Basic gameplay features

[paulbrzeski]

Functionality needed:

• Shooting basic projectiles and health systems
• Killboards / players online UI
• Implement bot behaviours
  • Need to make some dynamic behaviour switching
    • Stage 1: Basic movement and target locking
      • Default for bots is to be on patrol
      • If a player or cargo ship is in range, pursue
      • If a structure is in range and currently pursuing, break off pursuit and return to patrol location and pattern
      • Players and bots have their own target lock mechanics
    • Stage 2: Combat
      • If a player or structure attacks the bot, it flees for a few seconds and then doubles back to attack
        • If the player is in range, it will resume the fight
        • If the player has left the area, it will return to it's patrol
  • Behaviour probably needs to be part of the game/ folder so it can be on the server

Out of scope:

• Implement Pirate aircraft and aircraft selection screens
• Missions and objectives

Acceptance Criteria:

• Bots move around the map using automatic pathfinding
• Player can target lock bots
• Mini map
• Bots change behaviour based on others in proximity
• Players and bots can shoot at, damage and destroy each other

[paulbrzeski]

Early July notes:

• Working on Basic gameplay features #32
  • Fixing minor issues
    • Debugging, fast and skip intro are now toggleable
  • Refactoring code base around the scenograph
  • Implementing scene overview
    • Got proof of concept working
      • Tried to use Tweakpane Table but it's for an older Tweakpane and couldn't get it working on the new branch either
      • Looked into making my own Tweakpane Plugin but it seems cumbersome, for now I can get away with just overriding it's inner contents and managing it myself.
  • Refactoring camera into new Cameras class with separate sub cameras
  • Implementing orbit control target selections

Todays notes:

• Basic gameplay features #32 - Basic Gameplay
  • Just noticed there's no http server built into dev... never mind it was on https
  • Exporting a pirate model from Blender, could be good to add a thruster to it..
    • Never mind it looks wrong aesthetically and the file size is rough
  • Checking Yuka documentation for what I need to do for basic bot behaviours, looks like the options are quite API-ey so I need to think about what I want first and then figure out what parts of the spec I need to use
  • Brainstorming bot requirements. There are two sets of bots I want to build at this stage
    • Freight ships that travel between the structures
      • Could be fun to make them run away from attack so it's a game of cat and mouse to get ships to their destination
    • Pirate ships that are trying to raid the freight ships and attack players who approach them
      • A timer that spawns in the pirates initially and replacements
      • Randomise the spawn location between a couple of pre-set spots
      • They should target the nearest freight ship when spawned, fly towards it and begin attack
      • If a player approaches while they are engaging cargo ships, the player is ignored
      • If a player attacks them while they are attacking the ships, they switch targets to the player
      • If they are not near a freighter yet and the player intercepts them they will immediately aggro and target the player
  • Renaming "Ship" class to Player so that it makes more sense alongside the incoming Bot class
    • Testing, looks good
  • Reviewing Yuka documentation, looks like there's quite a lot to do in order to implement the behaviours
  • Adding the Raven model to the scene within the Bot class
    • Implementing the Wander steering behaviour so the 3D model just flies around at first
      • It's moving but very slowly and I can only seem to get it going backwards..
      • Fixed it up, it needs to be restricted to boundaries somehow
      • The camera isn't able to track the ship, need to look into that

[paulbrzeski]

• Langenium Basic gameplay features #32 Mini Map
  • Adding static HTML container with background colour
  • Aligning all the overlay colours and refactoring styles
  • Adding minimap class and player's FOV shape to the minimap
    • Adding icons
    • Replaced FOV shape with chevron
  • Adding portrait mode to HUD
  • Fixing game control positions after resizing, actually this needs more work because they need to debounce
  • Disabling overlays before game mode is active

[paulbrzeski]

• Langenium Basic gameplay features #32
  • Bumped three.js to latest
  • Creating new actors concept which is for behaviours that can be attached to objects to give them behaviours
    • Bots
    • Players
  • Refactoring so YUKA lives inside the game folders and is only defined once in there
    • Split old bot from client into client raven aircraft with pirate actor attached, these can then be uncoupled later but at least the pieces are up.