Daggerfall Tools for Unity 1.3.31 Released!

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Daggerfall Tools for Unity 1.3.31 release version now available!

Key features of this version are:

  • Full Unity 5 compatibility.
  • New material and texture system.
  • Using Standard shader everywhere possible.
  • Simplified custom shaders for tile maps and billboard batches.
  • Significantly improved batching and performance when using new Deferred path.
  • Improved billboard batching using geometry shader, now supporting animation.
  • Event system.
  • Started using prefabs for layout of non-static items such as doors, lights, and enemies.
  • Many bug fixes and improvements.
  • New Feature Gallery.
  • New Tutorials.

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DFTFU Developer Preview 1.3.29

Edit: Release version 1.3.31 now available.

Daggerfall Tools for Unity 1.3.29 is now available to developers for testing. This is a close-to-final version that still has a few kinks to iron out. However it should be close enough for developers to start testing and migrating their work.

The key new features of this version are:

  • Full Unity 5 compatibility.
  • New material and texture system.
  • Using Standard shader everywhere possible.
  • Simplified custom shaders for tile maps and billboard batches.
  • Significantly improved batching and performance when using new Deferred path.
  • Improved billboard batching using geometry shader, now supporting animation.
  • Events at key locations.
  • Started using prefabs for layout of non-static items such as doors, lights, and enemies.
  • Many small bug fixes and improvements.

I did mention there were still a few kinks to iron out, so I value any feedback on this version prior to full release.

I am also working on a full documentation refresh and new tutorials for some of the new features (like events and prefabs). This will take a few weeks to complete. I am planning full online API documentation starting from release 1.3.

Happy testing! If you have any feedback, please use the following forum thread.

http://forums.dfworkshop.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=74

Daggerfall Tools for Unity 1.2!

The huge 1.2 world update is finally live! The tools have come so far since 1.1 and a big thank you is in order to everyone who tested Developer Preview versions and sent me feedback. You’ve all helped 1.2 become more than it could have been without you.

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What’s New!

Core

  • Now requires Unity 4.6. (and not yet compatible with 5.0).
  • Vast streaming world can be created procedurally at runtime.
  • Blazing-fast billboard system for dense trees.
  • Tilemap shader for retro-style ground textures.
  • Enter any valid building or dungeon.
  • Random encounter tables in dungeons.
  • MIDI synthesizer with custom SoundFont support.
  • Hundreds of bug fixes and small improvements.

Demo

  • Complete streaming world demo scene included with all code.
  • Weather effects with Weather Manager.
  • Helpers to change lighting based on time of day, season, dungeon.
  • Contextual Song Manager to play music appropriate to player.
  • Ambient Effects Player to play sound effects in dungeons, etc.
  • A player compass.
  • Footstep Manager to change footstep sounds in winter.
  • Example enemy and player scripts for basic combat setup.
  • Many more small helpers and one-shot classes to learn from.

Get The Release!

Watch The 1.2 Feature Video!

Play The Demo!

Controls

General

  • Mouse move to look.
  • W, S, A, D to move.
  • SHIFT (hold) to run.
  • SPACE to jump.
  • LEFT-CLICK mouse to open doors, enter dungeons, operate switches, etc.
  • ESC to exit game (standalone).

Weapons

  • Z to toggle weapons.
  • Right-click and drag mouse to swing weapon.

Transport

  • R (while outside) for random location, season, time of day, and weather.
  • R (while in dungeon) to recall back to dungeon start.
  • 1-7 for preset location (keeps current season, weather, etc.).

Music

  • P to toggle songs on/off.
  • [ to play previous song in context playlist.
  • ] to player next song in context playlist.

Timescale

  • – to reduce timescale (0-8 steps).
  • = to increase timescale (0-8 steps).

Other

  • I to toggle mouse invert on/off.
  • H to toggle high speed on/off.
  • L to toggle debug text on/off.

LypyL’s Unity Multiplayer Test 2

Good news, everyone! LypyL has created a second multiplayer demo for us to enjoy. It was amazing to share a dungeon run with him earlier.

Incredible to think… This is the first time it’s truly been possible to explore a Daggerfall dungeon with friends. Although still in early stages the potential for this is incredible. Great work LypyL!

Edit 21/03/2015: Updated link to later build.

Daggerfall Tools for Unity – Streaming World Multiplayer V.2.3 by LypyL

New Stuff

  • Daggerfall, Wayrest, Sentinel & Orsinium Castles are explorable. Use fast travel to leave.
  • (local) enemies in dungeons.
  • Fast travel menu with 35 locations.
  • Music.
  • Player Skin selection.

