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« on: July 11, 2019, 10:03:34 pm »
Hello all, just posting two thoughts I've had for FH since the source code has been found, and a suggestion a friend of mine made during a Discord discussion.
1. Real-time height map and mask creation.
I would love it if Feral Heart was able to have real-time height map creation. It gets really exhausting going back and forth to check your height map and seeing it not to your liking. Being able to see the terrain elevate in-game while you work on it would make life so much easier. Perhaps if it's possible maybe make it where we can just elevate and lower the terrain while in the map creator. Maybe call it the "molding" section, where you manipulate the terrain to your will. I can see people becoming a lot more creative with their maps if it were easier to see how your terrain looks, rather than taking time every little change to make sure your height map is just right or needs to have a part redone entirely.
As for the mask, maybe make a new tab called "painting." That or perhaps include it in the "molding" tab. Either way, it would be nice to see the creation of the mask in real time, I think it would be easier to make cliffs, beaches, tundras, deserts, and other biomes all in the same map if we can see what we are doing as we do it.
2. Real-time preset creation. It would be awesome to be able to see how presets look while we work on them. Instead of needing to close the game and re-open it, it would be awesome to just be able to look at the character and essentially paint them. Maybe make a section available to select a fur texture you would like to use, and then the rest is simple by being able to paint on the char.
If that isn't possible, maybe see if there is a way to have FH sync with your art program, so this way you can create your character and see how it will look in the game.
3. This is an idea my friend had. She suggested that the Feral Heart chat should have an optional filter. The game will automatically have it on, but it can be turned off as well. This filter will filter out swears so younger audiences will not see the things older users say, but at the same time, when the filter is off, we older users can see everything. Other MMOs have this filter, so it might not be impossible for FH. That or perhaps make another chat tab called "Big Kids" or something, I don't know. It's just, the audience of FH has grown-up, so making it where mature rated conversations can take place between these older members would be a nice option.
That's my two cents for FH, and I hope that one or all of these ideas can be made available in the new game as it continues to grow.