I was not doing well with Godot and for better or worse, decided to switch to unity last minute...
Yasir Celtik
C19307843
TU857
The project revolves around creating a simulation of a tribal like society, where members live around a tribe hut. This hut is where they will gather at night and go out from during the day. The aim of the villagers is to wander around during the daytime, until they run into a berry bush which they can scavenged.
Ideas for features are:
- Multiple tribes
- Differing tribe members can attack and kill one another, as berries are sparse. At the start of the day, if the number of villagers that returned is not equal to the previous days population, that means someone died
- Attack groups
- If there are missing villagers, meaning they died (or glitched out lol) a hunting party will be formed to get revenge.
- Collecting a number of berries in the home will add a villager.
- Not collecting enough berries will result in starvation.
The villagers rely on Finite State Machines to manage what they are doing at any given moment, following the design pattern, multiple states have been added:
- ScavengeState
- This is the default wandering search state
- GoToBerryState
- Arrive behaviour used to go to a berry that is spotted
- GoToBaseState
- State to return to home
- AttackState
- State to attack
- NearestPursue
- Pursue the nearest enemy tribesperson
- LeaderFollow
- a villager will be designated leader
- those with leaderfollow state will be followers using OffsetPursue
- Alive
- Control death
All 3D models in use made by me in blender
| Class/Asset | Source |
|---|---|
| FPSController | GE module, modified by me |
| State | own |
| Boid | GE module, modified by me |
| SteeringBehaviour | GE module |
| JitterWander | GE module modified by me |
| ObstacleAvoidance | GE module modified by me |
| Arrive | GE module modified by me |
| VillagerController | own |
| BerryController | own |
| ArrowController | own |
| StateMachine | GE module, modified by me |
| VillageCenter | own |
The universe, when the brief was made, the obvious choice for boids and nature was unerwater schools of fish or birds, I wanted to do something a little more exploratory of the concept, nature as in human nature, survival instincts was the inspiraiton, so I decided to make a little simulation of a tribal society.
Mathematics. This part was somewhat possible in godot, but kinda difficult in unity. I could use a gridmap in Godot, in tandem with Wave Function Collapse to generate a randomised tilemap. Unity does not support 3d tilemaps in any decent capacity (there is a gameobject painter but you cant code with it), and generating 10k 1x1 unit tiles as individual gameobjects makes it unplayable. I could not find a solution for this.
I think this was an interesting module, certainly was fun. It feels good to have visual feedback of all the implemented systems working in tandem as scuffed as they may be.