Hey TUG Community!

The new TUG build is here! Please take a look at the patch notes below and for further discussion please visit the the TUG Forums.

NOTICE: This build is for 64-bit users only; the 32-bit build will be coming out in a few days.

We are also excited to announce that “Survival Games” is now called, “Proving Grounds”! This means that… Survival Mode is now going into development!

TUG Alpha 0.6.1

NOTICE:

• This build is for 64-bit users only; 32-bit will be released in a few days.
• “Survival Games” is now “Proving Grounds”

ART

• Rock pebble color adjustments for resource and weapon textures to match variations
• New green thorny vine variation added
• Corpse pitcher resources added
• Lotus teeth resources added
• Reeds resource added
• Bark strips resource added
• Lilly pad and lilly nut resources added
• Double cap stem and cap resources added
• Daisy petals resource added
• Daisy clusters have more geometry
• Updated daisy flower texture maps
• Watouwr tree added to red cliffs biome
• Young trepod plant and resources added
• Mushroom hand added
• Updating wisps
• Fixes for mushroom FX - ambient and on hit
• New resource FX
• Cypress tree model and textures added
• Hostas: green, spotted, & edged; plants & resources
• Ferns: peacock & paisley; plants & resources
• Broadleaf plants: banana plants & elephant ear plants; plants & resources
• 2 handed weapon animations added to the cane staff
• Added damage states to the two-handed cane staff weapon
• Environmental ambient FX added across all biomes including drifting/gusting sand, snow, and fog
• Fly FX (The buzzing insect type)
• Unique destruction FX added to many items
• New large torch
• New small torch
• A banana!

DESIGN

• Added rock knapping to the crafting process; players must use the round stone to break off jagged stones from small rocks and then use the jagged stone to cut down plants and tree saplings for the next level of crafting resources
• Adjustments to player health and game balancing of weapons, tools & food
• Missing ambient sounds added to game objects
• Recipes added for weapon and tool variations based off new resources

CODE

• Converted all asset files to work with exposed LUA engine scripts
• Fixed ambient sound not looping correctly
• Overhauled the engine and transitioned to a component based architecture.
• Which provides our designers (and modders) a more data-driven way of creating GameObjects
• Fixed lighting, shading & bloom bugs for all FX
• Script- The Eternus Engine has been integrated with Lua support! LuaJit has been selected for maximum performance.
• Script - Added the first iteration of the Eternus Lua API. This api exposes numerous systems and classes for use in LUA gameplay code.
• Script - Added an OOP Lua framework (available to modders) that supports complex class hierarchies- including prototypical inheritance, class/member variables, and constructor/destructor hooks. RTTI and Mixin support will soon follow.
• Script - Added Lua scriptable GameObjects and GameStates that provide standard gameplay hooks into the game.
• Script - Began porting existing gameplay code to lua.
• Physics - Replaced Bullet physics with Havok
• Physics - Added mesh decomposition. Allows for higher accuracy collisions without a massive hit in performance. Auto generated from Static meshes being used with GameObjects and a Rigidbody Component
• Physics - Added “Level of Detail” collision shapes. Shapes at further distances will collide with less precision whereas shapes closer to the player will prefer to use a decomposed shape
• Physics - Added collision shape caching that allows for much faster load times of physical bodies. A cache is represented by the extension “.hkt”
• Physics - Added the “Gamer Position Supervisor” to provide specific details about the player’s position in the world. Saves players who fall through the terrain and also detects when a player might be stuck in terrain. lots of other functionality coming to lua
• Physics - Added a world wide physics rule: The backface of a collision shape does not produce collisions. This means if you spawn in a tree, end up flying under terrain or somehow end up “inside” of any object, that you will be able to walk out
• Physics - No longer using a discrete kinematic controller. The new Character Controller is a much more sophisticated implementation that allows for finer tweaking. No more running up hills spamming jump or any other weird behaviors
• Updated compiler from vc++ 2010 to vc++ 2012. May require reinstall
• Re-enabled Third Person DEBUG camera. Press X to enable

Known Issues (incomplete as we are still testing/fixing)

• Proving Grounds games don’t end correctly if new players join an in-progress game and stay in the lobby or spectate. Game will end if these players disconnect (and reconnect after the game ends)
• When loading into Creative Mode, some objects and terrain changes may not load properly. The changes/objects are still there, and additional loads may display these properly.
• Mouse button 3-4 can’t be bound to actions
• Game can crash if USB headphones are plugged in while TUG is running
• Saved World list doesn’t update properly after a world has been loaded/created
• 32 bit and 64 bit clients cannot play with each other
• Sprint cannot be currently remapped
• Certain world generations have terrifyingly high/deep columns of ground types which can also cause large performance hits
• Some special characters do not display properly when entered into chat
• If you try to pick up the same tool/weapon tier of what you are holding in your hands, you will swing and potentially destroy the one on the ground
• There are some performance hitches when moving through the world. To help compensate for this, objects will pop in small bunches. Reducing your view distance should help
• 3rd Person camera not fully functional; interactions are not working correctly; use only for viewing the seed
• Falling deaths aren’t sending death messages to other players
• The staff cane attack animation isn’t synchronized to the actual hit and sound
• In Creative Mode, if you move the mouse cursor across the quickslots, the inventory can become unclosable. Move the mouse cursor out of the game (or switch windows) and then back into the game to fix this for now
• When starting a game as a spectator you will be stuck as a spectator for the next game unless you exit the client and restart
• When breaking down world resources spawned items can become stuck together and misbehave
• Physics GPS is based from the camera’s position in the world - not the character
• When cells are being generated there is a small chance that Physics will run out of triangles for that cell’s collision shape and cause a crash
• Sometimes the Physics world stops following the player
• Rarely, complex objects can cause physics collision cache generation to take much longer than expected
• Double jumping to get into fly mode is too sensitive / misses input
• Player mass to world object masses has not been balanced. Many objects move like “styrofoam” giving the character an unhealthy amount of “Wrecking Ball” syndrome
• To help stabilize physics behavior the game Engine’s internals have been temporarily tweaked to keep from updating faster than 60 fps