This week I faced my A.I. demons and I've implemented most of the A.I. functions I think I'll need. Based on the state diagram I produced last week I just got my head down and worked my way through each of the states and the state changing stimuli.
A friend of mine took a great picture of the Andromeda galaxy and said I could implement it into the game. So've I've replaced the old back drop with his picture and I think it looks a lot better.
I also changed how the scanner ranges were shown. To explain, scanners have two ranges, a range at which objects can be seen and a smaller range at which objects can be classified. Originally I was just using a simple circle drawing command, but I've repaced that with a scaled sprite, which I also think looks a lot better.
