Doors on fuel station have some decoration, but aluminum parts somehow turned to wood on export. Some new bugs from main Main game vere fixed,
Doors on fuel station have some decoration, but aluminum parts somehow turned to wood on export.
Some new bugs from main Main game vere fixed,
New Items New Ramp Door, your expedition vehicle could exit ships hangar before, now they can also get back into hangar! (it was installed into the expedition Ship on test map. This door uses temporary physics object similar to landing gears, so the flight is still totally smooth
New Ramp Door, your expedition vehicle could exit ships hangar before, now they can also get back into hangar! (it was installed into the expedition Ship on test map. This door uses temporary physics object similar to landing gears, so the flight is still totally smooth when closed.)
Added curved railing! (Default railing design , Radius 100,200,300, IN and OUT versions) its not used anywhere yet, but you can use it in editor.
You can change camera smoothing in Settings (Some extreme values are used only by me when making trailers)
Player cursor was improved to work like the one in editor, hitting precise 3d object, not physics collision box.
Vehicle wheels can now slide and drift a little, I also observed in many diferent games, that wheels should steer way less when going fast
Lot of structural steel building parts are now craftable and in editor catalog( radius walls, curved railing, gates, shaft doors, large walls, ground base)
Repeatable jobs now have hints and explanations in the dialog when you return to quest giver, before finishing the job (mostly for new players).
Annoying bug fixed, where Player pawn was making uphill movement that you cannot cancel (incorrectly assuming there is a step, when there is just a slope)
Crashes related to nature objects fixed. (I damaged some functions when debuging something)
Changes that were needed for editor damaged lot of quests, most of them were fixed.
Collision checking now hits precise meshes only when desirable (it make some gameplay stuff glitchy, sometimes broken)
Decorations lights shine again.
Rust shows on metals again
Space combat Map, ships map, land vehicles map, Survival map, still used old color system (looked blue)
Editor: Did not update preview of blueprints, that references local Capture, after map loaded
Editor: Array of references could not pick objects, it works again ("Storage add" for example)
Editor: Duplicating "Blueprint Capture" object now works
Editor: "Blueprint Capture" without name and file was still asking for confirmation when recapturing
Editor: Duplicating anything except parts left you with old objects selected instead of new ones (especially confusing and unwanted, when object was referenced by something)
Editor: Re-painter works again and you can select color from scene now
I was actually able to build some things in the editor. I built bathroom and some other small stuff in the new builds showcase area. I also expanded what can be achieved with decor shapes: better workflow, expanded system, and simply having more shapes to work with New Items New
I was actually able to build some things in the editor. I built bathroom and some other small stuff in the new builds showcase area.
I also expanded what can be achieved with decor shapes: better workflow, expanded system, and simply having more shapes to work with
New type of parts added: "decoratioinal" machines, like washing machine, oven, dishwasher, they are register by type in games logic, so I could easily add functionality if it becomes priority or I simply feel like it. (These machines are experimntal, built only from decorational parts( downside is that if they were craftable, you end up with invisible part that has collision box. I would like to add default decor blueprint spawn for these))
Tens of new decor meshes
I remade most of the existing decor parts with better edges and consistent UVs
Huge under the hood change: colors were picked from my "color palette texture" in material shaders, now I store pseudo RGB in one float number and unpack it in material shader. Objects can be colored to way more colors! From roughly 1000 to 98x98x98 . (I have to revisit everything and change colors ,I am glad I finally made this change, impact would be worse later. (loading old saves will look horrible)
Decor meshes system can have variety of patterns, normal strength, UV Scale
My default editor map was expaned to explain new features, There is also a showcase room with some examples and plenty of room for your creation. If you run out of room, make the room
Catalog of decorational meshes added! You can place them, set color, material, secondary texture pattern and more. You can also spawn array of them, with editable offset rotation, step rotation, endpoint scale. They are attached to nearest "actual part" on TestPlay or you can define parent part manually.
These working decor parts can be captured on blueprint and show in the preview,
You can also remove decorations from existing part or make them editable
You can copy color from other decors or from parts or even blueprint previews! using eye drop select.
Blueprints can directly reference and copy some local "Blueprint Capture" object, so there is no need to save blueprint (or more importantly no need to come up with names of these blueprints, it sure kills creativity to me). After you are done with your creative session you may choose to name and save some of them. (also keeps blueprint folder cleaner)
Coloring Tab is gone, now you can see and edit colors of selected parts in right menu. Eyedrop copy is there too.
Finer selecting experience: When selecting an object, physics collision box is now completly ignored, detail object shape is used instead (it really become an issue when decors were added)
Groups are now working as a list and each group has own buttons for add and remove. Groups that contain selected objects are highlighted.
Duplicating objects now selects new objects . Also "Duplicate selected objects" is now done with CTRL + D
Editor: Storage Utility: remove storage or pawn reference was not working
Editor: Blueprints were not updated, when Blueprint capture updated the blueprint
Editor: "Eliminate pawns" quest object had wrong icon and name
Editor: search in catalog now works for everything, not just blueprints
Editor: Nothing was selected after duplicating parts
When decor mesh had mesh thats mainly used in normal parts, nearby normal parts with that mesh got changed material.
