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Stagger Bar is also a fair option to describe. As it fills you become less stable until it goes over and you get staggered. Putting this bar as a curved vertical bar near the middle of the screen, offset from the player character and have it only display when you are hit. You could then have it fade out after about 15% of cool-down/regeneration since your last hit.

​@@Deagle243 Oh good idea that it should fill instead of getting empty. I'll definitely try that out. Yeah having it in the middle of the screen near the player also came to my mind. But most of the time i kinda find that distracting. But I'll also give this a go. Thanks for the good ideas

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haha i like stun bar ^^ there is already a stagger when you get hit without a shield.

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haha yeah #NoMoreUpdates ^^ I really think that if you want to make a commercial game (especially if you are a small team). you have to settle on one specific version and keep it. most of the time you can't afford to break stuff that is already in the game, and every update has a 50% change of doing that ^^

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Do you know any tutorials etc about the way you make your textures too cause they look cool af, I assume you don't have time to make any tutorials? :D@@thatFain

@@Gothicpolar people keep asking that ^^ If I find the time I'll definatly make one. I basically search for texture online --> resize them to most of the time 128x128 pixel. Then I also do this for the normal map of the item (if you dont have a normal map you can use materialize

Holy shit thank you so much for the tips!! You're a legend! ^^ @@thatFain

@@Gothicpolar No problem, always happy to help : )

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Will definitely give it another look, for the foliage spawning.

Glad that I could help. The thing I would recommend is, make a list for yourself what you want from a publisher and what the could give you. Then try to think about it and check if its worth it. If you don't really need the financing from the publisher you are in a super good position, to look for someone who really fits for you. There are sometimes things that seem small at first but can be super fucked up later on. Stuff like who gets the IP of the game (especially important as a solo dev or small team i think). If they get the IP and at some point decide they want to cut ties with your studio, it can come to the point where you can't make any games in your own universe anymore, which is super fucked up if you ask me (just look at what happen with the team that made Disco Elysium). Also another big thing in my opinion (also especially for small teams) is how is their media presence, can they offer you that more people will see and play your game. (if you don't do it inhouse) Because if they just finance the game but the media coverage isn't that good, then your game can end up being made but no one knows that it exists which would be sad. Normally advertising your game and making sure people know about it, is the job of the publisher. Haha sorry about my rambling, that where some points that just spontaneous came to my mind ^^. Hope your project goes well

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Really you can ? I toughed I tried that out. Damn that's good to know. Will take another look at it. Thanks

: ) thanks for watching that's also supporting and helps a lot

@@thatFain I think you need to have a small team to help, its hard to do it by yourself, although you're doing great so far!

@@vasyavasilich7659 Thanks :). I think how I set my goals right now it also can work as a solo dev, I will definitely work together with people for music and animations. But for that I need funding. If I get the opportunity to get funding for the game or early access will work out. then i would get together a small team. But I'll only do that if I can pay everybody fairly! Its always really challenging but step by step it will eventually work out :)

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Good recommendation. Will look into that. Yesterday I started to implement a toggle for that, if you are locke on to an enemy. So I could maybe also use it as just an option to toggle on.

Yeah I also read about that, but I will stay on this version now ^^

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Oh nice thanks so much for the offer. I'll look into that and let you know. But I think it should work. But also I won't take them for free ^^ I want to give you something in return. Also thanks for hanging around :)

Sadly at the moment this does not work. You only can make a stamp of the generated elements which then act like a big instanced mesh. I think I read that they want to add the ability to modify specific elements in a future version.

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@@thatFain I would say that you shouldn't disregard the World Partition system because you had a bug with updating engine versions, there are so many benefits to using it that will massively help down the line that i'd really recommend using it as early as possible, Not only for streaming/optimisations but also for making cool gameplay stuff (Like different world states with data layers / quest management etc)

@@waitumusprime Thanks for the feedback. Sorry I should have clarified that a bit better in the video. Its not only because of this bug I'm switching back. I wanted to do this before but had no real reason. I had some other issues with it while level designing and there was the problem, that I want to have peer to peer coop in the game. And World Partition not really supports that, the host will have to render the whole map/landscape regardless. But yeah in the end I just feel more comfortable with the normal level approach. But I definitely get what you are saying. I can also change to world partition down the line for the other maps. The whole game world will not be one giant. It will probably be split in 4 different maps.

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thanks :) Oh yeah Lies of P is still on my (never ending) list of games I still have to play. But it really looks super good! I have to find the time to finally play it.

@@thatFain Oh yah I know how you feel I created a excel sheet to track the games I have to play and how long each one is. Creating a video game does feel like playing one a lot of the time so that makes up for the lack of gaming time

@@MikeGemi haha yeah true ^^ I still have an oldschool paper list xD But writing down how long they take is a super good idea!

@@thatFain Haha paper list are just as good. Yah knowing the time for me as let me get through a couple games, I also give each a little review and write down thoughts from each game so I can take note of different elements or gameplay features id like to use

@@MikeGemi Oh that's a really good idea. I think I have to step up my "list-of-games-to-play" game ^^ Maybe I'll make it in a little note book form.

True, poise bar has a certain ring to it. Thanks for the suggestion. People also suggested to name it Endurance or Posture -- bar. Will let all the names sink in, and then decide.

@@thatFain It's kind of a similar mechanic to the structure meter in sifu or in sekiro I guess. Keep up the good work

@@richardtoth7240 Oh yeah true I totally forgot about them, have to take a closer look at them again. Thanks, will do my best : )

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Oh that's an interesting idea. I'll take a deeper look at how God of War did it.

hahaha thaaanks ^^ Even though the animations are from the unreal store and I slightly edited them. I instantly have to think about the ludicrous claim form Ubisoft with their "quadruple or AAAA" quality game xD

True that could work. But to be honest with my current workflow I would be faster by painting and placing it. Probably also comes done to preference. Also that unreal itself labels pcg experimental at the moment, is keeping me away from it. But the idea with smaller chunks is very nice.

@@thatFain good glad I could help, how far are you in development do you think? Is it possible that you might do another pass on foliage and trees at a later date? You could make a few chunks and save them off for when it comes out of experimental. However I’m a big fan of the hand crafted approach you have. It’s always been more my style as well

​@@LastNight0 I would say at the moment I have a third (1/3) of the early access version of the game ready. I think to get it out in early access in a state of polish that I want to have, it would take 2 ½ years full time as a solo dev. If I have to take on a day job again, this will then take longer. I don't think that I will make another pass on the foliage, I have to move forward and get more stuff in the game ^^ I will stick to the painting approach from now on. Also the painting approach is way more fun for me to work with. So I think sticking to it is the right decision. Nice happy that you also like that style :)

yes I'm also german :) ^^ Oh cool, yeah as I begun studying I also toughed about studying in trier. But in the end I decided to go to Hamburg.

@@thatFain I wish you luck, The game is looking good.

@@nowherebrain Thank you so much

Btw, great work ! Keep it up, and take care of your health dont burn out yourself !

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I totally agree. Will try to implement the strafing next week :)

Ohhh yeah I'm also wondering this. It definitely seems like they handcrafted everything. Which is an Incredible feat. Yeah true it's very humbling and kind of meditative. (I love it ^^) Thanks so much

Yeah I know what you mean, since then I also removed them. But I also think that it depends a bit, on who you are pitching too, like I think you can be more free with stuff like that if you pitch devolver or new blood for example. But i could also be totally wrong on that one. xD

@@thatFain Nah I agree, also true. :D Good luck with your game!

@@XY-wy3rh thank you so much :)