Citadel - System Shock Fan Remake

[6743203cb8634Al_B]

As long as there's enough teal and orange to brighten the place up I'll be happy.

[6743203cb87e4JosiahJack]

Radio silence for the next week.  Getting married tomorrow and then going on my honeymoon by the grand canyon.

Hopefully the others will have more progress to report during that time.  Updates later!

[6743203cb8920K-Bone]

Congrats man. And good luck 

[6743203cb8a43JDoran]

As K-Bone says, congratulations and good luck!

[6743203cb8b7eDenhonator]

Oh, happy for you Josiah! I should get on with the music. Stuff has been happening and I've been tired, but those are only excuses

[6743203cb8defAl_B]

Getting married tomorrow

That's the project dead then...

Just kidding - congratulations!

[6743203cb8eebJosiahJack]

Hey now! It's not dead, nor will it be.

[6743203cb9041Netsu]

I am SO happy to see some love for SS1 <3  Do you intend to use the .midi music or remake it / have it remade? I *might* actually be able to help with this, if there is need

[6743203cb91abJosiahJack]

Actually someone has already started making remakes of the midis for me.  Sorry, but thanks for the encouragement!

[6743203cb9581Synaesthesia]

You could also look into seeing if Chicajo would like to take his remixes and turn them into looping tracks.

[6743203cb96a3The Stiga]

Hey josiah, any updates on progress with this project?

[6743203cb9864JosiahJack]

Hey!  Still going strong.  Finally got to a more settled in point after my marriage.  Lots of work on adding new lights in and fixing mistakes in the level geometry and texturing.

Searching now draws an animated box effect that grows towards the MFD panel (NOTE: Left MFD only, need to create animation for other side).  Searching is close to being functional, at least visually.

I have a rough automap started.  It doesn't 100% line up with the player yet and it shows everything regardless of whether the player has searched there or not so lots of work to go to get it working right but I think the method has a good starting point.  It scrolls nicely and you can't shoot through it.

Oh and yes I've seen what Night Dive may be up to, and no it hasn't had any affect on Citadel.  Citadel will continue until further notice as I see it as the current best re-envisioning of System Shock.

[6743203cb9988Denhonator]

Way to go Josiah! I remixed another track btw but there's a slight production error I want to fix first, I'll get in touch soon again!

[6743203cb9a6ehank morgan]

This is all looking really cool.

One quick question for you. How did you implement the font?

[6743203cb9b69JosiahJack]

Font was done by hand in BitFontMaker2

[6743203cb9c7aJosiahJack]

Six doors are completed and animated now.  Looking pretty cool.  Have to figure out how I want to modify the level in a few places though to hide the doors.  Doors placed right by angled walls will poke through the wall when open.  Have to rearrange stuff a bit in a few places to make the 3d doors fit nicely.  I'm keeping it subtle though for the most part.

[6743203cb9d8elerenwe]

Glad to see the project is still going well even though Night Dive's remake has been officially announced =)
I'm interested in both projects, so I hope Night Dive will let you continue !

PS : How's it going with the Audio Log system? I hope the clunky stuff I made for you isn't too badly coded and that you'll be able to iterate from it.

[6743203cb9e8dJosiahJack]

I actually haven't looked at it too much yet.  But I'm sure I can use it.  Thanks again for your help.

At Denhonator, thanks will keep in touch.

[6743203cba02aJosiahJack]

Testing out the hardware buttons with some more presentable gfx:

The idea being that you can see how many different versions there are for each hardware, what the current version is, as well as its on/off status by how it is lit up or not.  I'm also going to implement the energy usage as part of the biomonitor.  Biomonitor will display the ECG and all that up in the top left corner.  The first bio version will show simple heart beat wave, brain wave, simplistic energy usage with only a few bars and a radiation warning.  The 2nd version will add more energy usage bars and display text for how much JPM is in use, text for the BPM of your heart rate, text for the radiation level, and specify which radiation type is affecting you (biological toxin or irradiation).  I may decide to add a 3rd version to split this up a bit more, but that would throw walkthroughs out of wack.

Should I worry about messing up walkthroughs?

[6743203cba5feMarvin]

Should I worry about messing up walkthroughs?

Well, you're making Citadel, not System Shock. Adding a small piece of hardware that has almost zero consequences when it comes to difficulty level should be fine. Besides, biomonitor upgrades were an idea from the original game which got scrapped during development, so why not. I wouldn't go above level 2 though.

Oh,and btw: The icons look splendid, good idea adding those notches to represent hardware level.

[6743203cba981RocketMan]

This is going to be so awesome!

[6743203cbabd7JDoran]

This is going to be so awesome!

Yes!!!

[6743203cbad14JosiahJack]

First 4 hardware icons are looking pretty nice.

[6743203cbae06JDoran]

The whole thing looks very nice!