Monthly Archives: February 2015

February 28th: Impacts and Negotiations

Posted on February 28, 2015 by problemmachine

I changed the structure of directional input so that it’s all mediated through the PlayerMovement behavior. This means I don’t need to repeatedly define what “down” means for all of the different behaviors which need to know (crouching, dropping through … Continue reading →

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February 27th: Hard Times

Posted on February 27, 2015 by problemmachine

Just added a simple behavior to make it so that when you fall from a long height it momentarily forces you into a crouch animation. This is an idea I took pretty much wholesale from Symphony of the Night, one … Continue reading →

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February 26th: Move and Slide

Posted on February 26, 2015 by problemmachine

Spent quite a while solving an easy problem today. It mostly ended up taking a while because it involved modifying the ground tracking behavior in a way that didn’t assume the entity was using the same movement behavior as the … Continue reading →

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February 25th: Minimal

Posted on February 25, 2015 by problemmachine

Very tired today, so I mostly just did a little bit of rearranging and did the repository commit I’ve been putting off. I think I understand what’s causing the collision glitch when rolling into steep slopes — collisions can only … Continue reading →

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February 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th: Leaps and Boundaries

Posted on February 24, 2015 by problemmachine

Wow! I missed a shitload of updates! I’m not quite sure what happened there. I think just my sleep schedule changing and the weekly devblog update happened to line up this time in just such a way that I ended … Continue reading →

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February 20th: Reversion

Posted on February 21, 2015 by problemmachine

I ended up deleting most of the ground tracking code I did yesterday and going with an older version, which I guess kind of sucks, but it pretty much works now. All that’s left to do is figure out one … Continue reading →

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February 19th: Downhill

Posted on February 20, 2015 by problemmachine

Well I reimplemented the ground tracking in a completely different way and uh. It has some problems. But these are not insurmountable! However, at the moment the character does occasionally slide slowly uphill, so that’s something I’m going to have … Continue reading →

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February 18th: Repave

Posted on February 19, 2015 by problemmachine

Argh I end up just going over the same code over and over again. Most of today was taken up with improving the slope climbing stuff I did last time. It’s better now, so that’s something. Ground tracking still needs … Continue reading →

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February 17th: Smooth

Posted on February 18, 2015 by problemmachine

More collision work. I’ve been really frustrated that this is going slow, but I think it’s in the nature of collision work. I mean, literally every moment of the game will be the player interacting with this code, and any … Continue reading →

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February 14th, 15th, 16th: Sporadic

Posted on February 16, 2015 by problemmachine

Sorry about missing updates, but nothing very interesting happened and I’ve been a bit busy to update regularly. Collision detection keeps getting marginally better, and I’ve tested against all slopes under all circumstances I can think of… he started to … Continue reading →

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