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This was going to be my next test XD

@@noiadev nice hope it’s works out 💪

UMMO, the foundation of Noia, doesn't work with scenes out of the box. It is an issue that others working with UMMMO have solved, so only a matter of time. But for maps like the town that would have one main area and potentially dozens of smaller house areas, I would still simply disable tile areas that were not needed.

@@noiadev Oh, Yeah I've not worked with UMMO before, so that makes more sense now. I'm not sure of any solution but If I come across anything, I'll drop a dime here.

Awsome idea, this also allows for players to make something useful from each category. So maxing out cooking for example would give you a significant buff and it wouldnt be food<potion<buff but rather class/situation dependent use and all of them together make you the strongest. To add something new here: think about the "Gameplay Source", the durations, power and "price" and how there is maybe a trade off. Buffs are powerful and long lasting, but are only given from other players (need interaction) and maybe cost ingredients to cast the more powerful ones. ->Interaction Food also gives you a long term buff but you need to farm for ingredients (and who would share food? so the stronger stuff is bin on pickup, needing solo play)-> Farming and potions would be short term but can simply be bought from vendors (stronger stuff maybe just if you did a specific quest). -> [Group] Questing Alongside this for example, every class (with its unique buff) brings something to the group. You can only have buff X if someone plays class Y. You can produce even the strongest food simply by yourself and you maybe need to do a dungeon quest or specifically hard quest for stronger potions. For potions specifically, as a hobby brewer, I would have about a million ideas for quests and simply the base mechanics of what ingredients you would need (as in makes real life sense). Im on your discord, if you want you can hit me up here and we can have a chat there. For example: you would start by buying Wine/Mead/Beer from a vendor and what ingredients would you add [wood/bark for tannin, Fruits for sourness and so on] to increase its potency. The ingredient to enhance the base potion (or just the recipe/knowledge how to do it) could be locked behind a quest. So your upgrade you mead to a fruit-mead or your beer to a smoked-beer and so on. With the base potions being unlocked if you bring the potion seller the ingredients for it (like for example honey from a beehive for mead ;) ). Not to mention distilling... you get the picture ^^

I never considered it from that angle

@@noiadev One more small think that fits the same idea at least for potions and food. It should be a preparation for a challanging part of the game, like a dungeon or a mini boss. I personally love the idea of pre quests to a dungeon. Not an mandatory attunement, but a optional story line that explains more about the dungeon and for example rewards the player withe the recipe/ingredients for a food/potion to help with the challange they are facing. Narratively this makes total sense, you learn about the challange and the NPCs/locals help you prep for it. A better player or group can just tackle the dungeon right away and move on to the next map. A weaker player can do the quest and have an easier time with the dungeon. If the last step of the quest is repeatable and gives a stronger buff the more you farm for example its kind of a DIY difficulty, but that may go a little to far. Its only the question how specific or generally useful the food/potion/buff then is for the future. IF I remember correctly you already did something kinda similar for the beehive dungeon

You'll have to be more specific. maybe file a bug on the discord, there are others that have been playing on the android client

I personally always love the "collect cards" of monsters. Where random acts of violence against the local fauna have small chance of giving you a perk (like a pet) or you receive it guaranteed after X kills of that monster. [also you can then sell skins for each pet, obtain base variant, upgrade to shiny with money] Depending on how many systems you already have/plan I personally would see pet abilities beside pick up as overkill though or at least as a completely optional feature.

I tried, but the tile layers are the size of the map and unity considers it 1 object. Someone suggested covering them with a black layer, that might work.

@@noiadev Oh yeha that could definitely work 🙏 Game is coming along awesome keep it up man

The maps use the Unity Nav Mesh to allow players/monsters to move about. That nav mesh calculates all the empty space between maps as well. So closer maps means less work to calculate when baking the nave mesh. Also players with 4k ultrawide monitors can see MUCH farther. So I would have to place maps very very far apart. I had not considered a simple black cover layer...that might work

This needs to be a thing...Right Dane...Right..

@@ysegrim9824 Not yet. Noia isn't ready for steam just yet.

Had to work on the video early. There are reasons! REASONS!

Very good reasons! ​@@noiadev

@@maddys2741 sounds reasonable , right?

Trigger collider in the water activates a sprite mask object on the player model

@@noiadev Hey thank you for the answer. I'm going to try this on my own stuff. I don't want to cut my playersprites in half. There would be sooooo much to do since there are different sets of armors and so on.

Fair point. I do understand that some would call this tracing. I feel I have added and changed enough to call it "Inspired by" and If SailorVicious did reach out to me and ask me to not reference their work, I would do my best to modify the map to meet their request. I simply want to be transparent during the development process and cite ALL of my inspirations and references, because I think it is important for everyone to know. Everyone uses references, and that is fine, but they don't always say what their references were.

I am pretty sure there are laws against mixing Dad humor and Brainrot. I could end up on a list.

Mirror

No shadows or 2.5d parallax with tiles T_T

@@noiadev hmmm well set them to static at least? 😅❤️

@@durrium That's fair

You mean Danland

MONGO IS APPALLED!

God dammit Donut!

The tree trunk tile placing first was just to make it look like the trees were lined up on the tile grid, the place marker is removed later. At least that is how I used to place trees, not I just copy paste and put them wherever. I don't want to make a dozen different house pngs and import them all separately, so the houses are constructed with tiles. Not shown in the video, any tree that is "behind" a house has its shadow turned off, so the shadow no longer overlays on top of the house. It doesn't take as long as you think.

@@noiadev I see. If you're keeping the homes as a tilemap, I still think it's better to just split the world up into a layer below entities and a layer above entities and paint the house in two parts. There's also the problem where your sprite mask cuts the trees in a perfect line but the roof might have little transparent indents and details and not be a perfect line itself and the sprite mask can't handle that. Also there might be a moving entity that needs to get occluded by the roof of the house and it sort of looks like the sprite masking wont handle that case either (unless the mask is being applied to the entire entity layer? I'm not sure about your implementation).

@@mono-ub4vc Correct on all counts. I added an additional tilemap layer called Roof TIles, with its own non-shadow-receiving renderer. Trees properly pass behind the roof tiles, no shadows on top of the houses, everyone is happy.

You could also call it Pro (pronoia is a feeling that the universe is out to help you, instead of out to get you in paranoia).

They should. The underlying "human" sprite is the same between player and NPC. Gus is slightly different because of his age.

Unfortunately that doesn't tell me much. WOuld you mind putting a bug report on the discord with a screen capture if possible? Update() and FixedUpdate() are both used for various things.

@@noiadev Are you using unity? 🤔 Update () is called every frame, but depends a lot of frame rate. FixedUpdate() is called each second ( using frame rate to adapt on seconds), this function is better use to move something cause they will not change with the frame rate, making a move smooth.

@@noiadev All i said is "sometimes your character move strangely like he is glitching 🤔 maybe if it's not a velocity but a translate ? 🤔 It feels like his move speed is not consistent and the character is sticking on the ground"