again a graphical work from me..

doing some pathfinding stress tests with very low poly characters

@Esper...
Finde den ansatz deines Artworks ganz gut, dennoch würde ich eher größere Flächen die so zerfressen sind bevorzugen als viele kleine, wie du es zur Zeit hast. Das sieht für mich zu "pixelig" aus.
Schau mal wie es aussieht, wenn du wenige Große mit vereinzelnt kleinen Flächen so zerfressen machst , anstatt so viele kleine.

Gruß Sebastian

hey sivan, your pathfinding-thing looks really good, makes me wanna play some strategy game!!! Do you have plans for a game with your code?

@MPQ - Thanks, absolutely, but first I complete my editor to be suitable for fast level creation suitable for RTS games, mainly for battles (I started its development because of the special requirements what WED and other game engine level editors do not offer, or what they offer is too complicated for me to understand, because I'm just a hobbyist). Not an easy task, but hard but fun.
These tests are required for the further development as a proof of my ideas. If this basically 2D pathfinding works well, I can improve it to include climbing ladders to walls, using multi-floor buildings and stairs etc. I have the plan and some working codes, and now it seems to be really achievable The pathfinder requires little modifications only. The hard one is the group movement and behaviour. Maybe I should read more about flocking, but there are more simple solutions too (e.g. follow the leader(s)).
Anyway, the pathfinder is suitable not only for groups, one person groups are also okay, a few hundred should be handled without problems even on my old pc... I will test that too.

Cant wait to see that in action, sivan For now, it looks great and seams to be hard work too

...but fun. Yeah It is my opinion too.

if things are going well just like until now, and I can achieve some improvements, if someone is interested, I can send a small package for trying/testing it.
(MapBuilder is needed, just the exe should be overwritten, and by some tricky hot keys everything is accessible. And I should finish my really low poly animated character with LODs for better performance, to replace the current infantry character got from a game.)

You are going in some special game type, the characters seem already low poly in the screenshots ?

AAA RTS games using lot fo characters having programmers that have made specialized and compiled C++ routines for it.
And using instancing sometimes also.

But yes with special tricks you can achieve good things with A8.

Really impressive is the Dead Rising Engine (org. made for Sportgames). It is some sort of special instancing. Unbelieveable what the programmers did there.