Making my first game! (3d rts city builder)

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I’m making my first ever game with gdevelop. I’m more of an artist, so anything related to coding i find very difficult. This project is definitely testing me and my mental.

What i have so far after 5 days of working:

  • grass and trees generate on my landscape randomly (they sometimes overlap, so i will have to fix this somehow)
  • camera!!! (this was probably the most difficult thing to set up, i was so frustrated, took me 2 days with some help). top down with smooth zoom, q\e z rotation, up and down tilt with middle mouse button
  • set up outline for trees. it changes colors if you hover over
  • character moves to a tree you click on and also to the nearest one if you click on a button
  • that big red square is my building button. by clicking it the building sticks to cursor position and moves with it. if you hover over a tree it will change outline color to red, indicating collision with another object. if the space is free it changes color to green

Future plans in no particular order:

  • resource gathering
  • inventory system
  • add building rotation
  • square mouse drag selection of multiple objects
  • npc ai (im scared of this one)
  • figure out how to make everything i implemented so far to work on a bumpy landscape instead of the simple box mesh
  • figure out how to optimize things
  • more building types
  • more grass (also fix the one i have so far, its huge)
  • add rocks
  • more stuff

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I am also more of an artist despite my love for technology! but DAMN that looks pretty good

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Very nice! did you model the things in 3D or are they drawings?

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thats 3D, i can tell because it looks like…gdevelop

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I did model trees (exept the big one) and grass. Used mill from asset pack, but i will later make my own, this one was just for testing

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Thanks! I hope i won’t give up half way and actually finish it

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What i did today:

  • added resource gathering. now npc can gather wood and store it in the nearest storage building

  • added ability to rotate building before placing it

  • imported storage and house buildings

  • tried to make inventory system and failed

Things i need to fix:

  • most of the time buildings placed immediately after clicking the button, i have to adjust camera rotation to make it work
  • inventory
  • everything i did seems very inefficient, need more flexible systems

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Looks very nice. Also, I noticed you have a “0” up left. If you wanted it to display a variable and it just displays 0 while the target variable was something else, try “GlobalVariableString(“yourvariable”) or VariableString(“yourvariable”)” so your game displays the actual variable value instead of typing ToString(…)

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Thats my actual variable, i was checking character states to see why some stuff didn’t work

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Todays achievements:

  • inventory system yippee

  • building constraction working like it should

  • grid based crop planting (right now i can just plant carrots but soon!!!)

  • crops grow automatically over time, then automatically harvested and moved to storage

Bugs:

  • can’t sow more than one field, makes npc just harvest all carrots immediately regardless of the growth stage
  • fields snap to one another if placed too close for some reason

For the future:

  • add more building types
  • try to implement two professions for farmers and builders for now
  • add roads
  • make normal ui, not just text
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That’s awesome, it looks really good. I’m kind of tempted to play!