Progress Update 11/16/2024

Progress continues smoothly this week, with optimizing game performance and bug fixing to ensure a more enjoyable player experience.

Alongside this, we've made some improvements to the game's visuals, including fine-tuning the GUI with some new tooltips for better clarity, as well as reworking older visual elements to bring them up to a higher standard.

Programming

• New DevBuild for our patrons:

  • Reworked all organelle 3D models

  • Renamed Nitrogen-Fixing Plastid to Nitroplast

  • Added a miche viewer to the patch map tab

  • Added tooltips for chemoreceptor upgrade GUI amount and distance sliders

  • Fixed the timeline incorrectly claiming some species to be extinct

  • Fixed bug with osmoregulation cost being shown on upgrade tooltips

  • Made auto-evo exploring tool show patch events, note that historical view for events doesn't work yet

  • Added code for UV unwrapping of macroscopic creatures, but there's no textures yet so the code isn't enabled

  • Added workaround in the C# interop code to work with newer native library compiles

  • Updated YamlDotNet from 16.1.3 to 16.2.0

  • Updated System.Numerics.Vectors from 4.5.0 to 4.6.0

  • Updated automatic code checking tools

  • Updated translations

Graphics

• New silica membrane rework

Gameplay

• Nothing Substantial

Sound

• Nothing Substantial

Theory

• Nothing Substantial

Outreach

• Nothing Substantial

Other

• It is now possible to gift patreon memberships!