Airships: Conquer the Skies: prototype

Shooting
The code reorg I mentioned in the last development update is now pretty much complete: the editor has been relegated to a sub-module, and work on the combat mode is underway. Right now, you can spawn two ships who will shoot at one another, doing damage, but the damage has no effect yet.
Crew The airships are now crewed, and the crew move around and fetch things. This has involved introducing a whole lot of things like time tracking, crew, pathing, and a job assignment and execution system.
Building airships

Since the last installment, I've been mostly concentrating on improving the editor and the ship visuals, including windows, an outside view mode for editing armour, and even smoke.
Concept and Project Setup In this post I'm going to talk a bit about the concept of the game, and also go about setting up the project with CatEngine.