DM-Clocktower Post Presentation Edits

Hello again.

Firstly here's the updated timeline as of 27th January 2013 that I included in last fridays presentation.

27th January 2013 Timeline Update

To re-iterate I moved eveything along by roughly 15 days so I could edit the map based on feedback recieved.

This weekend I've made a few small but useful edits to the DM-Clocktower map.

Added Kill Z Volumes to Map

The pink cylinder shapes show the Kill Z Volumes from above.

Kill Z volumes instantly kill a player upon collision. I have placed cylindrical volumes around the buildings outside of the Clocktower structure. Now if the player falls off any of these buildings they will hit the Kill Z Volume and instantly die.

In Perspective view the geometry of the Kill Z Volumes can easily be seen.

Replaced Modified Lift with Original

 Modified Lift made up of two different BSP objects.

In the final version of the map, the lift will mostly be metal but will feature a glass partition in the floor. I temporarily achived this using two different BSP objects and moving them using the same piece of kismet. This caused the player to sometimes fall through the non-existent gap betwen the two objects, down the lift shaft to their death. I have fixed this bug by making the lift one solid object without the glass floor. (In the final map this will be a textured static mesh with both metal and glass sections).

Original Lift created from a single BSP object.

Added AI Lift and Lift Exit Nodes

The blue icons are the Lift Nodes. 

Each Lift Node links to a different Lift Exit Node 

on a different floor.

These pathfinding nodes allow the AI to understand the entrance and exit to lift systems in the map. Previosuly the AI would sometimes get stuck in the middle of a lift, and try to jump out of it before it reaches floor 2 or 3. Now the AI will wait for the lift to hit either of the "lift exit" nodes before disembarking.

The blue icon is the Lift Exit Node on the top floor of the lift.

Short update this weekend, but progress is progress. If all goes well I may be able to start player vs player playtesting next week.

- Sam