No. When the dev hud is on, you should notice a small red cross at the bottom of the characters' feet. This is the floating point position that we check is inside of hazard circles.
The place where we *do* use the gride squares is with entity-to-entity collision. So if an enemy is occupying a tile, that tile behaves as a wall in terms of entity movement. This makes sense for our pathfinding, which is grid-based. But it can produce some poor results if an entity is not near the center of a tile. In such a case, the player can get closer than you would expect to the entity without bumping into the "wall" tile.
Hit detection in Flare is currently very simple. Every attack (we call them "Hazards") is essentially a circle. If a target's position point is inside this circle, we register a hit.
I think for the proposed combat improvements, we could improve things by keeping the hazard circles small. Precise hitboxes would be a lot of work and be more CPU-intensive. Not sure if it's worth it, but it's an interesting idea.
We've already used a few of the resources from that mod, such as the hobgoblin, the modified skeletons, and a few of the spell effects. We add assets if they make sense for our game, so there's the possibility we'll pull some more from that mod.
I'm currently using Clint's modular medieval building tileset as well, but it doesn't blend well with rubberduck's new buildings. So I'll likely use rubberduck's buildings later on in another map. Since Clint's tileset doesn't have snow variants, rubberduck's buildings would be perfect for a new snow map.
I might use some of the buildings as additional set-pieces for this map, but I still have plans for 3 more maps. So I don't want to burn through all the assets right away.
Thanks for the report. What we may do is start using floats across the board for item chance values, including in the game data. As of now, modders are limited to 1% as the smallest drop rate for items, so I'd like to add more flexibility in such cases.
No. When the dev hud is on, you should notice a small red cross at the bottom of the characters' feet. This is the floating point position that we check is inside of hazard circles.
The place where we *do* use the gride squares is with entity-to-entity collision. So if an enemy is occupying a tile, that tile behaves as a wall in terms of entity movement. This makes sense for our pathfinding, which is grid-based. But it can produce some poor results if an entity is not near the center of a tile. In such a case, the player can get closer than you would expect to the entity without bumping into the "wall" tile.
FYI, you can see the Hazard circles by enabling developer mode and turning on the dev hud (enter toggle_devhud in the console).
Hit detection in Flare is currently very simple. Every attack (we call them "Hazards") is essentially a circle. If a target's position point is inside this circle, we register a hit.
I think for the proposed combat improvements, we could improve things by keeping the hazard circles small. Precise hitboxes would be a lot of work and be more CPU-intensive. Not sure if it's worth it, but it's an interesting idea.
This should be fixed now. I wrote a brief explaination here: https://github.com/flareteam/flare-game/issues/802#issuecomment-471357101
Thanks for providing the save file. I'm able to reproduce the bug now, so I'll try to fix it.
Good catch. It had no affect on item drops, since the minVal there is zero. A fix is now upstream.
A fix for this using floats is now upstream: https://github.com/flareteam/flare-engine/commit/bbc5f629e4da8a21a8a94a6...
@Danimal
We've already used a few of the resources from that mod, such as the hobgoblin, the modified skeletons, and a few of the spell effects. We add assets if they make sense for our game, so there's the possibility we'll pull some more from that mod.
@rubberduck
From my previous post:
I might use some of the buildings as additional set-pieces for this map, but I still have plans for 3 more maps. So I don't want to burn through all the assets right away.
Thanks for the report. What we may do is start using floats across the board for item chance values, including in the game data. As of now, modders are limited to 1% as the smallest drop rate for items, so I'd like to add more flexibility in such cases.
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