Testing 232: Closed Storage and Decorative Blocks!

[ctrl-64]

Sounds great on paper! I just hope the recipes aren’t too demanding

[Aragorn]

Ya yay!!! RELEASE THE BLOCK HOARD!! yesssss!!!

[Ocfos]

Goddamn, this is a FANTASTIC set of additions. I can’t wait for this to hit live, as I still can’t recall how to enter Testing.

This storage though, that’ll be incredibly loved.

[Lennexfox]

@james

You can now repair a Machine and all its attached Power Coils by using the Spanner on any part of the Machine or the Power Coils to repair all of them at the same time. The amount of repair done will be divided evenly between all the elements that are not already fully repaired so you don’t need to worry about where you are repairing to do the most repair - it doesn’t matter.

Does this mean the AoE spanner boon is set to be removed?

Either way this brings so much joy and will save so so much time repairing, thank y’all <3

[Jyanin]

Just a screen grab for now

Plain Wood Chest (16 slots), Stylish Wood Barrel (24), Orante Wood Box (32)

[Jyanin]

Circuit Boards

Top - Gold, Titanium
Bottom - Copper, Iron Silver
Same order for Metal Grids

[HOST]

good job devs on the update and patches/fixes i (we) appreciate the hard work!

[GrayFrequency]

A quick peek
I love everything I’m seeing lol
Cant’ wait to use all of it

Thank you @james + wonderstruck

(fishscale block is really cool )

[krasniy]

Freya, There is a big difference between one plot wide and three plot wide…

[Kelmat]

Where are you getting this from? I don’t see it in the patch notes.

[Jyanin]

As before
Metal Filigree

I like this one much

[Takritimous]

I’m seriously on a testing high right now…18 block types and they’re all awesome!

[GrayFrequency]

It is in knowledge tab when you are on the test server

[Nightstar]

@james

Engine:

• Reworked lighting of static non-voxel meshes to match the voxel lighting as closely as possible, including items displayed in storage or on plinths. This will resolve issues of sunlight “bleeding” through 1-thick walls when it comes to the non-voxel meshes and resolves any brightness or other lighting discrepancies between the voxels and the meshes (often was too dark, sometimes too bright, and just generally “different” lighting wise). Performance as a result of this change is actually to make the rendering of meshes cheaper overall in testing. Dynamic moving meshes (block drops, characters, creatures), as well as the text on Signs (which often goes far beyond a single voxel in size) and particle systems will continue to be lit using the more approximate spherical-harmonic lighting system.
• Removed the “Smooth Normals” graphics option, this has been stripped from the game. The Smooth Normals option attempted to round-off the sharp edges in voxel geometry in terms of lighting, which it did manage to do (in the close by near-ground and only slightly at that), but at rather a large cost both in terms of CPU/GPU and development pain. Removing this option (which was enabled on PS4 and by-default on PC) should give higher frame-rates.
• Removed the “Short-Range” Per-Pixel lighting option; the per-pixel lighting option is now simply an on-off switch. The short-range option allowed for full per-pixel lighting in the near-ground, blending out to vertex-lighting after approximately 24m. This was particularly important in combination with the Smooth-Normals graphics option where the “full” per-pixel setting made the Smooth-Normals effect much more expensive on both the CPU and GPU; with the Smooth-Normals effect removed, there is no longer a real need for this option as the Full per-pixel lighting option recently added should in most cases actually perform better with Smooth-Normals option now having been removed.
• These 3 changes together should improve lighting consistency and improve rendering performance for everyone.

Can’t Wait

[Takritimous]

On PC, from Steam go to Boundless, right-click and go to Properties -> betas -> change dropdown to testing

[anon69675157]

Thanks yet again, team!!

[Ratchel]

@james

You can now repair a Machine and all its attached Power Coils by using the Spanner on any part of the Machine or the Power Coils to repair all of them at the same time. The amount of repair done will be divided evenly between all the elements that are not already fully repaired so you don’t need to worry about where you are repairing to do the most repair - it doesn’t matter

Thank you!!!

[cagian]

Looking like an excellent addition!

[crypticworlds]

The storage chests alone have been requested for a very long time. It’s good to see them being added into the game. It should help improve people’s storage space limits as well.

[Jyanin]

Trellises’, Decorative Gleam (black, oops), Concrete (top right), Decorative Concrete (bottom right)