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Title: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: EternalEyes on June 01, 2016, 19:32:59
Dev Blog – June 1st 2016  

Guess who’s back! Exam season is coming to an end for most of the dev team, and Matt is back from his vacation. Because of this, we are now in a good position to both rejuvenate development and subsequently, this blog. As always everything shown here is subject to change and likely very much a WIP, but with that being said, lets get started!

Texturing

As I can always say in the texturing department, despite having a 1 week holiday where he was totally unable to do work Matt has still managed to produce a considerable amount of content since the last blog. As well as completing the texturing of 8 new buildings (this means that we are only 9 buildings away from completing the previously modeled village buildings)  Matt has also been tasked with learning the newly purchased speedtree, an industry standard tool for AAA trees and vegetation generation, and has picked it up quickly, making a number of high quality trees already as can be seen in the example gifs and images below. Furthermore, he has made a variety of ground textures for later use in the map, in conjunction with the grass, water and weather shaders he has generously purchased with his own money for the project.  I hope everyone in this community appreciates both all the work/time, as well as resources he is now putting into this project- as you can see from the screenshots it is certainly paying off.

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Modelling/Animation

On the modelling side of things, Rafael has continued to keep up with Matt’s pace and helped him modularise and tweak each new building so that he can texture it without issue and allow us to take parts of different buildings and combine them in order to give a greater sense of variety and believability to our hidden hill village. As well as this he has restarted work on the hidden hill arena, refining specific parts of it so that future player movement in and around the structure will be easy and realistic. This *early* work can be seen in the screenshots below.

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Concept Art

In regards to concept art, after finishing my exams recently I have again restarted work on the hidden snow concept, focusing on the dome itself and attempting to flesh out the design more through adding more details and finesse. I’ve decided not to show it at this point, I think I would rather show it in the dev blog where it should (fingers crossed) be complete.

Music

With the music Rustam has completed another track entitled ‘Remembering You’, a song I could completely imagine being used on the title screen or even in the credits of the game (a long way off I know) with its fast beat and sweet melody. Under the umbrella of ‘music’ we have also been receiving a great number of applications from new composers, so expect this already fast influx of new tracks to increase exponentially!

https://soundcloud.com/rustam-shafigullin

Vreg

Unless you have missed it (I can’t imagine anyone would have) we have recently released a new update, SLO Pre Alpha 1.0.9.9, which introduces a terrain overhaul and a whole host of new graphical improvements, bug fixes and performance increases, and of course was all achieved by Vreg. If you haven’t already I urge you to check it out, as you can see from the screenshots below the graphical increase Is massive, and sets the basis for even more graphical increases to come. Along these lines, Vreg has been working with matt in starting to implement the new shaders, trees and buildings into the game for the next update, so expect some amazing things coming, well, relatively soon. One of the most surprising things about the release of this latest update is that it was developed upon in the middle of the run up to Vreg’s exam period- so after completing it, he had to immediately focus for his major exam in about 3 weeks’ time. As a result, I wouldn’t expect another update until after this period is over, but the good news is once it is finally over we will be able to begin a period of unprecedented development as a full team and will be able to start implementing all the systems and content you guys have been so patiently waiting for.

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And with that the 5th dev blog is complete! Although there may be slightly less new development from all areas of the team, this is unsurprising considering we are all recovering from exam period and have just restarted development – however from this point on most of us are now freed up to really focus on development and start producing lots of content for you guys to enjoy! Until next time, sayonara shinobi’s!

 
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Zama on June 01, 2016, 19:53:30
Wow, big ups to the team! It's all looking so great :D Water is just wow, looking forward to the future of the project.
Spoiler: show
Also is it too early for Arena hype? xD
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Ken on June 01, 2016, 20:05:58
Good job guys keep up the good work! Hidden Hill starting to take shape :D :D
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: waly206 on June 01, 2016, 20:56:01
Me: I love it I think I'm going to cry

Captain: Pull yourself together man!

Me: Sorry Captain just got too emotional of how beautiful it is.

Captain: I know but this is only the beginning you can cry when it's complete

Me: Yes, Sir

I don't know just something random that came to my head.
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Reminance on June 01, 2016, 20:56:57
Great job as always ^^
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Boruto050202 on June 01, 2016, 21:07:33
I don't know what to hype help meh pls
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Kings_Head on June 01, 2016, 21:11:43
Man im looking forward to the new stuff, this game is getting better by the update, keep it going guys and thanks for the hard work!!!
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Manuster on June 01, 2016, 22:19:29
There are simply not enough words, not enough memes, not enough feels to describe the hype.

















