update #10

update #9

• nVidia Ansel
  

• fog lighter, lifts from morning to noon and descends from evening to night
  
• lighting slightly adjusted
  
• fireflies light range longer
  
• space beyond stars
  

update #8

• asteroids at night
  
• beach option

• night sky stars high-res, not moving
  
• leaf wobble distance increased
  
• outer space stars parameters slightly changed
  
• maximum meadow edge/2 length reduced to 12
  
• number of dandelions = 40 by default
  
• HDR rendering enabled
  
• tree bark color modified
  
• space dust stream color darker
  
• sun, moon and lighting parameters slighty changed
  
• mist distance at time modified

• ladybugs landing on leafs now smoothly

• some resolution not possible as fullscreen selectable, defaults to native display resolution when selected
  
• game can crash on exit, captured by crash handler

• LowPoly Asteroids Pack
  
• Mesh Effects
  
• ESO/S. Brunier: The Milky Way panorama, 18 MP

update #7

• menu appearance slightly changed due to preparation of possibly coming mod support
  
• "disable elastic camera" moved to new "F1" key menu
  
• "ladybugs blow rooted dandelions" disabled by default, now all options are by default like in the original released version
  
• dandelions seeds get removed from air when changing number of dandelions
  
• meadow size can now be changed during a recreation
  
• "move wings to upward flight direction" mechanic changed: now press and hold the assigned key for it to instantly fly upwards when having flight speed larger 0
  

• VR with Oculus and OpenVR
  
• key "backspace" to reset VR camera
  
• menu now controllable by mappable keys (see launcher tab "Input"), default "arrow keys" and "enter" to toggle / apply, in VR press down or right multiple times to reach the bottom buttons or the scrollbar in order to change the column and access out-of-view options (this is tedious but all options can be reached)
  
• "wobble central big tree" option in main menu to improve performance when disabled and flying towards the meadow center
  
• "enable contact shadow" option in "F1" menu for shadow of grass blades on grass blades
  

• fullscreen resolutions other than native (most-bottom) hang the loader: press "Windows" key once, then after b loaded press "Windows" key again to focus back to b
  
• rainbow visibility in VR ignores head orientation, uses b orientation
  
• disabling VR leaves the resolution at the resolution of the VR display for the left eye
  
• meadow creation of "meadow edge/2 length" 15 takes around 10 minutes to complete on the optimum recommended system during which framerate is very low (1 digit), it is complete when clouds fill the sky
  

• moon lighting now only affected by sun
  
• sun in front of other matter
  

• MEC Threaded
  
• Next-Gen Soft Shadows
  

• enable "unknown sources" in your VR main software's preferences if available
  
• best open your VR main software first and confirm any message by it in VR before enabling VR in b
  
• "contact shadows" and SSAO are disabled in VR
  
• be mindful of of any flight manoeuver where your body doesn't perform the manoeuver its eyes give you the impression it does
  

• last Update version (update #6) now available from branches in BETAS tab of game properties in Steam library
  
• that branch name prefixed by number indicating its position in order of release (which is the branch release order for that but is supposed to be the build release order in which the position is 5)
  

• VR let me smile already, I doubt I add (VR) motion controls to b
  
• moddability is something I would like to do but if the effort to explicitly implement it looks to be around as high as or higher than the effort done to prepare for it (2 weeks and a completely new empty Unity 2017 project recreating all management code and scene GameObjects) that might not come in the near future
  
• internet multiplayer is enticing but it requires an appropriate high request/effort ratio :)
  

preliminary VR support without motion controls

• BETAS branch preliminaryvr

• reset VR camera behind b by key backspace
  
• navigate menu by arrow keys (in VR, press key right multiple times until you are on scrollbar, then use scrollbar, checkboxes and buttons at bottom to navigate around), change / apply checkbox state / button by key enter
  
• "wobble central big tree" now can be disabled
  

mod candidate build available from the BETAS tab in the modcandidate branch

• settings menu slightly different
  
• "disable elastic camera" setting moved to player menu (key F1)
  
• meadow size can now be changed even when a current recreation is in process
  
• dandelions seeds get removed from air when changing number of dandelions
  
• "ladybugs blow rooted dandelions" disabled by default
  
• meadow can be seen getting created during initial open menu
  
• fog distance at dawn and dusk
  
• storage space requirement now only 140 MB !
  
• memory requirement during window resizing is up to triple of the maximum observed ingame memory usage by Task Manager at default settings of 640 MB which is therefore now 2 GB
  

• moon lighting now only affected by sun
  
• sun in front of other matter
  
• CPU doesn't appear to run at around full throttle anymore when recreating landscape after being back from moon
  

update #6

• updated game engine, improves framerate
  
• reduced distance in which leafs wobble, improves framerate
  
• music fades smoother towards the edges
  
• removed display of onopening values for checkboxes in menu
  
• space visibility based on distance from meadow instead of distance from moon
  
• moon closer to meadow again
  
• "m" orientation change different, takes 1 more second
  

• slider for grass density reduction at distance, improves framerate if gpu is limiting, 3 is highest reduction
  
• dust stream between moon and meadow
  

performance improvement is available from the BETAS tab on games properties in library (right click game name in games list, select properties) in the unity2017 branch

• update of game engine to yesterday fresh released Unity 2017 and using C# 6 compiler
  
• utilizing of deferred rendering
  
• separating leaf wobbling from tree wobbling and reducing distance within leafs wobble
  

• b shadow flickering under some lighting orientation, particularly at the start
  
• changing landscape size after returning from moon lets the cpu run around full throttle
  
• moon shown through sun