Game Development: Fluid Incline

[jorb]

We've been developing, and here's what's new.



New Implementations
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• Reworked the map offset handling.
  • Most any carryable object can now be placed in shallow water, and be appropriately offset against the sea/lake/river-bed, rather than e.g. rest on the water surface.
  • Normal items can now be dropped in shallow water, and appear as resting on the sea/lake/river-bed, much as if they were simply lying on the ground. If/when items decay away from shallow water, they will be washed away to the pool of items lost in water as per usual.
  • Many objects now visually apply the incline of the tile they are standing on: Containers, Skis, Kicksled, &c&c. Pretty neat. Feel free to suggest others.

Key Fixes
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• Buffed the minimum output from "Mound Bed"s.
• Redrew some icons under the "Build" menu of the Action menu, specifically: "Buildings & Construction", "Containers", "Furniture", "Production & Processing" and "Siege Equipment" in 4x resolution.

Small Fixes
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• Added error message when attempting to plant in an unwatered "Mound Bed".
• Proper soft sound when walking on Woodchip tiles.

As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch.

Today's Patch Item, for the fair price of $9 is the "Observatory Hat".

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In the Pipe
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• Again urging any custom client maker who wishes to stay relevant to get with the new rendering times. Support for the old resources will be dropped at some point.
• Our primary development direction is toward object-controlled-objects.
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UPDATE YOUR CLIENTS... for the map offset stuff to work.

Enjoy!

[Austinh15]

Proper soft sound when walking on Woodchip tiles.[/list]

My life is complete. I may rest now.

[SlicingTheMoon]

noice

[cb111]

excellent thanks.

this will be an ocd nightmare, however

Many objects now visually apply the incline of the tile they are standing on: Containers, Skis, Kicksled, &c&c. Pretty neat. Feel free to suggest others.

[Sany_CZ]

Now you need to level tanning fluid surface, it should not be inclined.

[Teacwr]

Good update!

[axus]

I dropped a bucket of water over the shallows, it's resting on the surface of the water. I can see a little shadow under it on the lakebed.

[axus]

I dropped a bucket of water over the shallows, it's resting on the surface of the water. I can see a little shadow under it on the lakebed.

OK I screwed up the testing again. The patch note says "Restart your client", you have to close the Haven & Hearth app and restart it to get the effects. Now bucket is where it should be.

[clio]

Normal items can now be dropped in shallow water, and appear as resting on the sea/lake/river-bed, much as if they were simply lying on the ground.

So does this mean we can now pick up dead swans after killing them comfortably from a ship in shallow water?

[axus]

The client does take longer to load resources when going through doors, mineholes, etc. Just a split second, but I'm noticing "Building map (queued)" which I didn't really before.