Working a bit more on leveldesign. Added rain / snow weather box solutions...

@3run:
no, they are avoiding obstacles, but only those which they should avoid.
I set all stones passable i.e. handled exactly as terrain, they are impassable only if has a very high slope. but of course they could be set as obstacles similarly to buildings trees and bushes (as I did in my earlier tests).
since there's no any c_tracing used for movement it is not desirable to use such a small models as passable because sometimes the unit legs are getting hidden (but the same happens in any Total War game when units are moving on high slope terrain).
@wjbender: thanx, I'll start fighting system soon, and also have ideas for walkable buildings having 1 or 2 floors for seige battles.

Getting past pathfinding is a hard task
but when you finaly do ,a whole lot of restriction
falls away and its smooth sailing from there on
forward into game developement which is what were
really after ,so i congratualate you for sticking it out
especialy since you had to do it all on your own , its such projects
that keep us inspired

@otter: Well, not much . It is what it seems like; basejumping gentlemen into an endless pit.

sivan, that's pretty cool! Looks like your secret dream project is an RTS? Or is it a secret, never-before-seen game that just happens to need that kind of AI and pathfinding?

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Thanks for the feedback!

There's a lot of putting things together right now. Can't say that this is particulary motivating work, but comments like those make it easier!

It's just that I have a stupid way of working. As soon as the part isn't "interesting" anymore, because I have solved the main issue, I just... stop. I have to force myself to finish stuff. Instead, it piles up and all those little things have to be added in the end all at once. Take that editor I posted before, for instance. Now that this is working, I don't add convenience features anymore. For instance, I want to add an option to change the order of nodes. It's super-easy to do, with no challenge. But I just... don't do it. People, tell me I'm not the only one with that problem!


Now: Encrypting and decrypting music so that it's not trivial anymore to get the tracks (and all that without pro!). I'm not pretending that it's super-secure (it really isn't), but the goal has always been to only make it more difficult than recording the "Stereo Mix" ingame - which I believe this does, for most users.
The thing is working already, and I can live with the slowdown the encryption causes, but my tool of adding new music to the library could probably be a bit nicer to use. Oh well, can't have everything!

That's absolutely my way, sometimes, I wasn't even able to finish a work for university, means, write it down, once I understood the given subject! What a mess!

A good way to get motivated is when you have some people who depend on you finishing the thing. For instance I extended my GameEditor for a friend who uses it for a simple question-answer-game that is presented at sort of games convention.
http://www.stadtbibliothek-bielefeld.de/5007.htm

@Error014: Looking awesome. Even before the next public version, it could be cool to have a VioletTV countdown on YouTube and IndieDB for the release, as well as some important announcements. Then once players get their hands on the game they'd be quite pleased to see all those announcements and countdown episodes available from within the game from the get-go

@Error014: yes, some kind of RTS is the aim, the system what I found out one year ago seems to be working it can help the AI decision making too, but that part will be another hard thing...

A Valley I'm working on right now,

This is just a lighting and composition-test. I'm not satisfied because some things look a little off, but well I wanted to show you anyways. Maybe you got some ideas on improving this scene?




Greetings
Roxas

You should try to saturate all colors quite a bit.