That water makes me wet.
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: limits on June 01, 2016, 22:34:40
jeeeez
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Sanji on June 02, 2016, 00:10:57
gr8 as always
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Mrphist on June 02, 2016, 00:12:06
Man...I love you guys. Fantastic work!
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Kenobi on June 02, 2016, 00:20:17
This looks amazing!!
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Yamasukage on June 02, 2016, 06:03:22
Daaaaaaaaaaaaa- *faints* lol awesome work guys keep it up
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: lollernoob9 on June 02, 2016, 07:24:44
INCREDIBLE!!!! The terrain! That gif looks like you went outside with a camera!! :3 such hype!! This world will be awesome! Look foward to climbing trees, jumping into water, maybe sculpting water and earth temporarily with jutsu etc. Has that realistic look to it lol.
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Reminance on June 02, 2016, 10:18:07
INCREDIBLE!!!! The terrain! That gif looks like you went outside with a camera!! :3 such hype!! This world will be awesome! Look foward to climbing trees, jumping into water, maybe sculpting water and earth temporarily with jutsu etc. Has that realistic look to it lol.
Hype overload?
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Mars on June 02, 2016, 12:12:14
Looks even better with every update, so impressed.













ert dom hyp
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Psykho on June 02, 2016, 13:41:42
Very good! Congratulations.
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Shadowybeats on June 02, 2016, 20:45:40
This is just fucking awesome guys! Damn. Keep up the awesome work
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Zama on June 02, 2016, 20:47:33
(https://i.gyazo.com/eeaa5d32e54c2f6d198940efa6cf2fbb.png)

^^this left me speechless
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Manuster on June 02, 2016, 22:49:13
(https://i.gyazo.com/eeaa5d32e54c2f6d198940efa6cf2fbb.png)

^^this left me speechless

ikr like...bruh...how
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: ISLE3pZzZ on June 03, 2016, 17:20:01
Everything looks incredible. Looking forward to a chunin exam on that arena  ;)
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: TheRealKuha on June 05, 2016, 15:40:27
I literally came when I saw those screenshots. It's so beautiful...
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: NinjaMirage on June 05, 2016, 16:13:54
Wow!!! I'm gon for a month and this happens lol looking beautiful dev's.
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: mtT on June 06, 2016, 00:47:56
Parabéns , ansioso para o término do projeto, acho que vocês vão superar todas as expectativas. PARABÉNS!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: taigakun on June 06, 2016, 13:41:36
Amazing work guys, keep it up!
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: json243 on June 08, 2016, 16:47:46
damn bruh thats some cool stuff
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Mazuto on June 08, 2016, 17:13:43
I really can't say if you guys can do this yet or are planning to. But for.eks me I love the little details like these, at night stars shining and blinking and maybe a shooting star every *ingame week*
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Reminance on June 08, 2016, 18:58:30
I really can't say if you guys can do this yet or are planning to. But for.eks me I love the little details like these, at night stars shining and blinking and maybe a shooting star every *ingame week*
Nice thinking ^^
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Shinsei on June 08, 2016, 21:59:17
凄い!!! It looks amazing, thank you guys. Keep up with the good work!
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Crono on June 10, 2016, 10:44:48
I'm a little late to the party but it looks brilliant!
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Whatasnipe on June 11, 2016, 21:58:23
Jeez Louise Papa Cheese

So much hype :D :D
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: waly206 on June 11, 2016, 22:08:56
Even with this much hype together no one can beat the hype master(not me)
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Zama on June 11, 2016, 22:42:11
Even with this much hype together no one can beat the hype master(not me)
Loller?
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: waly206 on June 11, 2016, 22:44:22
The one and only
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: SantanosRabi on June 18, 2016, 17:48:04
Is This Even Possible !?!?!
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: waly206 on June 18, 2016, 18:33:47
Is This Even Possible !?!?!

Yes it is my good, sir
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: mamoudou52404 on June 20, 2016, 16:47:19
:3 Great, The water looks amazing, and the hidden hills village looks like its coming on really well
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: highs2lows on June 21, 2016, 15:10:27
I'm glad to see this game alive and well. Keep up the good work.
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: killingstar on June 26, 2016, 17:11:07
I know i'm late but i'm loving how the game is looking so far
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Faydee on July 09, 2016, 18:03:37
First of all I'm new here and I want to say hello to everyone. And WOW I didn't know about that project! It's amazing!
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Reminance on July 09, 2016, 18:06:54
First of all I'm new here and I want to say hello to everyone. And WOW I didn't know about that project! It's amazing!
Welcome to SLO ^^
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Seguro416 on July 28, 2016, 23:21:45
Fucking awesome
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Toratsume Nyshn on July 29, 2016, 02:51:59
SUGOIIII!!!! Dev-sama ^^ :') :') :')
just wanna give bear hugs to everyone :')
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Crazydog330 on August 30, 2016, 22:09:32
Looks amazing! I know if I had finals though I wouldn't be able to dev a game on the side.

Looking forward to future developments!

Do you guys usually use blender for modeling and animation?
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: mamoudou52404 on August 31, 2016, 04:53:27
(https://i.gyazo.com/feca494b4158fd59df7e5c078d9399fe.png)
Top left corner.... Holy shit ya'll added a corner deli store...  means a lot to me :o where im from.
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: CGShark2 on September 20, 2016, 21:22:20
What I hope the game has Portuguese version Because we Brazilians We are all in the expectation In this great game
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Manuster on September 21, 2016, 17:16:04
What I hope the game has Portuguese version Because we Brazilians We are all in the expectation In this great game

uh oh.


But on a serious note, there will only be one 'version' of the game. There might be multiple translations of the user interface and possibly multi-lingual chats but there will not be an entirely separate release for Portuguese speakers
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: Gunz on January 26, 2017, 00:16:59
Awesome, dude! Keep up the good work!!
Title: Re: Dev Blog 5 - June 1st 2016
Post by: CADAEMOS on January 27, 2017, 18:39:53
Good work guys!!!!!!!! Love your work!!!
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