KickStarter Knights of the Chalice 2 Thread - Augury of Chaos

[Darth Roxor]

Hearkenwold does a great job at highlighting how solid of an engine/game KotC2 is. It's really too bad that Augury was what it was.

 

[std::namespace]

a day in the life of kotc2 dev

 

[Modron]

a day in the life of kotc2 dev

That demo needed an autopause upon task finished option.

 

[Desiderius]

Hearkenwold does a great job at highlighting how solid of an engine/game KotC2 is. It's really too bad that Augury was what it was.

The cold splash of water to the face

 

[Serus]

Hearkenwold does a great job at highlighting how solid of an engine/game KotC2 is. It's really too bad that Augury was what it was.

The cold splash of water to the face

This water is a bit too cold if you ask me. Nothing wrong with Augury. No, wait, there are tons of things wrong with Augury but overall it's still decent. Saying "too bad Augury was what it was" is a little too harsh. Especially that we do have both and with some luck we will get more of Augury but better and - if we have a TON of luck - perhaps even some Haerkenwolds(-likes).

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...-revolutionise-old-school-crpgs/posts/4038772

Update #80: New Sprites Coming Up For KotC 2 + New Adventure Maps!​

Hello, Brave Knights! I trust this update finds you well. In February, I focused on new animated sprites and created a few new background images for adventure maps.

For the new sprites, I had to learn how to use the Unity Editor and create a few Unity scripts that I'm using to automate some of the steps required to make isometric sprites out of 3D models. The scripts launch the Unity Recorder, start the model's animation and rotate the model in the eight directions.

That produces a set of 64 images (eight animation frames in each of the eight directions) which are then regrouped into a single image using an Image Magick command-line instruction.

The model's shadow is recorded separately by switching the model to 'render shadows only' and adding a white-coloured plane under the model. Afterwards, the result can be converted into a transparent image using the layer-mask feature of Photoshop. Then the image of the transparent shadow can be combined with the creature's image.

In the last few days, I looked into how to change the weapons held by models that have hands, like the Centaurs. For example, I'm planning to have the male and female Centaur sprites wield two swords, as in the GIF animation below.

There are Youtube tutorials about adding a Flaming effect to swords in Unity. I haven't looked into that yet, but it could be very cool for some monsters, like the Marilith. The Flaming or Frost effect would be recorded together with the creature.

If there are eight frames for the 'idle' animation, perhaps that is enough for the 2D effect to still look nice, even though originally it's based on a 3D particle system in Unity.

Anyway, I'm planning to upload KotC 2 version 1.68 once I've finished working on the new sprites for the Hydra, female Centaur and male Centaur. That shouldn't take too long.

The new maps I worked on this month are a night-time mysterious forest with an evil-looking tower, a foreboding temple interior, and a small desert oasis.

Next Steps for Knights of the Chalice 2​

The next development steps are the following:

• Continue work on the encounters, monsters & scenario of the upcoming KotC 2 module.
• Work on the conversion of 3D models into isometric sprites, and on modular sprites for Dwarves. Also look into story images and a possible upgrade of spell icons.
• Work on voice effects for Critical Hits & monsters, and voice-over using text-to-speech AI.
• Implement new features such as new monster abilities, subraces, feats, familiars, items.
• Fix any remaining issues mentioned on Steam, GOG, heroicfantasygames.com, or by email.

If you have any feedback, suggestions or bug reports, please feel free to let me know here, in the Forums, or by email at enquiries@heroicfantasygames.com. I appreciate it!

Thank You For Your Loyal Support, Fearless Knights of the Realm!! Rejoice

 

[Darth Roxor]

nice sprites bro

still gonna use muh tokens

 

[Serus]

nice sprites bro

still gonna use muh tokens

The problem is, tokens look weird for me when combined with "isometric" environment. I was using them most of Augury because most of the module was 2d/top down but this one will be entirely isometric as I understand.
To each his own.

 

[CryptRat]

I still have no idea if he would be entwined in such a mess regarding presentation if he simply delivered the game with better looking tokens to begin with.

 

[Serus]

I still have no idea if he would be entwined in such a mess regarding presentation if he simply delivered the game with better looking tokens to begin with.

Or with animated dancing roots.

 

[Dorateen]

According to the nexus page, I have just reached 500 unique downloads of the Hearkenwold Adventure Module for Knights of the Chalice 2.

https://www.nexusmods.com/knightsofthechalice2/mods/5

I wanted to take this opportunity to mention since the initial release of the module in the Spring of 2021, there have been numerous changes including bug fixes, but also a lot of new content added. This is an ever expanding, open-ended, ongoing campaign that is made up of various self-contained adventures tied together by an underlying arc. I am working on the next part right now, and will have an updated version of the module later this year.

 

[Abu Antar]

Knights of the Chalice 2
Announcement
Knights of the Chalice 2 Version 1.68
Greetings, Brave Knights of the Realm! I hope you're well. Here's version 1.68 of Knights of the Chalice 2.

