User blog:C3PO the Dragon Slayer/Avian Hunt: May 20, 2008

May 20, 2008
I have specks of dust (so you can tell that your ship is moving in space), I have a debug system, I have a good engine that can draw any ship that has a model and a texture pretty well, so what's left?

Shooting.

While I do have an obj_laser, and the mechanism to let you shoot, I am dealing with some serious glitches with that. Laser bolts should probably move when they're shot, if you know what I mean.

The only thing left to do after I solve the laser glitches is to add targets, which is one of the simpler tasks. I plan to just set up a bunch of boxes that act as target drones, some will move, others won't. Just to let my testers have some fun when they complete their tasks. Because I have extra time this week to tackle some of the core problems and add the drones, an optimist will see the test version coming very soon. Keep your fingers crossed!