Creatura
Update 0.46
- Implemented startup load screen
- Animals DNA now mutates
- Animals and sponges are now saved
- Animals eat now only foods from their edibility list
- Animals families and specimens have now names visible in overlay
- Animals age, generation and current behaviour is now visible in overlay
- Active animal list displays now fatigue and hunger for each specimen
- Plants animation maps have been replaced with vertex color mapping
- Alpha testers and supporters are now credited on startup load screen
- Fixed non-node root plant cuttings offsets in thumbnails and plant editor
- Fixed underwater animals idle pathing only to ground bottom positions
- Fixed placement position of held objects when cursor was over water
- Fixed plant editor not working properly with single-node plants
- Fixed non-node root plant cuttings scaling & collider offsets
- Fixed subsequent sponges spawning only in middle of tank
- Fixed animals trying pathing to out-of-water targets
- Fixed camera misplacement after loading game
- Fixed camera edge scrolling in fullscreen mode
- Fixed plant fruits stalks rendering in fruit colors
- Improved plants wind & underwater animation
Update 0.45
- Implemented detailed information overlay
- Sponge DNA now mutates
- First sponge DNA is now randomly generated
- Water surface is now reflected in tank side reflections
- Animals inherit now DNA from common ancestor sponge
- Plant textures support now HD resolutions (not included, up to 4k)
- Plant textures can now exceed (ad infinitum) old maximum limit of 64
- Plant textures are now stored in texture arrays instead of texture atlases
- Fixed visual differences between reflected ground shader and ground shader
- Fixed plants edges visual issues when camera is highly zoomed out
- Fixed animals not updating safe-spot if new decorations is available
- Fixed animals feeding on plants that are out of pathing reach
- Fixed crash when editing DNA of only fruit/flower with stalk
- Fixed decorations not showing up in tank side reflections
- Fixed reflected ground seams visibility on edges
- Fixed sponges transparency issues
- Improved back ground reflection depth and opacity gradient
Hotfix 0.45a:
- Fixed animal DNA scrambler using plants value tables
- Fixed cleaning sponge showing on decorations on every left click
- Fixed crash when moving decorations with growing uncached plants
- Fixed animals color not being read properly from DNA after mutations
- Fixed animals overlay UI misalignment on resolutions other than 720p
- Fixed plants growing on moved decorations visually glitching out after taking cutting
Hotfix 0.45b:
- Sponges will now die off if out of the water
- Fixed crash when expected animal path is too short
- Fixed camera locking up and misbehaving after alt-tabbing
- Fixed ground navigation mesh not generating after loading game
- Fixed sponges Z-index issues when rendered over or under water
- Fixed crash when trying to store decorative objects in permanent inventory
- Improved pathing lookups for random underwater positions
Update 0.44
- Flatworms feed now on plants
- Flatworms have now life cycle
- Flatworms rest now when fatigued
- Flatworms generate now homespot for resting
- Flatworms spawned from sponges have now spawning animation
- Sponges spawn now only underwater
- Fixed plants sometimes visually duplicating some nodes after taking cutting
- Fixed decorations being uncleanable after using utility to stop algae growth
- Fixed crash when using DNA editor without plant loaded into it
- Fixed flatworms not moving properly at high time speeds
Hotfix 0.44a:
- Implemented new AI for animals
- Animals are using now character controllers instead of rigid-bodies to move
- Animals pathfinding is now based on Dijkstra algorithm instead of Unity build-in navigation
- Fixed animals getting stuck on corners and ground
- Fixed flatworms pathing to plants that don’t grow underwater
- Fixed decorations not settling up correctly after touching ground
- Fixed plant cuttings not retaining previous cut visuals from cut plant
- Fixed crash when sponge would spawn flatworms when other were alive
- Fixed plant cuttings sometimes visually not removing cut node from plants
- Fixed multiple crashes when quickly taking consecutive fruit/flower cuttings
- Fixed crash when fruit/flower got disabled after the node it was growing from
- Fixed animal home position not updating properly after changing ground shape
- Optimized animals target defining by utilizing callback coroutine pathfind computation
Hotfix 0.44b:
- Fixed animals not checking for possible decoration safe zone
- Fixed flatworms pathing million years prematurely out of water
- Fixed cached root node visually disappearing after taking cutting
- Fixed animals moving to food path start after reaching end on medium time speed
Update 0.43
- Decorations can be now cleaned with left mouse button, without holding CTRL
- Fixed default settings not loading correctly
- Fixed sponges rendering always over water
- Fixed interface hiding button/key not working
- Fixed permanent inventory to work with new save data format
- Fixed multiple issues with taking cuttings from other cuttings
- Fixed random crashes after taking cutting due to bad caching
- Fixed crash if game state data file was empty or not compatible
- Fixed load slots position displacement when opening Continue menu
- Fixed single node plants appearing cut at top after completing growth
- Fixed camera not acting properly after alt+tab until pressing key modifier
Hotfix 0.43a:
- Fixed crash when clicking in decoration context menu outside of decoration
- Fixed plants sometimes visually glitching after moving
Update 0.42
- Sponges reproduction cycle is now more scientifically accurate
