{"author_name":"StephenJacob","cat":"LD #29","comments":[],"epoch":1398569100,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"31302","p_author":"StephenJacob","p_authorkey":"5806","p_urlkey":"66793","p_title":"Pathfinding and map loading.","p_cat":"LD #29","p_event":"LD29","p_time":"1398569100","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"5806","us_name":"StephenJacob","us_username":"stephenjacob","event_start":"1398384000","event_key":"22","event_name":"LD29"},"text":"

I’d love some feedback on the soldier sprite as I’ve spent about an hour making it and I don’t know if any of it is recognizable.<\/p>\n

Drawing small stuff is so much harder, I had to have it fit in a 40×40 tile.<\/p>\n

He is holding a plasma weapon (hence the green ammo box-thingy) but I don’t know if people will\u00a0 understand it’s a weapon because it looks like a black blob with some green on it.<\/p>\n

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\"soldier1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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I got A* and patrolling working.
\n Entities each have a patrol, a list of waypoints with no obstacles between them, that they follow. When they need to deviate from this patrol they start to use A* until they get back to it.
\n I’m loading the map from a png with each pixel corresponding to a 40×40 tile with the color corresponding to the tile type.<\/p>\n

The code is not very\u00a0 interesting so far, pretty standard stuff. I’m gonna get to the stealth part soon which will be more interesting.<\/p>\n

Here is a video: A* and patrolling<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 26th, 2014 10:25 pm","title":"Pathfinding and map loading."}