10-02-2019, 07:43 PM
Quote:Haxus, please remake your old Architect avatar using gen4 avatar creatorMy avatars Haxus (male) and Geniv (female) are gen4 animals. I am glad to show them off, now that the rendering bugs are fixed.
It sounds like there are some other bugs that need immediate attention. Now that I can safely exist as a gen4 avatar, I will spend some time on those. Sorry to have neglected this.
As I poured every waking minute into working on these new animals, I purposefully avoided getting distracted by bug fixes. I resolved that, if I could not create a satisfactory improvement to the animals, I was going to bail on the project. There could be no real future for Shores of Hazeron without decent dynamic creatures.
We're in luck. The gen4 creatures are satisfactory and they have the potential to expand and grow and improve over time. The gen3 (and gen2) DNA structure was very rigidly defined; it had no path for growth at all. The gen3 models were very static, with no way for me to do anything with them, or to add variations. Gen4 models are generated by my code so I can improve them as I see fit. The gen4 DNA is highly dynamic, with the potential to add any biological feature in the future.
So I'll keep working on this project. I'm not sure what else I would do anyway. If it ever brings in a positive cash flow, I might even hire some help.