Backtoroots: Dungeon Crawlers
Dear all,
The backtoroots project has moved forward by forging monsters in the dungeon halls. There are other additions, such as the fact that the type of dungeon is now handled and the right texture is used.
In my latest post, I explain how monsters are added into the dungeons and what it looks like. But let us consider monsters now and show a little bit how it looks in backtoroots. This time around, Iolo is attacked by a reaper group before fleeing the scene:
Reaper creaper
Because dungeons wrap around in their coordinates, there is a lot to be tested in the first version of my wrapping pathfinder but most things have been set in place. If you notice however, the combat map is the outside map because generating automatically the combat map is the next big hurdle.
However, because I felt it was more realistic (but I could remove it), I’ve added the concept that monsters can go up or down a level to attack you. This means that going up a ladder isn’t going to make you safe. The spiders, rats, bats, and other monsters will follow 😉
As you can see in this short video:
Reaper creaper climbs ladders
Enjoy, and as always, comments and criticisms are welcome 🙂
Jc
Also, this is awesome:
https://launchpad.net/kazam
Enable the first audio channel only (it can record two simultaneously), keep it at 15 FPS and record to webm (not h264). Manually moving the capture box works perfectly via the button, so you can size it to 1280×720 or whatever, then move the box into position for the recording. YouTube doesn’t even re-encode it as long as the resolution is common.
That looks interesting, I’ll have to test it in the near future :-). I like xvidcap because it is easy to use however so I’ll get to compare 😉
Jc