> ! Lets darn start ! <

I understand that this is a progressive project, but I think we should start on some stuff (Building and Coding, not ideas)

If we do start on something can we all start on a Weekend or Friday

Also I am thinking of color themes
Here is what I got
Black Background, Green Borders, White Text
or
Black Background, Blue Borders, White Text

Agree disagree, share your thoughts and lets jumpstart this darned project

Listen. I know everyone here wants to start making something immediately.

That's totally possible. However, you would get angry when you make things that won't be used. It would also be frustarting when you make something and it's incorporated in like 3 months after you made it.

Currently, this organization is more important than the creation itself. If you want to have a headstart, sure, but then help us on the whole concept instead of immediately starting.

We need to work out some things first, before we can start things. I have learned that changing things can be - in some cases - harder than creating something new.

So let's first work a BASIC version out, we need to know what the game has to incorporate in the future, how flexible things must be, how the interaction works, how certain things work and moreover where to start. Before that, I don't think we can start on anything.

I have posted a lot of topics in the "concepts" forum already, and I'd like you to add your own concepts if you think of any. Look for example in the "where do we start" topic.

EDIT: One of the main reasons that the current game has failed is because I didn't built the game around the idea of a future game. I built is as the version as it would currently be, for example "let's add boxes". But, I didn't think of the future. What if I'd like to use "Model resources"? Then I would have to literally change EVERY script. And that is why the current game is almost unupdateable. So I'd like not to do that error twice, we first need a future perspective (a crude one, with all basic features in there) and then we can start building - because we have all those things in the back of your mind.

Planning.

Kk then

Oh yes, about these color themes?

I can create a simple handler so that Color3.new also accepts strings. You can then create a library for colors.

.TextColor3 = Color3.new("Ocean blue")

Kk that would be cool, get on skype and lets brainstorm and etc.

I want to make the animals. o3o

I just wanted to say when we do make animals they should also have some sort of theme

I took a look at some of the models that jobro had taken for animals and I noticed that some of them used just parts and others just used meshes, when we choose to make animals I think we should stick to one.

No meshes. If we do meshes, then we will get at a point like "oh noes, there is no mesh of this" and then we can't include it.

wait does that mean no wedges or sphers ?

Yes, they are possible! That's because they can be resized and we can use them to make a generalized style of the game.

With meshes, we first have to wait until one is uploaded we can use :/

Ok thanks

Wait another Question and that is:
When are we going to start?!?!?!?!?

When we are ready. We can start on some things already.

I'm currently working on the API infrastructure.

Maybe me and Zokorio could work on the animals. I would try to make the AI. Zokorio would get a bite of the AI too. And the spawning. He could make the functions for moving. Like an API for it. The most complex thing is the AI most probably. Definitely going to be at least a few thousand lines of code.

You can use my API incorporation functions later. Like that, the only thing you have to do is to create the actual class and let my API handler do the rest.

Just a note: I made quite a lot of progress already on animals, including a quite smart AI. But yeah, that one isn't API based, but it will be easy to rebuild that. We could team up on that.

Should we use RayCasting AI like in nate890's AI bot
or
Make our own node - to - node AI bot?

Nodes fail, that's static pathfinding. At the point one blocks the road with a house for example, animals will just play dumb and try to move trough the houses. Dynamic, so raycasts or any other sensor system.

I guess I can just stay back with something more simple like weapon building, cause you guys have this more figured out that me... :l

So open up the spoiler if you would like to see how you could do it. These might not be the only ways but i think they are possible.

Ways you could do it.:

Invisible rays? As far as I know, Ray.new doesn't return any visible instance, but if you visualise it via a brick it will work.

The raycasting method seems to be the efficient method to find paths.

Is there any possible way with having animals in some way avoid buildings... because having them randomly walk would be easy but they would be beyond stupid in the sense that they would you know, walk in buildings, fall in the ocean, and not even care that a character is near them...

Right now I'm creating chickens... they look really nice.

@Zokorio that is the whole point of the AI, animals will avoid buildings, stay in groups, avoid playeres/enemy animals, etc. etc.

Speaking of animals, check out my chickens Their AI is pretty crappy but they feature...

- Random walking
- Random color (Either brown or white)
- Randomly drops an egg
- Makes chicken sounds

I also made baby ones but they are having "Difficulties", you can see the chickens here...

http://www.roblox.com/Scripting-and-Model-Build-Place-place?id=117522085

I also made some grass that they follow then eat it. Of course real chickens don't eat grass that I know of, but it's just an idea for other animals like cows or something.