I cannot rember when it started to happen, but Some quest on main map were broken and editor quest too. Now Fixed
Share your creations on Blueprint, Use blueprint capture, name your creation, save it, you will find it in Use>Appdata>Local>SpaceWorthy folder called "B"
Improvements: Auto Climb Step feature now filters out furniture (there was too many unintended climbs when walking in living rooms and bed rooms) Suggestion: close Equipment by same button as open it Mop cleaning has better animation and also has attack animation Mopped Liquid sm
Auto Climb Step feature now filters out furniture (there was too many unintended climbs when walking in living rooms and bed rooms)
Suggestion: close Equipment by same button as open it
Mop cleaning has better animation and also has attack animation
Mopped Liquid smoothly disappears (used to be instantly gone)
Repeatable Job can offer multiple quantity of an item, and the quantity increases with job repetition
Selected object now shows connected lines to its Referenced objects (and line color is the same as button color!)
When you hover over valid Reference button, the line will Flash, so you can tell apart objects in array list
Blueprint catalog in no longer ultra slow to open, its slow only on first open, but not as much as before, files are scanned and result is saved to temporaray file. Every other open is very fast because icons are now loaded one by one each frame, instead of all at once. (also Rescan button was added "R")
Pawn edit was expanded with: Tags
Totally new Quest object added, checks if all pawns with tag were eliminated (coma or dead and works with pawns totally gone from sector)
Editor Example Test Map was updated with "Blueprint capture and Blueprint re-use example" , There is a new quest example with quest unlocker, and rats elimination
Slider value can be now edited by keyboard when clicking on the number
Part edit was expanded with: Quantity, Static
Mouse scroll when object placing now adjusts preview length
Editor saves grid snap values, camera speed ,preview length and groups data
Cleaner and cargo jobs were broken since last update
Cleaner and cargo jobs were sometimes offering credits twice, instead of item reward
Player was unable to move after ending Cargo Container manipulation
Player was unable to use bed or seat when standing on it.
Pressing Space in Equipment inventory switched back to full body control without closing the menu.
Inventory Slot equipment buttons should not be obscured be invisible Ui anymore.
Quest Journal showed duplicate list of quests when switching Quest/Locations panels
Credits value was not updated in Inventory when added from quest
Editor: Pawn name is now edited properly and saved
Editor: Gizmo showed both translation and rotation shapes when Rot/Loc mode was switched while rotating.
Editor: Catalogs and other menus stayed opened, when TestPlay was pressed.
Editor: Some objects stayed highlighted on TestPlay or after editor exit
Editor: Pressing "Save Editor" closed your edit panel and showed some function buttons from all existing objects
Editor: Storage utility button for selecting Pawn didnt work (was expecting wrong object class)
Editor: Pawns had no placing preview mesh (offset is currently wrong)
Editor: Placing new objects didnt collide with Blueprints
Editor: "Test/Play" button was added. When you click on it, the Map is saved to separate temporary working file, where you can have non-destructive workflow with blueprints (keeping them in preview, because testing should apply blueprints and other editor objkects). Testing is en
"Test/Play" button was added. When you click on it, the Map is saved to separate temporary working file, where you can have non-destructive workflow with blueprints (keeping them in preview, because testing should apply blueprints and other editor objkects). Testing is ended in Main Menu, where you can click "Back to Editor".
"Save Editor" button was added, it saves editor working file. (Test play doesnt overwrite it)
You can load or change maps name and settings in new tab "Map Settings"
Creating your own quests should work now!
Dialog creation and editing was added!
New Editor test map was added, this test map was created in the editor. It should teach how quests work. You cannot open editor "work save" directly. Open it as a new game acces editor and load editor map (using "Map Settings" tab)
Blueprint can be selected by clicking on any of its parts
Now you can spawn tool object for locks and keys. It can spawn keys for a blueprint, or for an existing lock. It can also change the passcode. Key is spawned when blueprint is spawned (its in the new "Tools" tab)
There is a new tool for adding parts to storages or pawns inventories.
There is a new tool for setting electronic device paramaters, before its blueprint is spawned
There is a new comment tool, I tried to document features with it on the new Editor test map. (Comments dissapear on test play)
Edititg multiple objects by edit UI now mostly works
Blueprint screenshot now shows for few seconds after capture
Most of the parts were added to Parts Catalog
Selecting reference can be cancelled with ESC
Selecting reference changes mouse cursor to eye drop or crossed circle based on object validity
Placing objects: When Ctrl is held, new object is selected. When Shift is held, you can spawn another right away
Duplicate Selection added! Press P key.( For now, old selection is selected after duplication, usually, new objects should be selected)
You can cancel gizmo drag with Esc, gizmo returns to start position
You can now place new objects in space (used to need surface)
Drone didnt reset path after changing enemy target (it made them go to bumblebee ship, while really trying to go to NPC)
Pawns are now deactivated when player is in the dialog, (Should prevent other pawns starting conversations or starting fights)
Swimming was completely broken, swimming friction works again, and going out of the water is possible but not perfect
Improvements: Save games now have screenshot taken from your game. Its visible on each "Load game UI panel". (first the game must be saved after this update) Parked vehicle is no longer saved in main Blueprint folder, its now saved in current savegame folder. ( blueprint folder w
Save games now have screenshot taken from your game. Its visible on each "Load game UI panel". (first the game must be saved after this update)
Parked vehicle is no longer saved in main Blueprint folder, its now saved in current savegame folder. ( blueprint folder was filled with junk "SptBp" files)
You can spawn blueprints (ships, building sections, furniture) and also make your own in the Editor, When you rewrite blueprint that is used on the map, it updates. Its useful when you build wall designs, you edit one and all copies are rewriten too,( when the original is edited and rescanned).There is also functionality to make preview screenshots of the blueprint( without surounding objects visible on screen!) Most of my default blueprints have preview screenshots now.
