Week 82: Barrier polish and new tileset art

New tileset and meteor art!

tl;dr: Last week I wrapped up most of the work on meteor-blocking barriers, and I created new tileset art.

What happened last week?

Highlights

• Finish implementing most of the remaining barrier features.
• Create new and improved tileset art for Meteor Power.
• Comb through backlogs and determine relative long-term priorities for all the different threads of work I didn't finish during my sabbatical.
• I think I found the underlying cause of last week's bizarre bug involving inconsistent event sequencing!
• https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/63322

Laundry list

• Barriers:
• Deduct energy when building a barrier pylon.
• Decrement energy while barrier pylons are connected.
• Auto-deactivate barriers when there is not enough energy to run them.
• Disallow connections between too-distant barrier pylons.
• Auto-disconnect barrier pylons that become too distant.
• Create a barrier-pylon-count HUD and pause-menu display.
• Disable barrier-pylon-creation when at max pylon capacity.
• Prevent triggering some barrier-pylon commands when there are no barrier-bots.
• New tileset art:
• Create new tileset concept art.
• Create ceiling, left-wall, and right-wall surface art for the new tile concept.
• Finish updating all 90-degree-only subtile art in the collidable tileset.
• Update decoration tileset to match new art.
• Update station and decoration positions to respect the new 3-pixel collision margin.
• Add support for forcing the generated subtile-quadrant collision-geometry to be convex when St.forces_convex_collision_shapes is true.
• Miscellaneous:
• Disable commands that aren't yet implemented.
• Fix an issue with spacing between entity counts for bot and station count displays.
• Fix an issue with centering for HudCustomValueBox.
• Prevent starting new bot or barrier pylon commands when at already max capacity.Re-enable recycling the last bot.
• Re-balance entity costs.
• Remove energy-deductions from meteor-collisions.
• Review my extensive collection of backlogs, update stale tasks, prioritize tasks, and decide what I am most likely to continue working on after starting at Bungie.

Here's what the tileset and meteor art used to look like.

...and here's what it looks like now!

What's next?

• Start my job at Bungie!
• My progress on my frameworks, Meteor Power, and other independent side-projects will go way down, but I'll still make slow progress on them at some point!
• I'll talk all about my future in a another post.

🎉 Cheers!