Welcome back to another Interstellar Rift development update! In this update we add the community poll winners; the interior windows. We are also adding in DLC support with the release of a free Holidays 2020 DLC pack. We’ve also made a couple of other small changes which we’ll detail below.
First up, the interior windows. We’ve added 8 new interior windows which can be placed between rooms. The placement works very much in the same way as doors. Placing them on a wall creates a new room behind them if there wasn’t a room already present. Removing a room on the other side also removes the windows.
To match with the new windows we’ve also updated some of the windows and walls that were already in the game. With this update they also gain the functionality that the interior windows have, to switch between transparent and opaque. The small doors and medbay doors have been updated to use the new glass look, but don’t have the functionality yet to be darkened. We’ll update these early next year.
To test our DLC backend for future DLCs we decided to release a small pack of Holiday Season related items in a free DLC. Among them you can find some christmas lights, a snowman, a fireplace, and more. We’ve also added an offset version of the dining benches so you can cozy up to the fire in the cold vacuum of space.
Our plans for future DLC are coming into focus and we decided that we don’t want them to impact the main gameplay features of the game. As such we will keep releasing free updates with new features and props. We will look towards offering some extra content in the DLC packs with which you can customize your ship in various new ways.
To go into detail about the DLC for ships, it will work as follows. You can place and look at the DLC props in the editor, but you won’t be able to construct or modify ships with DLC content on them that you yourself do not have. This means that other players can modify the ships for you, or you can purchase a ship with the DLC content already present. You can’t modify that ship any further at that point though, not without first removing the DLC content.
And with that we’ve come to the end of 2020, we at Split Polygon would like to extend our best wishes to everyone, we’re looking forward to what we can bring to Interstellar Rift in 2021.
Happy Holidays, and as always we’ll see you star-side!
- The Split Polygon team.
You can claim the free 2020 Holiday Pack here
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