Here's the list of changes:

Graphics: Added new sprites for the Hydra, Male Centaur, and Female Centaur. In the module Augury of Chaos, the Hydra will now use the new sprite. The pre-generated character 'Khellendros' will now use the Centaur sprite.
Graphics: Characters with wings will now have their wings displayed below the character when Prone (previously, the wings wouldn't be displayed when Prone).
User Inteface: The game will now only offer to activate the Barbarian's 'Spirit Animal Scorpion' if your character can take a full-round action, or a standard action with the feat Wade In, or if your character is conducting a full attack.
User Interface: In the tooltip information of the Combat-Actions menu, the game was incorrectly displaying 'Standard Action' for the Feint combat manoeuvre when a character doesn't have the feats Improved Feint or Greater Feint. It will now correctly display 'Move Action'.
User Interface: Modified the Character-Creation interface so that the new Centaur sprites are selected automatically when you select Centaur as the race of a new character.
User Interface: When pushing Control + Left Arrow in a text box, the cursor will now move to the previous word. Pushing Control + Right Arrow will skip to the next word.
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug in the AI leading the enemy to use the spell 'Gust of Wind' against a Solid Fog or Acid Fog. Only 'Greater Gust of Wind' works against these effects.
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug when a creature was Pinned then Swallowed Whole. This would result in the game freezing.
Bug Fix: Fixed a display bug with the colour of a movement arrow not being correctly updated from blue to green in some cases.
Bug Fix: Fixed a display bug when failing a concentration check for a spell or power. For some spells, the game would keep displaying the expected amount of the effect.
Bug Fix: Fixed a source of crashes and other errors when playing with certain pre-generated characters, or any character that has an incorrect line in its intelligence settings (e.g. 'Use Blinding Strike' when the character doesn't have that ability. For some reason, the pre-generated character 'Conan' had that line in the character's intelligence settings, which was resulting in a possible crash when the character was Dominated).
Bug Fix: In the Module Editor, fixed the non-combat setting 'Prone' for characters using modular sprites.
Bug Fix: Fixed a display bug in the Script Editor when searching for variables. The list of results wasn't updated correctly.
Soundtracks: Edited the music track 'Angevin' to reduce the volume and improve quality.
Engine/Editor: Added support for Polygonal Activable Zones. Please see this Kickstarter update for details: https://www.kickstarter.com/project...-revolutionise-old-school-crpgs/posts/4015685.
Help Files: Added some links to the feat 'Melee Touch Magic' and the help for 'Caster Levels' in the help files of certain Cleric Domains. Improved formatting in some pages.
Please don't hesitate to email me at enquiries@heroicfantasygames.com if you find any bugs and annoyances, so that I can fix the game quickly. A saved game may be very helpful, too.

Thank You So Much For Your Support, Valiant Heroes!! Enjoy

 

[luj1]

@Dorateen I started playing Hurkaworld the other day, and I wanted to say I like it quite a bit.

This module is better than entire games

 

[Gandalf]

Hey guys, I've made a 3 hours short (if you're a strong hardcore player) mostly combat-style module for KotC2 called Gandalf's Encounters. I'm sharing the info in case you've missed the playtest in the official thread.

 

[Infinitron]

Hey guys, I've made a 3 hours short (if you're a strong hardcore player) mostly combat-style module for KotC2 called Gandalf's Encounters. I'm sharing the info in case you've missed the playtest in the official thread.

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...-revolutionise-old-school-crpgs/posts/4054208

Update #81: KotC 2 1.68 Adds Sprites & Fixes Bugs, Update on AI Voice, Link to Gandalf's Module!​

Hello everyone! In the past month, the main event was the release of KotC 2 version 1.68, which added to the game new sprites for the Hydra, male Centaur and female Centaur. Please see below for the list of changes in version 1.68.

In the last few days, I found some more bugs in the game and I fixed them (including one that can make enemy sprites disappear intermittently, my apologies for that), so a new version should be released pretty soon.

Voice generation with Tortoise text-to-speech AI​

After releasing version 1.68, I spent some time testing and training a bunch of AI voices using the Tortoise/RVC text-to-speech AI presented in the Jarods Journey youtube channel.

Voice files can be large in the WAV format, so I've just added some code in the game to allow playing them using the OGG format.

Here are some of the voice files I've produced: Narrator 1, Narrator 2, Dwarf 1, Dwarf 2, Elf 1, Elf 2, Greeting. Please feel free to comment if you love them or hate them. ^_^

Anyway, the idea is to have voiceovers for some of the dialogue of certain characters, and for the narrator.

New Adventure Module: Gandalf's Encounters​

I'm very glad to let you know about a new module currently being developed by Gandalf!

It's already playable and it may be released on Steam/GOG eventually as part of the 5-5-5 User Module Offer.



