{"id":405,"date":"2024-09-20T18:59:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T23:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/?p=405"},"modified":"2024-09-20T18:59:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T23:59:37","slug":"devs-journal-20-sep-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Dev&#8217;s Journal &#8211; 20 Sep 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I took the day off today to get out from under a mountain of chores I&#8217;d been neglecting, but that&#8217;s okay because I made a ton of progress last weekend. I didn&#8217;t get around to working on dungeon interiors like I&#8217;d planned, but what I <em>did<\/em> do included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cultist enemy (with placeholder mesh and VO)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enemy spawner placement and spawn rules<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added exclusionary filter tags to spawn rules<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adjusted health and damage numbers for all entities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Made flying enemy ragdolls knock other enemies down<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Light column waypoints to guide players to dungeons<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adjusted melee combat timing to feel more like <em>Eldritch<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Optimized rendering of objects with small, distant lights<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improved entropy of entity RNGs by salting their seeds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added new particle system size and distribution options<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed pathfinding leading through blocking geo in rare cases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow, I hope to work on dungeon interiors, enemy AI behaviors, player weapons, or some combination of all three. <em>Eldritch 2<\/em> is finally starting to feel like a game, which has given me a renewed energy to work on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just for fun, here&#8217;s a short clip (in slow motion) of enemy ragdolls knocking each other down like dominoes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ragdoll-Chain-Reaction.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Early build of <em>Eldritch 2<\/em>. In slow motion, the first-person player punches an enemy, who flies backward into another enemy, who flies backward into a third.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the day off today to get out from under a mountain of chores I&#8217;d been neglecting, but that&#8217;s okay because I made a ton of progress last weekend. I didn&#8217;t get around to working on dungeon interiors like I&#8217;d planned, but what I did do included: Tomorrow, I hope to work on dungeon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eldritch-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}