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Re: What are you working on?
[Re: Superku]
#437249
02/12/14 23:56
02/12/14 23:56
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Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 3,076 Germany, NRW
rvL_eXile
3D Artist
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3D Artist
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Germany, NRW
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Greenhouse (Just missing some vegetation!) Ignore the shading issues, just baked AO in Blender and edited a bit in Gimp! Feedback?! regards Sebastian
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Re: What are you working on?
[Re: rayp]
#437251
02/13/14 01:46
02/13/14 01:46
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Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 3,076 Germany, NRW
rvL_eXile
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3D Artist
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here with vegetation (no shading!) Next Image will be made out of an engine...
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Re: What are you working on?
[Re: Superku]
#437254
02/13/14 08:05
02/13/14 08:05
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Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 3,150 Budapest
sivan
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How does it look/ work when you try to send your troops through a 3-4 tile choke or when one half of the squad moves against an obstacle? just debugged this part yesterday groups now go through without problem even if arriving at the same time to the 3 tile wide, 7 tile long gate. the screen shows an A* seqarch of the main group leader (non examined black, closed list red, open list blue): the full system is basically very complex, tasks are spread over a few frames resulting in a balanced load, and related both on pathfinder and movement parts (I had to draw by hand several flow-charts to get it work). I use a hierarchical pathfinder consisting of 2 parts: 1) the group searches a path only among clusters (actually 8x8 tiles for terrain, but varies after terrain decomposition, and in case of buildings. in Company of Heroes they use 10x10, it is very game dependent). 2) the tile pathfinder is simple: if the straight move path check fails, the 1st row uses an A* like thing towards next cluster middle. others only follow the one is assigned to them as sub-leader. on the picture you can see the search area, it is not big. in case of leaders if pathfinding fails, they use another search ignoring other units to avoid to be got stuck. it leads of course to collisions. (this basic group formation and target finding system will be totally rewritten to be more effective and to show visually better group cohesion) thus in the movement part as a quite new feature, I implemented a push/bounce collision system, which works surprisingly performcance effectively, utilizing simply c_move (I was unable to do it with PhysX). collision length is measured for each unit, and handled in multiple stages. they can repath after a certain frames, or if everything goes wrong finally they can ignore other unit collisions, but it is a very rare situation so nearly never visible. and there are some counters measuring if a unit is got stuck, then they are not allowed to search a new path in every frames to avoid high CPU load. later I can make a video, but there are some issues with accessing 2nd building floor (that was okay in past so back to backups again...). I have to work on more visual debugging tools as they make the work much easier and faster. and afterwards, I'll rewrite the army/group/unit/entity structs to be flexible and really game ready. it will be a heavy job, but I have a nice road-map with exact plans, like potential map creation for AI decision making etc.
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Re: What are you working on?
[Re: sivan]
#437264
02/13/14 12:23
02/13/14 12:23
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Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 6,861 Kiel (Germany)
Superku
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Still not convinced by a c_move (movement) approach but otherwise, very cool! I'd be interested in a video of a group of units moving through the gate (and accessing the 2nd floor would be cool, too, if you manage to fix it)!
EDIT: @rvL_eXile: The greenhouse looks pretty cool. Only some broken windows look a little weird, I don't think that glass breaks like for example in the first shot the window with the oval shaped hole. I could be mistaken, though, and it may depend on the glass.
Last edited by Superku; 02/13/14 12:26.
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Re: What are you working on?
[Re: Superku]
#437300
02/13/14 22:14
02/13/14 22:14
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Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 3,076 Germany, NRW
rvL_eXile
3D Artist
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3D Artist
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Germany, NRW
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Rendered Screens:
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Re: What are you working on?
[Re: Superku]
#437333
02/14/14 10:09
02/14/14 10:09
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Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 3,150 Budapest
sivan
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Still not convinced by a c_move (movement) approach but otherwise, very cool! I'd be interested in a video of a group of units moving through the gate (and accessing the 2nd floor would be cool, too, if you manage to fix it)! thanks okay I'll make a short video maybe next week. the floor bug is just fixed a few minutes ago, beside some other wrong helper functions... I decided beside c_move after checked again some Total War games, where there is apparently no exact unit pathfinding, only a group level potential field, and a formation keeping potential field for units, so units simply push away other units when groups are going through each other. this is why you can see many pathfinding problems, which is lowered at gates and towers/walls, where they use probably a different, maybe a hardcoded movement. I can use this approach until I find it effective (very short collisions).
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Re: What are you working on?
[Re: sivan]
#437335
02/14/14 11:31
02/14/14 11:31
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Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 3,076 Germany, NRW
rvL_eXile
3D Artist
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3D Artist
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Posts: 3,076
Germany, NRW
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WIP Utility Pole: feedback? Come on guys...
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