{"id":1509,"date":"2011-10-27T22:09:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T21:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2011-10-27T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:15:54","slug":"range-modifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/10\/27\/range-modifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Range Modifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I really like, and comes in reply to feedback about how people hate having to guess what the underlying numbers are in tower defense games. I got it implemented today *still needs optimising&#8230;*. It&#8217;s a way to show easily the effects of a range boost augmentation for a unit. The units in GTB are built from GSB-style modules but some are &#8216;augmentations&#8217; that apply to any module, such as &#8216;boost range by 10%&#8217;. I thought it might be cool, if such an aug is fitted, to show it as a distinct band on the range indicator when you select a unit. It&#8217;s the slightly separated strip around the edge of the range indicator for the selected riflemen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ranges.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1510\" title=\"ranges\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ranges.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ranges.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ranges-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brighter triangle represents the firing field-of-view for that soldier. Some units have 360, like mechs, but infantry can&#8217;t swivel their hips like that :D<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I really like, and comes in reply to feedback about how people hate having to guess what the underlying numbers are in tower defense games. I got it implemented today *still needs optimising&#8230;*. It&#8217;s a way to show easily the effects of a range boost augmentation for a unit. The units in<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Range Modifiers<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/10\/27\/range-modifiers\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-gratuitous-tank-battles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}