Empires mobile an new rts with AoE/0AD aesthetic

[ray_ark]

Babylonian Spearman

Edited July 29, 2017 by ray_ark

[ray_ark]

also im interested in how you guys make the maps, is the 0 AD maps are a procedural map ?

[Stan`]

Technically speaking they are not.

Skirmish maps are mostly handmade, but one can import an height map to make it faster.

Random maps have a pregenerated height map in the code and the rest is procedurally generated by Is code.

@FeXoR is more knowledgeable.

[ray_ark]

54 minutes ago, stanislas69 said:

Technically speaking they are not.

Skirmish maps are mostly handmade, but one can import an height map to make it faster.

Random maps have a pregenerated height map in the code and the rest is procedurally generated by Is code.

@FeXoR is more knowledgeable.

any suggestions on program to create heightmap ? currently unity doesnt have terrain editor

[ray_ark]

https://discord.gg/y7ydKSB >> Anyone who is interested in helping the development can enter the Developer Chat  

[ray_ark]

Also, im interested on how you guys handle Fog of War, because current Fog of War looks really bad

[haikalizz]

Hi there, I'm the Lead Programmer for Empires. If you guys got any technical questions, feel free to ask me.

[Itms]

1 hour ago, ray_ark said:

Also, im interested on how you guys handle Fog of War, because current Fog of War looks really bad

If you want to take a look at the code, the components that are relevant for this are RangeManager and Fogging. The former handles the fog-of-war (FoW), line-of-sight and other kind of unit ranges unrelated to the FoW; the latter handles hiding changes to buildings in the FoW.

It's a complex part of the code, that needs a good number of optimizations so it doesn't become a bottleneck. Maybe our implementation is not ideal for your mobile platform target.

You say it looks bad so you might actually be wondering how we render it - that's not my area of expertise but we render a FoW texture on top of everything that is inside it. The code is here: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser/ps/trunk/source/graphics/LOSTexture.cpp

[ray_ark]

6 hours ago, Itms said:

If you want to take a look at the code, the components that are relevant for this are RangeManager and Fogging. The former handles the fog-of-war (FoW), line-of-sight and other kind of unit ranges unrelated to the FoW; the latter handles hiding changes to buildings in the FoW.

It's a complex part of the code, that needs a good number of optimizations so it doesn't become a bottleneck. Maybe our implementation is not ideal for your mobile platform target.

You say it looks bad so you might actually be wondering how we render it - that's not my area of expertise but we render a FoW texture on top of everything that is inside it. The code is here: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser/ps/trunk/source/graphics/LOSTexture.cpp

Thanks for the Detailed Explanation ltms

[ray_ark]

11 hours ago, Itms said:

If you want to take a look at the code, the components that are relevant for this are RangeManager and Fogging. The former handles the fog-of-war (FoW), line-of-sight and other kind of unit ranges unrelated to the FoW; the latter handles hiding changes to buildings in the FoW.

It's a complex part of the code, that needs a good number of optimizations so it doesn't become a bottleneck. Maybe our implementation is not ideal for your mobile platform target.

You say it looks bad so you might actually be wondering how we render it - that's not my area of expertise but we render a FoW texture on top of everything that is inside it. The code is here: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser/ps/trunk/source/graphics/LOSTexture.cpp

also, i wonder if 0 AD terrain is really circle shaped, or a square covered in circullar mask

[feneur]

7 hours ago, ray_ark said:

also, i wonder if 0 AD terrain is really circle shaped, or a square covered in circullar mask

A square masked off.

[ray_ark]

25 minutes ago, feneur said:

A square masked off.

any tutorial or directions on how to do it ?

[ray_ark]

http://www.indiedb.com/games/project-empires-1000-bc/news/project-empires-development-update-5

[FeXoR]

For random maps we use several wayt to generate terrain shape. Mainly noise, functions or iterative generation. None or our generation methods procedural but extending the iterative models te be procedural is possible.

If you are more interested on how the terrain shape is stored and rendered I'm not the person who would know

But in any case I think your curiosity is best satisfied by diving into the code ^^

[ray_ark]

On 8/4/2017 at 5:04 AM, FeXoR said:

For random maps we use several wayt to generate terrain shape. Mainly noise, functions or iterative generation. None or our generation methods procedural but extending the iterative models te be procedural is possible.

If you are more interested on how the terrain shape is stored and rendered I'm not the person who would know

But in any case I think your curiosity is best satisfied by diving into the code ^^

where do that code is stored in the 0 AD repository ?

[Stan`]

In the public mod (binaries/data/mods/public/) in a file called rmgen.js.

[ray_ark]

30 minutes ago, stanislas69 said:

In the public mod (binaries/data/mods/public/) in a file called rmgen.js.

thanks, will check it out

[ray_ark]

Need Opinions on Game Logo

[Stan`]

Looks good to me

[ray_ark]

Ok, so probably people thought this game to be dead, but its not

this game have changed its form and appearance and ready for release soon

 

For the first release the playable civs will be Zapotec, Babylon, Greek, and China

 

 

 

[ray_ark]

oops... Forgot the Greek