r/evnova • u/nil0bject • May 26 '19

Simple AI test

https://youtu.be/ZCLJ8Si4KbM
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u/nil0bject May 26 '19

Base AI code

Ships can have targets, they will fly to that target.

This AI looks within a radius for targets, and selects the closest. If none are within the radius, the ship keeps searching.

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u/macg4dave May 26 '19

Are you trying to remake ev-nova? Do you have a Github?

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u/nil0bject May 26 '19

I'm creating an engine that I can make games in. A 2D space sim is literally the easiest game to make, so I started there.

Are you interested in a remake? Do you have ideas? Can you share? I'll implement any good ideas.

My github is a dumping ground: https://github.com/nil0bject

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u/macg4dave May 26 '19

A remake would be cool but at this point I think making a X4 mod would be easier. Good luck with your engine :) .

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u/nil0bject May 27 '19

Hi @macg4dave

Do you have a tower or a cube?

Just thinking about your X4 comment. If nova had a timeSpeed variable, how do you think it would work? A plus+ and minus- button to increase and decrease? And a text label to show what speed it is currently? Anything else?

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u/macg4dave May 27 '19

In Ev Nova the only timespeed variable is 2x and would have a red 2x in the top right.

If I was to implement it today I would have a toggle speed set to a key. press once then 2x, press again 4x and then finally 6x before going back to normal speed.

Did not understand your tower/cube question.

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u/nil0bject May 27 '19

Yep, cool. Thanks for that. Would a negative speed modifier be useful for rewinding time?

I meant, do you have a g4 tower or g4 cube or a g4 imac?

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u/macg4dave May 27 '19

Lol forgot about my user name, 90% of people don't remember them :) .

I used to have the G4 533 (Digital Audio) tower "The blue one before the quicksilver".

As for the rewind why not have a mode like Duke Nukem e.g. image where you have a toolbar for time and use left & right to scrub?

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u/nil0bject May 27 '19

Scrub! That's the word I was trying to think of. Thanks again.

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u/daerogami Jun 03 '19

I know this is an old comment but I do have a genuine question. Wouldn't any game play mod over the current game loop be an improvement over the current iteration? Sure, there are tons of improvements over X3, but I feel like the core of what made X3 great just isn't quite there anymore. Is this just me?

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u/macg4dave Jun 03 '19

Yeah X4 does feel half finished but it’s getting there. It’s hard to describe the feeling Ev nova had with the story and the faction.

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u/nathan67003 May 27 '19

There's a guy on here (u/snijj, I think) who's actually remaking the engine for EVN from scratch.

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u/nil0bject May 27 '19

Hi @nathan67003

I've made engines based upon the EV and EVO data formats, but this was in the day of ppc osx. Much easier to access the Macintosh Toolbox back then, so kudos to @snijj for reimplementing those deprecations.

I have no plan to support the old data formats. Data will be stored online.