Hey everyone, I'm really happy to share a major update to the demo!
Major changes summary:
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Major Changes:
- Unit simulation (schedule, activities) has taken a massive leap forward.
- Units will now run errands, do work/leisure/home activities
- Units will look for specific objects based on their current activity
- Note: Currently, if no object is found, unit will stand around instead. This will be fixed later.
- Supply / Demand has improved. Added industrial/office demand
- Added player objectives (just a few for now)
- Implemented a clear, detailed, interactable UI for buildings and units
- Road placement is much smoother.
- You can now overlap the selection with multiple roads
- Added tool to expand/shrink existing road
- Can connect roads without selection overlapping
- Added visiting units. For now, they will visit service building types to run an errand, then leave.
- Added micro mode (10x10 map), no goals
General Updates:
- Unit education is considered when unit is assigned a job
- Implemented some GPU tricks to reduce GPU load (2x-4x improvement)
- Added double seating functionality for e.g. couches
- Added in a lot more unit names
- Added unit teleportation ability.
- e.g. if unit is traveling to a building for an errand, and the building gets deleted, the unit will teleport home after it attempts to enter the lot
- Added unit guises for all job types
- Added business hours to zones. Customers will not visit store when closed
- New opening screen
- Can reposition huge objects (signs, huge trees)
QOL Updates:
- You can now interact with the game world when the game is paused
- Added camera tracking so you can follow units/vehicles
- Desaturated building floor tiles a bit to help clarify building interiors
- Room boarder outputs when deleting room
- Buildings wont generate and store paths until building is placed on market
- Brightened units a tad to make them pop more
- Units will now get object offset when sitting
- GUI/UI will adjust size based on application window size
- Game launches full screen
- Added job info to population box
- Demand UI is more clear/color coded
- Huge tiles (outdoor signs, huge trees) turn red in delete box
- Show zone boarder when placing perimiter fence
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed in-game time update speed being based on FPS
- Fixed indoor floors not randomizing for blueprints
- Fixed bug that caused building entrances to be deleted when editing a building
- Fixed units taking longer path when walking on sidewalk in some cases
- Fixed rare case of unit not exiting vehicle after parking, causing it to drive indoors
- Fixed units' walking speed being the same for every unit. Now there is variance
- Fixed number of available jobs being miscalculated, which created way more jobs than it should have
- Fixed units popping off screen when they're near the edge of the screen
- Fixed ability to edit building subdivisions and door placement when building is on the market, which caused all sorts of issues
- Fixed road tiles (e.g. road paint) disappearing after editing a road
- Fixed a rare case of unit walking off the map when loading a game, if the unit was on the tile that connects building to road network
- Fixed auto zone building output bug, which prevented building from growing
- Fixed chimneys not fully outputting in auto-grow zones
- Fixed rare case of blueprint output changing the exterior wall color from what was shown in the on-map preview
- Fixed auto-zone guide not outputting behind some buildings if a parallel road was nearby
- Fixed ability to place zones/objects on water
- Fixed reoccurring FPS spike (may not have been noticeable on most machines)
- Fixed autozones rarely outputting a one tile wide zone
- Fixed unit needs sometimes not being filled out
- Grass boarders reoutput for driveways placed in road if road is deleted/readded
- Fixed units not centering themselves on chairs
- Fixed blueprint roof top walls randomizing every time the preview is moved