Knights Province Alpha 8 (installer) file

Alpha 8 is ready!

Change list is quite big:

Gameplay mechanics:

• Rigged Cottages to spawn Blank units
• Units get trained from Blanks now
• Wool/Cloth/Recruits removed
• Warriors take small time to train now
• Units can be stacked in training queues now
• Stockpiles
• Story messages instantiated from dynamic script

Visual mechanics:

• Rotate houses to face South or West (using spacebar)
• Set default view from South-West
• Revised viewport controls and added Q/E to change heading angle
• Rotate minimap on camera heading change
• Distinct Units/Houses sight radiuses though fog of war
• Fog of war GPU optimizations

Map Editing:

• Automation tools in MapEd (forest, mountains, stone)
• Choice of terrain type when creating a new map
• Terrain painting has area of effect now (ground, mountains, water)

Game content:

• New skirmish 8 players map - “Wheel”
• 2 new campaign maps - “Citizens” and “Army”
• 2 new single-player maps by Petr - "Desert" and "Minicampaign"
• Baker and Carpenter 3D models (not animated yet)
• Placeholder Axefighter model from Militia model
• Placeholder mounted units
• New terrain objects (birch tree, log)
• Minimap alerts (beacon, attacked, hungry troops)
• House notifications with icons (no worker, no road, no fish, no ore, no trees)
• Group orders icons

Other improvements:

• Fixed forms snapping in GUI
• Replay button glyphs
• Large-scale texture variations on terrain
• FadeIn FadeOut effects on hints
• Fixed “unlimited” button in workshops
• Improved Iron/Gold mines wire outlines when placing their plans
• Slightly rotate houses on placement to break the monotony
• Allowed to rename players through dynamic script
• Story missions show description text from libx in menu
• Fixed jittery warriors animations
• Added tips to loading screen

As usual - this is still Alpha, there are likely a lot of bugs, flaws, incomplete features, broken mechanics and such. Please report them and also your thoughts on what should be different and why.