New Portrait Interpolation & Editor
While the Portrait Editor is a great tool for modders, players will already be able to reap the benefits of the new content we've put in place, as in-game characters not only age gradually, but their facial expressions will change dynamically based on that character's opinion of the player's faction leader. Let's look at these two concepts in a bit more detail! Aging In Old World, portraits are organized into sets of five, representing Baby (ages 2-6), Youth (6-15), Teenager (15-23), Adult (23-60), and Senior (60 and up). Previously, these images would be static, and only change when a character moves from one age bracket to another. With the new Interpolation features, a combination of crossfading and subtle modification allows a pair of sequential age groups to merge together into a single image, which changes over time as a character progresses from one age group to another. Once a character shifts into the next bracket, the process starts again with the new "current" age-group portrait and one after that, and so on. Opinion Portraits now also display a character's expression based on their opinion modifier of the player's faction leader. These portraits are configured with these expressions to show that character's most extreme negative expression (Furious) at -200 opinion, and most extreme positive opinion (Friendly) at +200 opinion. With these two extremes set, the game then blends between the two (much like how it does with aging), so that you can get a range of expressions based on where within that spectrum a character is sitting at any given time.
We've prepared a more in-depth guide for any modders who want to create custom portraits for their games. The new update is available now and comes with the usual round of bug fixes and tweaks, which you can read here. https://store.steampowered.com/app/597180/Old_World/
[ 2024-03-06 22:00:26 CET ] [ Original post ]
Welcome! We've implemented a brand new feature with the latest update to Old World that will help bring the games impressive cast of characters to life like never before.
Portrait Interpolation
While the Portrait Editor is a great tool for modders, players will already be able to reap the benefits of the new content we've put in place, as in-game characters not only age gradually, but their facial expressions will change dynamically based on that character's opinion of the player's faction leader. Let's look at these two concepts in a bit more detail! Aging In Old World, portraits are organized into sets of five, representing Baby (ages 2-6), Youth (6-15), Teenager (15-23), Adult (23-60), and Senior (60 and up). Previously, these images would be static, and only change when a character moves from one age bracket to another. With the new Interpolation features, a combination of crossfading and subtle modification allows a pair of sequential age groups to merge together into a single image, which changes over time as a character progresses from one age group to another. Once a character shifts into the next bracket, the process starts again with the new "current" age-group portrait and one after that, and so on. Opinion Portraits now also display a character's expression based on their opinion modifier of the player's faction leader. These portraits are configured with these expressions to show that character's most extreme negative expression (Furious) at -200 opinion, and most extreme positive opinion (Friendly) at +200 opinion. With these two extremes set, the game then blends between the two (much like how it does with aging), so that you can get a range of expressions based on where within that spectrum a character is sitting at any given time.
We've prepared a more in-depth guide for any modders who want to create custom portraits for their games. The new update is available now and comes with the usual round of bug fixes and tweaks, which you can read here. https://store.steampowered.com/app/597180/Old_World/
Old World
Mohawk Games
Hooded Horse
Q2 2022
Strategy Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop
GameBillet
20.00 /
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🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
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https://mohawkgames.com/oldworld/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/597180
Old World Linux Content [9.14 G]
Old World is a historical strategy game where you lead your empire through multiple generations, building a grand legacy to last beyond your own years. This is an era of great leaders, from the revered to the feared. Which will you be?
Marry for politics, raise your heirs, and manage your relationship with the families of your kingdom. In the fast and furious world of kings and queens, family matters.
- Each of the 7 kingdoms has four noble families that provide various benefits when put in charge of your cities.
- Manage family ties through events, actions, and marriages to keep them happy and reap additional benefits. Upset them, or make them too powerful, and you risk their ire.
- Maintain a strong family unit, or distract yourself with more illicit adventures.
The world is full of great characters with distinct personalities, strengths, and weaknesses. Use them to forge your kingdom, defend your borders, and build ties with other leaders.
- Seek out and recruit famed warriors, philosophers, builders, and more. Have them tutor your children, lead your armies, and further your reign.
- Different personality archetypes allow your court members to perform different tasks in similar roles. Find the right combinations to take full advantage of governors, diplomats, spymasters, and even your spouse.
- Characters develop new personalities and traits over time, growing old, gaining experience, and finally falling ill and passing away, leaving room for the next generation.
Unsettled tribes, barbarian marauders, and remnants of previous cultures are all waiting in the vast unexplored wilderness.
- Discover artifacts and great heroes of the past at ruins scattered across the map.
- Experience over 3,000 unique events inspired by history and mythology.
- Contact with foreign dignitaries triggers event chains, stories, and courtroom drama.
- Pursue ambitions and legacies related to conquest, development, faith, and more.
- Historically inspired scenarios, weekly challenge games, and a choice between randomly generated and handcrafted maps to explore. Lead Carthage to victory as Hannibal in the Punic Wars, hold your own against Barbarian Hordes, or compete against other players in tackling fictional scenarios.
Why do things the way they've always been done? Old World brings a new take to key elements of the 4X strategy genre:
- Go beyond the traditional resources. Buildings are made of wood and stone, not "industry." Population doesn't grow off "food" alone.
- Orders are a resource shared across your realm. Instead of moving every unit once per turn, each unit can be moved multiple times until fatigued or Orders are depleted.
- Technological advancement is not predetermined. Randomization helps keep technology trees feeling fresh with each new playthrough.
- Quality of life improvements, such as the ability to undo mistaken commands and nested tooltips, ensure you're always making informed decisions.
- Play with friends in countless multiplayer modes — from hotseat, to asynchronous, to cloud play.
- Mods further open up infinite options for new worlds, empires, and dynasties — inspired by our real world, and by works of fiction as well.
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- OS: Ubuntu 18.04+
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- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 770 / AMD R9 290
- Storage: 10 GB available space
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- Processor: Intel i5-8500 3ghz or similarMemory: 16 GB RAM
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
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