Mid-September Update
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I'm taking a couple of weeks away from coding (well, away from coding at home, still hard at work at Blue Byte!), so thought I'd give a rundown of where my various projects are:
CashGen
Currently designing a hefty refactor of the whole plugin. There's a huge amount of inefficient and particularly wasteful memory/threading code that needs to be sorted out which is a legacy of my learning UnrealEngine as I was creating the project. This should see the following benefits :
- Hugely reduced memory footprint
- Much better threading performance
- Better able to support multiplayer
- General code cleanup/consistency
I expect to get properly started on this in the next couple of weeks.
GOAPer
This is currently on hold while I get the CashGen refactor done. I'm aware that the repository is getting a lot of organic hits from Google searches, so I've put a warning on there that it is a barely working framework, not something ready to be used!
Once the terrain generator plugin is refactored and stable, I will be working on a game design to start implementing the GOAP framework with.
UnrealFastNoise
This is a new plugin that came out of the work I have been doing on CashGen. I've taken the FastNoise noise generator library I was using and wrapped it up into the nice Blueprint-friendly package. I'll add the project page onto here soon.
UnrealEngine NRW Meetup
Our September meetup is on the 28th September at the A&O Düsseldorf HBf. I will be dragging my desktop along to power some VR demos that we have lined up. Check out the details here :
http://www.meetup.com/Unreal-Engine-User-Group-NRW/events/233615853/
That's it for now! I'm heading off to the Czech Republic for a friend's wedding this weekend, and next week I plan to binge on Destiny : Rise Of Iron.....then come back refreshed ready to crack on with the Unreal projects!
September Update
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The website may have been quiet but I've been pretty busy with UnrealEngine projects.
I've released my modular noise plugin for UE, something I've been needing for the procedural terrain for a while now.
https://github.com/midgen/UnrealFastNoise
I've been working on polishing up the terrain generation system subsequently, here's a couple of little videos showing off the grass system and new LOD blending features
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I'll get the project pages updated this week, while I continue with terrain generator updates!
AI progress, and Aspie Revelations!
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It's been quite the few weeks, not a lot of progress code wise for a few reasons.
First up, before I can go any further with the GOAP implementation I need an actual game, and behaviours to implement. I've been scribbling down a lot of ideas and just about have something I think will work well, and in particular make good use of the strenths of the Goal Oriented Action Planning method.
Secondly, and this is a biggie...I've finally figured out that I have High-Functioning Autism, aka. Aspergers Syndrome. There have been a few events in recent weeks that led me to look into the subject, and, wow! It's a real light-bulb moment. It's a really fascinating subject and I will be writing a full article on it in the near future but I am still in the overloaded stage trying to process everything.
It's like at the age of 35 I've finally been handed the correct user manual for my brain.
Interesting times, and not in a bad way! More soon :)
Site Update
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Apologies if any links have been misbehaving, I've spent the last hour or so fighting with Joomla to get a more coherent site layout in place. Each of the three UnrealEngine projects I have on the go at the moment now have their own project page and associated devblog.
Spent a couple of hours refactoring the UI project into a UE plugin component so it can be easily re-used, which has meant rejigging the assets which I'll have to recreate tomorrow morning.
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