![]() ![]() Consider it the in-game wiki of the world, except you don't start with all that information readily available but you need to gather it throughout the game. ![]() We will talk about the Codex in a future devlog but let's just say for now that the Codex holds all the lore and background story about the world, ordered into entries tied to cultures, people, places, etc. You, as the vagrus, the leader of your traveling company, might have many events, contracts, and rumors to consider when planning a longer journey, and the chart offers the possibility to 'Mark' settlements and other places so you would remember them.Īnother interesting functionality we added is the link to the Codex entries that are tied to that certain location. The region and other location names are tied to levels that make them appear and disappear depending on your zoom rate, so you see major regions 'breaking' up into smaller ones, minor settlements coming into view, and in the largest zoom, other points of interest appear. From a functional perspective, we've tried to mimic the easy navigation of Google Maps so you as players will be able to scroll in and out with your mouse zoom as well as and pan the map with left click+drag. ![]() This interactive version shows most of the continent and as you can see, it's a gigantic and very detailed map. So it's been in the works for a long time and the video should give you an idea of how it'll work in-game. As it turns out, maps are also complicated things, especially when you have to integrate them seamlessly into several game systems. ![]()
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