Bernico's Week 5 Report

what were your concrete goals for the week?

My goals were to advance the game up to the point where basic in-game subtasks can be implemented. This means, from the last week's point of view, include collision and event triggers.

what goals were you able to accomplish?

I was able to finish collision until it's pretty much finished, including displaying it for testing, making it able to rotate and fully follow the objects' scale. Because of this, I also worked on and also finished the scale variable on game objects' transform, and made sure that the renderer on the client side displays it and the colliders properly either.

if the week went differently than you had planned, what were the reasons? note that this happens regularly...I would prefer you to be aggressive in what you want to try accomplish rather than limit yourself to goals you know you'll easily achieve. so answering this question is more of a reflection on the development process and the surprises you encounter, it's not at all an evaluation.

This week was very busy for me because of both other classes' deadlines and the fact that we couldn't have the group work time on Thursday, meaning I was able to advance the project up until almost the finish line, but not there yet, again. The collisions implemented would mean that event triggers would be able to easily be implemented via a new game object with a custom OnCollision function, and with it, basic in-game tasks could be implemented. Thus, I didn't manage to finish all my goals I set up to do because of the shorter time we get for the class, along with other classes' deadlines, but I am so close to reaching it.

what are your specific goals for the next week?

I'd like to finish and also assist my teammates with basic full gameplay from start to finish. This means having timer, sub-tasks, and win / lose conditions.

what did you learn this week, if anything (and did you expect to learn it)?

This week I relearned how rotations work, and how 3D objects collision can be detected. This was very unexpected because I thought that getting the rotation of the hitbox would be either a simple library call, or at least just getting it from the rotation that my teammate has implemented, but I ended up needing to relearn about 3D objects projection and OBB axes intersections. I also learned more about critical thinking / debugging skills when trying to solve why the colliders didn't align with the models, until I realized that it was caused by the cube models not being 1x1x1 making the scale basically double from what's intended, but the collider only tracked scale. I expected this considering I didn't fully understand how rendering worked and how the sizes of the models are determined, but now I understand more about it.

what is your individual morale (which might be different from the overall group morale)?