Update

been busy irl due to my grandma needing car rides back and fourth to 2 different hospitals the past few days, and my little princess being sick Dx

But I got some work done on my Ets game during the late evenings!

Ive fully re-coded my ai again. (last time i was using ue4) so now that im using ue5 ive dropped the old slightly more limited way with behavior trees, and switched to State trees.

The ai needs a tiny bit more work to get to where I was, but once that is done, i can finally give ai tasks that do more then 1 thing.

ex: go get a book from a shelf > spawn book in hands > find somewhere to sit > read the book > finish reading the book/ leave seat > go back to original shelf > despawn the book.

ex: go get a book from a shelf > spawn book in hand > stand reading the book where you are > drop the book on the ground.

something as simple as that would have to be its own very specific function in my last ai code, and i never actually added it in as it was a huge head scratcher for me, how to make that work with the limitations of behavior trees in ue. With State trees its soo much more flexible that its finally possible =D

look at this idiot go! https://i.gyazo.com/a53d33f5ae1e35ef7ecf075de6d07947

Reading animations are missing, but they are coded in to work once i add them B)

(he walks into the bench as i havent given it collission, so ignore that :D... I was testing some stuff lol)

Ue 5 also has a new experimental smart object system, that I have incorporated into the one I made myself. This new system handles some of the parts my system didnt fully do yet, which was adding more then one slot and searching for available slots on the furniture etc. So now I can add more then 1 slot to my smart objects, and furniture can be used by more then 1 character. So a table of 4 characters, or 2 characters using the couch is now possible :D

Ive also started on the ui for the wardrobe finally lol

I am going to probably add in a premade outfits section, and a save outfits section. I am also hoping to be able to add in a colour wheel for the outfits once I get to actually making their textures. (the current colors of the outfit pieces are just basic shaders i added x) )

Ive also made more general fixes to the games code, but i keep forgetting to write down what i change / update or fix :-)