Added hotkeys to the Options menu, you can change the keybindings now. It is located under "Controls'
Testing out a new water shader (very incomplete but should improve framerate nonetheless)
Disabled GPU skinning, if you had issues rendering things previously (they aren't showing or are fully black) they should hopefully render normally now
Esc/Options menu got a facelift
Added FOV slider
Added Chromatic Abberation toggle
Moved View Distance slider under 'Graphics' tab
Removed head look toggle
Removed camera mode toggle
Removed depth of field
Removed Esc key functionality from the character selection screen, now just press the "Log Out" button to go back to the login screen
Added warning for tribe dance, should alert you now if you try to do it without having been in a tribe before
Fixes
Essence Tree now has LOD support
Caverns and holes should be working now (not maps, just the holes in the terrain)
Chat colors behave properly now
Nametags should disappear when leaving game
Removed lag from chat when entering message
Known Issues
Resetting keybinds to default might not work, forgot to fix before I pushed this patch
2.0.5 Patch
Sorry for the pitifully small update, been struggling health wise and couldn't do what I really wanted to this week. Things are looking up though!
Changes
Arrows now properly format themselves in all text (A is yellow)
Date/Time has been optimized to be easier for me to deal with in backend
Backend arrow purchase recording was optimized on client end
Tribe members in chat will have their name colored according to your tribe color, friend color overwrites this
Fixes
All Felis regular tail markings are now visible in the slider
Felis "View head" and "View Body" button functionality switched to normal
Third raptor crest no longer disappears
Felis body tufts in all slots properly show
Non-Premium members can no longer change chat color
Non-Premium member's chat color is now the proper light gray
Market functionality should be back
Null characters can no longer be played
Known Issues
Sending chat messages will lag for like a milisecond- will be fixed later this week sorry
Patch 2.0.2
SEND IN YOUR BUG REPORTS IN GAME!
Press F2 in game to send me a detailed email of your bugs! This is now the absolute best way for me to figure out what's going on with bugs I'm unable to replicate such as the character deletion bug.
Fixes
Not very much, it's only been 1 work day and this is sort of a rushed update for the bug reporter!
Options menu for chat is back
Canis voice pitch no longer resets
Minimap dots should no longer be green unless the player is your friend!
Deleting characters from character selection works as it's supposed to!
Minimap dots will disappear when the player they're for leave the game (oops)
Canis should no longer have a lil beard on edit
Patch 2.0.1
Known Issues
Certain edits only apply when edited on an adult character (i.e. horns)
Options menu for chat is bork
Changes
Added a 10 second time-out for when the login screen hangs at "Logging in..."
Transparent colors for your character will make transparent tabs in editor
Character selection screen now shows you if you are Premium
Pressing ESC in Character Selection will take you back to log in
Marking market is back
Added the "Back to Basics" Raptor pack including some basic essential markings
Fixes
Multi-tails is only available to those who purchased in the past
Characters no longer shoot off into a trot when stamina gets low
Wild Arts roar is quieter
Panting goes away properly when stamina refills for all species
Canis with multi-tails now show their tails in Primordial
Canis now size correctly
Canis now age correctly
New characters should not disappear after creation
Premium chat colors work again
Can no longer put in big numbers into color areas of editors
Chat 'Reconnect' button functionality returned
Auto-run now animates
Water no longer reflects UI or minimap objects
Dance button is more reliable
Kangadillo disabled
Colors no longer default to black with no alpha
Canis horns should be fixed
No more soft-locking when Seeky's spinner lands on "???"
No more empty marking lists on entering editors for the first time
2.0 Rollback Update 7/19/2021
Major changes below! This is the the most stable version of the game to date! This update will be released tomorrow, Monday 7/19/2021
This is a version of the game from December 2019, I've been working on it since February of 2021. I could not fix the errors with the build Tony and I were working on so I started from scratch on one before he started helping due to his disappearance.
To come later:
Next will be redoing the marking market, it's ugly and could look nicer and be nicer to use.
Then the preset market, probably will do both this and the marking one at the same time
I want to focus on hotkeys, unity no longer has that pop-up window for choosing resolution and keybinds so I gotta do that myself
Then I want to fix the friends list functionality
Then tribes will be fixed again
Then I will actually put the in game purchases back up since then the game would actually be worth putting money into again with the above done.
