The transparent water looks much better. It still needs some improvements to look less blocky and flickery. I also improved simulation to avoid over-acceleration on slopes. This is in preparation for water sounds (which would be wrong if water flowed too fast) and lava (which shouldn’t flow too fast). As the result, flows look much [...]
Changes: World map (hold Tab to see it) Triggers and more gameplay scripting Special places (just stone circles for now) with various effects when activated Portal now appears in a special place when some conditions are met Colored scalable icons for map markers and future spell icons Using 64-bit buffer for better effects when available [...]
It was a long time since last update because of real life issues mostly. But it’s out now. Get demo or download new alpha version from your link if you purchased it before. I spent a lot of time creating new GUI system and doing some research. I’ll use that GUI not only for Arcane [...]
All spells have effects now, so no more firecubes. It looks like a cosmetic change, but actually it’s a basis for future spells, including attacking ones. I’ll add more of them, and you’ll be able to find some of them while exploring the worlds. The world generator is now scripted, so you can change it [...]
Mana gatherers are friendly creatures in Arcane Worlds who seek mana and bring it to your castle. They are spawned at your castle automatically. Now, to open the portal to another world you need to collect enough mana in your castle. The castle also absorbs any mana dropped on it, so placing it strategically and [...]
Change list: + Killed monsters drop mana now + Spellcasting is now limited by player’s mana + When enough mana is accumulated, a portal to another world appears and monster spawning stops + A new spell to use portal to another world + Some worlds have flowing water now + Random sun position in new [...]
I’ve added first buildings. It looks like I need a building editor because coding them is cumbersome. The most important building is your castle which you can now place with a spell. When you die (there’s player health now), you’ll respawn in the castle. If there’s no castle, you’ll be banished to another world (it [...]
They can hurt you, but the effect is limited to screen flash for now. If you want to disable monsters to play with water or spells, press Ctrl-M. More info and demo download.
Technobabble warning. In this article I assume you’re fairly familiar with deferred rendering/shading. If not, google it. There are numerous articles and presentations about what it is how it’s done in various games. That’s a lot more technobabble though.
I added some simple modeled objects (stones). It looks like it’s not much, but it’s a basis for future more complex objects like trees, critters and monsters. Also, to add good shadows I had to rewrite rendering code. So, there’s a setting for “graphics quality” in the launcher now. The high quality mode uses deferred [...]
