April 7th, 2023
Recreated Cliff Structures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X4jqMUtCwI&t=131
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Jace
There is an element of this that is kind of out of our control, unfortunately, so it just means that you'll probably get trees and bushes in your factory, and you just need to grab your chainsaw and go bananas.
One other general pause that we've done kind of throughout the world a little bit, I think I'll specify a little bit more as we go on, and it may slightly affect your factories.
probably not in any super meaningful ways, is that we have recreated some of the cliff structures that have been in the game.
And the reason for this is that some of the cliffs, well, most of the cliffs are constructed out of, like, pieces, right?
In the game.
And the cliffs before, and many cliffs that are still in the game right now, were constructed out of non-uniformly scaled pieces.
What that means is things that are stretched in one dimension
but not equally in other dimensions.
And what that basically means is like squished pieces.
And now this has various effects, including like the obvious visual one where there are certain rocks and cliffs that look squished or have parts of it that look squished in the texture.
And so we've actually gone through a bunch of these with some other new assets.
I think some new assets or existing ones.
I'm pretty sure there's some new ones in there too.
And recreated those cliffs as faithfully as possible.
using uniformly scaled pieces rather than non-uniformly scaled pieces.
So what this means is that some of the cliffs that we've reworked should look better, but it also means that their structure and their shape may differ slightly, slightly though.
There's been great effort gone into making sure that all the cliffs still remain
as close as possible to what they were so that this might mean that there might be some clipping in some buildings um or maybe some buildings are like floating a little more than they used to be before but this shouldn't mean uh cliffs swallowing up uh fact entire factory buildings shouldn't mean but uh that's one general pass uh thing that has happened uh for the world