PC Alpha 20 Dev Diary

[jeromeN7]

@faatalCould you, or could you get someone, to post some more screenshots of something interesting in A20, please. New textures and models, cool random gen terrain, anything... Also, is the pump action shotgun even going to be updated?

 

[Annihilatorza]

He has posted several pics recently unless you are referring to something else or just want more....

Please Sir, can I have more....

 

[dcsobral]

@faatalCould you, or could you get someone, to post some more screenshots of something interesting in A20, please. New textures and models, cool random gen terrain, anything... Also, is the pump action shotgun even going to be updated?

How about grass? Shawn was working on grass, right? 

 

[unholyjoe]

We all know Roland only shows off things to his fan only page.  

why dont you join? he only requires your first born child! honestly!

i would join but he wanted me to send money to compensate for the expenses.

 

[Matt115]

He has posted several pics recently unless you are referring to something else or just want more....

Laz man please i need newsstand picks! this RWG screen shots right? 

 

[jorbascrumps]

LESGO

https://twitter.com/x/status/1433870891704799235

 

[faatal]

@faatal are you going to show on the dev streams telling big tales of success and murder (vehicle mods, shaders, block egress AI, etc) ?

Programmers are currently scheduled for the 5th stream. I'll hit a variety of topics but not everything.

 

[dcsobral]

Programmers are currently scheduled for the 5th stream. I'll hit a variety of topics but not everything.

5th stream, first stream on the 8th, one stream a week... mid october??? 

 

[faatal]

1. What are you Currently working on?

2. Can you maybe post a screen shots of the new City Generation/ RWG?

3. Any on idea streaming dates?

4. With Streaming dates can we have some in Uk/Europe Timezones, 3 am is a bit early

5. Is there anything we can do as the community to help you guys out?

1 Last 3 days has been block placement stability colors not working with multiblocks. Today is falling blocks using world space UVs (from previous shader changes) causing the block to swim through the texture, but also cleaning up falling block code (not looked at that before).

2 Eventually

3 We just announced Sept 8

4 Probably not. Lathan likes to stream in the evening, but it could happen

5 ?? I want it out as much as the players, but not until it be good!

How about grass? Shawn was working on grass, right? 

I was. Mesh generation and collider changes.

Justin just committed a bunch of grass and plant texture/shader/settings changes, so getting there.

 

[faatal]

New plant changes (not finished):

 

[Matt115]

New plant changes (not finished):
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it will have new winter version too?

 

[faatal]

it will have new winter version too?

Justin is adjusting all non tree plants, which would include all biomes. Don't know what he is doing with winter ground textures.

 

[khzmusik]

New plant changes (not finished):
View attachment 20888

Finished or not, this already looks a million times better than what's in the game right now. That's really great, the plant textures were probably my biggest pet peeve about the game. Justin deserves a raise.

 

[samljer]

New plant changes (not finished):
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I noticed you cut off the action bar, what are you hiding

 

[Rabbitslovecactus]

Justin is adjusting all non tree plants, which would include all biomes. Don't know what he is doing with winter ground textures.

Would be great if in the winter biome there was no grass. Not until you dig down anyways...

 

[faatal]

I noticed you cut off the action bar, what are you hiding

Nothing and everything!

Actually I just like to cut off the boring parts.

 

[bdubyah]

Grass looks good! I like.

You said all non trees. Will they get some love too? Or just not for a20? I feel like there could be some FPS gained with better trees from what I've seen from a couple of those m-words.

 

[Matt115]

Nothing and everything!

Actually I just like to cut off the boring parts.

@faatal we both know you add porn magazine for @SnowDog1942 and this is small gift for him XD

 

[Blake_]

Programmers are currently scheduled for the 5th stream. I'll hit a variety of topics but not everything.

I see. So they wait for the alpha to release to get you talking. That is evil. Lol.

 

[faatal]

Grass looks good! I like.

You said all non trees. Will they get some love too? Or just not for a20? I feel like there could be some FPS gained with better trees from what I've seen from a couple of those m-words.

Trees will probably not change any more in A20 other than whatever changes happened over the last year.