Church on Zunday

[nasKo]

 

A lot of stuff in a WIP state at the moment, so not too many big flashy shiny things in the blog this time round. Hopefully enough to whet your whistle though.

 

In terms of work on the four central pillars of 42, the next big thing happening will be the next merge-in of the crafting revamp to the central trunk build. This will primarily be the crafting station code, which has had a bit of rewiring – and now will also allow for benches/machines etc to (optionally) have ‘parts’ items that degrade on use and can be viewed/added/removed via a maintenance tab.

 

Meanwhile, RJ is working on integrating his deer tracking with the foraging/search mode integrated into Build 41, while in our tech upgrade ‘optimization / lighting / more depth & height’ branch we continue to play a bit of whack-a-mole with issues that have arisen with such foundational changes. So, this week, as an example that’s been stuff like: savefile thumbnail creation being borked, zombies spawning on water, the tops of tall tiles showing through the floor above etc.

 

Finally, in the realms of MP and the continuing mission to bring inventories etc. server-side the gang have been working on getting trapping and nu-fishing working with the new systems, and solving various issues that occur with new object creation also.

 

FARMZ

Let’s pop quickly back into the revamped farming, which this week has had some ease-of-use controls added in to make things less of a click-through-UI nightmare and bring a touch of extra Stardewwy-ness.

 

This video shows various elements of fun stuff – but primarily that by taking a farming tool into your primary, pressing RMB and aiming, and then pressing ‘E’ will have you go about the farming action. Likewise with sowing seeds, and harvesting.

 

CAVEAT: Please note that these controls aren’t final, and also that there’s a fair amount of animation polish required to make it all look super-smooth.

 

 

Also, here’s a quick timelapse of them plants a growin’.

 

 

OTHER STUFF

• As previously mentioned, alongside readable newspapers and newsletters, players will now be able to pick up flyers that advertises places of interest on the Knox Event map – and then also reveal that location on the player’s own personal map. This week we’ve really been knuckling down on this, as we’ve realized it’s a great tool to direct new players towards buildings favoured by many in the community for their safehouses. Anyone able to name the following locations from the real estate advertising?

• As well as expanding the current map, we’re also giving existing areas of the map a loving glow-up. Take this amazing improvement from Ayrton as an awesome example.

• Clearly any new build will also be coming with new clothing, hats and whatnot. Martin’s also pumping out loads of new fun stuff for you to loot, wear, and also for those tricksy zombies to wear too.

Finally, we spotted this out on the wires. How good does this make our lore look and sound?! Maybe AI doesn’t provide a terrifying nightmarish future after all! (Or if it does, it at least it will make the chaos look and sound really good on YouTube!)

This week’s survivalist from SerØ. A changelist of all our pre-release and post-release patches since the 41 beta began can be found here. The Centralized Block of Italicised Text would like to direct your attention to the PZ Wiki should you feel like editing or amending something, and the PZ Mailing List that can send you update notifications once builds get released. We also live on Twitter right here! Our Discord is open for chat and hijinks too. Experienced games industry gameplay coder and want to join Team Awesome? Jobs page here.

[TheUltiM8Guy]

2 hours ago, nasKo said:

This video shows various elements of fun stuff – but primarily that by taking a farming tool into your primary, pressing RMB and aiming, and then pressing ‘E’ will have you go about the farming action. Likewise with sowing seeds, and harvesting.

Could the interacted tile be highlighted so that the player knows exactly which tile is being interacted with?

[Hugo Qwerty]

*Wet.  Wet your whistle, whet your appetite. 

 

I aassume this will change in B42, but at present the animation for plowing soil is hard-coded to the tool type.  Can you tweak this to allow modded garden tools so they don't all default to the shovel animation unless they re-use the same item name?

 

For example, for a mod I'm working on I overwrite this function.

 

Vanilla:

 

ISFarmingMenu.getShovelAnim = function(item)
	if not item then
		return CharacterActionAnims.Dig
	end
	if item:getType() == "HandShovel" or item:getType() == "HandFork" then
		return CharacterActionAnims.DigTrowel
	elseif item:getType() == "GardenHoe" then
		return CharacterActionAnims.DigHoe
	elseif item:getType() == "PickAxe" then
		return CharacterActionAnims.DigPickAxe
	else
		return CharacterActionAnims.DigShovel
	end
end

 

My Mod:

ISFarmingMenu.getShovelAnim = function(item)
	if not item then
		return CharacterActionAnims.Dig
	end
	if string.find(item:getType(), "HandShovel") or string.find(item:getType(), "HandFork") then
		return CharacterActionAnims.DigTrowel
	elseif string.find(item:getType(), "GardenHoe") then
		return CharacterActionAnims.DigHoe
	elseif string.find(item:getType(), "PickAxe") then
		return CharacterActionAnims.DigPickAxe
	else
		return CharacterActionAnims.DigShovel
	end
end

This tweak means I don't have to use MyModStone.GardenHoe, MyModCopper.GardenHoe, MyModBronze.GardenHoe etc.

 

 

[Tilarium]

18 hours ago, nasKo said:

As well as expanding the current map, we’re also giving existing areas of the map a loving glow-up. Take this amazing improvement from Ayrton as an awesome example.

 

I hope this also includes some updates to Muldraugh.  Outside of Louisville, it's seems like it's supposed to be the main town in the area but it's sorely lacking.  As the first town created for the game, it's age is clearly showing as it is very bare-bones and lacking what other towns have.  At least give it a giga-mart!

[Axezombie]

18 hours ago, Tilarium said:

 

I hope this also includes some updates to Muldraugh.  Outside of Louisville, it's seems like it's supposed to be the main town in the area but it's sorely lacking.  As the first town created for the game, it's age is clearly showing as it is very bare-bones and lacking what other towns have.  At least give it a giga-mart!

Muldraugh is based on the real life Muldraugh, it's a really small town that's why it hasn't much interesting places and they already worked on it recently several times, it's probably the town which changed the most.

Talking about map updates I hope they'll fix map issues, LV has been out for 2 years and it has still a lot of issues, some big ones too like furnitures blocking doors, furnitures not being able to be picked up, zombies going through intact windows etc

[Axiomatic]

Farming: please please please highlight the tile when RMB is held to make the process more accurate. 

 

Clothing: please please please make sure that any run speed and action speed modifications on clothing actually impact the player.

[OrdnanceOkami]

Nice to see more of a change to the map, basing it on real-life locations a few years from now the entire map might be unrecognizable.