Update for today

• -Quite large FPS boost thanks to an optimization by DFA
  -Started a system that will store certain variables for the player instead of constantly re-calculating it, and will update when you equip/de-equip an item with mods or when you put in stat points (Damage, Armor/Defence, Attack Speed, Magic Find, Damage Reflect)
  -Worked some more on the stat system
  -Started work on a day/night system. Might scrap it though, depends.

Apk Wrote:too bad no ones ever made use out of my damn GUI's T_T

i don't think you should settle into a GUI until you're done coding for a while anyhow

• -Night/Dawn/Day/Dusk System! It's not how it was originally planned, but I think it is pretty good how it is . NPCs can show up at certain period of the day, which can be very useful for certain quests. Also, you can some certain maps where the day/night doesn't affect them (for example inside maps).
  -Big update for developers, many of the editors totally overhauled, adding in new options to the map editor to make editing maps much easier

• -Extra layers for mapping, hurrah
  -Quite a few additions for developers, including multi-tile select and some map editor options (turn off players/npcs, etc.)
  -Started redoing PK system

fatnoob Wrote:OMG OMG OMG Looks soooo goood and sounds soooo goood.
Your engine is what I'm definetly going to use when it is finished and released

• - Finished player killer system. Players can become a PK at level 10 and can kill other players in certain areas. Not sure how looting will be controlled yet. PK System keeps track of player kills and deaths and you can view another player's stats by typing /pkstats playername.
  - Arena Map Type, no experience/items lost, doesn't count towards deaths nor rescues
  - Started re-making the NPC Drop System

• -NPC drop system totally redone it, can now allow player to add a large amount of drops to the NPCs, allowing for many unique drops Woot
  -Worked in Haggling stat, now works when trading with NPCs

• -Spell Animation System totally done
  - Hardcoded Heal, Flame (Click + Cast on a single player/npc), Fire Ring (4 surrounding tiles), Bless (Player buff, buffs most stats, however, the actual buffs haven't been added, but that takes two secs )

• - Area of effect spell sucesfully coded in
  - Optimized a few things in the game loop to prevent functions being called for no reason each loop, gained some FPS there

• - Made character list when you log-in much less clunky. Now doesn't show if a character doesn't exist (it used to show the message -free character slot- or whatever) and when you add a character, it just goes to the next possible slot, unless all your slots are filled.
  - News system on main menu Pulled from web site

More to come

• - Totally redid the way mods are handled, to make it much more effecient, and the mods now cover pretty much all stats

am looking for someone who could make me some spell animations for a few spells add me on msn or email me at jokeofweek [at] hotmail [dot] com. I have GTalk and XFire if you'd rather talk on there, I just don't really use 'em, but I will if necessary It's just for a few spells, and it'd be hugely appreciated. Credit would definitely be given. Only problem is I don't have any money so I wouldn't be able to pay

• - Redid the way Player and NPC vitals regenerate (have to be resting for 5 seconds, which means no attacking or being attacked) before vitals start regenerating. Once this resting point has been reached, vitals regenerate decently quicly. Might change the 5 seconds to higher number, depends on how things go.
  - Worked on the NPC Targetting System, this also uses the rest system, won't tell you all the details though