It's finally out! My feature length(!) visual tour of the maps, areas, and music of early (pre-Juno) Ragnarok Online. Sit back and relax as you fly through the world of Ragnarok and revisit the place you may once have called home.

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Join millions who have switched to Grok.

I was considering doing hunter next, but I'm looking at the math involved with handling the bird and thinking maybe I'll hold off for a bit.

Well that's most of priest's skills done. I modified suffragium to be self-targetable for testing, but that won't be the case afterwards. The big outlier at the moment is Kyrie Eleison, which has a pretty complicated 3d effect.

Slowly working through priest effects.

Well I was trying to record a clip of doppelganger to show off priest, but I ended up instead running into an unexpected problem with the updated sprite shader.

Luckily most of priest's abilities just use standard sprite based animations that are easy to import.

As one of the first major guest contributions to the project, user zaza added an optional xray view for sprite rendering, optimized sprite and shadow rendering, and implemented batching for ground items. The game now performs way better with hundreds of items on the ground.

Messing around with the sprite shader again to try to solve sorting issues with headgears. There's a sorting issue that can happen when anchored sprites (headgears, weapons, etc) are vertically offset, so I'm setting up vertical offset as a value controllable via shader.

I do love male priest's golf swing attack animation

Getting started on 2nd jobs finally.

There we go, that's looking a lot more like resurrection should.

Realized I didn't have the full resurrection effect in, my first attempt is, as usual, a bit wrong.

Tackling some of the easier to handle feedback, adjusting hit-lock so that when you get free from being hit there's a tiny delay where you can't be locked again. This means you can't be fully stopped from moving. but you aren't fast.

The server test is winding down, thanks again to everyone who came out! The whole thing went a lot smoother than I had expected.

RT @ITR_Catcher: @RoDoddler had a wonderful little summer test server. What a great experience. Lovely people, lovely game, good vibes all….

With a bit fewer people it's a lot easier to follow what's actually going on. Still a chaotic mess though, and I mess up targeting a few times. Maybe I went too far on the mechanics? The double earth shakers is a new addition. A lot of fun though!

One random thing I ran into was that I was sometimes accidentally targeting players with skills. With the debug overlay you can see the colliders for clicking on players. it turns out some lower headgear, when facing away from the camera, is 'hidden' using a y value of -300.

People were absolutely demolishing the fight so I made it a bit harder and, well, I may have gone too far.

I ended up using the okolnir map for the boss fight just because the game has a startling lack of good open rooms useable for a boss fight. I edited the map a bunch to make it work, I flattened out and re-textured piamette's room, and removed and decorated the maze area.

I uploaded the full run of the okolnir custom event I made for the rebuild server test, it was a blast. The server also handled that mess much better than I expected.