When I first loaded Metaisland in Unreal 5, here is what I got. The Skybox system had lost its parameter and all the lightning was reset! After a couple of days of work, I got this result instead. All the environment is now working with Unreal Engine 5. But this had learn some lessons: Nanite is not liking foliage and we in general cannot use Nanite in Metaisland. This technology is amazing for specific use (big high poly rocks). If […]
I have done a short video to show you from inside the editor the new Ocean / Water simulation. It supports caustics, foam and underwater. The player will be able to swim and reach some hidden stuff inside the water.
Every problem has a solution and sometime when you try to fix a problem you come up with a solution that is an improvement. One of the problem with UE5 was that all imposters were totally black. (check my previous blog post) What happen is that the octahedron impostors, a technique created by Ryan Brucks were totally broken. Billboards Impostors are a technique used to display a 2d sprite at a certain distance from the camera so that huge forests […]
While we are ramping up the marketing for Metaisland and preparing to build the community awareness about this Metaverse project, I have built a very small version of the introduction video, only 2min! The music is made by our magical Ethan Lewis Maltby, and in 2 min you get a glimpse of what kind of project Metaisland is. Enjoy and share it as much as you can!!!
As every two month I publish a playable demo, here is the November 2021 edition. You can find it here, or in the download section of the website. This month is focusing on the main character. I have added a lot of basic actions, like guns, rifles, climb to anything, and basic enemies logic. I have also many different characters to choose from. In that demo you can switch from first person shooter to third person shooter with C You […]
This is the demo for October. It features most of the new additions to the game.
Here is a video update about what is been added to W.O.K recently
I have updated the website with the new Media Gallery September 2021 and with a video showing the game. Click on this link to go to the picture gallery: https://wok-game.com/media-gallery-september-2021/ And here is the video.
At regular interval an alarm is warning the players in the world of WOK that mining will happen. They have to rush close to a mining facility if they want to catch some free crypto mined the way you can see in the video. The gems/stones can have many different shapes and values. But you must be quick, the gems are dissolving rapidly and disappear. It does not cost electric and is a lot more fun than mining another crypto!
I have updated the roadmap here: https://blog.metaisland.gg/roadmap/ I got some delay for the following reasons. I had to upgrade my computer. It was in full lockdown in Thailand so everything had to be made from the Internet. I received the new CPU and Video card, but the CPU was not compatible with my motherboard BIOS, so I had to order another motherboard, then Windows would not load because of the change of hardware. So I decided to upgrade my C […]
