So I've hit the deadline for the second milestone of my project (technically it's tomorrow, but I'm not going to exactly get much done between now and then).

Anyway here's a summary of the progress made, and what I'm working on next.

Requirements

• Entity spawning and placement (done)
• Basic collisions (done)
• Room connectivity (partially done)

The last one is only partially completed as it ended up being less of a priority than anticipated, and will instead roll over to the next milestone.

Delivered

Here's everything that was delivered since the last milestone.

• Initial pass for node properties
• Node context menu and entity class selection
• Surface inspector
• Entity spawning is now hooked up, along with basic entity simulation logic
• Face smoothing
• Ray vs. poly + plane tests
• Sphere vs. poly tests
• Console input history
• Console notifications
• Entity component serialisation and deserialisation
• Transform-relative culling and scene transforms
• Further expansion of validation between client and server
• Rough rope collisions
• ACM has been moved into an external library
• Rough camera collisions
• Spotlights

Mind these are just the highlights.

I also spent quite a bit of time removing things recently, because they were out of scope and taking up more time than they were worth. For instance I had a UI framework that allowed you to create various panels, attach widgets to those panels, and move them around with the mouse, with a stylesheet system.

The only things I've retained of that is the font API and the "canvas" API which essentially is just a simplified off-screen rendering layer on top of the render target API the engine provides.

I'm trying to be a little bit more wary about what I spend my time on and what benefits it'll actually have to the project. Which, with a brain like mine that wants to do something new every five minutes, can be a struggle.

A couple of minor bits relating to the game are below, but still not much I want to show or talk about yet.

Milestone 3

Milestone 3 is a bit more ambitious, and is set for May 5th. It's more focused on the game itself.

• Third-person camera
• Inventory and weapons
• Controllable player pawn
• Decals
• Further geometry editing work for editor
• Room connectivity

I've already started on some of these, so hopefully you'll see (or at least read) more about that over the course of the month.