Monthly Featured Community Planetoid in Release Update FIVE

Yet another update with a HUEG list of new features, improvements, and fixes - check them out below! Especially if the game used to crash on you at start or later, a big update to the GUI middleware we're using should clear many of these issues up (they completely replaced the memory handling system).

Now, monthly, we are automatically featuring a Contributor Community-created Planetoid

right inside the game's Asteroid Belt map! You can now subscribe to, and vote up and down on these Workshop scenes, from the in-game menu. When the author of one of these subscribed-to scenes updates them, they will automatically get pushed to your game, and indicate that they're refreshed. We're kicking off the end of May here with filipex2000's brutal zombie-bashing minigame, which will cycle to something else at the beginning of each coming month! NOTE: If you get one of these messages when launching the game now, don't be alarmed! It just means there's a log file from a previous crash that we would love to take a look at. The game should load fine after you click through this message box:

Most notable updates this time around:

Featured monthly Planetoids will start appearing in your asteroid belt
Many if not most of those previous random crashes should be gone now due to updated GUI middleware
Automatic error reporting which will aide us in fixing the crashes and problems some of you reported
Working component system to build your own vehicles (more on that later)
Lots of new reactor blueprints for scene makers

Full changelog:

Added one more featured planetoid
Added save slots: offline and networked
More-robust "special" styling of vote buttons
Added way to fade appropriate button when already-upvoted/downvoted
Vote buttons are square
Todd's updates on editor tool tips
Fixed AB with nil check
Got back Blank Planetoid instead of my net-test version
Switched OFF network shortcuts in release config
Fixed determinism bug with GetApproxPos
Determinism test buffer corruption check
Log update and bug fix on net game
Made all new code in network thread-safe
Easier connecting and creating net game on one or two computers
Net test small update
Net update - waiting for clients to finish loading
Net game testing updates
AB reacts to auto DL setting
Fixed lines in the way when unlocking new ptoid ,added shakes
Added simple camera.shake()
Fixed AB errors without steam, added warning if steam isnt running
Blank Planetoid net version test
Server UDP discovery test
Added functions to start / stop client / server and bound them to shortcuts
Net frame update fix and Client time catch up
Updates on net game and bp menu handling
Polished ui in ab
Polished unlock hints
Added optional gravityPoint arg to fade around to math.fadePosition()
Made AB spark travel much smoother
Fixed ui lines wrong for one frame
Fixed lines appearing for one frame when starting scene in AB
AB: tweaked spark pos and size depending on zoom to be always well visible
AB: showing which planetoids get unlocked by completing, cleaned up some code
Added measuring of network ping and game delay between computers
Applied lua syntax and other errors catching also to LuaMan::RunScript()
Matched TO colors with fog of war in AB map
Made lua syntax error and other errors appear in lua errors window
Adjusted AB TO color to match fog of war
Adding scene to RemovedScenes immediately on Unsubscribe call
Fixed and polished fading to game and back to menu
Removed debug warning and some old TODO MIRO comments
Removed debug line to create crash
Fixed MagnetizeMOs caused crash in AB map when PS with explosion was used
Fading into game remembers zoom in AB, then fades back to menu to that zoom value, clamped to 0.3 .. 2.0
Fixed some scenes disappearing from AB
Forgotten file
Added temp warning for miro about workshop info not found
Updated dofile
Fixed AB error when steam not running
Saving disabled if playing networked for now
Using Lua dofile instead of dostring, for the debug info file name. switched back ON the game saving
Added missing button press sounds to some buttons
Fixed some wrong PS effects in AB
Added PS effect when unsubbing
Fixed AB UI not updated when subbing/unsubbing
Can zoom select into any AB ptoid
Removed debug measure disabling AB intro sequence
Modified subscribed or not correctly identified [removed] modal for unsub
Added subscribe button and logic to show that, the unsub/up/down buttons or nothing appropriately + calling the passed onsub callback as well
Replaced GetHumanController() in some places
Updating net game input flow
Fixed lua err in analytics
Added util.getPrimaryPlayingPioneer/controller() and replaced getHumanController() in some places with it
Disabled analytics when playing networked for now
Fixed zooming to and from AB due to menu min zoom change
Net game input update
Zooming much closer into selected planetoid in ab
Updating input flow of network game
Changed min zoom for menu and game
Fixed lua err when clicking deleted scene
Fixed download progress to 1 when item added
Ps eff when resubbing scene
Fixed downloaded state of workshop item
Polished subbing/unsubbing
Can resub deleted scenes in AB by clicking them
Ab_ui calls funcs in ab for sub/unsub
Fixed refreshing scenes list and auto downloaded location after unsubscribe
Print() shows empty strings as "" instead of nothing
Featured scenes are handeled by wsID everywhere to avoid problems
Fixed featured scene would not be found if subbed already
Short floaty texts stay up a little longer
Added do_steam_subscribe() to ab ui for maxk
Utf8 fixed StringFunc::Narrow and StringFunc::Widen used too small buffer up to 256 chars, what caused crash
Added and bound c2d:GetWorkshopBlueprintInfoByID and GetWorkshopSceneInfoByID
Added pio target to resp station
Fixed slow particles still destroying pios gun
Showing rating of workshop planetoids
Removed some debug stuff
Added workshop button functionality
Added name to workshop ID temp funcs