You can spawn pawns (human, rat, drone)
Placing objects into the world doesnť feel as broken, offset height is copied from parts (Shift + Scroll can adjust height)
Currently used "Grid Snaps button" for location and rotation, is now highlighted
You can control camera speed: RMB + Wheel (or with a slider)
Group functions added. You can name new group, add objects to it from selection. Group can be added to selection. And my favourite: Object can be in multiple groups. For example wrench can be in group called tools, group called loot. You name it (group UI was there before, but without functionality)
(there is a lot of dead buttons, even some new ones)
Shield did not work when length (extention) was 0, because the shield collided with shield emitter. (also personal fighter had no shield emitter at all)
In editor, When there was selected part, that is attached to another part which is also selected, the part moved twise as far when manipulating
Known Issues
New Features: Decorational lights can be attached to electronic devices and are controlled with their value. For example ship will light up when control panel unlocks. It was hard to do, it worked in my dev environment for a few months, but never in the build (There intentionaly
Decorational lights can be attached to electronic devices and are controlled with their value. For example ship will light up when control panel unlocks. It was hard to do, it worked in my dev environment for a few months, but never in the build (There intentionaly no cables, because systems are complicated enough already. There are no means for the player to create them or attach them yet. They do not illuminate anything, but are really cheap at performance)
Characters capsule goes physical when vehicle, or other physics objects hit them. After their physics calms a bit, they try to roll on their belly and then get up. When the collision was slow, they are just pushed without falling. It was suprisingly frustrating to do this and it also broke most of the movement logic, but it was long overdue (It needs some animations)
Super unfinnished, early version of in game editor is now accessable via small button in menu( top left, its only usable when game is loaded) There is no point to report bugs from this, only ideas. Thank you. Coloring, Manipulating objects and editting character appearence are only things that somehow work.
Industrial Stairs, Railing and walk platforms
Stairs are slightly procedural, (n steps, different mesh on bottom middle and end.)
Railing is more procedural, checking neighbours and auto manages corners
Space Drone! It shoots laser, follows you when attacking. When is hit, it attempts dodging. Is powerful when you encounter it while spacewalking. It has new custom simple 3d navigation. Its not made of parts, its a new type of character: hovering entity, class: electronic. It preffers ships as enemy targets but will go after other entities, except other drones. (its thrusters have no visible fire yet)
You can test combat drones with new vehicle on new test map (small space figter with laser and photon shield)
Credit card now shows credits amount in inventory (its non stackable, so it uses quantity number)
Characters have random eye movement
explosions now have some visuals
Diferent cursor when driving, (the old one obscured the target that you are trying to hit)
Character apearence was done with seed and random values. Only seed and body type were saved, now everything is saved and anything can be modifiad thanks to that, old saves will load plain characters unfortunetly
Science camp was stuck on loading. (It was in different folder than the game expected)
Taking a seat directly from spacewalk, left you with "spacewalk controls" while driving
After I optimized characters to tick only when moving, their physics collision check was mostly inactive (Physics objects now mark nearby characters to check collision, since standing/walking characters have no physics.)
Vehicles could pass through characters ! (Now the new core feature fixed it.)
Furnace plan cannot be finnished (furnace is in the category that is usually crafted on crafting table, but is an exception)
Known Issues:
New things are unfinnished, but I had to make update early because of some bad bugs
Improvements: Vehicle now saves whether it was on planet terrain and it saves traced distance, Vehicles saved resting on terrain are never awaken by wheels.(must add exception for terrain edit) Vehicles resting on other surface doesn´t wake the vehicle until traced distance is di
Vehicle now saves whether it was on planet terrain and it saves traced distance,
Vehicles saved resting on terrain are never awaken by wheels.(must add exception for terrain edit)
Vehicles resting on other surface doesn´t wake the vehicle until traced distance is different, than the saved one.
Logos and credits now only show at start and are there longer. Quitting game to menu doesnt show them( is faster because of that)
Vehicle you are sitting in was able to make physics sleeping when you were not moving for a second, making un-neccesary stutter. Now it cannot rest when player driver is sitting.
Vehicle with resting physics still had Wheels updating every frame, even when I told you its optimized ( it turned out that I disabled the optimization when testing)
Vehicle with resting physics had wheels with physics on (total 24 object on new map)
Vehicle wheels drifted away more when fps was very low
Parking spot was reading fron wrong directory when checking vehicle save name avalability, it always overwrote the same file "0". Now it always creates new in shared folder, one day I will make it part of the save game
Parking spot could be grabbed with its vehicle, now it force detaches vehicle, when parking spot itself is detached
Flash Rechage was giving soo little power
New Items I am excited to inform you about this new part called Parking spot, Now you can safely park ships and vehicles on your bigger ship without crazy physics or draggy flight. When parking spot is activated, it scans space above it, when there is a ship or a vehicle, it save
I am excited to inform you about this new part called Parking spot, Now you can safely park ships and vehicles on your bigger ship without crazy physics or draggy flight.
When parking spot is activated, it scans space above it, when there is a ship or a vehicle, it saves it on your computer and preview of that ship is spawned on its place instead.
In theory, you can have big mothership with large hangar full of many ships, And performence could be great. (As long as the mothership is made mostly using large parts)
It was very easy to do at this point, because it uses my functions from from space travel and Science Camp rooms. I even had Preview of the ships done for some time, because I like to have it pretty in my development editor.(except for previewing undercarriage, that was a bit challenge)
Preview vehicles are one single object, it has no logic, physics, no visible cables no collision.
