First Glimpse of the VGOEmulator World

[John Adams]

Xen has been working pretty hard developing the BitWriter - the code that will allow us to create the channels and data to make a dynamic world. I read about it on IRC this morning, so I had to log in just to see how it looked. Imagine my surprise when, overhead, I saw shadows on the ground below me... I turned to look --

Xinux summed it up nicely:

[quote][22:54] <@Xinux> SWEET AND EVERYONE LOVES DRAGONS [/quote]

Excellent work, Xen!

[Sacred]

Now the question is, did you wish you had a working armor vendor when you saw that?

[Chrisworld]

Wow! It just got real!

Good work guys. Id you need any server/content testers consider me!

[Xen]

[Xen]

[John Adams]

Flying whales! Who doesn't love flying whales?

I know this may seem insulting, but you and I think a LOT a like in many aspects. In EQ2, when I first started admin'ing, I made a zone with every model_id populated and lined them all up just to see what the models looked like... and named them "model #"

Things are lookin damn good. Are these hardcoded packets still, or are you pushing something from a DB yet?

[Xen]

[quote="John Adams"]Things are lookin damn good. Are these hardcoded packets still, or are you pushing something from a DB yet?[/quote]

Still hardcoded. I just took my existing code and threw a loop around the NPC create code, incrementing the race id, and then lining up the x/y coordinates.


[quote="John Adams"]Flying whales! Who doesn't love flying whales?[/quote]

It was pretty awesome looking up and seeing that huge whale in the sky. That was 25x normal size. Hmm, wonder what 100x looks like. It was pretty sweet that it casts a huge shadow on the ground as well.

[John Adams]

Sounds very much like EQ2Emu in that respect. Happy about this because the learning curve is reduced slightly Nice work, Xen.

[Faux]

These screenshots get me so amped. We really need a flying whale raid mob or just a whale raid mob only engagable by pcs on the deck of a boat.

[Swampdog]

[quote="Faux"]These screenshots get me so amped. We really need a flying whale raid mob or just a whale raid mob only engagable by pcs on the deck of a boat.[/quote]

I remember discussions from the original VG team in the beta forums about encounters while at sea but they never came to be.. Maybe that is something that can be done once the emulator is going! Have John casually sailing the seas in his Caravel only to be attacked by Hermie the giant whale leaving him to rally his friends in order to take the whale out! lol