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    Will we be able to create own mods for the flowfield?

    Every algorithm has problems when inertia is simulated for units (in their motion model) but not taken into account during path generation. Games...
    Post by: omelettedufromage, March 29, 2013 in forum: Planetary Annihilation General Discussion
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    Will we be able to create own mods for the flowfield?

    You would obviously need to assign more than one intermediate goal. You are also making some assumptions in your example, namely that 1: you can...
    Post by: omelettedufromage, March 28, 2013 in forum: Planetary Annihilation General Discussion
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    Will we be able to create own mods for the flowfield?

    Because most people still don't get that constantly "painting" cost ingame to achieve a certain micro-behavior would be (a lot) more effort than good...
    Post by: omelettedufromage, March 28, 2013 in forum: Planetary Annihilation General Discussion
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    Will we be able to create own mods for the flowfield?

    double-post
    Post by: omelettedufromage, March 28, 2013 in forum: Planetary Annihilation General Discussion
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    No-Go-Zones and overriding the Pathfinding Algorithm

    You don't really understand how pathfinders work. 1: A pathfinder does not *know* if a path (a potential route for units which your *eyes* can...
    Post by: omelettedufromage, March 25, 2013 in forum: Planetary Annihilation General Discussion
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    Finding the optimal path

    Any pathfinding system relying on hierarchical subdivision will *always* (you can prove this mathematically) introduce local suboptimality of some...
    Post by: omelettedufromage, March 23, 2013 in forum: Planetary Annihilation General Discussion
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    Confirmed features and suggestions

    http://theoatmeal.com/comics/senior_year ((mostly) for US peeps)
    Post by: omelettedufromage, January 19, 2013 in forum: Planetary Annihilation General Discussion
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    For Backers Only: Scale Tests - Renders

    What if an agent is amphibious and needs two layers? ;) (I know, "sample"...) wrt. clipping: imo soft collision constraints are a necessary evil,...
    Post by: omelettedufromage, January 18, 2013 in forum: Backers Lounge (Read-only)
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    Forum Game: Your views on AI in 250 words or less.

    That's not "AI" so much as it is (a lack of group-based) pathfinding.
    Post by: omelettedufromage, October 4, 2012 in forum: Planetary Annihilation General Discussion
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    PA = peer2peer? ( Server related games VS. p2p)

    PA has been stated (many times) to use a client-server model. On a side note, peer2peer (in the sense SC worked) does not automatically have to be...
    Post by: omelettedufromage, September 29, 2012 in forum: Planetary Annihilation General Discussion
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    How many game developers have pledged this game?

    I dev the Spring engine. Backing PA WHICH IS GOING TO STEAL ALL (5) OF OUR PLAYERS AWAY probably wasn't the smartest move I ever made.
    Post by: omelettedufromage, September 15, 2012 in forum: Planetary Annihilation General Discussion
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    Confirmed features and suggestions

    AFAIK Uber is already committed to a sandbox security model for mod code, so raw dynamic loading of compiled binary blob AI libraries like Spring...
    Post by: omelettedufromage, September 4, 2012 in forum: Planetary Annihilation General Discussion
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    Planets: square or spherical?

    yes, but there are six quadtrees in a quadcube (pretty much the standard way to do DLOD'ed spherical geometry)
    Post by: omelettedufromage, September 3, 2012 in forum: Planetary Annihilation General Discussion
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    Things TA did well that SupCom didn't

    O_O Interesting, I always just assumed (from the path_ debug console command names) that was done to grant the pathfinder a background calculation...
    Post by: omelettedufromage, September 1, 2012 in forum: Planetary Annihilation General Discussion
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    Planetary Orbits?

    :rolleyes: The mathematics of general relativity are also "open source", should that be implemented to get all the mechanics truly correct then?...
    Post by: omelettedufromage, August 31, 2012 in forum: Planetary Annihilation General Discussion