There is still space for improvement, there is no collision or ability to damage the preview at all.
(this part is activated by hand, or by signal).
Heavy Landing gear added! Landing gear can expand or hide (then despawn), so the flight is not affected by extra landing gear physics parts. Height can be controlled on this one.
Light Landing gear added!
Standart vehicle undercarriage Added (first undercarriage that uses skeletal mesh for its visual representation)
Air tire wheel added! (for terrain)
Vacuum wheel added! (its made of rubber but has no air)
New ship in the size of a personal car (no docking , such vehicles are meant to park inside the station in their landing feet)
New ship available at ships test map, it has landing gears and hangar doors and parking spot (it's a planet-ready brother of the Cargo ship). Inside, there is a:
New medium Vehicle (uses new wheels)
New small utility vehicle (uses new wheels but smaller)
Undercarriage that comes without a wheel can have different wheels attached (even wheels with different size than the undercarriage!)
Added landing on Planet test map (screenshot) You can get to this map also from ship map. unfrotunetly not vice versa
Spacewalk resistance now aims towards velocity of the last part you walked on, instead of zero. Now you won't lose your ship when spacewalking. (known issue: when ship accelerates, so do you)
When spacewalking around ship, Hold ALT to be released amd Spacewalk relative to planet/station
Autoclimb now works towards input movement direction, instead of forward
When shift is pressed while jumping, character doesn't speed up anymore, but will start sprinting after landing, if the button is still pressed
Wheel is now NOT updated every tick when vehicle physics is sleeping (it still needs to update sometimes to wake vehicle when it's ground changes)
Gyro now has strength multiplier input, if you need slower turning
Now you can travel to a vehicle testing planet from Ship Testing (coordinates written on wall)
Parts after detach didn't inherit former parent velocity (ship instatnly crashed into the part)
Detaching parts with tools often had old detach bugs because I forgot to implement my recent fancy safety function
Player was able to grab any ship, because it was only checking the mass of single parent part in the middle
NPC started to die of thirst or hunger after some time. For now I turned it off for them.
When space walk exceded max spacewalk speed it was hard to change direction
Autoclimb was climbing over and over again when walking towards the edge backwards
When shift was pressed and held before landing on ground, there was no sprinting until released and pressed again
I Once again attempted to fix crash of burn through holes on older machines. (Disable advanced render features in Settings)
Gravity force was not multiplied by fps delta time so it was stronger when more fps
Gyro was still eating power like crazy and every size had same value
Floor movement should be now better translated into space walk velocity
Player was unable to go Up/Down in low gravity spacewalking
"Reset to default" works again (R)
Signal and data transmiter can be tunned
Battery reacharge visual now works
jump is wierd
No visible motor on undercarriage or landing gears
New Features: Info Service added to Fuel station! Should help new player to know their options and overal goals in current place. Answers are not hardcoded, the nearest dialog object called Info is used Test map has few more items, Room with Builder command tests. Discontined par
Info Service added to Fuel station! Should help new player to know their options and overal goals in current place. Answers are not hardcoded, the nearest dialog object called Info is used
Test map has few more items, Room with Builder command tests. Discontined parts are under the stairs
Indentifying Glass added! Shows the same object descriptions that crafting stations do. Just look at the object while equipped.
Emergency battery recharge added! Similar to compressed fuel, but for batteries.
Selector added! Analog part that helps with selecting array index, or other forms of selection, like channel in Beacon scanner. This part is trully compatible only with analog inputs named: Index, selection or Channel.
Selector has a text display that shows current index number.
Selector can be also controlled indirectly, it has input for index down, input for index up, and input for reset
Selector natively works only with Beacon scanner, data index reader and data index remover. (For example index 5 = value 0.05 (So it works from index 0 to 100))
Selector can select non existent array index, because it has no idea about it's usage
Selector is controlled by holding E then scrolling.
I am planning rich tunning options in the future for selector.
Data transmitter and data reciever added (no unique mesh yet)
Thyristor added, when inputB is is bigger than 0.5, inputA is used, otherwise 0.
Lot of item descriptions added, but there is still some mystery parts that I needed only once and now I have no idea what they do.
Since new players need simple controls, Pilot tutorial now first teaches about simple rotate, instead of aiming.
I added some visual helpers here and there in the tutorials so the player sees where the objective is, I do not plan to have them everywhere, only in some tutorials
Test map got some long forgotten parts like analog min, max, multiply, decreasing gate.
Ship battery was used like crazy when new rotation methods were used,gyro was still consuming battery, long after rotating was done.
Seller at the Fuel Station now owns parts in shop, so he can sell them
Pilot Tutorial exam now telepoerts ship and activates dock when first tutorial is skipped
Mop was not getting visibly dirty (darker)
Unable to add Compressed Rocket Fuel into Solid tube by E (while having it in inventory). Also no longer a message about it in electric battery.
Subtract input part fixed
New Features: You can get your ship instantly refueled as a service, just talk to the man in the store at the Fuel Station Added test map with ships (4 ships) parked close to each other and ready to fly. There are also free shop stands with items, I added shop stands with most of
You can get your ship instantly refueled as a service, just talk to the man in the store at the Fuel Station
Added test map with ships (4 ships) parked close to each other and ready to fly. There are also free shop stands with items, I added shop stands with most of the technical parts, few of them were never used in the game yet, or even announced. (unfortunetly, some of the parts have the same mesh as others, so only the name matters, there is also no documentation of parts and what they do, It would be fruitful for me to, I keep forgeting what I made and how).
