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I have added several minor improvements to the project, such as allowing water to boil gradually when adventuring, instead of having it boil instantly. I have also fixed some isses that occurred when the player dropped items on board a ship. I have also added some new art objects for the crafting system, and made […]

I have made some minor improvements to the Space-Based AI. These AI entities can now spawn further from the center of the solar system, and travel faster. The next goal is to fix a long standing bug with the Crew AI that occurs when the player returns to their ship. This intermittent bug causes the […]

I have completed the changes to the inventory menu. I was able to use the existing trading and inventory menu, I simply modified it to add new features. It is now possible to interact with defeated AI enemies to search their bodies for items, resources, etc. T It is less immersive than the previous system, […]

I have done some more tests and made some more improvements to the AI system. It is now more solid and robust, with greater functionality and more attention given to edge cases and more complex situations. I am now working on some improvements to the inventory system. Currently, there is no inventory menu when interacting […]

I have added some of the missing features for the AI system. These features are mainly to handle edge cases, and are not too important, but they would need to have been added at some point. There are still one or two features that I need to add, and I also need to work on […]

I have completed the next phase of testing with the AI. There were some bugs and issues and unsupported behaviour, but it has gone very well. The code seems quite solid at this point. The AI can enter buildings, and carry out actions autonomously within those buildings. The AI state is also stored persistently between […]

I have begun working on the AI code within the city. This system uses older code for its dynamic navigation graphs. I have entirely replaced this code when the AI is exploring the world (Because there was significant issues with using it in these cases), but it seems to work ok for cities, so I […]

I am still working on testing the AI with the dynamic navigation system. I have fixed several issues and handled several edge cases with respect to the AI navigation within the world. There are a large number of different building types, each with their own unique properties, etc. Some very accurate (non-smoothed) graphs, while some […]

Testing the Dynamic AI navigation system is going generally well. There are a few issues that I found with edge cases, but most of these are rare, and I am in the process of fixing them. There is quite a lot of testing left to do, but I am making good progress. The most difficult […]

The issue with AI navigation within complex structures is fixed. The issue was that the AI nav path is normally smoothed, to produce a more natural looking path. This is fine out doors, but within complex interiors with very tight paths, the smoothing can make the path less accurate, causing the AI to get stuck, […]