Destruction

[Anarch Cassius]

Erm, I can try. Coding is my job and I'm a bit behind in the bills right now. I want to wait a bit before diving in to modifying the core. I am starting to look around in the code though.

What is the exact shadows/door bug? Doors won't cast shadows for the same reason other destructables and dynamic objects won't, shadows have to be baked. If it's something else please explain. I did explicitly say a full dynamic lighting engine wasn't going to come from me On the other hand if there is any work in this area I may contribute if others are active.

Also I like the idea of destructables highlighting for clarity. Doors do this.

I was thinking it shouldn't be too hard to be a fire-once for message entities. This would be a better first task for me on the project than lighting revamps

[iamaloner]

The pathfinding problem is not because of the maps but because of the AI.

[H-Hour]

The pathfinding problem is not because of the maps but because of the AI.

Not true. This topic is the source of enough confusion already. Please don't add to it.

[Anarch Cassius]

Okay, so I heard hints that some work had been done on dynamic lighting? Did that go anywhere? Is that ever gonna go anywhere?

As for the rest of it. I'm working on a fairly destructible map, if that doesn't give older machines problems I'm going to try a revamp of Africa with destructible huts since by both reason and poly count those walls are first in line. If that can be pulled off I may try to revamp other areas.

I've looked into new 3d X-com and it seems that at least technically UFO:AI can meet or exceed their destructability; they use the blast down to supports method I thought of above. The question is can it be done efficiently.

I'm seeing good use of destructable pathfinding and no noticable slow downs. Nothing worse then the RF calc slow-down normally is anyway. I'm seeing questionable use of doors but they seem to understand the concept on some level. I might actually be able to help with the AI on that bit. I've done some pathfinding and AI work before.