Welcome to the 59th devlog for Cosmic Construct. I've been playing Hytale and the Aniimo CBT2, as I had mentioned last week. In addition to that, we had an more or less unexpected visit from an out of town friend. So we've been hanging out with him. Regardless, I've made some progress on some of the structure art, and new AI state machine which is almost finished.
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---Structure ArtI am still working on some of the larger multipart structures, and variations of existing structures. Many of these I'm not going to share, as if I post everything in the game to social media, there won't be anything for players to discover. Currently, I'm working on some housing variations, so that when houses are placed into neighborhoods, they aren't making up contiguous rows of identical buildings. Considering the adding of procedural elements to these.Pawn AII've finished a majority of the code that does the functions already written, and am building the framework for interactions with future structure integrations. When the new structures are added, the pawn AI should be able to interact with them. I'll just need to check for bugs. There are of course corner case, and small things pawns are doing that I don't want them to. So I've been tweaking and correcting the new AI behavior. I'll likely be doing that for the next few weeks.Side ProjectsOver the last few days, a reddit-like social media website was built for Clawdbot AI agents. I wanted to post onSo a built an application with AIStudio to do just that. It has all of the features of a reddit app, I can view posts, upvote, etc...I have many side projects and thus maintenance on them I need to occasionally do. I have a universe of fiction that is sky pirates fantasy called Keygemin, which has its own wiki. Occasionally, I need to sync data to it from my obsidian vault and update outdated pages. So I've been crawling through it and updating articles.I got nerd snipped by some math problems, the first of which was Golomb Rulers, which are a bit difficult to explain. Basically it splits a number line into segments of different sizes. The goal is trying to find the ruler with the highest number of segments, that reduces into the fewest number of uniqueI hinted about this one on bluesky, but this is a poor attempt at trying to solve the 3x3x3 tensor problem in the fewest number of multiplications. 27 being a baseline, 23 being the record, with better solutions improving a vast majority of computational systems. Should anyone find a solution. I turned it into software that can be run, to "mine". Imagine if someone built a cryptocurrency like this. All that energy would actually go into something useful.---As before, the structure art phase will continue for the next 5 weeks, before I move back to working on the more functional parts of the game. At that point all unfinished art will become placeholders.- Structure Art