Good morning, afternoon and evening everyone!

This week's development blog is featuring the much anticipated Team Creatures! Today we have a filler of a new plant concept, Vitreus' progression and we take a sneak peak into the brand new animations for Valhad!

NEW! Gem Root Plant Concept Art!

Let's allow Nika start today's development update! We are introducing the Gem Root plant. By appearance this plant seems rather alien in nature, one that suits well with something you might expect to see in the tropical biomes perhaps. Unlike most plants that are harvested during spring and summer, this specific plant is best gathered and harvested during autumn and winter time when its hibernating.

As the name suggests the roots of this plant are the edible part. The roots are best harvested during autumn when the plant prepares for the winter. You will be able to harvest them as well during winter time, but you will find out that they are slightly more chewy and slightly less tasty. Still edible though! On the right you can see how the inside would like. It's structure would be almost kiwi-like.

PROGRESS! Vitreus' Rig has been Completed!

In the previous development live-stream over at our YouTube channel, @SadEch has fully completed a rig to one of our other dragons: Vitreus. It has been a while since we have shown progression on our small acid dragon. Clarification: Vitreus will not be part in the pre-alpha tech demo! The zilant will be developed after the crowdfunding period.

The rig is fully posable. Here is a quick pose that Ech did while streaming.

NEW! Set of Valhad Animations!

Now then, shall we get into the highlight of this update? Yes, yes whe shall. Our animator has completed more of the wonderful animations for our Valhad, the small fire dragon that will be replacing Vulgan in the tech demo. there has been a lot of progress since the last time we saw this vulture wyvern three weeks ago. Let's see where we have gotten thus far...

https://youtu.be/lrcXu6SKHfo?si=0XYp8_LKr3boPaRM

Good morning, afternoon and evening everyone!

This week's development update features our backend development on the test build, including some other human-related stuff. Featuring this week's progress with Team Humans!

Human Combat on Its Way~

@𝕱𝖊𝖓𝖗𝖎𝖗 the Pigeon has kept the human melee combat as the current focus, as it needs to be as polished as possible before its release. It is tough to make it feel and work well considering the current limitations in this early prototype build, but progress is currently being made slowly but surely. Now that the holidays are finished Fenrir can resume working as much as possible and progress should hopefully go as smoothly as possible.

Hatchet's Developer Notes~

- Redone the dragon lock-on system to relieve its load on network and server performance!
In our testing, we found that one of our major network bottlenecks has been replicated variables on tick-events, which simply just means that some variable values are being synced between servers and clients every frame for everyone. While some of that is unavoidable, it's most definitely not needed in the projectile lock-on system, so with the overhaul, we should see at least some improved network performance.

- Began work on redoing some dragon movement code to be server-authoritative!
The dragons' movement is currently client-authoritative for movement smoothness, but it also means that server-side accuracy is sacrificed in the process. In order to facilitate the re-enabling of player-player collision, our goal is to have the movement be server-authoritative in the end while still retaining the current level of client-side smoothness.

- Assorted bug fixes and improvements!
What it says on the tin. Decided to type out these things as well so you don't need to.

WIP! Medium Wooden Armour Concept Art~

Our @pebb has been working on updating the old medium wooden armour concept art. Here is a work-in-progress (WIP) showcase of what they have been working on so far. Note that the knee covers are still missing, as well as a hind and side view and refinements on the design.

FINISHED! Final Renders of the Heavy Iron Armour!

@CriticalDude has fully completed the heavy iron armour set with all of its modular pieces and details. Here are the final absolutely stunning renders of the armour in all of its detailed glory! The armour has been handed onto Ech to be suited for the human model.

WIP! Suiting Up the Hooman~

Speaking of which @SadEch has been suiting up the human in the background. Here is work-in-progress (WIP) of Ech attempting to make the armour fit on the new human model, luckily she only have to do this once, as the future armours will be modelled on the new human model to fit them directly.