Hey everyone,
the last weekly report was again released roughly a "week" ago, so it's time for another one!
The last update was Update 17, adding official WMR support, wood scaffolding blocks, wall mounts and some other things.
After that, I was busy for a while with making a new video for the official Youtube Channel, showing the most relevant new things in the game added between Update 12 and Update 17.
There hasn't been an update for 2 weeks now, which is unusual! I like to release an update once a week. Making that new video took a while, and this new update takes a bit longer, because I'm currently working on a desert biome! The desert biome itself is not that much work to add, but since there were no very different biomes in the game before, the system for biome transitions and everything related to that has to be added first, and that was quite a bit of work.
Biomes have to smoothly transition into each other regarding their height, and the CPU should not have to calculate all biomes everywhere. Also, the lighting, sky and fog should be different depending on biome and smoothly transitioned.
It's coming along very nicely, all the hard parts are done, so let me show you a WIP preview of the desert biome!
You see there's quite a bit of sand in the desert.
The desert biome will most likely be available in the beta branch of the game in the next few days so that it can be tested by beta testers in the official cyubeVR discord, and then a few days later be released as Update 18!
That's all for now! Thanks for caring about the game! If you like the game, don't forget to tell other people about it and write a review on Steam if you haven't done that already. Writing a review and spreading the word is the easiest way you can support the game!
Also make sure to make me aware of any feedback you have in the official forums or the official discord server where we have over 240 members already!
Also, don't forget to follow and subscribe to the official Stonebrick Studios account on Twitter and YouTube so that you don't miss anything interesting about the game.
Cheers!
