While working on some issues regarding picking up/dropping off units by carry-alls – which also involved the repair facility. I basically redid a few things.
I made sure the logic for entering a structure is the same for refineries and repair facilities. Making sure, when one works, the other also works.
I also made sure that harvesters will pick refineries that are not ‘claimed’ so to speak. For repair units this is not the case. I also made sure the units dont forget their “intent”. Meaning, a harvester will still try to go to a refinery – even when all are full.
All things you expect in any normal RTS.
Although, I had some fun during development, when breaking this:
And …
There was also a nice little edge case where a Harvester wanted to enter a refinery, only to be 1 frame too late. And then getting stuck. Which looks weird:
All this is fixed… and tested thoroughly with 50+ harvesters and 25+ carry-alls:
Repair Facility
At the end I felt like polishing up the Repair Facility mechanism a bit more. Now you see the health bar of the unit being repaired, which is a nice touch imo:
Now for those who noticed, there are some rendering glitches on the Carry-Alls, bt they are not that much breaking imo for now… so I’ll fix that in 0.6.x or 0.7.x 🙂
Repair Facility and Carry-Alls?
Well.. it works almost. Meaning, the carry-alls will drop of at the structure, but if the repair pad is occupied (and no other alternative is present) the carry-all will drop it off nearby at a valid location. However, at the moment it looks like the units forget they should be repairing.
For Harvesters this is not a big deal, as the Harvesters have their own little logic that makes them go to a refinery when full. But in this case it is an edge case that does not yet work.
See:
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