Been doing a bunch of refactoring so I can get AI controlling the mechs and other vehicles. Super janky at the moment, need to do torso aiming and better turning next.

Perspective or orthographic for the unit/item database preview?🤔

Made a lil tool to automatically create looping gifs

With all the censorship stuff happening I decided to setup and self host my own site. I'll be posting over there as well as here. Hoping to get some interactive content up too and manuals. slop.works 🙏

Playing around with Blender 4.5's new string nodes and created a text geo node setup using quads. Going to try use this for cockpit labels/decals so I don't have to create custom textures for everything.

Lil showcase of some new cockpit components. Local or global brightness/color for dashboard markers and text. Text can also scale larger if you're on a low resolution display or in the settings for users with accessibility needs.

Added a preview image and stats to component tooltips.

Small laser. Its fun making the visuals for components internals.

AC2. Fixed up my virtual camera code so now I can correctly auto frame and snap an item without manually setting the camera offset in each item config. Huge time saver.

Goodnight, I'm out

Added the ability to snapshot mech builds/loadouts so now the Mech Storage displays actual images of your mechs. Should also reflect damage when I add the visuals for that.

Managed to get C# documentation comments to display in the editor so I don't have to duplicate it 🙏

SRM Ammo

Added generic component tooltips and listing their mods. I still need to add a visual cue for when a mod is negative/positive, this will also be useful for comparison tooltips.

Jump Jet Avoid difficult obstacles by going over them.

Added weapon group selector painting, a little QoL UX thing I've wanted for ages but never got around to doing til now.

New hater

Porting over tools from blender to work in game and editor so I can start doing map generation in the future 🙏

Forgot to add a video on my last post. Here is a tree patch tool, takes steepness and terrain material into account. Also switched from using height map terrain instead of a big mesh so I can get more interesting maps and paint instead of using vertex colors.