Elemental Twitter Updates Weeks 4-9

July 6, 2009 5:59 PM from

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Weeks 4 through 9 of the twitter updates. For previous weeks, go here:

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Got HDR Lighting in...sounded like overkill for a TBS, but DEFINATLY worth the time...softens gfx, giving a great fantasy feel.
Alpha down, time to focus on the visuals and some gameplay features for the PAX build!
2 years in development and I'm finally downloading a build of Elemental from Impulse! Just needs to pass final testing and alpha's a go!
7 days 'till the Elemental Alpha!! Currently hooking Mining Techs up properly so you can build an iron-clad army of destruction!
Brad's July FAQ up at the website - https://forums.elementalgame.com/359927
More fun with map generation...tweaked land and mountain placement calculations http://tinyurl.com/m37n3b
ASCII output of 'single continent' map gen...needed for debugging but fun to watch http://sd.stardock.com/Elemental/MapGenerationOutput1.wmv
New journal entry on research in Elemental: https://forums.elementalgame.com/359538
Wow...busy week! Saved games, custom maps, research screens and imperial management being hammered out.
@DHStom Chrono Trigger DS for 20$ ?!?! Sign me up!
In early to polish a build for Ironclad's visit tomorrow!
Need to find out what the ESRB says about shirtless males...I have a feeling they have strict 'nipple guidelines' we have to adhere to.

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Reply #1 July 6, 2009 8:19 PM from

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Need to find out what the ESRB says about shirtless males...I have a feeling they have strict 'nipple guidelines' we have to adhere to.

Reminds me of the "Ganon goo" incident with Zelda: Twilight that my friend told me about....... I suppose an odd rating system is better than nothing @ all.......

Reply #2 July 6, 2009 9:31 PM from

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I feel that I have to post Zoomba's response to the first update, just because it is so funny He said:

zoomba@TeamElemental I wonder what the fine would be for the inappropriate use of "moobs" in a game.

SoundPackager - Customize the Windows sound scheme

Reply #3 July 7, 2009 10:21 AM from

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A 'moobs' fine...

Reply #4 July 7, 2009 5:49 PM from

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Quoting Scoutdog, reply 1

Need to find out what the ESRB says about shirtless males...I have a feeling they have strict 'nipple guidelines' we have to adhere to.

Reminds me of the "Ganon goo" incident with Zelda: Twilight that my friend told me about....... I suppose an odd rating system is better than nothing @ all.......

Google didn't give me anything useful... please explain.

Reply #5 July 7, 2009 10:32 PM from

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My personal term for it (I don't think there is a standard term): IN Twilight, when you fight Ganon, there are a few white spasrks that drip out of his weakspot. The ESRB saw them (and I didn't until my friend pointed it out to me!) and since they were considered "blood", the game got jumped up to a "T".

Reply #6 July 8, 2009 3:45 AM from

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X-wing/Tie fighter!? (was reading Zoomba's twitter)

don't get my hopes up!

Reply #7 July 8, 2009 9:29 AM from

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Updated

Reply #8 July 9, 2009 5:14 AM from

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IC to SD hopefully some Sins news will be on the way,

Reply #9 July 9, 2009 9:35 AM from

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updated

Quoting astrath, reply 8

IC to SD hopefully some Sins news will be on the way,

I agree, we really need some news on the next expansion.

Reply #10 July 9, 2009 11:29 AM from

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Yeah, they're in the office as we speak...dunno what kind of offical announcements will come of it but it's great to have IC around to show elemental to and talk all things game dev :)

Reply #11 July 16, 2009 3:38 PM from

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I just updated it with the 1st post of week 5.

Reply #12 July 16, 2009 4:35 PM from

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kyogre, I want to thank you again for providing this service.

I also want to thank the Elemental devs for not wasting their time thinking about Twitter very much, and to share a news link with other folks who are also beyond ready to see Twitter fritter away into the dustbin of old fads.

Reply #13 July 16, 2009 4:59 PM from

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Aaahhhhh..... good to see I'm not alone.... Twitter has its place, and I imagine it will stay useful for things like campeigns, dev journals, and nonviolent Middle Eatsern revolutions, but I agree: a lot of the "twits" as they are becoming known, will soon fall by the wayside. Of course, they could be replaced by something even more inane and superficial, but I will try to stay optimistic...

Reply #14 July 16, 2009 8:07 PM from

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Quoting GW, reply 12

kyogre, I want to thank you again for providing this service.

I also want to thank the Elemental devs for not wasting their time thinking about Twitter very much, and to share a news link with other folks who are also beyond ready to see Twitter fritter away into the dustbin of old fads.

No problem. I agree, twitter is pretty annoying, but how else will I get karma ? I haven't actually posted anything on it myself, but I do find it somewhat useful for keeping up with other people (ie, Elemental updates) Trent/mittens is on there, as are Island Dog, Zoomba, and Stardock in general. Every now and then they give out Impulse coupons there, which is nice.

Reply #15 July 17, 2009 2:58 AM from

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Its been awefully dry of late. Le sigh.

Its probebly because I made that thread about the nipples. Now boggiebac's afraid to post anything.

Reply #16 July 17, 2009 3:41 AM from

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The truth is that they already have a playable alpha but instead of releasing it, they are too busy playing the game (as buggy as alpha as it is).

Right, huh?

Reply #17 July 20, 2009 12:36 PM from

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Just put up the first update of week 6, although odds are good that if you check this forum, you've already seen the Dev Journal mentioned.

