Sorry guys, I was sick and missed the meeting before this one, (Feb 11th) and the one before that one I think I totally spaced that one (Jan 28th) so I don't have logs for those. But I did find logs for Jan 14th and Dec 10tth I'll post those even though it's a bit late. Slacker. I'm fired.
Talad (Leader/Founder)
Eonwind (Rules)
Zunna (Rules/Settings)
Mordaan (Settings)
Venalan (Settings Lead)
Uadjet (GM Lead)
Emaline (GM Team)
Menille says: Looks like the meeting is off,no one here.
Gonger says: Patience
Gonger says: And are we noone?
Eatuck says: hoping they are just late
Silak says: Thought you took a longer route getting here :-)
Talad Says: I am live on youtube
Talad Says: www.youtube.com/PlaneShiftOfficial/liveTalad Says: there you can hear my voice as well
Silak says: Good info, thanks !
Talad Says: we are doing some live streaming of the Unreal Engine developments
Silak says: Getting a decent gathering ?
Mordaan Says: ha, are we live on youtube?
Talad Says: ok, we can start the meeting
Talad Says: www.youtube.com/PlaneShiftOfficial/live here we are live as well
Talad Says: Welcome to the "meet the devs" meeting
Talad Says: its an OOC event, you can just ask any questions about the game
Talad Says: or the developemnts
Talad Says: just give suggestions and comments
Talad Says: if you have a question just walk to the stand
Talad Says: in front of us
Talad Says: if there are questions I can giv eyou an update of what we are doing
Menille says: That would be nice.
Vilthis says: Would get the ball rolling
Talad Says: In the last 2 weeks I worked quite a bit on Unreal Engine
Talad Says: if you go to the calendar youwill see all the events of the live streams
Mordaan Says: I like the updates at the beginning. It can server as a conversation starter.
Talad Says: about 9 days, this one is the 9th
Talad Says: 4-8 hours a day
Talad Says: depending on the day
Talad Says: all videos are recorded on youtube
Talad Says: those are pretty boring anyway if you are not a programmer
Talad Says: Im not expecting you to look at those
Talad Says: I can give a summary in this meeting
Talad Says: the first thing we did was to implement the interaction with NPCs
Silak says: Gaining any new insights in the process ?
Talad Says: in the test server we have for Unreal engine we have already using a PS database
Mordaan Says: Odd to suddenly have some audio commentary to these meetings.
Talad Says: we load the NPCs from the database already
Talad Says: there is one test dermorian female loading in the plaza
Talad Says: so we created a interaction menu, which is pops up when you get close to her
Troax says: Hi!
Talad Says: if you join the youtube later you may see it live
Talad Says: Hi Troax
Talad Says: the interaction menu at the moment allows to look at the NPC
Talad Says: and brings back a description
Talad Says: using the same data we have in the PS database
Talad Says: the User Interface for now is very basic
Talad Says: but we care more about the logic for now
Talad Says: Hi Rykia
Talad Says: then in the last few days I've added also a talk interaction
Rykia says: Hello Talad and everyone else. Thanks for unlocking the door.
Talad Says: you can click on talk and send a message to the NPC, like "HI"
Talad Says: and just today we got our first answer back
Talad Says: properly using all the dialogue and natural language parsing used in PS
Talad Says: so most of the dialogue part is ported to UE
Talad Says: the big piece missing in that domain are the quests options
Talad Says: meaning the UI where you select options in the quets
Mordaan Says: right, the menus associated with quests
Talad Says: the User Interface will have to be redone, but we will get good benefits in the remake as we use UE
Gonger says: Sounds good.
Talad Says: the next steps are to finish the talk interaction
Talad Says: and allow players to speak with NPCs freely
Talad Says: same as we have in current PS
Talad Says: then I think we will go to port the quest functionalities
Talad Says: which will make it a "game" on UE side
Talad Says: at that point we may think to open it to players to test
Talad Says: its important to remember that everything else is still missing
Talad Says: so there is no combat, no crafting, no spells, ....
Talad Says: but those will follow anyway
Menille says: Are we still a long way off to getting UE4?
