Animations
When I started with this project, I thought one very big problem will be the 3D Art, I'm not an Artist, I'm just an average Developer. While I found...
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trill41
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Multiple height levels
In games with a physics engine, there is a constant force pulling an Actor down until it collides with the terrain or some other object (e.g. stairs...
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New navigation mesh
As mentioned earlier, ABx uses a navigation mesh to find routes from one point to another. There was the suggestion to include static scene objects,...
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Autonomous movements
In ABx a Player or NPC can move autonomously from one point to another. For example, a Player can click on a point on the Terrain, the client...
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Debugging Game AI
Some time ago I made a Behavior tree implementation for this game. While the implementation seems to work, the NPCs sometimes behave very silly, so I...
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Linux and Open Source
LinuxThe Client runs now as smooth as on Windows, thanks to Urho3D, which seems to compile and run almost everywhere.Open SourceWhile the source was...
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Event system
When I realized that the classes are getting really big and complicated, I splitted them into smaller classes. So the Actor class doesn't do...
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Friend Foe identification
The game mechanics doesn't allow to use damage skills on allies and heal or protection skills on foes. This makes it necessary that the game can...
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Projectiles
Projectiles Unfortunately Bows and Spears already existed in ancient Greece, so I had to implement something that feels like a projectile....
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Running on real Server Hardware
Some days ago I got old server hardware. It's a Xeon with 4 cores @ 2.40GHz with 8GB RAM an SSD and 2 HDDs in RAID1. I installed Debian 10 Buster...
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Linux and Client prediction
Linux Some time ago I started to port all the servers to Linux. This process is more or less finished now, it compiles fine with Clang (didn't try...
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Items and AI
Items I was thinking about weapons and equipment's, which all are Items. So sooner or later some item system must be implemented. All items are...
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Gameplay
For the last two years I worked almost only on the foundation of this project, e.g. networking, how servers communicate, database back end, different...
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Collisions
Collisions have been a constant source of frustration, maybe because I decided to use my own Math library, and did not just use Bullet or something....
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Skills
This is an RPG and RPGs usually have skills. In this game a character can have up to eight skills. NPCs and Players usually can equip skills from the...
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Scaling and Administration
The Game server doesn't scale vertically (i.e. throw better hardware at a problem) well, because it's mostly single-threaded, so it can host only a...
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Migrating and Porting
Migrating the Database For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to migrate the database from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Installing PostgreSQL on...
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Part 4: Portals and UI changes
Portals In games you find something that take you to other maps, sometimes this is called a Portal. On the server side Portals are just scriptable...
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Part 3: UI and Network
Preface Sorry for the weird order, this is partly chronological and partly what came out of my mind. UI I'm not really a frontend guy, give me some...
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Part 2: Players, NPCs and Navigation
Player Replaced the ball with a real character model. At the moment I have just a few character models with two animations (run and idle): Video The...
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