(Godot) Rabbit

I have integrated the Rabbit, its textures and its walk and idle animations. I bought this one from the Unity Store’s MalberS Animations. I like this artists’ work and the rabbit feels at home with the polygonal look’n’feel on the Synty Studio’s models!

Going through Blender again, there were few roadblocks to integrating the Assets meant for Unity. I used Gimp to convert the PSD files into the PNG file format. I introduced an extra Spatial in Godot to change the orientation of the rabbit model. This are minor issues that I was able to resolve fast, so integrating more animated assets might be in my future!

Gameplay

I’ve given the rabbit a very simple AI. I want to extend it further in the next weeks. Also, I’ve changed the player’s UI so he can harvest the rabbit and gain 1 meat. This was pretty straight-forward, but it makes me realize that if I wanted to integrate a wolf or another predator, I will need to introduce the idea of ‘teams’, as well as a health system.

Terrain Generation

I’ve implemented a simple heuristic to trigger the creation of new terrain tiles. Now, whenever the player character enters a tile, the Battlefield will check if this tile has all its neighbors created. Any missing tiles are promptly created.

Optimization

Adding 500 rabbits to the world took just a few lines of code, after last week’s work on terrain generation. But 500 rabbits are way more expensive than 500 trees. I spent quite a few evenings, this week, optimizing my rough code. Before last week, since there were only a few actors moving in the world, I had the list of obstacles in one global vector. I’ve now changed it to be a 2D array within the TerrainTile class. This increases the memory consumption by about 32kB per tile, which is not dramatic. I also rewrote the path-finding algorithm to use sorted vectors for faster accesses.