Added steam unsub/upvote/downvote buttons to asteroid belt
Updated MakeHoleAtLocalPoint returning pos of triangle
Added requested feature mo: MakeHoleAtLocalPoint and MakeHoleAtWorldPoint
Added and bound to lua c2d:IsPlayingNetworked
Fixed Lua err in AB
Added util.getAllBrokenOffMOs
Drone flashes before explode
Fixed showing planetoid pic in menu when that scene is from other than main library, also temp-fixed loading that pic for planet that has '(Featured)' added in the name
Fixed planet picture was not showing up in menu due to utf8 change
Fixed showing standard pio texture in editor due to utf8 change
Temp workaround for IO setting things inactive that should stay active
Added setting to add assembly trigger to clean up dead stuff
Added save.getSavingDisabled()
Respawn station doesn't say game saved if saving disabled
Updated list of featured planetoids
Add assembly reactor can set position targets by assembly too
Finished error handling and sending to server, even when nothing is yet initialized
More details for exceptions handling, updated Debug Configuration with /bigobj
Fixed coherent resource reader issue
Set working directory by exe path on engine init
Coherent resource reading test
Utf8 fix opening blueprint Lua file with ZBS
Added reactor score counter
Removed testing forced error
Fixed copying error logs
Set all projects to catch more error exceptions, to log them
Added Error logs sending, more errors catching. updated network to auto-close window when one is disconnected from net test
Fixed resource filler and added on/off target
Lots of progress on base defendoid
Removed print
Added team tag option to assembly spawner
Added reactor set active
Bot spot: nerfed, can use its jetpack when picked up
Fixed lua err in bot spot
Added setting to not loop to sequence trigger
Added reactor trigger for each player
Added reactor trigger
Fixed featured scene not working when scene wasnt downloaded yet
First version of code free defendoid
Fixed showing lua src in error
Fixed ZORder of the two lcd panels
Fixed add assembly trigger going inactive an not triggering on assembly death
Added fail scene trigger
Added on destroyed to power core
Added reactor no flash
Added warning about weird bug that can happen in AB
Polished code for converting strings to lower and upper case
Utf8 fixed editor images loading when in other than 'Textures/' path. also some cleanup in EditWindow class
Utf8 fix on Drag and Drop
Fixed wrong triggering lcd timer
Added reactor sequence
Added on target death trigger to add assembly reactor
Added trigger limit to trigger repeatedly
Fixed that weird camera bug on defendoid start
Added reactor add assembly
Added triggers to lcd panel
Fixed lua err in pio
Http class (post/get) based on curl library
Updates on net game input handling
Marked problems for miro in act_asteroid_belt
Fixed some weirdness in asteroid belt when steam not running
Todd's updates on Editor tool tips
Updates on net game controllers input handling and sending
pioneer shop deals better with auto DLs turned off, removed global from shop manager
Fixed featured not always highlighted
Added a little more info on featured ptoid and showing in panel too
Simplified some asteroid belt code
Lua error shows locals and upvals when error happens in C func too
Added missing light to featured ptoids
If not featured scene given using most recent well rated
Fixed lua err when steam not running
Added featured planetoids to AB
Set ws min score to 0.5, removed some old code
Added util.getDateTime()
Fixed scenes maybe never auto downloading
Updating controller input to meet network game specs
Disabled saving in trigger tut
Disabled analytics for now
Set disc map to 0.1,0.1,0.1 again
Eliminated 'OnThisComputer' functions from scripts
Lighting up entire mount pile of pickup focus
Removed a print
Fixed pioneer not entering vehicles sometimes and not choosing closest veh
Changed GetIsHumanAndPlayingOnThisComputer to GetIsHuman in lua scripts
Initial work for initializing Controllers for network game
Removed a print
Partial fix for entering wrong joints
Shortenign hud names of component vehicles
Fixed components unmounting from tools when mounting
Added frag with some component vehicles
Fixed lua err in pio
Added feature to play song that is included in scene as soundset with c2d:PlaySceneSong( sound set name [, fade-out time of current music] )
Not saving driven vehicle if its component, tagged components Component
Fixed pioneer not able to enter component vehicles sometimes when he should
Fixed wheel component mounting wrong
Removed print from wheel
pioneer can not pick up things in mount pile of vehicle, caused problems with components
Minigun component lighter, doesnt eat resources
Tweaked components, made wheel work with scene fragments
Switched off net client test on start
Added Added Constructs and Controllers to determinism checker
Fix of determinism checker
Oversized debug packets support for determinism debugger
More updates on determinism debugger
More improvements on determinism debugger
Improving determinism debugger
Network determinism checker implementation
Added new button in PS edit to select next PS of the same name
Added DevFastStart to start pp even faster without preloading things, for dev purposes
Fixed white border when rendering scene screenshot in transition to menu
Fixed: Edit PSs collided in world grid and caused weird behavior
Added help button to sound sets
Added component seat boosted
Todd's bunch of updates on editor tool tips
First Network stuff, minor changes in Renderer
Added balancer component
Added thruster component
Added reactor random pick
Fixed mount joints on some components
Fixed seat and wheel component doing crazy physics
Fixed defendoid not working
Fixed info terminal closing bubble immediately
Better feedback for broken pop plant
Removed debug print from pioneer AIf
Added weapon blacklist to lms and blacklisted bolt action from all arenas
Removed tier tag from cold launcher since its not deadly

