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The art piece I am working on is going reasonably well> I used a model from Daz3D as a starting point. It is inspired by the Borg from Star Trek, as well as the Adjunct from Starcraft. It’s mainly an exercise to improve my skills, and develop new ones.

I believe I have mostly fixed the stair climbing physics changes. I actually used a combination of techniques. First, I used a trigger to disable the gravity while the player is on the stairs, this prevents the player from sliding back down the stair ramp, and allows them to easily climb the ramp (since there’s […]

The integration is going reasonably well. There are still some bugs and issues, and also some performance problems and framerate issues (which would be exacerbated by running the game through the editor), but the system seems to be working well. I have also made changes to the various buildings in the game, to add an […]

I have made more improvements to the inventory system. I fixed some bugs, and added some additional functionality, and I created new inventory objects. I have also begun integrating the system into the main part of the game, by adding item datablocks to the various trees, plants, and objects the the player will be able […]

Almost all of the art for the survival and exploration part of the project is done. I have added various tools and items, and additional functionality to the inventory. The next step is to integrate all of these items, and their functionality, with the main project so that I can begin using them.

I have finished most of the testing and debugging with the inventory system. The next objective is to add the actual art for the tools and items for the next part of the project. I have also decided to smooth out the terrain more, resulting in a flatter appearance. This terrain doesn’t look at good […]

I have been working with the new shadergraph in the HDRP to try to replicate my terrain blending shader. I am trying to blend multiple textures using the height of the vertices to select a texture, so higher vertices would have snow, lower ones would have grass, etc. I have achieved a very simple proof […]

I have been experimenting with various texture techniques, and I have created a simple art piece to demonstrate how to apply one texture to multiple objects. The clock that I have made is actually several unique objects, the each of the hands, body, etc, are all different. That is how I was able to connect […]

I have spent quite a bit of time on adding combat mechanics to the new AI ships in the game. The AI ships and the player can target each other and fire missiles at each other, and can sustain and inflict damage which disables and destroyed various systems on both ships.

I seem to be making some progress with the rotation and translation of the planets around the player. There is still quite a lot to do, but I think I am close to a solution. There are a few issues making this more difficult, including 32/64 bit precision, and the fact that the entire world […]