Vechs

Behind the scenes peek! So for #SuperDocile, I'm using what I call "NotMesh", which means I use a few lines of text and math to generate the 3d models in the game world. I built a visual editor so I can move these shapes around and resize them to dial in how a model will look. So, a settler, a wolf, a truck, a gun, a tree, I build all of them the same way. I hang each shape on a joint as a box, and the text says where that box sits, how big it is, and what it's made of. Cloth, hide, metal, and wood come from one little sheet of pixel tiles, and the color tints the tile, so a tiny eye and a truck bed share the same chunky pixels. I do perform some simple operations to bezel or chamfer my primitive shapes, so not everything is always a smushed up cube. To move something I write the joint angles out over a second or two... like, a breath while they stand there, legs swinging for a walk, a neck that slides out. I can also draw on the NotMesh, and flag things as different material, like a suit or hide, or carapace, and a backpack or a lamp only shows up when that gear is on. The game draws from this same file when it decides what you actually hit, so the hitbox system is basically derived from this, too, which is super convenient. The big win, I think, is that the whole cast has to match, since a wolf can't suddenly look more detailed than the settler standing next to it, and I can recolor a suit or a hide without repainting the model. I'm not really a 3d modeller at all, and I wanted a system I could actually do, because I can actually finish the models by myself, and make quite a lot of content rapidly, which is good. For many of the game systems, too, I'm using dice notation (This Dogfolk's bite is 1d4+STR Mod piercing damage, for example), which I have literally ~6700 hours in on Roll20 as a Forever DM, so I can very easily design in a dice-based systems space. TLDR: I combined my experience with MCedit and Minecraft and RPG Dice based systems to make development of #SuperDocile really easy and approachable for myself.