I've played through it and enjoyed the custom-made soundtracks and tough combat challenge. So if you're looking for a cool new adventure, please feel free to download it here:

https://gandalfsencounters.itch.io/gandalfsencounters

Gandalf is planning to keep improving the module, so if you have any feedback about it, I'm sure that he will appreciate it. Please email me at enquiries@heroicfantasygames.com and I will forward the message, or you could post in the forum thread about Gandalf's Encounters.

Congratulations and Kudos to Gandalf for creating the module, its soundtracks and graphics!!

List of changes in KotC 2 version 1.68​

• Graphics: Added new sprites for the Hydra, Male Centaur, and Female Centaur. In the module Augury of Chaos, the Hydra will now use the new sprite. The pre-generated character 'Khellendros' will now use the Centaur sprite.
• Graphics: Characters with wings will now have their wings displayed below the character when Prone (previously, the wings wouldn't be displayed when Prone).
• User Interface: The game will now offer to activate the Barbarian's 'Spirit Animal Scorpion' only if your character can take a full-round action, or a standard action with the feat Wade In, or if your character is conducting a full attack.
• User Interface: In the tooltip information of the Combat-Actions menu, the game was incorrectly displaying 'Standard Action' for the Feint combat manoeuvre when a character doesn't have the feats Improved Feint or Greater Feint. It will now correctly display 'Move Action'.
• User Interface: Modified the Character-Creation interface so that the new Centaur sprites are selected automatically when you select Centaur as the race of a new character.

• User Interface: When pushing Control + Left Arrow in a text box, the cursor will now move to the previous word. Pushing Control + Right Arrow will skip to the next word.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug in the AI leading the enemy to use the spell 'Gust of Wind' against a Solid Fog or Acid Fog. Only 'Greater Gust of Wind' works against these effects.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug when a creature was Pinned then Swallowed Whole. This would result in the game freezing.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a display bug with the colour of a movement arrow not being correctly updated from blue to green in some cases.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a display bug when failing a concentration check for a spell or power. For some spells, the game would keep displaying the expected amount of the effect.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a source of crashes and other errors when playing with certain pre-generated characters, or any character that has an incorrect line in its intelligence settings (e.g. 'Use Blinding Strike' when the character doesn't have that ability. For some reason, the pre-generated character 'Conan' had that line in the character's intelligence settings, which was resulting in a possible crash when the character was Dominated).
• Bug Fix: In the Module Editor, fixed the non-combat setting 'Prone' for characters using modular sprites.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a display bug in the Script Editor when searching for variables. The list of results wasn't updated correctly.
• Soundtracks: Edited the music track 'Angevin' to reduce the volume and improve quality.
• Engine/Editor: Added support for Polygonal Activable Zones. Please see this Kickstarter update for details.
• Help Files: Added some links to the feat 'Melee Touch Magic' and the help for 'Caster Levels' in the help files of certain Cleric Domains. Improved formatting in some pages.

Next Steps for Knights of the Chalice 2​

The next development steps are the following:

• Continue work on the encounters, monsters & scenario of the upcoming KotC 2 module.
• Work on additional sprites based on 3D models, and on modular sprites for Dwarves. Also look into story images and a possible upgrade of spell icons.
• Work on voice effects for Critical Hits & monsters, and on AI voiceovers.
• Implement new features such as new monster abilities, subraces, feats, familiars, items.
• Fix any remaining issues mentioned on Steam, GOG, heroicfantasygames.com, or by email.

If you have any feedback, suggestions or bug reports, please feel free to let me know here, in the Forums, or by email at enquiries@heroicfantasygames.com. I appreciate it!

Thank You So Much For Your Support, Valiant Champions of the Realm!! Rejoice

 

[FA7]

the open-ended design allows the player to come back to an area and try later if an encounter doesn't go that well. I think there are some items that protect against the gaze attack, which helps fighting those monster types.

Getting your ass kicked? Maybe come back later when you are perhaps a bit better prepared....

This or if you know what you're doing, go prepared, claim juicy xps and breeze through whatever you're planning next. Open design is best for both, newbs and veteran players.

 

[Dickie]

Is Pierre planning to implement Steam Workshop support?

 

[rojay]

Thank You So Much For Your Support, Valiant Champions of the Realm!! Rejoice

Those AI voices were worse than what he had before, and that is saying something.

 

[Jermu]

narrator's voice

"the spirits of the dead are now avenged" is all the voice acting I need

 

[Desiderius]

Question for the Mod creator

Welp, my lvl 2 party got ganked by the lvl7 Hellhounds on the way back from fighting the instrument thieves.

Dorateen, is this intended as a simple reload and come back or am I missing something?

 

[luj1]

Pathfinder fangirl already getting rekt lmao

 

[Desiderius]

Nah, I'm just getting too old for this shit.

 

[luj1]

Use your skills attained from playing the Pathfinder games

 

[Desiderius]

Already forgot them!

 

[luj1]

Do you have a Gladiator in your party? Who are your frontliners? Do you use Grease? With some positioning you can beat enemies who are 5 levels higher than you