Development Log: Enemy Update – Formless

Blue Shutter - Development Log: Enemy Update: Formless 

🌀 Animation Overhaul – Phase 1

• NEW ENEMY: Cyclops 
• Began improving Formless enemy.
• Started work on new dash and tentacle attack animations.

🌀 Animation Overhaul – Phase 2

• Completed new dash and tentacle attack animations.
• Created new animations for:
  • Idle
  • Run
  • Vulnerable
  • Vulnerable Recovery
  • Pre-dash
  • Pre-attack

🌀 Animation Overhaul – Finalization

• Finalized and polished all Formless animations, ready for AI integration.

🧠 AI Logic Integration & Combat Refinement

• Refined tentacle attack hitbox timing and adjusted range.
• Synced all new animations with combat actions for smoother transitions.
• Replaced fixed-duration attack logic with dispatcher-based triggers for flexibility.
• Improved slope detection using expanded raycast checks above and below ground level.

🧠 AI Behavior Tuning & Player Interaction

• Added new functions to optimize turning and player position awareness.
• Tweaked dash range and dynamic tentacle follow-ups based on player proximity.
• Enhanced tentacle barrage logic:
  • Formless now reorients toward the player between strikes when in range.
  • If player is out of range, Formless ends the attack sequence naturally.