New Assets Recap | Progress Update | Monsters are lurking in the shadows...
about 2 years ago – Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 10:33:36 PM

New Assets

Since our last Kickstarter update, we have added the following items:

- hoods 

- collar items 

- assortment of handheld items 

- sorcery shirts 

- shoulder items 

- bow and arrow (including handheld arrow) 

- axes (including pickaxe) 

- hammers 

- more staffs 

- modern base items 

- clubs + maces 

- posable double flail

- masks + glasses

- more pants (including testing some auto-adjusting pants)

Auto-Adjust Pants

In this update, we are starting to test our auto-adjust pants system.  The assets we are using to test this feature are Heavy Winter Pants, Tights, Ninja Pants, Rolled Cuffs Pants and Jeans. The pants will auto adjust their length based on the tallest shoe option you have selected.

Progress Update

We also wanted to share with you where we are at and what we have left to do.

First let's go over Assets. To help visual this, we created a quick graph showing the percentage of assets moved over from each asset pack so far.

While some of the percentages might seem surprising, we are close to finishing most of the asset packs because the majority of the most time-consuming assets (i.e. clothing) are done. The remaining assets are primarily different weapons and items that don't take as long. You've probably noticed that our content drops have been bigger and more frequent which are a result of this.

New Races

To help you see where we are at with adding the different race options, we have added a dropdown menu to the New Character window.

The remaining races are in progress, and we will most likely release orcs next.

Mounts and Pets

Our furry/scaley/feathery companions need a little more work behind the scenes before they're ready to be uploaded in the new software. They most likely will be added towards the end of the beta.

Monsters lurk in the shadows (coming soon)...

In addition to fulfilling TitanCraft Heroes, we also have the responsibility of maintaining and building the Monsters portion of TitanCraft. While we haven't been able to dedicate as much time as we would have liked to monsters over the past year, we are pleased to announce that new monsters are coming to TitanCraft this October! 

Keep an eye on our socials and emails for upcoming teasers and release announcements. 👀

That's all for now. If you have any questions let us know!

- TitanCraft Team

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day 🏴‍☠️ ☠
about 2 years ago – Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 07:19:14 PM

Ahoy Mateys! 

This be Cap'n Bones, and I be here to tell ye about some new piratey booty me crew hauled in. We pillaged and plundered the nearest blacksmith and hobby lobby, and being the gracious pirates we are we now be sharin' the loot with ye! Now where did I leave me tankard... 🍺

Translation: 

Hey everyone! We wanted to do something fun today for Talk Like a Pirate Day, so we added some new pirate base decor items, swords, a trusty blunderbuss and few couple other miscellaneous items. More pirate items will be getting added, but unfortunately aren't quite ready (including Captain Bones tankard).

Hope you enjoy the new items, and don't forget to use advance pose mode to get the most out of these new assets!

That's all for now.

The TitanCraft Team

Click here to open Captain Bones: https://titancraft.com/load/97473707-a8e4-4151-a7a6-95be5e054802/

More Assets, Centaurs, Alpha➡Beta
about 2 years ago – Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 10:08:24 PM

Hello again everyone!

It's been a busy past few weeks for us. We've pushed out a few updates (some of you may have already seen these:)), have started getting ready for the beta and attended the Tucson Comic Con. Let's dive in.

New Assets

Since our last Kickstarter update, we have uploaded the majority of 

- sleeves

- gloves

- base decor

- staffs

Staffs have also been improved with new skeletons that allow independent control of staff tops, include 3 different grip positions under pose presents and 2 new pose presets designed specifically for staffs.

New Race: Centaurs

Centaurs are now available! A couple things to note about centaurs:

- bases are slightly scaled up to fit the horse body better

- pose presets have been added for the upper humanoid portion and lower horse portion

Schedule Update + Open Beta 🎉

As you may remember, we were hoping for an official release of TitanCraft Heroes sometime around September. We're making really good progress, but still have a decent amount of assets to move over (firearms, mounts, spells + a couple others) and a few more races to add. 

