Dev-Log 24th Aug - From the "Engine Room"
Added 2023-08-24 07:46:38 +0000 UTCHi,
today I don't have a nice wallpaper or NSFW screenshot but rather a post from the depths of SW design.
As you might remember, for V1.00 the player base should be one major element. While thinking about it I noticed that my lazy implementation of the current room-to-room or room-to-space sandbox comes back to bite me.
I should have done a proper sandbox state machine to begin with but coded the transitions "procedural" if you will. With a third location kind besides "interiors" and "space locs" ( the base is essentially a "planet surface location...") the current sandbox code won't fly.
So I have to rewrite the entire sandbox navigation including all kind of intercept hooks to account for the third kind of location and this time make a proper state machine (see techy diagram for reference...)
- In the best case this works within a few days, then the player base will be in V0.10.
- In the worst case it doesn't, then I have lost three days and revert to the old code and shift the player base to V1.1+ until I have figured it out.
It would be nice if it worked, though, because then the door would be open for all kinds of - tadaaa - surface locations!
So I hope I can get it working.
y.v.
