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[Stickman Sham]

This thread is for smaller details that I have picked up in the ten total hours of being logged in.

1. I've noticed from friends who I've introduced Mythruna to, and they've told me very positive. They also pointed out that the movement system looks kinda dingy, and I agree. The character kinda walks too slow and contrasts by jumping very quickly and somewhat choppily. I'd recommend increasing the movement speed and making jumping smoother.

2. Somewhere along the lines, I moved W for forward in video game controls to S, and moving back to X. It works for me, and I'm betting that Mythruna doesn't have custom controls. Excuse me if I'm wrong, but it would be a good feature.

3. I think its just cosmetic, but the shadows look a little bit overpowering. When you look over at mountains, everything looks good except the shadows, because every shadow seems too defined. I'd recommend blending the difference between shadow and light.

4. I didn't see 'animal life' in the High Level Roadmap, so Animal Life would be great. I can already see birds, wolves in the combat system, dogs/cats that you can domesticate, and everything inbetween. Sounds solid for a future update.

Lastly 5. I've been looking at the ingame fire, and I think that there should be a bigger fire variant that takes up more horizontal and vertical space, and also colored fire.

just as a smaller note to Paul directly: Once you make combat, don't make it really push-over like. I've seen sandbox games with combat that doesn't click. I'm looking at you, Minecraft!

Just needed to get that off my conscience, as its good to toss these things out there.

[pspeed]

The walking speed is 3 m/sec which is the same speed as in Minecraft and is (in real life) a really good jog.  The issue here is that if you walk too fast then you run even faster... then you outrun the terrain pager and start walking on thin air.  Worse yet, I have nowhere to go for even faster things.

When jumping was slower, people complained that it felt like they were floating.  So I'm going to have to use the "can't please everyone all the time" excuse.

[Stickman Sham]

That makes sense, personally the walking was a minor note to me compaired to the jumping, so whatever works is good. That is why its a personal note, not a direct recommendation.

[pspeed]

I didn't take any offense.  The walk speed thing comes up from time to time.

Regarding wild life, there will be some.  It isn't called out specifically in the "high level roadmap" but is hinted at:

-mountains, deserts, tundras (including temperate-specific flora and fauna)

It's kind of subtle, though:


Suffice it to say that there will be wildlife... and other things.

[theamericono]

i dont like the idea of chancing the controls  form    wasd  because if ur a gamer these are the controls u basicly grow up with
plus its easier to use wsad

[Moonkey]

No, in-game control changing would be nice is what he meant.

[pspeed]

Eventually there will be a way to change the key mappings, etc... but I haven't implemented it yet for a few reasons:
1) because it's a lot of effort for relatively little reward at this point.  Many other things take precedence.
2) the things you could map keys to would change a lot and I'd have to reset your mappings periodically.  Usually this makes people angrier than not having mappings at all.

[Stickman Sham]

Yeah, I don't know how I found SADX as my movement layout, but it works. I wonder if there could be a console cmd ingame, where you put in
/bind s +forward and /bind x +back or something along those lines, and they could create a script that sets all custom controls after it is executed to avert constant remapping.

[pspeed]

Yeah, I don't know how I found SADX as my movement layout, but it works. I wonder if there could be a console cmd ingame, where you put in
/bind s +forward and /bind x +back or something along those lines, and they could create a script that sets all custom controls after it is executed to avert constant remapping.

Pretty sure I already posted a mod script for changing key mappings in another thread.  It was for mapping to an AZERTY keyboard (French) I think.

[Stickman Sham]

I'll check that out

[Stickman Sham]

Will this work work in Mythruna?

[pspeed]

I think in this case you will need to delete the old mappings.  So you can add inputManager.deleteMapping( CAM_FORWARD ) and inputManager.deleteMapping( CAM_BACK )
...before adding the new mappings.

[Stickman Sham]

Will do. I went into that on my vista laptop (which does not work for mythruna but I installed it to find out) and went into that after downloading the AZERTY keyboard.

[Stickman Sham]

inputManager.deleteMapping( CAM_FORWARD )
inputManager.deleteMapping( CAM_BACK )
inputManager.addMapping( CAM_FORWARD, new KeyTrigger(KeyInput.KEY_S) );
inputManager.addMapping( CAM_BACK, new KeyTrigger(KeyInput.KEY_X) );

[Michael]

Stickman do you mind me adding this to the Mythruna API? PS: Either way I am stealing it