Software wise, things are steadily coming along. Over the next couple few weeks we will primarily be focusing on fixing any bugs that pop up. Stretch goal software features will continue getting worked on, but most likely won't be released until after our official release.

While we might not have the official release ready by the end of the month, we are happy to announce that we are transitioning from our closed alpha to open beta! 🎊 

What does this mean?

- Everyone will have access to the hero options that are available so far.

- STL downloads will no longer be locked if you don't own all the assets on a particular character. If you need to transfer DesktopHero purchases to TitanCraft,  use the link at the top of the cart window.

- You will be able to purchase asset packs on TitanCraft soon. As of right now, you can only purchase hero asset packs for TitanCraft on our Pre-Order store, but that will change in the near future.

- You can technically redeem your rewards at any time. If you're happy with the options that are available so far, there's nothing stopping you from adding a mini to your cart and redeeming the coupon(s) you received from your Kickstarter reward code. If you'd rather wait for all the races, mounts and items that's perfectly fine too. :)

Tucson Comic Con

Last but not least, we wanted to mention and give a special thanks to the Kickstarter backers that stopped by and said hello to us at the Tucson Comic Con. It was a great reminder to us of just how grateful we are for all of you and your support. We 🧡 our backers and community.

Until next time,

TitanCraft Team

New races! More shirts!
over 2 years ago – Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 11:44:40 PM

New Races

We just added 3 new races to the Heroes alpha: Catfolk, Satyr and Angelic!

Give them a try at https://titancraft.com.

New Outfits

Jared has been rigging like a madman and has almost all the shirts in the customizer now! (Sleeves coming soon.)

That's it! Just a quick update today, now back to work! Have a great weekend.

Andrew

Headgear, Shoes, Packs & some fresh UI improvements!
over 2 years ago – Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 08:48:22 PM

Hi Everyone! July has come and gone, and we're already in August. Time's flyin'!

Today we pushed out another update to the Heroes alpha filled with lots of new assets and some UI improvements.

UI

Before we dive into some of the content we released today, we wanted to go over with you the changes we made to the UI. The purpose of these changes was to help make things easier to understand for our digital customers while hopefully not making it too cluttered for our physical customers.

1 - Category Icons have been added for different clothing categories such as Headgear, Capes, Shoulder Items, Shirts, etc. On Desktop, if you hover your mouse over an icon you will see the written text for the category as well. Clicking on an icon will quickly jump you to its section.

2 - Asset Pack Icons have been added to asset thumbnails so our digital backers can quickly identify what asset pack different assets belong to. In the example above, the Hand with Heart indicates a free asset that digital backers can download for free. The Leaf icon indicates parts that belong to the druid pack. The Crown indicates parts that belong to the fantasy pack. Clicking or hovering your mouse over the asset pack icon will pop up a tool tip showing you useful information such as asset name, asset pack, and whether or not you have unlocked the asset for unlimited downloads.

3- Asset Pack Icon color. This is something we have already been using, but we wanted to point it out for those not aware yet. If the icon is gray, that means the asset is not unlocked for unlimited downloads on your account. If the icon is shaded blue, that means you have unlocked the asset for unlimited downloads.

4 - You can now filter assets! 🥳 When you click on the Filter Assets button, a menu will pop up with different options to filter by. Compatible Assets Only is how to toggle All Parts mode. If you unselect that option, you will see all of the assets available, regardless if they work "out of the box" with your model or not. You can also filter by assets you own, or assets that belong to a specific asset pack!

5 - You can right-click any asset thumbnail and click 'Add as New Part' to add it to the scene as a separate character. (If on mobile, long-press the thumbnail to get the context menu.)

For our physical backers, we want to reiterate that you can use any of our parts when ordering a physical miniature. Assets unlocked for unlimited downloads applies to our digital backers. :)

Headgear, Shoes & Packs!

The vast majority of headgear and shoes have now been added to the alpha. 

We also were able to add a new item type -- packs! This includes the 3 backpack options from DesktopHero + the ability to attach some of the weapon types to your characters back (we hope to make more weapons compatible as pack items in the future).

Thanks for supporting our work. Hope you enjoy!

Andrew, Jared & Mia