Dear Stormworkers,
This week we add new gimbal control to some lights, cameras, and laser components.
These components now include a new composite input allowing their direction to be controlled with logic. This makes it easier for builders to control and aim lights, cameras and lasers, where previously players would have had to use robotic parts and complex physics systems to move small parts.
This new feature is generally useful for targeting and viewing systems, where lasers are used to scan depth or cameras are used as aiming reticules with weapons systems, allowing the player to easily manage drop and movement. Aiming lights means it is now easier to target lights with fine control, even on small builds. For cosmetic purposes, the control of lights means you can aim small spotlights such as dipped headlights or any situation where you just want to direct light in a tuned direction such as illuminating an area with a spotlight.
As well as this new feature, there are several useful fixes! Please see the patch notes below on full details.
Much love <3,
The Stormworks Developers
Patch Notes
v1.7.3
Feature - Gimbal controlled light, camera and laser components
Rework - #12014 Rescaled stabilized gimbal camera inputs after the deadzone to start from 0 (finer control)
Fix - #13615 Third person vehicle camera fixed yaw jitter
Fix - #16495 Fixed cooldown on MP Hangar glass door
Fix - #16724 Fog / rain changing underwater lighting colours
Fix - Fixed fog of war not correctly clearing beyond 256 tiles causing fogged regions to appear
Fix - #17263 Resolved data issue parsing composite write microcontroller modules
Fix - #17439 Fixed rotated edit grids detecting/reclaiming vehicles outside their bounds
Fix - #17857 Fixed gimbal camera laser raycast interacting with non-colliding physics