Well, it’s been a week and I’m still working on a website, 1 to 2 hours a day with another few spent on researching the DirectX 11 API in depth as most of my rendering experience is behind with DirectX 9. Having read through large text resources, it’s given me some great insight on future systems I intend to write, which means I can start posting more work samples rather than theory and more importantly, content that is of more interest to the public.

In regards to the RTS project I have currently put it on hold due to the fact I’m working on the website, and my main interest has been focused on writing a complete game engine which will take a considerable amount of time as well the constant reminder to seek employment which is becoming tiresome. On top of all that I’ve had various issues with the pathfinding due to unexplained behaviour with Unity’s inbuilt navmesh agent after it is interrupted with my local A* solution for collision avoidance which isn’t something I can fix unless I opt to purchase an expensive third party navmesh plugin or spend a long time writing my own which is out of the scope of the project.

The main purpose of the RTS design was to see if I could replicate core functions from the genre – fog of war, an interactive interface, unit control, pathfinding, building placement and construction, individual AI (such as the harvester automatically collecting resources)  and some other tidbits. What I might do in the future is see if I can expand on it and polish it up, after all the last missing component is the actual combat.

With that said, I have not yet discussed my implementation of the Fog of War system, so this will be an update I will release in a short time that details how it works, with some screenshots to keep things interesting. The next image posted thereafter are most likely UML diagrams as I plan the architecture of my realtime rendering engine. However, expect interesting image results too as I’ll be experimenting with the latest shader model languages!