Deer Hunting and AI

• Deer Added with LOD's setup
  
• Deer AI Functionality finished
  
• Deer spawners created - set to spawn deer in the absence of the player
  
• AI Fears radius of 2000 units affected by player noise
  
• AI Fear affected by other deers getting damaged or killed
  
• Max Flee distance of 4500 units added
  
• Comfort zone distance of 2000 units added where deer will continue to flee until satisfied
  
• Added blood trails and pooling blood for wounded dear
  
• Living and Dead Flesh Material / Resource type added
  
• GIB's produced when dead dear flesh hit with bladed Tool
  
• Player Noise affected by their speed
  
• Random deer has random max fear values so some are timid, some are more brave
  
• Everytime player kills a dear, default fear level of player is increased by all deer
  
• Deer will track player with their heads if they are not in an idle state
  
• Players can be spotted by deer visually
  
• Deer take damage from all weapons
  
• Bolts and arrows properly stick into deer
  

Game Mechanics

• Added DPad Hovermode - movement is touch sensitive instead of requiring player to press down on touch pad
  
• Added Joystick movement mode
  

• Contents of the cart are completely frozen when cart is being pulled
  
• Contents of the cart remain frozen for 1-2 seconds after player lets go of the handle to prevent stuff from falling off
  
• Hooks on cart refined but still has a bit to go
  
• Tools no longer slide off hooks when cart is let go
  

• Player Belt added - Tools and weapons can be attached and carried with you
  
• Basket Container added - can store 21 total resources or 7 of any particular kind
  
• Basket contents can be grabbed one at a time by reaching in and grabbing it
  
• Basket contents can be dumped out by holding it upside down for .75 seconds
  

• Prices for blacksmith temporarily reduced for those players who lost progress
  
• Sparks added and tweaked for bloom and ignot impacts from hammer
  custom sounds to indicate quality of the strike to ingots and blooms
  
• Quenching now cools ingots and blooms off within 3-5 seconds
  
• Ingot now scales down immediately after first hit
  
• Anvil now locks ingot to prevent it from falling off
  
• Fixed bug preventing player from letting go of hammer near anvil
  
• Adjusted ingot colors to make it more clear when you go from optimal strike zones
  
• Sword Assembly system refined - still more to do
  
• When blade forged, sword parts spawned on table based on quality of blade
  

• Skelly smelter tutorial bug fixes
  
• Nav Mesh improvements
  
• Trees now have much less health and yield much less wood
  
• Added visual blink when teleporting
  
• Double pick up bug fixed with infinity pile
  
• Fixed bug where tools dropped with side buttons
  
• Disabled physics on tools attached to belt
  

Save System

• Trees and their state will be saved on quit and reload
  
• All items player is holding or has on belt will respawn at players feet on reload
  
• All resources lying around will be saved and reload where they were
  
• Basket and contents are saved upon reload
  
• Players location will be saved upon quit and reload
  
• VR Works functinality removed
  
• Temporal AA reduced significantly
  
• Menu options saved between levels and reloads
  
• Resources in infinity boxes, forge or smelter saved between reloads
  
• Forged blades saved between reloads
  
• Dear states, alive or dead, saved between reloads
  
• Progress through Skelly tutorial saved between reloads
  
• Weapon purchases saved between reloads
  
• All buildings will save properly when built after game reload
  
• Game autosaves every 20 seconds
  
• Game saves automatically when quit button used in menu
  

World and Player Changes

• All buildings removed from the starting map
  
• Archery range now buildable
  
• Horseshoe pit now buildable
  
• Player house now buildable and upgradeable
  
• Player cart now buildable
  
• Vendor cart now buildable
  
• Weapon stalls now buildable
  
• Fire sounds now properly loop
  
• Fixed typos in warning signs
  
• Blocking volumes adding to lake
  
• Blocking volumes refined around the edge of the map
  
• Blocking volumes refined to block players but not projectiles
  
• Skelly's quest changed to include cart and house
  
• Crossbows more expensive now
  
• Clean up of some unnecessary props
  
• Proper grip poses created for the hands when holding all crossbows
  
• Fixes to smelter collision
  

Performance

• AO maps from skylight pre-baked and static
  
• Shadow map culling in place
  
• Experimented with Distance shadows but later abandoned
  
• Player house made into streaming level and all lighting baked