New Ball Shooting Range, Dash Panels & More [Test Branch] (Update #406)

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🧍🏼‍♂️🧍🏼‍♀️Player🧍🏼‍♂️🧍🏼‍♀️:

• Fixed shadowing on player eyes

• Glider has slight mesh improvements

• Slight particle improvements

• Adjusted glider position to be closer to player model

• Normalized the impact effect you see when you hit a ball.

• This effect always lasts 0.3s every time, so while the hitting was always consistent, it'll look and feel more consistent since the effect that plays better matches what's actually happening

Arena Camera Swap

• By pressing the Right stick, you can swap between the 3rd person camera, and the 'Arena' camera.

  The arena camera is the top down camera from offline mode (only it follows you, not the ball)

  It keeps the camera above you, and lets you use the right stick to aim in any direction

  It works nicely for the ending section of the bunker challenge, where you want a traditional overhead camera and precise aim

  Eventually we'll probably auto-swap to this camera when you enter a goal bunker, where it makes sense to use.

🌍All Levels🌍:

Dash Panel

• Lots of iteration on the dash panels look and feel

• Added red arrows on both sides to make it easy to tell which way panel faces when moving quickly and from a distance

• Adjusted tread so the side you're supposed to enter looks different from the other side

• Adjusted wheels to fit better

• Adjusted LOD's

• Made Large variant for areas that are more open

• Better rim lighting (easier to see wheels moving)

🌍Free Roam🌍:

• Improved Platforming Challenge w/ Goal Bunker at end

  //Now has proper feedbacks (arrows, object toggles, audio cues etc) that make it clear how you're supposed to complete it

• Added large spring variants at various parts of map

• Improved look of glass that players can walk through but balls cannot (unless player is carrying ball)

• Made angled lift ring variant

• Added a little icon to levers which have a unique function

• Fixed some meshes and some colliders

• Levers play an impact effect when you activate them.

Outdoor Shooting Range

• Added a new challenge to unlock a star

• Shoot balls up a ramp to hit a target in the sky

• Added balls to free roam area that aren't inside glass (and can be carried anywhere)

• Green triggers (which show that you've scored on a goalTrigger) have a brighter emissive glow

Balls

• Improved shadow logic on balls

• Improved texture on balls (easier to spot at range)

• Added LOD's

• Balls have new surface interactions (sound effects and particle effects on collision)

• Balls in free roam have a UI circle underneath them, making it easier to keep track of and track while in-air

• Balls interact with springs

• Several performance optimizations

• Balls now come in 3 sizes! And behave slightly different

• Fixed an issue where some sound effects didn't play on collision with dirt

• Balls have a white rim outline in free roam, making them stand out better against the background

• Player's bottom UI circle projects onto player meshes and clubs when it shouldn't

• Dash Panels should apply more force to balls than they are currently

• Dash Panels that are angled shoot shoot the ball in that angle (so upwards, if the panel faces upwards)

  //This already works for springs, so we just need to move the logic over from springs into dash panels, which are slightly different!

• CosmeticBall Grabbing (Free Roam only)/Sometimes when grabbing a