Worlds Collide: December 2013

Saturday, 14 December 2013

Hi,

I've still been spending a decent amount of time continuing the game. Lately I've been working on ship and module damage and starting work on the effects associated with it (added turrets while I was at it!). I'm got a short clip showing the early test of taking damage and the effects applied to the ships (super early version, very basic explosions for now)

Still have a bug that I am still trying to find the cause that you might notice near the end of that. Otherwise I'm slowly getting the details in that I've been planning. Still have the basic shaders and effect for the ships but this is just for testing, it's still a 4X game and you never zoom in that close to the ships.

I plan to work a bit more on the ship design screen and interior views then add another ship size with equivalent weapons for it then should be able to release another public test to get some feedback!

Any feedback or queries welcome :)
Thanks,

Change Log

8 April 2015 – EMPIRE – AI – Fixed a crashed caused from AI trying to ascertain strength of the planet that hasn’t been colonized

8 April 2015 – PLANET – SECTORS – Expanded debug information to track new sector constructions better make sure they all work as expected

7 April 2015 – SHIP – EFFECTS – Update so jump flashes and sounds won’t be seen and heard from ships that you cannot currently see

7 April 2015 – SHIP – PATHFINDING – fixed a few crashes from unique pathfinding functions under certain circumstances

7 April 2015 – GALAXY – SKYBOX – fixed skybox loading so it will now save and load the skybox correct for each game, was just getting a random skybox every time loading the same game

6 April 2015 – GUI – BUDGET – Added summary of budget expenses and details include ship repair costs, research costs, etc

6 April 2015 – SHIP – GUI – Added a GUI detail for predicted repair amount and cost for repair that shows on the main ship overview if on a grid with repair options

6 April 2015 – EMPIRE – GUI – Empire Name item includes a ‘click to talk’ option and tooltip that will show your current standing with them as well

6 April 2015 – DIPLOMACY – AGREEMENTS – Added a share sensor intel agreement now, all corps will include this agreement with parent empire on game start

3 April 2015 – GUI – MAIN – worked out pre-multipling alpha which should really help with scalable GUI items and clarity of text and overlapping textures, can make some good GUI performance increases using this more

25 March 2015 – GENERAL - LOAD GAME – Fixed crashed caused by damage data been saved as pixel specific and yet trying to multiply again by array size on load

25 March 2015 – GENERAL – Catchup change log, still be working on the game a lot just haven’t been updating this changelog lately, todays updates below is just a summary from memory probably missed heaps of what I did still.

Jan - March 2015 – SHIP DESIGN – Fixed crash caused during module selection\position (memory leak)

Jan - March – 2015 – SHIP – RENDERER – Updated shader for damaged ships so edges of penetration hits will glow

Jan - March 2015 – PLANET – RENDERER – Add City light density channel so with low\no population no lights will be rendered and this will increase to the full light map based on population and a texture channel for variation.

Jan - March 2015 – PLANET – RENDERER – Removed overexposure from planet lighting so planets close to a sun don’t glow as much (probably still not final)

Jan - March 2015 – PLANET – Added 2 new planet surfaces, blue frozen and dry with volcanos, updated shader to render lava glow.

Jan - March 2015 – SHIP – COMBAT – Optimized collision check to only check bullet path once and just time it for when collision will happen, can and dynamic checking later if I add manoeuvring

Jan - March 2015 – SHIP – COMBAT – Fixed Planetary invasion so weapons will not miss when attacking a planet

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