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MyRobot Development Part 11

Added 2024-02-18 03:22:46 +0000 UTC

Video shows the summary. Text shows the technical!

This week:

Cursor
Attachment improvements
Beginning exploration
Attachment part health

Cursor

The cursor was implement to prevent players from purposely glitching the physics when trying to piggy back ride the robot. It was an easy fix at the cost of not having an infinite grip anymore, which is okay.

The only issue with this is that it's not precise (in its initial implementation), meaning it can accidentally slip just because the physics feel like it. This is because it is as the mercy of a joint break force.

Attachment improvements

Because the game is supposed to be about building robots, I thought it was very important to have a very smooth robot bulding experience (duh!). So I spent some time adding sound effects, visual effects, and general improvements to the robot system.

Everything works on top of a humanoid and I made sure that the bindings work with any limb. So if you connect the hand to the foot, the hand will wiggle as the foot would. It's neat. I had to dig deep into PuppetMaster and rip out stuff and rewrite parts of it to work. I am considering moving to PuppetmasterLite for performance.

As for the ability to chain together tentacles to your robot, I will allow it to a certain extent because Unity really really doesn't like chains of joints. They can be very unstable. I am thinking of making it a gameplay risk to give users an incentive to NOT do this. Maybe the limbs can break and fly away (would also fix exploding physics).

Beginning exploration

Exploration will be fun and your robot will be your best friend in your adventure! More on this later...

Attachment Part Health

This part of the game is still in the air with no hard decisions yet but I would like for there to be some kind of fun but not annoying way to keep up with each part of your robot! The current implementation is a hard integer health number that decreases if you do drastic things with it, such as using it to kick open wodden barricades.

Stay tuned!