Screenshotsaturday - Blog Posts
Shenanigans
I decided to instantiate and drop ~99 RigidBodies to see what would happen. The game had zero problems until I tried to interact with one of the boxes and my interaction system got fussy. Now that I think about it, I need to repeat this very important experiment with my bomb object...
Quest System Cont.
Here is me playing through a short quest in an old tutorial room. I like this video since I engage with a lot of the mechanics I've been working on.
Ngl I kinda want to have combat take place on the same scene as exploration, you know Chrono Trigger/Sea of Starsy. However, to do that I'll need to do a lot of tweaking to my code and spend a lot of time redrawing enemy sprites I already made...
More Terrain Stuff
More models I ended up scrapping. 3D modelling is very tuff.
Party Follow
So following party members are a bit tricker in 3D. The main issue I need to solve is how they handle being obstructed by something they can scale. I sorta want to put jumping into their state machine but I'm lazy so for now they teleport. I had a slight issue where when they teleported somewhere they could crush the player controller into the ground... it might still be an issue I need to test it more haha.
If you were curious about how their path-finding works it's something like this:
A. Determine the vector between the current position and the player position ignoring the y-axis. B. Add vector to velocity to move in the player's direction. C. If one of 6 ray casts reports collision and velocity is close to zero pick another direction to walk in for a while before resuming from step A.
I could use the built-in navigation stuff Godot has but it needs to be baked and I sorta want to avoid that with how much I like to tweak the environment sometimes. Idk it works well enough for now but there is totally room for improvement haha.
Psuedo2D
A dump of some things. I briefly mentioned how I had rewrote the game in Godot 4. During the transition I decided to give up on pure 2D and just make a 3D game that looks 2D... so in my own words, pearlessential is now a Psuedo2D game. Here are some captures from early in the transition.
Equip/Augment UI Mockup
Probably my favourite mockup to date. This is where the player will configure their party members. A battler can equip 1 weapon, 1 armor set, 1-2 artifacts depending on class and 4 techniques. This amounts to 8 possible things to customize around the endgame. On top of the equipment possibilities, the player can also augment 4 attributes (SPD, STR, DEF, MAG) on each of their characters using attribute points scattered across the world.
Game World
a few locations to say the least. I think there are 9 major cities, 10 small towns, and a lot of dungeons... I might cut some towns...
Overworld Attack VFX
ended up scraping these and changing the system...
