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Baby Moses

fire7side

Looks interesting. I'm doing a turn based game and have run into these same problems. I haven't gotten to a state machine yet. I am using kind of a decision making tree for the ai using coroutines to wait until something is finished. It's nice that you are respecting the bible and not trying to change it in any way. That always bothers me. Even the smallest detail. Adding some things that could have happened to support the story is all right.

Dschoonmaker

This is very interesting, I've never seen a bible based video game!

Artur

#Team expansion and Progress Kai, the programmer and musician who recommended Git to me, is now actively involved in this project! This is a huge thing for me. We have found time to continue working on the game. His programming skills are much better than mine and he quickly gets the hang of it. we have successfully connected the dialogue system with the state machine. Kai is not only talented, I also hope for an ever growing friendship.

#State Mashine The state machine, as I mentioned above in the previous post, caused a problem. If direction keys are not pressed, the event STOP is given in every physic-tic. This brings you into the state IDLE, but this STOP-event blocks the transition to the TALK-state. At least this is how I understood it. That is why we have made the TALK-state accessible from the WALK-state. I hope you understand what I mean.

#Wall-Tiles with Autotile-function Now that the functional part is in place, I have returned to the visual side. So that all this doesn't look so flat, I want to raise the landscape so that the world gets more depth. As you can see in this gif, I create this "building" from several layers. The bottom layer is used to indicate where the walls run when you are in the building. The layers on top are to see the building from the outside, they are hidden when you go inside. This is the idea so far.

These tiles are not finished. There will be a transition from the wall to the upper level of the landscape.

It's all a lot of work, therefore I am grateful for tips and criticism, because I want to move forward effectively and meaningfully.

Artur

Wall Tiles

I took a step back and made everything square. This way I could see better that they fit together, and if something was uneven, I could correct it quickly because the square shape is easy to work with. Every little thing is represented by pixels, and because I do pixel art, I have to work very precisely.

After I had a clean result, I rounded it off with a Subdivision Surface Modifier.

The walls have a body shadow ( pre-rendered ), but unfortunately no throwing shadow on the floor. Therefore I added a light source.

Then I realized that strangely enough the walls themselves are not illuminated like in the old "Godot 2D isometric lighting demo".

In addition, I see that I need a directional light (sunlight) and not a punctual light like a light bulb. This thing seems complicated. If you have any advice, let me know what the best way to proceed is.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great week

Hippo

I never realized that lighting effects were even possible with a 2D tileset. o.o Thanks for shining some light on this, I might have to mess around with some effects in my games and see what happens.

Sparrow

This is great work, really good to see someone else's process. You've stuck with it, welldone.

The sprites from models is great, I may have to start on that one.

The lighting issue in your last post is more than likely the layer index, I had the same thing kind of, the light was hitting everything, so I moved the things I didn't want to be effected by the light up to a higher layer index.

The sunlight thing i can't help with, but using a sprite with a gradient can help smooth out the light.

Good luck

Artur

Thank you very much for your answers and motivating words! With the help of a Tutorial by SerenityStyle, which he uploaded the other day, I was able to achieve a good result. The short sunlight shadows have to be made with a shader, if this is possible somehow...

Artur

timkrief

I really like the artworks, it feels like they are straight from a booklet that would come with the game :)

Artur

#Pre-rendered shadows In this .gif you see that I am again struggling with light and shadow. I took the animated sprite, duplicated it, set it as a child and colored it gray. Now I see that the shadow does not match the feet coming up on the ground. This should work better for standing objects, but since my objects are 3d, I can simply render the shadow out: Without shadow: With shadows:

I did it the same way for the character. The shadow now matches the feet coming up on the ground.

I like this result already better. But of course it is not realtime shadow. The size of the tile limits the size of the shadow. The material is set to fade out at the edges so that it does not look cut off. Probably I will have problems with YSort, too.

If you have any tips, suggestions for improvement or just an opinion, I'd love to hear it. I wish you a nice weekend!

Artur

#Pre-rendered shadows slightly refined

I have colored the shadow into a dark blue, which creates a pleasant color contrast in the overall picture, as I think. But such soft gradients do not fit to the rest of the style, so I added a dithering instead of the gradient. Here again a detailed view:

This project gives me a lot of pleasure! i can only recommend to everybody to start with what you always wanted and thought to be right. you don't have to wait until you are perfectly equipped with time, skills or team members. You just start and then everything else comes step by step. I am curious what will come out of this project :)

Meanwhile I deal with historical and cultural things that give the player the feeling of being in another world. Thank you very much for every thumbs up and have a nice weekend!

