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Craftica Update: New Village System, Various Improvements and Optimizations
[ 2023-07-16 21:50:21 CET ] [ Original post ]
This update mainly includes a new village generation system and various improvements to the multi-threading support. It also includes many other improvements and optimizations, making the game running more smoothly without lagging caused by large village generation. Also this update has made some progress in the support for the multiple player mode.
Village System
- Completely rewrote the village generation system;
- Supports generating large villages with more structures;
- Supports two architectural styles: Eastern Asian and European;
- Direct generation of structures in the scene, instead of using pre-generated structures;
- More variety of houses and workshops;
- Different internal structures and furnishing for houses;
- Added new bed, chair and lamp items;
- Added new defense tower and water well structures;
- Redefines habitable house by a sheltered bed with access to a door;
- Added a new Duty Post item, to prioritize warrior generation and deployment;
- Improved path planning and navigation for villagers and warriors;
- Supports generating of fenced yards with mangers to spawn farm animals;
Improvements
- Supports climbing up and down a ladder (W key for up, S key for down);
- Supports ladders in path finding and navigation;
- Switched to physics ray cast for locating surface point for navigation;
- Improved navigation mesh generation and the handling of obstacles;
- Supports pointing a point to go with right mouse clicks in the advance mode;
- Improved character movements and agent path following to avoid jittering;
- Improved the handing of view modes with a new camera tracking support;
- Improved terrain block storage and simplified their loading;
- Improved some materials and added support for texture orientation adjustment;
Optimizations
- Improved multithreading support and the handling of computational tasks, reducing blocking in the main thread and improving multicore cpu usage;
- Moved some extra computation for terrain and village generation to threads;
- Improved mesh optimization for collision shapes;
- Improved and optimized the models of some standard items;
- Removed a large number of obsolete items, reducing the base memory usage while increasing game loading speed;
Work in Progress for The Multiple Player Support
- Preliminary support for users and for interfacing external user systems;
- Preliminary support for multiple player game creation and joining;
- Preliminary server and client support;
- Preliminary communication mechanism between a server and clients;
- Preliminary support for state synchronization with incremental data;
[ 2023-07-16 21:50:21 CET ] [ Original post ]
Craftica
Craftao Studio
Developer
Craftao Studio
Publisher
2020-03-26
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Craftica: A Next-Generation Creative Sandbox Game with Subvoxels
Craftica is a next-generation creative sandbox game with a near-infinite world represented by voxels and subvoxels. It is inspired by Minecraft, but it takes the voxel representation to the next level with subvoxels of multiple sizes. Craftica currently supports both creative and survival modes with main focus on the creative mode.
Voxel and Subvoxels
In Craftica the basic voxel is a full cube and the subvoxels are partial cubes with one or more corner chopped off.
The support of subvoxels in Craftica make it possible to use relatively smooth representations of objects in the game. Also the voxel and subvoxels in Craftica are supported at multiple size levels, so that fine structures can be represented at a scale comparable to the real world.
In fact Craftica has very good support for Chinese architectures, and includes a large number of standard structures with Chinese architecture styles.
Smart Placement of Blocks and Items
Craftica is designed to allow intuitive construction of objects using subvoxels, and supports consistent operations for placing basic blocks (voxels and subvoxels) and items.
In-Scene Crafting
Item crafting in Craftica can be done in the scene, using formulas that are structural and intuitive.
Village
In Craftica worlds, some places are generated with villages. Each village is generated with a few houses and at least one workshop and one defensive fort or tower, and spawns with at least one warrior to defend the village.
The relationship between a village and a player is characterized by affinity. Affinity can be zero, positive or negative, indicating a neutral, friendly or hostile relationship.
The affinities between villages and player(s) are initialized randomly. Normally, there will be more neutral villages than friendly and hostile ones, and more friendly ones than hostile ones. Their actual percentages may vary according to game modes and difficulty levels.
Trade
When a positive affinity reaches certain levels, the player will have free access to some village structures and storages (different structures and storages may have different affinity thresholds). And when a negative affinity reaches a certain level, the village warrior will actively attack the player.
Trading with villagers or defending the village against hostile mobs will improve the affinity between the player and the village. On the other hand, attacking villagers will deteriorate the affinity.
Survival
In survival mode, barbarians and other hostile mobs will be generated. They will attack the player and villages. The only way to survive is to fight back or run!
Instant Help and Hint
Craftica can provide instant help and hint that is relevant to the current state of the game and the player. Such help and hint can be turned on or off with the H key at any time. Instant help and hint is automatically turned on when a new world is started, unless it is disabled in the game options.
MINIMAL SETUP
- OS: Ubuntu 18.04 (64bit)
- Processor: Dual Core 2.0GHZMemory: 2 GB RAM
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5000
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- OS: Ubuntu 18.04 (64bit)
- Processor: Quad Core 2.6GHZMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 / Dedicated Graphics Card
- Storage: 1000 MB available space
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