Been tinkering with the Tri Spear, it needs some tweaking but it become a great spear in the players arsenal

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Been fixing bugs with this new launch ability, added in a mock animation to replace for later but it starting to shape up

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A fun little gameplay segment for this level

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Just published tutorial for Avoyd Voxel Editor - Export Voxels to glTF for Unreal Nanite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-hBbYfOAng

Credits:
- Original voxel model commission "Spindle" by Niklas Mäckle knosvoxel
- Soundtrack "Music for Code" by nervous_testpilot

A new level concept I've been trying out is a deep red colored forests and rocky ridges

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Put the Projectile Enemy in the level now to test it out

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Got a early version of the projectile enemy working and testing it out now in a level

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In glTF 2.0 the `emissiveFactor` *must* be between 0 and 1, which isn't very useful since many emissive elements have much wider ranges than this, leading to the extension KHR_materials_emissive_strength which introduces a new property `emissiveStrength`.

It seems UE5 glTF respects a emissiveFactor > 1 so I'm allowing this in the Avoyd exporter.

I am not really sure why this is required to be 0-1 in the spec, nor why the extension didn't just permit a wider range

Here is a prototype enemy I've been working on, it detects the player if it is close and will shoot at it

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Expanding the lake a bit for the forest while trying out some gameplay

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Testing out some gameplay in the newly created forest lake area

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I've been trying out to work with water and made like a small water spring in the forest

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I managed to get some very simple health bars working for enemies, might remove them later but for now great for testing

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In the background you can see some of the mountains I was working on earlier

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Been creating this mountain ridge that I'll add some gameplay around later

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Jumping from sand dune to sands dune is surprisingly fun

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Added a score counter and in this case it is counting all the crystals the player collects, perhaps used for upgrades later

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Made these mounds of magical sands that launches the player upwards, maybe it can work for the desert level

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Here is a little closer look at one of the archs in the background of this desert, it is like time and gravity does not work as you would think in this level

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Happy New Year! Thank you for following along the journey!

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