Modelling, Animation, and Early Access - Sapiens Devlog 57

[@Jabrils]

no way, new Sapiens devlog?? & its almost 20m long!? Have I somehow forgotten the date of my own birthday?

[@StiekemeHenk]

Now it's your turn for a new video 🙃

[@bingbongshamalama]

You're on every cool ass youtube thing I swear bro

[@moonaddict]

oh, the grilled cheese meme guy created a channel, cool... jk jabrils, my favorite underrated youtuber

[@ELHAUKEZ]

Will you incorporate AI via lua ? :)

[@TheBookDoctor]

It would be cool if mammoth hunting gave you more than meat. I mean, it's a high-risk endeavor, so raising the reward is also good. Also, historically, pre-industrial peoples used everything on an animal like that, so it should realistically give lots of other resources. Hide for clothes, tents, bags (e.g. for increasing how much a sapiens can harvest before having to bring it back to a storage area). Bone and tusk ivory for all kinds of tools, including blades, spear points, and fishhooks. Hair for mattresses, for spinning into fiber (though you have alpacas for that too...). Intestine for making waterproof items, waterskins, sausage casings. Mammoths are full of lots of great stuff!

[@caeleneld1790]

I am incapable of expressing just how excited for this game I am!

[@ashleegaming5024]

Same here!

[@The_mrbob]

Used to play Blockheads and found out you were now doing this! It looks awesome and I'm so glad you've moved on to bigger and greater things.

[@Geelouise6754]

I always drop everything when a Sapiens video comes out! Amazing to see the progress, been watching since the start and you've come so far! I'm loving the look of the pine trees!

[@CaptainSnugzGaming]

Been watching for years, so glad (and yet it feels weird it's so close) to playing this game

[@solarflames6490]

Same

[@ZMW7]

That little tune at the beginning of every devlog always brings a smile to my face

[@amassasa]

Amazing progress man. If you can, I think you should add some kind of LOD for the far away trees. Maybe you could pre-render a 2D image of each tree type, and paste them in a empty 2D plane and have that be the LOD for the far away trees, like in the mountains?

[@platyguy]

agreed! the far away mountains and landscape looks a bit barren atm

[@diswouter428]

these devlogs help me keep track of time, every time a new one releases I know a few months have passed since the last one

[@4rs0nn]

So happy to see another video! Cant wait for this game

[@jeeeves]

Been waiting for an update!! Thinking about you everyday 🥺 I love you

[@jeeeves]

I was staying in a hotel with no internet or service and I still had the blockheads on my phone from ages ago, and I played it for like 3 hours 😂😂 you’re a legend mate

[@droopmoose]

Keep it in your pants buddy

[@jeeeves]

@@droopmoose don’t tell me what to do or your morning breath might smell familiar

[@EmilM-pb2hn]

You're one true attention seeker

[@jeeeves]

@@EmilM-pb2hn Paul Blart mall cop

[@thefrostyfella]

14:38 when you started talking about getting to know the sapiens better it gave me the idea of maybe adding individuality to each sapien, earlier in the video you also said you were working on clothing and such, maybe you could customize different sapiens with different clothes, trinkets, or body paint. It's just an idea so you have more personality to each sapien. Instead of seeing a random sapien collecting apples you'd be like oh that's "sapiens name" with her blue body paint and a necklace made from flowers

[@XxXgabbO95XxX]

Please keep going! Very much looking forward to this game... Can't wait!

[@Vickett20]

it's always a good day when you get a sapiens devlog

[@Husmanmusic]

Oh yes, new awesome vlog!

[@shapedokkan]

been following the progress for a year and the game looks really cool!

[@DolphinDev]

Just found the channel, super interesting to see how you work and implement new features, awesome!

[@tomaszajic5490]

It was worth to leave friends for 20min to watch this. Can’t wait to play it since the 19th Devlog.

[@Siminfrance]

Looking great, thanks for the update

[@Obsiduction]

Thank you for still working on this game !

[@sherri42]

Nice! Can't wait to get my hands on it. 😀

[@Quillox]

Since Age of Empires/Mythology are some of my favourite games ever, I'd love to see some war mechanics added to your game ! I think that it could be an amazing VR RTS game.

[@bentleyreynolds8577]

this game with vr compatibility would be so cool!

[@solarflames6490]

@@bentleyreynolds8577 He already got it to work but idk if it’s ready yet

[@moldywaffle69]

So happy with the update!! Thank you so much, I love your work and your world!!!! Ideas are endless take your time and make it yours!!!

