Hey everyone!
Today's patch introduces tutorials for newcomers and portals! In addition to that loading screen tips have been added, the marble follow cam has been updated along with a whole bunch of bugfixes!
Tutorials
In the main menu you'll find a button which leads to the tutorial section. Every tutorial consists of some tasks that you need to do in order to complete the tutorial. The basics tutorial consists of the most tasks which covers every aspect you need to know in order to build a track and get some marbles rolling.
Other tutorials have only a handful of steps as those topics are fairly minor and are just focusing on the aspect they're made for.
Portals and Linking
In order for portals to know where to teleport marbles a linking system had to be developed. This will be the same linking system that will be used for the logic patch later this year.
On the top bar you'll find a Linking Mode button which puts you into that mode so you can link logic objects together. For now the portal is the only logic object in the game. To link portals simply place 2 in the World. Then enter the Linking Mode by clicking the button on the top bar.
When hovering over the portal you'll see a white ring appear.
The white ring represents a logic port, and can be clicked on. Click on the port to select it, by doing so it will turn green and remain selected even when not hovering over it. Now hover over the other portal and click on that white ring in order to link the 2 portals.
Portals who are linked have a bi-directional connection. A marble which goes into A comes out of B, and also if a marble goes into B it comes out of A.
You can delete connections by either deleting the portal or by selecting the port and pressing delete.
Some interesting facts regarding portals in Marble World:
- Marbles which have been teleported have a grace period of 0.1 seconds where they cannot be teleported.
- A marble's velocity remains when going through a portal.
- The point of entry when going into a portal dictates the point of exit on the other portal, the exit point will be relative to the portals scale. This can be useful for really big portals.
- Portals can be linked to multiple other portals. A marble will randomly exit one of the connected portals, the chance is even for every connected exit portal.
Patch Notes
The full notes for patch 0.1.19:
- Added Portals
- Added the linking system
- Added tutorials
- Added loading screen tips
- Added support for scrolling to move objects closer / further
- Added toggle for marble names in the top bar
- Updated the marble follow cam to support zooming and looking around
- Updated the help panel
- Fixed a bug where the Marble Creation System didnt save edits when switching patterns
- Fixed a bug where the select track type window didnt close when deleting all freeform parts
- Fixed a bug where the twitch icon tooltip mentioned pausing physics
- Fixed a bug where editing properties when having multiple objects selected would apply all properties to the whole selection instead of just the edited property
- Fixed a bug where physics track pieces (the 2 tippers) couldn't be selected properly on all hitboxes
- Fixed a bug where single wide free-form tracks often would bounce around marbles
- Fixed a bug where playing in windowed mode the MCS editor would not display glow / color values when having a strange resolution
- Fixed a bug where opening the settings panel would revert any resize change made when playing in windowed mode
- Renamed 'race starting track' to marble spawner in the race panel
Upcoming content
The space theme will be added next month! (April that is)
Along with that I'll be focusing on more paints and looking into a colorpicker for painting.
In addition to that I will expand the props section with playroom/office objects and add more nature related effects.
Thanks for reading!
If you have any questions your always free to chat using any of the social media's :)
As always, thanks for the feedback & support! It means a lot to me.
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