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[.Uberren]

Sorry for the silence, was participating in a game jam over the weekend

Working on some text for damage numbers and maybe more:

[Piranha]

the s being the wrong way around is triggering me deeply

[.Uberren]

5orry
We're reworking it some more at the moment 

[.Uberren]

Did some more changes to the UI text stuff:

[.Uberren]

Currently working on battle screen models for the heavy tanks


Also, trying out recording some more gifs and stuff for updates, even just quick turn arounds.

[.Uberren]

Another WIP for the battle screen heavy tanks:

[.Uberren]

Unwrapped the Azure heavy tank and put down some base colours with a simple AO over it.



Still WIP of course. 

[.Uberren]

Here's the Azure heavy tank at the moment:

[.Uberren]

Lumos heavy tank

[.Uberren]

Finished up the Lavender heavy tank today:

[shpen]

I love how you have slightly different designs for every color's units. Really makes it feel more high quality than just repurposing the same model with different textures. Looks great. Keep up the good work!

[Bombini]

I love how you have slightly different designs for every color's units. Really makes it feel more high quality than just repurposing the same model with different textures.

Totally agree and i also wanted to mention that they look very nice!

[.Uberren]

Ohh, thanks so much
I'm glad you like them.

[danieru]

Yeah people like the tanks 

Code stuff has been just bug fixing. The AI no longer only buys infantry. Stuff like that. I am rewriting the camera to support cancel-able transitions. I want the bird's eye view to be on a button. As the player presses the button the camera will transition to the bird's eye view, when the player releases the button the camera will roll back the transition.

[.Uberren]

Rose heavy tank complete :D

[Bombini]

The helmet of the small guy looks a bit like a fireman helmet

[.Uberren]

It was inspired by the merryweather helmet

[danieru]

I made a video update to show off the current state of single player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59GVRpElF-Q

It took me all day and I feel kind of bad about that. A few hours were spent installing and setting up the recorder software. The rest was spent doing multiple takes and building up my nerves. Maybe next time will be faster 

[danieru]

So today I decided I'm not happy with the AI. It came to mind from this Extra Credits video (

) that a TBS about matches an RTS in complexity. That same video makes the argument that an RTS is the hardest genre to prove viable.

I just spend a over a week working on the unit buying logic and as you can see in my demo video the AI still does stupid shit like spend all its money on a tank. I cannot even explain how the code decided to do that. The code should have noticed how many infantry were on the field and bought infantry counter choices.

Then the AI just left the tank sitting there. Again, the code would suggest the AI should be moving units towards the enemy's HQ. Instead the tank only moved when I brought units in range.

I can hope the AI will magically improve with some extra number crunching but if it doesn't I'm in trouble. A bad AI in a TBS like SB ruins the fun. SB is about starting off on equal footing and out smarting the computer. Out smarting a brick isn't going to give much satisfaction.

So full warning: features may get cut to make room for more AI development.

[.Uberren]

Put all the heavy tanks together: