As I said the other day, I started my RTS game that I'll call Holocene. It'll be about setting up a civilisation. Kind of Age of Empires, but with a twist, because I'm not planning much medieval stuff, just ancient, where my passion and expertise lies.
I had some time to build the beginnings of the screen over the weekend and, with placeholder graphics, it will be something like this:
There's a resources panel at the top to show how much you got. There's the main window with units and the like and there's a selected objects panel at the bottom of the screen.
Selecting by clicking on an object works now. I found a tutorial to make the square things around the unit that is selected. For placeholder purposes, I got the bottom panel to view the selected unit or units up to ten. In the above example, 11 are selected, so the 10th has a "more selected" sprite that will later be cluckable to view a detailed list of objects.
Anyway, what I wanted to say, when an object is selected, the player right clicks somewhere and the selected thing can move (is a unit) the unit will go there. Neat! But now...
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When I select multiple units and click somewhere to send them there, most will never get there, because only one unit can be at that specific point. Because of this, my units will dance around one another trying to get closer and pushing each other out of the way. Nothing productive is happening and that's not good.
Now I thought of two ways to fight that. I could keep track of the distance from the object to the point and see if it gets smaller in any meaningful way. If it does not, either there's something wrong with the NavMesh pathfinding in Unity, or the guy just can't get closer for this reason.
This could be difficult because often the path is not a straight line and the agent will first get further from the target before getting closer. I should look for that.
The second thing is to save the configuration of the group of units and have them move in that configuration. Units will then not move to one spot, but all go to a spot that is just for them.
I will need something like that anyway, for moving in formation later, so I might as well implement that right away, but how to get the right configuration? In the above examples, it could just be copied from the current position, but it will not work when converging units to a central location from different sides. I'll have to find out a way to do that.
Thinking about this, I'll probably do the second thing, but it won't be easy, I think. Does not matter. I dont mind a little puzzle.
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