Cycling ship goal side is now done with "R" instead of "E" so it can also work in first person (where "E" is used for interaction.)
When ship goal side is applied in first person, it's reset back to forward, bacuse camera works diferently there, and you would turn by 180 degres again when repeated (also only works with simple rotatiaon in FP)
Quest restriction can forbid spacetravel.
When you sit to pilot binded seat, equipped tool, handgun is auto un-equiped.
Since I have no credits yet, I at least mentioned Kastuk in opening screen
Cable mode had broken "cut cables" functionality, since I added ship simple rotation
It seems that shortly after I added space travel, no test map could work, because it was searching maps in folder from main game.(fixed now)
People inside the ship should now despawn when the ship does, and the player is now excluded
Tutorial restriction for "Take all" was fixed. (I dont care if player stores mop into the bin tho)
Character slot, equiped and held items are now part of "space travel migrate save".
Storage inside the furniture, emitters and crafting stations are now part of "space travel migrate save".
Character or player will properly die when health gets to zero by neglected needs (Hunger thirst, etc)
Could detach locked parts with wrench, but not take them
Slow/fast pilot mode can be switched only when piloting
Colorable objects turned to white when started to travel to the inventory
Improvements: When LMB or MMB is held while piloting, keys Q and E now adjust ship's roll. Prologue quest teaches you to "store all" garbage in the bin. Changes: Simple left and right stearing now also work in first person pilot view, Q is used for both views, instead of E.(The r
When LMB or MMB is held while piloting, keys Q and E now adjust ship's roll.
Prologue quest teaches you to "store all" garbage in the bin.
Simple left and right stearing now also work in first person pilot view, Q is used for both views, instead of E.(The reason is the need to use E for interaction) In third person view, E cycles desired ship side directions
Entering ladder auto uncrouches you (but ladders are not yet fully prepared for crouch spaces)
When ladder was exitted naturaly, it left you with wrong camera rotation (last camera look you had on ladder)
Build tool (wrench), disassmbly tool (metal cutters), tunning tool(tunning screwdriver) are now obtainable at shops in main game
When changing direction offset in 3rd person view (Now E key), ship now stops rotating towards last desired direction
Way less spring effect when desired ship rotation is near
Leaving pilot seat now stops movement and rotation inputs
MMB no longer switches to first person
Inactive qust objects after Save,load. Some quest objects must trigger olny once, others should be continuously active, this information was not part of the saves, so the continuous objects didn't activate after load.
(prolog has character commands for pilot "Sit",then later "Dock". characters forget commands after load, not yet part of the save system)
I was experimenting with quest reset feature on Pilot tutorial, last update had it too, it somehow works but not quite.
New Features: You can get your ship instantly repaired at "Repairs by Bob". Just talk to the man in the office (repaired parts often look broken after repair, but work) Now you can climb on 1 meter obstacles, without actually jumping, useful when gravity is strong. Its mainly use
You can get your ship instantly repaired at "Repairs by Bob". Just talk to the man in the office (repaired parts often look broken after repair, but work)
Now you can climb on 1 meter obstacles, without actually jumping, useful when gravity is strong. Its mainly useful because it also auto crouches, when climbing into shaft, or from trapdoor
When spacewalking, autoclimb is always active, so it's easier to get into ship or dock
Journal has new sub tab where visited sectors are listed
Small 3d Nebulas were added, (Nebula added to Old timer's station sector) They are unfortunetly performance heavy.
Asteroid fields added, Field expands where player goes, every asteroid has random velocity direction and rotation. (Field added to Impolite James sector , there is often no damage to the ship)
5-Way thruster now visualy has 5-way fire
New players often hate that in vacuum, things don't stop, they get confused in space with all new orientations and movement, so I added Space walk friction, and friction to all physics objects/ships. It can be tured off in settings, separately walk and ships/physics. Ship friction is ON only when velocity is low, like docking velocities (Ships consume more fuel when it's on, but you dont have to brake that much using fuel)
Food reacts to laser by exploding or turning into burned slag
Copressed fuel now explodes when hit by laser
Explosions now also damage characters
Explosions now create holes in hull, instead of doing regular damage
Third person camera was moved from player to ship's center of mass and above the ship
New players (and I) dislike how ship was turned, (holding LMB + W,A,S,D,E,Q). Now you just hold LMB and ship orients where camera looks.(it also auto maintains Roll axis, and you can use thrusters while turning). W,A,S,D,E,Q now works wot MMB
There is also new simple option for Rotating the ship , in 3rd person view, press "E" and the ship auto rotates towards the look direction, no need to hold it, it only turns ship left or right, so it's good for routine docking
Ship can auto orient to nearest floor by pressing Shift (Same as a space walk)
Standart controls for movement and turning is collapsed to one line in ship controls UI, so it feels less overwhelming
Decorational metal parts can be damaged when damage is happening near it.
All structural parts used on main 3 ships now support burn holes damage system (new:door frame, floor, beams, triangle walls, arch walls)
Parts that has no damage or age have no longer filled arrays with zero values, they are empty now
When laser hits thin part of the wall, damage is assigned to main side
When Dialaog shows when UI is hidden it doesn't make other UI elements visible
Quest can alter death logic and teleport location
Some invisible quest objects can have limited range where they work, for example tutorial restrictions. (when player forgot space suit and died in pilot tutorial, restrictions were not letting him go back near the ship or play the game without continuing the quest)
It's no longer possible to detach attached part by grabbing, now its done With building tools like wrench.
