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Henry wrote:Hi Guys,

I loved Lugaru for Windows so much, I had to port Black Shades:

Great job! Thank You!

It works as promised. I'm not sure about keys like "constant slow-mo" though.

Black Shades... I can play it at work now!

"Will you be able to do X Random Situation" questions are annoying. I doubt there will be a full house building farm running family rearing simulation, could be wrong though. It's not about farm or family... It's about meditating while looking at water, at falling sakura... oops, wrong ga...

Lugaru 2 will definitely have survival elements; you will have to eat, sleep, and drink to survive, and these will not always be easy to do. The environment will be much more important than in Lugaru; you will be able to climb trees, forage for food, and create shelters. There will definitely be NP...

I have been working on some things, but have not made striking visual changes for a little while. I, personally, did not expect that you'd post that much screenshots (with visual enhancements) in such a short time. I know, I often come to our programmers and ask to show me some good-looking stuff.....

Jeff wrote:Nothing has really happened with the engine recently.

Okay.

There have been no news re Phoenix engine for a long time...
I am patiently waiting...
David, Jeff?

Lugaru 1 had a even lower poly sword, but it was textured nicely and moving fast, and the mind has other things to worry about than the swords edge showing a segment now and then. The sword is looking great, but, perhaps, some polygon rearranging - making the handle even more low-poly and the addin...

David wrote:The Phoenix engine now supports a form of gloss map, which allows us to modulate the reflectivity of surfaces using the alpha channel of the texture. This means that we can easily render models that reflect light differently from different areas.

thumbs up!

Gimme rain, gimme snow!

nice. definitely. but there is a lot of space for improvement. currently, only walking on his toes and turning looks... well... animated.

David wrote:You'll see

Well... If there is no chance to become a beta-tester, I will have to wait for a loooooong time

cool. what about combat animations? how can physics help there?

David wrote: I have not even started working on LOD or other optimizations, but it doesn't run THAT slow as it is now:

Not THAT slow.
This grass can't be textured, and every... well... blade of grass can have only one color?
It'd be interesting to see it in action.

It's getting very interesting. When you have the grass tech. working, David, could you please post a screen or two with fps count?

Agreed It's made with Flash. They are plain crazy, but for Flash it's a good job! And characters are fun. I chose that old man with a shovel... :) I liked this game. It's a nice timekiller, and, thanks to its turn-based battles, you have plenty of time to talk. What you expected, Final Fantasy, Eve...