Hello gamers. It is time for another radical new Logic World update! Version 0.91.3 is out now, and you can get it right here on Steam. This is a nice juicy update filled with dozens of improvements and bug fixes. As usual, for all the thrilling details, you can read the full changelog below. But the highlight of this update is the new features for downloading Creations. We've added a new menu to the game for downloading Creations from the Creation Hub, so exploring the community's builds is easier than ever.
And you don't even have to copy-and-paste a link to do this. If you browse the Hub, you'll notice some new "Open in-game" buttons. Pressing one of these buttons will now open Logic World directly to the new menu, and you'll be playing on the world seconds later!
The "Open in-game" links use our new URL protocol, logicworld://. It's supported on all three of our platforms -- Windows, Linux, and MacOS. You just need to register the protocol first: for more information, check out this post. So have fun browsing and exploring the Hub! There's a ton of really cool builds already on there, and it's now almost completely frictionless to check them out. And if you've got a cool build that you haven't shared on the Hub yet, please upload it so we can all check out your work. Uploads are just as easy as downloads: while in-game, open the pause menu with the Escape key, and click on "Upload this sandbox".
Enjoy the update. See you soon :)

0.91.3 Changelog

• Added an in-game menu for downloading Creations from the Creation Hub. It can be accessed via a new button in the main menu.
• Added a protocol handler: `logicworld://` links now get opened by the game, allowing quick and easy downloading of Creations. For this to work, you first need to click the "Register Protocol" button in the Download Creation Menu.
• Added command: `OpenDownloadCreationMenu [creation ID or URL]`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Protocol.EnableProtocolListeningOnUDP`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Protocol.ListeningUdpPort`

• When Grabbing or Cloning on a smooth surface like Grasslands, you can now hold the Mod key (by default left ctrl) to rotate the object freely.
• Pick Component will now try to match the full detail of the component, if possible. For example, if you have both a red and blue circuit board in your hotbar and you use Pick on a red board, the red board in your hotbar will now be selected.
• Fixed several exceptions with Grabbing that could happen if you tried to grab an object before the server finished confirming a previous building operation. In these cases, the Grab operation will fail now (and you can try again a second later).
• Fixed exception when canceling a Resize operation if another player has moved or resized that component while you were resizing it.
• Fixed Resizing still moving child components around in a few edge cases.
• Fixed Resizing an object with wires attached without changing the component size causing wire ghosts to remain.

• If an undo or redo fails, a message will now be printed to the debug console.
• Fixed server exception when undoing the creation of a component that another player deleted.
• Fixed undo history becoming corrupted when server is very busy (frozen) and applying multiple multi-build-request operations in that time.
• Fixed redo crashing the client if an undo operation previously failed.
• Fixed redo silently failing when trying to delete wires that were already deleted as a side effect of a component deletion.
• Fixed missing wires after undoing and then redoing a Clone operation with internal wires.

• Added a "Report a Bug" button on the Main Menu, Pause Menu, and Error Screen. Pressing this button brings up instructions for how to report a bug or issue with the game.
• In the Singleplayer menu, the Details pane for a saved game will now show which mods are in that save's registry.
• Fixed various issues with hotbar item management.
• Fixed the volume sliders in the Edit Singer and Edit Drum menus having an incorrect maximum value.
• Fixed the color chooser in the Edit Label menu not properly showing the correct selected color about 50% of the time.
• Fixed the Help menu flickering for a frame when you start placing an item on the hotbar.

• Added an experimental "Component Action" API. It allows sending custom bytes to a component between server and client.
• Added new manifest property `IncludeModInfoInSave`, which allows mods to control when their info (ID and version) are stored in save files.
• Cache folders will now be automatically deleted when switching/updating to different game version. This triggers a mod recompilation.
• Modders can now create and inject undo history entries.
• Multi-Undo build request sending now allows callbacks. (#398)
• Improved "mod has no mod type" exception messages to mention the issues with inheriting Server/ClientMod class.
• Mod compilation errors are now shown on the error screen, so you don't need to check the logs to see these errors.
• Fixed (new) mod instance creation failure detection hiding some other common exceptions (e.g. "Mod has no mod-type").
• Fixed a game crash in multiplayer when your game has modded components that the server does not have and a component deletion is undone.

• If there is an error with starting up the game, the error screen will now be properly shown with information about that error, instead of an empty black screen.
• Added a "Copy Error" button to the error screen. Please make use of it when reporting issues :)
• The error screen can now show stacktraces and other details in an expandable info box.
• Added secret setting: `MHG.UI.ErrorScreen.OpenErrorDetailsByDefault`

• Everything you see in server or client console will now be added to the log files.
• Log files will now contain stacktraces for exceptions.
• Command executions by player or console or LSF will now be logged in the log files.
• Improved logging throughout the program.

• Added server command-line argument: `--ansi-rgb`. This will make the server use Ansi RGB color codes in the plain text console. If the terminal supports RGB, colors will be accurate.
• Removed server LICC log file (log.txt).

• Unused components will no longer be added to world or subassembly save's component registry.
• Mods which provide components placed in the world will now be automatically included in the save's mod registry.

