Got the Experience System working correctly! And fixed the enemy spawn issue when someone joins after enemies have spawned.. Also messing around with particles to see what kind of effects we can achieve with them, like animated ground fog in the cave! w00t!
MERIDIAN CORE ONLINE NOW COMES WITH 100% MORE SHOULDER ARMOR ICONS!!! Actually, I might have to change the background on a couple of those so the shoulder armor isn’t the only one that pops that much.
Finally got monster spawning working correctly now. So we can set up "zones" that when a player walks into it, it will spawn the appropriate monsters associated with that zone. What's great is this is all done server side, so no one can hack it. Also, since it's server side, you can build 'lists' of monsters that should spawn based on certain conditions.
So if you are in a low level version of the mission, it will maybe spawn a monster at spawn point 1 but not spawn point 2. If you are in a harder mission, it will spawn a monster at spawn points 1 and 2.
Also whatever monster it spawns can be random from a certain list of monsters. This way we can pick and...