Afternoon Survivors,
In this week's Status Report, our Lead Producer Brian will inform us of the current state of development as well as give us a peek at a couple of the incoming vehicles/transportation devices. Also, our Lead Designer Peter will let us in on future plans for hunting and horticulture which looks exciting to those of us who enjoy the hermit lifestyle.
Contents This Week
- Development Board Spotlight
- Dev Update/Hicks
- Dev Update/Peter
- Community Spotlight: Isaaq
Development Board Spotlight
Dev Update/Hicks
Happy Holidays everyone!
This Status Report will be the last one for this year, as for the last two weeks of this month the team slowly starts heading home to spend the holidays with their families.
That said, we have some cool stuff to talk about and show this week, as well as updates on the major engine work everyone is curious about - and even a few new screenshots.
ONCE AGAIN - BE AWARE THAT 0.59 STABLE UPDATE BRINGS A COMPLETE AND TOTAL WIPE OF CHARACTERS, ITEMS, AND SERVER DATA!
Later today we will bring the Stable Branch servers offline for the 0.59 update. Changelog should follow shortly after the update - and notifications on the service will come from the official DayZ Dev Team twitter account. twitter.com/dayzdevteam
Please keep in mind - this is but one build on the path of development. It will have its own issues, absent features, bugs, and so on - the best thing you can do to help bring DayZ towards the game we all can't wait to see it become is to file those bugs over at [url]feedback.dayzgame.com[/url] !
This report, I'd like to give you all an update on where the new animation system, as well as the new renderer are - and what the next goals in their development are.
Animation System:
Currently Completed:
- Animation Engine Base
- Animation Engine Editor
Current Focus:
- Infected, Player, and Animal skeleton support/graph production
- Finishing synchronizations
- Finishing differential animations
- Ramp up for animators on new technology
Next Up:
- Add nodes to support more extensive functionality
- Synthetic Rotations
- Removing legacy animation system tech once deprecated
Renderer:
Currently Completed:
- DX 11 Water Surface Rendering
- DX 11 Ambient Occlusion
Current Focus:
- Optimization / Parrellization
- Clouds Rendering
While at PAX Australia I spoke briefly on how I'd like to be able to bring the Little Bird to stable branch before Christmas - and how if anything prevented that I'd make sure to let you all know. That said - the programming teams now have the first of our aircraft operating on the proper physics system, however multiplayer sync is not quite ready for the Steam branches. While we won't be seeing in time for Christmas - I'm confident we're not too far off now. :)
Keep an eye on the DayZ Trello board to track the progress of this task!
That said! The art team has finished on the upcoming Jana Dirtbike - which you can see in the below screenshots:
Now that the Jana is complete, work has just begun on everyone’s favorite DayZ method of transportation - THE BICYCLE
Lastly this week - I'd like to give you all a sneak peek at some of the awesome stuff some of the team in Bratislava have been working on. It’s no secret that we've wanted to bring dangerous predatory animal threats to the woods and fields of Chernarus - and we're getting close to being able to do just that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to3x7B14D1U
- Brian Hicks / Lead Producer
For the full Status Report, please use the following link: http://dayz.com/blog/status-report-10-dec-2015