What has been done?
Full backend overhaul of the player data system
Full backend renaming and fix of all 160 animations for player characters
Full backend overhaul of animation system for all characters, will save me hours from now on
Complete removal of the 'special' tails from canis and felis, just don't fit my vision of the game anymore
New sound system, splash sounds and particles when entering water
Full backend overhaul of the character rendering system: I.e. NO LONGER will there be any differences between your character in editor, in character selection and in Primordial
Full backend overhaul of Character editors, the code is smoother than butter
Raptor additions: Wings can be colored per section, each section can have its own marking- these sections AND markings have their own unique colors as well, adding 8 more color tabs to the editor!
Raptor ancestral tails look how they're supposed to!
Dev Messages: Added messages about major updates to the character selection screen
Added 6 new 'lion' style tails to the felis
Full minimap
Fixed day and night system not syncing, as well as the time dial near the minimap should display with perfect accuracy across all clients
Head and tail animations sync across all clients
Head position is synced across all clients again for the first time in a long time!
Head position toggle is now on/off, You cannot click to toggle it on again
Invisible terrain- fixed!
No more hanging when re-entering the game, you can switch characters 'til the cows come home
Copy/paste functionality in editor returned
Color hex updates on tab change
Raptor: buzzard beak changed to a more round-ended beak
Added a "Forgot Username" button to the main menu screen
Young and baby characters can have scars
Added quality settings to the Options Menu under Graphics
Sunlight has been lessened during the day
You can swim below water, swimming angle controlled by your camera's front facing angle
Brand new clouds!
Some animals have animations for the 2 sound
Felis roar is now full body
You can jump off of the tree you spawn to- again
Mini-map dots are consistent sizes
Raptor crashing into ground animation, sound, and particles fixed!
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Felis has 3 dances now
Baby raptor has a tail
Baby raptors are no longer all white
Changed nametag system to a 'hover-over' to see mechanic instead of always on or always off
Marking Search bar!Will search for markings in all packs that you own containing the name you put in! No more hunting for the pack that has that Back stripe marking, you can just search it up.
Tail markings for felis will change to feather markings when you select feather tails
Many animals were missing animations, had corrupted animations, or had ugly animations that were added, changed and fixed.
Known Issues
Unsure of functionality of tribes, friends list, dialogue with NPCs, treasure hunting
Halcyon's Heart and Caverns of Order are disabled right now, use the codes CAFE and FEATHEREDFRIENDS to unlock canis, felis and raptor
Underwater looks white
Disabled sunlight and moonlight's ability to cast shadows
Flying as a raptor without pressing anythi
Your location on login always defaults to the spawn tree only
There is NO death
All prey disabled
Moving Forward
So I was hoping to see Tony return after Valentine's Day this year, and that hasn't happened so I made the decision for the community to move forward by myself so that CS continues to be. You guys deserve the game and I've gotta make the best decisions for all of us as we go. As of now I have no idea what happened or where Tony is. All we can do is hope he's in the best of health.
So what does this mean for Cereal Soup?
It's going to be a very clumsy change as I undo all the changes Tony's done and start from an earlier build of the game to get it back to where we were. I'm trying to make sure that all the data from earlier this year and last year can still be used so I have to make some changes to the login and potentially registration system.
Password resets won't be possible at this time. Raptors should be available in this roll back but it's hard to say for now.
What can I do to help?
Nothing really! You guys have been so patient all this time, all I can ask is that you continue to be patient. I'm still updating everyone everyday on the Discord on the progress, so you can always show up and voice your concerns and questions there and I'll get to em as quick as possible.
If you have spent any money now or previously you are still eligible for a refund of any CS services as usual. This policy is never going to change. You can get a refund whenever you want!
Thank you guys for your time and patience and here's to moving forward!
Server Downtime
The registration and login server is currently down, unsure how long that will be unfortunately. The server is Tony's personal server, so it being down with him missing is a concern. I'll try and update people if there are any changes.
