Today's build includes a big update to the way trees and other natural objects are drawn in the game. The trees, bushes, and rocks are all updated and overall this change should provide a nice framerate boost.
In addition this update also includes:
- Optimized some of the monsters that use different colored clothing (such as the Ratmen and Goblins) to denote warriors vs. spell casters.
- Optimized the Storehouse, Wooden House, Stone House, and Stone wall.
- Updated localized text to include new translations.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Brightness slider to not respond to controller input.
- Based on feedback, I changed the way the camera speed is changed in build mode. Holding down left shift will increase the camera speed. Also increased the top speed of the camera.
- Fixed a bug that caused the arrow keys and the controller right stuck to fail to rotate the character properly in character creation.
I'm also working on another optimization similar to the monsters. This one will affect your character and the NPCs and will lower the memory footprint of all of the tunic, hair, and beard options while also making it easier for me to add more color options without affecting memory nearly as much.
I did a test with the male tunics and I'm pretty happy with the results. The left Dwarf is the current system, on the right is the optimized system. The only noticeable difference is the green shirt, which is the original color the artist made for the shirts before I made them colorable. This update makes it stand out a bit less from the other tunics.
I'm going to test this out the female tunics as well as all of the hair and beards and if all looks good I'll have this ready fairly soon. I might add some more hair and beard color options at the same time since this new system makes that easier to do. This change also makes creating white tunics, hair, and beards possible which I think could be pretty cool!
-Jonathan "Calandryll" Hanna
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