Testing 241: Beacon Reclaims!

scrufola · April 16, 2020, 7:27pm

It is not a block.

Ovis · April 16, 2020, 7:32pm

It’s just an item, not a block, but could pop it in a shop stand to indicate where the switch is

BabyCookie · April 16, 2020, 8:19pm

I meant in a Shop stand like gleam glows in a Shop stand still

krasniy · April 16, 2020, 9:16pm

They would not be good for me I do not like any type of seafood even the smell of it makes me sick.

Ovis · April 17, 2020, 12:40am

Oooh that’s a cool idea, will definitely check that out

james · April 20, 2020, 2:36pm

Updated OP with details of 241.5. The main change is the addition of a new set of emojis that can also be used on Signs. Oh, and Glass Pane signs. So you can write on windows.

Note: If you want to test the emojis on Testing you need Gleam Club. If you PM me I will gift you GC on Testing. GC on Testing is not linked to GC on Live.

james:

Testing 241.5:

Crafting + Resources + Equipment:

Added two variations of Glass signs, the signs appear otherwise the same as Glass Pane voxel blocks and will render seamlessly with them, but will allow text to be displayed like as with the other sign types. The two variations are for non-glowing and glowing text.

Note: Recipes are currently missing.

Tweaked the pure Spark to have an 8s conversion. This is still over 2x the speed of the fastest other fuel.

GUI + HUD:

Added a full set of crisply rendered vector emojis to the rich-text renderer in-game, including on Signs. The previous emoji set were low-resolution bitmaps which were disabled on Signs as they looked truly terrible. We only include the single-codepoint emoji, which for the most part excludes any gender variations, non-yellow skin-tone emoji variations and all country flags.

Processing of rich-text codes makes emoji processing case-insensitive now so both :sad: and :SAD: will show the sad-face emoji, as well as use of the unicode hex values directly like :1F61E: for the same sad-face emoji. This also fixes things like emojis in beacon names breaking when displayed as all-caps in hud etc. Dialogs such as deleting a beacon which request you provide the name of the beacon are forced to not substitute rich-text tokens so that the exact string to be typed in is displayed.

The emoji’s continue to be accessed by Gleam Club (in the case of signs, based on the mayor of the Beacon), and can also be used in Beacon names, Settlement names and Location and Portal tokens.

Color code rich-text now supports short-style :#f13: equivalent to :#ff1133:, and also palette-short-codes that are 2 hex digits mapping to a 255-palette color which are used when inputting named colors, so typing in :#yellow: will convert to :#ff: (it is number 255 in the palette); this was already done for signs (but mapped to longer hex values instead), but is now done for all bits of GUI that allow inputting emoji and color codes so that any newly inputted text will not hit issues where users using a different language setting don’t see the coloration correctly in beacon/settlement names etc.

Engine:

GUI assets are now offline-processed as part of the game’s asset-build step meaning faster start up times (up to 20% on PS4 due to the large number of assets that no longer need processing now).

Bug fixes:

Fixing concatenation of coloured strings for Beacon and Settlement names so that the coloration does not leak into proceeding text in messages, action logs or the HUD compass location.

Gorillastomp · April 20, 2020, 2:37pm

Cool stuff about the glass pane sign!

james · April 20, 2020, 2:39pm

A big cake…

Gorillastomp · April 20, 2020, 2:40pm

Is the release planned for this week ?

ghandymarshall · April 20, 2020, 2:42pm

I believe the answer will be it is planned for when it is ready, standard situation

Xaldafax · April 20, 2020, 2:49pm

As long as the coding isn’t I bet they want it released soon…

Gorillastomp · April 20, 2020, 2:52pm

So as i can see we can make a giant emote ingame now.

bucfanpaka · April 20, 2020, 2:57pm

Wait… isn’t the cake a lie? Maybe there really will be cake…? Cheese too! (And not just the Swiss Cheese we made of Jand Fels)

Yeah, this will really bring out my inner 12 year old…

Dhusk · April 20, 2020, 2:57pm

The since the last release has been and, quite honestly, I’m really close to quitting the .

BabyCookie · April 20, 2020, 3:08pm

D: were the Big

georgegroeg · April 20, 2020, 3:11pm

@james
Sweet I’m all for the emojis on signs.
But is there a list of emojis with images and what you need to type in to get the emoji

Example -
:sad:

I personally don’t know how to do the existing emojis as I’ve only used emojis on my phone which only requires hitting the emoji button and picking an image. Maybe typing in emoji is common ground on PC?

If there is no list I might make one so everyone can use it as reference.

Dupix · April 20, 2020, 3:11pm

So is Titans really a thing to come, cause I’m desperetaly hope for a gameplay update or something really worthy not like this new emoji “thing”.

BabyCookie · April 20, 2020, 3:18pm

The emojis are going to be on signs now (O.O) ma Place going to have s everywhere

Mittins · April 20, 2020, 3:19pm

Will glyphs be included?

georgegroeg · April 20, 2020, 3:33pm

Now I can put actual cookies on that table.