When there is a grab attempt on attached part, whole object is grabbed instead (if possible).
(Cargo Container is exception)
To attach part to another part, building tool like wrench needs to be equiped(no more annoying grids when just manipulating things)
Disassembling parts is now done with Metal cutter tool, instead of Wrench.
Lasers no longer heat medium or bigger part, they only damage. One day I might add lasers that heat. (maybe thick beam, or some part that converts laser beam to heat)
Lasers turn small items into burned slag, if the item is flamable, it disapperas
Rolling mills had invalid part data (always created default scrap metal)
Rolling mills sometimes incorectly warned that there is aleady a part inside
Using beds or chairs now auto "un-crauches" you (there were camera and position problems)
It was possible to grab parts from Pilot tutorial ship
Ship teleporting were also teleporting nearby building parts and NPCs inside (mostly during pilot tutorial)
Minor issues fixed in Pilot Tutorial quest
Thirst, energy and hunger had often 0% values after respawn, now it has min 50%.
Player's velocity continued after respawn
Space walk was too responsive since last updates, direction change was instant
Gyro was due to bad error tolerance ignorining fine adjusts of rotation, only big numbers made it turn
wall can be damaged from thin side
I found and replaced another function that surely causes crash on older machines when burning holes in walls(disable advanced rendering features in settings)
Laser holes now compensate for part's scale
Gyro was completly ignoring ship's mass
Docking in Prologue had super slow docking speed, way exceeding docking cinematic (thruster output was limited for no reason)
While moving Cargocontainers, Player's character was going into optimised state when camera was further away, resulting in slow or no movement
When UI is hidden, space travel message no longear appears
Third person camera was passing through walls
Nearby ship with gravity generator could affect objects in nearby buildings (happened for example at cargo storage bay when cargo ship was nearby)
Note: New game is requred to see half of the changes.
I am sorry for the longer wait, I broke my arm so, I was slow, but it made me re-do the ships controls because I was unable to play with one hand.
Please share with me your experince with new ship rotation controls and other new stuff.
Please tell what you miss in the game the most, (what is lacking), and what makes it best in current state. Thank you for playing
New Features: Output UI was added, so you can see the radar, text screen and pointer values when in third person view. Similar to Inputs UI, it depends on the ship, (there is no method for the player to customize it yet.) Improvements: Quest about delivering repaired cargo ship w
Output UI was added, so you can see the radar, text screen and pointer values when in third person view. Similar to Inputs UI, it depends on the ship, (there is no method for the player to customize it yet.)
Quest about delivering repaired cargo ship was changed, it now starts at Cargo Storage station, because people who are not interested in delivery job might miss it, and it's reward is important
I added battery charge indicator to 3 main ships
Old Truck no longer has 4 independent tanks, now it has two tanks working as one, so the fuel indicator can work.
Reward Truck was not assigned to player
Reward truck thrusters were impossible to repair, or replace
Artificial gravity was applying force on object even when both floor and ceilng were not in gravity field (now it works like character)
Trespassing had only aggresive reactions, since the sneaking quest was added
Repeatable jobs lose dialogs when saving and loading in the middle of the job
Inventory apeared empty after load, until something was added
Invisible quest objects were not updated after space travel, only dialogs worked
When new game is created and then the player travels and quits without saving, there is an empty save that is stuck on loading when attepmted to load. Now its auto deleted
Loading when seated now loads with correct camera
Danger indicator was randomly in the way when clicking on UI
Danger indicator no longer flashes just because you are in vacuum, it only flashes when vacuum does damage
Storage chests were showing player's installed handgun devices
Storage chests were sometimes showing more than one empty slot
Space travel makes time speed slower when sector is touched, now it's more relaible when traveling from very far loaction or not aiming precisely
Take all" from storage didn't take keys and cards
Trespassing lingered when player also overlapped any other named volume (these volumes simply hold name of the area, like "restroom")
Stealing and throwing now wakes owners from their "optimised" state, so they react to it
Velocity Vector arrow sometimes stayed after leaving the seat
New Features: Handgun devices installed to slots are now displayd in the inventory, and can be equipped or unequiped as other inventory tools. They can be also uninstalled by "Q", same as extra storages Improvements: When player attempts to space travel, autosave saves the game b
Handgun devices installed to slots are now displayd in the inventory, and can be equipped or unequiped as other inventory tools. They can be also uninstalled by "Q", same as extra storages
When player attempts to space travel, autosave saves the game before travel begins
Diferent tools have diferent attack power, some are weaker than fists, some are stronger (the damage number is not visible yet)
Space travel UI now automatically reduces time multiplier when goal reached
Velocity indicator added. it's not realistic but necessary for player to know ships velocity and direction of movement, because points of reference are sometimes too far to tell, or there are none at all.
