Dear Tankers,
Welcome to our 20th Development Status. You can see on what we were working the last two weeks.
Tree destruction
Besides bending, ripping off, and destroying trees and bushes VFX Artist also needs to make brand new foliages and for this, he is using SpeedTree software. Corylus avellana or simple Common Hazel is the first species of shrub we are making. Here are a few examples of full shrubs:
And single branches with leaves:
There is another reason to survive the whole campaign - hazelnuts in September and October :)
Repair Station
This time we would like to show you the progress that we’ve done on the repair station. Four players can cooperate to repair a tank using a crane. Interactive tank parts and objects are highlighted with a colorful outline. We’ve added a dot to increase the precision of selecting objects that players want to interact with.
To use a crane player has to use WASDQE keys. We’ve added a simple placeholder UI as without it crane controls were confusing even for us. Another thing is that to be able to place some tank parts or objects on a tank, you have to make sure there that nothing collides with the spot. Like you could see in the video, you can’t place an engine cover on a tank unless you rotate the turret.
Enemy vehicles AI
Our AI code was rewritten, so we can use the same code base for player tanks and AI tanks.
Now, our AI tanks are synchronized in multiplayer. Code for AI was optimized and cleaned.
We fix many bugs in AI spawners, and we started to connect their behavior to our BattleManager.
Synchronization
We’ve rewritten and optimized our synchronization code for multiplayer. Now, it is way smoother than before. Many bugs connected with it were fixed during this process.
Motion capture Rokoko
One more look on the work with Rokoko motion capture animation. Shooting from Mosin Nagant 91/30 with scope.
Thank you and have a nice weekend!
DeGenerals
