The Rise of Dagon: Week of August 9th 2014

As mentioned in last week's update I had been doing some cleanup from designing the logic for levels so that I could finally tie together a level's logic with its physical attributes.

The first thing I decided to go with was to tie the players movement to the physical aspect of the level. What you did not realize previously (because I never showed it) was that if you attempted to move through a wall -- well you would move through the wall!

I was always careful in my video's to not move through walls -- simply because it would be odd for the viewer to understand what exactly was going on if I had done that!

Tying the logic to the physical structure was actually a two part task:

1. When actually constructing the level from prefabs make sure to mark the appropriate data so the player can actually use it.
2. Create code for when the player attempts to move to check the square that is the destination to see if it can be moved to and allow/disallow as appropriate.

To do this I decided to pick up a bit of code I had used before to create a dungeon room out of prefabs.  For each type of prefab I made a method that not only lays down the appropriate type of floor, ceiling, and walls but it also tells the "logicChunksArray" if it is passable by the player, and if each wall is playerapassable or not for instance.

So as I did that in steps I have a little in-progress screenshot here showing that I had the outer walls, but no corners, or center squares yet:

 This went fairly well but it was a little bit messy and I now have a method for each type of  grid you can have like so:

When you look at all of these combined they call out to be refactored as there is a lot of similar code going on but right now I was just happy to get it working!

Eventually what really needs to happen instead of having methods like this to construct very particular types of a square grid is I need to have an actual level format that just constructs exactly what needs to be in each square but for now this was a fairly quick and dirty implementation that takes me another step towards reaching functionality goals that I have.

This coming week I intend to continue working on logic related tasks -- I haven't actually decided what specific sub-task I'm going to tackle yet honestly I just finished up this work last night that I'm showing off today and need to pick through what looks like the most attainable bit of work I can take on for the coming week.

See you next week!