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Good news, everyone! Hauling works now!

I ended up figuring out where the tile's ship info was getting mixed-up, and now AI can haul loot from a derelict back to their own ship. It turns out the way I was looking for destinations to drop the loot was using the wrong ship as a search basis, and I had to attach some ship ID info to each zone so it could look in the right place.

Hey Folks! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Yesterday was Labor Day here in the US, so it was a long weekend. Friends, nice weather, good food...a nice mini vacation!

Back at the office, it was mostly catch-up today. Emails, contracts, planning, phone calls...I had just enough time in-engine today to snap the screenshot you see above. And to verify that the thing I need to resume

Hey Folks! Managed to get hauling to limp along today, though it still has some flaws to overcome.

A lot of the early work today involved fixing the haul job filtering so it only targeted appropriate items (and drop zones). But once that was done, I was able to paint haul tasks on items around the ship, and then designate a zone to haul them to, and have the AI ferry things over!

Hey Folks! A little bit of progress today between admin stuff. Focusing on the hauling task.

My initial attempts to solve hauling involved writing code to search for storage zones, and do special handling whether there was a matching item to stack on, or empty space in the zone. It involved generating special interactions to fetch the haul item and direct it to the destination stack, or

Hey Folks! Sorry for the missed post yesterday. Late phone call, then had to run and help with dinner. And unfortunately, both yesterday and today involved a lot of admin type tasks. So I didn't get much development done.

Fortunately, someone else did!

Chris has been working away on a revamped lighting model, and was able to get it checked-in today. And lucky you, you get to

Hey Folks! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Pretty low-key here, but that was a welcome break.

Back at the office, I unfortunately had a lot of admin tasks to do in the morning. And only got a bit of development time in the afternoon. However, I think I'm starting to form a picture of what I need to do next. And how to do it.

I want to setup a way for AI to haul items to a

Hey Folks! A bit better for progress today, as I added the ability to paint "uninstall" tasks around the ship, plus some other fixes and improvements.

Getting uninstall to be paintable ended up requiring a small change to the code that auto-generates install/uninstall interactions. I added some extra data to each that describes which action menu item it relates to, so the

Hey Folks! Despite yesterday's big announcement, most of my time was spent actually developing. So I have a fair amount of progress to share!

I tweaked the job menu layout a bit to look more streamlined and consistent, and started working on a second menu for action tasks. The first menu lets us setup build/install tasks, and this new menu will likely include things like "

Hey Folks, big news today! As some of you might have already noticed, a new publisher was announced today. And they're going to be publishing Ostranauts! Introducing, Modern Wolf:

This is actually not the first time I've worked with some of the folks at Modern Wolf. Some of you will remember me mentioning Fernando Rizo before, who helped with

Hey Folks! I'm still sort of midway through the latest work on build menu tasks, so I decided to show some of Chris's progress in today's screenshot.

Chris has been rewriting the visibility/lighting code to support arbitrary shadow shapes. Previously, all walls and items had to have shadows made up of axis-aligned blocks, which looked bad when paired with diagonal walls