11-May-2025, 18:14
Week of May 5, 2025
Doors
This week, I made progress that's actually fun to play with!
I'd been struggling for a while with getting houses to build where they should within towns. Houses shouldn't just be randomly dropped all over an area, they should have roads connecting them so that you can find your away around the town easily. They'd been spawning on top of each other, not de-spawning properly, and a whole bunch of other issues for a few weeks until last. Last week, I finally got houses to spawn in sensible ways, so with that out of the way, I could move on.
Doors now spawn on houses. Currently, you cannot actually enter the house, but you can open and close the doors by right-clicking them. I think this is how I'm going to have players use items in the final game, but it's too early to set anything in stone yet.
In making doors work properly, however, I broke the House Builder. Houses still generate, and houses with more than one piece successfully generate each piece, but they're not in the right place. This only came to light at the end of the week because as it turns out, houses with special shapes are kinda rare because of how I decided to have them spawn.
Also as a reminder, posts in this thread do not represent 100% of the work I do on the game. This thread is strictly for when I have some sort of media to present, which is not all the time at this point. If you would like to keep up with all work relating to Tale of Flocksworth, check out the ToF category of my weekly progress reports.
Doors
This week, I made progress that's actually fun to play with!
I'd been struggling for a while with getting houses to build where they should within towns. Houses shouldn't just be randomly dropped all over an area, they should have roads connecting them so that you can find your away around the town easily. They'd been spawning on top of each other, not de-spawning properly, and a whole bunch of other issues for a few weeks until last. Last week, I finally got houses to spawn in sensible ways, so with that out of the way, I could move on.
Doors now spawn on houses. Currently, you cannot actually enter the house, but you can open and close the doors by right-clicking them. I think this is how I'm going to have players use items in the final game, but it's too early to set anything in stone yet.
In making doors work properly, however, I broke the House Builder. Houses still generate, and houses with more than one piece successfully generate each piece, but they're not in the right place. This only came to light at the end of the week because as it turns out, houses with special shapes are kinda rare because of how I decided to have them spawn.
Also as a reminder, posts in this thread do not represent 100% of the work I do on the game. This thread is strictly for when I have some sort of media to present, which is not all the time at this point. If you would like to keep up with all work relating to Tale of Flocksworth, check out the ToF category of my weekly progress reports.
~SweptThrone •.-