Tactical Map View

[ThranduilsRing]

I have finally got the tactical map view working. here are some screenshots.

above - full zoom out, squad level view. can click card and maneuver. shows where the squad leader is headed, and gives basic info: idle, moving, engaged, etc.

slightly more zoomed in here, gives individual mech icons. all of these mech icons are 'live' and should show damage correctly.

here is the first draft of weapon ranges, merged weapon circles for nearby mechs. also shows how teeny tiny the weapon ranges are in the default/base game.

@Methuselas this is where I was going with the AI questions - soon you'll be able to split a squad and give them something like a flanking order/mode/behavior, and coordinate it from the tac map. then zoom in and override or maneuver however you like. still just an idea, but the pieces are coming together!

Is there anything else you'd like to see? I am thinking of adding things like a "thermal view" or something for actual night missions. not sure how to balance it with the original game

edit to add separate squads, updated icons below

[Methuselas]

That's the actual tac map or the main view? Keep in mind all the Brain AI stuff and TechScript stuff is paper theory. If you want to hand off what I have to Claude and start implementing it, be my guest. The only thing it's really lacking is some polish on the text. The design doc is solid as it is. It's your code base too so you'll have better results integrating it.

Case in point, I started working on the UI port last night and I got it switched over to using ImGui for the game engine, but there's a bunch of hard-coded UI stuff I'm fighting with in regards to resolution right now. I have Claude, GPT and a local LLM reverse engineering Bane of the Cosmic Forge for my Dungeon Crawler Construction Kit. As soon as it's finished and I can make my data files for Wizardry type game mechanics I'll be at a resting point where I can move back to MC2R.

[ThranduilsRing]

it will definitely feast on your tokens, that is for sure. it is extremely good at roadmaps/analysis type things. I burned 50% in a day (they did a reset) but got a cohesive roadmap with stub implementations of quite a few features and things I could hand off to the lesser models. worked pretty well for me.

[ThranduilsRing]

new release finally up

[Methuselas]

new release finally up
You broke ALL of my work. 😑

[ThranduilsRing]

oh no! I'm sorry, I really should push more often to stay more in sync. I am happy to help get it back to a working state

[Methuselas]

It's my own fault. I synced with your main and I have a bunch of code that you don't have yet. UI work is really delicate, so I should have kept it separate, and finished what I was doing, but I wasn't thinking. Nothing a restore couldn't fix. I didn't lose anything. You're just going to have to wait until I completely finish the UI and then merge it with your own branch. I didn't realize you had done so many changes. I'll know better next time. No worries.