What's new in the RPG Creation Kit 2

In this page you'll find an explanation of the new systems and changes that arrived with the release of the RPG Creation Kit 2.0.

Show/Hide Demo Files

The first change to the Editor Tools is the addition of a toggle named "Show Demo Files?". When toggled on, the respective Editor (such as "Rck Object Viewer", "Cell View", "Quests", "Rck AI Editor", etc.) will show files related to the Rck Demo. As you can imagine, toggling it off will hide from the lists content related to the demo.

This will be pretty useful when you'll be deep into creating your own content and the Rck items will get in your way as you're trying to find or search for things.

Each asset that can be hidden has now a flag "IS_DEMO_FILE", that will act as the flag that hides/show results:

So as you'll make new content it will be enough to disable this flag for your own items.

You can also set the default value for the "Show Demo Files?" toggle to be on/off whenever you open your project by going in "Edit->Project Settings-RPG Creation Kit" and setting the value of the toggle there. Setting it off will make sure that whenever you open a window like the "Rck AI Editor" the demo files will be set to be hidden by default.

Toolbar Functions

The main toolbar, located in the upper part of the Editor, will now have three more buttons related to the RPG Creation Kit:

• Load Last Save: allows you to Start playing in the Editor and automatically loads the latest savegame (or autosave) you have. It's an incredibly helpful tool that allows you to quickly jump in game to view your edits.
• Load Last Cell: does the opposite. It loads the last cell that you've loaded via the Cell View or Cell Map View. It's best used along with the Load Last Save button t.
• Adjust Time Of Day (ToD) Preview: is a slider that sets the Time of Day for your selected "Time of Day Sky Material" (set in the Project Settings). It sets the "currentTime" value in the Sky's material and it updates the scene lighting in base of this value. It's useful to preview a Cell (or many cells) in the Editor at any given time of the day.

Time of Day

The Time of Day feature adds the concept of time inside of the RCK.

Days consist of 24hrs and there's currently no convention for Days/Months/Years, which is something that can be extended from this system.

A GameObject named "TimeOfDayManager" has been added to the _WorldLoader_ scene, and it has a component with the same name as the Object that is, in fact, the manager of the time system.

• Current Time [0-24]: explicit the current time of the day. This can be set when the game starts, when a save game loads, and it can be arbitrarily set from other scripts. For example, the script "JustAnotherDeliveryStage10".
• Hours and Minutes: are derived from the Current Time, and they're useful for you to read in order to create dynamic scenarios based on the current time (see next section "Dynamic Responses to Current Time") or to display the current time on the UI.
• Current Time Scale: dictates how quickly time passes. The formula that runs on Update is is:

  SetTime(currentTime + (currentTimeScale * Time.deltaTime));

  A Time Scale of 1 means that one hour passes every second, so for the default value of 0.05, a full day (24hrs) 480 seconds or 8 minutes. You can also set this at runtime whenever you want, although runtime changes are not saved on the save-file (the value you set in the inspector will be loaded when a savegame is loaded).
• Skybox Material: is a reference to the material that you're using in your world. If you want a different Skybox material you'll have to change this reference (to update it in game) and the reference in Project Settings (to allow the ToD slider to correctly preview the skybox in the editor). In the RCK default configuration there is only one Skybox Material that contains 3 Cubemaps that represent Day, Dusk, Night, that are blended in base of the Current Time Value. You can swap the Skybox Material reference if you want, even during runtime, but you'll also have to do so in the RenderSettings.

The next values "Sun & Moon" allows you to fine-control the lighting of your scenes as time passes.

• Sun Light: is a reference to your main Directional Light (sun) that is also in the _WorldLoader_ scene.
• Sun Color: is the sun's color.
• Sun Intensity: allows you to set a curve that controls the intensity of the Sun's light as time goes by. So the value at the beginning of the curve would be the sun's intensity at hour 0:00, while the last value is at the very last minute of the day 23:59.
• Ambient Color/Intensity: allows you to define gradients that controls the ambience of your scene at runtime. The gradient is also distributed over the currentTime, so you can have dark ambient settings at night and more light ones during the day.
• Fog Color/Density: allows you to do the same but to the fog setting of your scene.

The values set in here are to be thought as the "default" values.

However, you probably want control over ambience/fog for each worldspace and even for each cell.

The Worldspace data has also been given these properties, to allow you to customize your worldspaces as you wish.

• Global_TOD_ENABLE_SKYBOX_AND_LIGHTING_EDITS: if set to true it will mean that the default 'Time of Day Manager' values we've set previously for Ambient/Fog will be overridden by the Worldspace when the player will be in that worldspace.
• The rest of the values are the same as explained previously, with some additional tweaks such as fog start/end and modes.

The same concept applies for individual Cells:

• Local_Override_ToD_Setting: determines whether to inherit the TOD_ENABLE_SKYBOX_AND_LIGHTING_EDITS setting from the parent Worldspace or use the local boolean Local_TOD_ENABLE_SKYBOX_AND_LIGHTING_EDITS defined on this Cell. If Local_Override is false, Local_TOD_ENABLE_SKYBOX_AND_LIGHTING_EDITS has obviously no effect.
• The rest of the values are the same as explained previously.

So the idea is that you would have ambient/fog responsive to the Time of Day (set at a worldspace level) for exterior worlds, and you can decide to override it for interiors (such as always-dark dungeons). But, you can also make interiors (such as houses with windows) whose Ambient lighting responds to time of day.

Other

AI Aggro Lines

AI Perception Improvements

Sneak attacks

Every UI state can pause the game or not