I'm back in the driver's seat! My left index finger is still half numb on one side, but my back and shoulder are much better. I'm still going in for therapy every day, but it's only 30 minutes or so. My apologies again for the lost time in development.
There has been an increasingly common problem with some people crashing while trying to enter caves, that I've added some things to try and better track down in this patch. I've got a helpful player in Discord right now trying some things out for me, as unfortunately most people do not encounter the problem, myself included. If I can reproduce a problem I can go straight to the cause and fix it, but some things aren't quite that easy. (Update: It seems to be shadows causing the crashes. I will continue to dive further into fixing that. It might be only certain graphics cards or drivers)
There is also an upgrade to the multiplayer method that sends town data from the server to clients, which was previously going over the single packet limit for fully populated towns. This patch fixes that so they will now compartmentalize the data when necessary.
I've also updated Unity from 2018.4.16 to 2018.4.21 though it has a known bug that spams the player log with an unnecessary warning... I've blocked it from printing "an error has occurred" in-game, but until they patch it, logs might be a little messy. I didn't notice any actual performance or visual changes caused by the bug thankfully.
The UI reskin has also been largely completed and I hope to push it to beta tomorrow to get some input before moving on to finishing up 0.6.4.
I'm also behind on the Steam forum posts and plan to set aside time tomorrow to go through them all.
Thank you everyone for your understanding with my injury and need to take a few weeks off to heal up.
Stay safe, and wash your hands!
v 0.6.3.16 2020.04.20
- Updated Unity to 2018.4.21
- Fixed multiplayer town data not compartmentalizing itself across networks
- Fixed the chat window minimize button going too far down
- Added video setting options for anisotropic filtering and shadows
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