I have reworked the enemy ""pathfinding"" so that it can follow a given path of checkpoints (each with a target speed). It also has an "emergency brake" if things go wrong :D
Its not perfect yet, but huge progress for me and I am happy about that 😀

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Worked a bit on the UI and the player input. There are two input modes:
- Control mode toggled using CTRL. If enabled, your ship aligns with the direction the camera is facing.
- Freelook mode enabled while holding ALT. Otherwise its an orbit cam

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Improved the godrays once again so that they look more like volumetric god rays. The biggest difference is from the angle shown at the very start of the video (when looking perpendicular to the sun direction)

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Screen space god rays implemented into the same compositor effect I already used for the sun/ sun flares. This all runs in the editor 😁

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Worked some more on the combat (improved projectile hit detection, added spread to PDCs, added hit VFX, improved aiming logic factoring in acceleration and more). Also improved thruster visuals.

Here is how it looks in action 🚀

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I think I FINALLY managed to fix the PDC aiming after struggling with it for MONTHS.

They should be able to align themselves way more consistently with the target now.

What you're seeing here is my test scene for them.

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Today I implemented Lens flares in Godot using Compositor Effects.
Thanks to pink_arcana's project on Github for helping me understand those effects
github.com/pink-arcana/...

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Found some time today and implemented torpedoes. They use an algorithm called "proportional navigation".
Quite happy to get this done :) So next up is a hitbox system

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Current progress on my Expanse-inspired space combat game.
Enemy "AI" is at least doing something, but its not that good. Added a projectile system. Next up would be AI improvements and internal component-based hitbox system.

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Currently working on an Expanse-inspired space combat game and wanted to show my progress on the thruster effect :)