Winter Holidays are here!
Wintertime has come to the Tower Unite Plaza! We’ve decked out the island with holiday cheer and brought back all of the classic holiday events. Be sure to drop by Santa Claws’ Workshop for new Condo and Appearance items, and enjoy the festive atmosphere!
Holiday Coins are also back and can be earned by playing any of the games in Tower!
We've added several new Holiday themed items in this update, including the first phase of Condo IO.
New Items!
- Added new items To Santa Claw's Workshop: Frozen Shades, Holiday Scarf, Reindeer Bells, Snow Chair, Snow Shelf, Snow Table, Pet: Snowfella, Festival Lights - Holiday Tree, Festival Lights - Santa Claus, Festival Lights - Jack Frost, Festival Lights - Leaping Reindeer, Festival Lights - Candy Archway, Shrunken Reindeer Flying Pet, Candy Cane Cigar, Santa Claws Scarf, and Snowflake Glasses
- Added new items to Celebrations: Menorah, Kinara, Dreidel, Festival Lights - Snowman, Festival Lights - Reindeer, Festival Lights - Candle, Festival Lights - Circle Archway, Festival Lights - Tunnel Archway, Festival Lights - Candy Canes, Festival Lights - Lollipops, Festival Lights - Moose, Light Bramble Deer, Festivus Pole, Festive Garden Light
- Added new items to Seasons (nature store): Firewood Pile, Ice Chunk, Ice Outcropping, Ice Spire, Ice Spikes
- Added new item to Tower Threads clothing store: Penguin Scarf
- Added new item to Fresh: Gingerbread House
- Added new items to D.I.Y: Lightbeam FX, Keypad
- Added new items to Toy Stop: 20-Sided Die
- Added new item to Asteroid Belt (Arcade): 20-Sided Deluxe Die
- Added new item to Rob's Imports: Reinforced Wooden Gear
- Added new Condo IO items: Trigger Volume, Push Volume, Damage / Heal Volume, Size Volume, Gravity Volume, Blocking Volume, Teleport Volume, Player Movement Volume, Relay Module, World Control Module, Basic Shape Button, Basic Lever, Physics Slot, Canvas Button
Condo IO: Phase 1 - Adding Interactivity To Condos
This update includes the first phase of Condo IO. This will kick start the Condo IO system that will continuously have new features added to in future updates.
Condo IO stands for Condo Input and Output. It’s a powerful set of tools and integration with items that allow items to connect with each other and perform actions based on gameplay events.
Using the new Connector Tool (added to the Tower Glove), you'll be able to wire items together and have them interact with each other!
Connect a Button to open a Door, use the new Keypad item and have a locked Door open with a password, or have hidden Trigger Volumes that turn on lights or hide or unhide items! You can even connect Security Cameras to Media Players to have camera feeds.
Condo IO does not require any programming knowledge, it's all built into the Condo tools for you and available immediately. Condo IO is in alpha stage, so expect some issues.
Lots of existing items now have inputs and outputs that you can hook into, such as Doors, Buttons, Lights, Food, Fireworks, Balloons, Bells, Media layers, Physics items, Beds, Dice, and Keypads!
You can read more about Condo IO here and our future plans for the feature: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/condo-io/46511
Changes
- Condo IO: Phase 1
- Winter Plaza 2022
- Plaza: Condo Hub elevator entrance was completely remodeled
- Plaza: Improved minigames archways
- Plaza: New Tower Lobby ceiling and artpass
- Plaza: Improved ocean water
- Plaza: Improved background islands
- Gingerbread Smash now has 2x more gingerbread
- Snowball Battle points are now 3x more
- Vehicle items rotation camera (right click) is now a toggle instead of requiring you to hold right click down
- Accelerate: Improved camera position, so you can see turns a lot easier
- Accelerate: When drifting, the camera will rotate a bit more so you can see what you're drifting into
- Condo - Media Player: Added WebM syncing, pausing, and volume support (note: duration is currently set to 3 hours always, we will have a setting to adjust WebM duration later on)
- Condo: Spikeboard now has a damage setting to adjust how much damage it deals to players
- Condo: Spikeboard now pops Ball Race orbs
- Condo: You can now connect Security Cameras to media players. Please keep in mind that they are pretty resource intensive if you use a lot of them
Bug Fixes
- Plaza: Fixed theater screens being overly bright
- Fixed media players in general being overly bright
- Plaza: Fixed treasure chests sometimes spawning in the ice
- Fixed many networking issues with the Pogostick (and added new sounds and upped its jump height by 2x)
- Fixed players not being able to leave the Motor Scooter seats after entering them as a passenger. This fix also fixes all other vehicles with seats as well
- Fixed Motor Scooter and Minecart items not having options to toggle passenger mode
- Fixed Dolphin passenger's camera bobbing up and down and smoothed turning for passengers as well
- Arcade: Fixed Salmon Says button sounds not playing
- Condo: Fixed Bell Wall item not playing animations for other players, and now can be shot to activate
- Plaza: Fixed Plaza popping out after using a store for a couple frames
- Condo - Theatre: Fixed Theatre condo surfaces not networking for other clients
- Plaza/Condo: Fixed Health Bar HUD element not showing up properly (show by either taking damage or holding C)
- Condo: Fixed variations not copying past 10
- Condo: Fixed Canvas Poly collisions
- Condo: Fixed Boulder Cliff collisions
- Condo: Fixed Discoball items not saving their speeds anymore
- Plaza: Fixed planters around fountain area being off-centered
- Plaza: Fixed imposter LODs for palm trees
Optimizations
- Plaza: Optimized rendering of the nightclub exterior building, reducing drawcalls by around 250
- Plaza: Optimized rendering of the bumper cars exterior building, reducing drawcalls by around 120
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