Release 244: Smarter Stacks and Stability!

james · May 27, 2020, 1:33pm

Updated OP with details of the recent hotfix.

james:

Release 244.1:

Engine:

Disable fog rolling back in to cover holes in terrain. Whilst this hides terrain holes from players it also make it hard to move rapidly over a changing landscape during the Gleambow event.

Change logic to detect teleports to be more explicit so even in worst cases the fog doesn’t roll in during normal gameplay even if you end up with chunks unmeshed under your feet.

Increase threshold slightly for using lower-detail meshes nearer to the camera in terrain LOD selection.

This should improve world navigation for slower CPUs and / or players with slow connections.

Server:

Update the Gleambow world and player timer tracking to better take into account failing to reach the Gleambow event. More time is returned to the timers for players who struggle to reach the event.

World Builder:

Improve behaviour of decorations in World Builder and world generation.

If multiple instances produce valid results for a given insertion query, then they are randomly selected between instead of taking the first result.

For decorations using non-smooth “density” based distributions, behaviour is also improved to offset the sampling of the integer noise that generates the sparse distribution of instances meaning that the densities of instances effectively sum up (before clamping at 1.0). Eg if two instances both have a middle-density of 0, then they would previously fight over the exact same spots and only one would win (the first), now they will distribute differently so that they sum up to look the same as a fully-dense 1.0-density instance, but half mapping to one instance and half the other.

Bug fixes:

Fix shift-clicking on shopping stands not working correctly; broken in last release.

Fix the scattered meteorite colours to have random colour, not “undefined” colours from out-of-bounds reads.