[project1dev] Re: navmesh detection and town building
- From: Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: project1dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:11:21 -0700
Makes sense on #1. They should have to repair before building up again.
I have some specific implementation ideas but am keeping my lips zipped to
see what you come up with (;
As long as the city builds up in a way that doesn't look really computerized
and mechanical we are ok.
We want the city itself to look organic as possible too even though it's on
a grid so I was thinking we may randomly rotate the 1x1 huts and 2x2 huts
and possibly do some random tinting (we'll see what we can get away with!)
but we can worry about that part later (:
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Kent Petersen <kentkmp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> #1 Interesting point. I was thinking it should fill in all possible house
> slots before expanding but not nessasrily all the spots on one tile. So if
> you had 3 road pieces available it would skip around between the 3 but all
> the house spots would need to be filled before putting down a piece of road.
> Maybe there it should be something like 80% full before expanding. I was
> thinking that would makes sense because if a troll came and destroyed the
> buildings they would need to be replaced before putting out more road
>
> What are your ideas?
>
> #2 I like it =)
>
> #3 no problem
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> yep, already planned nick (:
>>
>> that was in the original game too
>>
>> if you came up with that on your own, props to you for thinking of that,
>> but yeah, already planned, there's even a button on the UI for it.
>>
>> The thinking right now is you click on the flag button then click
>> somewhere in the world and it places a flag there which the people build
>> towards.
>>
>> If you don't specify a build target, the town just builds as it feels
>> like, which currently is just expanding the city circularly from the city
>> center.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Nick Klotz <roracsenshi@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe there could be a way for the player to set where they'd prefer
>>> the direction for the town to grow in?
>>> I can see some possible scenarios there for building away/towards
>>> spawn points, or trying to 'direct' the growth in a safer direction.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > Hey dude...
>>> >
>>> > #1 - i think not all houses should have to be built before moving on.
>>> My
>>> > first pass at building was very mechanical (not organic).
>>> >
>>> > We need to improve it to make it so that it feels more organic by not
>>> > building the same buildings in the same order on a tile all the time,
>>> and
>>> > sometimes leaving building slots empty on a tile and moving onto the
>>> next
>>> > one and things like that.
>>> >
>>> > If you have some alternate ideas for making it more organic, we don't
>>> have
>>> > to go the direction that im talking about though, we can talk about it
>>> more.
>>> >
>>> > I also have some more detailed ideas for how to do the above things if
>>> you
>>> > want to talk about it, otherwise i leave it up to your imagination (:
>>> >
>>> > #2 - yeah this is something i've been trying to think about a bit. How
>>> > about a script function NavMesh_GetTileNeighbor where you specify the
>>> > current tile index and what neighbor you want.
>>> >
>>> > 0 = top neighbor
>>> > 1 = right neighbor
>>> > 2 = bottom neighbor
>>> > 3 = left neighbor
>>> >
>>> > that script function returning -1 would mean "no neighbor"
>>> >
>>> > would you be cool with that?
>>> >
>>> > #3 - it's not possible yet, but it's on my todo list. Right now having
>>> the
>>> > enemies walk around costs a lot of CPU power but that should help it a
>>> lot
>>> > (:
>>> >
>>> > Also yeah, being able to have them path through complicated paths will
>>> be
>>> > neat.
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Kent Petersen <kentkmp@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> So, I have been thinking about town growth and I have a few thoughts
>>> for
>>> >> that
>>> >>
>>> >> 1) Should the town expand more road before all the houses are built?
>>> >> I was thinking the all house spots should be filled before moving on
>>> to
>>> >> building a new road.
>>> >>
>>> >> 2) How can I detect if an adjacent tile has been built on. I know a
>>> global
>>> >> variable gets set to 1 but how can I tell which tiles are adjacent to
>>> which?
>>> >> I want to be able to direct town growth but I am unsure of how to
>>> decide
>>> >> which tile is in the direction I want to grow.
>>> >>
>>> >> 3) speaking of navmesh. How would I make trolls walk along it? Is that
>>> >> possible yet?
>>> >
>>> >
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