Astronaut Gameplay Experiments - Kobold Engine
2023-10: Having added a run cycle, I added an idle cycle and got my GLTF code working with multiple submeshes - allowing the astronaut's backpack to be rendered. I tied some basic movement and animation state to the left analog stick and the camera followed the astronaut from a fixed perspective. I then allowed camera rotation with the right stick. As an extra challenge I added in jumping using some of my existing physics code. Lastly I added in a space buggy model I made a while ago to make the empty world slightly more interesting.
There are lots of improvements to be made, and many more things to add, but it was encouraging to make something that sort of resembles actual gameplay.
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