- Structural mutations now trigger particle effects for better visibility
- Decorations can be now picked on double right-click
- Plants now generate family ID based on DNA
- Overview camera now shows plants spawn range
- Stored data is now formatted as human readable Json file
- Fixed multiple crashes and issues when saving/loading game state
Hotfix 0.42a:
- Fixed plants not continuing to grow after load
- Fixed sponges not loading properly
- Fixed crash caused by sponges pooling issue
Update 0.41
- Plant root node scale now doesn’t affect consecutive nodes
- Sponge now spawns if no other sponge or animal is present
- Consumable to prevent sponges spawning added
- Sponges now reproduce
- Fixed camera locking up after alt-tabbing
- Fixed plants not rendering in right tank reflection
- Fixed decorations rendered always on top of water
- Fixed crash when sometimes buying consumables
- Fixed cleaned decorations cleaning too fast on first click
- Fixed plant cuttings colliding with growing plants preventing access to ground
Update 0.4
- Implemented consumable utilities
- Implemented visual guide showing plant seed spawn range
- Implemented multiple save slots allowing choice of tank to load
- Plant spawn range can be now modified while holding SHIFT and scrolling up/down
- Plants now visually affect the ground around plant root
- Sponges now spawn experimentally in Cambrian life complexity stage
- Consumables tab in Store has been added
- Consumable to prevent algae growth on decorations added
- Decorations can be now cleaned by rubbing them while holding CTRL button
- Tank back-reflection is now tied to opacity of side reflections
- Fixed camera scrolling on edge when game window is out of focus
- Fixed possibility of putting held growing plant into DNA editor resulting in crash
- Fixed crash when cutting was taken from cached root just after spawning heir
- Fixed cached plants not changing seed spawn position when moved
- Fixed plants visually glitching top part of plant when decomposing
- Fixed plant root collider displacement when moving growing plant
- Fixed colliders displacement after editing plant in DNA editor
- Fixed crash when buying new decoration after selling old
- Fixed plant caching frequency to avoid performance loss
- Fixed UI elements not matching color to ambience
- Fixed plants spawning in front of tank
- Improved memory management by removing unused pointers
- Improved plant cuttings stalk collider placement
- Improved editing plant spawn range limits
- Improved stability of placed decorations
- Improved interface responsivity
EDIT: Ninja hotfixed issue with loading saves if other state was loaded already. Sorry!
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Thanks, and hope to see your aquariums from 0.37!
Koksny
Update 0.37
- Enabled plant structural DNA mutations
- Enabled plant decomposition visuals and implemented related textures
- Ambience and ground color are editable by clicking on color preset while holding Shift
- Fixed auto-saving when no vivarium state is present
- Fixed plant material sometimes not covering whole plant
- Fixed plant cuttings colliders not reflecting plant structure
- Fixed loaded plants misplacement if grown from decorations
- Fixed loaded plants colliders not initializing if plant is already grown
- Fixed loaded plants not growing due to not loading PlantRootBornTick value
- Fixed decorations sometimes falling through or gripping to ground when scaling them
- Fixed plant cuttings colliders displacement when cutting is taken from loaded plant
- Fixed crash when editing plant cuttings taken consecutively from same plant
- Fixed crash when plant combiner uses mesh belonging to combine instance
- Fixed plants not showing up in mirrors on load
- Improved plant cuttings hitboxes
Hotfix 0.37a:
- Fixed plants rendering depth glitching out
- Fixed plants not initializing colliders after loading
- Fixed crash when used cache count exceeded 300
- Fixed plants not growing from original planting position
- Fixed plants decomposition visual progress glitching out
- Fixed crash when taking cutting of non-cached structurally mutated plant after loading
- Improved leaf cuttings colliders hitboxes
Hotfix 0.37b:
- Fixed heir of plants that have been cut not growing in places when parent cutting has been taken
- Fixed crash when planted cutting taken from cached plant, while instanced plant was still live
- Fixed crash when editing cutting taken from plant that was grown from edited cutting
- Fixed plants DNA inheritance when non-structural node mutated structural change
- Fixed colliders not initializing for cuttings taken from previously edited plant
- Fixed plants not inheriting DNA when the mutation is fruit/flower
- Fixed colliders not initializing for single node plants after load
- Fixed hardwood plant cuttings spawning with wrong colors
- Fixed plants shadows disappearing on plants edges
- Fixed plants visually always rendering over water
- Fixed colliders displacement after editing plant
- Improved branch cuttings colliders hitboxes
- Improved saving precision for plant position, rotations and colors
Update 0.36
- Implemented tooltips
- Implemented scrolling with mouse cursor on screen edges
- Camera rotation on edges requires now second button press if Explicit Camera Rotation is on
- Fixed pooled plant nodes not resetting material count, resulting in performance loss
- Fixed crash on loading due to initializing some consecutive nodes as root nodes
- Fixed plant cache management after all plants using cache entry are cut down
- Fixed not calculating cutting node count on cuttings from growing plants
- Fixed pooled plant nodes not resetting all flags on enable
- Fixed main menu sections not toggling off properly
- Fixed editing cuttings taken from growing plant