Development blog

2015 October 31st

End of another great month! this month we had a new release with water physics, swimming and some gameplay changes.

Today, I did more work on updating the game engine to support animation blending.

2015 October 30th

Started work changing smsher to export bones in local space.

2015 October 29th

Researched how to mix animations for better first person animations.

2015 October 28th

Researched improving the games GUI.

2015 October 27th

More work on adding first person animations.

2015 October 26th

Started work on adding first person animations.

2015 October 25th

Packed up and released a new version of Brutal Nature!

Released: 0.59

2015 October 25th, Brutal Nature 0.59 is now released:

• Fixed all known bugs
• Added water physics. Water now flows down hill until a certain slope angle is reached. This allows for water flow without all the rivers draining out.
• Added swimming physics.
• Added swimming animations.
• Added new player stat: Air. Air decreases when under water and recovers when above water. When air reaches 0 you will take health damage and drown.
• Added more mouse over and click effects to buttons.
• Added text under cross-hair pop up for actions and low health/endurance/etc warnings and cfg option to show it in the HUD instead.
• Added a branch cache to set/get voxel. This allows the octtree look up to be skipped when a voxel is within the same branch as last accessed.
• Added random delay between songs. Delay is configurable in 'Brutal Nature.cfg'.
• Added walking and swimming in water sound effects.
• Added new underwater visual effect.
• Added quest objectives display at top right corner of screen.
• Changed quantity produced harvesting berries and mushroom to now depend partially on your endurance level at the time you harvest them. This simulates care taken while picking vs hurried picking.
• Changed the 'Material' display when picking a material in edit mode to only display 1 decimal point.
• Changed harvesting trees/bushes/rocks/etc to always causes endurance lost, even if it fails due to too low of endurance. This means just mass clicking on things will result in loss of endurance but no item. You now must time your clicks for when you have enough endurance.
• Increased default viewing range.
• Increased projectile drag when shooting through water.
• Increased price of wood boards by 200%
• Increased NPC count by 200%
• Increased underground NPC's by 50%
• Increased most plants in world by 400% to reflect the new larger world size.
• Removed quest reminder messages.
• Fixed sphere mode using the wrong amount of materials.
• Fixed bug where right clicks would activating game features while in the GUI menu.
• Fixed bug in last stage of tutorial quest where wrong audio file was played.
• Fixed shutting down the game taking a long time due to deallocating the many chunk cache objects.
• Fixed 32bit client to execute 32bit server when single player mode is selected.
• Fixed problem with shadows having holes when terrain exceeded 500 feet.
• Fixed rendering lag by fixing the server voxel packet throttling code that was broken by the new client side voxel packet cache.
• Fixed voxel editing bug where sometimes the brush did not remove all the voxels it should have.
• Fixed NPC's seeing through cube mode walls and being able to attack through them.
• Fixed collision bug where bullets hitting water would not be rechecked for collision with terrain till next frame.

2015 October 24th

Fixed typo in some weapon categories.

Fixed ocean sound location.

Increased frequency of grass texture changes.

2015 October 23rd

Fixed sphere mode using the wrong amount of materials.

2015 October 22nd

Fixed chunk update lag caused by flowing water.

2015 October 21st

Started work on fixing chunk update lag caused by flowing water.

2015 October 20th

Prevented right clicks from activating game features while in the GUI menu.

2015 October 19th

Fixed bug in last stage of tutorial quest where wrong audio file was played.

Fixed flashlight interacting with fullscreen water effect.

2015 October 18th

Fixed uneven water flow.

Fixed shutting down the game taking a long time due to deallocating the many chunk cache objects.

2015 October 17th

Added swimming animations.

2015 October 16th

Updated forum version.

Fixed the point where the fullscreen water effect kicks in to be closer to the actual water level.

2015 October 15th

More work trying to fix water artifacts.

2015 October 14th

Tweaked water to try and eliminate some artifacts generated while flowing.

2015 October 13th

Tweaked projectile drag when shooting through water.