October 15th, 2021
Jace Talk: Hard & Soft Clearance, some Buildings now have Complex Clearance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTIAMuPqSlI&t=396
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So number 10, the final one on this list is a bit of a big one, and that is a few weeks back when we were showing off
you know, when we introduced soft clearance to you guys and we showed off that there's soft clearance and hard clearance, but buildings have hard clearance and so they cannot clip into the bounds of other buildings, even if those bounds are really big and have a lot of empty space, you can't use that empty space with other buildings, right?
So the example that I showed was constructors trying to...
encroach on the clearance of a particle accelerator, even though it didn't clip into the particle accelerator.
Another example that I showed was like a foundation bridge over the top of a coal generator, because a coal generator has a really big bounding box with a lot of empty space, but you can't build any buildings in that space, right?
So we were working on this at the time, but we didn't know if it was gonna be in Update 5 or not, but I can confirm now that this new feature will be in the game, and that is complex clearance.
So certain buildings have a complex clearance to them now, so that basically what that means is the big offenders, like the coal generator, like a particle accelerator, and some others, now have this complex clearance to them, which means that you can actually encroach in those empty spaces now.
They still have hard clearance, so you can't encroach on them.
You can't build two hard clearance buildings clipping into each other,
But you can now build in that empty space.
As you can see here, I'm putting constructors over the top of that empty space of the cold generator.
You can also see that I'm putting constructors kind of just around and inside, hugging the particle accelerator.
And even the space elevator has complex clearance as well, so I could build constructors kind of over the arms here.
You know, the space elevator took up a lot of empty space before.
But now that has complex clearance, and so now you can build a little bit more freely around that.