Artur

In this picture you can see that I have made doors and windows, but also load-bearing timbers that hold the roof. This awakens the player's interest because he wonders who lives there or what it might look like inside the building.
I also tried out a new color palette here, which I will stick to. It gives me several color gradations. You can hardly see the difference to the previous state, but these give me more possibilities. For example if several elements are close to each other I can give them a different colour with these gradations. So the forms do not merge and are clearly separated from each other. This picture shows the consideration if it should be possible to walk on the roofs. I think it would be generally good if you could walk on higher or lower levels in the landscape. That would promote the feeling of depth, and I think that is very important for this perspective, otherwise it looks too flat.

Artur

What you see here is the tall grass I worked on today. The challenge was to place the large leaves of grass so that the tiles fit together seamlessly. To the right of the feet you can see that the old tile map of the short grass is not quite seamless. Hopefully that won't happen again. The character should be "covered" by the high grass or "sink" into the water when he steps on it. The sprite should be transparent in the lower area. But I don't want to solve it with a shader because I've made the experience that there were errors on the mobile phone. The mask of the shader was not exactly on the desired pixels. This led to an unattractive border. I will have to render out suitable sprites. What is your opinion?

Artur

I made the runcycle new, it looks more natural, more relaxed and it works much better with Mirjam's clothes.

The dress and the details like the seam are in the MeshDeformer. The animated skeleton moves the MeshDeformer and the MeshDeformer moves everything inside. This way I save many work steps. The hair is simply attached to the head.
In these two pictures you can see that I made the shadow lighter. And maybe I will make it darker again. This development is a back and forth until it sits in the right place. It is still too early to deal with details but I am a graphic artist and it is difficult to let it go.

Artur

Every two months I make a video of my progress. With this video I take part in a German Game Dev Show Case. It's Tom's show. LetsGameDev is the name of his channel on YouTube.

That's why it is unfortunately in German.

If you have any ideas where I could submit my videos, please let me know.

The fields around the Nile were fertilized and flooded by Nile floods, but where the Nile did not reach, the water had to be carried on by another way.

I came to this water wheel through the following Bible passage:

For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: Deuteronomy Chapter 11 Verse 10

Sosasees

@Artur said:

Wall tiles

![] (Https://i.imgur.com/CJBWONG.gif) As you can see in the gif, I have the problem that the figure standing behind the wall is not covered. I was considering solving the problem with a shader, but I'm not sure if that's the best way. Maybe one or the other of you has more experience with this. I look forward to hearing from you.

Ah, that's why you realtime-render everything and not just the characters: So that you can make sure that the Z-order is correct by making the walls exist in the same 3D space as the player.

Hippo

That water wheel looks awesome! I think it's so fascinating how advanced ancient technology could be, given their limited understanding. I think stuff like this is really cool to see in games and really brings the world alive, good job!

Artur

@Sosasees I model and animate in 3d, but the game is a 2d game. This is because I am a better graphic designer than programmer. Another reason why I don't make a 3d game is that I want the game to run well on smartphones. A 2d game is also easier to program than a 3d game. Because they are 3d models, everything stays the same. By this I mean that in an animation, for example, the proportions from frame to frame remain the same, even though they move and rotate. The illusion of depth is created in 2d with the Y-Sort-Node.

Thanks a lot @Hippo! One reason why I make the graphics myself is that it gives this game something unique.

Thanks for your comments!

Sosasees

@Artur I REALLY did think the game is actually rendeded in 3d WHILE it was being played. It was THAT convincing. Achieving this effect with lesser tech is even MORE impressive, especially since the game isn't made with 100 graphics engineers like the old isometric 3D games such as Sonic 3D Blast or Super Mario RPG.

Artur

At the moment you hear almost nothing from me. The reason for this is my moving, my wedding and honeymoon. That's why progress is a little poor this time.

Afterwards it should go better again.

I have no intention of implementing this character. Nevertheless it is interesting what can be created on paper.

I wish you all the best with your projects!

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