I'm prob not the right guy to help with numbers.

Is Ragnor still king of G? Maybe ask him (and get your changes as an official part of the project)?

I think that's a good way of handling this. I think I'll leave it using the old method until I can get the client to a releasable state so I don't get sidetracked.

Unfortunately that's something I've been putting off for quite some time. I've never been very familiar with multipart arches and without any special handling they look "good enough" that I haven't worked my way back to it.

I've recently got back into working on this. I fixed the previously mentioned tile alignment issues. Most of what I've been working on more recently has been UI stuff like NPC talk interfaces, inventory, spell lists, etc.

I still haven't done anything about multipart objects, although from what I can tell they all display with proper offsets without any special handling. The issue I've seen with multiparts both in the SDL client and in the Unity client is layering - See https://www.daimonin.org/issues/sa/ticket/ticket/128/


Above is the Unity client as of today. There are a few features that are implemented but not shown (e.g. NPC interface, skill list, stat list). But the big stuff is, for the most part, implemented. In some cases, it's implemented better - for example, the chat window supports links. This will eventually be useful for linking items in chat, as we can simply show the item name and an icon. When the player hovers over the icon, a tooltip will show the item's sprite and stats. Different chat channels are also sorted into different tabs.

I'll try to keep updating this thread as I make progress but it'll be slow as I'm juggling other projects (RDG, big server changes).

Lately I've taken some time away from the server and I've been working on the new client. I've mostly been focusing on supporting multiple resolutions, since the current client is mainly oriented toward 800x600 or 1024x768 monitors. These days most computer monitors are at least 1920x1080 so I'd like to better support modern computers, to include mobile devices.

I didn't feel like working on UI again today, so I spent a few minutes working on particle effects.


Sorry for the GIF being so short - Gyazo only allows short-duration GIFs for free users.

The sparkly effect near my character at some point will be customizable for various "aura" spells/skills. This is only a few minutes worth of work, but I think I can come up with loads of cool effects using this feature.

I'm not sure if I've shown images of the Fog of War effects in this thread, but the blue tiles are effectively your "memory" - tiles which are outside your Line of Sight but you can remember what they look like (except NPC's/mobs - they might move around a bit so you can't be sure where they are).

The flashing "[Game]" above the chat menu is part of the chat tabs feature. Every chat channel has its own tab now, and chat channels (including /tell, /gsay, etc.) will notify you if there's a new message in them. [Game] is used for messages which in the old client came from the right-side message window. I think the flashing is a bit annoying so I might swap that with an icon or something.

The bottom of the inventory/equipment menu is the player's active container. There is a new command/macro - "/bag" - which allows players to select whether items picked up are placed in their inventory or their active container.

Obviously the UI overall is pretty ugly. This is by no means a finished product, but I think it's a nice demonstration of some of the features which exist thus far.

Where can I get a link to download the Unity client to look at/play with?

https://www.daimonin.org/downloads/sa/view/down/25/

There are a few bugs which have come up since I left my editor set to the Android platform after testing Android support a few months back, but it's mostly functional anyway.