Konrad's Korner - August 17th

Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023

Game: Godus

Genre: Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Developer: 22cans
Release Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023

"This week has seen the start of some upgrades to the movement arrow system. Up to this point we’ve been using the movement indicators from the leashing system. While those indicators are fine for moving followers about in Homeworld, they didn’t reflect troop movements accurately enough for our liking. You can see the problem below:"

"The first thing we did was take not normally seen debug navigation pathing lines which look something like this."

"And use them as a basis to draw the movement arrows to make them look like this:"

'There is some work still to be done to produce smoother, more visually appealing arrows, but they now accurately reflect navigation."

"The current leash arrow drawing system also wasn’t really designed to handle drawing and tracking movement arrows for multiple units. We polished up the system to only display movement arrows for currently selected Warbands and be able to wipe and redraw the arrows at any time."

"What’s left now is some smoothing and visual polish of the arrows. We’ve implemented a system to allow us quickly and easily replace the textures used to draw the arrows themselves and playing around with different looks have produced some rather fun results."

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