Blog feeds for Gamers and Developers in the GarageGames community. http://www.garagegames.com/ 2008-11-21T10:12:27+00:00 text/html 2006-06-01T23:01:34+00:00 Ricky Taylor http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/52418/10602 Well... Some time ago now I bought the RTS starter kit.<br><br>To begin with I was amazed, there <i>seemed</i> to be everything I needed, moving units, buildings, a lobby... All laid out ready for an RTS to be made...<br><br>It was then I made the first observation... <i>What? That unit just walked through a building...</i><br><br>OK, there is no collision, its still good! But enabling collision made things <b>worse!</b><br><br><i>Sigh...</i> This needs some work...<br><br>After upgrading the RTS-SK to TGE 1.4, I decided to learn the magic of A-Star....<br><br><i>2 weeks, 14 cups of tea, and 28 peices of toast later...</i><br><br>We have <i>some kind of a red line thing...</i><br><br><img src='http://www.7thentertainment.co.uk/gg.com/Path1.png' alt=""><br><br>This is all very nice you may think, but it was the start of the magic of A-Star...<br><br>A few hours later, we were ready for a race/test/maze thing:<br><br>Here are the units at the starting line:<br><img src='http://www.7thentertainment.co.uk/gg.com/Path1/Image1.png' alt=""><br><br>Here they are navigating the corner, some lagging behind!<br><img src='http://www.7thentertainment.co.uk/gg.com/Path1/Image2.png' alt=""><br><br>They've found the exit!<br><img src='http://www.7thentertainment.co.uk/gg.com/Path1/Image3.png' alt=""><br><img src='http://www.7thentertainment.co.uk/gg.com/Path1/Image4.png' alt=""><br><br>And they're done! Well most of them!<br><img src='http://www.7thentertainment.co.uk/gg.com/Path1/Image6.png' alt=""><br><br>And here we are, fully assembled, at the finishing line!<br><img src='http://www.7thentertainment.co.uk/gg.com/Path1/Image7.png' alt=""><br><br>Once I've tidied the code I'm sure it'll make its way into the hands of the GarageGames folk...