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TerryTheBerry

Along with finishing the handle, I have also made another (probably temporary) texture for the weapon, and worked on some more details. It's starting to look really awesome!

so today I got rid of the texture details from previously, since the UVs have changed, and I have begun modeling the handle on the left side of the launcher

So today i set up some custom stencils (a square specifically) and also redid the UVs of the rocket launcher, which will be much nicer for when I go in to make the actual texture

So today I finished the trigger and started messing around with texture painting. It isn't final, but its good to familiarize myself with it

So tonight I just worked a bit more on the model. not much since we were celebrating my mom's birthday

So today I started modeling the similis cannon. Concept artwork by Wavi

So tonight I made level 2 take you back to the main menu when all of the enemies from the final ambush are killed, and I also put down this additional invisible wall by where the rocket launcher is.

Frankly, I'm kinda "done" with this game for now. Once wavigoat finishes up the rocket launcher design, I think I'm just gonna do that as the last change. all I'm doing is just polishing this as a game jam project, making it into a "real game" can come later.

Explosions now play a placeholder sound and will push objects and entities around. Items also now all have a mass of 50, and the force required for them to make a sound when bouncing has been increased (due to the mass increase)

So today I just slapped a generic omni-directional burst on the explosions and made them despawn after 3 seconds, to give the system time to complete

The rocket launcher now shoots rocket projectiles, which spawn a new explosion actor. The explosions do a huge amount of damage. no visual affects just yet though. also, reminder to self, but **I forgot to make them despawn afterwards. whoops**

Today's changes:
- bullet holes are now smaller and have random rotations
- Enabled anti-aliasing
- The terrain material now uses dirt physics where there is dirt
- Similis pistol shots now use sound attenuation

So today I made a rocket launcher with a simple place holder model! We aren't sure yet what its design should be so I just made it shoot plasma bolts that 1-shot enemies. Wavi also made this really nice bullet hole graphic! Finally, I fixed a spelling error and got Wavi's name in the credits

So today I implemented an about screen. Don't worry about the artist credit, asking them now what they would like to have there name-wise

So today I did some more work on the particles. bullets now actually return the surface material, and I now have an effect for shooting dirt and a "generic" effect used for all other surfaces at the moment. the dirt one is the old one but just tinted brown, and the new generic one is pictured, which is a small white puff. It makes the weapons feel so much more responsive. These are just placeholders / early versions, no textures or anything.

So today I finished off the physical materials and I have now began to apply them to the materials in the game. I also made bullets spawn a generic particle effect when they hit a surface.

so today I tried to fix an error from 5.5 that prevents me from baking any lights. I can't find the cause of the error still, even making a fresh map doesn't work. so instead I just did a simple setup for different surface types

Didnt have much time to work today, but thats alright. Different weapons now have different "ranges" which is used to determine if your bullets should track the target or not (when the crosshair is red)

Similis pistol - 1000 cm
Assault Rifle - 2000 cm
Pistol - 4000 cm

Default previously was 2000. Now, the pistol is a vastly better precision weapon. The similis pistol isn't nerfed at all since it never used the tracking mechanic, for that its basically just visual

So today I made aiming sensitivity drop by half when the crosshair is on top of an enemy, Gave functionality to the invert-y setting, and made some optimizations to level 1

So tonight I fixed an issue that caused glass to flicker, which also made it look nicer too, and I also got the settings menu to save your options! The sensetivity and audio sliders are fully functional, with Invert-Y being the last existing setting that needs functionality. However, its value is updating and everything. finally, I removed some unused landscape sections from level 2.

Two main changes tonight. When an enemy dies, instead of simply dissapearing, their bodies will now fall down and their AI will deactivate. The other change is that the settings menu is now more organized, with a tab layout. It has yet to be given functionality

So today I fixed a common issue of weapons clipping through the floor. I also added a (currently nonfunctional) settings menu and two more buttons, about and settings, to the main menu

So today I changed the font used on the HUD, reduced the similis pistol bullet speed, and added basic bullet magnetism! Basically, when looking at an enemy, your crosshair will turn red. when the crosshair is red, human bullets will become homing projectiles and will lock on the target. this makes the assault rifle and pistol a little easier to aim. To compensate, the human bullet collision is no massive, and is closer to the actual bullet model.

Today I just added some simple bullet holes. There were no effects for shooting walls or anything so it felt a little odd previously. Tomorrow I will either do particles for hitting certain surfaces or I will make a settings menu

so I guess I'm back to working on BP for the end of 2024, not complaining though! I made a simple pause menu with a working resume and quit buttons. Settings does not do anything yet. Also, if someone would be willing to provide any feedback for Homelands, it would be much appreciated! I'd mainly just like to see that the game works, I imagine it does as its worked elsewhere

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