August 2018 (Week 4)

+ finished third map,
+ missions
- advanced sounds,
- intro, mission screen, title screen

+ Gamescom healing
+ Had some of these super secret meetings™ you always read about
- Don't think they'll go anywhere though
+ Fixed some of the gameplay bugs this morning (the bunnyhop meta)

+ re-planned progress on a trello board
+ modelling progress on the two enemies I'm working on, silhouettes are almost complete
+ made an actor that saves the position of a bone through an animation
+ melee raycasting will now always cast the same thing
+ can also use that for some vfx
+ made some placeholder textures for level blockout
- UE4 jam was a fucking failure
+ learned some stuff though

+ Implement proper scrolling levels
+ Slowly constructing new level
+ Slowly adding level graphics

+ Enemies now have proper animated deaths again
+ Animation system now supports loops, single-runs, and infinite looping, as well as queueing up new anims
+ Did a bunch of refactoring

+ Fixed a couple of things I forgot to bugtest previously
- Still a bunch of stuff to test and fix
+ Made a bunch of new assets for the next demo

+ added an entity component system to the game
+ added a look around mode
+ map generated from rooms
- items
- enemies

+ Looking at setting up a repo for my work.
+ Downloaded a new input manager.
- Said input manager broke Unity and reset all my inputs.
- Other problems.
- Gonna take a while to fix, so Demo Day ain't happening for me.

+ Furniture Spawning [X]
- Hacking Minigame [X][_][_]
- Furniture Loot Gen [_]
- ree

+ Refined treasure chest system. No longer have to enter parameters per chest, can just plug an item into the chest and that is what it contains.
+ Drew a lewd sketch of the protagonist (is that even progress?)
+ Finished nude and model sheets for Eileen Passionheart (the protagonist)
+ Started sculpting Eileen in Zbrush.
+ Implemented door system. The door system is set up where a door can be unlocked, uses a key, or uses a switch. Use of keys still need to be tested, but an inventory system needs developed first.
+ Learned how to access and change values on dynamic materials. This will prove useful for lights and other materials.
+ Learned how to create a basic glass texture.
+ Currently working on inventory system.

+ orthographic references drawn up for a few things
+ did some early work on a model for one of them
+ read a lot about texturing

+ More inventory work - sorting items, filtering items, dropping items. Oh, and I got a damage formula I'm happy with!
- I'm looking forward to the battle system too much, which is making menu work feel slow in comparison, even though I like doing data manipulation!

+ Workeable map system, including map maker
+ Almost finished ability to load new maps properly
- Still need to figure out things stuff like how I should display characters behind walls and making non-hex walls
- Started to get to the point where it feels like I'm fighting spaghetti

+ The crew list at the top can now hold more crew than fits on the screen via buttons to browse through them
+ Added Cargo system (basically 1-time use cards in a box you can use whenever you want, to smooth out frustrating difficulty spikes)
+ Made the cargo system fit in with the UI
+ Added 7 cargo boxes
+ Added Art for 7 cargo boxes
+ Added 2 new cards
+ Added support for multiple ships with different starting decks and characteristics
+ Tweaked the settings UI and added an option for fewer tooltips (only main tip -> Expert Mode)
+ After days of on and off searching for it, finally found a bug that made go into idle mode sometimes

+ Options menu almost back to the GMS functionality, just need to re-implement key rebinding
+ Game can save settings once again
- Monster Hunter was a hell of a distraction

+ Fully finished up service UI, diagnoses and repairs specific stuff now
+ Wrote up additional descriptions for ships, only 100 to go now.
+ Redid asteroid generation code for exteriors. No longer just a dumb ring model with a texture slapped on but an actual field of stuff
+ Redid asteroid generation code for deterministic asteroids. Can move much faster and have little to no lag spikes, especially when transition to new grid sectors
+ Added in distant impostors for asteroid fields, which are non-deterministic models designed to make the fields seem thicker than they are
+ Gave it multiple varieties of generation: bubble, ring, and cube
+ Redid nebula graphics. Textures are now all original, and exterior billboards are much thicker to give it the cloud the illusion of more depth
+ Fixed issues where ships would still try and talk to you to tell you about their day even if they no longer existed
+ Fixed issue where selling equipment wouldn't pay the player

+ All 4 endings are done
+ Hard mode is done
+ Improved network and stat integrations
+ Console optimizations
+ Key art done
+ TGS promo stuff done, look forward to that

- Coming to terms with the impact this semester is gonna have on my dev time
+ Tweaked bird head height when peeking into crevices
+ Planned a take-off system for the bird
+ Made a takeoff animation in blender

+ Fighter attributes now editable
+ Action properties now editable
+ Actions can be copied, deleted, created, and modified
+ All changes reversible with Ctrl+Z, even deleting and creating
+ Builder now saves fighter and action files as JSON

+ Add explosions
+ Add hp bar and some enemy indicator changes
+ Changes to AI + collision
+ [E] Weapon sfx

+ Added dll injector project
+ Adding test application for injection
+ Designed shared memory solution for copying frames between UE4 and FF7 engine
+ Memory scanned for render loop / battle game loop entry points

+ Don't rot environment before player has reached expected wealth. Otherwise players would spend 80% time in shit looking environment. Stop spawning food and enemies after reaching that wealth.
+ Whirlpools only become forced after player has collected remaining enemies and food
+ Made wicked sick scrolling flame shader which is used for our main menu pastebin.com/dRNj0EBQ pic related
+ Working on 4th boss, Advena

+ Pretty much finished the entire outdoor area's except the one leading up to the earth town
- Found out you have to wait a full month after paying steam directs fee to launch your game, so it won't be out till atleast Oct. now.

+ Saving/loading fixes
+ Terminal sort of working again
+ Might move main menu into a launcher for mod selection purposes

+ UI menu's
+ Character Animations started
- spent way too much time fixing weight paints
- key config isnt playing nice

+ fleshing out the dialogue with the first npc, making sure everything is smooth and doesn't break from doing something slightly out of order
+ working on enemy AI
+ adding some polish, effects, sounds, etc. Trying to make it look pretty
- code makes several checks to see if a reference is null, but still getting thrown null reference exceptions
- the dialogue / quest system is not very coherent and kind of a pain in the ass to build on. I'll probably want to build a smoother system for future NPCs after I finish the tutorial area