Fantastic Contraption: The Social Update (v1.1.0) now live

GIF-generating-cameras, Twitch-chat-integration, Director Mode controls, Twitter integration... So much is new! A heap of bug fixes and minor features, too. Check it out!

Check out our blog post on v1.1.0 for a goofy video and longer explanation!

Here’s the full changelog:

• Twitch Chat: Show emotes, number of viewers. Alert for followers and subs. Two-hands resizable. Throw to reset.

• GIF Bug: A happy, bumbly, fly that wanders around your play-space and the level. Grab it to record 8 second gifs and, if you want, upload them to Twitter. GIFs are saved to the autosave directory, max 10 at a time named with incrementing numbers. After grabbing the bug it will stay in place. Throw it to return it to “roaming” mode.

• Undo/Redo: Small buttons on controller now access undo/redo. Undo is batched for similar actions happening in quick succession.

• In game camera controls: added buttons to change cameras in-game (activated when Director mode is turned on)

• Integrated webcam mode: webcams will be recognised by the game and composited between foreground/background automatically to make mixed-reality videos simpler to make.

• Camera Delay option for streamers in Director Controls. The Slider will delay the game rendering so you can match the delay of your camera. Greatly improves mixed-reality streaming.

• Hand-held camera offset now settable with arrow/wasd. Also shift-arrow now “rolls”

• All cameras are now represented by little flying bugs. Can grab them to move and rotate, will show preview of what they see until thrown.

• Added hats to in-game avatar. ~f to toggle between hats. Also works in mixed reality.

• Menus: Fix bug applying settings on startup. Add menus for integrated webcam settings, improve streaming menu generally. Add twitch setup to menus including a button to go to oauth key generator. Sign in to Twitter menu (for the GIF bug). Reduce arrow-key moving interfering with menu options.

• New Sounds: New sound effects for berries, dice, twitch follows/sub, throwing rod, berry bounce, save tables

• Music: You can now create flat notes by attaching sticky-balls to rods

• Grab your eyes out of your head and put them on a contraption. Also eye’s rotation matches parent when moving parent object in both editing and play mode.

• Save Tables: Faster loading from server. No longer show friends first in non-friend results. Show empty friends table if you have no friends. Improved table flipping. Small server improvements and admin tools. Minor fixes.

• New colouring of wheels that are out of bounds

• Warning messages now pop up on the companion window when no hands are present or twitch credentials are not set while using twitch window

• Adjustments made to the Vive controller models.

• Optimisation: Batching of maquette and static level geometry. Fixed some memory leaks. Skip rendering of some off-screen effects. Objects cache some internal data instead of recalculating it. Loading level is now faster and less likely to cause hitching.

• Change some graphical settings while streaming for performance reasons

• Fix horrible bug that makes the game unplayable if you attach a sticky ball to a glow-berry.

• Possible fix for missing shared replays bug. Server side improvements.

• Add extra logging to track down missing replays bug.

• Grab models off the dark-world maquette more easily

• Better data sanity-checking on contraption load.

• Reduce hitching when a replay transitions back to playing live

• Small improvements to feedback form

• Minor tutorial fixes

• SteamVR Update

• Fix for things getting stuck in the ground causing joints to disconnect

• Fix light-world maquette interfering with dark-world save tables

• Handle Oculus headsets better (still not officially supported yet)

• Fix to physics glitches when pausing game with steam button

• Better sanity checking around settings loading

• Setting companion camera smoothing to zero will now improve performance

• Physics stability improvements (changed wheel-on-wheel behaviours)

• Fix for building pieces/outline not appearing properly in the Goal tutorial level