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Chopping wood from trees now gives logs, and after a certain time, the trees will be “expended” and fall over. The build to experimental will show the basic structure of how this will work.
The extra time has been spent improving gameplay aspects and also identifying how we can better support it.
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We pulled fireplaces and hunting from the previous update in their state at the time, we felt they would hinder gameplay not enhance it. We have also started working on EMT, Firefighter, and finalizing the Gorka uniforms.įireplaces, Hunting, And being a lumberjack! Our character artist is further expanding with the addition of a new large-capacity police vest to go along with our ?MON-inspired ? uniform. Generating the Navmesh (view Imgur Gallery of generation) I spoke to Martin Slavkov, programmer behind the solution, to help me outline the result with some screenshots. This uses the wonderful approaches outlined in the open source navmesh project Recast and Detour. This is all done during the packing process and “baked” out into data that can be read by the server and client. So a method was devised to split the world up into grids, and then raycast at a precise interval and generate chunks of navmesh.
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The serious problem it presented, though, was how to generate these meshes, with nearly 2 million objects on the map doing it by hand would not be an option. The team devoted to solving this decided to use navigation meshes. Our problem was not unique, but our situation was: our world is very big yet it requires the same precision as a small one. There are many exciting solutions available for pathfinding, it’s fairly standard fare in the video gaming industry. In the end we decided it would be easier to develop a new approach from scratch. We attempted to refactor these solutions to accommodate our changes but, as can be seen by playing the current build, they fell short of our expectations. We were getting the engine to do things that it was never designed to do, especially regarding interiors of buildings.
In addition to behavior problems we also experienced problems with pathfinding and collision for the AI.
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This meant that zombies in the mod were simply pawns, activated by players moving around. In the mod, this was dropped in favor of calculating visibility and target info on a “per player” approach. In the engine, AI is calculated on a “per agent” basis, with some caching for things like targets (shared target info, etc…). When we were developing the game we realized that in the time we had, we would need to work within the parameters of the AI already in the engine. Zombies have proven to be one of the most difficult to develop components of the game. While not a big change for users, possibly allows some more advanced systems to be implemented and better performance and less bugs. Complete refactoring of the inventory system.Redeveloped “action” system, replacing the mouse-wheel scroll action system.Completely new animal AI that mirrors an actual animals behaviors.True multithreading / multicore for servers and possibly clients.Entirely new rendering system (allowing potential upgrades to DX10 or DX11, ports as well).Some examples of future major changes coming as a result of this new focus: The new zombie pathfinding is a good example of this approach beginning to produce results. This had a severe short-term impact on our progress as our existing team had to devote time and resources to training and planning. This involved us drastically increasing the size of the team working on the game. Our major focus has been on establishing the architecture, both in the team and in the game, in order to deliver best in the future.
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