Zania week 13: Weapons

Complete

• All weapons complete except for Missile, which require an AI construct
• Reclassified original AI to Creeps and saving AI for smart logic
• Determine which class should be the one retaining weapon ID
  • Actor? Ship? Player? AI?
  • Rendered irrelevant after using weapon name and adding smart weapon option
• Economic of simple explosion simulation
  • 1 bounding box detection (1 mux)
  • 1 circle intersection calculation (1 multiply, 1 mux)
  • Force calculation (1 multiply)
  • Total 2 mux, 2 multiply
• Economic of simple explosion simulation with distance dissipation
  • 1 bounding box detection (1 mux)
  • 1 circle intersection calculation (1 multiply, 1 mux)
  • Force calculation (1 multiply)
  • Distance (2 multiply, 1 division)
  • Total 2 mux, 3 multiply, 1 division
• Economic analysis of explosion simulation near real with rotation and distance dissipation
  • 1 bounding box detection (1 mux)
  • 1 circle intersection calculation (1 multiply, 1 mux)
  • Force pre calculation (1 multiply)
  • Distance (2 multiply, 1 division)
  • Find location + Ceil ( 4 mux)
  • Distance calculation (2 multiply, 1 division) x2
  • Force per vertex ( 1 multiply , 1 division ) x2
  • Normalize ( 7 multiply 1 bit shift) x2
  • Total: 6 mux, 23 multiply, 5 division, 2 bit shift

Here’s the scan of my design notes before I started Project Zania

 

 

Incomplete

• Implement AI
• Collapse angle, direction, position, destination, x, y and velocity into stats Array
• Major problem. Asset loading from web xml invokes a warning from adobe. Need to change this to be built into the flash file.
• Add offset for weapons position in ship
• AI calculation on where to turn is a bit off when player is positioned at the 2nd quadrant (and directly at negative y axis) compared to the AI.
• GUI health bar not decreasing correctly fully, also, health count drops to negative before counting is terminated
• Determine which class should be the one retaining weapon ID
  • Actor? Ship? Player? AI?

Reviewed milestone

• Core: Physics based space shooter
• GUI: Health, ammo, radar, inventory
• Graphics: B/W vector graphics
• Music: 1 track repeated

Original Milestone

• One player ship and one ai ship artwork finished along with their xml data (Art + some programming)
• Hitpoints, body existence timer and actor destruction (Hardcore Programming)
• One planet orbiting the sun. (Hardcore Programming)
• GUI placement (Art + menial Programming): Health bar, ammo count, radar, inventory
• Booster animation (Art + Math + some programming)
• Populated galaxy (menial programming)
• Dynamic graphics loader for background? (Cleverness)

Features for next release

• Genetic AI
• Secondary gravity fields for planets large objects and black holes
• Multiple galaxies

Features for future release

• Base building
• Market systemZ