07-19-2015, 01:22 AM
There is a problem, especially with animating RadarStation and DefenceTower - their animation depend of where it should end. I cannot imagine making animations to DefenceTower or Shooter bots that would aim in any possible direction. On the other hand, I haven't seen everything and maybe there are some solutions.
Now I was thinking about some sort of library files, that would contain meshes, animations, physics, lights and some source code to manage all actions, that won't need to be in game engine any longer. But this would require making some sort of simple API to models, like run(); turn(); special_action(value);. Special actions would be just for such models like Shooter, that could get parameters X and Y, then some code in this file would calculate how much gun should be rotated in X and Y axes.
Now when I'm thinking about that, I'm afraid that it might be impossible to completely unhardcode engine code without messing around in another parts of the game.
Now I was thinking about some sort of library files, that would contain meshes, animations, physics, lights and some source code to manage all actions, that won't need to be in game engine any longer. But this would require making some sort of simple API to models, like run(); turn(); special_action(value);. Special actions would be just for such models like Shooter, that could get parameters X and Y, then some code in this file would calculate how much gun should be rotated in X and Y axes.
Now when I'm thinking about that, I'm afraid that it might be impossible to completely unhardcode engine code without messing around in another parts of the game.
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