Update 0.79.0

Features

Added golfer story events.

• Converted UI from UITK to custom Immediate Mode UI.

• Added foundations of groundskeeping feature:

  • Grass wears down as golfers walk on it and recovers over time or can be repaired with the repair tool.

  • Surfaces have different wear rates, for example paths wear much faster than fairways.

  • Water wears down surfaces and surfaces under water don't recover.

  • Groundskeepers can be hired and fired from the Staff Tab of the Course Management Window to maintain the course.

  • Groundskeepers spawn at the clubhouse and mill around the course repairing surfaces.

  • Groundskeepers have energy which depletes as they work and they return to the clubhouse to rest when it's low.

  • Groundskeepers now speak while repairing, walking, resting, and returning to the staff room with a cooldown to prevent spam.

Updates

• Halved the loading time of saves by optimising the loading of terrain data.

• Added grass render distance to options and greatly increased the render distance in photo mode.

• Improved performance of any action involving updating the navigation system based on terrain changes.

• Added reticule and line showing the reference point for the terrain flattening tool.

• Update the collision of the ball with the terrain. Previously we generated collision meshes in realtime and this proved to hamper performance when a significant number of balls are in play at once.

• Clicking an email notification will take you to the appropriate email in the inbox.

• Clicking a challenge notification will take you to the appropriate challenge in the challenge window.

• Added tooltips to all bottom bar category and tool buttons.

• Updated happiness tooltip to show the golfer's name.

• Added empty-state placeholder messages to the golfer and staff list windows when no entries are present.

Fixes

• Fixed practicing a hole or full course not starting from the correct hole.

• Fixed hole suffix on live player competition panel.

• Fixed hole list breaking when trying to drag and drop when not in reorder mode.

• Fixed crash when loading into a game with a different golfer while there is an ongoing challenge or practice round.

• Fixed the handicap of golfers better than scratch being shown as negative instead of positive.

• Fixed golfer information round hole showing eagle of hole complete but no shots played.

• Fixed 18th hole score box having wrongly rounded corner in golfer information window.

• Fixed scorecard holes already played but then closed showing as closed.

• Fixed ball not going in practice green holes.

• Fixed surface preset key bindings showing when no preset chosen.

• Fixed brush size key bindings showing when preset chosen.

• Fixed tool button hover animations not playing when the game is paused.

• Fixed assertion error when opening the Milestones tab.

• Fixed top bar star rating not showing the 5th empty star.

• Fixed switching bottom bar mode not deactivating the active tool.

• Fixed golfers chipping ball instead of hittin correct distance at higher game speeds.

• Fixed golfers occasionally not finding a shot to take when they should.

• Fixed golfer not idling when they are waiting for the rest of their group to finish the hole.