• When teleporting to another player, you no longer teleport inside them: instead you teleport next to them, looking at them. This is similar to how teleporting to Flags works.
• Fixed the `tp ` command not working.

• Added command-line startup option: `-open-save `
• Added command-line startup option: `-join-server [-server-password ]`
• Added command-line startup option: `-open-url `
• The new command-line startup options take precedence over equivalent startup secret settings.
• Added command: `debug.printcommandlinearguments`

• Added WIP translations for Pirate Speak.
• Updated translations and translator credits for Czech, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovenian, Spanish (Spain), and Swedish.

• Enabling or disabling noclip will now only print a message to the debug console if you do it via the `noclip` command. This prevents the console being spammed with messages if you use the secret setting `MHG.Flying.Secret.AutoEnterNoclipOnStartFlying`.
• Fixed copying messages from the client console sometimes copying rich text tags.
• Fixed a server memory leak on game save when no players are online.
• Fixed a rare case where the client and server failed to properly exchange component CustomData, leading to mess and disaster.
• Fixed the "Upload this sandbox" button sometimes not working.
• Fixed typos in several secret settings and server config values: `Nolcip` was fixed to `Noclip`, `Recieve` has been fixed to `Receive`, and `TimeOut` has been fixed to `Timeout`.
• Fixed the Crash of Doom, which made the whole world disappear except some floating disembodied wires.
• We now properly handle several situations where a crash could become even crashier when trying to remove outlines.

Hello! As we discussed last week, were working on a new game update, and it will be out in a few days. In the meantime, heres a little blogging from Ecconia on one of the changes coming soon our new logging system.
You can check out the full blog here on logicworld.net :)

Hey everyone! Weve been hard at work on Logic World, and we thought it was about time we gave you an update on how things are going. As we announced in a previous post, were working on switching Logic Worlds game engine from Unity to Godot. This process is going to take a while; well discuss it in more detail in future blogs. In the meantime, we decided to do another update in the Unity engine to fix some more things and add some new features. Logic World v0.91.3 is coming out next week. Were excited to get it out to you! If you want to know more, Ecconia has written on our blog about some of the changes coming in v0.91.3, particularly those relevant to mods and modders. If you like juicy technical details, click here to check out that blog. See you soon for the game update!

Salutations, gamers! Logic World update v0.91.2 is now available for download! You can get it right here on Steam. This update contains numerous large performance improvements, some upgrades to the building mechanics, and a veritable plethora of tweaks, improvements, and bugfixes across many areas of the game. As usual, the full list of changes can be found below. This is the first Logic World update that contains work from all five of us in the newly expanded core development team: Jimmy, Felipe, Zoey, Ecconia, and GHXX. We're very proud of this update we've made together and we really hope you enjoy it.
If you haven't yet, you may want to read last week's State of the Logic World blog post, which goes into detail about the status of this project. You may also want to join our vibrant Discord community and subscribe to our very cool newsletter. Thanks for playing. Much more will follow. We'll see you soon :)

0.91.2 Changelog

• Significantly improved loading times for larger worlds (>100,000 components) by batching collider instantiations.
• Fixed an issue that made hot-loads slower than cold-loads for larger worlds. All worlds now load faster hot than cold.
• Limited the maximum physics delta time to prevent physics death spirals. This should significantly improve framerates in large worlds for most cases.
• Sockets find their connections faster now. This means that initial world loading times are faster in worlds with lots of Sockets, and furthermore, placing or moving a lot of sockets at the same time will create less severe lag spikes.
• Server tick scheduling has been improved to reduce the amount of time the server can spend idle and not simulating the circuitry. Faster simulation speeds can now be accessed before the server starts skipping simulation time.
• The simulation now tries to catch up lost time over multiple server ticks, and only begins skipping simulation time once the simulation tick debt crosses a configurable threshold.
• Removed the server config value `MaxAllowedTimeStepSeconds`, and replaced with with the new server config value `MaxAllowedSimulationTickDebtSeconds`, due to the new simulation catch-up system described above.
• Assorted additional optimizations.

• Improved item movement during Multi-Grab and Multi-Clone operations. Items are much better at finding nearby valid placements, have a far greater tolerance for vertical displacement, and conform more strictly to their target rotations.
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Placing.Secret.MultiPlacementMaxVerticalVariance`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Placing.Secret.MultiPlacementCastHeightIncrement`
• Edge extensions are now only enabled during fine placement, so it's easier to place circuit boards into tight spaces.
• Fixed false-negatives when detecting valid placements; you should now never be erroneously prevented from placing objects next to each other.

