Game Development: Dynamic Cow

[Lunarius_Haberdash]

I am excited about this development with cows, and should it prove successful look for both its expansion and new animals getting this effect. Sheep with wool patterns? Horses with mottled hides? Pigs with patches? Yes PLEASE!

Eventually, I hope this gets extended to wild animals as well, though we'd only be able to appreciate their randomly generated hides rather than influence it.

[Wonderful]

Oh my god this new hat is so cute!!!

[NoBizd]

Have you fixed bodies of Cave Louse and bats from bat dungeons or they still can't be put into knarr cargo?

That has been fixed, as the notes say.

Yeah, I've missed second part of this line. My bad, thanks for this!

[ctopolon4]

where is PINK color !?!? i wanna PINK pony

[Redlaw]

A moo riffic update

[Scilly_guy]

My best looking cows are the ones I killed yesterday :'(

[Astarisk]

For those wondering about the performance implications of individual cow textures that I've written about previously, I realized that the vast majority of the overhead of drawing cows is in switching vertex data anyway, and that switching textures in addition to that shouldn't be a big deal at all. I've tested and confirmed this to be the case on my own hardware, at least.

Hey man, this seems like a pretty cool thing. How did you end up implementing it so itll breed selectively and resemble their parents.

[Myrgard]

Edit after login on... christ fuck are those cows ugly... also it will make it somewhat harder to differentiate between adult and calf since we can't rely on colour coding any more.

[Dakkan]

For those wondering about the performance implications of individual cow textures that I've written about previously, I realized that the vast majority of the overhead of drawing cows is in switching vertex data anyway, and that switching textures in addition to that shouldn't be a big deal at all. I've tested and confirmed this to be the case on my own hardware, at least.

Hey man, this seems like a pretty cool thing. How did you end up implementing it so itll breed selectively and resemble their parents.

I'm also a bit curious about the logic behind the system. It's one thing to do what DF does with descriptive words, but another entirely to do what you've done here!

[loftar]

Hey man, this seems like a pretty cool thing. How did you end up implementing it so itll breed selectively and resemble their parents.

Thanks, but it's not all that complicated. Each individual just has a number (seven, specifically) of individual "genes", each of which affects the output texture in an smooth and continuous manner, and at the time of insemination each gene is individually selected at random from either mother or father, and then randomized somewhat.