[@Skeffles]

Another great devlog! So cool to see the history of the models and how far they've come.

[@onedeadsaint]

sending good vibes! til next time! ✌️

[@murilot.c3823]

Can't wait to play this game, it looks amazing!

[@lydierayn]

Im glad this game is still being worked on. Keep it rolling

[@zoasis7805]

been a hot minute mate, loving the devlog

[@EVILBUNNY28]

This is awesome. I’d love to see if you’re able to get trees and other objects to render even further in the distance to make the mountains not look so bland, because I know when you move closer they appear. Maybe you could implement a feature that turns models into 2D sprites so you have low quality renders of objects showing up where they should be

[@skinnahxx]

Still here and waiting! I cannot wait!!!, Looks like you've been super busy! the game is looking great so far! Cheers bro! I cannot wait!

[@kanishkachakraborty]

Was waiting for an update!

[@heatblayze]

It's been so lovely seeing you develop this for the 2 years I've been following it. I can't wait for the early access; keep up the great work!

[@Joaremy]

The game is looking great and so much improvements, its really impressive! I am getting quite hyped :D

[@Hbhnudeh743]

Great progress

[@kindlez98]

Missed ya buddy, good to have you back

[@FlowPoly]

It's looking good my man

[@sus-rai-69gamingchannel70]

From the blockheads to this nice looking game.

[@realmanago]

yooo devlog! great to see you active

[@vicensabio7L]

ugh i can't wait for it to be finished

[@houstonhampton2418]

Dave, keep up the good work!

[@rwwkv6]

Looking really good, love the technical detail in this one :)

[@MMPK]

This is looking amazing! Can't wait to play it!

[@janikcodes]

YES Another devlog! Lets go!

Can't wait to get my hands on this game!

[@warbird9581]

This looks amazing.

[@LukeLaczynski]

This looks great!

[@Itssmial_Ova]

happy as for a new video dude!

[@samthesamesam7711]

Will the blockheads ever receive any updates? Altough a few people play it, if you update it im sure the game could be revived

[@alexandersaccotelli4301]

Well done, keep up the good work

[@viper_exe_]

LOVING THIS

[@unusedTV]

He's alive!

[@JonathanSchaefer]

The soundtrack gives me Finding Nemo vibes. Love it.

[@calebotoh]

Would it be worth making a small animation preview app, made with your engine, so you can easily check them without starting up the entire game? Maybe even some suite of small applications, depending on how many things you would want to check. If your game is pretty fast to just boot into, I'm not sure if that would be a good idea or not. Seen similar ideas for using particles, like a particle building tool so you can view everything and just export it or open a code view to copy it over.

[@majicDave]

The load times are pretty fast, usually < 10 seconds between changing an animation and seeing it in-game. It's not perfect, but it's workable. It might not be a bad idea though to add a hot key to just reload the models/animations. And yeah, if the load times were much longer something would definitely need to be done.

[@calebotoh]

@@majicDave Even something like a hotkey to open a separate panel wouldn't be too bad of an idea. It would be nice for when the game becomes bigger and the times increase. Performance is sounding very nice at the moment, so it would probably be a backlog thing, unless you wanted to view only the animation / models. It really depends on your flow and how you want to view things.

[@thehambone1454]

I just can’t get over how good this looks, and doing all solo. Damn. Any pointers on good resources for implanting global illumination like you have? Would love to mess with it in my engine! I think you also said something a long time ago about proper monitoring color settings, good resources on that ?

[@georgegoddard1550]

Im so excited!!

[@Cygnus888]

Why aren't you using inverse kinematics?

[@NhatHuy8204]

will you have The Blockheads available on release of Sapiens? I want the Blockheads free on steam

[@kingjawdev8102]

Game looks pretty cool!

[@kaiserschmarrn260]

Maybe you could add like traits/genetics for example like some sapiens could be fast and their children would also be fast some could last longer with no food some could just be average some could have fast growing hair or be weak or she or something

[@DerFinder]

Actually many old games had different parts for each limb, funny how you also did this

[@ZMW7]

What if mammoths could only be found in certain regions / biomes of the world? Perhaps other regions could have different animals / threats to replace them. I’m not too sure if mammoths would roam across deserts.

