JOSH CHURCH

This gif shows the picking up and placement of crystals. When you pick up a new crystal you are able to place it into any of the empty slots in your cluster. Once the crystal is dragged within a certain distance of a slot and you let go all the information from the Crystal class (variables, prefabs, ability type) is passed to that slot and a new ability script is added.

This gif shows the process of leveling up and getting a buff, the dragging system is the same as the crystal placement system. The main difference is just that it is calling a buff function in the Crystal script on the closest crystal and adding either range, cooldown, or damage. We are planning on increasing the versatility of the buff system to have specific buffs for each crystal.

This is a code block that is accessible from the Unity Editor. When setting up the clusters we set up the connected clusters as well. This allows us to do multiple things, it is the way that we are able to reference other cluster slots to find the synergies that occur depending on the families of crystals in connected slots. We are also able to reference other connected crystals during gameplay, an example of this is an attacking crystal checking if it has any connected healing crystals on kill, which would then spawn a healing particle.

This shows the movement of the fog in Territorial Domination. There are two seperate projectors, one is projecting dark fog (where the player has never been before) and the other is projecting light fog (where the player has explored but has no vision). The dark fog is projecting a render texture that is a mask with only the current positions of the players and buildings as open portions of that mask. The light fog is projecting a render texture that is the mask of all the positions the characters have previously visited.

This is a code snippet that shows the swapping of the two textures as well as the blending between the old texture and the new texture, which are being switched between and projected onto the plane the player's characters are walking on.

This is the portion of the shader code that is taking the blend value previously being changed and switching between the two textures. the frag function is going through all the pixels in both the current and previous texture, then it is applying a lerp between the two based on the blend value.

This code snippet shows the main idea for how the bouncing laser functions. It takes the forward vector of the raycast then takes the mirror of that vector and casts it from the point of the previous raycast hit. The script continues to cast rays until either the max bounce amount has been hit or there is no bounceable object within the range of previous raycast. The reflect function is taking the dot product of the forward vector of the raycast and the normal of the surface that was hit multiplied by negative 2.

This code snippet is what sets the new points for the line renderer. This idea is extremely useful and it has made an appearance in many of my projects. The main idea is that you are setting the number of points in the line renderer to the amount of hits you had when calculating this line. This also destroys the previous line you created. You then loop through the new line points and set the positions in the line renderer accordingly.