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)
Uadjet: Hello and welcome to the Developer's Q&A! Here you can ask the team any questions you might have and hear about the development of the game.
Gonger: Seeing Stalfos doing pushups reminds me of an idea I had during an event:
Uadjet looks inquisitively at Gonger.
Gonger: While we have the pushup problem, would it be possible to create an auto-jump that is triggered automatically every five minutes? Just as a workaround...
Rykia: That sounds kind of disruptive too. Any comments from Talad about the problem?
Uadjet: The jumps will (I think) disrupt most things a player is trying to do, like crafting.
Gonger: Ah... then forget about the idea.
Thosor: If you are working on something, the mass jump stops you.
Gonger: Then all pray to Talad...
Uadjet: Okay, if there are any questions, please line up at the lecterns. If not, I'll give a bit of an update.
Uadjet: Talad has continued work on the fishing minigame.
Uadjet: Today's stream - which I'm afraid I missed - was about fish sounds. For some reason that amuses me greatly.
Uadjet: I did see part of it, where he was looking for water splashing animations.
Uadjet: Part of the stream was taken up by looking at the new store for Unreal assets.
Uadjet: It looks like multiple stores have merged, now, and are called Fab. It looks to be much the same as the old unreal store, and has free assets available, so I don't think it's something to worry about.
Thosor: Need dolphin fish for sounds
Uadjet: Talad did mention that the cut-off for free use of assets in distrubuted games is 100k a year in revenue, not 1 million. That's not an issue for PS, but it is a significant change.
Uadjet: There is a cute swarm of fish animation that he found. The butterflies looked too 2d, though.
Gonger: Does Patreon money count against these 100k?
Uadjet: I do have some pictures of glasswing butterflies. Maybe I can turn those into a particle system.
Anysu: Could like harvest from a tree and butterflies fly out.
Uadjet: I'm not sure, Gonger, but I suspect so.
Uadjet: Here's the relevant part of the license: "You are only eligible for a Personal - Reference Only tier or Personal tier if, at the time of the Transaction you, together with any controlling entity and other entities under common control with you, have not generated more than $100,000 USD in gross revenue from your commercial activity in the digital content industry in the last 12 months. For purposes of this calculation, revenue includes any advances received or other funds raised."
Uadjet: I don't think we have to worry about that.
Gonger: Other funds raised.
Gonger: Yeah, at least not for the moment.
Uadjet: Honestly, if PS raised more than 100K USD in 12 months, I think we'd be happy to pay. It's based on the time of transaction, so we wouldn't have to worry about assets suddenly becoming less free than they were.
Gonger: Oh my - there is a patreon Planeshifted now, creating content for D&D and MtG. I can see confusion coming...
Gonger: And a patreon
[cyrillic characters] "Planeshift"... creating Role Playing Table-top games
Uadjet: Hmm.
Uadjet: Not ideal.
Gonger: means Studies, as Research Studies.
Uadjet: Also: MtG is still around?!
Uadjet: Ah. Apparently doing well.
Gonger: Any other news?
Uadjet: I've been watching the latest stream, and the sounds I'm hearing are more about the fishing process than the fish themselves.
Gonger: This russian
has one post since 2021 "Hello everybody", and that's it.
Uadjet: Sounds for the reel, the cast, the splash when it hits the water, etc.
Resildren: does he plan to add the pc's swearing when the fish spits put the hook?
Uadjet: I think the players will provide those sounds, Resildren.
Resildren: I can record myself, plenty of experiance with this?
Uadjet: I have to say, the new fish models look great.
>Uadjet dropped an Ide.
Uadjet: I don't think we have models for manta, eel, or crayfish yet.
Resildren: crayfish has confused me as there not prone to be hooked, we use traps to catch them?
Thosor: Shrink a drifter
Resildren: ( like mini lobsters)
Thosor: Electric eels would be fun.
Uadjet: A nice surprise for players, that's for sure!
Uadjet: Oh, I restarted my slowfall/gliding/flight projects last night, after the event.
Resildren: nice
Uadjet: The flight would be GM / Dev only, I'm afraid.
Uadjet: It's a 16 minute video that will take me 3-4 hours to follow.
Uadjet: But it's much better than our current floating flight.
