Each one is viewable in full 3D using our new HTML5 graphics engine – RuneTek 7 – which you’ll be seeing much more of once we launch it for RuneScape later in the year. You can rotate, zoom and animate all of the available characters, share your favourites on Facebook, search for specific ones and view a variety of information about each of them, including:
Combat levels
Combat weaknesses
Life points
Slayer category
Where they can be found in-game.
As this is our very first reveal of this technology to the community, we’re running the Bestiary as a beta. This means that you may experience crashes or other odd behaviour while you’re using it. We’ll be collecting error reports and usage statistics to help us make the technology stable and ready for the full release, but we need your help too. Send us bug reports when you experience issues using the Bestiary, and – as always – give us your feedback on the forums.
This is the first glimpse of the awesome upgrades coming within RuneScape which include upgraded graphics and draw distances, a smoother play experience, an amazing new top-level interface and – in the long run – compatibility with touch-screen devices. Now’s the time to start getting your voice heard so we can make the new RuneScape the game that you want to see!
Have fun, and look out for an early-access beta of the new RuneScape graphics engine in the next few months.
Requirements:
To use the Bestiary, you will need to be running a recent version of Google’s Chrome web browser. We’re working on getting the Bestiary working with other browsers, but – at the moment – Chrome is the only browser with the full support for HTML5 that the Bestiary needs.
Chrome’s already the most popular browser among RuneScape players, so you may well have it installed already. If not, you can get the latest version here.
With an up-to-date version of Chrome installed, we’ve found that the Bestiary works nicely on the following operating systems:
Windows: XP, Vista, 7 and 8
Mac OSX
Linux
Android 4.0 and above*
