The hardest part is animating, so the image doesn't look static. Now I understand the guys who made REPLACED, who have over 10,000 sprites in their game 😅
I've done some dynamic only for parts of the portal, but it's already exhausted me.
Записал коротенькое видео про текущий статус проекта, планы и прочее.
Пока что сложно сказать, когда публичная играбельная демка будет, но к концу года, думаю, получится собрать что-то, чтоб другим дать.
Все исходники будут на Гитхабе: https://github.com/Suvitruf/unity-arcanum
While I'm working on Arcanum Unity port people ask me about different stuff.
Recently, I had a question about scripted damage. As you know, in the original game, you don't gain EXP if a scripted trap kills someone.
Opinion: if you initiated the action, you should probably receive EXP. However, that would differ from the retail version.
What do you think? Should you gain EXP in this case, or should I keep it the same as in the original game? 🤔
Now almost everything is tracked and updated during the gameplay.
Again, repo of this project is on Github.
In debug mode, I have the enemies' turn order displayed at the top of the screen. I'm wondering whether I should make this feature optional (off by default) and add it to the final version 🤔
Again, link to the project: https://github.com/Suvitruf/unity-arcanum.
Again, repo of this project is on Github.
Now I can level-up, spend points to attributes, learn spells and use them. Also it persist between runs (global save system). Basic sound-system was also implemented. Yeah, there some issues with UI art scaling and positioning, but not critical for now, I'm going to fix it later 😅
There are several subsystem remain to implement. After that I'll try to make playable demo.
Erin Catto recently made native Box3d test. So I've reproduced it in Unity with my wrapper.
Looks great. Tested on Nvidia 5080 with 8 threads.
Again, repo of this project is on Github.
Obviously, browser can't access your local files directly. So you will have to chose some files from your Arcanum's installation folder.
But after that I can access it in memory and read it.
I'll do some cleanup and make public demo on Github pages after that.
Recently Erin Catto released Box3d. And I wanted to test in Unity.
So here is the Repo on Github.
There are definitely some bugs and possible performance improvements, but even now Box3d scales nice with the number of independent simulation islands.
Original library is in early stage, and will be changed a lot. I'll try to keep my repo up to date.
All test scenes are here on Github. You need Unity to test it. And it leads me to the question...
Do I need to create a small build, so everyone (even without Unity) will be able to test these scenes? 🤔
As Erin writes, it's essentially a fork of Box2d with additional features on top. All the features of the original engine still work here: multithreading, SIMD, C17, etc.
He explains this in more detail in the video.
Motivation? They tried using UE5 for their game, but its Chaos physics engine proved unsuitable. Again, he talks about his experience in his blog, which also includes an attempt to integrate Rubikon from Half-Life: Alyx into Unreal Engine.
Released a bunch of modules, ranging from physics simulation and a graphics engine to modules for UI, sound, and network.
And everything is licensed under the MIT. This means it can be used freely for commercial purposes.
Currently trying to implement a spell system. And I'm having a lot of problems finding the necessary art for the spells and logic to cast it.
Sometimes it leads to funny interactions 😅
P.S. the project is on Github.
For now, I ended up implementing it with a LUT and a shader. I just create configs for color remapping, and the shader changes the colors at runtime.
So, I've decided to start early and release part of the project on GitHub.
Right now, it contains:
I've also recently started working on test scenes where I can view assets and animations together, because it's impossible to validate everything through code/tests alone.
I'm going to release the source code step by step, module by module, after proper testing and code cleanup.
The engine code was also released. And they didn't just release the old code; they converted it to C++20 beforehand.
Furthermore, they added support for modern versions of Windows and Linux.
Implemented:
Beside that implemented small stuff like picking up items, etc.
Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/arcanum/comments/1uatles/working_on_fan_arcanum_port_in_unity/