Take To The Skies! (Hang Glider Update)

This Update brings more optimization, polish, and HANG GLIDERS!

https://youtu.be/jwKzMbjqx0M

HANG GLIDERS

Holy voxels, we have liftoff. With this latest update, you can fly around your worlds with realistic air physics! You'll never want to teleport again.

• To bring out your hang glider, there's a tool in off-hand menu.
• You control your hang glider as if holding an invisible hang glider bar.
• Pull the trigger to jump and take off, then hold the trigger to accelerate with a weak motor.
• You Turn by turning your body. The game will not turn you.
• Tilting sideways helps to preserve momentum while turning.
• Oculus users can additionally snap turn with the thumbstick.
• You can turn on floor dots for comfort.
• Flying feels GREAT from any scale.

Optimizations

Takeaway: Massively reduced memory usage allows you to build worlds 4 times as big. Faster computing, fewer frame drops.

• We spent a lot of time massively optimizing the Game thread, shaving 2ms of latency off the render time!
• Reduce compute spikes on game thread 40% while sculpting.
• New Octree Node reduces compute time by 25% and memory by 75%.
• Full asynchronous disk access. No more frame drops for you spinning disk havers!
• Optimize render pipeline (save 0.2ms).
• Reduce overdraw geometry (save 0.2ms, and some memory).
• Add LoDs to player hands so that many-player games have reduced triangles.
• Cleared out unused assets to reduce install size.
• Update to UE4.14.2 from 4.13.2.

Fancy Polish

• Tool/menu positioning improvements (especially on Oculus).
• Added fullscreen mirror mode on Oculus.
• Long player names now cut off instead of overlapping into player count in Multiplayer listings.
• Rockets are simulated locally to reduce lag between firing & seeing the rocket fly.
• Can no longer draw on your own head mid-game. (Others can still draw onto your head, though!).

Bug Fixes