New Stage: Lost Temple

Our team has had a busy month! We've been testing internally in preparation for the release of online multiplayer, but it needs a bit more time before we can release it so that we can make sure it works flawlessly for you all!

In the meantime, we've added a new level and fixed a large number of bugs.

Major updates:

• New stage added: Lost Temple

Small enhancements - character editor:

• Added a 3D arrow or visualizing a bone's rotation direction while it's selected

• Added setting to hide the floor (in Editor Preferences on the top left)

• Added a plus button to add a new action

• Animation rig bones stay selected when switching keyframes

Small enhancements - menus:

• Added setting for V-Sync

Bugs - battle mode:

• Projectiles can get stuck on an edge

• Jittering player sometimes shows wrong location after getting hit (happened when the player was rotated before the hit)

• Ultra with grab property doesn't hit foes on the ground (can lead to wasting the ultra, and feels unfair)

• Ultra meter bugs out when set using an action

• Transition screen gets locked in place if pausing on The Editor

• Gracefully exit match and throw a warning if we fail to load a character

• In The Editor, players don't fall off the platforms when the scene transitions

Bugs - menus and controllers:

• Unable to save controller deadzone settings (they got reset upon leaving the menu)

• Windowed mode doesn't work for some PCs unless you press F11

• Performance: stuttering when adding new players on the character select screen

• Choosing random on the character select can assign the same color palette index as another player

• Pressing start on the loading screen skips loading Steam Workshop characters

Bugs - character editor:

• Workshop characters sometimes aren't visible in the Upload to Steam (required to update an existing character)

• Box selection accuracy is off in the Import Sprites pane

• One-click sprite import fails if sprite is touching the side of the texture

• Crash seen occasionally (unkown cause): GetPreviousOrCurrentKeyframeIndex --> Array index out of bounds

• Rare crash (unknown cause): ApplySpriteLayerSettingsToCurrentTimeline

• Crash seen when binding an animation rig bone and then clicking another menu

• Players can cause a crash by adding an infinite Go To And Play loop

• Unable to move for a short time when first entering Test Play

• Pressing undo after deleting an animation rig timeline and adding a new one -> creates a duplicate animation rig timeline

• Undo didn't undo all changes to an animation rig after accepting- animation bone data sometimes remained broken after trying to undo

• Adding multiple Views to an animation rig with different bind rotations can result in the character's animation bone transforms to get be offset strangely

More to come soon! ~The Smack Studio Team