Mordaan Says: The other approach would just to just have a world to pop into. Our very first UE demo. Then we can add features one by one.
Talad Says: I think we are still pretty far
Talad Says: but mostly depends on who works on it
Troax says: Will there be 2 servers then? I mean one with the 'old' PS and one with the new UE version under development?
Talad Says: we got some people interested in the live streams im doing
Talad Says: and few may actually help for real
Menille says: I hope so
Mordaan Says: Once we get to that point, yes, there would be a eeparate server.
Talad Says: there is people helping me on the code if I ask questions
Talad Says: and one guy which is interested in the art side
Talad Says: and is converting some of our assets from 3dsmax to blender
Talad Says: I would like to abandon 3dsmax completely
Silak says: That should be a great help !
Talad Says: if blender is a real alternative
Talad Says: it seems to a real alternative
Talad Says: but we need more tests on it
Talad Says: the idea is to reuse for now as much as possible from the current PS
Talad Says: and then remake/improve later on
Mordaan Says: At least the test characters run around nicely enough. That's a start.
Talad Says: imagine having current PS in Unreal , and then sttarting to improve each piece
Talad Says: so we can play while we improve it
Talad Says: Im expecting a lot of old players coming back when we launch the unreal version
Talad Says: that's pretty much what we aredoing
Talad Says: another thing we are doing is to move the test server
Talad Says: we have test server where we add content before its released
Talad Says: like new NPC, bosses,....
Gonger says: There are constantly some old players coming back, at least for a while.
Talad Says: we test those there first
Mordaan Says: That's going to help on the dev side tremendously.
Talad Says: we are moving this server to a new one
Talad Says: to have more uptime
Mordaan Says: Not having a test server on demand has slowed things down.
Talad Says: yes
Talad Says: we are encountering some issues at the moment with the installation, but hope to solve it by next week
Silak says: I imagine playing while developing on a wide level, might not scale up in a good way, although it could be a great notion to explore.
Talad Says: any questions?
Silak says: What part of the installation ?
Talad Says: compiling crystal space
Talad Says: it doesnt compile on latest Ubuntu
Talad Says: I'm getting errors in the build
Talad Says: which I dont know yet how to solve
Silak says: Thought that CS was being left behind in UE4
Talad Says: yes
Mordaan Says: right, but the test server would be for the current game
Talad Says: it is
Talad Says: I'm speaking of the test server for the current PS version
Mordaan Says: then we'll have a test server for UE as well (eventually)
Talad Says: on the same machien I think we can have both
Silak says: Ah, my error, sorry
Talad Says: Im thinking we could even have the 2 clients (current and UE) working connected to the same server
Talad Says: and database
Mordaan Says: that would be cool, if it works out well
Silak says: If user load not too heavy.
Talad Says: if nothing else, I will continue on stream
Talad Says: you are welcome to join and listen
Mordaan Says: if the maps are slightly different, NPC movement could be complicated
Gonger says: Thanks for the work.
Talad Says: thanks for playing
Talad Says: see you soon
Mordaan Says: check out the stream if you haven't already.
Talad Says: www.youtube.com/PlaneShiftOfficial/liveRykia says: It's fun to watch
Talad Says: bye
Rykia says: bye
Silak says: Thumbs up !
Troax says: cool stream
Mordaan Says: Quick meeting. But that was really the only things going on the last few weeks.
Troax says: Thanks. Wil listen more to that stream. cu
Rykia says: Thanks for the updates.
Mordaan Says: And it's good to literally see work being done on UE. Even if my eyes glaze over at a wall of code most of the time.
Rykia says: haha... yes, exactly my thought too Mordaan.
Silak says: It is sure a differerent approach to coding !
Silak says: If never having used the Visual packages.
Mordaan Says: Hopefully as we get things going, there will be a spark of activity with some UE knowledgable folks and the project will pick up steam.
Menille says: Bye everyone!
Troax says: bye
Silak says: Waves
Mordaan Says: bye all o/
Storeas waves goodbye.
Silak waves; off to stream view