Controls

  • Click to capture mouse (webplayer).
  • ESC to uncapture mouse (webplayer).
  • Mouse move to look.
  • W, S, A, D to move.
  • SHIFT (hold) to run.
  • SPACE to jump.
  • LEFT-CLICK mouse to open doors, operate switches, etc.
  • Q toggle no clip/fly.
  • E climb mode (when facing wall).
  • Z toggle weapon.
  • Right-click and drag mouse to swing weapon.
  • New: F1 fast travel.
  • New: F2 toggle music.
  • New: F3 previous track.
  • New: F4 next track.

Streaming World Test 2

A new build of the streaming world pre-release demo is now available.

New Features!

  • A MIDI synthesizer has been integrated with Daggerfall Tools for Unity. You can now play music from the game!
  • Control passage of time by adjusting time scale.
  • Improved memory handling and other bug fixes.

See full notes below for new controls.

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Streaming World Pre-Release Test 1

Linux Note: You may need to set the .x86 or .x86_64 to allow executing as program. The standalone Linux build is still an early test. If you have problems, please contact me with your specs and screenshots of issue if possible.

Controls

  • Click to capture mouse (web player).
  • ESC to uncapture mouse (web player).
  • ESC to exit game (standalone).
  • Mouse move to look.
  • W, S, A, D to move.
  • SHIFT (hold) to run very fast.
  • SPACE to jump.
  • LEFT-CLICK mouse to open doors, operate switches, etc.
  • R to travel to a random location.
  • 1-4 to travel to a preset location (more presets will be added to final build).
  • New: P to replay current song.
  • New: [ to load previous song.
  • New: ] to load next song.
  • New: – to reduce time scale.
  • New: = to increase time scale.

Features

  • Explore the entire Illiac Bay. Any region, any climate, anywhere.
  • Run smoothly between cities over actual Daggerfall terrain read from game data.
  • Full day/night cycle with animated skies and city lights.
  • Control passage of time by adjusting time scale.
  • A MIDI synthesizer has been integrated with Daggerfall Tools for Unity. You can now play music from the game!
  • Enter any building in any town or city.
  • Control an athletic player who can jump onto small buildings and sprint at high speeds through the wilderness.
  • Location beacon helps you find cities in the wilderness.
  • Entire world is built procedurally right inside your web browser.

Known Issues/Limitations

  • Not optimized.
  • May encounter a brief hitch when updating sky animation or streaming in a large location.
  • No bounds checking. Possible to run off extreme edge of world or crash.
  • Running very distant from starting point will cause precision issues. A fix is in progress to resolve this.
  • No compass or map to help you navigate.
  • Cannot enter dungeons at this time.

Note: If you encounter problems with precision or fall through ground, please use R to travel to random location or 1-4 for preset locations. See controls below.

 

LypyL’s Daggerfall Tools for Unity Multiplayer Test

If you’ve been around the DFTFU Subreddit, you may have noticed that community member LypyL has been working on a set of multiplayer extensions for the Daggerfall tools. He has now progressed to the point where he’s ready to show off some progress.

I played a bit of this with LypyL a few hours ago and had great fun exchanging blows and flying (literally flying) around the map taking swipes at each other. He’s done an amazing job so far, and I’m excited to host his achievement here on Daggerfall Workshop.

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Daggerfall Tools for Unity – Streaming World Multiplayer Test by LypyL

www.dfworkshop.net/web_demos_other/dftfu_multiplayer/dftfu_multiplayer.html

Note: Requires the Unity Web Player.

Controls

  • Click to capture mouse (webplayer).
  • ESC to uncapture mouse (webplayer).
  • Mouse move to look.
  • W, S, A, D to move.
  • SHIFT (hold) to run.
  • SPACE to jump.
  • LEFT-CLICK mouse to open doors, operate switches, etc.
  • Q no clip/fly.
  • E climb mode.
  • Z toggle weapon.
  • Right-click and drag mouse to swing weapon.

Author Notes

  1. On running, players will try and connect to active games on server if there are any, and if not will start a new one.
  2. Games are capped at 4 players (and currently max concurrent user limit of 20 – so up to full games)
  3. On joining/starting game, player has to set their name (either accept the random name or put in a new one in the input box).
  4. They will spawn outside of Daggerfall. I pretty much left all of the streaming world settings at default.
  5. Added scaled down location markers to make other players easier to find. Player names will also be displayed above their skins w/ 3d text meshes.
  6. Players get randomly chosen skins on joining (which aren’t synced among clients – they’re different for everyone). Attacking & moving is animated (the hurt animations should be working, but I can never get them to play for some reason).
  7. Basically nothing else is synced up – audio, doors etc. are not implemented yet.
  8. I switched to one of the standard asset skyboxes due to the sky rig breaking in the web build for some reason.
  9. There is basic combat implemented for messing around. On being hit, a player will lose health until they reach 0 or less, then their position will be set randomly (to somewhere nearby to where they are), and if they are inside, they will transition outside.