#digordie

Dev Diary 27

Today I mostly spent my time on items refactoring, to improve the way I handle some items attributes: there display order, their blocking, “force-management”, anchor and “anchorable” attributes. Now you won’t be able to anchor small items like turrets on iron supports (think of it as a scaffolding), but you will be able to build that on platforms. And it’s done more properly, so that will be much easier to change such properties, and to add other specials items.

So as i’ve still nothing interesting to show about electric items, i’ll just show you a piece of code that iterates through the whole world 1 time per second in order to compute the electric wires network. I hope I have something more intersting to show you soon!

Dev Diary 18

Today I finished the new water plants. Here is a small video in x10 speed to show you how plants adapt to their environment conditions.

As you can see in the video, when I break the dam, the normal vegetation is flooded. So it slowly dies, and is replaced by the aquatic plants that take their place, as their own living conditions are now fulfilled. 

Today I mostly worked on the saving system to improve it. Thanks to my previous world data optimization and by adding some compression, the saved files size is now 2.8MB instead of 28MB... that’s better! Shame on me, i really should have done it sooner...