Today I shall add fliers!
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And about right, I think that after this I *definitely* have to get the AI polished up.
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I will be using a similar system to when I implemented crawlers, except I've made it a bit more flexible design-wise, the idea being that it's a little less work to start and a little easier to add different and strange type of bodies and whatnot. Basically, all I have to enforce is an ordering over body parts, so that, for instance, a torso can sprout wings but wings can't sprout a torso. However, a head could also sprout wings. A torso can sprout a head. But a head also cannot sprout a torso. So there is just a strict ordering on body parts, what can sprout what. Beyond that, I am free to add more body parts to the design as I see them, and use or not use them.
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The initial design has just, torso, head, beak, wing, and tail. It's not going to be enough in the final analysis, but it will work to begin with.
2004-03-27