{"id":187,"date":"2010-04-19T19:15:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T02:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.legendofeuterra.com\/devblog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2010-04-19T19:15:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T02:15:40","slug":"revisiting-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shadowdawngenesis.com\/devblog\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The teaser page has been updated with a bit more lively interface.\u00a0 I hope you like it, and especially the\u00a0rearrangement of the main theme Forever No More<\/em>.\u00a0 I wasn’t sure I should post it, but if a certain other well-known RPG company posts their game’s main theme on their site the day they announce it then maybe that’s not such a bad idea.\u00a0\u00a0Since it is\u00a0the theme\u00a0of the Shadowdawn\u00a0<\/em>series and used as a\u00a0title theme it will be\u00a0just a\u00a0little different when the actual game is done, and hopefully mastered (a technique in sound I know little about but do have friends capable of it), so I don’t think I’m giving too much away \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Let me begin the development update\u00a0by saying in the days since I started programming Shadowdawn Genesis<\/em>, I’ve definitely improved.\u00a0 When I need to use something I haven’t implemented, it’s a much easier task and I make very few mistakes for the compiler to cry about now, not to mention my code is getting easier to read and adjust as needed.<\/p>\n

That said, this weekend was spent in the process of not just finishing enemy AI and general programming, I decided that the original class (that’s the “type” that defines what defines an enemies\u00a0status and actions\u00a0in code for you non-programmers) was not well done.\u00a0 It was slow, very hard to decipher where to change things and timers were\u00a0being accessed\u00a0all over the place so there was a very good chance that a major AI bug would occur when things got more complex.\u00a0 So I totally scrapped the entire thing (much like I did with the Level Map class earlier this week to avoid memory issues down the road).<\/p>\n

One of the things I set out to do with the new NPC class (which now\u00a0encompasses enemies, neutrals, and party members) which I had been avoiding since the start of the project was create a proper animation routine.\u00a0\u00a0The test kittris were just one frame, regardless of which way they were facing or what they were doing, and obviously I couldn’t let that be the case for the finished game.\u00a0 Amazingly the whole thing worked with no problems on the execution side the first time I ran it, from here I just need to start the master NPC\/Enemy database which should be no problem (since I have a database already for items) and have the level data refer to them by an ID number for efficiency.<\/p>\n

Which brings up the next thing, although I hate giving myself more work, I realized I don’t have a lot of enemies planned.\u00a0 Maybe that’s ok, but guess I still need more “neutrals” like birds that fly overhead of random fauna wandering the wilderness.\u00a0 Hopefully I’ll be smart enough to keep their actions to a minimum.<\/p>\n

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