Apologies for Lack of Communication
Right now during quarantine would be the perfect time to release updates for you guys and really get in the guts of the game, but I'm actually going through a lot personally- since about March- and haven't had the desire or time to do much of anything. Things have been just awful for me lately and I'm trying to mourn and cope before I do anything major with CS again, because if I just force myself to work on it when I'm not feeling great I'm just gonna make things worse.
Once I do feel better and things have passed I will be back at it again, thank you for your understanding and please PLEASE stay safe. Don't risk going outside if you really don't need to. Nothing is more important than staying healthy and alive right now.
Slowness Update + Kofi Crowdfund
Minor Update
Tony is doing a full change of all the editors and how the game saves and uses character data. He's got to preserve what already exists because you guys losing your characters is not good. The way the game uses character info is in three different places with three different scripts: editor, character selection, and in game. Tony's making sure it's only one script for all three of these instances so I'm not rewriting code 3 times, any changes in editor should be the same in the other two places.
Tony is also dealing with some emergency with his real job and has to prioritize working on that of course! He's provided so much free help to us already, it's totally understandable and I'm pretty comfortable with him taking a well deserved break from CS for a moment. I can't seem to get this guy to take a proper break (but I'm the same way so I get it haha)
In the meantime I've been working on the Wolf Islands, hoping to get this set of islands into the game! We've been overdue for some new land.
Kofi
https://ko-fi.com/bmailchan Tony's help is actually why I'm doing this crowdfund! Originally I asked Tony for help a year ago and asked how much I would have to pay him for a week of his time. He gave me a quote and I set on making a crowdfund for it and planned on doing this for a long time. Suddenly the hacking situation happened and Tony immediately wanted to jump into action without question to help. I think the conversation went something along the lines of me asking his opinion and what he thought I could do and he asked me to send my source over and just went to action helping me himself! Tony is an incredible friend and mentor to me and has been a helpful anomaly in the background for about 4 years or so. Without asking or reminding me about pay he just went right to work making the new security system, then he started tackling just about everything else! I still want to pay him for his time so that's the purpose of this crowdfund!
All money is going to him, and I am offering refunds until April 1st when the money gets sent his way if for any reason you bought kofi and decided to change your mind later. This is the first time I've ever done this and wanted to cover all bases and make sure you guys were satisfied with what I'm offering. If you have any questions, check out the kofi-questions channel on the Cereal Soup Discord!
2.0.0 Raptors!
Raptors are now available for play! Use the code FEATHEREDFRIENDS under Settings and More -> Codes
Changes
Gastro checking is now more SLEEK and SMOOTH and QUICK! People who have a ton of gastros on hand will probably appreciate this new system the most
Apparently I changed how the Premium spinwheel works I have no idea if that happened or not
Added MOTD to login screen just in case outages or anything else occur
Added Raptor Flight tutorial for when you grow to adult size
Added tutorial to the player's info box
Vulture neck ruff for Raptors
In game UI change! New year, new UI!
Raptors can now jump!
Brand new action circle! Shows species body that you can click on the head tail and body of to change animations
You can double click animations to lock them for that character so that they always do those animations! body animations that are locked will replace your idle animation
More terrain definition! Making things look just a little more beautiful
Added more plants everywhere
Added Attributes system capped currently at Level 5, only courser can gain experience by killing prey animals.
Added manually changing camera position to character editors, one button now toggles between all animations
Fixes
Temp removed rain and death
Fixed issue with raptor slowly moving backwards during hover
Nametags should be back to behaving as normal
Treasure hunting should work again!
Treasure hunt GUI should go away when you change characters
Jump animation should play
Changed how territory holes work, no guarantees right now
Preset market fixed
Day cycle fixed a little bit? it's still wonky
Notification stars on the main menu buttons were not letting you click through them- they do now
Daily Challenge text boxes were cutting off text, no longer!
The button for turning on the books is now the same button to turn it off QOL change
Typing in Notes no longer makes you move
Player's minimap icons are now same size across the board, they're still a little big though..
Purchases work again
Changed how head and tail animation works in the backend
New dominant and submissive animation for Raptor
Removed weird tilt with hover animation
Ancestral raptor tail feathers show properly again
Eagle pants should look right now
Did some serious code optimization, some people have lag-less playthroughs and other still do?
Removed random items on canis and felis babies when making characters
