In other news, making some more assets for space maps. #battlemaps #LancerRPG

Still sending out applications, still dealing with paperwork, but I had some time to figure out charging weapons and material changes a bit. Not shown: Delving into an alternative player model with modular parts, though I'm still looking at how to best do that. #mecha #godot

Introduce yourself with 4 mechs

There we go, four more finished tokens. Don't worry, I'll use them responisbly, no need to traumatize my players. I already have Rainmakers for that. #mecha #LancerRPG

Some more wip tokens for my upcoming Lancer session. Learned that I might get an additional player, so I don't have to hold back, I guess. Now I just gotta find a way to make a Support npc scary...*casually eyes the Horror template* #mecha #LancerRPG

Anyways, railgun and autocannon combo. Right now the enemiese are too straightforward and just walk and turn to the player...which negates the whole weakpoint on the back thing I had going. I'll note down proper enemy AI on the rather long to do-list. Also may have to tone down the rocket spray?

And while I told myself I should focus on graphics more for now, I also tinkered some more with Godot. Figured out how to attach the "shoulder" mounts, made some rocket pods and cannons. Also fiddled around with visual shaders a bit for the projectiles. #godot #mecha

Apparently the Changeling campaign will be ending soon-ish (hey, we finally found the spring queen!), so in order to get back into things I started to make some more tokens for my Lancer npcs. #LancerRPG #mecha

With placeholder sounds this time. Worked on Navmesh and Navagents a bit (Read: bashed things with a wrench until they moved) and got some basic pathfinding going. Also, they can shoot back now. Anyways, still fun, but I wanna work on some more graphics or models now. #godot #mecha

Some more weapon tinkering. Tried to make a grenade launcher, but will have to redo that one due to somersaulting grenades. Also got AoE weapons working and am now faced with the next problem, as they hit ALL colliders on a target for damage. Eh, I'll figure something out. #godot #mecha

Too warm for anything, though I made some progress with the modular weapon/bullet script. Piercing shots make me twist my head around bodies, areas and collision masks. Should a projectile damage a weakpoint if it pierces from the front? Decisions, decisions. Anyways, have some old stuff of mine:

So, I figured out how to make hit locations/weakpoints for my placeholder enemies. Still need a better way to import the collision shapes. Muzzle flash, case ejections and sounds are placeholders for now. Note to self: Need to add little pieces of scrap flying away in the explosion. #mecha #godot

Probably shouldn't have tried to rig that amount of legs as my starting character, looking back. Still, the point stands. Figuring things out on my own was FUN!

Found some old images in my presentation folder from the time when I was just starting to get used to Blender (inverted mouse click and everything). And while this is not quite the same, one of the reasons I'm delving into Godot is to get that feeling of understanding how something works back.

Still trying things out in Godot, bullets do not ignore colliders anymore and I figured out a proper shotgun spread. Also a new IK rig for aiming. And since I needed something to shoot, I made some target dummies and damage numbers. Need to make muzzle flash, cases ejecting and sound next? #godot

Introduce yourself with four video games.

Finished the pilot. Now on to waiting for the other players to decide on their pilots...

Work in progress for the pilot. Callsign "Escher" due to a patchjob on her mech she had to do herself and the chief mechtech fainting after discovering her cable management.

While thinking about how to draw the pilot of this thing, I made a rudimentary rig for it. Just in case, for testing purposes. Why do my attempts at "I just wanted to draw a mech" always get out of hand like this? We'll never know.

Taking shape, have to finetune the arms and detail the legs still. I am stealing the gimbal turret for the lasers from the Vulture Mk3, though. I liked those. #battletech #avatar

Started to make another 3d mech model for reference. Hopefully, this time it's the correct one. Because I do not need excuses to make more mechs...

Finished up the Vulture MK3 to my liking. My initial reaction to a 60t mech with 4 Lrm20s have slightly subsided after I learned the thing only carries 6 volleys for each of them. Clanners still struggling with logistics, apparently. #battletech #vulture

Post your machine art, be it mecha, jets, cars etc.

Lineart done, mech is now a proper Vulture Mk3, a mech I did not know existed because most of my Battletech history knowledge ends with the Clan Invasion. Anyways, now I have to decide on a paint scheme. And after that, I still have to tackle the Avatar. #battletech #vulture #mad_dog

Today I learned that the intro from Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance does not feature a Vulture, just a very vulture-looking Avatar. And I have to say, I do prefer this look compared to the TRO-drawing. Anyways, it's too hot to draw here, so have a wip. #battletech #avatar

Tried out printing some of my Lancer maps and run into the problem that my usual 40x40 hex maps work on a screen, but not so much printed. So I tweaked this testrun for knifefight distance, which works well enough, now my problem is that I have to retool the encounters for cuddly-close maneuvers.

Looked up how to do skyboxes in Godot. My usual pipeline for cubemaps worked, but I had to convert it to a panorama image. Now I just need to build a proper megastructure skybox and not just cobble some tiles together. Found a neat tool for panorama conversion here: danilw.github.io/GLSL-howto/c...

Frankensteined a rudimentary aiming system together, extremely janky and just me testing things out. Needs to be redone completely. Oh, also, shooting stuff. #godot #mecha

So, while I have been watching too many Godot tutorials about aiming and weapon firing mechanics, I made a mecha chicken. I mean, this is basically just a turret on legs, this should be easier on me than a fully articulated mech. I hope. #mecha #godot

So the whole IK thing in Godot took me some time to implement in a working order. Influence curves are still not optimal and movement looks a bit choppy, but at least the basics are working. Still all very muchly work in progress, but hey, at least there's progress. #mecha #godot