FTessaro - Lead Programmer It’s been another month of extensive work on Update 3.
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changedFTessaro - Lead ProgrammerIt’s been another month of extensive work on Update 3. Much of it spent hammering out issues discovered throughout the stress test, which gave us an absolutely enormous amount of helpful information about the server and some hacks that were trying to mess with it.
changedFTessaro - Lead ProgrammerThere have also been a lot of minor changes to the codebase, primarily aimed at improving server side performance, there are however some client side optimizations as well, but some of those optimizations may not be implemented in the first release of the update, they’ll most likely be delivered in further patches or hotfixes.
addedFTessaro - Lead ProgrammerAs always, a lot of bug fixes and improvements to old and new mechanics, but also small additions, such as the swallowing animation that you may have seen during the stress test, the gore masks for Ptera, Deino, Carno and more. Some of which have been purposefully left for you to discover. Expect to see even more coming down the pipeline soon and with the addition of new members to the team we expect productivity to increase that much more. Not much more to say at this time, but rest assured we’re all hard at work and pushing forward. See you next time!
changeddmIV - ProgrammerI started the month with some animation system changes to the deino. When turning in place while swimming it now plays a dedicated animation instead of just using the standard swimming animations. Swimming movement is pretty difficult to get done right, due to it having to be very smooth without any sudden snaps that we might get away with on land. Fortunately though it worked out without a hitch.
addedAmar0k - ProgrammerWell it’s been a crazy month for me, some of you have seen I've finally moved into my new place and settled in… Before an incident where I accidentally flooded half of it, oddly fitting during the development of an aquatic update.
changedAmar0k - ProgrammerThere has been an absolutely enormous amount of bug fixing going on as we got things ready for Update 3’s release. Besides that however, performance improvements to AI and productionising code so we can speed up development times and make sure we have a robust foundation to move forward with. I’ve had some fun with the Utahraptor AI and I'm pushing to get that out as soon as possible as I'm sure you’re all sick of the Dryosaurus AI by now. That pretty much wraps it up from me. I hope everyone has been having fun with the stress test and look forward to seeing more jump scares!
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changedIt’s been another month of extensive work on Update 3. Much of it spent hammering out issues discovered throughout the stress test, which gave us an absolutely enormous amount of helpful information about the server and some hacks that were trying to mess with it.
changedThere have also been a lot of minor changes to the codebase, primarily aimed at improving server side performance, there are however some client side optimizations as well, but some of those optimizations may not be implemented in the first release of the update, they’ll most likely be delivered in further patches or hotfixes.
addedAs always, a lot of bug fixes and improvements to old and new mechanics, but also small additions, such as the swallowing animation that you may have seen during the stress test, the gore masks for Ptera, Deino, Carno and more. Some of which have been purposefully left for you to discover. Expect to see even more coming down the pipeline soon and with the addition of new members to the team we expect productivity to increase that much more. Not much more to say at this time, but rest assured we’re all hard at work and pushing forward. See you next time!
changedI started the month with some animation system changes to the deino. When turning in place while swimming it now plays a dedicated animation instead of just using the standard swimming animations. Swimming movement is pretty difficult to get done right, due to it having to be very smooth without any sudden snaps that we might get away with on land. Fortunately though it worked out without a hitch.
addedWell it’s been a crazy month for me, some of you have seen I've finally moved into my new place and settled in… Before an incident where I accidentally flooded half of it, oddly fitting during the development of an aquatic update.
FTessaro - Lead Programmer
It’s been another month of extensive work on Update 3. Much of it spent hammering out issues discovered throughout the stress test, which gave us an absolutely enormous amount of helpful information about the server and some hacks that were trying to mess with it.
There have also been a lot of minor changes to the codebase, primarily aimed at improving server side performance, there are however some client side optimizations as well, but some of those optimizations may not be implemented in the first release of the update, they’ll most likely be delivered in further patches or hotfixes.
As always, a lot of bug fixes and improvements to old and new mechanics, but also small additions, such as the swallowing animation that you may have seen during the stress test, the gore masks for Ptera, Deino, Carno and more. Some of which have been purposefully left for you to discover. Expect to see even more coming down the pipeline soon and with the addition of new members to the team we expect productivity to increase that much more. Not much more to say at this time, but rest assured we’re all hard at work and pushing forward. See you next time!
dmIV - Programmer
I started the month with some animation system changes to the deino. When turning in place while swimming it now plays a dedicated animation instead of just using the standard swimming animations. Swimming movement is pretty difficult to get done right, due to it having to be very smooth without any sudden snaps that we might get away with on land. Fortunately though it worked out without a hitch.
Issues kept popping up with our swimming system throughout development. We’ve been making changes to have it working right, but we just kept running into more difficult problems. So I ended up reworking it quite significantly and now we have a system that’s less error-prone and easier to work with. This ended up being quite challenging due to having to dig deep into engine code, but it ended up working well and got rid of our previous issues, so it was worth it. Even if we ended up releasing a build that allowed players to swim in the air. At least you got some insight into what we put QA through.
Amar0k - Programmer
Well it’s been a crazy month for me, some of you have seen I've finally moved into my new place and settled in… Before an incident where I accidentally flooded half of it, oddly fitting during the development of an aquatic update.
There has been an absolutely enormous amount of bug fixing going on as we got things ready for Update 3’s release. Besides that however, performance improvements to AI and productionising code so we can speed up development times and make sure we have a robust foundation to move forward with. I’ve had some fun with the Utahraptor AI and I'm pushing to get that out as soon as possible as I'm sure you’re all sick of the Dryosaurus AI by now. That pretty much wraps it up from me. I hope everyone has been having fun with the stress test and look forward to seeing more jump scares!
Tapwing - Concept Artist
This was one of the more straightforward creatures to work with. We liked the base design of the original Shant, so we started with that and tweaked body proportions to something that looked heavier yet balanced. With the redesign we also took the opportunity
