Noble’s Land is a 2D Sandbox MMORPG (Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). Live in a world of consequences. Loot or be looted with always-on PVP. Explore the world by foot, horse, train, or boat. Buy a house in a city or build your own in the wilderness. Plant, tend, and harvest fields of crops. Cook food to support local taverns,or to supply players setting out for adventure. Travel the world in search of rare fish. Grow your guild from a few friends into an army with their own castle. In Noble’s Land the players run the world.
For the last few days I have been working on Custom Chunks. World Chunks are prefabricated and used to build the land itself. With worlds the size of Noble’s Land’s there is a lot of duplicating patterns of tiles. World Chunks make building large scale land easier and more efficient.
Custom Chunks are used for Points of Interest like buildings, cities, camp sites, etc… Custom Chunks are made to serve one purpose and aren’t reused anywhere else in the whole map. The animation above is of the newest version of the map editor. The red outlines are for World Chunks, the green ones are for Custom Chunks. If at any point I delete a Custom Chunk, the World Chunk underneath will reappear.
Now that I can start building real content I have started working on some furnishings, as well as wall connecting pieces. In the building above you can see a few potted plants and a counter which is mainly used in shops. These furnishings are similar to the stumps that have been in game, where players and NPCs can walk behind them to be partially obstructed. There is also now separating walls which can be used to build individual rooms inside of a building.
NOTE: This is an animated GIF, click HD View to see it in action.