This post is to announce OctoberPeaks 1.13 (based on OctoberProject 1.14).

Changes in this release:
-creatures can now walk in a more natural, diagonal, direction when on flat ground
-created new villager creature, along with an associated trading [...]

Basic Villager Plan

I have been moving forward on a plan for the villagers which I think is interesting and useful without being too ambitious (but still leaving the door open for bigger possibilities in the future).

The plan is that villagers will have occupations. [...]

Work on OP creatures progressing slowly

Much of the creature movement has been re-written so they now will walk directly toward their target, when on level ground, instead of following the path-finding algorithm's plan, as created. This creates a much more natural feel.

That was [...]

Re: OctoberPeaks v1.12 ("The Motion Update") Release

That structure in the left of the image is a generated structure in the world. It is randomly located in the world, usually far above the ground, and its portals connect to 4 other towers generated relative to it. In the flat world type, where I [...]

This post is to announce OctoberPeaks 1.12 (based on OctoberProject 1.13).

Changes in this release:
-a block mover block has been added (similar to a Minecraft sticky piston)
-sub-block collision now exists (meaning that stairs and slabs have been [...]

OP Progress: Block movement

The next OP release (1.12 - "The Motion Update") includes 2 big bits of functionality: (1) blocks which can move other blocks (like a Micecraft piston) and (2) sub-block collision (stairs, slabs, etc). The core of the support for (1) is now [...]

Re: OctoberPeaks v1.11 Release

The benchmark is synthetic, so I can't be sure it will "feel" like it is working optimally, but it should be pretty representative as the clients are doing things (moving and placing blocks - generates cuboids and causes lots of updates) and also on [...]

OctoberPeaks v1.11 Release

This post is to announce OctoberPeaks 1.11 (based on OctoberProject 1.12).

No video for this release since there isn't anything visually obvious to show. All the changes were under the hood (mostly on the server side but some on the client side). [...]

OP Performance Progress

I think that this next release will probably be reading in a week or so. I am running out of things I wanted to change or ideas I wanted to try within the realm of "performance", so it is probably time to wrap this up and move onto the next [...]

Of Queries and Caches

It has been a breath of fresh air, getting to play in the world of performance profiling and optimization, again.

While most of my initial ideas (more aggressive data caching) bore little fruit (there was a benefit which only slightly outweighed [...]

Testing on Kubo 0.39

It has been a little over 2 years since I last made any updates to Cacophony, as it just generally works. However, I have been interested in some claims made by the last few releases (might fix my crashing router issue) and heard that Cacophony [...]

This video is to announce OctoberPeaks 1.10 (still based on OctoberProject 1.11).

(sorry about my voice and clearing my throat - still dealing with the fall-out of a cold from a few weeks ago)

Changes in this release:
-smoother animation on [...]

OP Animation, etc

Overall, the changes required for "the animation update" (OctoberPeaks 1.10) are going well. The particle engine works well (I just need to use more of it in the polish phase) and the entity walking animations seem to be working well enough (I was [...]

This video is to announce OctoberPeaks 1.9 (OctoberProject 1.11).

Changes in this release:
-added an enchantment/infusion mechanic
-custom portals can now be created
-block damage has been changed and tools rebalanced to seem more useful
-movement [...]

Re: OP plans and progress

Work on this continues. The custom portal creation mechanics are in place and seem to be working. A few more of the hard-coded bits of configuration have been formalized into data files.

The way that block damage is handled has been changed a [...]

OP plans and progress

This next release (OctoberPeaks 1.9 - "The Formalization Update") isn't very concretely specified so it is slowly turning into a grab bag of all the loose ends from previous releases, on top of fleshing out some mechanics I did plan to complete in [...]

Re: OctoberPeaks v1.8 Release

I am glad that you are liking the look of it. I want to redo the skeleton model but those things can be done later as it is mostly just there to interact with the mob while I move forward with the rest of the system.

Main problem, of course, is [...]

This video is to announce OctoberPeaks 1.9 (OctoberProject 1.10).

Changes in this release:
-breeding now has a 5-minute cool-down and offspring are born as babies (20 minutes to grow up)
-added skeletons as a new hostile mob with a ranged attack [...]

Re: Refreshing video from Veronica Explains: "I stream nothing, and I am happy."

I thought that Windows came with DVD player software. The main issue is getting something which can decrypt them, unless your system already came with something which does (which I assumed was standard).

You would need to look into what the [...]

Re: Refreshing video from Veronica Explains: "I stream nothing, and I am happy."

It really depends on what you are trying to do with it. Outside of maybe gaming (and only really flashy new gaming, at that), computers do seem to have a much longer useful lifespan than they used to.

I wonder why it is having difficulties with [...]

Re: Refreshing video from Veronica Explains: "I stream nothing, and I am happy."

Too old to trust?

I still have my old Mac with its DVD drive and a small USB external drive which I can use with any of my Linux machines.

About a year ago, however, I wanted to get something reliable to read all optical media and found a basic [...]

Re: Refreshing video from Veronica Explains: "I stream nothing, and I am happy."

Well, it sounds like she buys physical copies and then creates digital backups, locally, which is a good idea. Optical media is pretty stable but not as long-lived as bytes easily moved onto a RAID, etc, not to mention that the players are [...]

Refreshing video from Veronica Explains: "I stream nothing, and I am happy."

I just happened to notice this video and I think it is great (linked in context).

Of course, that is just because I rarely hear someone clearly articulate much of what I have been saying/thinking for a while now.

I have also been on the hunt for [...]

This video is to announce OctoberPeaks 1.7 (OctoberProject 1.9).

In this version, items dropped on the ground now exist as dynamic entities within the world, instead of being stored in the "empty block inventory".

The player is now 1.7 metres tall [...]

OP: Entity Types and Scheduling Strategies

While working through the plans for this next release of OctoberProject (dropped item entities, projectiles, and more mob types), I realized that fitting things like items and projectiles into the existing CreatureEntity system may not be [...]