Design Team
Items for Christmas event configuration and setup for Central Economy for 0.62 version
Melee combat refactor of targeting and implementation of it's second check at hit event
Connected item quantities to Central Economy
Optimalization of UI client/server middle layer
Notifiers code clean up
Localization support
Options screens refactor
Stamina system refactor
Firearms unjamming refactor
Implementing state machines for AKM and SVD
Implemented new network synchronization for electricity, traps, fireplace, cooking, placing, life span, user actions
Implemented sounds for bear trap, landmine, defibrillator
Parts of HUD can be toggled on/off by pressing or holding [~]
Implemented prototype particle for AKM, UMP and CZ61
Animated perimeter for a land mine
Identification of blood type in inspect menu after blood test
Animation Team
AKM, SVD reload animations implemented
Polishing for prone 360 aimspace poses
Player turns improvements
Animations for Hatchback reworked due to vehicle scale changes
Animals herding behavior: the most of the progress has been done on new herding behavior for domesting animals. Although it doesn't require massive support from animation side we found usefull to change some poses and especially lookat mechanic to bring as natural feeling on close distance as possible. Most of the work has been done in new AI tools on animal configuration side. Anyway we already have functional prototype of a herd that can be shepherd through the map.
Animals animations: Sheep animation pack is progressing. Goat animation pack has been finished
Art Team
NWAF assets
Radar tower rework
2-floor barracks
Fuel tanks
Reworked Pile of tyres
Reworked Blast covers
Weapons rework
Abandoned Chernarus – harvester header
Reworked male heads
Decayed textures
Christmas items
Animal damage zones
Bugfixing
doors
firegeometry
geometry
visual issues
foliage issues
Map Design Team
Chernarus tourist trails
We have finished 200km network along with tweaks to the satellite and surface mask and final checks and polish
Tourist trails are now ready for survivors in 0.63, the only thing that is left to solve is the map stand that is located at several key trail crossings, but that on itself does not block / prevent people from using the trails as there are 93 detailed directional signs to help them where they want to go
NWAF overhaul
Improved satellite and surface mask within the whole NWAF area
Object layout improvements and fixes
Coal power plant prototype done (last missing object)
Tentapocalypse
We have prepared varied interiors for two of the mostly used military tents to make such important object more interesting for players and more suitable for central economy to spawn items
All instances of military tents on Chernarus were replaced with these new variants
- Eugen Harton / Lead Producer
Dev Update/Peter
As the new character also have to traverse vertical differences in structures, we've started with new implementation of ladders. You don't need much to observe that the behaviour of old character on ladders in 0.62 (and older) is quite unpleasant visually and partially lacking also from the functional point of view.
Transition animations for getting on off a ladder will be added for several situations, even from/to water, as well as to sides when there isn’t any free space available behind the ladder. As we unified dimensions of ladders thorough all structures, the positioning of character hands and feet will match that of ladder steps.
It’s still valid that getting on a ladder is done through interact action (same as manipulating with doors) and getting off will be automatic at the end of the ladder. We would also like to add proper continuous ladders going through more floors, on which character can optionally get off the ladder, and where it won’t be necessary to ‘pixel hunt’ for proper interact action to get on the ladder and continue in desired direction. However, this has a lower priority as we need to solve simple ladders first.
As climbing the ladder is exposing you in situations that can be relatively dangerous, we are adding the possibility to quickly scale up the ladder, or to fast slide down the ladder. I would like to also see jumping off the ladder as it could be useful in some critical situations - in trade off for a higher risk of injury after landing. But again, this is lower on priority list for the ladders implementation.
When I mentioned jumping, let me make it clear: we will be adding jumping, alongside with climbing over obstacles later, after ladders are done, as smooth traversing through environment is very crucial for DayZ gameplay.
Ongoing work is being done on a melee combat system to make it skill based with clear rules.
Blocking and evades are implemented and functional, awaiting a polishing run. We are trying different control schemes for melee combat iteratively to achieve intuitive controls. Same goes for timing animations and their cancellation, as we want to have combat flow as seamless and fluid as possible to avoid clunkiness.
Knockdowns to the ground and finishing attacks on laying character are still on the TO DO list.
These are directly related to melee combat in prone, which was just a step away, as we had a request for absolute freedom of aiming firearm in prone in 360 degrees, which is done thru smooth and continuous turn of character from belly to back and vice versa.
After knockdown during melee combat to the ground on back position (or in case of turning character to back from belly) you can use push kick to push opponent back, may it be survivor or infected, to avoid being hit with his finishing attacks which can be potentially devastating. Similarly, I would also like to see push kicks from stand with raised hands as well (applicable for firearms too), which will add really nice flavour and together with attacks, blocking and evades adds depth and open possibilities for tactics in melee combat (and additionally allows us things like kicking doors and others).
Anyway, I would like to thank you for your support during the tough year 2017. DayZ has the best community and it’s amazing to have you around. Thank you all!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year... see you in Chernarus folks!
- Peter Nespesny / Lead Designer
Dev Update/Viktor
Hi everyone. Today, I'm going to provide you with a short update on what is happening in the animation team. Our priorities are pretty clear - main focus is still on the player character animations. That includes finishing turning animations, improving locomotion and adjusting the player graph.
At the same time, we have been working on some exciting stuff recently. Our player character now has a much wider range of motion while in prone. You can now fluently turn on your back, aim and shoot. This gives better control over the character and I am sure it will lead to many interesting situations in game. We have a basic prototype working and now we are starting to polish the animations, poses and camera behaviour. This will also require small motion capture session where we will record necessary transition animations.
In addition to that, we have also recently re-done enter/exit animations for some vehicles, so that player can enter and exit vehicles much faster. Recently implemented weapons in 0.63 include SVD, AKM and there is an ongoing work on the Mosin.
- Viktor Kostik / Lead Animator
Dev Update/Adam
It has been quite a long time since my last contribution to Status Report, but do not worry, it is just that we have been working very hard pushing towards our 0.63 goals. But before we talk about that - given the fact that is a last status report of 2017 - let me first dive a bit into the things that happened in 2017.
In 2017, Chernarus has gone through what probably is the biggest change since its inception in Arma 2. We have introduced a complete overhaul of forests aimed at bringing much needed variety to the landscape of Chernarus. This overhaul essentially doubled the object count (1.4 million to 2.8 mil., but with .63 changes, we are nearing 3 mil.), an increase that was only possible with the introduction of the Enfusion renderer (update 0.60).
In addition to this overhaul, update 0.62 also introduced phase 1 of a big western border rework (the last area that remained basically untouched since Arma 2 days). We have also overhauled the entire railway network and made global changes to the satellite texture. Vegetation model swap and the re-generated forests areas introduced quite a lot of issues with object placement (objects misplaced or clipping) and we will work hard to eliminate as much of these issues as possible prior to the stable 0.63 release to make sure the first BETA build is a step towards a more polished experience from your travels on Chernarus.
Now you may ask, what else can you expect from the map in 0.63?
Completely re-done North West Airfield (NWAF) along with surrounding landscape
200 kilometres of tourist trails
New locations on the western border of Chernarus
New points of interest across the map
New models for bushes and rocks
New textures for roads and road damage decals
We will cover these points in better detail in future Status Reports. For now, we would like to thank you for joining us on our journey towards one of the most immersive game environments ever created. Very excited to show you what we have in store for 0.63 and beyond!
Merry xmas and happy new year!
- Adam Franců / Senior map designer
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