Talad (Leader/Founder)
Eonwind (Rules)
Tuathanach (Rules)
Zunna (Rules/Settings)
Mordaan (Settings)
Venalan (Settings Lead)
Uadjet (GM Lead)
Emaline (GM Team)
Zweitholou (Art)
Gonger (PR)
(21:59:54) [chat]
Uadjet: Developer Q&A starting in a couple minutes at the Courthouse in East Hydlaa! It's an OOC meeting where players can hear what's going on behind the scenes and ask any questions they might have. If you want a teleport, just send a /tell to Uadjet or ask in the Global channel.
[A few minutes are missing because of connection problems...]
(22:07:35) [chat]
Uadjet: The falling is nothing new, but I got guildhouse bug ptsd flashbacks from the teleport error.
(22:07:55) [chat] Anysu: Question: Can Odren the Kran in plaza be moved? Kra is standing inside a flower pot
(22:09:13) [chat]
Uadjet: I reloaded him, but that may have placed him back into the flowerpot.
(22:09:20) [chat]
Uadjet: If so, I'll file a bug report.
(22:09:41) [chat]
Uadjet: Hello and welcome to the Developer's Q&A!
(22:09:42) [chat]
Gonger: So that is how kran grow...?
(22:10:06) [chat]
Uadjet: The gemming process does sound like something plants might do, were they made of stone.
(22:11:17) [chat]
Uadjet: Okay, I was going to save this bit for later, but I'll probably forget again.
(22:11:24) [chat]
Uadjet: There's a new command that poeple can use.
(22:11:43) [chat]
Uadjet: I've mentioned it before, but it's still relatively unknown.
(22:11:52) [chat]
Uadjet: It's the /pose command.
(22:12:06) [chat]
Uadjet: You can use it to change how your character stands and walks.
(22:12:21) [chat]
Uadjet: Well, I can't. I'm a derghir and we have a different skeleton.
(22:12:44) [chat]
Gonger: Just /pose? It does not seem to do anything.
(22:12:56) [chat]
Uadjet: No, you have to add the specific pose you want.
(22:13:01) [chat] Anysu: I tried it as well
(22:13:09) [chat]
Uadjet: Everybody is normally in /pose default.
(22:13:14) [chat] Anysu: Oh a specific
(22:13:15) [chat]
Uadjet: Try /pose injured
(22:14:00) [chat]
Uadjet: And it should stay like that if you walk or run.
(22:14:09) [chat] Damola: Only makes a difference when not sitting.
(22:14:46) [chat] Damola: It does not say which poses it accepts when just saying /pose
(22:15:27) [chat]
Uadjet: There are some that won't see much use, I think. Rifle, Pistol1H, and Pistol2H
(22:15:40) [chat]
Uadjet: There are also Masculine and Feminine
(22:16:21) [chat]
Gonger: What are the possible values, except injured?
(22:16:26) [chat] Damola: Masculine looks silly
(22:16:51) [chat] Damola: Masculine looks like "ugh, ugh?"
(22:16:55) [chat]
Gonger: Hmm... /pose does not reset from /pose injured
(22:17:06) [chat] Damola: Gonger, Uadjet is telling them currently
(22:17:10) [chat] Damola: /pose default does
(22:17:15) [chat]
Uadjet: Okay, the useful ones (IMO) are: HandsTied, Injured, Bow, Torch, Box, Barrel, and maybe Binoculars.
(22:17:25) [chat] Damola: /pose feminine
(22:17:25) [chat]
Gonger: Ahh... thanks
(22:18:06) [chat]
Gonger: torch is cool
(22:18:15) [chat] Damola: Hmmm /pose feminine does not seem to be too bad
(22:19:09) [chat]
Gonger: It's handstied (one word), and the nasty part of me wishes for some more command parameters...
(22:19:12) [chat] Damola: Does it survive log in and log out?
