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I spent several weeks on preparing Iron Cube release 0.15. Added a lot of new functionality, AI bots, dynamic navigation meshes, new voxel based lighting, new OpenGL based rendering and water.

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Iron Cube 0.15

AI Bots added to gameplay and they pretty smart! (not actually, same team member still can shoot each other, if one of them is on the line of fire, but it will be fixed soon). They can follow leader (player), find optimal way to enemy and give way to player. I am actually thinking how to make them slightly dumber. Bots use new navigation system, based on updated Recast library. Meshes are dynamic, it means they will be rebuild, when voxels are changed.

iron_cube_ai

And demonstration, how dynamic navigation meshes work

New voxel-based lighting system is developed, lighting from sun is ambient and allows smooth shadows (relatively smooth, because of overall pixelated style). Lighting made using modified flood-fill of skylight from top of the world.

iron_cube_lighting

Also I switched render from DirectX+Deferred Shading to OpenGL+simple voxel based lighting, to be compatible with future mobile ports. It's faster and allows to play game on old hardware.A lot of work made in editor, it's now fully functional, allows to render random polygonal models into voxel world, edit mesh, setup lighting and AI.

One step closer to final release!

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GracezLOL
GracezLOL - - 2 comments

Such a nice game! Indie will definately love it!

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yak32 Author
yak32 - - 34 comments

thanks! hope so

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gulisa
gulisa - - 21 comments

Nice ,.Like this

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