Kevin Fishburne has been keeping busy, pressing development of his Ultima-inspired, PvE MMORPG Sanctimonia forward. Recently, he got textures on persistent world object blocks working:

If you didn't guess, block texture coordinate mapping is now working 100% and initial steps have been taken to fully implement block PWOs.

— Eight Virtues (@eightvirtues) July 18, 2013

Testing went well:

Client requests to build blocks via architectural plan transactions honored by server. Block PWOs are persistent and have collision tiles.

— Eight Virtues (@eightvirtues) July 20, 2013

The next step, then, was the creation of a GUI through which players could more effectively manage the creation of structures:

Created "architectural plan" textures (parchment and twelve 4" block variations). The menu code is next and the server commit already works.

— Eight Virtues (@eightvirtues) July 21, 2013

Architectural plan GUI initial progress: http://t.co/AEget2DS0h After the next iteration I'll post a video of structure creation.

— Eight Virtues (@eightvirtues) July 23, 2013

Here’s the image linked above (converted to JPEG; click above for the PNG original):

As you can see, the setup is still fairly rudimentary, although the background scroll texture is quite aesthetically pleasing. Expect to see this enhanced in the future, and — knowing the good Mr. Fishburne — to see it in action presently.