Pssst...interested in the VBU?
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Pssst...interested in the VBU?
Fellow Illarionites,
As you know, we need everyone's help if we want to finish the VBU so you can all play it. Unfortunately there are not enough people working on it, and too much work to do. So this is another call for help. If you can help in any way, we would love to have you on the team. You do not need to be an expert in programming, nor do you need to know any programming at all in order to help out. All you need is some dedication, creativity, and the ability to work in a team.
So do some work for the game you love - come help out. We need:
- Client Developers - (Java)
- Script Writers - (Lua)
- Mappers - (Our own GUI interface for making maps)
- NPC Writers - (Using the simple NPC language)
- Book writers - (Just creativity needed here) Link
- Graphics People - (Need to be good enough with 3D software and whatever to make models)
As a gift to you all, we will show part of the surprise we have been working on - a screenshot may be found below
If we get some more helpers - we might even be tempted to release more screenshots in the near future... or a video perhaps?
Image? Click here
The more help we get, the faster you get to play
Regards
Illarion VBU team
As you know, we need everyone's help if we want to finish the VBU so you can all play it. Unfortunately there are not enough people working on it, and too much work to do. So this is another call for help. If you can help in any way, we would love to have you on the team. You do not need to be an expert in programming, nor do you need to know any programming at all in order to help out. All you need is some dedication, creativity, and the ability to work in a team.
So do some work for the game you love - come help out. We need:
- Client Developers - (Java)
- Script Writers - (Lua)
- Mappers - (Our own GUI interface for making maps)
- NPC Writers - (Using the simple NPC language)
- Book writers - (Just creativity needed here) Link
- Graphics People - (Need to be good enough with 3D software and whatever to make models)
As a gift to you all, we will show part of the surprise we have been working on - a screenshot may be found below
If we get some more helpers - we might even be tempted to release more screenshots in the near future... or a video perhaps?
Image? Click here
The more help we get, the faster you get to play
Regards
Illarion VBU team
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This is an early preview. The chat journal is not implemented yet. But yes, the current static box that fills 1/3 of your screen won't make it to the PostVBU state. Most probably, a dynamic box that can be moved around will replace it. But again: This is a preview!Ezor Edwickton wrote:This doesn't mean we won't have the text at the bottom does it?
Yes. Well, not NOW but after the very big update.And can we move on diagonals now!?
If you are interested in helping out with mapping, please contact GM Zot: http://illarion.org/community/forums/pr ... st&u=10814Dyluck wrote:For mapping, what kind of tasks are needed?
I'm pretty sure he has concrete tasks, dungeons are always needed (nothing big!) and I guess the one or the other mine can use a redesign.
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Working on a few ideas for books my self. Looking into the gods to flesh them out a bit. Maybe a book of runes to be tucked away in the acadamy?
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I really like the display of wares on the tables, the different graphics, the rotated/randomized tiling of the stone tiles... now that really looks like a market !
Of course it still looks a little 2D pixel-ish, so it starts to remind one a lot of UO, but i don't know if adding normal maps to the stone ground tiles and tiny billboarded grass bushes to the gras ones would be an improvement or rather the opposite.
But seeing this screenshot, i start thinking two things:
1. WANT. TO. PLAY !
2. Want a fast enough internet connection !
Of course it still looks a little 2D pixel-ish, so it starts to remind one a lot of UO, but i don't know if adding normal maps to the stone ground tiles and tiny billboarded grass bushes to the gras ones would be an improvement or rather the opposite.
But seeing this screenshot, i start thinking two things:
1. WANT. TO. PLAY !
2. Want a fast enough internet connection !
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martin wrote:Yeah, the new graphics will require a connection that is about 100-200 times faster than before.Damien wrote:nternet connection !
That's really a pitty for all you slow people.
Martin
Well..... that looks like a problem then...
Any ballpark number for the speed of connection we'd need?
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Its colourful because they're dressed in colourful clothes in the middle of the day. You can always wear depressing black if you wantMorbius wrote:Little more colour then i would have imagined, or prefered.. but hey, i'm loving what i'm seeing!
We've got more screenshots where that came from - lets see how much content we get from the community by giving them screenies
Ps- One of the screenies contains a glimpse at one of the animations talked about earlier...
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Explanation. My internet connection cannot handle illarion at the moment, since it is slow and we share it with three machines. Therefore i hope they get this LTE stuff built up around here before the new client comes out... most likely wishful thinking.martin wrote:Yeah, the new graphics will require a connection that is about 100-200 times faster than before.Damien wrote:nternet connection !
That's really a pitty for all you slow people.
Martin
Hey, guys! Congratulations! It looks it'll really improve.
I'd suggest something about the appearance of the chars. Elves, for example, look all the same, no matter one is wearing an armor, the other a robe and another one is nude.
Would it be possible to make them look a bit like what they're wearing? I dont think it would be necessary to be exactly the same we're wearing... Armors could look all the same, but at least something we could see they're wearing an armor. Or robes or whatever.
As for helping, I'm not a programmer, but I've mastered many pen and paper rpg, creating maps (in paper, of course) and quests, so let me know if I could be useful.
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I'd suggest something about the appearance of the chars. Elves, for example, look all the same, no matter one is wearing an armor, the other a robe and another one is nude.
Would it be possible to make them look a bit like what they're wearing? I dont think it would be necessary to be exactly the same we're wearing... Armors could look all the same, but at least something we could see they're wearing an armor. Or robes or whatever.
As for helping, I'm not a programmer, but I've mastered many pen and paper rpg, creating maps (in paper, of course) and quests, so let me know if I could be useful.
Illa forever!