Hello Pioneers! Todays post will be short and sweet but we still wanted to keep you all in the loop. For the past two weeks we've been making a lot of invisible progress such as fixing bugs, improving our networking solution and just really catching up on a lot of technical debt.
Here is a list of some of the things we've been working on:
- Improved positioning of player status icons
- Made the hotbar scrollable and only selects occupied slots for faster equipping
- Players now sync properly in multiplayer
- Multiplayer now validates server versions
- Implemented a settings menu
- Added new sound effects
- Began using the new basic character model setup
Beyond this we're still working on the new animation system but it is finally approaching feature parity with the old system.
Screenshot of the new modular character, don't mind the lack of clothes for now!
Once the new system is in we will do an investigation into some technical aspects that we think could increase performance for players as well as simplify our development efforts, but more on that another time :)
Have a great weekend!
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