2010-12-20 Delayed Awesome

Sorry for the delay this week friends, but the wait is well worth it.

First, I present to you in this week’s awesome screen:  the Avatar after traveling by conversation with Raven at the Trinsic docks on a new map (a copy of map 9).

Now why is this awesome; Raven travel is a highly complex scripted event that involves many objects and triggers that must be at least partially understood to attempt even a simple map change like this.  So what this screenshot actually shows is that we know enough now to have Raven take us to other maps, which greatly expands the available space to build Britannia.

In fact, due to the high degree of similarities amongst all of the docks, we can easily create a dock on a new map and have Raven take the Avatar to this map using one of the old destinations.  Unfortunately, as you can see from the screenshot, there remains a few key bugs with the transition, but I’m confident that these can be corrected for with a little effort.

Now I have even more awesome news to report, Rorschach, a software engineer who is familar with C, C++ and other languages, has just joined the team.  He is already looking at our current editor code and development will soon move forward.  In addition, his experience and knowledge will be of great assistance in our efforts to improve OS and graphical compatibility of the engine through dll patches.

– Iceblade