PC Alpha 19 Dev Diary

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Vehicles feel a bit slow to me.  Is there any chance that they will get a change in alpha 19?(except the bicycle, the speed for that is fine)

 
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MechanicalLens said:
Unless it's impact game performance (in which case ignore this post), I think it would be splendid if animal corpses stayed around for much longer on horde night. It's always a shame to slaughter dog after dog, vulture after vulture, only for them to disappear right before the horde ends, even if they appear during the last in-game hour of the horde.
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It would be a performance issue in the current way it works. We need a corpse manager that deletes oldest/farthest corpses, in addition to the current timer.

Orsey said:
Some time ago, I noticed a problem with grenades and other similar items?
The problem is that after the explosion, zombies run to where the grenade was thrown from, and not to where it exploded.
Is this mistake?
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Many sounds originate from the player. Hopefully that gets improved someday.

 
Blake_ said:
@madmole I heard that UNITY 2020.2 beta version is like 7 days to die developer's wet dream: "DeltaTime" and Multithread improvements. stabler framerate, faster compiling in the editor, C#8 code migration, faster workflow, detailed resource usage management... etc etc.

I mean, were you guys ticketing like crazy and breeding your own Unity driver or what ? lol.
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I love new Unity versions, but as we are getting into a gold mindset and have been talking to Unity, we plan on using LTS releases. A20 should be on 2019.4 LTS and next year hopefully move to the 2020 LTS for A21, so would be able to get those benefits.

Reset said:
Vehicles feel a bit slow to me.  Is there any chance that they will get a change in alpha 19?(except the bicycle, the speed for that is fine)
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Not likely. Vehicle speed is limited by chunk loading speed. Last week I make an improvement to chunk deco spawning speed, but a lot more would have to be done to the total speed.

Bird Nerd said:
Hey @faatal, any news on a new experimental?
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No. The current one may get a few tweaks and will probably go stable within a month.

A lot of team time is now going into A20.

 
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faatal said:
No. The current one may get a few tweaks and will probably go stable within a month.

A lot of team time is now going into A20.
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Ah man, I wanted to at least see the new nurse before A20. Oh well, hopefully we'll start getting more screenshots of it though!

 
everyone waiting for some news for A20 be like

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A20 NEWS!!!!!!!  ;)

Started on the water overhaul this week. I'm working on the water chunk data and another programmer will be doing simulation/mesh changes.

My plan is water will not be a block, but additional chunk data, which is a pretty big change. It makes more sense, since any block could have water in it while still being whatever block it is.

 
faatal said:
A20 NEWS!!!!!!!  ;)

Started on the water overhaul this week. I'm working on the water chunk data and another programmer will be doing simulation/mesh changes.

My plan is water will not be a block, but additional chunk data, which is a pretty big change. It makes more sense, since any block could have water in it while still being whatever block it is.
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faatal said:
A20 NEWS!!!!!!!  ;)

Started on the water overhaul this week. I'm working on the water chunk data and another programmer will be doing simulation/mesh changes.

My plan is water will not be a block, but additional chunk data, which is a pretty big change. It makes more sense, since any block could have water in it while still being whatever block it is.
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WATER OVERHAUL!!!!!!!!!!

Thats all i need to hear! Thxs @faatal

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Im stealing this from you!

 
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faatal said:
A20 NEWS!!!!!!!  ;)

Started on the water overhaul this week. I'm working on the water chunk data and another programmer will be doing simulation/mesh changes.

My plan is water will not be a block, but additional chunk data, which is a pretty big change. It makes more sense, since any block could have water in it while still being whatever block it is.
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I thought of adding water as a property instead of a block so that change is pretty exciting. Hope it all goes well putting that together, i cant imagine that water is ever an easy mechanic to add, especially in a voxel game.

If your taking a look at meshes at the moment, any chance to make dirt mesh well with blocks? there is always that goofy dip at the end where they meet, i can guess why its done that way (less polygons for that spare side that might never be seen?) but it has always been something that irked me.

If im going to push even further with dirt block meshes, could the minimum size for a dirt block be a little bigger? sometimes they get so small you can barely see them but they still get in the way of things like block placement or pathing.

 
faatal said:
A20 NEWS!!!!!!!  ;)

Started on the water overhaul this week. I'm working on the water chunk data and another programmer will be doing simulation/mesh changes.

My plan is water will not be a block, but additional chunk data, which is a pretty big change. It makes more sense, since any block could have water in it while still being whatever block it is.
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I lub U man!

Have wanted a water overhaul for awhile and that is amazing news! 

 
faatal said:
A20 NEWS!!!!!!!  ;)

Started on the water overhaul this week. I'm working on the water chunk data and another programmer will be doing simulation/mesh changes.

My plan is water will not be a block, but additional chunk data, which is a pretty big change. It makes more sense, since any block could have water in it while still being whatever block it is.
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That does make me wonder how water towers and collecting water with a bucket to place in your base will work. As at this point I am more then willing to loss those for actually decent water.

 
Danidas said:
That does make me wonder how water towers and collecting water with a bucket to place in your base will work. As at this point I am more then willing to loss those for actually decent water.
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Well, I think that making water chunk-based won't really be a problem for water towers. It's just a tiny area. A "tiny chunk" if you will. 

Visual fidelity can be a problem........ or not, if you correctly use shaders/particles to hide the rendering slices. Honestly, it takes quite a bit of time to get it right, but in the end it pays off both in realism and performance.

 
faatal said:
A20 NEWS!!!!!!!  ;)

Started on the water overhaul this week. I'm working on the water chunk data and another programmer will be doing simulation/mesh changes.

My plan is water will not be a block, but additional chunk data, which is a pretty big change. It makes more sense, since any block could have water in it while still being whatever block it is.
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Mate, i love you. #nohomo tho :D

 
faatal said:
A20 NEWS!!!!!!!  ;)

Started on the water overhaul this week. I'm working on the water chunk data and another programmer will be doing simulation/mesh changes.

My plan is water will not be a block, but additional chunk data, which is a pretty big change. It makes more sense, since any block could have water in it while still being whatever block it is.
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With Christmas being around the corner, news like this kinda reminds me of Home Alone movie and its Wet Bandits.

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Well, minus "bandits"...

 
Phoenixshade35 said:
It is good to hear that the water is getting a work on, even a bit, i also am looking forward to the updates for vehicles this round
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Water overhaul will most likely consume the whole development time they have until the next Alpha release, I wouldn't expect any major changes besides that.

 
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