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colin22cans
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17/08/2015 - Konrad's Korner - August 17th Aug 17, 2015 15:23:52 GMT Lord Ba'al, Casinha, and 2 more like this

Post by colin22cans on Aug 17, 2015 15:23:52 GMT

"This week has seen the start of some upgrades to the movement arrow system. Up to this point we’ve been using the movement indicators from the leashing system. While those indicators are fine for moving followers about in Homeworld, they didn’t reflect troop movements accurately enough for our liking. You can see the problem below:"

"The first thing we did was take not normally seen debug navigation pathing lines which look something like this."

"And use them as a basis to draw the movement arrows to make them look like this:"

'There is some work still to be done to produce smoother, more visually appealing arrows, but they now accurately reflect navigation."

"The current leash arrow drawing system also wasn’t really designed to handle drawing and tracking movement arrows for multiple units. We polished up the system to only display movement arrows for currently selected Warbands and be able to wipe and redraw the arrows at any time."

"What’s left now is some smoothing and visual polish of the arrows. We’ve implemented a system to allow us quickly and easily replace the textures used to draw the arrows themselves and playing around with different looks have produced some rather fun results."

Also - Check out Annah's 3D printed Archer!

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colin22cans Former 22Cans staff Posts: 184	17/08/2015 - Konrad's Korner - August 17th Aug 17, 2015 20:30:07 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by colin22cans on Aug 17, 2015 20:30:07 GMT Aug 17, 2015 17:28:31 GMT Lord Ba'al said: So those movement arrows will now be visible to players? I believe so, yes.

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17/08/2015 - Konrad's Korner - August 17th Aug 21, 2015 11:47:46 GMT

Post by eddiemonsta on Aug 21, 2015 11:47:46 GMT

Aug 17, 2015 21:08:55 GMT Lord Ba'al said:

Have the stability issues from the previous news item been resolved?

I take it that the lack of response means this is still a work in progress?

By the way, I'm not sure the arrows need any smoothing. In my opinion they fit with the graphical style of godus as they are in the image.

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17/08/2015 - Konrad's Korner - August 17th Aug 21, 2015 14:39:03 GMT

Post by colin22cans on Aug 21, 2015 14:39:03 GMT

Aug 17, 2015 21:08:55 GMT Lord Ba'al said:

Have the stability issues from the previous news item been resolved?

Not entirely, I think that the team have got to the bottom of what was causing the problem though. It was crashing consistently on set times this week, which helped narrow things down considerably.

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17/08/2015 - Konrad's Korner - August 17th Aug 21, 2015 17:51:24 GMT eddiemonsta likes this

Post by Gmr Leon on Aug 21, 2015 17:51:24 GMT

Aug 21, 2015 11:47:46 GMT eddiemonsta said:

Aug 17, 2015 21:08:55 GMT Lord Ba'al said:

Have the stability issues from the previous news item been resolved?

I take it that the lack of response means this is still a work in progress?

By the way, I'm not sure the arrows need any smoothing. In my opinion they fit with the graphical style of godus as they are in the image.

I dunno, looking at that last example, I tend to agree. It looks a little too neony and out of place. Now if this were Darwinia or something, I'd agree that it fits a little more...But alas, Darwinia this is most certainly not.

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17/08/2015 - Konrad's Korner - August 17th Aug 22, 2015 6:20:46 GMT

Post by eddiemonsta on Aug 22, 2015 6:20:46 GMT

Aug 21, 2015 17:51:24 GMT Gmr Leon said:

I dunno, looking at that last example, I tend to agree. It looks a little too neony and out of place. Now if this were Darwinia or something, I'd agree that it fits a little more...But alas, Darwinia this is most certainly not.

Yeah, i was just thinking of the red arrow. The multi coloured one is far too garish for my tastes. I was really thinking in terms of the way the arrow appeared to be shaped though, and that the sort of *blocky look to them fits well with the terrain.

colin22cans it's pleasing to hear that progress has been made with memory issues. I hope the team get to the bottom of it very soon.

*not a very technical description, but hey-ho!

Last Edit: Aug 22, 2015 6:22:02 GMT by eddiemonsta

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17/08/2015 - Konrad's Korner - August 17th Aug 23, 2015 4:24:45 GMT

Post by hardly on Aug 23, 2015 4:24:45 GMT

Aug 23, 2015 3:03:25 GMT 13thGeneral said:

Great, so we can march armies around, for... what exactly? I'm just wondering where this is going.

I think you'll be wondering that for a long time. I've never understood why we cant have a longer term plan even if the delivery takes place over a long time. The only possible answers are they don't know or they aren't telling and neither is a good sign.