June

Monday 17th

Blender
- Exporting to Unity
- UV mapping
- Texturing
Myriad.ECS
- Added Archetype.Entities property
- Unity integration, show entities for archetype
HandyNetworking
- Experimenting with SyncVar
- Fixed peers not seeing themselves in lobby
- Better handling of connection timeouts
Breakout (multiplayer testbed)
- Lobby handling of connecting/disconnecting

Discussed on Discord
- Component design
- Scenarios/campaign structure
- Rules of engagement
- Tech research/unlocks
Experimented with Myriad.ECS.Networking library
Debugging FUI framework buttons
Restructured scene loading
- Trying to find a good approach to passing "arguments" between scenes that doesn't end up with a DontDestroyOnLoad based mess.

Experimented with Myriad.ECS auto parallel system groups
- Declarative component dependencies
- Updated Myriad Unity integration
Learning blender (particularly ND)

Breakout lobby state sync (ready status)
- Developing pattern for server managed state
  - Send request to change state from client
  - Send out new state from server
  - Send initial state to client on join
HandyNetworking enhancements
- Checking header ID to prevent spoofing
- Removed packet relaying to simplify things, remove the possibility of spoofing altogether
- Better handling of OnPeerConnected event
Experimented with splitting scene in multiple layers
- Astronomical Object layer for planets, moons, orbits, map markers etc
- Small Object layer for things like spaceships and asteroids
- Two layers can be composited to have very large things (planets) and very small things (spaceships) in the same view

Began experimenting with compositing cameras
Experimented with scalable resolution management
- Requires DX12
- DX12 seems to be painfully slow/stuttery (in editor) and there are reports that it is slow in builds too
Stacking cameras with different postprocessing effects
- Allows for ships and planets to have different processing
- Copy rotation and FoV from "small" camera to "astronomical" camera
- Place astronomical exactly at the position of the ship (with planet scene scaling)
- Allow small camera to move freely around ship, with normal scene scaling (1u == 1m).
- Illusion of infinite distance to planet