{"id":373,"date":"2019-10-30T12:12:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polymorph.games\/foundation\/news\/?p=373"},"modified":"2021-11-02T13:23:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T17:23:47","slug":"devlog-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polymorph.games\/foundation\/news\/2019\/10\/30\/devlog-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Devlog #11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey everyone!<\/span><\/p>\n

Welcome to Devlog #11, where I will be giving you some insight into what the team has been working on since the last update.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t often do this but let\u2019s kick off by talking about me! Well\u2026 not so much me but at least what I have been up to.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the last update we introduced a way for players to create their own custom maps that can be uploaded to mod.io for everyone to play. With this in mind, I have been learning some basic modding and creating a custom map that is available now in-game. I have then gone on to use this map as a template for a custom map tutorial video which can be found on our YouTube channel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Check it out if you fancy making your own map.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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For any queries and help with map modding we have a very knowledgeable modding community over on our <\/span>Discord<\/span><\/a> server that will be more than happy to help.<\/span><\/p>\n

For those that would prefer to wait for a map generator, it will come before the full release, in fact, over the last couple of weeks, <\/span>Ben<\/b> has started work on an early prototype for a procedural map generator.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moving on to <\/span>Vincent<\/b>, who also hasn\u2019t been mentioned in a recent devlog, but for good reason, as he has been hard at work on job outfits for villagers. This has been no small task with multiple job roles for both female and male villagers.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can see a few examples below of the new outfits:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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More recently <\/span>Christopher<\/b> has also been working with Vincent on villager outfits, though for Christopher he has been looking at the villagers themselves and allowing for the integration of all the new outfits as well as hair styling. Alongside this, he has been working on some performance optimizations for villagers which should hopefully see some fps improvements in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know this one will make you happy\u2026 one further thing that Christopher has started initial work on is the possibility to force villagers to move home!<\/span><\/p>\n

Having done some great work on the new workplace animations in the last update, <\/span>Micha\u00ebl<\/b> has also been working on the villager job outfits, in his case he has been looking at skinning the new outfits on the 3D villager models.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, the villager outfits are coming together well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Claudine<\/b> has begun work on some visual research for new environment biomes, creating mock-ups and sample textures for visual reference. Here you can see a couple of mock-ups of how things might look:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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She has also been looking at a ways to improve and polish some of the current in-game assets and textures, such as improvements to trees, water and ground textures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some time ago we teased the Brewery and now we have a Tavern but no beer. Never fear though, <\/span>Loup-Gabriel <\/b>has been working to complete the brewery as well as working on the hop farm.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Loup has also been working on a new production chain but there will more info on that in a future news update, however he has also been working on some new decorative items that will work with the new production chain, so I\u2019ll leave that one to your imagination for now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maxime<\/b> has been continuing work on improving performance for low-end systems, as well as general optimizations, when generating models, and improving LOD generation.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has also been working on ways to provide pathing feedback to players when placing buildings and creating the dev tools required to configure this in our Hurricane engine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nicolas<\/b> has, as always, been thoroughly testing improvements and gathering information from the community regarding any bugs and feedback.<\/span><\/p>\n

As well as this he has been working with the engine programmers investigating possible performance optimizations, one of which was released in a hotfix patch last week to improve performance for larger cities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Talking of large cities and performance, <\/span>Phil<\/b> has been looking at ways to improve villager needs efficiency. This, tied in with villagers moving home will see some major improvements to your overall village\/city efficiency in future updates.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally <\/span>L\u00e9o<\/b> has been looking at many aspects of the Hurricane engine, working with and helping the team.<\/span><\/p>\n

In no particular order he has been looking at<\/span><\/p>\n