Xentales

Hey guys. Decided to make a new thread to gain interest in a possible xen remake. The other thread had a lot of boring early gameplay videos. Mods can delete it or keep it up. Not like this forum is active.
Anyway, my xenclone is starting to take shape. I have made a lot of progress in the past 2 weeks. I've implemented a starting menu with the ability to create/delete characters. I've a also added 5 character slots. I've also worked a lot on the item system and it is starting to take shape. This by far has been the most complicated thing to implement but it's working for the most part. The plan now is to implement all the items in the game. I'm even going to add more items that don't exist in xen. When that is complete I will start working on stats and then adding new environments to the game, maybe a map maker to make things faster and easier. Let me know what you think. And also let me know of features you would like to see implemented.

https://streamable.com/ir7af

The idea is to create a game based on and better than classic xenimus. EJs models give me a template to work with that could be changed if need be. Once the game is in a decent state I will worry about it. We'll see.

Dude. f- those haters!

That looks awesome! Classic Xenimus IS XENIMUS. Keep up the good work! I look forward to the beta testing!

Tiny gnomes!? I think I just jizzed my p-p-pants! Sign me up!

f- The cheese man!

Not sure if I love the tiny gnomes more or being able to play idgets again.

https://streamable.com/xkmnr

Added inventory item information box when hovering over items
Added stackable items
Added right click name display
Started playing around figuring out how I am going to create dungeons

Added merchants and enemy default drops

https://streamable.com/e6dno

That's hilarious. Keep it up!

Thanks

All armors have been implemented.

https://streamable.com/ttjud

awesome, if you need anything i can help with hit me up.

Wizards, warlocks, and more are coming

https://files.catbox.moe/dvtq72.png

Wow that is looking great!

Minions look sick too! I forgot how ugly and beautiful they are.

Thanks

Got him working https://streamable.com/unuzk

Debating on whether I should make the mage models for all races look like that classic human mage model but with their proper racial features, or if I should just have them wear thier normal version of the armor. Does that make sense? What do you guys think

I think that if clerics can't wear spirit plate that has that pastel-cloak look, what's even the point?

Yeah I don't have those models. Wish I did. If I somehow aquire them I'd put them in. I could try to edit the sp plate model I have to look more traditional. We'll see.

I’m in favor of making all mage models look like the classic human mage.

I’ve always played wizards and warlocks and I would always pick human for the starting robes. Making a unique color scheme of your robes and belt was always fun.

Beam, vgv, fragor impsum now in game.

https://streamable.com/c55bx

Looks amazing.

Ok keybindings and keybindings ui are working. Classes now are assigned specific spells. Started working on figuring out good formulas for stats/level and how they will impact your character. I know I will keep the traditional stats from xen, but I will change how they work. For example I plan on having intel be used for all casters, with wisdom being the "agility" for casting. Right now I have a rough formula for calculating hp/mp based on level, class, and intel/cons. Stat values will be different than Xenimus. Not sure what god forsaken formula EJ came up with for his stats, but I will definitely not try to emulate that messed up system. The priorities now are building spells, creating unique classes with those spells, and create environments.

Worked on my dungeon creation process some, and some dungeon mechanics.

https://streamable.com/kai49

Looks pretty good, id play

It’s looking really good! I can’t wait to play this.

Thanks guys

Water and swimming are now in game. Part of me wants to implement boats and sailing, but I have other stuff to do.
https://i.imgtc.ws/uEkxSBc.png

I think I broke something
https://i.imgtc.ws/n8muvaa.png

Looks great, can't wait to see some more progress on this Please keep us updated because that looks better than current xenimus by far.

How’s the project going? Any new updates?

lol looks geat

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Thanks guys . Just a quick update. I took some time off development but I am back working on the game. It's been a tremendous amount of work but things are really starting to come together. The game runs way better and smoother than in the last video I posted. I will post a video or screenshots later. I am going to start adding networking to the game in the near future, but I still need to work on some other things. If you have any suggestions for the game post them here and I will consider it. Stay tuned.

First screenshot of 2 players in game! It's not much but it's a big step in the right direction. As expected this broke a lot of things in the game so I will have to spend some time tweaking everything to work right for online play.

https://files.catbox.moe/vde4h8.png

Ever wonder what a leap slam spell would look like in xen? Now you don't have to.
NEW SPELL: Leap Slam
https://streamable.com/afve2

that is awesome. even using the texture as a crack in the ground is really clever.

Thanks

Players, NPCs, and enemies are now working on the network.

If you arent already using DarkRift I suggest using it over any other server backend, I've got a basic login system and chat system started with it by just sending and receiving packets from the server.

You also wont have to edit 500 lines of code, you can just create a new script and instantiate a player object when the server receives a new connection, then send data back to the client from either saved XML files from the server or from SQL.

Chat is now implemented and working between players.



I am using Mirror, which seems great so far. Any reason to ditch it for this?

I dont know what Mirror has, looks like its a client based server I could be wrong.

Right now the only thing I see that mirror doesnt have is server based plugins.

Example I can create a plugin with custom server commands such as -KickPlayer "name" or spawn items on a chosen vec3.

Although darkrift is pretty much plugin based if you wanna do anything with it, heres what I do for creating a character it isnt finished but gives you an idea.
https://pastebin.com/31wVGyE9

Prints this on server console ->

http://prntscr.com/okbkkb

I can then save that data to a file on the server or whatever i wanna do with it pretty much.

So far Mirror has been great and the networking side of things is coming along faster than I imagined. I am waiting to find a fault or problem I can't work through but everything I am able to get working properly with enough time and dedication. In the next month or two I will look into hosting providers for the server.

Where did you get the old models? Ya dont gotta share if you dont want but f- I want old scimmys.