The Bug that Would Not Die

So, I chased a couple of bugs for several hours yesterday. One of them must have been a virus - it kept replicating my fishing huts five or six times whenever one was created. The other had to do with a self-destructive storage pit that took the whole game with it. Fun stuff.

Anyway, both bugs have bitten the dust by now. (For one of them, I had to actually create a whole new Fishing Hut model)

Animations

There's a really scary bug somewhere in my animaker; it makes bones bend in strange ways; and I have no idea what to do about it. I can work around it, but it's annoying to say the least.

I created about three human animations (melee crush, shield block, walk), but I think I'm going to have to fix this bug before creating final animations.

Efficiency and Velocity

I spend about three hours working on game efficiency this morning, with the end result being that the game achieves ~60 fps flat - up 15+ fps from Demo 1 with no quality changes. There is an additional extra-low detail setting which adds an extra 20 fps, but removes the animated water; and a resolution setting for the runner program.

What is Planned

I plan to do the following before Demo 2:

* Shave down the file size to decrease load time - there are still lots of unused textures in the game.

* Finish Era 2 - this means several more buildings, 7 new technologies, and 3 new buildable units.

* Finish new animation set - units will look better and perform better, due to some handy Xtreme3d commands.

* Complete the implementation of morale and supplies - an important gameplay element.

For demo 3 (tentative):

* Implement enemy AI for a city-vs-city battle

* New map

Me

My calculus 1 (College course) final is tonight. I have straight-A's in the course, so I'm not too worried.

I won a raffle in the Indygamer blog a few days ago; with the result that I now have a copy of Mr. Robot and a mousepad. Yay.

There was a fire several days ago in and around the church where my High School graduation was to take place. No word yet on what's being done about that.