Builders be building - April 2024 Update

April was a busy month for me personally but i managed to get some good work done in the past couple of weeks.

Below you can see a preview of the UI and building system for placing structures. Buildings can be loaded from custom XML, specifying the mesh and texture to use.

Here we have the colony and pawn task system at work. Essentially, there is a colony "brain" that will assess all tasks and assign them out based on priority, ability, and distance using a sort of "Utility-based AI" system I'm calling Motive AI. ( Some of you might have seen a simplified version of this in action for my itch.io title code monkeys)

Lastly, here is a EARLY preview for health system. This is super alpha but i thought this was pretty cool. All of these body parts are also defined and loaded via XML. All clothing/skin materials on characters have a invisible blood mask on them that we can unhide on demand. Still need link XML definitions to skeletal bones but that is a task for future future future Scott.

Have a good one! Scott