I took a screenshot this time-- there's stuff to see! The green cube off in the distance is the cursor from my last post. I haven't really made any changes there, beyond tidying up the code. I tend to do a lot of writing lines in and then commenting them back out as I work through problems, so I had some discarded code to delete.
Working my way down, the cylinders are my first farm "buildings" which is the term I think I'll use to describe any structure the player places in the world, e.g. chests, machines, decorations. Right now these guys don't really do anything, but the player can put them down under the cursor by clicking.
The little brown squares are my dirt blocks. They have a few booleans on them to control plant growth-- whether or not the dirt has been tilled, if the block has been watered, and if it currently has a plant in it. Using the mattock, which I'll cover more in my next post, the player can click an empty space to spawn a dirt block, and then click the dirt block to till it. The player can also plant a seed in tilled dirt, and then water it (again, more on those tools in the next post). It sounds a lot fancier than it is, really-- just a bunch of if statements. I also got the game object to change materials when tilled, which really tickles my fancy for some reason.
Finally we come to the plants themselves. Here's where things get fun-- the plant class has an enum for growth stages, and each growth stage can have its own timer for how long to spend in that stage. In other words, my plants will visibly grow through multiple different stages! Right now I'm just scaling a capsule mesh, but in the future I'm expecting to swap out models as they grow. I might also add different requirements for the stages, like needing to be pollinated, fertilized, weeded, etc. We'll see how the design goes.
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