Unregulated V0.8 Release

Either way, this update is called "Store Bought Convenience"! The 6 new stages will be featured around shops and stores, where you must direct food items towards shopping carts! Once a cart is full, it will return to it's "Home" and will automatically add the items to the total score/quota.

There have been a lot of other changes to the game since the last update, due to these new changes, there may be a few patches that will be made frequently (sometimes bugs just appear after release). So please bear this in mind.

Another major change is towards the save system, I did make an earlier post about how to change your level scores so you can either unlock everything yourself or re-add your older scores (if you remember them). The new save files are not encrypted too!

Do whatever you want with them, they are your save files anyway.

Here's a trailer for the update:

Now onto the changelog!

Changelog

New

• 6 new levels! The Store. The aim is to deliver food items to shopping carts that will move towards one of their two coloured chutes!

  • New music and effects! This stage will have different effects and music whether it's day or night.

  • Dart the Angry Cart! This cart has a black trim and will move towards empty cart spaces to steal items. If items are stolen, your score will be decreased!

  • Cart's faces will change depending on their mood. A coloured pop-up bubble will appear above their head to help notice.

• New modifier! The Jukebox! This will allow you to set whatever in game music you would like on any level.

• The main menu office will go through various "tiers" as you unlock new stages.

• New cursor designs!

• Added a no build grid area in some levels to help indicate where you can or cannot build.

• Updated logo!

• Added separators in the level modifiers.

• Added separators in options.

• Added various aircraft in the background of the airport levels. Now it looks a little more like an airport!

• Added a new Game Menu Options section. This is still a work in progress, but contains a couple of features.

• Added a Depth of Field slider in the Main Menu Options and in the Game Menu Options.

• Building windows will sometimes light up at night.

• When losing or gaining money/tokens, the value will now linearly increase/decrease with the amount gained/lost to the right of it.

• New dropdown for currency UI. This allows you to change between showing both an Icon and Name, only the Icon or only the Name.

• New dropdown icons for some settings, just something fun.

• When clicking on the left side of every option, a description will show, giving you some extra detail.

• Added a slight "rising tension" sound that will play under certain circumstances.

• Added a couple of weather effects that will vary between stages. These effects are rolling fog and wind trails.

• Realtime Reflection Probes, these are only within levels. They use a very low texture and are updated through a script instead of every frame. You can toggle this on in the settings as it's a Work In Progress feature.

Changes

• Added sub-categories for Short and Long Conveyors. These are split into: Default, Connectors and Splitters. This should make things easier to navigate and prevent conveyor items from being mixed up in long lists.

• Level modifiers have been updated. Some options will be larger and contain a graphic.

• Box Spawn Pipe's indicator line will fade towards the end.

• Halloween box skins should be selectable.

• Some main menu buttons are now colour coded properly.

• Main menu panels have been slightly colour coded to their approproate buttons.

• Music and Sound audio sliders now have a background and the text is darker.

• Music and Sound audio sliders now fit the overall button UI theme.

• Manual Switch button in the editor has been aligned better.

• Sliders in the editor have been adjusted to fit the overall UI theme.

• Sliders now use animations rather than colour tinting during interactions.

• Toggles now use animations rather than colour tinting during interactions.

• Updated the level fog colour so it blends better.

• Toolbox materials are a bit darker.

• Updated the save system. Instead of saving to one big file, each stage will get it's own save file.

• Disabled save file encryption.

• Made improvements to lightmaps by scaling object lightmap UVs appropriately. This should help decrease load times and file sizes.

• Updated oceans to use segmented plane LODs rather than one big one. LODs are used the further out the plane is from the world origin point.

• Added extra background stuff to some stages to help connect them together within the same world.

• Cloud light cookie was 300+ MB for some reason. After making changes it's around 13 MB.

• Changes how grids are displayed in levels with gaps inbetween them. This should help show where you can or cannot build.

• Emergency lights now use a lens flare.

• Incorrect bubbles will render over the top of everything else.

• Re-done how box pipes spawn. The game will collect all available points then choose one randomly. This will help with any issues with Box Spawn Pipes not spawning.

• Animated crane swing physics instead of using other methods.

• Main menu music has been updated slightly.

• Switched Windows graphics API to use DX11 by default. If your PC is not compatible then it will select DX12 then Vulkan.

• Increased max camera tilt from 55 degrees to 85 degrees.

• You now gain money depending on box points rather than individual box count. Normal Box = x1, Fragile Box = x2, Normal Cuboid = x3, Fragile Cuboid = x4.

• Increased cloud shadow noise.

• Clouds will get visibly darker when closer to the sun, but will brighten when covering it. This is to help simulate real life clouds.

• Extended pivot photo mode distance.

• Adjusted star twinkle in skybox.

• Street lights will turn on after a period of random time.

• Lowered the airport stage goal.

• Lowered the amount of shadow casting objects.

• Updated conveyor categories to act more like "tags" rather than a strict category. This means some conveyors may appear twice in different categories.

Bugs

• Conveyor group lists contain a slight fade at the top and bottom of a mask. This fade will disappear when the scrollbar has reached the top/bottom.

• Box LOD 1 shows fragile texture incorrectly.

• Updated splitter conveyor movement triggers to reduce boxes from getting stuck. This includes using a rotating trigger in the junction point.

• Hovering over a level select button should no longer fade out on the left or right.

• Boxes should properly reset their velocity when appearing.

• Music default volume was lower than usual. You may need to update your music settings.

• Unity decided to under changes I made to Box Spawn Pipes. This involved removing materials, they should now use the correct materials.

• Level modifiers were hidden for some reason.

• Box destroy timer should now appear infront of the outline shader.

• Boxes shouldn't get stuck on the short upward lift.

• Landing spot icons should reappear once more.

• Overriding a box skin during a special event should now use the selected skin.

• Boxes, when becoming "Not Active", were still affected bu conveyor movement triggers.

• Forgot to add custom "Tick" script to levels, preventing box checks when stuck.

• Collection Cart clours included red metal on the front.

• Construction desk had a LOD that used a missing texture.

• Fixed a UV issue in the Airport level 5/6 building.

• "Revert" button for Exponential Box Quota slider now has it's anchor centered.

• Fixed mipmap issue with any transparent texture that uses alpha cutout.

• Z-Fighting was shown on some world space UI.

• Placeholder objects were able to be seen in Skyscraper levels.

• Transparent renderering for UI should be fixed.

• Construction light volumetric effect should be fixed.

• Box Pipe Spawner prevented spawns at an angle of 0 degrees.

• Graphics dropdown was in the incorrect order.

• Can no longer open photo mode during game over.

• Can no longer interact with certain conveyors during game over.

• Accidentally left a debug testing feature enabled.

• Possible fix for reflection probes. Both new realtime and baked reflection probes will increase and decrease in intensity as time advances.

• Fixed shader graph warnings to do with the "Power" node.

Graphical Issues

Despite working on using realtime reflection probes at a small resolution that updates via a script. There is a Unity graphical issue that causes certain materials to not properly update, giving them a "brighter" look. My current fix is to reduce the intensity during night time, this has been applied to both the new realtime probes and the currently used baked probes, as I like the result. You can enable realtime reflection probes in the main menu options, however, it will show a "(WIP)" prefix.