Project Lonestar

Devlog

• Screen Shot Sunday - Atmosphere
  September 15, 2019 by tsny

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  Looking a bit more like a game all the time. Having more and more little things in the universe definitely helps make the system you're in feel alive. Games like Fallout/Skyrim have things everywhere... Continue reading

  
• September Update
  September 09, 2019 by tsny

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  Changelog Known Issues Drifting is broken Features Colliders on asteroid fields removed until they can be automatically enabled based on player distance You can now rotate the camera in a free-look fa... Continue reading
• Lonestar - Damage Effects
  March 05, 2019 by tsny

  Small thing but kinda cool. Health got a pass over and I made the values into properties in order to allow for better event handling and such. Because of this there were some performance improvements... Continue reading
• Lonestar - Rolling Text
  February 27, 2019 by tsny

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  #mini

  Cool little thing I worked on for a bit today. Rolling text is pretty easy in Unity via a static coroutine but the process is slightly custom because you have to add "\n" to a line as one addition ra... Continue reading
• Unity - Camera Fade
  February 19, 2019 by tsny

  Something small I've been working on this week has been camera fade. I've seen Brackey's tutorial but I really don't like the amount of work that started to become apparent when I thought about incorp... Continue reading
• Weekly Update Changes
  February 14, 2019 by tsny

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  #update, #random

  Back to basics. It has been a little over 2 weeks since I posted the last weekly update and that's because I've changed the way I'm scheduling them. As a solo dev without skill in art, I don't have an... Continue reading
• Working As Intended
  January 24, 2019 by tsny

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  #ssd, #funny, #bug, #feature

  Funny little bug I encountered today. I'm working on the ability to swap ships at any time and it's working pretty well. So well in fact that anything with a mesh seems to work. This is something I ha... Continue reading

  
• Rarity and Loot Drops
  January 21, 2019 by tsny

  Here's the first pass at creating a loot/item system. This system is kinda nice because loot is a single prefab and the rarity colors can be changed on the fly at spawn time... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Update 3 - AI, Fighting, Exploration
  January 20, 2019 by tsny

  This week really flew by! I'm quite proud of the AI advances but they will definitely continue to improve because they're really not something you can fight against. This is for a couple reasons but e... Continue reading

  
• SSD: Pawns and Controllers
  January 14, 2019 by tsny

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  #ssd

  Something I like about the way Unreal is set up by default are the game-centric classes that they kind of force on you. Two major ones are pawns and controllers. I've kind of implemented a hackish wa... Continue reading
• Weekly Update 02 - Less Small-ish
  January 13, 2019 by tsny#weekly update

  So here's the thing: AI is hard. Well... kinda. This week was focused on it and planning/designing in general. I need to get down an agile schedule (or just some kind of schedule at all) so that I hav... Continue reading
• SSD: Sidestep and Blinking
  January 12, 2019 by tsny#ssd

  AI is in a decent state for a good weeks work and I'm ready to put up a build with some AI you can go watch fight or spawn yourself. Today I wanted to mess a bit with movement. FL was pretty barebones... Continue reading
• SSD: Flight of the Valkyries
  January 10, 2019 by tsny#ssd

  I missed yesterday! Woops! I'll post two today, maybe that'll be an improvement. AI is doin' alright and I've started to work on spawning enemies based on triggers. The general setup is a script that... Continue reading

  
• SSD: State, Decisions, Transitions
  January 08, 2019 by tsny#ssd

  AI is coming along decently but is a bit more complicated than I anticipated. A ship has a lot of decisions to make during its states and the controller needs to remember what it was doing before it g... Continue reading
• Changelog: Quick Update
  January 08, 2019 by tsny

  Pushing a quick new version today. Scanner/Indicators disabled for the time being but switching from debug scene to main menu works again as well as the 'restart' command that restarts the current sce... Continue reading
• Weekly Update 01 - Small-ish
  January 07, 2019 by tsny

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  Hey guys, I missed the Sunday post but I was able to make it today. More planning will go into these videos but this was just to get it out with the 2 stable builds for Mac/Windows. There are a coup... Continue reading
• SSD: Nebulae
  January 05, 2019 by tsny#ssd

  Nebulae are something that really made FL feel more alive. Without them, the whole game might have just been empty space with asteroid fields and trade lanes. The tech shown was made by Why485 , who... Continue reading
• SSD: Combat
  January 04, 2019 by tsny#ssd

  I fixed some bugs that I had left sitting around and bandaid-ed the UI so that I could get some rudimentary combat working. The explosion effect doesn't look terrible and the code isn't horrible. Now... Continue reading
• SSD: AI
  January 03, 2019 by tsny#ssd

  I've worked on a couple different things this week but I am taking a note from Garry Newman and want to begin focussing on gameplay for the time being. I would, ideally, like to have something out the... Continue reading
• SSD: Projectiles
  January 02, 2019 by tsny

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  #ssd

  I've been working to simplify the concept of projectiles in PL. At the moment, the hardpoint passes some stats to the projectile and is really just a carrier for those stats and sends them to anything... Continue reading

  
• SSD: Post Processing
  January 01, 2019 by tsny

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  #ssd

  This is my first time with post processing! ... I didn't really add much, there is now some motion blur in the test scene which may or may not remain in the future. I think it looks pretty good and i... Continue reading

  
• Sunday Release: 0.0.89
  December 30, 2018 by tsny

  Tentative plan: Daily screenshots and builds on Sundays. Mac-builds take a little while but will probably come out at the same times. Known bugs: Health being reworked, ships don't take damage Resolu... Continue reading
• SSD: Modern Weapons Panel
  December 30, 2018 by tsny#ssd

  So I'm trying out a daily screenshot post. (SSD: Screen Shot Daily) Today I'm working on how the UI will shape up. The weapons panel from FL was a little dated and didn't do much while taking up a dec... Continue reading

  
• Refactored
  September 19, 2018 by tsny

  I've been watching a lot of Unite talks recently and realized that my game was really bogged down by singletons and hard-coded systems, so I spent parts of the last week rewriting things to be more co... Continue reading
• Minor update 9/9/18
  September 10, 2018 by tsny

  Some minor improvements this time! Placeholder ambient background audio Engine effects Cruise engine effects! Quit and restart debug commands Refactoring and speed improvements Should be less stutteri... Continue reading

  
• Back At It!
  September 06, 2018 by tsny

  I've gotten on track with some development. I've recently graduated and gotten a job and have gotten back around to game dev! I've restructured the project a lot. Flycams spawn when unpossessing a sh... Continue reading
• 0.0.2
  April 19, 2018 by tsny

  Development Player Controller Just like Unreal, player controllers are now separate objects from the pawns that they control. They are singleton-esque. For now, in single player, there's only one in t... Continue reading
• 0.0.1
  April 17, 2018 by tsny

  Asteroid Field Improved overall Works (lol) Can now decide the scale of the asteroid from the inspector Clearing and generating the field are separate and can be done independently Option to hide the... Continue reading