Weekly Report (March 2nd)

This midterm week was "fun," but the old convex hull script converted. The majority of the week was used tweaking for either collision or movement errors.

My current concern is the player's moving between zones effectively--the current system does not allow the player to move to Free Move Zones lower on the list.

I have identified the cause--it has to do with the FMZs intersecting, and getFMZ() returning the first zone it finds on the list:

• When the player tries to exit the portal, getFMZ() gets the first zone on the array list that the player is within.
• Then, the player collides with the incorrect FMZ.

I have an idea of how to fix it:

• The portals currently store a direction that specifies which way points to a destination zone
• if we compare the direction that the player is moving to that stored direction, then we can get which of the connected zones that they probably are moving to
• all we'd have to do is make sure the player is really within the zone with the FMZ's isPointWithin() function.

I can code this in an instant (got it laid out in my head!), but I don't have the latest SVN--and the EKU firewall is a problem for being off campus.

@Shea and Matthew: if you have the latest version, I think I only need to change the Character.cs file (emphasis on "I think").