November 5th, 2021 Livestream

Snutt & Jace Talk: Satisfactory Update 5 Patch Notes vid commentary (Part 51)

https://youtu.be/FB0ataMyHNU

Topics

• Features > Transportation > Trains > Train Signals
• Satisfactory Updates > Teasers & Trailers > Update 5 Patch Notes Video

Transcript

signals path signals are used to preserve a path through a block so you can create safe collision-free intersections so what happens if you don't make use of the signals

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no this is great mayhem that's what happens I love that the bean is just like standing there like oh well this is happening there's also been an update now the time did you put that bean there yep this is, I'm that kind of stuff is easy to do like I'm picking like what animations should play when whatever happens yeah it's whenever there's a game logic involved then that then then it's harder yep but here is just like I set them up and like equal distance and I it was deterministic so I could trigger them all at the same time so if I if one train was like just not close enough or something or the time it didn't work I just moved the station a little bit and then retriggered everything, ended up I had like a couple of crashes that were pretty good the first crash I recorded for the teaser video wasn't like at that point I didn't know the workflow really of how to get it working yeah so like that was the only crash I ever managed to get that looked semi-decent, all the other times they either missed or they came too early or like didn't work yeah like I when I did the, path signals like trains and pass signals information video I took a lot of train b-roll stuff there and like trying to get the trains to do anything that I wanted even like the simple like crash at the train station was already like a a headache and that stuff is like simply yeah what you were doing so but it all came out way great and then shout out to emil by the way this is we our sound designer this is the only part of the trailer that he puts sound design on an update