My makefiles generate my conan commands
I noticed that claude code released “teams” (https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams) which essentially is a multi-agent workflow that lets you define team members in your prompt and claude can just send out other instances of itself to start working. So instead of doing something reasonable like just making a quick web app I decided to do one of […]
I’ve been working on improving the damage system for the bots so that when a limb gets damaged enough it stops being usable. Originally I wanted to do this by dangling the bot from essentially an invisible hanger, then to slowly chip away at bones until the whole thing just kinda flopps over. However, I […]
Made an I-Beam. Was going for a quake 1 ascetic but now I think I ended up too much battle bit. Gonna go back to the drawing board here. I got creative with the UV mapping (at least more so than normal) so I could just kinda throw a single image at the problem. However, […]
So I’ve been wanting to make the robots more of a physics simulations since I started the project. However, I’ve had a hard time of figuring out why I couldn’t get the physics-based-animation effect I was looking for (See https://willkolb.com/?p=915). I thought I had a decent method which made the ragdolls of the robots stable […]
I also fixed a bunch of the shooting systems, re-worked the AI so it doesn’t try to reload in front of you. I added in some squad placeholders for future collaboration amongst units and started working on another overhaul of the basic bot so I can finally get physics based animations working. Also: (No idea […]
Software guy pretends he knows Electrical Engineering
This one is just a stick
I gave up on trying to use modular rigs or IK rigs for the mantis bot ( see https://willkolb.com/?p=1239) and I I just manually made my own control rig. This is EXACTLY what I did for the patrol bot awhile back. This time around I wanted I convinced myself that last time was an lack […]
Unreal engine has its quirks. A big one I found is the idea of “additive” animations (see this). Which essentially take the animation you made and subtracts it from a reference pose or animation. This is how you can easily blend ontop of an animation instead of getting some weird median between two existing animations. […]
I spent WAY to long getting leg ground detection working for the patrol bots: It still isn’t that great but it’s probably as good as I wanted it to be. The big thing is that I can put the bots on ramps and they look kinda right: The basic idea too complicated: essentially you draw […]