Hello fairest reader!
I completed a new model since the last update, which was the spectator stand model:
These will be where the pesentry will prefer to watch the trials of the knights. Having stands is important to the satisfaction of the pezzies, because how much they enjoy the events is linked to your success in the game. They also just make the jousting tilt look a bit less naked.
However I had noticed that I'd ignored an important thing, and that is that placement needs to be precise. You might notice there that there are gaps between all the items in the above image. That's accidental - and thus - unacceptable!!
The reason is that before when you were moving the initial placement outline, it would snap to an invisible grid in a somewhat random way and you could end up with things overlapping, or with gaps you didn't necessarily want. I've now fixed that, which actually took a lot longer than I thought. Here you see an outlet placed exactly flush with the arena. Hooray!
I have not mentioned yet that the melee arenas (one type of event arena for sword fighting) are built using tile based system, so you can create any shapes you want. In the above example you may notice that I laid out the arena like a space invader.
Progress on the project has proved to be quite galcial, so I decided to approach an environment artist to help out part time for a while. You can see some of his other work
here. So that's exciting. Hopefully in the next few months bits of nice scenery will start to appear.
Next step for me is to have peasants actually watch the events, since at the moment they just stand around looking gormless.