Pets & Outfits - Client Update 12/31/2024

Today's update adds a basic & customizable Pet System that lets you turn any model into a pet that can follow you around, or you can become the pet & use it as your own avatar.

You can also create outfits for the pets by attaching models to them.

Play as 5 Classic Characters (at the same time)

You can play as the pets - so to start you off there are 5 default pets you can spawn & play as from the classic set of AArcade NPCs: Hacker Haley, Fit Frank, Timbo Tyson, Cowboy Carl, and Zombie Joe.

They each now have unique idle, walk, run, and fall animations. (Plus swimming, dancing, & a few more.) So they are well suited to show you how the pet system works. But the real fun comes when you setup your own custom models to be pets.

Pets can be any model in your library, but to look good they need idle & run animations. Some things (like floating droids) don't need any animations at all to look good. Toy cars & helicopters, birds & animals, lots of stuff makes sense.

Pets Tab

The F9 button is now the Pets Tab. It lets you switch between any pet you have living in your world wherever they are.

There is a? help button there that has instructions on how to do various pet-related things.

You can have as many pets alive as you want, but keep in mind the entity limit per-world is 2048. (The status console command shows how many are used.)

Pet Object Attach

You can attach things to your pet. Everything you attach remembers its attachment point on that pet so you can quickly attach/detach it later with the Pet Attach Object command.

There is also a new Player Look-Spot Toggle command that shows an indicator in the world to help attaching things easier.

Pet Outfits

Go from basic bot to stylish gentlebot just by attaching props to your pet. And save as many different outfits as you want.

With Pet Persistence enabled (by default), it will remember which pets are alive in each world & the outfit they are wearing. And if you are playing as a pet, you take your pet & its saved outfit with you between worlds.

Pet Context Menu

If you press USE on a pet it brings up the Pet Context menu. This lets you quickly change the pet's behavior, animation, outfit, and a few other useful commands.

For more help w/ pets, check the help button in the Pets Tab. And feel free to jump into the Anarchy Arcade Discord or Twitch streams if you have questions.

That's about summarizes it for pets. Note that pets are singleplayer-only for now; however, they are likely to become our main avatars in MP also in the future.

Other Fixes

The NUMPAD on keyboards now auto-binds to the cinematic camera commands. CTRL + [0-9] sets a camera position, and just the number [0-9] itself cuts to that camera.

There's a "create_torch" command now that can be fun to use on dark maps. It attaches a dynamic light above your character's head - pointed down.

The Servers Menu has a searchable drop-down for universes now. And the bug that caused the infinite "Please Wait" screen when trying to host has been fixed.

(Note that everybody will be a