[7] Lunar Lander WIP [2/9]

This week's work mostly pertains to the Moon, and given that there's simply fewer separate things to show, the brief-ish length of this post should reflect that.

On Monday, I was sent a demo of using the custom movement behavior to apply gravity to the lander:

However, based on the current setup I was going to use, I want to separate the logic of the movement from what is actually displayed on screen. Though there is a way, in theory, to include that behavior, which involves having the actual Moon and lander off screen, and have an on-screen lander and Moon which mirrors it.

Wanting to focus on the Moon Asset, I first needed to work out its size, and considering the game's viewport is 640x480, I thought a moon with the approximate size of 3072x3072 would be large enough:

For this example, shown in gray above, is the viewport. Shown in green is the Moon's size for comparison.

The Moon's actual terrain comes in the form of modules, which are then spliced and superimposed following near the reference circle's edge.

Shown below are the modules, as well as a rough sketch of the terrain:

The rest of what I have to show just comes in the form of one giant image, which is the current iteration of the Moon:

Wix is dumb and uploads a low-resolution version of this image.

The original 3560x3432 version can be viewed here:

https://imgur.com/a/0xd7Juu

With this original version, you can view (and actually read) the current set of location names.

To end this, here's a snippet of a conversation I had with a friend, and how that affected two of the location names: