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And now I misspelled the misspelling. Great.

Ah yes, "mediavel" stage. BlueSky still has no edit button.

In Spore, your empire was represented by a color that was derived from your creature's detail color. The flag editor would allow you to create a flag for your empire that gets shown on maps and can be physically put on top of buildings.

While we're still working on plant editor shaders and textures on Discord, I already started planning one of the editors for mediaval stage. It's already on the roadmap, but not 100% confirmed yet. trello.com/c/dmHkdJBE

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Worked a bit on the Quaxel Engine this weekend. It can render animated 2D characters in 3D space now!

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Wind animations have been added to the foliage! The intensity can be changed at runtime for certain weather events.

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Some log outputs from the described tool.

I spent some time to create development tools, to help me better organize the project. Here for example, I can lookup groups of status effects to see by what abilities or environments they are caused.

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A bush made of multiple spheres, colored in a green-blue gradient.

Here is a more advanced example of the foliage shader, where it forms a bush that gets colored with a world-space gradient.

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A plant with a green stalk, ending in a big and fluffy ball of light blue leaves.

Here's a first look at one of the new foliage shaders! This is just a quick example. It can be used with different types of leaves and will support wind and color effects.

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Started working on some fancy foliage shaders for the plant editor.

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You can definitely do things like that in Godot too, it's just going to be a lot of work.

Elysian Eclipse has foundations for 4 out of 7 stages so far and a few editors and standalone prototypes.

Thank you! It's using Unity. Everything is made out of separate parts that have components that describe how they can be deformed and interact with each other. Pretty much all the models are procedurally generated. Lots of math.

Since they have transparent backgrounds, they can be easily used for video thumbnails or other image edits.

A render of a nugget creature.

A render of an orcish hut.

The editor will soon allow you to create high quality renders like these of your creatures, plants and buildings! You can combine this with the camera alignment key (C) to make them perfectly front-facing.

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A poorly drawn version of Blorb from Elysian Eclipse, labelled "Blerb".

Elysium Ellipse fanart

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The drain effect also applies to the other attribute bars. Speaking of which, the resilience icon has been changed. It is now shaped like a diamond instead of a thermometer, since it also protects you from pressure and radiation, not only extreme temperatures.

And when your health drops to below 20%, the edges of the screen will start to glow in red!

A screenshot from cell stage, showing the mentioned visual effects.

Visual effects have been added to the health bar! Instead of instantly updating, it now highlights the taken damage in a darker shade and will drain with an animation, similar to Dark Souls.

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A mostly green and orange hut. The bottom part is small, while the top part is much wider and held up by pillars.

A beige and red hut with green roofs. It has a big main section with a smaller section on each side. They all have individual roofs. There are two brazier-like structures in front of the entrance.

I'm having way too much fun with this right now. The editor is really coming together. The only thing I struggle with, is the limited part pool, but I'm planning to add a LOT more things to it.

A blue and white colored hut with a dome. It is decorated with black spikes and several decals. Two light blue vases are standing next to the door.

Since the new shaders allow recoloring, I added paint regions to all the existing hut parts! I'll of course also do the same for the upcoming plant editor parts.

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An unsharp close-up picture of a dog. She has white fur with a brown spot on her face.

I don't have much time to work on the update right now, so take this blurry picture of Flocki instead.

A hut before and after the shader update, showing the described changes.

The Elysian Mesh shaders have been further improved and now support normal maps, giving them more depth. In the before-after image, you can see the effect very well on the clay roof. The textures also have a lower contrast now, making it look less messy.

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A hut completely made of a rough, pink material. It kind of looks like flesh.

Something went wrong while testing the new shaders and I ended up with a meat hut. A Blorb sits inside. Is the house made of flesh, or is he made of house? He screams, for he does not know.

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3/3 🧵 After that, in Version 0.5.3, more complex plant parts will be added, to allow for the recreation of the winning entries of the Flora & Fungi Art Contest. And because the contest went so well, a second contest with a different theme has been planned for later this year!

2/3 🧵 The main goal of this update will be to make it possible to create simple eath-like plants, like the Blorb Zone trees, but it will also come with smaller editor improvements, like the already shown rework of the name input field.

🌱 My Plans for the Plant Editor

1/3 🧵 Version 0.5.2 will be focused on new shaders for the editor, including fluffy materials for leaves, but also more detailed and customizable hut materials. Future editors will also benefit from this.

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An error message "Exception: An unexpected duck appeared"

I keep jumpscaring myself with test exceptions...

is art i draw

am excited for everyone to play deltarune!!

Yay!