This week we are working on getting the army builder to feel polished and complete.
There is still a lot of work left to do, but as you can see we have a flag that can change color based on your army. We are going to continue this mountainous feeling throughout the rest of the menus as well.
Check out the process of RotoScoping the flag animation.
Check out the drawing process for the rest of the scene.
That's all for this week but we will have more next Wednesday!
This week I was able to finish the stone throne room, and the upgrade animation for the throne room. We want to make sure there is some sort of progression to the throne room that makes it feel like you are becoming more powerful/wealthy as the game progresses.
At first you will just have the landscape. Then once you get established you will attain this wooden throne room.
After you have put several more points into the skill tree you will get this stone throne room.
We intend you have at least 3 levels of thrones and possibly some more customization areas to go with which tree you invested more points into. Check out this video of the process of drawing the stone throne room and the dust effect.
That's all for this week! Check back next Wednesday for more!
This week I was able to draw the first upgrade for the throne room in the Civilization Points screen. We want to have your throne room become more extravagant as you put point into the skill tree. So we decided to use wood, stone and marble as the materials that the room will be upgraded to.
Here is the first level of the throne room. You will unlock this soon after you get established in the game.
Here are some of the common items you can collect early on.
Check out the drawing process for the wooden throne room. This is a good lesson on vanishing points too!
That's all for this week! Next week well have the stone throne room and more item icons to show off!
Sorry everyone I forgot to post yesterday. Anyway I did manage to finish the Civilization Points Screen Background this week. We are taking our time on the artwork for the menus because you will be looking at it quite a lot throughout the game. Kiril is still work on the items, There are about 80 so it will take some time before they are ready to show off.
There are 8 different types of clouds that can be spawned randomly when you enter this screen.
Check out the process of drawing the Civilization Points screen background. It took quite a while.
That's all for this week. Check back next Wednesday for more!
Now that we are all done with ability effects kiril and I have both started working on UI. Kiril has made a lot of progress with weapon, ring, and armor Icons, but we are not ready to show any of them yet. I have been working on backgrounds for menus, however none of them are done yet either. For now check out this work in progress screen shot of the skills menu background.
Notice the four main buttons at the bottom of the screen, Kiril was able to complete those this week as well. From left to right they are the Civilization tree button, The army customizer Button, The map/Level Select Button, and the shop button.
That's all for this week. Sorry we don't have more to show off but soon we will! Check back next wednesday!
This week I started working on some of the internal code for the UI. We are excited to do things like pack opening animations, leveling up animations and all those feel good progress animations for the UI, but for now we are just prepping what we currently have. However we were able to put the two final legendary abilities in the game this week and here they are!
First up the plague bearer! This unit can be used to throw bottles of plague at either enemies or allies. You do this by clicking on the plague bearer and then clicking on another unit. If the unit is an enemy they will take damage over time and receive a defense debuff for 5 seconds. If the unit is an ally they will take damage over time but they will receive a life steal buff that gives them 30% life steal for 5 seconds.
Lob has the ability to lightning jump on to one unit for his weapon damage as true damage (ignores armor) After he does this he this he leaves behind a goblet of wine that sprays wine on the 3 units in front of it giving them a debuff that deals damage over time and greatly decreases their accuracy. The goblet of wine is invincible and stays on the field for 5 seconds at which point Lob returns.
Check out the drawing process video for Lob.
That's All for this week, Well be working on UI this week as well as Item Icons, and Buildings. Check back next Wednesday for another update!
This week we are finishing up the VFX for the game. We have one more effect to import this week and then we are done.
King Arthur can blind the 3 units in front of him for a short time period. He also gives the allied units on the sides of him critical chance buffs for 6 seconds.
This week we spent a lot of time setting up which colors each unit could roll as and we ended up with quite a large amount of varying unit colors. We hope it will be fun to collect certain colored units and we intend on adding skins that you can set units to in the future.
We also set up a pretty simple but effective new shader this week that allows us to have units blink white when they are attacked. At the same time we created new blood effects for heavy medium and light damaging attacks. Check out the heavy attacks from this Batista one shotting the pigs.
Check out some of the light and medium blood effects.
Check out the drawing processes for the blood FX and King Arthur blind ability.
Well that's everything for this week but next Wednesday well be showing off the final legendary and well be starting our work on UI.
As Promised we have been chugging away at the legendary VFX. We have finished almost all of them at this point but we are saving a few to show off next week. That being said we also have a lot to show this week too.
I worked on the legendary dragon VFX this week. The dragon hits the row in front of him with a fire attack. If the targets are allies they get a short buff that gives them attack and attack speed. If they are enemies they take the dragons weapon damage.
I created a lighting effect for the legendary lugh this week. He is able to hit two units in front of him and two units diagonal to the last unit. The units furthest away receive critical damage.
More lugh!
Kiril Worked on the legendary Merlin This week among other things that well show next week. Merlin can teleport to a unit making them and himself invincible for 5 seconds during this time the unit heals then he teleports back and heals himself. He is great for managing your frontline health
Saint Swithun Steals water from the allies around him dealing half their current health and creating a water shield. While he has this water shield he is able to cleave 3 units in font of him with a water attack. The damage of the attack is based on the quantity of health he stole.
Check out the drawing process videos for lugh's lightning, Edmund, and Swithuns water!
That's all for this week! Well be showing off more VFX next wednesday so be sure to come check our dev log! After that well be moving on to UI.