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The point and purpose of this update was to begin to really nail down some of the more specific behaviours in the game. The original Ultima V game engine had about 80% of the game run from generic run code, while the other 20% was extremely specific based on often very specific circumstances. These require custom AIs (not ChatGPT level stuff lol) and often custom code stuck in odd places.
This mode is meant to satisfy the classic gamers who love the 2D style top down perspective. Under the hood it still uses the 3D voxels, allowing for shadows and advanced lighting while ensuring nothing is inadvertently blocked for view as can be the case in the existing Isometric mode.
In order to introduce more modes, it took a major overhaul of the underlying engine. It was only ever built for one perspective. Each mode has distinct lighting and camera properties to ensure they all look wonderful! This means in the future it is easy to tweak existing modes, or add additional modes.
I have become an amazing procrastinator for things I know to the be under-documented and complicated. This is what dungeons were for me. I had spent some time on and off in the past years learning about their mechanics but avoided making too much progress.
But basically I took a huge amount of time to rework years of code that was not fully fleshed. I simplified the code base dramatically which means that I will be able to move even faster in the future.
A situational music system and ambient noise system was put in. Using the famous Ultima V Midi pack, I converted it to MP3 and imported it. As location and circumstances change it is capable of fading music in and out.
The ambient noise generation is particularly cool! I want to add some ambience beyond the music so I implemented a few test cases. As you get closer or further from certain triggers the noises may be noisier or quieter.
The game is clearly quite a ways from completion still. Much of my time has been spent creating, and re-creating or re-factoring internal systems. It has been important to do so because the issues and bugs that come from the old systems waste too much time, but now with the lessons learned and most of the systems in tip top condition I will be focusing on the following:
Life has been keeping me busy which has slowed some of my efforts, but I still try to devote as much of my spare time as I can to this project. My primary focus has been and continues to be on implementing the incredibly rich Ultima V combat system.
The process started out with a number of simple implementations including basic map loading, player character loading and enemy loading. It then got deeper and only made my respect for the original developers all the more grand as I realized how much had been packed into a few double density disks!
There are certain elements of this classic turn based combat model that have been implemented and I think MUST be present in the reworked system. I have implemented the following classic features so far:
It is important that the game translates well to a more modern audience as well, so I have opted to add some improved quality of life settings as well that will still maintain the charm while speeding up the grind of some battles.
Another quality of life improvement is the inclusion of a Battle Report. This will help you better understand the contribution of your team members in battle, as well as giving you a glimpse into how their experience was affected. This will show at the end of every battle regardless if you escaped.
The fact of the matter is, the combat maps and basic mechanics took quite a while. Moving from top down to an isometric view does and continues to have quite a few visibility challenges. The next update hopes to complete the combat aspect which will include:
The previous update which focused on engine optimization and the introduction of the Blacksmith shoppe keeper was back in June. Life has threw me some curveballs since but I have finally managed to complete all remaining shoppe keepers and introduced the common vehicles including Magic Carpets and Ships.
The shoppe keepers all use a common interface originally seen in the Blacksmith update. There is an emphasis on retaining the original charm from the smack talking shoppe keepers while improving and streamlining the shoppe experience. For example, it is VERY easy to miss the gossip option in Taverns if you are just quickly picking up rations and leaving. In the updated Bar Keeper interface, the gossip option is easily seen and will save many players hours of frustration by giving hints for a small fee.
The classes Ultima V vehicles were added as well. This was a hard requirement since you will visit the Shipwright and Horse Seller and expect to actually receive the thing you bought. The vehicles include:
It has lead to me some interesting bonus feature ideas such as a travelling merchants in the overworld (there are no NPCs in the overworld currently). Just ideas for now, but lots of cool opportunities in the future.
The spit and polish involves updating some old UI elements to be keyboard+mouse capable and just provide a more consistent overall experience. I also believe there is a long way to go on the graphical fidelity and tuning. I have a long list that I maintain of things I could do better that I hope to tackle.
This update has been about 3 months in the works. You would think with Covid and self isolation that I would find myself with more free time, but it so often seems like I have less. Either way, there were two major features that I chipped away at over these three months and have made a big impact to the game.
A new Dev Vlog will be appearing shortly in which I will walk through the two models, the advantages, disadvantages and some of the optimizations that were implemented to squeeze every last frame out.
Frankly, I have gotten away with being fairly ignorant of exactly how the moonphases work, progress and why the hell there are two moons! Needless to say, there is some very dirty (yet functional!) code that abstracts those complexities. I even wrote (borrowed) some calculus to move the moons and Sun in a circle. May God have mercy on my soul if I need to update this code again!
Just wanted to say thank you to all those who actively participate in the project such as the great feedback and ideas from @Cambragol, the publicity from Dino and WTF Dragon and all the other dragons who give me encouragement on Twitter and Reddit. It is always appreciated!
As you may be aware since my late December update I have been focused on making the NPCs more mobile. I had been dreading the work because I feared (and was correct!) that it would be disruptive and force me to refactor my code in a big way.
To accommodate the additional logic and to make my life much easier I spent the better part of the month implementing a new concept called the Virtual Map ( ) It essentially pulls in all factors that could or would affect the map such as NPCs (dead or alive!?), open doors, keys in trees etc and give the program a single source of truth.
Another problem I had to solve was pathfinding. I have cringed at the thought of implementing my own pathfinding (bad college experience!). I knew everyone used the A* algorithm, so I went searching for a solution that was already baked and free OSS. I found -Star-Sharp which is a wonderful and very C# native implementation. A small bug fix later, and the new Virtual Map function and I was up and running.
Lastly, voxels are 3D objects, and with that come with quite an expense. I managed to get around to something that has been on my list for the last 6 months. A simple voxel caching system was implemented which saved the unnecessary loading and destruction of voxels as the Avatar moved around the world and cities. It uses only basic constructs like Dictionaries and Queues to save an reuse tiles whenever possible. It more than double the framerate during my testing. As you can tell below, it had some hiccups!
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