date_range 24/01/2011 15:45

Using the enemy's "intelligent" AI against itself has its benefits. Well the Tiger 2 is done, and as it curiously grazes the island for bunkers to shoot at it often becomes the victim of my placeholder V1 rockets and bombers that I’ve set up very close to the island at the start of the game for testing purposes. Right now the bombs are creating a physical force which has a rather amusing effect on the tanks, resulting in them flying all over the place which I’ll later transform into a damage radius rather than a force radius. I’ve had the...

date_range 24/01/2011 13:56

Yesterday I managed to do quite a few missions, specifically missions 47 to 53. Although 6 isn’t a particularly high number, the length of each mission isn’t exactly 3-4 minutes anymore, and slowly rises all the way to 30 minutes or so which is where I’m currently at. Fortunately it’s rather enjoyable to play the game again so it isn’t something I’m against at all. As for the progress on my game, I haven’t added anything new in yet, as it took me a few missions yesterday to find some new units, and by the time I did it was a bit...

date_range 23/01/2011 09:01

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz boom! I know I keep saying now every single post I’m nearly done with the units, and I nearly am with now having gone through literally 50 missions, bringing my list of units every wave up to a massive 1793 lines. I’ve also captured back 10 of the 12 states(?) in the original game. Since the FW190A3 here is a revised version of the FW190A1, I decided to not be lazy and claim I spend a whole day working on it as it was quite easy to duplicate from its purple-textured version, so this one’s done too. I don’t...

date_range 22/01/2011 11:50

I’ve got yet another unit done, this one didn’t take as long to model as it was based mostly on the Bismarck, with the exception of some heavier fire power. I’m getting through the last few missions of the game now and have already made a huge list of enemies that come in each mission and each wave, now totaling to 1397 lines. I fixed a few issues with the He177 and Zepplin aircraft carrier, as they had some invisible points on the ship. I’m also getting some impressive weaponry that’ll have to be my main priority after I finish all the...

date_range 21/01/2011 14:46

Other planes seem to try too hard to get hit by a bomb. As I said yesterday, I’d post about the He177. It’s completely finished. It drops twice the payload, it’s thinner than the He111 and it’s therefore a bit more annoying. Still, it’s a great target for the Howitzer. Work on the Scharnhorst battleship is well under way, unfortunately the ‘flipped faces’ problem seems to be all over it like it was on the Bismarck, so it might take me a while before the model is done. Maybe I’ll have it ready tomorrow already. I tried to add a...

date_range 21/01/2011 01:44

So I was minding my own business, practicing anger management on 3DS Max as half the ‘faces’ of the models are inverted and I have to flip them one by one (not fun when there’s thousands of faces) and tried to experiment with different settings in the Unity engine itself in hope that it could fix what SketchUp seems to export so badly (or incompatibly to 3DS Max, which I use to further refine the structure of the models). Suddenly I came across normals. I read somewhere that messing with them could possibly resolve my issue. Unfortunately not, but I did stumble across this...

date_range 20/01/2011 10:41

Notice the red guideline across the ship and the texture quality differences on either side. Although I don’t have any new units to show yet, I have had a bit of a graphics improvement set up. I’ve ramped up textures from 1024×1024 to 4096×4096 and applied the necessary changes so it’s not just a simple resize. Although not all graphics cards may support this resolution, or experience somewhat of a slow-down, textures scale down nicely to 2048×2048 and 1024×1024 respectively so this shouldn’t be a disaster for those without supercomputers. The Bismarck isn't as much of a brown, grayish blob...

date_range 19/01/2011 23:00

When I remembered a huge 3-barrel cannon equipped ship my memory wasn’t mistaken. The Scharnhorst and the He177 (thinner bomber with faster drop rate)  are what I’m going to try and create next. Unfortunately I don’t think I’ll have any development shots ready at my usual ‘some time in the morning’ tomorrow as these ships are getting more complicated and take a bit longer to make, where once a day is making me get a lot of work done. Just a heads-up post for those curious what’s to be posted next. I’m guessing there’s a total of around 50 missions...

date_range 19/01/2011 17:12

Although officially this mammoth sank about 2 years before this mission occurs, it takes one more terrifying stroll past the player's tiny island. I had been working on the Bismarck for quite a little while and was experiencing some issues with textures. As you might notice in the above screenshot they’re still fairly low quality which I’ll resolve soon, but at least they’re in place, and after repetitively making its 16 cannons functional, the rest of the ship now does too. This is probably one of the biggest, if not the biggest ship in the game, although the last time...

date_range 18/01/2011 10:31

I didn’t know whether to post a picture of the Zepplin sinking or launching aircraft so I might as well do both. Two FW-190A1's taking off, along with the long shadow distance quality I mentioned in the last post. Landing gear is soooo 1943. After several cases of carpal tunnel syndrome later, I had finished the turrets and was able to work on deploying aircraft on the deck of the ship. Like I predicted, this didn’t take long and as you can see in the screenshot this is more or less done. Like in the original game, two planes spawn and take...