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MyRobot Development Part 34

Added 2024-09-14 00:50:54 +0000 UTC

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

Eyeball Behaviours
Customizable Eyes

Eyeball Behaviours

The purpose of this update was to continue the Slice Of Life's robot customization part of the update. So for the robot to have customizable eyeballs, I wanted the ability to remove, change, and put back in eyeballs.

This then lead to me requiring to add eyeball behaviours. I added 3 new animations, 2 are newly animated by me, that fire when the robot is given an eyeball, when one is removed, and when all are removed. They are cute animations!

So for the behaviour, sight touches practically all other behaviours. So when the robot is walking, it now walks funny and occasionally trips. I reused the same funny walk animations when the robot is attacked by several larvae. I also made its follow behaviour clumsier and less reliable when blinded.

Customizable Eyes

Eyes are the most important aspect for humans because we look at eyes the most out of any other body part. So, having customizable eyes is very important for MyRobot. You can now use the same gradient system to modify the color of an eyeball and additionally change the texture to 1 of 10 predefined pupil textures.

In the future I will be adding upload-your-own-texture functionality. But this covers the majority of the customization for eyes that I wanted for now.

So far this update brings customizable:

Hair length
Hair styles,
Eyelashes,
Eyes

I might add one last customizable feature for the robot but I am beginning to wrap up this month's work to release the next candidate Supporter build!

Stay tuned!