Hello everyone! Welcome to the fifty-fourth issue of the RoVerse Development Newsletter, where we keep you updated on the progress we've made over the past week! It's been another busy week for the development team, and we're glad to welcome LordRex back from vacation! He's been away for quite some time, but has been doing research on how to best go about coding the SQL backend for the game. We look forward to the progress he'll make in the next few weeks. RoVerse will, of course, be using its own offsite storage and saving system for a majority of systems, rather than Roblox datastores, for better flexibility and better control on our end. Everything from maintaining user inventories to determining ore prices in the outer star systems, to sorting players into balanced servers for battles will be controlled from our end. This also has the added benefit of foiling attempts to copy the entire game - an external server is harder to replicate than a stand-alone game! Other work this week has included some map design and building by Vedrakkerous. After his short vacation, he's come back with a vengeance, finishing off several maps for the upcoming Dogfight Alpha Capital Update, that we will have more information about in the next few weeks. He really does love his dark colors... It wasn't all fun and game though, he did have some interesting problems with particles and trails: Idyllic also went on a short vacation this week, but has shown progress on the tutorial station, as well as some miscellaneous coding tasks that went more or less ok... Except for the sun exploding, no one was harmed... JangoFettAlex has completed the tank we showed you the tracks of last week, and Vedrakkerous got his hands on it, making the lighting look epic. Now with a nice(horrifying) looking turret on top, and some adjustments to its chassis, this tank is ready to steamroll your enemies, and blast down anything that gets in its way. VitreusAeulous has been quite busy, coming up with an entire line of helmets for player characters, and I must say, they are unlike anything I've seen before. Looks like you'll be able to dress up your character in whichever style you prefer, without being confused with another bounty hunter and being mistakenly arrested for someone else's crimes... Not that that's happened to anyone on the dev team... Over the past few months, we've been noticing that certain groups anxious to apply to RoVerse have been wanting an official list of all the assets they will need to create in order to apply, and some have even gotten a head start on that process. While we don't quite have the final list and specifications ready yet, what we can do is help you out - this week we'll go over some suggestions on how best to create a ship the size of the largest capital ships, without it getting boring. One of our developers, Vedrakkerous, tweeted a short gif showing how he creates some complex vehicles of his - https://twitter.com/Vedrakkerous/status/814823474011246592 His trick - create a unique union shape, then duplicate, resize, recolor, and rotate that union to create a starship-like shape, then go in and add a few more details. Start with a generic trapezoid-shaped union, move and resize it a bit... Add some smaller and different colored versions of it... And then go crazy with neon, because its the future, and the future is bright! Using this method, rather than trying to build a giant ship out of bricks and angles, creates a much cooler end-result, in a much shorter amount of time, and with much less effort. Each week we compile a Q&A section here whenever there are any new questions posted on the RoVerse Community group wall or in the Community Discord Server. Be sure to join if you have any questions about RoVerse: ROBLOX Group: https://www.roblox.com/My/Groups.aspx?gid=2948290 Discord server: https://discord.gg/npxBGwJ Q1: Will we be able to leave our ships in space with suits? A1: Short answer - no, not anytime soon. Long answer - maybe, but it would take a lot of extra effort on our part to custom-code characters to work that small. Right now, fighters in space combat are the size of one stud, for both rendering and physics reasons, so the characters getting out of their ships would have to be even tinier. Q2: Could a faction only use the default ships and stations as their designs (if their lore was a based on a collection of faction outcasts)? A2: This question brought up a point that I hadn't considered yet - for those factions of rogue members, groups of people that have no home anywhere else, and that didn't have their own technologies but gleaned from that of other factions should definitely have a place in RoVerse. So I say this - if you can provide a convincing enough argument, a deep enough lore, and there aren't too many other people trying to do the same idea, you'll be let in. Q3: What will RoVerse do with the anthro rig? A3: I personally don't see the anthro rig being anything more than a cool tech demo at RDC, mostly because the reception has been even worse than R15 to both developers and to the common player. While it has some uses in social games, I don't see it making an appearance in RoVerse, mostly because we've got our own system planned that's an extension of the R15 rig, which I personally this is enough realism already. Q4: Are the devs cool? A4: That's a hard question to answer. They of course (mostly) have the normal body heat you would expect from a person, but some are from more northerly climes than the average, and as such are slightly cooler.
You can support us by joining our Community Group or Discord server! So far, the community has been absolutely amazing, supportive, and very friendly. We are very appreciative of all the support you guys show us! If you want to catch any of our developers streaming, you can always follow our official Twitch channel here! Remember, we are always looking for new, talented builders, scripters and artists! If you’d like to help us you can always get in touch with us through RoVerse_Official on the ROBLOX website! Don’t worry, we don’t bite!
MariusCorpelius
7/30/2017 01:48:20 am
My Boy Vitreus hell yeah man!
Beakil
7/30/2017 02:29:13 am
Will the new dog fight capital ship update be advertised to a wider crowd? The initial release was ruined by that shitty leak but what my hope is, is to see many a player filling up server after server of this dogfight alpha update. I just don't want it to die off and no one use it after initial release. Do you understand where I am coming from? Comments are closed.
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