Even though these recent updates have been juicy, they're nothing compared to the really big deal features we're working toward behind the scenes. So hold onto your old space butts this summer!

[ 2018-05-25 17:45:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

Planetoid Pioneers
Data Realms

Developer

Data Realms, LLC

Publisher

2018-02-08

Release

Indie Singleplayer Coop

However, if you do choose to purchase the Contributor Edition today, you will:

Become part of the emerging Contributor Community, where you can collaborate and directly share content with the development team and your fellow contributors.
Be able to submit your creations for consideration to be integrated into the official shipping game, with your name then appearing in the credits.
With a single button press, have the ability to publish whatever you make to the free Steam Workshop, for anyone to rate, comment, and subscribe to.
Be among the first to have your very best Blueprints and Scenes considered for the Curated Item Workshop on Steam - where you would earn money on them!

About the first ‘Primoid’ Planetoid that will initially ship with Planetoid Pioneers:

After your space yacht undergoes an irksome Rapid Unplanned Disassembly, you find yourself marooned on a large Planetoid outside the orbit of Mars. To overcome this interplanetary Robinson Crusoe scenario, you need to use your Atomizer and Assembler tools to gather local resources and turn them into various vehicles, contraptions, and even organic life forms.

Explore, survive, and ultimately build a resource-intensive spacecraft to escape the dangers and mysterious caves of this circular world. Onto the next uncharted Planetoid for a completely different adventure - built by us or anyone in the Contributor Community!

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