July 23rd, 2021 - Tobias & Jace Talk: Drone WIP Footage - First implementation of the Drone World Grid

July 23rd, 2021

Tobias & Jace Talk: Drone WIP Footage - First implementation of the Drone World Grid

https://youtube.com/clip/UgwYho04_UJK5gzjLJ14AaABCQ

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  1. Tobias

    So this is the first time I think I implemented the world grid pathfinding.

    So as you can see, it travels from the station up to the sky at the height level of the current square it's in.

    And then it flies to its destination and then requests to dock at the next station.

  2. Jace

    Was it like flying around in circles a little bit?

  3. Tobias

    Yeah, yeah, it does.

    Yeah.

    So that's what happens when there's currently a drone already docked to a station because you can't have two drones docking at the same time.

    So what they do is they just queue up in the sky and just circle the station and stuff until they get a free slot.

  4. Jace

    Oh man, early days, the early days of drones.

    Early days with beautiful programming art.

    Hell yeah.

    Christmas time, apparently.

  5. Tobias

    Yeah, yeah.

    This was during December, so that was like around the time we had the Christmas update as well.