Progress Update 06/01/2024
This week we have made meaningful progress in further polishing the addition of the day/night cycle, alongside some other new features and fixes. Iron eaters rejoice as we now have a eukaryotic variant of the rustycyanin!
Programming
The day/night cycle is further supported with new editor tools to help players calculate how well they can outlast the night.
- New DevBuild for our patrons:
Added ferroplast organelle, which is the eukaryotic variant of rusticyanin
Added new GUI and warnings to the editor to show if storage space and compound production during the day is enough to survive the night for photosynthesisers
Added custom model and icon for injectisome upgrade
Created a new custom model for ice chunks to be separate from the particle effects also present in the patch
Buffed cell corpse chunks
Made AI cells that depend on resources that aren't present during the night be more sessile during it
Made auto-evo consider surviving the night more to penalize species with not enough storage or resource stocking up during the day, this change is not yet fully tested for balance so this might have unintended effects
Created custom collision shapes for all organelles to finally properly fix them
Added custom physics time to metrics panel, this feature was done last December but somehow forgotten to be added until now
Fixed a brief flash of the game when exiting the freebuild editor for the first time
Fixed cheats being able to enable the editor button when already going to the editor which allowed causing a crash in the game by clicking the button again
Fixed some code warnings and fixed a bug in metaball moving that this uncovered where the parent metaball reference was not updated correctly
Updated YamlDotNet from 15.1.4 to 15.1.6
Updated xunit from 2.8.0 to 2.8.1
Updated translations
Graphics
- Icon for ferroplast organelle
Model for mucasyst organelle
Gameplay
- Continued discussion on toxic agents
Sound
- Nothing Substantial
Theory
- Nothing Substantial
Outreach
- Nothing Substantial
Other
- Nothing Substantial