PACE 1.0 -dev8 Status
Added 2021-04-06 22:15:21 +0000 UTCThe video for -dev8 is going to be a bit late this week. My plan right now is to record and edit it on Thursday and put it up on Friday morning.
My plan - yes, God laughs while man plans - my plan was to work on AI finetuning this week. Instead, I ended doing major surgery to the movement control infrastructure, adding a radial distance positioning feature that I can use now to direct an NPC to any position, in any direction, at a specific angle relative to the direction the target is facing.
That, in turn, means real flanking. We can now - in theory - direct a companion to move behind an enemy and attack from the rear, or from the sides, at specific angles.
The new version is also going to include tactical hotkeys, configurable in MCM, which you'll be able to use to call companions to you, or send them forward, or get everyone to scatter and get some distance.
It's all mostly working, but I want to get some progress made on the AI itself before I ship -dev8. (In the meantime, the current build is available to Patreon supporters on the Greslin Games Discord.) If all goes well, I'd like to ship -dev8 on an open channel this Friday, so that everyone can play around with it this weekend.
We're getting there. Progress is happening fast, and a lot of the upgrades in PACE are going to get backported into PANPC prior to the PANPC 2.0 release. So anyone who's asking, "When is Greslin going to get back to work on PANPC?", the answer is, I am.
Man plans, God laughs. That's all I can say, guys. Stay tuned.
(In the meantime, if you want to see some of the PACE testing, supporter Cryss has been streaming his Horizon/PANPC/PACE build. You can see it on his YouTube channel, here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOXYduiOUd1YhLfSOXsaRRw )
