Alpha ABS. Dev Diary. What's next?
Next big update for Alpha ABS will be new Demo Project. But this does not mean that there will be no updates for the plugin itself during the development of the demo project. They will be, but not global (like new Party System), mostly improvements and small functions.
In parallel, I am starting work on a new animation system for AABS. Will be a new system that can meet all your requirements: idle animations, unlimited frames, multi layers and etc. The system is already planned, the rest is only to develop it. But it not be soon.
What's new in the nearest Alpha ABS updates?
1) Fixes and improvements to Party System
2) Map inventory update to version 1.2
2) Small info in messages (For easy quests creations
3) Option to showing target UI when enemy just hovered and new feature Extra Target Event Info (when hovered by mouse too)
3) [Excremental] Visual items drop?
(I created only a draft. What you thing about this feature? Need? Or not?)
It's not complete list of next update features. Maybe some of this feature not will be in the nearest update.
Comments (2)
I think the Visual items drop feature will be a good addition. ^^
I believe the visual item drops would be a great addition. It gives intuitive visual feedback of dropped items without having to click anything (currently the player has to click the corpse then click again to take the loot), an engaging loot method (walking over the loot to collect) & also it's just visually pleasing seeing your loot drop like that. I understand this is still a WIP, but definitely have them a bit more exciting to see (loot dispersing in random directions, bouncing onto the ground, item name color that reflects it's quality, pulsing icons, etc). A good example of what I mean would be how Torchlight 3 does their visual loot. Torchlight 3 examples.. Refer to the lower left corner where the loot disperses with gold along with white, green & blue quality items: https://youtu.be/jQC5ioe8nh8?t=387 Here is where the player automatically collects the gold while the items are left so the player may choose which ones to collect: https://youtu.be/jQC5ioe8nh8?t=394 Finally here is where the player collects ore after they mined the node: https://youtu.be/jQC5ioe8nh8?t=405