Reply #18 July 20, 2009 5:39 PM from

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Quoting Scoutdog, reply 5

Considering that they were white sparks, if his weak spot were his groin I suspect it would have gotten bumped up well beyond T.

Reply #19 July 20, 2009 6:46 PM from

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Considering that they were white sparks, if his weak spot were his groin I suspect it would have gotten bumped up well beyond T.

His weakspot was in the center of his chest. And he was male, lest landi get any more..... ideas.

Reply #20 July 23, 2009 4:47 PM from

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New update! And it's a video! Even better

Reply #21 July 24, 2009 3:12 AM from

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I've been looking / staring at the video for a bit, and I think they have a problem with dissapearing land tiles I tried to read all the messages that appear under the map... There are some places I couldn't decipher a letter or word. If someone has better eyes, feel free to correct me.

** Land tiles after Initial Land is generated **
Total land tiles: 3575

Bottom water Splat made ??? ( 0, 16) with a radius of 7.
** Land tiles in MapGenerator::FillMarginwithwater - filled Horizontal Area with water (Bottom of Map) **
Total land tiles: 3573

Top water Splat made ??? ( 1, 64) with a radius of 4.
** Land tiles in MapGenerator::FillMarginwithwater - filled Horizontal Area with water (Top of Map) **
Total land tiles: 3572

Bottom water Splat made ??? ( 2, 16) with a radius of 3.
** Land tiles in MapGenerator::FillMarginwithwater - filled Horizontal Area with water (Bottom of Map) **
Total land tiles: 3571

Top water Splat made ??? ( 3, 64) with a radius of 7.
** Land tiles in MapGenerator::FillMarginwithwater - filled Horizontal Area with water (Top of Map) **
Total land tiles: 3569

Bottom water Splat made ??? ( 4, 16) with a radius of 6.
** Land tiles in MapGenerator::FillMarginwithwater - filled Horizontal Area with water (Bottom of Map) **
Total land tiles: 3567

.....

Top water Splat made ??? ( 111, 64) with a radius of 2.
** Land tiles in MapGenerator::FillMarginwithwater - filled Horizontal Area with water (Top of Map) **
Total land tiles: 3070

Left water Splat made ??? ( 16, 0) with a radius of 2.
** Land tiles in MapGenerator::FillMarginwithwater - filled Vertical Area with water (Left of Map) **
Total land tiles: 3070

Right water Splat made ??? ( 96, 2) with a radius of 7.
** Land tiles in MapGenerator::FillMarginwithwater - filled Vertical Area with water (Right of Map) **
Total land tiles: 3070

Right water Splat made ??? ( 96, 3) with a radius of 6.
** Land tiles in MapGenerator::FillMarginwithwater - filled Vertical Area with water (Right of Map) **
Total land tiles: 3070

Left water Splat made ??? ( 16, 4) with a radius of 4.
** Land tiles in MapGenerator::FillMarginwithwater - filled Vertical Area with water (Left of Map) **
Total land tiles: 3070

Left water Splat made ??? ( 16, 5) with a radius of 7.
** Land tiles in MapGenerator::FillMarginwithwater - filled Vertical Area with water (Left of Map) **
Total land tiles: 3070

.....

Left water Splat made ??? ( 16, 77) with a radius of 5.
** Land tiles in MapGenerator::FillMarginwithwater - filled Vertical Area with water (Left of Map) **
Total land tiles: 280? ( 6 or 8)

** Land Tiles after the margin is filled with water **
Total land tiles: 280? ( 6 or 8)

** Land Tiles after water is Blocked **
Total land tiles: 280? ( 6 or 8)

** Land Tiles after Mountains are Generated**
Total land tiles: 22?? (13 ??)

** Land Tiles after Cliffs and Coastal ??? Are Placed **
Total land tiles: 1879

** Land Tiles after map is Completely Generated **
Total land tiles: 18?3 (6 or 8)

NOTE: The extra tiles don't appear to be in MapData at this point.
Map Generation Complete
Creating terrain objects...
Terrain objects created.
Placing random goodie huts...
Placing random elemental shards...
Placing random resources...
**** Land Tiles after Temp map Data is Deleted (Cworld::Initializeworld) ****
Total land tiles: 18?3 (6 or 8)

**** Land Tiles After Game Initialization is Done (Cworld::InitializeGame) ****
Total land tiles: 18?3 (6 or 8)

Followed by what looks like compilation messages...

It seems they generate a huge piece of land after which they start cutting pieces out the (Top / Bottom and Left / Right) coast... I guess they have to work on this some more, because the resulting map has same large areas with very straight coastlines (where the original land mass already had some pieces cut out...).

Another thing we might be able to learn from this, it seems mountains / cliffs are not counted as Land Tiles in the engine. If this means mountains are unusable isn't sure off course...

Reply #22 July 24, 2009 9:08 AM from

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I guess they have to work on this some more, because the resulting map has same large areas with very straight coastlines

Yeah, I'm actually working on some map generation fixes right now. If you like those vids I can post some more up as values and calculations get tweaked.

Reply #23 July 24, 2009 9:27 AM from

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If you like those vids I can post some more up as values and calculations get tweaked.

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Reply #24 July 24, 2009 11:30 AM from

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http://tinyurl.com/m37n3b

Reply #25 July 24, 2009 11:59 AM from

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BoogieBac already posted the link, but I put the twitter update for it up as well

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