Sort off… I’m a man that made bats work in the game, that makes me Batman, right? More importantly, I’ve finished the AI refactor! All the AI is now done through the new interfaces and works so much better than before! This was the biggest task still remaining on “Phase 2”… The rest is mostly […]
Finished the AI of the robotic spawns, which chase the player around and either explode or melee attack… I should have invested more on this kind of “swarm” enemies, they’re a lot of fun! Only one type of AI remaining! Now listening to “In Existence” by “Beautiful World” Link of the Day: Another trailer for […]
And done, the new illusion system is working properly (and in the process I cleaned up a nice piece of code regarding agro management)… These are going to be good lessons for the future… The first thought that an agro-based system was simple was really wrong… It’s a powerful system, but it has a lot […]
Finished work on the “follow” AI, which is used by NPCs on missions, but also in the Illusion Generator (which spawns some illusions that get attacked instead of the player)… The AI implementation went great for a change: But in the process I found a bucket load of bugs on the illusion system… This is […]
Finished the AI refactoring for the sandworm, plus added some more balancing to it… Also added a shaking camera effect when the worm approaches, because it’s cool and I can! Three more AIs to go! Now listening to “The Nexus” by “Amaranthe” Link of the Day: This is the first video on a series on […]
<sarcasm> For a change, this didn’t take long! </sarcasm> After 5 hours of grueling coding, I got the turret to work… Also improved the cannon effect and the balancing, but that’s a terrible consolation prize! Problem was that the turret had to use different “direction” system (since it’s a 3d object), and a different LOS […]
Finished the patrol done today… Took me a bit longer than expected due to the enemy spawn, since I have to modify the pirate AI from the drone AI, which I didn’t remember to do… Anyway, it works now and I can move on to the turret (which hopefully will be silly simple!) Now listening […]
Work today has to be cut short, something unexpected came up… I’m in the middle of making the patrol drone AI, which is going rather well, just missing the “spawn enemies” behavior when we’re spotted: Tomorrow I’ll wrap this up and maybe start the turret code (which should be very simple). Link of the Day: […]
Today was very tiring to get the AI behavior just like I wanted when indoors… That and the pull of “Warlords of Draenor” made it very hard to work! Anyway, I had to tweak, and tweak, and tweak, and a once little, simple, beautiful script becomes a tangled mess again because of fringe cases… I […]
Been working on the indoor behaviors… They’re slightly different than the outdoor behaviors, because they have to be constrained to the some indoor area/room. Some stuff is going horribly wrong, although I can’t pinpoint it… For example, a lot of times, the enemies will run outside, instead of finding cover inside the base… I think […]