{"id":701,"date":"2009-09-03T21:15:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T11:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=701"},"modified":"2009-09-03T21:18:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T11:18:57","slug":"todays-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2009\/09\/03\/todays-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bullet point list, today. \u00a0Not feeling up to writing things out in prose form.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Time controls are back in; \u00a0time can be paused, run at real-time, at 6x normal speed, or at 36x normal speed. \u00a0These numbers, of course, are subject to change. \u00a0But the old 1x, 60x, and 3600x used in MMORPG Tycoon 1 were a little silly, and a nightmare for the simulation when running at the fastest speed. \u00a0I&#8217;ll have more to say about this tomorrow.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed cloud and wave movement to be affected by the time controls.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed cloud rendering such that they draw correctly when viewed from above.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a few bugs in the management of quests and the placement of monsters.<\/li>\n<li>Changed quests to specify their regions using arbitrary n-gons, instead of axis-aligned boxes. \u00a0I&#8217;ll have more to say about this tomorrow, too.<\/li>\n<li>Initial implementation of &#8220;GraveShip&#8221; controls, which is the interface the player will be using when placing buildings and doing other large-scale work. \u00a0 Right now, the GraveShip moves on a horizontal plane with the WASD keys, and you can use the mouse wheel (or a keyboard equivalent) to change your elevation. \u00a0Right now, it still feels very FPSish; \u00a0eventually I&#8217;ll start adding control mechanics to feel a little more like a hovering vehicle, without making it more difficult to control.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed questing areas to not be generated spanning a region boundary; \u00a0questing areas are now entirely contained inside the same region where the quest giver is located. \u00a0(Remember again that &#8216;regions&#8217; are the equivalent of &#8220;Duskwood&#8221; or &#8220;The Barrens&#8221; in WoW; \u00a0they&#8217;re huge areas covering between two and four square kilometers, of generally similar terrain, lighting, and environment type) \u00a0Note that the quest system can easily cope with quests being located in a different region from the quest giver; \u00a0they just aren&#8217;t currently enabled, because the pathfinder can&#8217;t actually generate paths from one region to another, yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bullet point list, today. \u00a0Not feeling up to writing things out in prose form. Time controls are back in; \u00a0time can be paused, run at real-time, at 6x normal speed, or at 36x normal speed. \u00a0These numbers, of course, are subject to change. \u00a0But the old 1x, 60x, and 3600x used in MMORPG Tycoon 1&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-bj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}