Off to a great start

Well, what i did manage to do in the weekend ended up being corrupted from several blackouts i had last night, which also compromised the integrity of my hard drive. Good news is that i managed to fix the problems, bad news is that i lost some of the advance on the project, which i managed to redo.

That aside, the movement system is done, is rather simple right now:

• I have 4 abilities that apply a buff, each named as each direction (front, back, left and right).
• Each ability is transient and applies a similarly named buff.
• trigger wise i look for the casting of each ability, and the existence of each buff on the casting unit.
• if the unit has, say, move left and move front then i know the player is pressing W and A.
• After this i just issue a move order to the casting unit based on the position of the unit, offseted a distance towards the current facing of the camera, plus  the after mentioned directional offset.

Another cool feature i remembered i could add and how is a skybox, which was done by adding a permanent buff to the selected "focused" unit which attaches the bel'shir skybox, then whenever i want to change the current focus i just remove the buff from the unit. The model addition has to be visible only to the "self" player and have a continuous position update, but its rotation only updated on creation, otherwise it will attempt to rotate with the unit.

Tomorrow it will probably be the targeting system, like i said at the start, nothing fancy. I'm probably going to implement a quick targeting assist and handle all attacks through the regular weapon interactions from the engine, instead of trying to do traceline and weapon physics myself.