Procedural Island

[planetX]

Hi there,

so finally could attach the axe and put this guy to work.



Here I show the melee attack implementation. It's based on raycast. Only the entity which collides with the ray receives the damage. The physics and the particles are still a bit funky, but more or less you get the idea.



I've just seen some "class" based scripts from the system library and I think I have to try to implement something like that to manage all the resources in the island. Just need to understand how classes work.

[SolarPortal]

Very nice Love the tree effect. I also see the bone attach in play

As for the base classes, use the "System Library\Scripts\Base Classes\Game Systems\Example_BaseClass.lua" as a base as you just need to replace the bits and then use it

[planetX]

Thanks, I'm just trying to figure out how I should organize the code as I'm very new to OOP programming and need to understand basic concepts first, but I'm pretty sure that's the way to go.

[SolarPortal]

yes, OOP is very powerful and a lot easier to manage larger code bases since classes give you the ability to repurpose a lot of code and make simpler calls to larger snippets.

However, Lua does not have classes, but using the example class does make it possible, with lua; you just have to go about it your own way and sort of make the OOP classes instead.

The classes we provide are just tables that can be reinstantiated.

[planetX]

Found this OOP library to work with "classes" in lua, what do you think? Does it makes sense to use it?

Not sure if I can use the "require" function in Skyline, tried long time ago and had some trouble, but probably I was doing something wrong... what's the difference between require and include?

https://github.com/Yonaba/Lua-Class-System

[SolarPortal]

Require pulled from a compiled library if i remember correctly.

Include adds the script into the main script as it is ran so it becomes one big mega script lol

I would try our class technique to start with, probably a lot simpler! lol

[planetX]

I would try our class technique to start with, probably a lot simpler! lol

You're totally right. I've already created an inherited class and printed a value which is taken from the parent class... seems to be pretty straight forward.