So after another week fighting with A* and finding right heuristic for navigation in platform environment i have managed to teach those pesky demons to navigate in that dynamic environment.
I had some problems with teaching them to go over small holes in path but i have found right move cost function so they can now jump from ridge to ridge.
Still need to optimize that path finding so i can use it on few hundred units.
And maybe tune down jump so they wont jump to ceiling on every obstacle.
Shadow dweller Pigmey
Spell casting 102 So I have added spell particle collision detection and I have also added more spell variety. And in process of that it didn’t lose too much performance. Fire bolt Fire rain: Nova: Energy ray: Dark flame:
Battle chaos I have added factions banners to identify characters affiliation. I have also taught them to make some basic movements including wall climbing. Next step I will add pathfinding so they could start making more advanced maneuvers.
Pointless battle I have put spell casting animations inside game engine I still have to work out damage system but this his how it looks now: I will have to also find a way to differentiate characters fraction.
Spell casting 101 I have started to work on battle system so I have created my first spell casting animations for creatures.
I had concept for catching units by hand that shaters reality and pulls units into pocket dimmension.
Burn those veggies! Now lava interacts with some less durable vegetation and destroys it on collision.
Validating objects position I have added UI elements for dragging and placing objects on map. While dragging each objects checks if it has valid ground to stand on enough free place and valid background in case of for example windows.
Parallax secrets
Map generation Perlin noise composited with some gradients and rotating generation space creates this:
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