July 23rd, 2021
Tobias & Jace Talk: Drone WIP Footage - First implementation of the Drone World Grid
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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.
Jace
Was it like flying around in circles a little bit?
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.
Jace
Oh man, early days, the early days of drones.
Early days with beautiful programming art.
Hell yeah.
Christmas time, apparently.
Tobias
Yeah, yeah.
This was during December, so that was like around the time we had the Christmas update as well.