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I have added network paging support to the project, using Mirror’s Custom “Interest Management” system. This means that I can page in and out objects from the server based on their world space distance and the zone that they are in. I have integrated this with the networked AI, and it works very well. I […]

I have created a new concept for the terrain scanning system for the project. This system asynchronously scans for nearby objects like cities, outposts, bases, etc, etc. The existing system is somewhat inefficient, however the new system uses async/await, which is much more powerful and should work better. This system should also allow me to […]

I have made more improvements and bug fixes to the networking system. There was an issue where if an item was picked up by one player, the item would still remain on the screen of other players, effectively duplicating the item. This has now been fixed. I also ran into an issue with world/local space […]

I have been working on minor improvements to AI spawning. There was an issue with the AI spawning too far from the player, which meant that there were no colliders underneath them. I have made some improvements to the spawning to prevent this. I have also made improvements to the creature AI spawn code, which […]

The AI is mostly finished. I am still testing and making final changes to the logic, but it is working very well. The next goal, other than some more testing, is to allow the games animals and creatures to also be networked. Currently, only the randomly spawned enemies are networked. Once this is done, I […]

The multiplayer AI concept is going very well. The core idea works, and my knowledge level with mirror networking has improved since I last worked on network code, so I should be able to use better, more performant, techniques. I can then use these new techniques to optimise and improve the existing, older, code. The […]

I have started working on the multiplayer improvements. The first thing that I did is smooth out the player movement, there was quite a lot of rubber-banding going on. I managed to fix this by putting the movement updates into fixedupdate() rather than update. I will, however, need to do quite a lot of optimisation […]

The next goal is to allow the randomly generated AI within the project to work over the network, and be visible and interactable by other network players. Network testing in general is something that I need to spend a lot more time on in future. The problem with networked AI is that the Project is […]

I have made some minor improvements to the guis, and to the player-facing elements of the game, to improve the player experience. I have also fixed some more bugs with the story system. I am now working on general testing and debugging, and adding some minor improvements that were due to be added.

I have fixed almost all of the remaining design flaws with the story system. There were some issues with objects spawned by the story system being placed over water, or not being placed at the correct distance from the player, etc, these issues seem to be fine now. I have also run several tests on […]