looks very moody. I like it a lot. I remember the old shots like the one on the left.

The new pictures looks so much better I think. Reminds me of recent "Alone in the Dark" game.

Especialy the camera angle is way better now... close to the action. I remember you also had a video. Would love to see a video of the reboot if possible

regards

Aztec

I'm in the middle of my pathfinder code's restructuring, the rewritten A* core (based on some ideas from this article of Marco Pinter) resulted in saving another few millisecs in case of 1000 units on a 500x500 tile area without obstacles. in a forest like scene it is slightly slower. a peak situation in pathfinding and in target finding can be seen here, that should be spread over several frames as a next step to smooth and improve the performance:

Working on procedural grass generation:

@MQ32: great! once I'll try to do this too (by taking into account terrain texture masks) - hopefully I can generated from triangles and merged into large entities?

generated from nothing, the whole gras is built up as one mesh, there was no merging

MasterQ32@ it has some kind of a cartoon look

Think so too, looks like cellshading. But nevertheless, it looks good!

EDIT: Consider separating it into several meshes otherwise you'll get performance issues as you expected with the street tool.

okay, I thought of creating dx meshes with texture, as somewhere in the forum I saw in an example, and forming an entity of them. or they are remade in every frames?

I will recreate the whole thing from scratch, it was just some late-nite experiment. The gras will be bundeled to small patches.
Like this:

The brighter parts will be gras meshes with a lot of gras blades

I do this in my editor. While adding vegetation I creating new meshes at run time. If the editing is done, the whole new mesh is saved into a MDL file.