Unitl player saves, saving when leaving sector makes dirty saves, when player saves manualy, dirty saves overwrite last saves
Loading the autosave now deletes main save, autosave "save" is copied to the main, and main is loaded
Direct tool equip ability was disabled
I moved the station that resembles style of International space Station, from starter map to new sector (accessable by unfinmished quest from max) From there, survival planet can be found
When you were traveling to another sector and then, quitted the game without saving: next time the game loaded without any player and camera was inside the planet( because the sector was saved at space traveling)
Leaving seat in moving ship no longer ejects you outside
Autosave was not ready for spacetravel, it only contained current sectors
Saving a game used "characters movement and attachment data" from previous save
Sectors with empty space and no planet were impossible to leave, because whole sector had air resiastne due to faulty math (couldn't reach space travel speed)
Ship had incorrect orintation after space travel (but correct movement vector)
Merchant dialog was updated to current system
Ship controls list was mixed up when going from one ship to another
Tutorial Action filter now filters tools attacks too
Attack with tools have cooldown now
Damage direction indicator was often invisible
Cursor now resets when Cursor movement ends
New Features: Space Travel with testing destinations! You can now travel to another space sector, but you must know your destination coordinates, there is a new 5 digit coordinate system. You might find some coordinates, or someone can mention them, then you can use them in your
Space Travel with testing destinations! You can now travel to another space sector, but you must know your destination coordinates, there is a new 5 digit coordinate system. You might find some coordinates, or someone can mention them, then you can use them in your ship to find the location. Science Camp can be visited this way (The game will tell you how to do space travel). Once you enter space travel you cannot stear, you can only stop the travel, Some NPCs can explan the system to you.
Network can now share inputs with other networks, even networks of other type. I mostly needed it for ship's control panels, Player could in the future buy better control panel and easily replace it by attaching 2 cables, instead of 20. I also did this because I want to re-use ships control panels, so I don't have to update all ships when new features are added.
New damage direction indicator , it's linked to damage caused by personal conflict and vacuum damage.
Stealth approach is now more usable because you are not noticed instantly, instead there is a progress bar above enemy's head of how aware of you he is (works only when trespassing), movement speed and crouch state matters
I realized I can use my quest system and most of it's functions to also do NPC routines, Max is experiomental for this, instead of walking all over the place, he's got points he checkes and then goes for a break to emergenmcy room. Routines are meant to be interupted by emergency situations or quests. I do not intent to do NPC life simulator, I want this mostly for patrols and occasionaly for something cool for some special NPCs
NPCs now have initial location and when you get respawned, they are teleported to it, and their health is reset if it's non zero and if not in the coma.
When you were attempting to clear enemy area and things go wrong and you respawn, enemies are revived by neraby friends if there are still any left, otherwise, the remain in coma. (same logic applies when you leave the sector and return)
There is a new Stealth testing bounty quest, in different Sector (station there is ultra basic, just plain walls, its only for testing)
When member of some group of NPCs adds someone as an enemy, enemy status is shared with all members of the group.
Text Display can be tuned to display specific array index value (used to show only first index)
Added AstroCompass! When provided with coordinates. it guides towards the coordinates.
Added Text Display S (half width)
Stations Test map is now the main game. Science camp and Planet survival map were moved to test maps.
Dialogs are no longer stored in the world objects (as other quest invisible objects), instead all possible dialogs for the certain NPC is stored inside the NPC.
Devices that consume power no longer take all power available, they take only what they are designed for
Thrust of Liquid thrusters is not necessarily limited by valves before the thruster, the pipe connection now carries one analog input (in shor better control for ship builder )
Lot of path following issues ware happening because I assumed that I can remove first point of the path because I taught thats where the NPC alreay is. (That's actually where the nearest navigation point is, and the NPC could be several meters far)
Some path following issues were caused because measuring collision between NPC and GoalTarget location often skipped the last 50 cm, sometimes wall could have been there, while function returned clear straight path.
NPC no longer checks if he should jump at the position infront of him, instead it check in the direction of the path, it will hopefuly reduce jumping and getting stuck on stairs's railing.
Bounty quests now have "follow switch" in dialog, when NPCs decide to go with you
Only one instance of journal can be opened now
Sitting on toilet fixed
NPCs can now operate normal (non electric) doors like Steel bars door
When player tried to lock the lock, it only worked when E was pressed really quckly, or the lock was locked again
Please tell me what you find the most lacking about the main game. Thank you
New Items: Every object in the game had to have some gameplay purpose. Now I see it differently, I added prop class of items, they are intended to never have any purpose other than decoaration/prop. They can be picked up and everything, but there will be no reason to take them. F
Every object in the game had to have some gameplay purpose. Now I see it differently, I added prop class of items, they are intended to never have any purpose other than decoaration/prop.
They can be picked up and everything, but there will be no reason to take them. First addition are medical items.
I added few decorational fake lights, and some blinking atompunk light array. Unfortnetly, they are not linkable to any switch or electricity for now
Steel bars door added! (hand operated sliding door)
Emergency room at the Fuel Station was the weakest room for the long time, now it's my favourite
New Medical beds made from existing decoarational shapes
(the injection could serve some purposue one day tho)
I moved the crouching logic from player to characters, so one day, everyone can crouch, not today tho... however it might lead to new bugs today.
Cargo thief had the dialog of the other bounty guy.
Bounty quests were fixed and sligly improved
Updated Tutorial message in Science camp about controlling Crouch and Cable Mod
Some Key bindings like crouch were not working (because I renamed the action name only on one place
I added ability to key bind new actions: Stop in space, Journal, Move down, Camera Switch.