(22:19:32) [chat] Damola: I think just /pose should give an explanation like with other commands.
(22:19:40) [chat] Damola: Currently it does not.
(22:20:01) [chat]
Uadjet: That would be helpful, yeah. Just a list of poses.
(22:20:28) [chat]
Uadjet: Torch can be used to hold up any item you can put in your hand. I've done that in events a few times.
(22:20:48) [chat]
Uadjet: Barrel is... pretty specific. Maybe carrying anything large over your shoulder.
(22:21:23) [chat]
Uadjet: And Box is also very useful for "I swear it was this big" stories, especially for those with the fishing skill.
(22:22:21) [chat]
Gonger: Some of these can definitely be fun.
(22:22:33) [chat]
Uadjet: Just another little thing to play with.
(22:22:58) [chat] Anysu: Handy for rp
(22:22:59) [chat]
Gonger: I will lock myself in tomorrow for a quiet hour or so and publish the notes of this and the latest Q&A...
(22:23:08) [chat]
Gonger: Also 2 Event resumees to do...
(22:25:14) [chat]
Uadjet: Okay, I just discussed the /pose command with everyone.
(22:31:33) [chat]
Uadjet: Talad also did some work on ranged combat, but that was in the last few days and I didn't really catch the streams.
(22:32:43) [chat] Anysu: Ranged needs work
(22:33:07) [chat] Anysu: Good to know
(22:33:36) [chat] Damola: Was much easier to position a char exactly in Crystalspace based PS?
(22:33:42) [chat]
Uadjet: And with the dungeons, he's got a lot more work done.
(22:34:12) [chat] Thosor: I still shoot myself in the foot all the time trying to hunt.
(22:34:13) [chat]
Uadjet: He's worked on textures, so that not every dungoen will look the same.
(22:34:36) [chat] Thosor: The bubble around me is very large.
(22:35:17) [chat] Thosor: Especially when in an enclosed space or near a wall.
(22:35:39) [chat]
Uadjet: And I think next up is treasure. not loot dropped by NPCs, but rooms that can be generated with end-of-dungeon treasure.
(22:36:45) [chat] Anysu: Yeah treasure!
(22:37:10) [chat] Thosor: A rare weapon or the like?
(22:38:00) [chat]
Uadjet: Yeah, that's the kind of thing. Weapons, glyphs, staves, etc.
(22:39:39) [chat]
Gonger: Mithril!
(22:41:08) [chat]
Uadjet: We don't have mithril, but we do have blue-steel and tigrain-steel.
(22:41:34) [chat]
Gonger: We need Mithril...
(22:41:39) [chat] Anysu: Maybe rare metal armor in chest
(22:42:53) [chat]
Uadjet: There are armor types that aren't normally available. 50q versions of those could work as mid-tier treasure.
(22:43:09) [chat] Anysu: nods
(22:46:59) [chat]
Uadjet: So the procedural dungeons are getting ever closer to being released.
(22:47:03) [chat] Anysu: Although I wonder with numerous chests and loot in dugeon's that are random, how is one able to carry all the loot.?
(22:47:18) [chat]
Uadjet: Though sadly I don't think Talad will let me make a kikiri dungeon.
(22:47:47) [chat]
Gonger: For April 1st, maybe.
(22:48:23) [chat]
Uadjet: Well, will you be looting every random longsword? It may end up being like an Elder Scrolls dungeon, where you ahve to pick what you take.
(22:48:25) [chat] Thosor: ooh! fun time of year fore PS
(22:48:34) [chat]
Uadjet: But you can leave the dungeon and come back, if need be.
(22:49:01) [chat]
Gonger: That is consistent with many rogue-likes - you have to choose what to keep and what to drop.
(22:49:33) [chat] Anysu: Thought dungeon and loot were random? So you could not go back and get missed items from before.
(22:50:19) [chat]
Uadjet: They can be generated to have a specific lifespan, I think. I could be wrong.
