Fall Update 2008: An Update and an Apology news

Greetings everyone,

First off, I'm glad to say that we are making a lot of good progress, lots of exciting things to look forward to and lots of hard work. So much hard work as a matter of fact that we've pretty much neglected you guys. And we'd like to apologize. We'll try to update our page as often as we can, but there is only so much that we can show. Last weeks update might have been surprising. 1.) It was very short and 2.) We're still alive!

Yes as stated previously, we've been hard at work and the updates were to be seen the main site. Now we bring them to you. All of our videos have been put on the videos page where they belong along with some more videos that you would of only seen on the main site. They demonstrate various gameplay aspects. (We also have a few new screenshots for you to take a gander.)

This video demonstrates what our skyboxes can do. Notice how the light gem responds to the shadow moving over the player. This will make for some interesting night time city sneaking.

This Video shows our gas arrows and demonstrates the sphere radius of the gas cloud.

Heres a list of a few of the things we've done for our mod.

• Improved Ambient Lighting System
• AI can use elevators
• Clouds cast shadows

And we have our own specialized editor for making missions, Darkradiant.
Go ahead and download it (downloads page :-D), find your way around it (you can make maps for the alpha release Thiefs Den). This powerful editor has its own list of handy features, a few have been the works and are available now, such as..

An Objectives Editor. Now mappers can assign goals and restrictions in a less complicated fashion. Layers: Assign your brushes, models and other entities in easy to manager layers. Get a clearer view of what you're working on, temporarily hide parts of your map so you can work better.

I hope you enjoy our latest update and I can't apologize enough for our delays, but rest assured we are working hard. We have a lot of highly talented people working together and it is an amazing experience and privilege. I'd also like to thank all you that are still tracking us, thank you for holding on with us, your waiting isn't in vain. I also would like to welcome any newcomers and encourage all of you to register on our forums and check out our wiki. Its full of tutorials and pages talking about the universe in which our mod takes place in.

Thank you, and enjoy :-D