Art and Designs

I have been debugging and testing the inventory and the item crafting system more.

I have added some more features and buildable items, and improved the existing system.

I have run into an issue with crafting complex items, however. I am trying to keep my project as realistic as possible, and so I am trying to reduce, or eliminate, out-of-universe on-screen menus.

Combining items, for example, is done by selecting the items in the world, which works fine for simple items, but can be awkward and unwieldy for complex items.

It also gives the player no feedback on which items have already been combined, and which are still needed to construct the object.

I will, at some point, need to create a menu system to solve this, but I need to find a way to keep it as realistic as possible.

I have made the existing inventory system in the project persistent.

IE, any items, tools, etc, that the player picks up and adds to their inventory will be saved to the server, and database.

This was slightly more difficult than it sounds, because many of the items that the player is interacting with are persistent themselves, and have their own entry in the database, so if I simply add a new entry for the item in the players inventory, there will be a duplicate item in the world.

I was able to do this by removing the object from the world when adding it to the inventory, and then adding it back as a persistent item again when the player drops it back into the world.

Most of the variables are now done, and I have also made more extensive improvements to the GUI’s, in particular the navigation guis.

It is now possible to scan for stars and asteroids that have useful resources, as well as planets, etc.

The debugging, and A7 itself, is now basically done, at least for the time being.

I have tested various smaller systems and features within the project, and made some small changes and fixes.

I have also added some improvements and updates that I had been postponing for some time.

I will probably start the next major phase of the project in the next week or so. I am hoping to expand and extend the server-side persistent world features.

I have continued to make smaller improvements to the project, in addition to testing.

I have added some improvements to the nav system to make finding object easier, and the next objective is to improve the item code, to combine persistent objects with moveable objects, inventory objects, etc.

The idea will be to create a single item type that supports all features.

I have spent some more time working on various bug fixes and improvements.

I have fixed issues with the AI navmeshes, and I have also done some preliminary research into updating and upgrading various core features of the project.

There are several features, such as the webkit, the Oculus Rift package, and the MCS character creation system, that I will need to update at some point, some of them sooner rather than later.

I am also working on fixing issues with the player movement and gravity, etc.

Overally, this is going relatively well.