Mutant Madness - Building placement part 2
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Building selection
A little update on the building placement. You can scroll with your mousewheel to select a different tower.
I made the following code to cycle through the towers:
//Mouse wheel checking
m = LE.MouseZ();
if (prevM < m)
{
selectionID++;
if (selectionID > 4)
{
selectionID = 0;
Console.WriteLine("now 0");
}
SetNewCurrentTempTower();
}
else if (prevM > m)
{
selectionID--;
if (selectionID < 0)
{
selectionID = 4;
Console.WriteLine("now 4");
}
SetNewCurrentTempTower();
}
prevM = LE.MouseZ();
Range ring
Instead of creating a decal I thought it would be nice to display some rotating meshes to show the range of a tower. At the moment the meshes are not being adjusted by the terrain height but that is something on the to-do list. One thing I noticed was that the FPS dropped heavily when using this range ring. A loop was interfering with the process causing a lot of unnecessary instances being created.
Firing towers
I made a small beginning with the tower's firing mechanism. Towers are now able to lock on to a target if it is within range. The bunker and sniper tower are the only towers with a working firing mechanism. The canon and the flamer use rotation and have extra calculations for damage, rotation and area impact.
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