Thosor: Oh, never mind, we do that at the bottom of pushups.
Uadjet: But slowfall and gliding seem to be doable. Actually they're quite easy, other than the animations. I'm not sure how those will work when combined with the Advanced Locomotion System.
Uadjet: My idea is that players would have access to Slowfall with Ant Weight or a new Azure Way spell, and gliding with an Azure Way spell of a higher level.
Uadjet: Now, that infringes on the Klyros special ability, so they would get a boost when using those same spells. The way I see it, slowfall would boost their natural glide ability by reducing their rate of descent and not limiting their ability to turn or their speed like slowfall normally would.
Uadjet: The gliding spell would mostly mimic the Klyros ability to glide, but when Klyros use it they get a speed boost. Maybe to mount speed? I dunno.
Uadjet: Anyways, that's my thought. I'll make it and see what Talad thinks.
Uadjet: Of course, there's no much need for slowfall now as we don't take falling damage when on a mount.
Uadjet: Any questions?
Resildren: I have one
Uadjet: Yes?
Resildren: while I've not managed to cover all the ground i'm failing to find the sinafler plant. is it out there somewhere? or another case like the purple orchid stem?
Resildren: i noticed that it's not listed on the 2023 plant rename?
Gova: I haven't found those either.
Gova: I spent a few days searching for plants, and there are a lot I haven't found.
Uadjet: Yeah, I went into old streams to get coordinates of some plants, but couldn't find them in game. Either Talad changed the coordinates after that, or something has gone wrong. I think it was hops I was looking for.
Resildren: all the plants have a new home
Uadjet: I'll take a look at the old streams again, and if I can't find the plants where they were placed, I'll pester Talad about it.
Thosor: hops renamed too?
Anysu: I mean if you need certain plants for a quest and can't find them, can't finish a quest.
Anysu: needs fixing
Gonger: Yes, that can be quite annoying.
Resildren: did the purple orchids get replanted? i seem to remember you told me there were off the map?
Uadjet: Well, the plant spawns are sometimes off the map. I'm not sure about the action location plants.
Thosor: This sort of breaks the game, especially new players trying quests.
Anysu nods
Resildren: and in training up as well
Anysu nods
Uadjet: Using the Herbalism skill to find nearby plants might be nice. A player-made book would be easier, as it requires no changes in game.
Resildren: i do have that in mind, as well as a few others, but it's taking a bit to get the whole unreal and larger areas covered
Resildren: plant wise all my old info is out the window
Anysu nods
Uadjet: Yeah, we've got a lot more area to search.
Uadjet: I'll cheat a bit, and hover and slide my way around maps. The new AL plants don't have spawns around them that players can just pick up, so they're not easy to find.
Thosor: How does one rotate himself? right now I sit down backwards
Resildren: center mouse and right button both held down and rotate
Resildren: might have to target yourself to do so
Resildren: ( from the sitting stance)
Thosor: just the whole room rotates, maybe will have to check mouse buttons
Resildren: try it sitting down first
Uadjet: That rotates the camera. You're talking about just turning your character around?
Thosor: yes
Resildren: yes
Gova: I can turn my head while sitting, but that's it.
Resildren: both buttons depressed then rotate
Resildren: center and right mouse buttons
Anysu: I have no center button.
Gova: I'm not turning to sit either.
Resildren: ( hope it's not just a demorian thing)
Gova: Oh, I did that time.
Anysu: nope.
Gova: I did manage to turn while sitting once, but that was after a mass jump. I could slide around while sitting too.
Resildren: the rotate seems to be on a wide axis, more so just turning around
Uadjet: There could be issues other than the pushups thing due to the engine update not getting along well with ALS.
Anysu: I can't manage it
Resildren: Anysu try it sitting down?
Anysu: turned my head.
Resildren: you'll know your halfway there when your head starts to look in the direction youre aiming for
Anysu: But I have a center wheel not a button.
Uadjet: You're not supposed to be able to turn while sitting.
Gova: I can with center mouse depressed.
Resildren: depress he wheel as a button
Gonger: Ok, it's getting late for me, and this seems not too important...
Thosor: I think I turned 22.5 degrees by pointing on the target circle.
Anysu: Did that and that didn't do anything but head turn
Gonger: Don't forget to leave the room before quitting.
