Dragon Engine Updates - Terrain Tiles and Trees

Hello. C J here. I’ve got some fun Dragon Engine updates for everyone today. I think I’ve got the base layer of the terrain tiles figured out. Now I need trees. I spent yesterday looking at the free low-poly trees that come with GDevelop. They’re nice, but on closer inspection they will not match the photo realistic look I’m going for to make Dragon Engine an animation platform. I will have to 3D model my own trees in Sculpt+. This is going to be fun. I’ll also need rocks, grass, small plants and flowers.

Then once I have all of these, and that may take a while, I combine them with the base layer tiles and add collision in patterns that make the trees climbing compatible and make sure you don’t fall through the ground. I’ve got the textures I need for tree trunks in various colours already done and leaves already done as well. Then these final tiles with trees, plants and rocks together will be the ones you can place over a bedrock tile in the final game. Buildings follow a similar logic, with the furniture for a room part of the floor for that room. Here’s some samples including my leaves texture.

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Announcing Legend - Quantum

Hello. C J here. I'm announcing today the official tabletop RPG companion to my upcoming video game line Quantum Dragon. The tabletop RPG companion is named Legend - Quantum. I finally get to write something in the Legend series again. I am very happy about this. The Legend series other than this one is done and will be out once its proofread, which may be a while from now. Reliably this series is the best work I've ever done on anything. I'm planning on writing setting and character sourcebooks for the whole game line as well but for now I'm working on the core book for the video game crossover. There's a free in-development copy in the Downloads page now. Have fun. C J Mcpherson

Minecraft Experiments - Steampunk Part One

Hello. C J here. It's time for more Minecraft. This time we have some steampunk themed buildings. I'm doing these mostly as an experiment and they aren't in the part of the Astral I usually build, Ascala. Ascala needs more planning so I'm doing generic Astral themes instead of a specific nation this time. Remember that lighthouse form earlier? Well we're going in its direction this time. But first a long minecart ride from the underground station. And here we are in Port Stone. You'll notice the style of building is different. That's because it's a different part of the setting were building here. Here on the surface we have a boat waiting for us. We have a long voyage ahead of us. They've implemented some beautiful coral reefs in one of the previous updates. Believe it or not I've been playing Minecraft since before there were horses in it. Minecraft is still good. And here we are, at the new steampunk build site in the middle of an ocean. We h...

My New Favourite Video Game Part Two

Hello. C J here. I’m just going to continue discussing the video games I’m playing for a while. I’m planning out another batch of Minecraft builds while I play Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team. It’s kind of weird that these are job activities for me but they are. The Minecraft builds need to be done so I can learn some more things about level design. The Pokemon game is what I’m doing for fun. At least it was. Pokemon make great inspiration for the work I do and the stories I write. I’m now having to make more time for it. Most of the characters in my setting are inspired by the Pokemon games. Our main characters Ivy, Blue, William and Benjamin are all based on some of the Pokemon in the first three generations. Ivy is specifically a fictitious all black Pokemon. Blue is an all blue togepi, William is a persian and Benjamin is a tauros without the horns. I’m going to get back to drawing humanoid versions of the first three generations eventually. These to my knowledge count...

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