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02 Mar

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

No visual changes other than the cosmetic mods (dyes) tint parts of the vehicle. The headlight mod does make more light.

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Some of them.


Storage changes are not trivial. Maybe after a20.

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The mods I listed are all a20 will probably have. I spent today getting them enabled, icons set, tags set, slot counts set, fuel tank working and fixed a UI bug. Bicycle has 2 slots and it goes up from there for the other vehicles, but none of the 5 will probably be enabled for the bicycle anyway. The seat mod needs code still.


01 Mar

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

These are the planned vehicle mods:


Fuel Saver - Works

Off Road Headlights - Works

Super Charger - Works

Expanded Seat - TODO

Reserve Fuel Tank - Working on today


None of them are fully done, since they still need icons, schematics and put in loot lists.


Drone should be in a20.


24 Feb

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Sure, we could do a lot of things, but that is low priority.

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Each pregen world adds 300 MB to the install size, so we would probably stick with shipping just 3 for now.


23 Feb

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The pregen maps will be regenerated using the newer RWG, so they should be totally different.


19 Feb

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Unity released 2020.2.5 today, which actually fixed some weird profiler UI behavior and a profler error, both of which I was getting, so good job Unity!

It is potentially a lot of programming changes and the programmer who will probably be doing it is working on a lot of RWG changes.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

How about: Optimized terrain updating

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My favorite feature so far is the fact I can switch the editor to release mode, which produces optimized assembly code, but I can still run the profiler on it. That means I get the same timings I would get with a full build, which takes my PC about 6 minutes to make, so I don't. I've been spending a lot of time optimizing and cleanup up lately, so a very nice feature.


I just finished this one, which is a big win:

Optimized terrain control textures to not update with every mesh update.

Those peaked at 2ms spikes on my PC, on several frames, when new chunks load, adding to


18 Feb

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

I am testing Unity 2020.2 currently. Only needed 3 code changes. Seems fine and is supposed to have some performance improvements. Feels a bit faster. 2020.3 (LTS) is supposed to be out soon, so A20 should end up being on that.


15 Feb

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Exp will have another update, so I just merged it to 19.4.

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The counter is probably correct, since the AwardKill func was calling AddScoreServer with 1 zombie for a vulture. It was the QuestEventManager that ignored vultures.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

I found the code. Added as a zombie kill. Thx


13 Feb

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

That has not been worked on yet. The details of how it will work and what zombies has not been decided.


Crawlers currently path on 2m heights just like all the rest of the AI.

An airport does not have to be huge. It could be whatever size you wanted to make it. Like a small airport with one to two (parallel) 100m runways.


09 Feb

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Steve. He says it is mostly done, but probably a few bugs lurking as is typical in new stuff, but I've not looked at it recently. He actually has a new task improving dismemberment features that one of our artists asked for.

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Not yet, but we do have some stuff in the works.


I've been doing a lot of cleanup in the chunk system, so some moderate gains there and fixed some mesh/material leaks, but there is plenty more to do. Today I worked on improving the chunk mesh LOD update (really just hides meshes). Chunk decals/models now dither out, so I can reduce the ranges they get hidden at while having no popping.

Yesterday I added the xml for the burnt feral zombie, which has the flames. He is tougher and faster than the normal one.


06 Feb

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

How their weapons will work has not be determined.


04 Feb

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

I think many of the settings could use more choices, so I could see more being added, but possibly after a20.


02 Feb

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

I have several months of work left for A20 exp, so it is not soon.