landon@destiny Log

Today I was able to finish the bare bones for two events, Fire and Death. The fire event for now is just lasers, which are implemented with a BillboardChain. ( pictures ship to planet, ship to ship)
I also discussed improevements to this event code with mithro:

• Shield and hit animations
• Tapering the laser when shot at a planet

The other event I finished tonight was the death event, which for right now is very simple. It just turns the SceneNode containing the Entity invisible. The major improvement on the way for this is adding a debris field afterwards (right now it looks kind of sparse) and creating a death animation for planets as well as ships. As inspiration, mithro pointed out a few clips from scifi shows.

Tomorrow's goal? I'd like to get the damage event done and the move event started so I can spend friday catching up on the other event TODOs.