I Level design - mines

II 3D models

III Optimization

IV Conclusion

I 3D models

II TrueSky, DFAO, ocean

III Optimization - landscape material

IV Conclusion

1. corrections of character animations;
   
2. turning on and setting apex clothes for the armour or clothes;
   
3. corrections of weapons materials;
   
4. 137 2D icons for the new weapons and armour.
   

1. golems and wolves are replaced by stickmans - it looks funny in the game;
   
2. the dragons flies in the sky (sometimes it glitches but still);
   
3. vendors and DVB are returned;
   
4. the range of critical errors were fixed, sometimes with the crutches but it’s better than server crashes of functional blocks.
   

1. adding the world in the project, and later - on the PTR;
   
2. finishing the modular system.
   

I 3D models - robes

II Level design - mines

III UI

• Cells "6-7" - basic variants where the division the cell into 2 icons occurs through the simplest way - in our view - it’s an outdated division model;
  
• Cell "8" - it looks very modern and lively, but there is a problem: an icon of a powder in the right hand takes 80% of the cell area. It leads to the covering of the shield. However it looks pretty with the set of shield+sword;
  
• Cell "9" - the logic is a bit wrong because the active item in the right hand should be at the forefront;
  
• Two-tiered "0": a top icon of a sword at the forefront takes only ¼ of the area. In our view it’s a bit small. A lower icon of a powder takes 70% of a cell height. It’s not too small and doesn’t cover the shield entirely.
  

• To put an item on the hotbar you need to drag it with the LMB, to delete two-tiered cell you need to delete the right hand item first;
  
• RMB on the hotbar cell turns one-handed mode into two-handed (if it’s provided) or swaps the duals (2*1-handed weapon) in this cell;
  
• If you drag a 2H weapon on the hotbar - it takes the whole cell and there could be no combinations;
  
• If you drag an item for the left hand to the empty cell - it will take the whole cell and hotswap for this cell will change the protective item for the left hand and won’t touch right hand;
  
• If you drag a 1H weapon for the right hand to the empty cell, it will take the whole cell (default) with its icon in the 2H mode (if possible), if it isn’t possible the icon will take 70% of the cell height in the 1H mode;
  
• If an 1H item is in the 1H mode, its equip won’t change the protective item in the left hand;
  
• If you drag an item for the left hand to the cell where is an 1H item for the right hand and vice versa - it will make a combination of these items in one cell;
  
• Hotswap will take 1 sec to change a weapon, equip/unequip separately - 500 ms.
  

IV Conclusion

1. corrections of the character animations;
   
2. turning on and settings of the fabric physics for the armour and clothes items;;
   
3. corrections of the weapons materials;
   
4. 137 2D icons for the new weapons.
   

I 3D models – seige weapons

1. An armourer follows blueprint and creates a siege weapon. It requires resources (there are the warehouses near the city to lighten the transportation of wood and metal; it could be rented by a guild and the window of the warehouse would open in the craft workshop of the city); It was done for the simple reason - the weight of the resources complicates the transportation to the open world to develop the caravan system, but the weight of resources inside the peaceful area is a burden, adding the useless and stupid work without fun.
   
2. It can be disassembled into elements and instruction. There are 3 types of elements - small, medium, big (1st tier ballista, for example, consists of the 6 small details, 4 medium and 3 big). Elements are universal and fit to the assembling of the other ballistae of the same type. Elements could simply be moved to the warehouse where you can take it for the siege;
   
3. The siege weapons are assembled on the ground by an armourer too. The assembling speed depends on the type and tier of the siege weapon and also the craft level of the armourer. We won’t complicate it too much but if you want to assemble a trebuchet with an armourer of 1st level having awful tool you should start beforehand. ;) We consider possibility of assembling by a blacksmith but with the penalty.
   
4. After the siege you can disassemble the weapons (or during the siege)) - but you can’t disassemble it perfectly. The more damage the weapon got the less intact elements would leave.
   
5. But why do we need the intact elements if we don’t have an instruction anymore? That’s right, an instruction burns during assembling but you can make a copy with the NPC - librarian for talers. So it would be better if the copies would be made in advance.
   
6. 
   

• we choose the weight of the raw materials and resources and balance it to find the optimal decision between boredom and caravan system;
  
• we choose the number of resources for the craft of the siege weapons and balance it;
  
• we choose the weight and the number of elements and its wear after the disassembling and balance it, regardless of the first two moments.
  

II 3D models - swords and daggers

III Social animations

IV Level design - castle

V Conclusion

• 4 causes of server crash;
  
• GODMOD effect, when the hits don’t damage the characters;
  
• impossibility enter the game for the character again;
  
• disappearing of a character model;
  
• wrong mapping of the setting window, that leads to impossibility to use it;
  
• artefacts on some graphic cards and drivers in fullscreen;
  
• artefacts during animations with two-handed items (left hand was apart from a weapon);
  
• distortion of a character shadow in first-person mode;
  
• errors with chat work;
  
• the third person camera 2.0 (prohibiting the hits);
  

• [Animations] animation correction (including too straight backs during non-combat movements, distortion and sticking of first-person animations);
  
• [Models] engaging the physic of fabrics (it is removed from all new items and it causes the mixing of textures);
  
• [Models] error correction in the new weapons (almost all of them has the colour distortion);
  
• [2D] adding icons for the items (which are the screens for 3D model);
  
• [Code] error correction in the modular system and engaging all elements;
  
• [Code] correction of the non-fitment of the new equip system for weapons with the new modular system and as a result the recovering of a seamless transition;
  
• and the most important - preparing to add the world.
  

