Category: Uncategorized

Once again I have slipped a little on offering a development update. As is obvious to anyone reading this, there has been a pandemic, and the ongoing covid situation has taken up a lot of time and concern, so things have been considerably slower than I had hoped for. All the same I have made some progress, and I hope the groundwork I’ve done here will help me iterate quicker in future.

Updates as follows:

• AI work:
  • Refactored base behaviour
  • Redesigned senses: AI now does proper vision tracing and can hear things to respond to them
  • Added stimuli-response logic
  • Added behavioural relationship logic between AIs (can distinguish between friend and foe)
  • Added threat logic
  • Fixed numerous bugs with AI routine processing
  • Made movement logic more efficient
  • Recreated basic attack routines to be more believable and more “fluid”
  • Added interaction logic

• Tooling:
  • Updated prtoject to latest UE4 engine version
  • Retargeted solution to use VS2019
  • Edited project to be compatible with ReSharper C++
  • Housekept project to remove old and unused data, revamped structure

• Miscellaneous:
  • Integrated external tools for asset production for landscapes (more on this in future)
  • Fixed dozens of bugs
  • Worked on in-game map art
  • Planned numerous quest lines
  • 10,000 words of quest text

Apologies for the lack of updates!

I have been quite busy with life in general and unfortunately a lot of the work I have been doing on Olusia is really tricky, time-consuming non-visible stuff. So while I’ve made significant progress, there’s not an awful lot to *show*.

I’ve fixed a series of tricky bugs and made the networking logic significantly more reliable, which took up a chunk of my time. Now in future adding exciting new item enchantments will be significantly easier.

I’ve also started work on the following systems:

• Calendar and age
• Inventory
• Character creation

As well as going out and creating a series of new photogrammetry assets and textures, and having new music assets created. Here’s a peek:

I hope my next update will come pretty soon! It should be on either inventories and management or the calendar system – but it depends which one I advance quicker on.