Testing 234: Chiselable Glass!

[Kal-El]

@AeneaGames

There are 2 types of rentable planets, private ones where you can change as much as you like to the rules and public ones which have to follow the rules of the already existing normal planets.

The reason I do not use the term public is that I think that implies anyone can do anything just like they can in the current public universe. The last statement did imply that the planet renter/owner could limit access so that means the planet is not public like Boori.

@AeneaGames

Perhaps they can leave one slot open for the owner of the planet, problem solved

Not really. If I have a group or a guild that wants to build on the planet then they all need to get there when every they want to as long as the planet supports enough players. Why should someone that has nothing to do with the planet renter get any preference over the planet owners friends or guild who may have builds or e working on a build with the planet owner?

Edit:

Feedback: Rewards, long-term Monetisation and the Exchange!

Hey Everyone. We want to get your feedback and thoughts about some changes we think need to be made to Boundless. The aims are: Iterate the Levelling rewards to give players control over their reward. Have a solid and fair set of post release monetisation options so that we can expand and maintain Boundless for many years. Player Path and EXP: One of the aims of Boundless is to let players choose their own path. Some players love building, some hunting, some crafting, some (hopefully) spin…

James discussed in this topic about limiting rented planet access.

[AeneaGames]

@Kal-El

James discussed in this topic about limiting rented planet access.

Indeed, I remember seeing some of that (the one it links to) but didn’t remember he already talked about public/private like you do.

I do also remember somewhere tho that he said self-hosted wasn’t going to be an option in the beginning right away but that you would be able to change the rules of WS-hosted ones which would then not be linked to the rest.

So we can whitelist/blacklist people, not sure how that will pan out. I mean if only a select few can have access to a planet and it has some nice colours…

[Cuetzpalomitl]

@AeneaGames

So we can whitelist/blacklist people, not sure how that will pan out. I mean if only a select few can have access to a planet and it has some nice colours

Yeah that’s something I don’t want to see.

But I think being able to block some one it’s ok I mean if there is a guy messing up with you, building ■■■■ around your base and such, you should be able to kick him out

[Goblinounours]

To be honest, if I get a rental world, I’m pretty sure I’ll use it like Rick uses his :

But if someone dares to come and poop in my toilets, know that just like Rick, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will drop-kick you in lava.

[majorvex]

Guys, this thread is going off topic. It’s not about rental planets.
@Stretchious @Havok40k

[blinvir]

I had thought about trying to recreate this scene in game. Complete with personal throne lololol

[Goblinounours]

@majorvex

Guys, this thread is going off topic. It’s not about rental planets.
@Stretchious @Havok40k

But on the other hand, do you think there is anything substantial and on-topic to add to this thread? The conversation shifted somewhat organically.
If someone does have something substantial and on-topic to say, it’s not like we’d prevent that person from doing so, y’know?

[Havok40k]

I’m not going to move anything right now because I’m hella busy, but I will wag my finger and remind everyone to please (checks notes) stay on topic and create a new topic if you are going to discuss a new topic at great length. Okie? Please excuse me, I have fires to put out at work IRL today.

[majorvex]

I think it’s a good discussion that should be on a thread about rental planets. It doesn’t belong here.

[Goblinounours]

Thing is, the devs will open their own Rental Worlds thread soon after the update goes live, if James is to be believed, so opening a new thread about it now seems pointless.

[james]

Last Testing update before Live. Mainly fixing visual issues exposed by the new OIT renderer.

@james

Testing 234.4:

Engine:

• Optimised beacon-visuals rendering, and made the presentation more consistent between the translucent faces and bordering lines and to not cap-out at 256 translucent faces, extending the visual distance for rendering also.
• Update the new transparency model to use a floating point texture for additive blending; this slightly increases bandwidth/VRAM requirements, but is required to be able to prevent banding for low-alpha additive blends used in some weather systems and the sanctum, whilst avoiding early-clamping of layered, high-alpha additive blends like the cuttletrunk fire-ball blast effect which after the OIT update was clamping early and causing the effect to be far too dark.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug where if you partially removed a plot then unselect the plot, the plot would remain invisible until its “health” had recovered.
• Fixed the HDR on PS4 which could become extremely bright.
• Fix crash looking up in sanctum-editor after liquid-modifier addition.
• Fixed issues with grapple/cuttletrunk and engine beam VFX rendering with new transparency; these effects relied on being written into non-hdr textures to clamp their very-high luminosities automatically (a hack to keep them bright regardless of time-of-day), and have been reworked at the shader-level (they will now auto-balance based on exposure settings instead).
• Fixed issues with the translucent portals being too bright at night causing issues in the new transparency due to similar lack of clamping as no longer written to LDR textures.
• Fixed issues with the wobbly shell around orbs and valentine-heart-rock which relied on back-face culling no longer performed by-default for rendering in-game (but still does always back-face cull in the GUI which uses the old transparency system). Now allow the artists to choose to use back-face culling or not and have set these cases to use it to match the GUI rendering/old rendering better.
• Adjust lighting heuristics of ribbons from projectiles and bombs to prevent bomb trails going black when rolling along the ground.
• Force uv-clamping of weather-effect particles to help improve the appearance of some weather effects with invalid texture-setup until artists find time to re-work the assets.
• Clamp alpha values of ribbons in-shader to prevent them going negative, being written into floating point buffers as part of the Order-Independent-Transparency solution made this necessary to stop ribbons going “very strange” as they faded away.

[boundmore]

@james

to prevent banding for low-alpha additive blends used in some weather systems and the sanctum, whilst avoiding early-clamping of layered, high-alpha additive blends

Sure sure…

[AeneaGames]

@james

Fixed the HDR on PS4 which could become extremely bright.

Is HDR on PS4 (Pro) new or was it supposed to already work in the current Live version?

Since I’ve never seen the HDR popup when starting the game…

[Venom]

Me either, pops up for other games but not boundless for me

[AeneaGames]

@Venom

pops up for other games but not boundless

Indeed, same here.

But, this is kinda making me all excited! Would we be getting PS4 Pro support, a higher resolution than 1080p with HDR??? Might also mean the game overall can run better!!!

Please, @james, tell me Pro support has been added?

[fidach]

@james

Fixed the HDR on PS4 which could become extremely bright.

Yay!

[lucadeltodecso]

Not sure what the yay is for, this is a bug introduced by the order-independent-transparency back-end graphics driver changes, so you cant have seen the effects of the bug yet since wasnt released in that state on ps4

[fidach]

Aww, I thought it was to stop the over brightness that I get on my hdr TV through ps4 pro on boundless.

Its never seemed quite right.

You mean it was gonna get even brighter?!

[Venom]

Lands on umbris planet before the bug fix

[fidach]

Come to think of it, these guys are right:

@AeneaGames

Is HDR on PS4 (Pro) new

@Venom

pops up for other games but not boundless

HDR is not active with Boundless, maybe that’s why the contrast doesn’t look right, if you guys have been adjusting it with HDR on, but thats not what we get?