{"id":253,"date":"2023-07-18T21:28:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T21:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruffleneck.com\/devblog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2023-07-18T21:28:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T21:28:37","slug":"snippets-xxxxii-by-the-skiirs-bleeps-i-have-been-redyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruffleneck.com\/devblog\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Snippets XXXXII – By the Skiir\u2019s Bleeps, I have been redyed!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Near Iskaai and Herlstead while on sailing map ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a reason we start with this image, and the reason is that it looks really nice. That\u2019s it! I mean, it also shows a few things I want to write about :3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all is probably the most apparent thing; The two big lines starting with \u201cto\u201d and an island name starting from the Herlstead port. What are these? What is this gui gimmicky and trickery? Why are there large lines on the pretty sailing map?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good question!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those display the primary sailing routes around Skiir. Basically \u201cThese are the routes everyone sails when going between islands\u201d. You can follow them, probably run into some things along the way and so on, or you can go your own way, possibly evade problems or run into different kind of problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes the fastest trip is not the one following the main routes, but these will also act as kind of a guide for you. Want to go to Kizan from Harakeen? Don\u2019t remember where it is? Follow the common sailing route to Skiia and then take the route south to Kizan itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first pass the sailing map is mostly just for going between the existing islands and there won\u2019t be much reason to go outside the beaten path, but in subsequent releases we\u2019ll add more stuff to the world map ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other information on the map is the banner. What is it exactly? Lemme tell you :3 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The banner itself is fairly self-explanatory; It just shows the name of the port or docking place and name of the island under it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below it is a list of banners. These tell you what factions are present on the island. It is mostly just fluff, but occasionally the factions present may change ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here in on Herlstead and Iskaai there\u2019s three factions; The Herlstead Commonwealth, and yes, they\u2019re basically independents. The second banner is that of Merchant Order, and the last one is a secret x)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sailing out of Kirhaal at night. You can see there\u2019s different factions present on Skiia than on Iskaai. Namely the Dragonfire who owns the island, the Scraven because of Scraven things, and The Port Authority ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing with a light right under \u201cto Kizan\u201d text is a travel marker. Your sailing target cursor one could call it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not all images will be night shots, I just like the night xD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s our little Lone Rise and it\u2019s one lone banner (for now anyways)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wheeee!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heading back north ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It didn\u2019t actually suddenly become night, I just got distracted and sailed around in circles for a while x)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Passing Skiia at night <3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yeah, this set of routes is pretty tight because all three islands are almost parallel vertically x)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also yes, you can disable the routes if you don\u2019t want to see them or just want to take screenshots, but a lot of things will be built around them in the future ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s some screenies without them;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maximum zoom level. The Unnamed is so smol now x)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And as close as it gets basically ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back to sailing routes. I really love \u2018em myself. It is much more immersive in-game than it looks from the screenshots ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first pass of sailing is basically only missing sounds now, otherwise it is done ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So to the next topic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Context menu! How exciting, is it not? It actually is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first function is \u201cCombine\u201d, basically some items can be combined together to get a different item. In this case it is just a mock up Drathek did to show combining two items together, but it could be anything basically ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second function is \u201cDiscard\u201d. Yes, you\u2019ll be able to trash items without using trashbins because\u2026 uh, well, yes xD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Third function is \u201cDye\u201d. It does exactly what it says, it allows you to dye specific slots in clothes. (Ignore the chest strap not showing colors on icon x))<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s an emissive dye ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here is example with more options and such, and how it works. It is safe enough that it knows what dye is applied and where so you can\u2019t accidentally reapply the same color in the already dyed slot ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is the \u201cRead\u201d function (with some temp stuff from Drathek xD). Don\u2019t worry it won\u2019t actually be that chock full of unformatted text x)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And \u201cInteract\u201d function, again with temp stuff from Drathek xD It basically triggers our conversation system but isn\u2019t literally \u201ctalk\u201d, except in the case of the Admiral Rock\u2019s hat, but rather it allows us to do any kind of interaction with it, be it solving a puzzle, or being transported to somewhere weird, or whatnot ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other front, Hare has been working on random acts for different size followers, namely the shorter one for the desert island ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sometimes it is a bit hard to say which one is the small one, but maybe if you research it closely, you\u2019ll be able to spot it ;3 It is more visible in-game with rotateable camera and all of course!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The desert island will have a desert bunny subspecies, and possibly fennec kind of fox subspecies, so those are where these come in handy ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll likely make all species appear as small, default, and large in the future, different species will just have different likelihood of it appearing, with small or large subspecies vastly more likely to be that size<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And theeeen, the last thing I promise, are the next two species we are working on;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hyave, aka the hyena species and the primary members of the Scraven Pirate Fleet. Just a simple untextured mesh. Next up for sculpting, and then texturing ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I haven\u2019t yet decided on the fur for them, but a punk mane is probably a must xD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Puur, a deer\/gazelle kind. Not a major species per se. A little bit more rare around Skiir akin to the Heev. Nothing like the more populous quartet of species; Faelain, Davh, Kizan, and Hyave ^^<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With luv <3
Ruffle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Near Iskaai and Herlstead while on sailing map ^^ There\u2019s a reason we start with this image, and the reason is that it looks really nice. That\u2019s it! I mean, it also shows a few things I want to write about :3 First of all is probably the most apparent thing; The two big lines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruffleneck.com\/devblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruffleneck.com\/devblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruffleneck.com\/devblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruffleneck.com\/devblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruffleneck.com\/devblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruffleneck.com\/devblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruffleneck.com\/devblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruffleneck.com\/devblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruffleneck.com\/devblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruffleneck.com\/devblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}