Kiyador

As I said before, I'm switching to using C++. Game Maker is a great program, I will still use it in the future but for Kiyador I plan using C++ and Python.
 I'll be using Panda3D library files and it's functions, and coding the game in C++, or Python. 


I'm currently learning Python now, and once I finish a few tutorials and books on Python, I'll move to C++, then hopefully I'll start making small games to get the feel of it before I make Kiyador.


Stay Tuned for updates,
 Lule

As you may of known, I was unfortunately doing this all in Game Maker8 with the Ultimate3D and 39DLL extension. I've literally pushed GM as far as it will go with this project, but now it just completely sucks, bad models, low FPS, everything/


So I'm learning C++ and OpenGL. Maybe now I can use high poly models and I'll get some good FPS. So There won't be much blog posts now for a while, but I'm still working on it, ;P!

Today I've been working on character customization. Hopefully I can get the basics of it done today. 
 This week I plan on finishing the character customization, including the models such as hair, clothes and different textures. Once that's out of the way, I'll finish off the login and registration system, so I can test out characters I created. 


I'm still working on the battle engine, by the way.


One of my graphics artists and me are working closely on the GUI. You can see on the homepage that it is nearly finished. He' working on the Character Customization GUI now, hopefully some screenshots will go up later.

As I posted earlier, I was working on weapons concept and models. Now that I have a few, I've been working on designing,  and hopefully today coding the battle system. 


It won't be like nearly every MMO, where you click and wait about a minute for your player to auto-kill a monster wandering around helplessly in circles. It's going to feature a real-time battle system, where a player can freely move around, attack with combos or skills and block enemy attacks. That's just an example, but of course there will be more to it. 


But you get the idea, it's just something different from minutes watching a screen of a character fighting. When I get around to finishing it, I'll upload a video of it in action!

Above is a simple model of one of the 7 playable game races, and this one is the Kraelyn, The aquatic and ancient race. 
 
As you can see, it's half clothed, with a simple Patchwork Vest and a spear I randomly added. The reason why I customized it is for the battle engine test, which will feature non-designable players who are already built for testing. This will be so I don't have to go through a long process of signing up/logging in or creating a character and hosting a server.

For a couple of hours, I've been working on some basic weapon concept, then ultimately basic models for them.
 These Models are very low-poly, which is a good thing, so they don't eat too much FPS.


These aren't going to be the final models, most likely they will be updated and remodelled. 
 

The weapons above are in no particular order, and tomorrow I'm most likely going to work on even more weapons or armour.
 

I've been visiting the GMC (Game Maker Community) forums and checking out some 39DLL tutorials and some engines.
 I can use 39DLL, but for the GMOG (Game Maker Online Game) to functiong great, not lag as much, run smoothly and be bug-free, I decided to learn more.


So there won't be much work on the game, as I'm pretty busy learning more about 39DLL.

I've been working on some enemy models for the game. Of course, they'll be for low-level monsters because we have to start low. We're using low-poly models, because they aren't that hard to make, they are fast and they won't kill the FPS in the game client.


I'm working on an enemy model of a "Slime". You can see it below.

The Model shows the simple cel-shading effect we'll be using. This slime isn't very detailed, because we'll be using it as the "Slime's Base", so we can easily edit and manipulate it's geometry, to simply make it more detailed.