Dec 2024 Update - Happy Holidayz!!

Happy holidays friends! I hope you all are having a family-filled, wholesome time at the end of 2024!

We're getting closer to an alpha 1 release but still not quite there yet.

Here are the highlights:

• The floor plan generation system is officially in beta. (IE: No active major bugs)

• The map generation system is also in beta and we now see loading statuses and related percentages (IE : Placing Roads( 72% ), Populating Foliage ( 20% ), Generating house floor plans ( 100% )

• Animations have been added for reloading

Dev Updates For Nerds ( Curated descriptions lifted from p4 repo )

• Floor Plan Generation Fixes: Room mismatches & Improper layout generation

• Custom Animations and Montages can now be driven by Efz Action Manager.

• Reload Animation implemented

• updated house 3d models and assets to be more run-down/dirty

• efz actions can now hook into UE GAS for replication purposes

• reload anim montage is now being triggered via GAS

• implemented plugin "cog" for debugging/troubleshooting GAS framework

• FixedFloorplansfixed rooms spawning without doors

• adjusted floor plan instanced static mesh generation to use collision profile name on HISM component generation

To ensure we can get a build out for internal testers for alpha release 1, the scope is tentatively being locked down with the following criteria:

• One extraction zone map

• One "Home Zone" Map (Static)

• 4 weapons : Bat, Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun

• 3 Stats : Food, Water, Health

• Only zeds in extraction zone map. (Random Armed NPC's will be Release 2)