Been grinding hard.
- navmesh gen
- on demand mesh update
- pathfinding
- avoidance (ORCA),
- basic automatic unstuck logic
#bevy #gamedev #NoAI

I've switched over to #Bevy from UE5. Here is a generic pooling system and location checker to find free locations when activating a pooled entity.

I also have a new team project in the works, but can't share that yet.

#indiedev #gamedev

Also, someone please give me a job.

Hey! Check out my submission for the @juniperdev.bsky.social Serious Game Jam sworderist.itch.io/themanwithth...

It's about El Sombreron, a leyenda from Latin America!

I worked quite hard on it #UE5 #gamedev

Last week I got Mass Entity working and can spawn an absolutely massive amount of entities.

This week I will implement marquee selection using 2D Hierarchical Spatial Hash Grid so I don't have to iterate over every single entity every time a player goes to select a unit.

#UE5 #GameDev #ECS

In the past couple weeks I've been constantly reading about network determinism in RTS games. In case you don't know, most RTS games simulate individual unit state on each client in order to offload some overhead from the server.

#GameDev #Unreal

Been too busy to post here, but work on my RTS has not stopped for a moment. Will update where I'm at in a later.

Also, last week I submitted my first game jam. Features I worked on were a Superliminal style object grab and perspective resize and 6DOF jetpack movement. #GameDev #IGDA

Weekly Update: Created integration with State Tree logic and Ability System. Characters will use vision to find other characters that don't match the friendly Gameplay Tags, then move to and attack them using a Gameplay Ability with the option to select damage amount and types.

#UE5 #GameDev

Playing around with replicated physics #UE5 #gamedev

Features implemented this week: RTS style spawn buildings which are a requirement for the player to spawn a unit.

Also, State Tree NPC Behaviors. I created a State Tree that causes an NPC to flee to a tile out of sight of any player controlled pawn using EQS.

#gamedev #UE5

This week was nothing but startup race conditions.
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Everything in #UE5 multiplayer depends on network ownership, but making sure the client local version of an object is ready at the right time is a challenge.

#GameDev #Unreal

Multiplayer session hosting and joining with an authentication wrapper created. RPCs and replication tested working!

Still need to integrate an actual platform for online services, like Steam, but I want to go back to building gameplay next week.

#Unreal #UE5 #GameDev

#GAS handles a majority of the replication calls you would need normally. Saved me a lot of time which I spent creating a server/client setup. Also tinkered in Blender; made a wizard hat!

Next week: session management and gameplay loop management (waiting, start, progress, end)

#GameDev #Unreal

Discourse around NPC behaviors has virtually disappeared since "AI" in video games has come to refer to generative AI. This is frustrating as it is the topic I find most interesting in #gamedev.

I think we need a different kind of nomenclature that governs non-player decision making systems.

Refactored everything into separate plugins and got it all in separate repositories. Next week slowly adding replication while expanding GAS implementation #UE5

In my effort to avoid visual scripting as much as possible i figured out how to use Gameplay Abilities and Effects using C++... I'm not sure it was worth it but at least now I understand how #GAS passes around the related instances. #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev

The problem with GetActorsInSelectionRect is the way it uses an actor's extents. Basically it gives you a hitbox at the most extreme ends of ANY components that are attached to that actor. Taking 50% of those extents is more accurate but I'm also looking into filtering components.

#UE5 #Unreal

Built marquee selection into my RTS game using a recommended method only to find out that not only does everyone have problems with it, but even the sample RTS project Unreal includes has the exact problems everyone is complaining about. Not sure if box tracing from the camera is a better solution

In the event that @jesawyer.bsky.social is secretly working on Pillars 3, I really hope he plans to let us fight the Concelhaut x Titan of Wael that was unleashed upon Eora by the Watcher (the canon ending to the Forgotten Sanctum, of course).

@wigglewood.bsky.social i wonder if the genie ever found his hat