Alpha Update 13: April 28th 2020

News Patch Notes
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Highlights for Version 1.0.133

Terrain Foliage is now Live

Foilage
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Overview

  • The foliage system is a powerful tool that allows creators to automatically populate meshes on a paintable terrain.
  • While the primary use of the system may be for grass, flowers, and trees - many other meshes are available. Want a terrain littered with crowbars? This system is for you!
  • Spawning meshes this way is also much more performant than hand-placing them.
  • For some examples of what can be created, check out our Imgur gallery.
  • NOTE: There is currently no collision supported on foliage and we will be evaluating that in the future.

How to use

  • Foliage can be used on any paintable terrain material.
  • Simply navigate to the Foliage tab with your terrain selected and the "Add Foliage" button will allow you to add a foliage item to one of the paintable channels.
  • The foliage will automatically populate on that painted channel with the given parameters.
  • There are many parameters to allow the creator to tweak size, density, position, angles, and offsets, so hop into Core and check them out!
  • Multiple meshes can be used in each material channel.
  • There is also a modifier brush on the Paint tab that allows you to erase foliage selectively. This is a multiplier, so you can use it at partial Target Value to thin out foliage or 1.0 target value to erase completely.
  • If you are having issues seeing foliage appear, it is important to check your spawn distances and cull distances.

Editor

New Features

  • Viewing templates in Community Content with long descriptions/release notes will show multiple lines and scroll if needed.
  • Terrain: Adjustments to terrain generators. More generators added and some additional parameters exposed (like seeds) on select generators.

Changes

  • Choosing "Play Now" after publishing a game will directly launch that game instead of routing through a webpage link.

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that could cause a user's preferred region to not be saved correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where un-checking the Unbounded option has no effect during the next Preview session.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the window to be the wrong size after closing the editor.
  • Fixed progress bars not showing on game/template publish.
  • Fixed a bug that could sometimes prevent users from being able to select a preferred region.
  • Fixes a case where the publish progress bar wasn't hiding when publishing a map that has a file error.
  • Fixed crash when an infinite loop of script events is triggered.
  • Fixed a bug where trigger overlap events could be dropped if they were caused while processing other overlap events.
  • Fixed a bug where custom event names were being treated case-insensitively. Event names are now case sensitive, but will log warnings if inconsistent case usage is detected.
  • Fixed a bug in single-player preview where hitting a breakpoint in the script debugger could leave the player unable to move after resuming.
  • Fixed a bug where clients from an old preview mode session could join a new preview mode session.
  • Fixed an issue with destroyed static contexts leaving child objects on clients.
  • Fixed a crash in the player data storage service, and a bug that could result in lost data.
  • Fixed a bug where .terrain files will not change if the terrain is not edited, which is useful for version control.
  • Fixed an issue that caused inconsistent loading of screenshots while game browsing.
  • Fixed the stretching of game browsing tiles with long titles.
  • Fixed folder flicker when selecting game components in the editor.
  • Fixed crash that could happen when an equipment's pickup trigger had been destroyed.

API

New Features

  • Added CoreDebug.GetTaskStackTrace() function to return the stack trace of a specific script task. Defaults to current task if not specified.
  • Added CoreDebug.GetStackTrace() function to return stack traces for all currently executing tasks.
  • StaticMeshes have a new readonly Lua property meshAssetId that returns the asset MUID that object uses.

Fixes

Core Content

New Features

KillFeed

  • Added option to show equipment names instead of ability names in kill feed.
  • 2hand_rocket_reload_magazine is now available for use. This animation may be useful for shoulder mounted rocket launchers that are currently using the 2hand_rifle stance.
  • Added Game Settings object in Battle Royale framework.
  • Advanced Grenade now have pickup sound.
  • Added Vertical Sword Swipe, Item callout sparkles, Signal Flare, Road Flare, and Swirling Trash VFX.
  • Added Object Outline tool.

OutlineTool
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Changes

  • Deprecated "Ambient Rain 01 SFX". It had a variety of issues and didn't work as intended.
    The following audio assets can be used to replace:
    - Ambient Nature Rain Big Drops 01 SFX
    - Ambient Nature Rain Heavy 01 SFX
    - Ambient Nature Rain Heavy Splatty 01 SFX
    - Rain Light SFX
    - Rain Medium SFX

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug in the kill feed component.
  • Fixed kill feed not displaying in some frameworks.

We'll push the update on April 28th at 6AM PST.

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Wow these are some amazing updates, love the specific focus on the foliage system.

It is nice to see the focus on that part of Core.

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So does this update take affect automatically or do we need to manually update somehow?

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Core will update itself when you launch it. We're pushing the patch tomorrow at 6am PST.

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I'm loving the object outline tool :slight_smile: