Random sneak peeks

[chewie]

Moin @all 

A typical news post on our website involves a lot of preparation, reviewing, coordination and last but not least manpower - which is the reason why they are that rare. Its a huge difference for our team if we can spent e.g. 4 hours to develop Zero, or to use that time to prepare a news. So I decided to start a thread to post random snippets from our daily work (e.g. artworks, screenshots, screencaptures, testrender etc...). As ZeroTV worked nice so far, I'd like to introduce this form of "quick & dirty news" to enhance the activity here. 

(We make our posts in English here, but feel free to use either English or German for your replies. Other languages are welcome, too - but we then need to use a translator tool )

So, let's get started

[madlion]

I think it's a great idea! ^^

Yeah the rat is in. *s*
I really like the new walls. ^^

[chewie]

Next one - my unsucessful attempt to get some rat skins 

Zero rat hunt [*.ogg, ~28 MB]

[bumsbomber]

Cool, I like the idea of posting some progress infos just in a thread.

The walls looks really nice, it makes appetite for an level editor I also like the flying magic mutant wildpigs ()

Is there any chance for a tech demo or beta this christmas? 

[chewie]

News from the nightshift:

• Shadowrunner added walk & hit animations to the rat: Zero rat hunt v2 [*.ogg, ~25 MB]
• US combat armor has been added to the animation pool: Zero East vs. West [*.ogg, ~13 MB]
• madlion finished the next stage for the dialogue editor - now dialogues can be created and saved
• snowball is in a building-creation-spree

Cool, I like the idea of posting some progress infos just in a thread.

Yep, seemed to be a necessary step - otherwise this project looks kind of dead :/ (although we are always @IRC, both at the Zero-Channel and the FIFE-Channel)

The walls looks really nice, it makes appetite for an level editor I also like the flying magic mutant wildpigs ()

Heh, that's Herbert and his friends. Unfortunately we only have one idle animation and one snuffle animation so far, so all other actions are routed to plain idle (hence the moonwalk)

Is there any chance for a tech demo or beta this christmas? 

Well, the demo preparation is en route. But - and my hope that I can prevent that - if we don't make it this year, you will get a PM including Zero as a sneak peek. Thats a promise. 

[bumsbomber]

Shadowrunner added walk & hit animations to the rat

btw, will there be effects like lost arms, legs & heads for bigger enemies?

Well, the demo preparation is en route. But - and my hope that I can prevent that - if we don't make it this year, you will get a PM including Zero as a sneak peek. Thats a promise. 

omg!! ... non stop adrenaline till christmas!

[Shadowrunner]

btw, will there be effects like lost arms, legs & heads for bigger enemies?

Sure. But ät the moment i have not as much time as should have to create that kind of animations. At the moment other things have more priority.

[Shadowrunner]

no comment 

[bumsbomber]

no comment 

The authority survives the nuclear war?
This let me be curious about the story

I'm sure the anarchy would be boring without cops

Nice animation, btw.

[bumsbomber]

Dieser Thread war so ein vielversprechender Ansatz ^^

[Shadowrunner]

Ausser ein paar technischer Probleme gibts momentan leider nix zu sneaken 

[chewie]

SVN läuft wieder (= technisches Problem das SR erwähnt hat) und ein neue ZeroTV-Folge gibt es auch.

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SVN server is back online and there's also a new episode of ZeroTV.

ZeroTV 13 - Don't panic 


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I added a round counter to the combat - now the player gets a notice if a new round starts, as well as a summary if the combat ends (and the player is still alive ^^)



Also, I removed all this cheating stuff from the combat messages (e.g. combat queue, remaining enemy hitpoints) 

[chewie]

Schon lange fertig, heute ein wenig Politur erhalten: Das Interface zur Zero-Shopping-Welt:

Done for quite a while now but received a little polishing today, the UI for Zero trading:



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Hidden in this post the hint: Demo is about 2 weeks late, but under heavy development (~260 commits since Dezember 2010)

[bumsbomber]

Eben bin ich aus dem Schlaf aufgeschreckt und fühlte mich wie ein kleines Kind an Weihnachten, ohne zu wissen wieso. Dann geh ich an den PC weil ich nicht mehr einschlafen kann vor Nervosität und siehe da: Neue ZERO-Infos! Und das Wort "Demo"! 

Großartig! Wird es im Handelsbildschirm (und bei Dialogen usw) wie bei F1 und F2 auch noch die Fratze des Händlers zu sehen geben?

[chewie]

Eben bin ich aus dem Schlaf aufgeschreckt und fühlte mich wie ein kleines Kind an Weihnachten, ohne zu wissen wieso. Dann geh ich an den PC weil ich nicht mehr einschlafen kann vor Nervosität und siehe da: Neue ZERO-Infos! Und das Wort "Demo"! 

Es lebt! Frohes Neues =) Gut zu wissen das wir nicht die einzigen sind die von Zero in den Schlaf verfolgt werden 

Großartig! Wird es im Handelsbildschirm (und bei Dialogen usw) wie bei F1 und F2 auch noch die Fratze des Händlers zu sehen geben?

Aus Platzgründen wird dieser Handelsbildschirm nichts dergleichen bekommen. (lies: wären wir nicht so unter Zeitdruck, würde er anders aussehen; sprich: der wird post-demo noch ein face-lifting erhalten)
Dialoge haben einen Bereich in dem auf den NPC rangezoomt wird, ich will nicht ausschließen das da evtl. auch mal eine Art Talking-Head integriert werden kann (bisher fehlt da aber noch einiges an technischem Unterbau auf FIFE-Seite)