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I have mostly finished the artwork for the new city apartment building, as well as some new inventory items. I spent some time trying to figure out the correct way to texture large objects. In the end, I decided to use a combination of techniques. Firstly, split the large object up into smaller objects when […]

The next step is to spend a few weeks improving the cities in the game. In particular, I want to add new artwork, and add more procedural decorations to make the cities feel more “lived in”. I also want to add the ability for the player to earn credits by performing various tasks and jobs. […]

I have been continuing on with the debugging and testing for the eproject. I have made some further improvements to the AI system, and I have also improved the grass exclusion system, although there are more updates needed here later. I have also added the ability to save and load the game while the player […]

I have made some more improvements to the text to speech system in the project. I have added a new voice from Cereproc, this can be selected as a possible voice for the characters in the project. All character voice settings are now persistent throughout the game, and so it is a simple matter to […]

The basic concept for the Procedural Structure Generator is basically done. It works in 3D, with interiors, and there are no visible cracks or gaps, etc. In the future, I will extend this system by adding textured objects, and more detail. I also need to fix some bugs, and add doors and panels to properly […]

I have decided to try to create an immersive city demo for the Oculus Rift. I want to see if I can capture the sense of immersion that I often feel while playing other VR games in a game that I made myself. This is a very difficult thing to achieve, since playing a game […]

I have just spent a little over a day working on the scripting side of Unity, and I have achieved something that I feared would take weeks to complete. Not only did I successfully implement raycasting, but I was also able to create a polygon from code, texture it, and apply a collision mesh. These […]

I have completed a simple art Demo in Unity. This is a very basic demo of the standard features of the Unity editor, plus some assets from the asset store. I have not created any art for this demo. I think the near photorealistic nature of even the standard Unity tools is staggering, and the sheer […]

I have decided to begin evaluating the Unity game engine, after spending some time with Unreal a few months ago. I found Unreal to be quite difficult to use, and the Blueprint scripting system wasn’t to my liking. Unity, by contrast, seems to be much more user friendly, and I seem to be able to […]

I believe that I have now, finally, solved the issues that I was having with planetary distance scaling. There were some additional performance issues that I needed to solve, and some logical issues that needed to be fixed, but the system now seems to work quite well. The transitions between tiers will likely need some […]