[@heidichalfant5643]

Are you going to add other kinds of food? If so what might they be? If I could recommend somethings I would say mushrooms, corn, tomatoes beans, peppers and millet. I also wanted to ask if chickens give eggs.

[@Zer0YT]

Okey yeah that's the first video i am watching from you and this game but I think I will play it. But I have a question is there a Comeback or something else planned for The Blockheads ? Like your projects :)

[@ai-spacedestructor]

finally something more technical XD

[@silverseergriclav]

If updating stats every time something changes gets too intensive, you could instead update the stats (check for a change or send them to a client) on a regular interval, perhaps adjustable in server settings

[@brettgoldsmith8584]

What are your thoughts on using visual studio code for a multi-year project like this? Is it flexible enough for basically anything? Or is it more just the best balance of free-to-functionality?

[@majicDave]

It's fantastic. The VSCode terminal is the only thing I'm still not happy with, as it's slow and can't handle multiple rapidly updating log files well. For actually editing though, it's just great.

[@medhue]

"If you want to be expert at that, you're watching the wrong video." OMG, I died laughing. I'm a rigger/animator.

[@angelineweaver6654]

You ever considered adding blockheads to PC?

[@JaimieX]

For how long have you been programming and how did you learn all this?

[@phillipngew9890]

When is the release date, and it can only be played on PC?

[@Simon-ik1kb]

is this game made with lua only?

[@majicDave]

It's a C++ engine, with Lua used to implement most of the Sapiens-specific game (using LuaJIT), both developed together. So at the moment the entire game and engine is roughly 50% Lua, 50% C++.

[@microgut9104]

You’re alive! (Just kidding)

[@Aa-jq3yu]

what language / engine is this game coded?

[@prim5616]

8:57 pointy bum

[@Samuel-qr8zc]

I think arbitrarily limiting sapiens to 5 roles is a bad idea. I think Rimworld does a great job in this regard allowing you to prioritise what roles each colonist does, also, some colonists have traits that prevent them from doing certain roles which could be something to look into.

[@steliannecula3232]

Imagine this world in Transport fever 😬

[@akitsune09]

Why you abandon the blockheads? this game is so awesome i really want to play but you removed the game from play store

[@darzenis]

Will Sapiens be available on Geforce Now?

[@FreeRadicalX]

individual sapiens can only do 5 types of tasks? why not a skill sheet that results in penalties and bonuses to task time / efficiency? it could be partially inheritable from parents :) as for previewing your animations - what about a a blender script that adds X number of in-between frames between every existing keyframe? then just undo when you're done previewing. game look and interface are REALLY coming into their own now, looking fantastic and intuitive, and wonderful to hear that you now have spoilers to hide. keep on crankin away!

[@rowanp8740]

3:44 My fiancee called him "Pointy Hagrid." lmao

[@worldpeace1822]

It’s a big game

[@MrMaltavius]

Swiming and water splashes?

[@Simtar123]

😊👍

[@Kaliburrrr]

You need serious fauna and ecosystem for the trailer, dinosaurs please 🥺♥️ your game just a suggestion

[@Laggh]

where is blockheads?

[@robodragon195]

Bring back the blockheads please

[@Waxerer]

This is amazing, you might want to weight the hips to the outer thigh and just below the waist and inner thigh staring from the groin with a V from the waist to the groin. The butt cheeks should be a mix between the bottom spine joint and the hip joints to the respective sides.

[@SkullModder]

Between the animations and the textures, this isn't too far off from looking like roblox lmao.

[@imjustanoob.]

F to the blockheads

[@exosproudmamabear558]

I think allow and don't allow would be too clunky a job priority system would be nice since people need to make multiple jobs in the early game. But please make job priority max 9 or more since there are a lot of jobs. Note: I know you are trying to make your own game but you shouldn't throw practically just because you don't want it to be similar to other games. These are features tested by the audience and well-liked .you can improve on them but don't throw it out.

[@omaralqenaee20]

Hello #David_Frampton am From #the_Blockheads Gameplay that Game is 8 years ago. I don’t Know what Happened. I can’t Join my online Server World but I can Join my offline Server World. I don’t know if There’s New Updates Version 1.8 but I don’t Want to Lost my Server Worlds that I want to be Save. Super Starts To #David_Frampton. Thurs, 30 September, 2021 09:06:16 AM.

[@aileenamador3747]

Hello, so dave abandoned the game and the game is just dead like really dead, nobody plays it anymore and the servers were shut down I think