Recently, I noticed some performance hiccups so the past couple of months have been lots of optimizations. I know I know, it's not terribly exciting but the good news is - were back up to 90+ fps. Anyways, here are the updates:








I've added a dedicated “constructed” collision channel. This allows for unreal's PCG framework to properly place foliage types inside/outside of houses.

Also, this further enhances the masking tech I've implemented for reducing draw calls. This was mentioned in the last post but for anyone interested, here is a diagram of how that works. The blue spaces are defined per inside instance custom data. All three wall sections are the same mesh and material :
Other:

• Up until recently, the damage value from melee and projectiles has been static. Now, this can be dynamically driven by weapon attributes
  
• WIP - automated dirt/gunk mask placement on constructed surfaces
  
• refactored for loot generation to be completely driven by lua

What's next?

• Many of the loot tables and items are already in place. Tags/Name assignments to world objects are required to properly generate the loot. This will be a primary focus over the next couple of months.
  
• Loot generation for zed corpses
  
• I like how the zeds react to being hit. It feels right but player animations are a bit lacking.

Hello friends! I've been hard at work on Protozed. hope you all are doing well! Overall, my plan is to have an early alpha demo build by end of November. Won't be anything like the final product but I'm itching to make something i can share with my brother at least! :)

Been working on crafting mechanics and survivor action logic. Here you can see the player opening a can of food, and then eating it.

I've implemented new logic for floor plans, removing the need for "door frame" and "door window" modules during the configuration/generation process. By dynamically tracing a box where the door/window should be and passing those parameters into the instanced static mesh, we mask out the wall dynamically . This will greatly help with content procurement, reducing the need for LOTS of complicated assets (due to varying sizes of doors and windows)