{"id":249,"date":"2018-05-31T23:30:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T04:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2018-05-31T15:48:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T20:48:25","slug":"penrith-forest-2018-05-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/31\/penrith-forest-2018-05-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Penrith Forest 2018.05.31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the last day of May comes to a close I thought I&#8217;d post the state of Penrith Forest right now:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_250\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lyrida-2018.05.31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lyrida-2018.05.31-300x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lyrida-2018.05.31-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lyrida-2018.05.31-768x409.png 768w, https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lyrida-2018.05.31-1024x545.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lyrida-2018.05.31.png 1854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Standing on a hill looking over Penrith Forest<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little hard to tell from the screenshot but the character is standing on a hill, not just floating ominously.\u00a0 Anyway, you can see here that I&#8217;ve been taking advantage of the new terrain editing tools.\u00a0 I made a ring of mountains all the way around Penrith Forest.\u00a0 Right now you can just walk up and over them, but eventually they will be a barrier to players going where they aren&#8217;t allowed.\u00a0 I also added some more trees, although many more are needed.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a little torn because the trees in <a href=\"https:\/\/worldofwarcraft.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a little game<\/a> you may or may not be familiar with are HUGE!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elwynn-forest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-251\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elwynn-forest-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elwynn-forest-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elwynn-forest-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elwynn-forest-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elwynn-forest.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The trees in Penrith Forest are big, but not that big.\u00a0 The great thing about huge trees is that they take up so much screen space and very easily keep the world from feeling empty.\u00a0 This is a technique I may have to use because in the screenshot above I increased the fog distance by about 200 meters so you can see pretty much everything at once but eventually I&#8217;d like to keep that distance fairly low and have assets load dynamically for efficiency&#8217;s sake.\u00a0 But if the world feels empty because you can only see things less than 100 meters away that&#8217;s not going to work.\u00a0 Maybe huge trees (and huge buildings, for that matter) will help take up a lot of screen space so that it feels like you are &#8220;somewhere&#8221; all the time.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the last day of May comes to a close I thought I&#8217;d post the state of Penrith Forest right now: It&#8217;s a little hard to tell from the screenshot but the character is standing on a hill, not just floating ominously.\u00a0 Anyway, you can see here that I&#8217;ve been taking advantage of the new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning-and-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}