August 2024

The Sticky Update.

We Want You Big Durger

It's Stackin Time

 After a lot of glitches and trouble shooting, we finally have the Sticky Update. That's right, now our ingredients not only cook, but snap together too! Sandwiches were invented in the durgverse in August of 2024, congratulations! The system is not perfect, for snapping to occur the game registers a collision between the two meshes and then snaps the one on top to the mesh on the bottom. However, this requires keeping track of the tops and bottoms of each item and whether or not they are full. Additionally, the physics body from Havok Physics is this determining factor for whether or not two meshes collide and unfortunately for us, some of our meshes are thin enough that their physics body is literally a plane.

 For now, this system is adequate and will work until we can revisit it again in the future. Ultimately though, we will need to go deeper into the mesh and physics body systems in order to make this work perfectly. I'm going to wait until I've taken some courses in computer graphics before I attempt working on this again. Hopefully by then I will have a better understanding of manipulating meshes and vertices by hand to work the physics body system like how I need.