Update notes for V 1.1.1 (7 Oct 2024)

07 Oct 2024Developer post

Source: Steam Community (opens in a new tab)

A few fixes & enhancements reacting to some early review comments, plus several corrections, improvements & additions:
Bug Fixes
• Narration for John Deed Leather skin now works.
• Narration & video systems now interact with each other (starting one stops other).
• Non-VR mode now always has focus on start up.
• Non-VR mode when moving fast can no longer break through gallery railing.
Corrections
• Adjust position of Great Hydraulic Press, Nasmyth Steam Hammer and some flags & illustrations.
• Adjust partitions to better match illustrations (including removal of excess partitions from Machinery in Motion sections).
• Swap locations of The Unhappy Child and The Infant Moses (Belgium section, middle of East nave)
• Signs above refreshment room doors now match illustrations.
Improvements
• Operating narration trigger when not pointing at a narration target stops any in progress narration.
• Make grey glass less transparent.
• Improve gallery canvas ceiling model
• Improve floorboard texture
• Several photographs and watercolours replaced with better quality versions.
• Murmur sound loop inside building is longer & quieter
• Wording of some statue labels & narrations improved
• Improve & simplify the Queen Victoria / Thorneycroft model (North transept)
• Zinc statue of Queen Victoria narration now additionally refers to statue moving to cattle yard.
Additions
• Cornelius & Co. stand & chandeliers (United States section)
• Prussia flag on South side of nave (Zollverein section).
• Multiple illustrations (photographs and engravings) added.
• Two more Swiss flags.
• Arethusa by Frederick Thrupp (British Sculpture Court)
• Eve After the Fall by Monti (Austrian Sculpture Court)
• Stewart’s cast iron pipes (Machinery at Rest Court, North of Western nave)
• Gallery “to the staircases” sign now duplicated on all 10 staircases (and wording now appears on both sides).
• Various cabinets & stands at gallery level, including: India Rubber & Gutta Percha stand (North West); Switzerland & France (South, East of transept).
• Various cabinets & stands at ground floor level, including: Hancock stuffed birds stand (North transept); Spain & Portugal (North nave, East of transept); Austrian Leistler Rooms & Russia Court (North of Eastern nave)
• Leistler bookcase
• Banners: surgical instruments (North West gallery)