For Backers Only: Scale Tests - Renders

I like what I see.....

Wat. Please tell me this isn't the magic flowfield hover input.....

Mike

Don't get your panties in a bunch, the units are going to have weight. We've already had that discussion.

How about when a lot of bots are pushing against the commander to get his attention, that'd be.. cute!

"Down, boys! Down!"

I'm not worried about bumping, I'm more concerned about units clipping into eachother in order to "flow" into a tight space, this happened all the time in SupCom2.

Mike

hmm.. maybe I should take the "pathfinding for mobile robots" course at my university and become a strategy game developer? :lol:

The guys here have an article going into the next game AI book. I suppose you can just read that.

I am against units clipping into each other and we will be trying to avoid that.

this could be interesting, since I am studying mechatronics I always wonder if game developers use similar methods for pathfinding, describing the position of units, calculating physics etc like I use for real life robots ^^

This is probably the most uplifting thing I've heard all week.

Mike

thanks for trying to explain, and Im sure someone did understand it, but I didnt
Just good to know, that you try to implement it

I understood it

You should hear me scream about it.

To me it's very important for the sense of realism that the units have sense of size and power. Having then skate around like they are on ice completely ruins that (unless they are a hover tank).

You're my new favorite person forever.

Mike

Question about the human sized units. Will those be in game as a harassment weapon in game? Think modern day suicide bombers but robots that climb onto the enemy bots/buildings and explode.

Very nice!

looking great already on the scale of units and buildings.

maybe the units make an inclination change in orbit?, before landing on their target

I miss something like max slope. I remember awesome all terrain spider units from TA.
Dont forget them