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Added a really basic drone today. It's very fun to fly around as it. Definitely going to need to include hacking/piloting drones as a gameplay mechanic later. #gamedev #indiedev

Now with more fish! 🐟 This week's work has been more pathfinding prototyping, as well as setting up context steering and learning behavior trees more in depth. It's awesome when you start to see NPCs move around and act in the world you've been working on. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Fish! It's really terrifying at the moment with how fast it moves, and its bite has way too much knockback force. But it's very exciting to see all of the systems work come together!!! Also it's very fun to play as a fish. 🐟 #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Now "empty" actors just collapse on to the floor, so it's easy to tell when a body has no NPC or Player controlling it. It's also funny to watch people collapse when they disconnect from the server. #indiedev #gamedev

Freaky friday on a #screenshotsaturday?!? Just finished a big refactor that unifies all 'Actors' in the game so players and NPCs function in the same way. Best way to test that is a gun that swaps bodies, of course! Works in multiplayer and on Player <-> NPC #indiedev #gamedev

Updates on our path finding prototyping 🎉 We slapped a human model on our roomba and added some smart pathing to press buttons in order to open doors between it and its objective. Now we're starting to get a good idea of how NPCs will move around in our game! #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Some quick vfx goes a long way! Now welding has some nice emissive feedback with a particle burst when it's done welding a point. #gamedev #indiedev

I'm one of those sickos that thinks more games should have cleaning systems. Spent today moving decals over to a basic octree storage system so it's quick to query them for cleanup gameplay. #gamedev #indiedev

Make sure to clean up after yourself!!! 🧹 With all the systems work I've been doing, the welder took only a couple of hours today to get the model, animation, and logic made and working in game. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

Finally starting to look into path finding! We're only just getting started with the foundation, but in the meantime you can watch as I get chased down by this roomba while testing out this week's work. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

This week's focus was melee weapons! Got a nice workflow for tying active frames to animations per weapon, and being able to raycast along the arc to get accurate hit locations! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

It's #screenshotsaturday time! This week's focus has been on integrating our prototype for our wiring/logic system into the game. The idea is that Engineering roles on your submarine can create circuits to control all kinds of machinery on your ship! #indiedev #gamedev

Guns! Lots of work on getting impact effects and decals set up this week. Couldn't stop myself from adding hitstop as well. 😌 I think it will really help when I'm getting melee weapons to feel good. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

Hey all! I wanted to share my side of development as I work with @sharkscoops.bsky.social on Hadostruct. This week, I've been focusing on moving furniture and precision placing items, so you can decorate your submarine during downtime in between missions! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

Some really basic recoil! Also, full auto item inputs and input buffering! Lots of really good item work today Next up is some actual bullet vfx #indiedev #gamedev

I feel like I should start making blog posts on obscure Unity issues and how to work around them Spent a few hours today figuring out that Mechanim's 'Mirror' toggle in an animation state breaks Additive animations. 🫠 #indiedev #gamedev

been planning this for a bit, but I added some fake bounce lighting to hadostruct today I wanted to avoid doing any actual bounce lighting, or requiring too many lights, so now rooms get the average color of lights in them and apply that as subtle ambient lighting #indiedev #gamedev

Lots and lots of animation workflow and IK tinkering this week, but two handed items are looking pretty good! Next up is getting vfx/animations for shooting, very excited to work on that finally. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

The item backend work is shaping up well, so I've been working on animations again. Updated the IK and animator settings so item animations match camera direction better while the player is moving, and they support additive spine/head animations! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

Lots of work on the Item system this past week! Items can be saved and loaded, and their states are preserved when leaving and rejoining a server. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

Testing out multiplayer piloting submarines and shuttles at the same time! It's so nice to see all the systems coming together! #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Finished up a big milestone today! Full save/load support in the open world for world gen'd structures and submarines. You can drive around and dock at other subs/buildings now! It's so cool to see all of the systems coming together finally. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Spent a few hours today solving a problem I'm sure almost no one else has had in Unity: the inability to rotate point lights. Now point light shadow maps rotate with the light, fixing flickering shadows for point lights on moving objects. #indiedev #gamedev

Lots of work lately, but nothing that looks good for a screenshot saturday. Tons of progress on syncing the world gen in multiplayer and getting subs to be stable even with crazy movement! so here's me testing collision on a sub with 10x the engine power #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

Not very exciting to look at in a screenshot, but we got world generation integrated into gameplay testing today. Now I can spawn in with a submarine and explore the greyboxed mess of splines. (in multiplayer too!) #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Create: Aeronautics finally releasing is going to ruin my productivity for the next week. 😔 What they've managed to achieve with it is wild though! It would be impressive even as a standalone game.

Took a break from world gen to try out some compute shaders for waves! Tying it together with audio makes the water feel way better. #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamedev

🎧Testing out FMOD integration for above water/underwater audio differences. So far pretty happy with how it sounds. Also working on setting up a system for objects 'splashing' as they enter or exit water. Next up is waves and particles to go with it. #gamedev #indiedev

It's looking like a screensaver now. Favorite part of getting any new system set up is removing the Unity default shaders 😌 #indiedev #gamedev