ONU, for OEA for the CPI, any international democratic system and they always meet and fail to have a decision, i watched most of them via youtube stream and said what they need to say and thats it, never reach a conclusion never act, right now me and most of the venezuelan citizens wouldn't mind if USA France and United Kingdom do what they did last friday here, in fact we ask for it (No joke, in social media you can see people asking for bomb , same if you ask someone in outside).

@Nescio I have a very strong preference for using dictionary definitions of words... Genocide doesn't mean the total destruction of a people, as many think.. There are still 3 million Tutsis, for example.. Romans were genocidal They wiped out peoples, cultures, languages and religions, in a deliberate policy of Romanisation... It doesn't mean because they tolerated and even patronised some, that others weren't wiped from the pages of history... Necrometrics: Body count of the Roman Empire: These are by no means precise/absolute numbers, but they give a good idea..: http://necrometrics.com/romestat.htm Those numbers by no means include all the Roman massacres... For example, studying Kushite history, I learnt of the sack of Napata, its destruction, killings and deportation of its population in to slavery are not included, but are mentioned by Strabo and possibly the Kushites themselves in the Hamadab Stele. No specific numbers are given, but there were dozens of towns and cities between the Roman border and Napata, so what happened there? The area was reported to be largely abandoned a few generations later. The Roman conquest and destruction of Germa (of the Garamantes) isn't mentioned. Roman campaigns in Dacia and Thrace aren't mentioned. Samnite wars and Roman-Etruscan wars aren't mentioned. None of the earlier Roman Gallic wars are mentioned. The invasion of the Sabaean Kingdom isn't mentioned... Each of these conflicts was accompanied by acts of genocide (and other severe human rights violations)... I'm not trying to overly demonise Romans here, I know nearly everybody wielding so much power ends up committing atrocities (including all of our civs in game)... I'm also not trying to moralise them with my 21st century ethical standards. I'm just pointing out that they were very proficient at killing huge numbers of people, resulting in total/partial depopulation of regions, resettled by "friendly" tribes, for example after the massacres and deportations of the resisting Belgae (Nervii, Atrebates, Viromandui and Atuatuci).

@Imarok I like when you outrun people and fix the game at the same time

Romans performs that's vengeances, because the war Carthage was destroyed because the horror of blood war like Punic wars. Carthage was not a innocent peaceful, people.

Missing leaders from all sides, last proper lider was massacred while on transmisision and the actual "Oposition" are just traitors so yes intervention is needed no matter what is said on TV or what the false liders says.

May I ping you? Looks like it'll still happen in A23. Looking at gamesetup.js, the code that assigns a random civ to a player starts by making a list of available "cultures" (filtering out unplayable civs so as not to add their "culture" to the list (unless they happen to share it with a playable civ)), then randomly chooses a civ from a randomly selected culture - but does not check if the civs it's selecting from are all playable. In other words, SelectableInGameSetup needs to be checked on line 2182. So... do you want to fix it, or shall I?

I just got finished tuning up the new combined postproc shader. I posted some screenshots up here: https://code.wildfiregames.com/D1454 It's pretty epic.

And another discussion has started, great, we both like nitpicking, so here we go again: The Romans were certainly not always nice and friendly, however, mass murder and genocide are two different things. Caesar's conquest of Gaul caused the death of a large part of its population, however, it was not genocide. The closest thing to genocide committed by the Romans I can think of is the destruction of Carthage and Corinth in 146 BC; the "classical example" of the Jews is actually a rather poor one; if you have any better examples, please let me know. Examples, please "Roman occupation", interesting; how would you define that? And where would you say it starts and ends? To me, occupation is something provisional. On the other hand, the last Roman Empires ceased to exist in 1917-1922 AD. (And Roman Catholicism still continues to exist.) Languages evolve and disappear, cultures change, that's natural, so if you take a large area with a high diversity in a long timeframe, yes, a lot will be gone. But is it genocide? Yes, expansion and conquest went hand in hand, but romanization was achieved mostly by peaceful means and happened gradually. Local leaders were given Roman citizenship, local gods received Roman temples, Roman coinage spread Roman propaganda, local tribes supplied men to fight for Rome as auxilia, trade were integrated, trade volume intensified, etc. I'm not saying the Romans were not brutal (according to our modern standards), however, genocide is something different.

Are there any tutorials out there on how to creat a new civ?

Retrospectively, yes, human history is rich in genocide - and it's still happening right now in Myanmar and elsewhere. However, I wouldn't correlate genocide with empires. Assyrians, Mongols, the USA, yes, their expansion often went hand-in-hand with committing genocide. On the other hand, the Achaemenids, Abbasids, Habsburgs, and many (perhaps most) other empires were quite tolerant and non-genocidal. As for the Romans, yes, they occassionally committed mass murder, but I wouldn't call them genocidal, nor maniacs. Mao Zedong would be a better a much better example of a maniac; his “Great Leap Forward” directly caused the death of perhaps 50-100 million, far more than all world wars combined. EDIT: I see Sundiata has posted again while I was writing the above.

@Lion.Kanzen it think all the violence and oppression has more to do with power groups maintaining a certain status quo that benefits them, using both soft, and hard power, where "appropriate". The idea behind the "necessity of violence" is part of the process of manufacturing consent (e.g. "the enemy has weapons of mass destruction" or "the infidels are corrupt in their ways", "Ashur is supreme, the gods have abandoned our enemies"). These kind of rhetorical arguments have been used since the very first states in ancient Sumer and Egypt This is also interesting: At the end of the day, it's about power and resources, and the two are very much interlinked... Violence will be used where possible and "appropriate", in large scale (war) or personal attacks (persecution/executions) to maintain status, but this usually has very little to do with the actual necessities of the masses. I'm not a pacifist, but violent conflict usually only benefits a select few...

This is the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, a significant defeat inflicted on Charlemagne. Sir Roland tries to hold the hostile Basques while the rest of the army crosses the pass. They are likely fighting Southern light infantries (indicated as Basques, although the perpetrator was suggested to be Lupo II, the Duke of Gascony, a Southern territory of the Empire.

Some updates on the Millennium AD PM discussions. @Alexandermb has created a new awesome shield for the Carolingians

Here can be seen some of the textures @wackyserious made as reference

Norse dock with 4 separated buildings for later eyecandy usage Dock Merchandise dock Fish hut Norse Ram Has arrows struck and shields could variate (Exception for player colour)

italiancastlerender.bmp lol

Simple idea.

Ingame look of emblem:

Sorry to hear that. I understand Venezuela is going through some rough times... I wish you all strength! How is it on the ground? It's difficult to figure out exactly what's going on from the news... Are there any "good guys" in the picture, or is proper leadership missing from all sides? How do you see the situation evolving? Euhm, not really, no... lol I mean, what have the Romans ever done for us? But seriously though, Romans were genocidal maniacs... Most Imperial civilizations actually...