Release Update 4 - Auto Expanding Asteroid Belt!

The last update had some unfortunate crashes for some folks - here's the known fixes to those issues - and another BOATLOAD of additional improvements (see below). We're also making things more robust with our build system, with nightly builds going to the open beta branch on Steam - so if you're having trouble with the default branch, try switching over to beta. We might have fixed it since!

Most notable updates this time around:

• Automatically expanding Asteroid Belt with workshop scenes

• Hopefully fixed new crash bug

• New editor tutorial scene to explain triggers

• New wearables, reactors and new armored skeleton blueprints

Full changelog:

• Trap Grider: PS stop on death. Dies when area < 10%

• Door Dungeon: Removed globals

• Coalition Turret: Increased durability and ammo

• Bot Spot: Fixed lua error Bot Flip: only triggers io once Bot Phoenix: removed debug wire

• Fixed lua error in pioneer

• Removed hud.add_zone_tip everywhere and deprecated functions

• Ship landing fuel tanks don't explode again (works on planium)

• Removed planium from AB since there is no goal

• Plutas and Samroid updated

• Made trigger tutorial Data Realms scene

• Tweaked physics behaviour of grappling hook

• Fixed globals in primoid endings + beginning scripts

• Fixed issues with defendoid and reactor custom code with new globals rules

• Fixed errors with voiceover if voice volume set to zero

• Modified asteroid belt ui script stopped using self overzealously - and many global functions turned local

• Fixed extensive issues with wrangloid

• BP menu: Fixed lua error

• Rover Shocks: Removed globals

• Added Construction Elevator Concrete Constructs: Reduced density so windows can be damaged by the machine pistol

• Coalition Turret: Fixed turret getting stuck at some angles

• Pioneer: Fixed lua error @ line 3531

• Removed test junk from Blank Planetoid

• Recomputed day light anim for planium

• Prototype Drone Defense: Fixed lua error

• Fixed Planium beginning area, could not get out of pit

• Made Test Scene Tentacle not Mappable

• Fix: added activating zones also by camera position if camera is used by script

• Plutas new version from pptest and resaved undiscovered

• Fix PS heat on fly set to 0 for older versions

• Fixed last man standing bug

• Fixed: pioneer doesn't move reactors and triggers anymore when jumping

• Fix: speed of rotating construct with mouse wheel was dependent on FPS

• Fix" intro video was not rendered at all occasionally

• Fix: stops all burning PSs of MO when changed AllowBurning to false, the same with melting

• Showing target string value up to 16 chars in game viewport

• Added tip to screen how to disable / enable lua output

• Including Todd's work on blueprint edit page tips

• Added ability to disable/enable showing lua errors to screen with Shift + L

• Added PS feature - Heat / Cool on fly through (not on collision)

• Todd's updates on scene editor tips

• Fixed radars now not colliding with non-colliding MOs

• Doors: Can open and close again. Radar is only created in auto-control mode

• Pop Plant: Applied velocity to the pioneer is now the same when a tool held by a pioneer touch the plant as when just the pioneer touch the balloon

• Fixed weird light map in menu scene when zoomed out

• Polished game menu button colors

• Race: Omni and ray lights are 10% of original

• Changed look of game menu, buttons still need to improve

• Pioneer: Can no longer ride a tool like a pogo-stick

• Removed globals and unused locals

• Removed debug print from Lua/bp_Door

• Polished editor colors

• Fixed coop blueprint share recategorize for all on completed.

• updated pp_bpmenu.lua to use tables instead of c++ bound structures for added blueprint info

• Added random reactor

• Added and bound assy:GetConnectedTargetNames, fixed GetAllTargetNames

• Added and bound assy:GetAllTargetNames()

• Fixed seat and wheel component

• Removed global from ship landing seat

• Removed more globals

• Loot Orbs: Updated sprites

• Trap Doors: Reduced the risk of the door penetrating TOs

• Golems: Adjusted mass to 999kg

• Bot Acid, Mecha, Phoenix, Wrom & Walker now follow the Pioneer that printed the bot

• Machine Dropper: Joints of cargo is set not to break on spawn. Bot Guard Box & Bot Spot: Can hibernate

• IO: Debug no longer throws errors if an assy have no master MO

• Lua Docs: Added tips about pointers to some classes

• Added wip seat component

• Made components work proper by looking through whole mount pile for ctrl with input