I Animations of guards with crossbow

II 3D models

III Mobs

IV Conclusion

1. New character model (man);
   
2. Modular system of equip 2.0 (part of functional removed);
   
3. More than 400 new animations (to replace the old ones and add the new poses);
   
4. 17 UI elements;
   
5. 89 new models of armour and weapons (visual settings of weapon are broken, as for the armour/clothes - ApexCloth);
   
6. New effects of first-person camera including the changing of the height depending on the character pose;
   
7. New dodge system.
   

1. Black knight - it’s a duellist-individualist. Something cold and dark.
   
2. Banneret - it’s a social person, the head of a group or a little guild.
   
3. Raubritter (robber knight) - it’s a leader of a collective that doesn’t hide his origin and even boasts of it.
   

I Animation packs

• There will be a window with the list of social animations, available for this character;
  
• From this window the animations could be moved to the social-hotbar;
  
• After pushing the hotbar button (by default - Y) the cells of main hotbar will change to the social hotbar. After it you can start the playing of the social animation, using the chosen for the main hotbar buttons.
  
• To play the social animations with a weapon, you should have this weapon in your inventory (or balalaika))
  

II Unique cloaks

• The highest possible number of guild members;
  
• The list and the number of available ranks to appoint;
  
• The maximum of the unions;
  
• The highest level of the castle that guild owns;
  
• The sum of all castle levels that guild can own;
  
• The number of the count titles, that a senior can get;
  
• And possibility of a senior to get the royal title.
  

III Siege weapons skins

IV Conclusion

I NPC animations – two-handed sword

II Animations of a minotaur

III 3D models - ballistae

IV Conclusion

1. We are at the final stage of creating our new site. To be honest we are satisfied with the platform we made. On this basis we can create a fully interactive portal for the project, implemented thought not only the sites but also through our own launcher;
   
2. We work on the trial bundle with the physical rewards for the limited edition in the run-up to the pre-orders. And also we work on the final edits of the bundles.
   

I Animations of NPC - 1H Weapon

II Level design

• gamedesign;
  
• design of the space for our game elements (as teleport, tablet, etc.).
  

III 3D models

IV UI

1. castle;
   
2. county (icon isn’t finished);
   
3. kingdom (icon isn’t finished).
   

1. maintenance (upgrade);
   
2. taxes;
   
3. economy;
   
4. requirements for the maintenance and upgrade.
   

Information about castle

• 4 cells for the crystals;
  

• The following is the basic information about castle parameters and short battle statistics. In our view, further comments are unnecessary.
  
• Then there is an information about castle parameters and we want to stop here (all parameters can be measured by real time, it was done on purpose to avoid a constant division by 12):
  

1. fort №1;
   
2. fort №2;
   
3. parade ground (at the castle yard);
   
4. barracks;
   
5. donjon.
   

1. wooden sash;
   
2. metal grid.
   

Maintenance of a castle

V Conclusion

I Animations of NPC

1. warrior with a two-handed sword;
   
2. warrior with one-handed sword and shield;
   
3. crossbowman.
   

II Optimization

1. simplification of geometry on the junctions of merging objects;
   
2. reduction of drawcall tasks that’s connected with GPU and CPU;
   
3. automatic creation and setting of LOD’s for the merging objects;
   
4. perfectly suitable for the optimization of small objects that get into the frame entirely.
   

1. a frame is overloaded by stones from below and it still exists as separate meshes, effect can be stronger in the clear scene;
   
2. last mesh isn’t configured entirely, because we still can compact the distance for LOD’s;
   
3. everyone will be able to configure the distance; someone will turn off LOD_0; someone will make the client to display higher LOD’s. The main thing is to minimize the drawcalls.
   

III 3D models

IV Conclusion

1. We’ve forgotten to tell that the new rules and the privacy policy are ready and will be extended to the site and the forum of the project. That's why we ask all new members to accept it.
   
2. Server hardware is still to gather. After it we will move the game BD, site+forum, SMTP;
   
3. New site is making up;
   
4. We are going to launch the presales and we will tell about its importance and why we do it before the open Alpha in the separate report [Vatslav Verzhbitskiy].
   

I First-person animations with a book

II 3D models

1. Symmetric;
   
2. Asymmetric (one shoulder lighter, second harder, one protective, second for attack);
   
3. One-sided.
   

III Optimization

1. Merge (merging) of these objects into the one common object (geometry) - until recently, only giant studios could afford such a thing, because it costs too much;
   
2. Creating, configuring and using of the “instance” function will allow to “draw” with the objects. It automatically changes its scale, angle, turning and the most important - compiles it into the special groups. They are easier for CPU+GPU.
   

1. It doesn’t create a new additional object. It affects the size of the client positively;
   
2. It saves LODs for every separate object;
   
3. Objects hidden from view stop being rendered;
   
4. Attentive configuring of this function reduces the designer’s time of mapping these objects.
   

IV Conclusion

1. To continue the around-development №2 we need to tell that the story with the own network of IPs turns into the own NS-servers. It becomes serious enough. We’ve already rented our first server hardware. It will be responsible for the site+forum, game database for Europe and the CIS, post servers, NS-servers etc. In addition to backup it provides reliability - not only raid1, but, closer to the early access, it would be a mirror to the reserve server.
   
2. We listened to the views about Steam pictures and soon we would renew the №1 variant.