Formations!

The last few days I’ve been working on unit formations. When a group of soldiers is ordered to move, only the path of one leader is calculated. The other soldiers paths are derived from the leader’s path. This is much more efficient than having each soldier do pathfinding individually. This also allows soldiers to move in formation relative to the leader. For now I’ve implemented two kinds of formations, box and line. I’ve also added dynamic soldier speed. If some soldiers are far behind the group, they will move faster. The group will move a bit slower until the soldiers have caught up. Check out the video…

Smoke!

I saw a screenshot of the upcoming RTS World in Conflict and i noticed they had really nice smoke effects. I just had to try to make smoke for TTW that looks like that. Check out the screen and the video below.

Order Queues!

I added the ability to queue up orders. Just hold down shift and give orders. They will be automatically queued up. If the soldier happens to see an enemy he’ll pause, kill the enemy and then continue with his orders. Check out the video.

Skinned my test building!

Title says it all. Check out the screen.