• Correctly loading script of tether

• Tweaked joint stability, size and texture of concrete structures

• Removed Globals Coalition Turret: The body no longer rotates on its own when not mounted to terrain

• Added reactor trigger repeatedly, added to trigger tut

• Added trigger tutorial scene

• Removed go external button from editor window, changed editor color

• Now making backup of log file into Logs folder, if the log contained error message. polished out of memory error catching

• Added one more borderless window mode with ctrl+shift+enter, fixed loading windows layout

• Added features to select PS, Light, TO or Activity blueprint that are far away from scene, not visible in view, but causing quad tree to be huge

• Fixed io debug things collidable

• Finished sound source twins optimization

• Fixed rope set BG done wrong

• Added io.isTriggeredOnStart(asm, connector), fixed door bug with it

• Added text trigger to info terminal to replace zone

• Disabled auto control by default on most doors

• Made exception to play ambient sound loops via sound streams

• Bot Spot: Can follow waypoints and allied pioneers

• Reactor Set Waypoint: Can set AIs to follow assemblies

• Adding workshop scenes when reaching end of Asteroid Belt

• Flying AIs stay above friendly assemblies when following them

• Fixed Wrangloid and Wrangloid Easy to run with new Lua rules

• Set mem align always to 32 - runs faster. and more error log polish

• Birds: Added some more target circles

• Rover Carrier Hover: No longer rotates when parked on the ground

• Silverback: Eats its victims properly again

• Auto DL of workshop scenes now fully working with addWSPlanetoid()

• Removed globals in bpmenu, terminal

• Reenabled save delete when scene completed

• Fixed atomizing object right after it was assembled whn holding a button and it was a construct that was assembled partly before or was a construct included in scene

• Optimized grid algo and eliminated one lag on fade to game

• Fixed atomizing through door

• FIX in sounds (huge memory consumption eliminated), lots of updates in error logging, updated memory consumption logging

• Skeleton Armored: No longer rolls around when dead

• Pioneer AI no longer run out of ammo

• Concrete Window: Increased durability Concrete support: Decreased joint strength Pioneer AI: Bug fixes

• Fixed and unified physics units labels in editor

• Made all things in grazer vacuum local

• Made some activties local

• Removed old act_collect activity

• Mega Worm Long: Removed debug code

• Zoom Map: Removed global funciton

• Pioneer don't duck when standing on a trap door

• Pioneer: Does not duck when standing on an MO tagged "Interactible" that also have a onInteractibleDownPress() function

• Optimization: eliminated many memory allocs and reallocs for better performance

• Power Core: Removed globals

• Made _G metatable unchangeable, disabled rawset()

• Made act_race and act_coliseum local

• Made act_primoid and act_acid_zones local

• Loot sphere drops whole pioneer blueprints

• Fixed MO sleeping and Awake when any particles collides with the MO

• Eliminated the rest of break sounds when atomizing objects

• Removed globals from golems, tools & grenades

• Removed Globals from all Fauna

• Removed Globals from all bots

• Removed globals and redundant locals from various scripts in the Lua folder

• Made Pioneer Imperatus better suited against heat, so player has a use for it in core

• Some improvements to imperatus to make it stronger

• Made a weareable space helmet blueprint too to attach

• Armor set bps to put on creatures seperately

• Removed some globals

• Fauna Skeleton Armored: Can walk again & has stronger joints. Does not get knocked out by riding Knuckles. Vomit is stronger

• Fauna skeleton armored with plates (new bp)

• Editor colors change

• Fixed whole game broken

• Moved global lock to the right place and defined globals Blueprints, Assemblys, Presets lua side

• Fixed text layer not getting show/hide/blur/focus events, not checking for Blueprints, Activitys and Presets table when creating objects in lua

• Fixed multiselect in list in editor

• Added warning when global gets created

• Removed a ton of globals

• Hiding on-screen lua error message after 15 seconds

• Turned ON back the optimizations that work well

• Set a lot of accidental globals local

• Turned off sounds stream optimization

• Added counting opened files and active sound sources

• Maybe fixed a bug in pioneer_ai

• Calling blueprint log functions, removed previous function

• Added and bound functions to log currently builded or updated assembly - name

• Added c2d_update.getLastUpdatedBP()

• Not require()ing debug

• Removed gpu memory info reading (works for nvidia only so far) and added files open/close counter to check files stay open

• Fixed race lua error

• Turned OFF recent four optimizations, added more info to memory log