Plaza Optimizations & Bug Fixes
This update is heavy on optimizations and bug fixes with a focus on the Plaza! We've fixed over a hundred Plaza related bugs in this update!
New Holiday Items!
Holiday 2024 Items are here! These include new placeable items, pets, and weapons. They also include a variety of new holiday profile backgrounds.
New Casino Exterior & Entrance
The Casino Exterior and Entrance have gotten some love this update! The entrance has been updated to add a new social area to the Plaza, and make the Casino interior and exterior more consistent with one another.
We’ve also added a fountain area around the back exterior of the Casino which will add yet another area for hanging out in the Plaza, and improve the overall appearance of the Plaza.
With these changes, the Casino has also been greatly optimized.
Boardwalk Ice Cream Shop Now Open!
As part of our continued work to finish under construction sections of Plaza, the ice cream shop on the boardwalk is now open!
This is another cozy area for players to hang out and buy items without entering the Arcade.
New Fishing Peninsula!
The Fishing Peninsula art pass is included in this update! This brings the Peninsula up to the quality of the rest of the Plaza.
Vroomspeed Is Now Open!
Vroomspeed is open! You can now buy stationary vehicles. There are currently two types of vehicles - Stationary (open the doors and sit inside) & Props (static for decoration). The sedan item has been moved to Vroomspeed from Rob’s Imports.
New Items!
On the Road to 1.0, we’ve also been working on adding more basic items to increase the catalogue. These include common household appliances, tools, lights, and more! The full list of new items is below.
Inventory: Quick Action Toolbar
New to condo builders is the Quick Action Toolbar, found at the bottom right of your inventory. This handy toolbar has various editing toggles such as showing/hiding volumes and surface editing. It's also the new location for the Item Finder.
New Items
- Vroom Speed (Non-Drivable Cars)
- SUV (Stationary and Prop)
- Sports Car (Stationary and Prop)
- Pickup (Stationary and Prop)
- Golf Cart (Stationary)
- Rob's Imports
- Holdable Crowbar
- Crowbar (Prop)
- Holdable Pickaxe
- Sweet Suites
- Leather Armchair, Loveseat, and Sofa
- Basic Bathtub
- Clawfoot Bathtub (and Trashed version)
- Lobby Lounge Chairs (Basic, Two-Tone, Bucket, Divider, Ottoman)
- Towels and Towel Racks
- Central Circuit
- Industrial Lights
- Laundry Machines (Basic Dryer, Basic Washer, Combo Unit, Commercial Dryer)
- Celebrations
- Holdable Snow Shovel
- Snow Shovel
- Fresh
- Raw Steak
- Chocolate Bar
- Eggnog
- Project 12
- Moonshine Jug
- Sparkling Wine
- Santa's Workshop
- Personal Snow Cloud (Particle)
- Snowflake Pet
- Snowfella Pal
- Snowball To The Face
- Skewering Icicle
- Present Disguise
- Plush Woven Elf
- Plush Snowfella
- Holdable Cork Rifle
- Holiday Profile Backgrounds
- Gingerbread
- Ornaments (Red)
- Ornaments (Blue)
- Ornaments (Green)
- Ornaments (Plum)
- Festive Lights
- Reindeer
- Sugar Plums (Frost)
- Sugar Plums (Mint)
- Sugar Plums (Peppermint)
- Sugar Plums (Lavender)
- Holidays Trees (Pine)
- Holidays Trees (Silver)
- Holidays Trees (Gold)
- Holidays Trees (Midnight)
Changes
- Inventory: Added inventory quick options bar. Has quick toggles for grid snap, surface editing, showing volumes/sounds, group selecting, and item finder
- Vroom Speed is now open
- Blocked players will now be automatically banned from your condo
- VR: Updated VR bindings for Oculus and Vive. Default Steam Input bindings should now be setup properly for these controllers
- Condo: Updated icons for Canvas Primitives
- Condo: Updated Soda Fountain item to have one coloring slot (metal was replaced with plastic in the past) and added an emissive slider
- Virus - Hospital: Adjusted ward room in Hospital to prevent camping as much particularly in Horde mode
- Virus - Hospital: Made quite a few changes to the waiting room to prevent sightlines
- Inventory: Moved item finder button to the new inventory quick options bar
- Added Camera View Bob to Accessibility settings
- Libretro: Added controller mode that shows no controller in first person with the Controller item
- Holdable Eggnog now makes you slightly drunk
- Painkillers are now functional (removes drunkness)
Plaza Major Changes
- Casino Exterior art pass
- New Casino Entrance
- New Casino fake interior
- Finished Boardwalk Ice Cream Shop
- New Fishing Peninsula rock-work re-do
- Vacation Houses art pass
- Updated all water to use the new water shaders and dynamics
- Vroom Speed is now open
Plaza Changes
- Surf Shop: Detailed surf shop store shelves
- Rob's Imports: Added ambience sounds to Rob's Imports
- Toy Stop: Added details to the train diorama and removed signs that did not have anything on the shelf. Added Libretro consoles to the shelves, and boxes to add some clutter
- Arcade: Redecorated the front room and moved the pluck-a-pal machines
- Theater: Added frames around the projector light origin instead of just a black plane
- Theater: Reduced the distance of the projector light FX to avoid it blocking the view of the media being played
- Game World Ports: Updated the construction walls to new ones, changed their colors to not be as distracting
- Nature Store: Added butterflies to nature garden
- Nature Store: Updated store preview to the 3D pedestal one
- Casino: Decorated and placed various seats in the new lounge room
- Beach Umbrellas are now bouncy
- Backer Statues Garden: Added night lighting on statues and paths
- Nightclub: Added another media player screen in the second billiards room
- Updated center fountain to support the new water shader
- Added a monorail doorway next to the new Ice Cream shop on the boardwalk
- Adjusted draw distance on sea plants
- Added curtains to the bait boat shop on the ocean rentals to show it is closed
- DIY: Removed empty ceiling signs that have nothing on them
- Overhauled the beach area behind bowling/laser tag
- Added more foliage in general
Plaza Optimizations
- Major optimization passes on the landscaping and rockwork elements for the jungle-side of the island.