Crouch state is now part of the save data, but still doesn work for some reason
Players movement is now reset after loading (Moving while Save/Autosave carried players movement input after load)
Crash on older machines when laser hits the wall: Now I tried to use exactly the same method when drawing on wall texture, as I do when drawing on radar monitor. Unfortunetly the result is not the same, when there is some damage already, the new damage heals neighbour pixels of the wall.(This whole damage feature is not yet saveable, walls are nice after loading, In space map, system is enabled only on ships)
Cinematics always played a little after the loading
When NPC dies in your arms, it no longer changes animation to lay on floor
All NPCs go to coma when they die and get little healt back, lack of air was able to kill them over and over again, now lack of air only makes healing in bed impossible
When UI is hidden, and dialog starts, UI now re-appears, so you don't have to alt+f4 and restart the game anymore.
Quest System bug caused wierd problems when quest object was set to be active through multiple quest phases.
Bugs Fixed: Tutorial Had broken Hand craft section, at the beginning. Player had injured animation in all maps except Space map, (I recently expaned what is saved in characters, defaut saves of most default maps were outdated). Frozen "player mouse look" might be fixed now, it ne
Tutorial Had broken Hand craft section, at the beginning.
Player had injured animation in all maps except Space map, (I recently expaned what is saved in characters, defaut saves of most default maps were outdated).
Frozen "player mouse look" might be fixed now, it never happened to me personaly, so I cannot test it. I added function to "ensure" it has non zero value.
Quest Pilot school now mentions white container to look at, Instructor takes back the keys, pilot teacher has a suit, finishing dialog lets you go straight to next coarse.
Quest pilot exam quest was probably inaccessable until now .
Warning:
Most of the reported bugs are still there, I was just fixing priority bug.
Cinematicks can be speeded up when Esc or Space is pressed during it's play.
First dialog in Prologue gives an option to skip it. There is nothing new in the prologue, if you played it already. (Because I didn't have the last two new features, the new update was more broken than usual.)
I am very sorry for the bugs
New Features: Punching added! When you have no tool in hand, punching is done with "Use tool" button. NPCs can use new laser gun if its in their inentory, then hide it back when not needed One suprise I will not mention here! Two Bounty Hunter Quests were added! One thief quest w
Punching added! When you have no tool in hand, punching is done with "Use tool" button.
NPCs can use new laser gun if its in their inentory, then hide it back when not needed
One suprise I will not mention here!
Two Bounty Hunter Quests were added! One thief quest was added.
Quests can have some cinematic camera views
Simple quest log to keep track of quests and ability to switch current quest, so the objective is displayed, (but you can work on multiple quests at the same time anyway.)
New Tunning Screwdriver lets you see some basic info about device inputs and outputs and some under the hood variables, just by looking at the part(only parts that are pickable)
New diagnostic device helps you see values of data array and basic values inside devices( at this point it shows all variables, even the ones the observed part doesn't use).
Laser gun, shoots individual shots, each shot has a cooldown. (Cannot be depleted or recharged at this point)
Garbage bin, and it has new unique ability to accept items just by impact, but only when hitted from top, and when the item is small enough (this function will be later added to others if applicable)
Added some stone tools using sticks for handles (for now they look the same as thatch ones, not part of the tutorial )
New Shirt and new female simple dress
Quest system was expanded, Quest can remove, or teleport ships orcontrol ships or give commands to pilots. Qests can go back in the progress when there was some failure. I made for myself lot of quest icons so the whole proces for me is intuitive.
NPCs without active quest can be asked about ships and how they are are used. or About jobs in the area, (If you think something should be added there tell me please.)
Pilot school Tutorial quest was added to Space testing map. it's aimed for totally new players or pilots. (I strongly welcome feedback on this, thanks)
Pilot controls list was improved with tutorial highlights and greyed out controls that cannot be used in the tutorial
Pilot controls list now has better representation of the unusual controls of rotation/orientetian.
Pilot movement controls can switch between slow and regular movement speed by shift, (it should simulate the ability to control levers lightly but now on keyboard)
Seat camera has limits to horizontal angle and camera is reset when Third Person View ends.
Fuel Station was slightly enlarged, but unfortunetly, there are no other building improvements,
I improved the cargo ship on it's inside, I would like to have much more ships, but there is a problem that each change or improvement requires manual editting of all ships I have.
Outfits cloth items got detail overhaul:
Tuning is no longer done with special keybord key, you need new Tuning or diagnostic Tool(use it as other hand tools)
Since NPCs are often very important, they cannot die, they go into coma when defeated (temporary solution)
You can opperate control parts when carrying body (it doesn make much sense, but it was super annoying when going through air locks)
Equipped tool item was cloned when storage containing that tool was removed from character's slot. (Now the item is auto unequipped)
Moving equiped tool item from one storage to another, cloned the tool, or caused other problems.(Now the item is auto unequipped)
NPCs were often doing subtle leg movement when just standing
NPCs were often turning the wrong way, when it would be faster to turn the opposite direction
Esc in dialog doesn't go to menu anymore, it was causing problems. Esc does nothing now
Seat had wrong interaction hitbox, making it hard to sit
Floor textures and button icons had shifted textures when rust data was present
Crouching close next to an obstacle no longer blocks un-crounching action.
Preformance:
I rewrote co C++ some performance heavy parts of the character logic, but there is more of the characters on the map now,
Tell me please about your eperience with the new stuff, your ideas about items, features, ships, quests.
Thank you very much.
Warning, you must start new game (Test map 2) to see most of the new stuff.
New Items Added Consumable Air tank, refils air meter Added compresed rocket fuel, it's an emergency item to partly refil ship's Fuel Tank Improvements: NPCs who are chosing random location to visit, now check if there is air When your health reaches zero, you are moved to neares