Craftica Update: Major Simplification, Optimization and Improvements

Simplifications and Improvements to Block Placement

This update mainly features big simplifications and improvements to block placement. Now players no longer need to select block shapes from the hot bar. Instead one can move cursor around within the placement highlighting area to activate different shapes:

• When the cursor is around the center, the full block shape will be activated;

• When the cursor is near a corner, a partial shape with one cube corner will be activated;

• When the cursor is near a border and away from its corners, a partial shape with a slope rectangle will be activated.

When the cursor is on the slope face of a partial block, it will activate the full block or a partial block that will fill the corner(s) near the cursor.

With this update, Craftica now support multiple block placement for a single making action. When the active block size is larger than the block size of the target chunk, multiple blocks (either a row, a column or multiple columns) can be placed depending on the presence of blocks within the larger block space.

Similarly, multiple block mining is also supported;

Other Optimizations and Improvements

• An optimization has been added to remove redundant collision shape computation for objects with the same models;

• Mesh smoothing and ambient occlusion has been improved to handle border blocks better;

• Several minor improvements are also added to some standard object items;

• Progress rings around the health, armor and weapon icons have been make more square like;

• A few bugs are fixed for the handling of world section chunks;

• A few minor issues are fixed for the handling of mouse clicks;