Hello everyone!
Update 0.11 is now live! This update brings Custom Books!
Custom Books:
Custom books can be made at the new Book Workshop. The Book Workshop is unlocked at Player Level 25 and can be found in the Hardware App. The Book Workshop has three main features: Normal books, Special books, and Recycling.
Upon interacting with the Book Workshop, you will be able to choose whether to create a new normal book or a new special book. You may also edit any existing custom books you've already created by selecting them in the shelves of the Book Workshop when in the Book Workshop.
Normal Books:
Normal custom books are just like standard books in the game. Normal books will allow you to choose from a selection of covers, font types, font layouts for title and author, and font colors. Once you have created a normal book, you will need to buy its license in the Book App.
Special Books:
Special books, as the name implies, are a more special version of the normal custom books. These cost much more to create, but are worth significantly more. In addition to everything that normal custom books allow you to choose, Special Books also allow you to select different looking pages, an optional locking clasp with several options, and optional edge or corner accessories. Special books can also have their value increased by recycling.
Recycling:
Rare and Legendary books that you do not wish to sell may be fed into the Book Workshop and recycled to increase the value of your next created Special Book.
Graphics Settings:
New graphics settings have been put in to help less powerful computers. The following options have been added:
Texture Quality (Default: High, lowering reduces memory and graphics requirements)
Shadow Quality (Default: High, lowering reduces graphics requirements)
Shadow Cascades (Default: 4, lowering reduces number of shadow calculations on GPU)
Volumetric Fog (Default: On, more realistic fog, turning off reduces GPU usage)
Reflection Probes (Default: On, more realistic reflections, turning off reduces GPU usage)
Closing Registers:
By popular demand, we've added the ability to close registers (both normal and cafe). Once a register is closed, the customer at the counter will remain and finish being checked out but anyone else in queue will exit that register's queue and look for another. Employees will finish checking any customer out and then unassign themselves from that register, either waiting if no other register is available or going to the next available open register.
NPC Liveliness:
We've heard everyone's feedback and appreciate it. This is the first step in making our NPCs a little less robot-like and a little more alive. Customers should be a little more expressive now with facial expressions for certain actions and will react a bit more to you by looking and reacting to you if you're nearby and in front of them.
Change Log V0.11.1082:
Added:
- Book Workshop used to make custom and special books, found in the hardware app at Level 25.
- Custom books: All custom books will allow you to choose from a select set of covers, font types, font layouts, and font colors.
- Special books: Special books can be created in the Book Workshop and are higher value than standard custom books. Special books can have accessories like a locking clasp and metal edges in addition to the normal custom book options.
- Book recycling: Rares and Legendaries may be recycled at the Book Workshop to increase the value of your next Special book.
- New graphics settings: Texture Quality, Volumetric Fog, Shadow Quality, and Reflection Probes
- Posters for Steam Workshop books.
- Ability to close registers: the customer at the counter will remain to finish checking out but any others will leave the checkout queue
Changed:
- Steam Workshop mod textures will automatically be forced to a max of 2048 and will be affected by the Texture Quality graphics setting.
- More optimization for memory and graphics
- NPC Liveliness: Customers are now a little more expressive with facial expressions for certain actions. They will also react to you just being around a bit more.
- Cafe employee hiring levels reduced
- Modified some NPC movement code to add some additional stuck prevention
Fixed:
- Cafe pastries priced at or below market price will no longer not sell. Note: Not every customer will want a pastry still
- Unsubscribed Workshop Items will no longer cause issues at the end of day for other stores
- Japan sliding doors no longer stop working