Hey there!

I hope that's everything fine with you, getting ready for Christmas season!

What happened?

During this previous month, I played  did some research in a few games. I have some bugs waiting for a fix, and I was wondering which was the simplest solution for each one of them. Looking into other games really helps to clear our mind and see what we couldn't imagine. Collision between NPCs was one of them, and it was so simple to fix it as disable their collision. It's not needed now, and I want to simplify everything!

I also grabbed into Cropout Project, and started studying how Epic did multiple features (gamepad compatibility, UI flow, etc.). Slowly replacing and creating my own content using their approach and style. And still doing that.

New UI

After focusing on UI, cleaned up some old assets and replaced my boring squares with some new stylized buttons. It has the same look as Cropout because my buttons are using the same style for now, but one step at a time. Everything stills WIP!

UI Gamepad View - WIP

When playing with one Gamepad, the icons will appear in the buttons. When playing with mouse & keyboard, the icons will disappear.

UI Build Tab - WIP

It will display all the buildings. It will only let the player build the ones that satisfy the requirements.

UI UnitFormation Tab - WIP

It will display all the formations available. When clicking in one of them, the selected troops will regroup. 

 Final Notes

• Unit Formation it's already working and compatible to gamepad (with a few bugs but working).
• I've uploaded to GitHub a Python script that I've done to auto-generate BuildManifest files. In regard to Chunks and ChunkDownloader topic. It was really useful for me when doing a lot of tests, to be honest. You can take a look here.

What's next?

• Buildings are ready to start being built. And it's that the next feature to that I'll focus on.

The goal is to have a few buildings ready to be built, able to see them being built, and to be possible to collect resources from them every hour (time from game).

And that's it!

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I know it's still earlier but: Enjoy your Christmas with your friends, family and people that you love.

Thank you!