Weekly Update - Week 2.

[Ze_PilOt]

From the last update of week 1 :

- The display is much faster now.
- You can pan around by pressing the middle mouse button.
- The map is not limited to a square.
- The planets are distributed evenly in each zone.
- The 2d layer is in place. For now it's displaying an overlay on the closest planet from your mouse.
- You can add planets with shift key.
- The gateway creator is in place :
press & hold ctrl over a zone. It will preview the link in the viewport. Click again to confirm the creation of the link.
Releasing ctrl cancel it.

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http://users.edpnet.be/zepilot/gwPreview5.zip



So, every goal of week 1 are done. The first milestone is in two weeks (working map editor + display engine).

The goal for Week 2 :
- Moving/Erasing planets.
- Moving/Erasing links.
- I will try to investigate an pre-link generation, as the process can be long with a lot of planets.
- Dumping the galaxy on the disk and reloading it on the fly.
- Adding the complete Planet class (territories, occupation %, name, description, textures...)


- Adding some visual element when a planet is selected.

[FunkOff]

This is awesome, zep. Keep up the good work. (How many weeks left until we play first version?)

[Supreme321]

He said around gust it would be done, but we will see.

[Ze_PilOt]

I'm working of the bricks to make the whole thing possible.

It will take some time, but I'm trying to make it flexible enough to be able to play with the rules as we want (ie. the number of map/planets will not be limited, but can only be one), and generate new galaxies quickly enough if the number of planets is not right.

[anthey]

woow, that looks amazing.

edit#1 lol i see a bug (?)

Spoiler: show

edit#2 Second (?)

Spoiler: show

[eatfoodnow]

so awesome, great work!

[vlargon]

Looks nice ^^

[Ze_PilOt]

woow, that looks amazing.

edit#1 lol i see a bug (?)

edit#2 Second (?)

That's not a bug but the random generation placing two planets at the same place. It will obviously not be random

[rockoe10]

OMG! This is going to be amazing!

[Ze_PilOt]

Needless to say, with the server crashes and the replay vault, I did worked a lot on it.

But I can move planets, and I've fixed a lot of display glitches.

I have a good algo (on paper for doing the pre-links, I will try to implement it tomorrow. Once it's done, I guess I will be back on track with my schedule