Desert Base Update

The new update is now live on Steam and is rolling out to Google Play and iOS. It includes a new desert base, fuselage smoothing, several enhancements to Planet Studio, among other things.

The new desert base has two runways, several hangars, towers, a guard shack, and more.

The new bases have some new toys to play with as well. Now bases can support rigid bodies.

FEATURES

• Added new desert base.

• Added vector support to the Vizzy fUNk expression

• Added Fuselage Smoothing

New fuselage smoothing in action:

TWEAKS

• Upgraded to Unity 2020.3.3f1

• Improved triangulation for fuselage meshes to improve lighting.

• Increased character limit of text inputs to 500.

• There is now a maximum number of encounters created, to prevent massive numbers of them from being created in certain circumstances.

• Target boxes in map-view will no longer fade out as the distance from the camera passes a certain point.

• You can now target your craft's parent planets, although no encounter prediction will be shown (since that doesn't make sense).

• Added help button to Vizzy that redirects the user to a new help section on the website.

Planet Studio

• New base parts

  • Air Traffic Control Tower Basic

  • Basic Stairs

  • Concrete Sphere

  • Garage Door

  • Hangar Bunker

  • Hangar Reinforced Small

  • Hangar Reinforced Large

  • Hollow Cylinder

  • New windows

  • New Barrel PS part

  • Pallet

  • Railing parts

  • Strut Tower

  • Shipping Crate

  • Wooden Crate

• Tweaked some existing base parts to support custom colors

• Fixes to Outpost materials and fuel tank materials.

• Added Mass property to sub-structures. When positive, it will turn the sub-structure tree into a rigid body. Note:

  • Children with mass will not be a separate rigid body, but instead will affect the center of mass of the parent.

  • Children will use the LOD of the parent rigid body sub-structure.

  • Concave colliders are not supported and they will be automatically converted by Unity to a convex collider.

• Added Launch FX objects

  • Launch FX - controls child launch FX objects.

  • Launch FX Light - Lights launch particles

  • Launch FX Pad - Particle FX for a flat surface

  • Launch FX Trench - Particle FX for a flame trench.

• Added angularVelocity attribute to sub-structures.

• Moved base primitive objects to the Terrain Feature layer so the camera can clip through them in the flight scene.

• Only show Update Launch Locations button on sub-structures that actually have launch locations in them.

• Improved performance of Planet Objects flyout.

• Structures now cast shadows in Planet Studio.