Transmission from RustForge 🎙️
"Let there be stability, and balanced speed!
v5.3.4.1 overhauls the Input Stability Buffer (Safe Painting Mode) and introduces precision image-scaling enhancements. I have dialed in the perfect balance between raw speed and mechanical accuracy. Complex images will take slightly longer to process the micro-details, but will now result in near-perfect, speckle-free paintings when Safe Mode is enabled."
This is sort of a smaller update, but required a considerable amount of work to revamp. Normal updates will continue every weekend!
Patch Highlights
The Input Stability Buffer: Re-engineered the core drawing loop to enforce strict "Unity Engine Buffer Sleeps" on single dots and line edges, drastically reducing unpainted specks.
Crisp Edge Oversampling: Rebuilt the Super Sampling algorithm's second pass to eliminate anti-aliasing "halo" gradients, keeping solid colors and cartoon borders perfectly crisp.
Balancing & Logic
Input Stability Buffer (Safe Mode Enhancements)
The Challenge: Pushing RustForge to "Fast" or "Turbo" speeds caused the it to literally outrun the game engine's framerate. Unity would swallow rapid clicks that happened between frame renders, leaving behind a "snowy" layer of unpainted dots or missing the first/last pixels of a line.
The Fix: I implemented a strict "Unity Engine Buffer Sleep." When Safe Mode is enabled, critical input/painting changes (the first pixel, the last pixel, and isolated 1 pixel dots) now utilize a safer micro-buffer to ensure the game engine registers the click and movement even during heavy UI, or render lag. Your long line drags remain blisteringly fast, but single details are now guaranteed to paint. BYE BYE UNPAINTED SPECKS DUE TO INPUT DROPS!
Fixes & UI Polishes
The Oversampling Engine (Image Clarity Fix)
The Bug: The previous resizing engine used heavy interpolation on both the upscale and the downscale. This forced the OS to blend sharp edges and generate hundreds of microscopic "hallucinated" gradient colors, causing RustForge to paint unwanted 1 pixel noisy specks along borders.
The Fix: I rewrote the second pass of the Super Sampling logic to utilize the heavy interpolation and downscaling, and the first pass to handle upscaling. This completely kills "halo" specks and snaps color blocks perfectly to the center of the canvas grid for crisp, clean shapes.
📈 Known Issues
Line Mode on Tiny Details: If your image relies heavily on intense dithering or 1-pixel details, Line Mode won't provide much of a speed boost except for areas that are equal to or longer than your set Line Threshold. Such as large continuous areas of the same color to be filled.