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Patch 0.3.4.0 - More optimizations, along with a blog post
If you're interested in how the sausage is made, here's a blog post about various tricks and techniques I've used in Gust of Wind to keep the number of shadows, draw calls, dynamic physics objects and the overall number…
Announcement3 changesGameplayPerformance - Gust of Wind
Patch 0.3.3.4 - Rimlight as lightness indicator + some dialog polish
I replaced the lightness indicator in HUD with a rim light for the third person perspective. The character is split in 8 parts corresponding the points in player that AI can see when they're lit, so that the rim light c…
Announcement1 changeUI/audio - Gust of Wind
Patch 0.3.3.3 - lighting indicator, bugfixes
Added a lighting indicator that helps with keeping in shadows: Other changes: progress in the first mission was sometimes blocked by a notification "Enemies know the door is open, loading from save". Fixed a bug that wa…
Announcement4 changesFixGameplay - Gust of Wind
Hotfix: pushing doors and some guards in mission 3 unfrozen
Pushing open doors from inside is easier guards unfrozen in the frigate in mission 3
Announcement - Gust of Wind
Bugfixes and a layer of overall polish
The most visual change in this update is probably some layout changes I did for the interior of a huge frigate in the third mission. I split it into three sections divided by walls, so that only one section's contents n…
Announcement11 changesFixGameplay - Gust of Wind
Patch 0.3.3.1 - Landscaping
I made new vegetation models and textures for the island in the third mission, trying to match it close to the barren highland landscapes of northern Norway as possible. Here's what the island looks like now: If someone…
Patch notes7 changesFixGameplay - Gust of Wind
Patch 0.3.3.0 - "Smoother sailing"
To start off, a couple of visual improvements. The first one I did mainly for optimization reasons. The rigging of this frigate, the Seashell, used to have 82 separate skinned mesh renderers for ropes and such. I replac…
Announcement14 changesFixPerformance - Gust of Wind
Patch 0.3.2.3 - Notable optimizations
It's been a while since the last update, but since then, I've made some considerable progress with optimizations. Though there are still lag spikes on moments like opening doors, there are no areas left where the frame…
Announcement7 changesFixGameplay