- Major optimization pass on the roller coaster environmental art
- Optimization pass on the tower lobby
- Rob's Imports converted from cubemap system to HLOD system for distance viewing
- Vacation houses optimization pass
- Lazy River lighting optimization
- New Casino entrance interior set up and optimized for HLOD streaming
- Toy Store interior set up and optimized for HLOD streaming
- Appearance Store interior set up and optimized for HLOD streaming
- Major optimization pass on the boardwalk
- Optimization pass on Laser Tag entrance
- Casino Exterior optimization pass
- Arcade: Optimized various game cabinets and reduced cabinets that aren't needed to help performance for both client and server
- Improved dedicated Plaza CPU usage
Plaza Bug Fixes
- Fixed boundaries of the map to prevent players from going outside of the main streaming volume
- Fixed texture streaming issue for Condo Hub sign in the Tower Lobby
- Fixed texture streaming issue for Splash Blasterz' mural
- Bowling: Fixed wearables show up due to mirror on bowling alley
- Nightclub: Fixed media player screen freezing while in billiards room
- Vacation Houses: Fixed one of the seats in the vacation/party houses flipping you upside down
- Lazy River: Fixed stairs not touching the bottom of the Lazy River
- Laser Tag: Fixed laser tag lobby music playing two tracks at once
- Rollercoaster: Fixed greek column in rollercoaster area clipping with a support beam
- Boardwalk: Removed broken pluck-a-pal machine
- Theater: Fixed the theater sign lights not being centered
- Theater: Fixed theater dynamic lights not being centered and being rotated
- Dark Voyage: Fixed western town level streaming issues
- Fixed not being able to fish on the Peninsula
- Sweet Suites: Fixed Sweet Suite sign having foliage clipping
- Sweet Suites: Fixed hole on floor of doorway
- Fixed not being able to sit in Beach loungers
- Arcade: Fixed various trims missing materials
- Arcade: Removed untextured WIP arcade cabinets
- Arcade: Fixed a hole in the upper game room
- Arcade: Fixed missing materials on the light gun machines
- Transit Station: Fixed cracks in ceiling
- Fixed Frankie's store not always loading in from a distance
- Fixed floating flowers on the beach
- Fixed up underwater foliage across the Plaza map and updated the faraway island materials
- Fixed potion bottles in Lighthouse clipping through windows
- Fixed various trees that were colliding with buildings
- Fixed Holiday decorations due to various changes to Plaza
- Fixed Holiday present quest not being achievable
- Fixed Typing Derby mural artwork being blurry
Bug Fixes
- Arcade - Cow Wheel: Fixed pucks teleporting around and having inaccurate physics
- Fixed leaving vehicles with Left CTRL (Leave Drivable bind) not always working
- Inventory: Fixed potions toggling when pressing 1 key while they are on the wearables hot bar
- Inventory: Fixed weapons in your hot bar being equipped after getting into a seat or lightgun cabinet
- Optimized Plaza scoreboard
- Fixed footstep sounds doubling up sometimes when using first person legs mode
- Inventory: Fixed right clicking over bottom inventory stash area still stashing items when it is meant to cancel
- Accelerate - Wishy Washy: Fixed a spot where a rocks collision was sticking into the track
- Minigolf - Waterhole: Attempted to fix Hole 18 desyncs (again)
- Minigolf - Waterhole: Fixed occasionally getting stuck on Hole 4 in Waterhole (bullseye)
- Zombie Massacre - Village: Fixed lighting issue that would occur when switching to Village after playing on another map
- Virus - Catzek Temple: Jump pads should now be more reliable
- Virus - Potential fix for rare crashes when zombies respawn
- Potential AMD crash fix in SDNL
- Condo: Optimized Sky Volumes
- Fixed player profile backgrounds changing when the host of a Game World or Condo changes their background
- Fixed medieval torch items not always igniting with right click
- Improved initial load times
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