Weekly Changelog: v0.115

Weekly Changelog: v0.115

Big update this week!

Explore and repair the future:

-This will be a very important core feature of Sinking Eternity. In-game, you will be able to access a distant future era of the planet and change its outcome through your actions in the present time. I added the first part of this core feature to the demo! You will now find a strange portal at the highest point of the starting islands.

Schools of fish:

-There are now schools of fish in Sinking Eternity! These colorful groups of fish swim in a semi-organized way and really bring a lot of life to the underwater areas.

This week’s demo updates:

-Added the future era (accessible in the demo!), thousands of years in the future

-Added an interactable object that acts as a portal to the future era. You can find it on the shelter island

-Added an info popup the first time the player interacts with the portal

-Added semi-eternal beings in the future era

-Added fog, rain, volumetric fog, dark clouds, and a raging sea in the future era

-Added unique storm ambience music to the future era

-Added a sphere inside the future era to define the area the player can explore with their current temporal anchor level

-Added schools of fish to the shallow waters and the rest of the game

-Added code to make schools of fish flee in a semi-organized way if the player gets too close

-Greatly improved schools of fish FPS, with up to 250 fish on screen at the same time and almost no noticeable FPS drop

-Added info tooltips when targeting already analysed sea creatures (it looks very good and gives info about hostility level, creature-behavior, etc.)

-Added a brand new, very alien-looking peaceful sea creature to the shallow waters

-Added code to make this peaceful fish slowly swim away when approached

-Added a lot more details at the bottom of the sea (alien grass, plants, etc.)

-Added large plants to the shallow waters

-Improved the shallow waters terrain design and object placement

-Added volumetric fog in many underwater areas

-Improved the visibility of the UI crosshair with a better outline and shadow

-Improved the visibility of the UI target names and interaction info with outline and shadow

-Moved the UI target name and info under the crosshair to be more consistent with AAA third-person UI standards

-Upgraded the default crosshair design

-Improved the creature encyclopedia tab UI

-Improved the main top of screen info popup size scaling when the player enables UI scaling

-Reset UI scaling size when the player turns off UI scaling

-Added a new popup for time era changes

-Upgraded the small creature model (even if you only see a teaser of the questline in the demo)

-Made underwater bubbles be affected by fog so they are not visible from too far away

-Improved the analysis, mining, and wood chopping progress bars by adding the action text inside the bar to make the UI feel less cluttered

-Bug fix: Moved up the build tooltip as it was not visible on some screen resolutions

-Bug fix: The interact action shown when targeting an object that can be analysed is now “Hold E” instead of “E”

Thanks again for your support!