T4 status update

[darkgod]

That is next to come after AI
Although I am wondering if it should be done for ToME or not yet, maybe too much complexifiction for not much gain .. or maybe not

[madmonk]

I have moved this to Tome4 development.

[Yottle]

Hmm. Beams bouncing off walls into the player... Monsters leveled according to player level... Monsters using items in their inventory... It all seems oddly familiar, like something that happened in an alternate universe long ago.

"The kobold picks up the wand. (more) The kobold zaps the wand. (more) You are hit by a death ray. (more) The death ray bounces off the wall. (more) You are hit by a death ray. (more) You die."

[madmonk]

"The kobold picks up the wand. (more) The kobold zaps the wand. (more) You are hit by a death ray. (more) The death ray bounces off the wall. (more) You are hit by a death ray. (more) You die."

Darn I forgot my cloak of reflection!

[darkgod]

I have found the slowness culprit, it was actually not the AI's fault, well indirectly. It was my class interface system.
It is not much faster. Still slow on big open spaces thought. But i'll see to it later.

I now have a birth system and I'm currently implementing races and classes.

BTW I had a neat idea for Beornings. Since the engine allows it easily the bear form could be like an other player and when you morph to it you gain a new talents tree and stats and can level the form independantly of the human form. With its own specific talents maybe.

[Xandor Tik'Roth]

That would make Beornings much more interesting to play... Perhaps you could level them up separately as well?

[darkgod]

Plop!

Some update of the last 10 days:
- Switch the rendering engine over to opengl wit the help of jules bean, feels much faster now
- done some writing, commited an ideas/ directory with a rought scheme for spells & physical talents go read it!
- implemented quite a few spells already
- made the object system, once can now wield/takeoff stuff
- defined&implemented the combat system, with the various stats it will use
- implemented some races & classes & subraces & subclasses & sex (only sex is proposed, I rigged the game to force a mage at start, makes my testing faster

Jules is making a parser to convert, a bit, some of T3 monsters and I'll be doing a real dungeon generator next

[madmonk]

BTW I had a neat idea for Beornings. Since the engine allows it easily the bear form could be like an other player and when you morph to it you gain a new talents tree and stats and can level the form independantly of the human form. With its own specific talents maybe.

Can this be done for other creatures that the players can use? So for instance in Symbiosis can we level a mold?

[darkgod]

Dunno if we will but we could easily yes.
All monsters are capable of leveling.

[darkgod]

An other update!

- Dungeon generator is working, some loose ends still (some times unconnected parts or weird doors), if you like to fidle with level generators this is your chance
- started making a small objects list
- wilderness
- bree (empty though)
- NPCs can be generated with random equipment
- fixed/improved probabilities generation for items/npcs creation
- ego items/npcs
- rebalanced spells a bit, probably too deadly now, i'm getting destroyed by casters

[madmonk]

Sounds like good progress! Some comments:

- Dungeon generator is working, some loose ends still (some times unconnected parts or weird doors), if you like to fidle with level generators this is your chance

Any chance of permanent dungeons (as on option)?

- started making a small objects list

I would hope that the list of trivial items eventually rivals the current 2.3 list...

- wilderness
- bree (empty though)

Automatic travel? So you enter were you want to go and you go!

- NPCs can be generated with random equipment
- fixed/improved probabilities generation for items/npcs creation
- ego items/npcs

Which, I hope allows one to steal...

- rebalanced spells a bit, probably too deadly now, I'm getting destroyed by casters

Ranged attacks are deadly! I include archers... Which means that people may have to adjust tactics to suit!

[darkgod]

Permanent dungeons as in ? Saved levels ? possible from the start (probably one or two bugs since I did not test it much). Actaully I'll probably use them for T4.

About stealing, all the equipment is NOT dropped on death, only if it is ego/unique or by chance. And actual drops are not so common, to not have a need for an automatizer (I hope...). But a thief should be able to steal more than what will drop. Whichc should be a real nice way to promote shady characters