Build The Battlefield!
Strategy Maxed Out
Giant Space Battles
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Fully deterministic unit movement integrated with custom P2P netcode. Features steering, unit clustering, 2D collision resolution, movement lanes, group splitting, regrouping on arrival and navmesh pathfinding. Animations are 100% done on the GPU to free up CPU capacity. Performance is 1.5ms per frame for 500 units moving concurrently, measured on an Intel i7-4770k in a […]
Implemented 2D blend spaces on the GPU so I can have giant armies with minimal impact on the CPU so I can use it for stuff that matters e.g. AI and navigation.
Starting to look like a game! Custom movement and collision system, swarm AI, first draft.
2 months of writing netcode finally paid off as I now have deterministic lockstep P2P multiplayer in UE4. This is a great step for the game and with it, the biggest technical challenge has been overcome.
Lower and upper body are decoupled so it can walk and shoot in different directions. Also quaternions.
Armored turret that can be found defending raidable spaceships and space stations.
Laser beams for larger ships Finally got to work on some VFX and made laser beams for the larger ships in the game!
Space dogfight explosions and smoke Lots of smoke and explosions in this dogfight now that I’ve finally optimized the rendering loop to a passable state.
Spaceships now have health and explode when destroyed! Space dogfight explosions and smoke
Space battle demo with 100 to 5000 ships, warp-in animation and dogfight AI. Youtube video below the GIF. Space battle, dogfight, warp-in
All the spaceships are running rudimentary AI with pathfinding and targeting. 6M triangles on average with 111 draw calls. Spaceship: 3k tris @ LOD 0, 60 tris @ LOD 3 Laser projectile 16 tris, no LODs Using a tricked out hierarchical instanced static mesh component (ships) and instanced static mesh component (lasers). Laser transformation happens […]
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