(22:52:30) [chat]
Gonger: Why speculate too much? We shall see...
(22:53:30) [chat]
Uadjet: Yeah.
(22:54:06) [chat]
Uadjet: So I've also proposed a spyglass to Talad. It's simpler than I thought, as long as you aren't trying to view distant map sections.
(22:54:23) [chat]
Uadjet: It's just a matter of changing the field of view, and Unreal takes it from there.
(22:54:41) [chat] Thosor: An optical sight for crossbow?
(22:54:55) [chat]
Uadjet: It would also need either a first person camera set up at the player's location, or a little trick to make the player invisible to themselves. Otherwise you're just zooming in on your own back.
(22:55:32) [chat]
Uadjet: That's very similar, Thosor, though you'd need the art for that as well. Bows could have something similar to aid with aim, though it's really not needed.
(22:57:09) [chat] Thosor: Yeah, always shooting back of my head.
(22:58:25) [chat]
Uadjet: And I've got the new NPCs done, and the items are pretty basic. Two clusters of critter spawns and a few items placed is all that's need for those quests to be added. Well, that and me checking the quest steps to make sure I didnt' make any errors that would prevent the quest from being completed.
(22:59:21) [chat]
Uadjet: With regard to zooming, Unreal does have "owner not see", which allows the game to make you invisible to yourself, as well as "only owner see", which I'm sure will be sueful as well.
(23:01:18) [chat]
Uadjet: Any questions?
(23:04:42) [chat]
Uadjet: I know there was a lot of discussion about streaming and privacy yesterday. Was that resolved to everyone's satisfaction?
(23:05:06) [chat] Thosor: I missed it here,
(23:05:13) [chat] Anysu: What was the resolution?
(23:05:54) [chat]
Uadjet: I think it was let people know in advance, and not show group chat.
(23:06:27) [chat] Thosor: Some may not show up if it is going to be broadcast.
(23:06:52) [chat] Anysu: What Thosor said. Or participate much in rp event because of it.
(23:08:07) [chat] Anysu: Personally do not think is enough to say is 'being broadcast' but do you want to be broadcasted.' With option to vote yes or no for players.
(23:08:20) [chat] Anysu: IMO
(23:08:46) [chat] >Thosor nods at Anysu.
(23:10:48) [chat]
Uadjet: Hmm. Maybe I should bring this up with Talad.
(23:12:01) [chat]
Gonger: Personally I do not much care about the privacy of my characters. I care about MY privacy. But if people do not want to be streamed, there should be no stream.
(23:13:24) [chat]
Uadjet: Hmm. I'm not sure how to find a compromise here. I'll bring it up with Talad.
(23:13:58) [chat]
Uadjet: Well, I think we can bring the meeting to a close.
(23:16:40) [chat]
Uadjet: So thank you all for coming, and I'll see you again at teh next meeting int wo weeks. Until then, have fun playing and maybe try adn event or two!
(23:16:52) [chat]
Uadjet: We can continue the talk later.
(23:16:59) [chat] Thosor: Yes, she was concerned.
(23:17:02) [chat]
Uadjet: We're not setting game policy here today.
(23:17:59) [chat]
Gonger: You can also post about it in the forums...
(23:20:20) [chat]
Uadjet: Oh, I took a vid of the pond that Gova posted about. It's during the day, but it still looks pretty ncie.
(23:20:27) [chat]
Uadjet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3HmfZfGw_E(23:21:45) [chat]
Uadjet: I'm still getting used to the new GPU.
(23:22:18) [chat]
Uadjet: Talad has set up a new youtube channel for tutorials, so if you want to explain how something works you can make your own vid about it.
(23:23:01) [chat] Thosor: more introduction than spoilers, I hope.
(23:23:18) [chat]
Uadjet: It's about mechanics, really.
(23:23:31) [chat]
Uadjet: A vid on the new crafting system would be helpful for old players as well as new.