• By default, servers will no longer automatically save the game or make auto-backups while no players are connected. However, these behaviors can be restored by enabling the new server config values `DoAutosaveWhileServerIsEmpty` and `DoAutoBackupsWhileServerIsEmpty`.
• If the server is started with the command-line argument `--help`, it will now print a help text with available command-line arguments, and then shut down.
• If the server is started with invalid command-line arguments, it will now display an error message followed by the `--help` text, and then shut down.
• Disabled terminal prompt prefix `>` when the `--plain-text` server argument is set.
• The server console no longer waits for input before closing if there is an error on startup.
• Fixed exception on server shutdown if `AnnounceOnLocalNetwork` is turned off. (#484)

• New format for save files, Blotter v7, with minor binary formatting tweaks.
• Added save converter from v6 to v7 (Blotter v6 was used from Logic World v0.91.0 to v0.91.1).
• Added save converter from v5 to v7 (Blotter v5 was used from Logic World v0.90.0 to v0.90.3).
• The game will now automatically back up a save before converting it to a new save format version.
• When you create multiple saves with the same title, the on-disk filenames will now use an incrementing counter (i.e. `world`, `world (1)`, `world (2)`) instead of appended dashes (i.e. `world`, `world-`, `world--`).

• Hotbar title text now fades out after a short time with the same slot selected.
• Added secret setting: `MHG.UI.Hotbar.FullTextDuration`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.UI.Hotbar.FadeTextDuration`
• Fixed some glitches and inconsistent behavior with hotbar item management.
• Fixed base building UI rendering behind world geometry when another menu is open.

• Updated translations and translator credits for Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

• Added preprocessor symbols `LW_SIDE_SERVER` and `LW_SIDE_CLIENT` for compiling a section of mod code only the server or only on the client. (#489)
• Added a hook for post-parse save transformation to `SaveReader`, which mods can use to update their components.
• If a server-side mod fails to compile, the server will now immediately shut down instead of continuing to load the save with a mod missing.
• Client-side mod compilation errors now get printed at INFO log level. (#310)
• When a mod instance fails to load, the error message is now more helpful, and instructs you to try deleting the cache folders.
• Fixed CS1701 warning spam on client compilation error.

• Improved handling of exceptions during application initialization to prevent outrageous error spam.
• Fixed some exceptions being logged twice.
• Fixed the client being spammed with exceptions if another player joins or leaves near a barrier.
• Fixed exceptions when disconnecting from a server.
• Fixed a crash that could occur with a particular easter egg that pops up on Markku's birthday.
• Fixed not being able to join singleplayer games when UsePassword is enabled in `config.succ`. (#400)
• Fixed occasional erroneous floating wires not being removed when the game is reloaded. (#482)
• Fixed client crash to error screen on server rejoin when the server's simulation is struggling if the Simulation Speed Menu was not previously opened.

Hello, it's me, Jimmy from Mouse Hat Games. If you're reading this, you've probably been following Logic World for some time, and you've probably noticed that for the past year, there's been very little official communication about Logic World. I'm truly sorry for the silence. It ends now. Beginning in January, a number of things began falling apart in my life. Throughout this year I've suffered a host of physical health problems, mental health problems, and other personal issues. I wanted desperately to be working on this game that means so much to me, but I just wasn't capable of it. I felt embarrassed and ashamed of that, so I just disappeared from our community. (One of many things I've learned about myself this year is that I have avoidant tendencies. I'm working on it.) The good news is that, since June, I have been laser-focused on fixing my life, and I've been extremely successful. May 2023 was perhaps the worst month of my life. November 2023 was the best so far. I'm able to work again, and to love working, so I've been working a lot. Much has been happening recently and the future of Logic World has never looked so bright. It's good to be back. Let me tell you a bit about what's been happening, and what's next.

A New Team

Zoey

Ecconia

GHXX

A New Update

A New Engine

• fun to work with,
• NOT UNITY, and
• free and open source software, so once we've moved our game to Godot we will truly own it and have control over it.

What's up gamers, The minor update v0.91.1 is now available for download! You can get it right here on Steam. This update contains a ton of bugfixes and lots of minor improvements/tweaks/polish. Read on below for the full list of changes. More big Logic World news is coming soon, so make sure you're subscribed to our newsletter and following Logic World on Steam. Enjoy the update!
(Artwork by Cady | @pink_3d:matrix.org)

0.91.1 Changelog

• Multi-Placement systems have been drastically improved. It should now be much easier to place multiple items where you want them to be, and items should always have the correct starting placement when you begin moving them now.
• The system for determining the rotation of items being Grabbed or Cloned has been reworked. These items should never change rotation unexpectedly now when you move them to a surface with a different orientation.
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Placing.Secret.MaxOffsetVariantAttemptsPerItemPerFrame`
• Fixed a crash to error screen that could occur when grabbing or cloning multiple components (#475)
• Fixed a crash to error screen when undoing some custom-data-changing operations (#469)
• Fixed a crash to error screen, and occasionally other weird errors, when undoing a multi-clone operation that placed a cloned object on top of a source object (#466)
• Fixed not being able to resize components when they're placed in very specific locations (#471)
• Fixed cloned objects sometimes containing input pegs that remain On without being connected to any outputs
• Fixed using Offset Hold on a Flipped component resulting in a mirrored X offset value

• Fixed inputs on Through Pegs and Sockets sometimes erroneously starting Off instead of On after loading a save
• Fixed Delayers' internal counter state not being saved, and resetting to 0 on save load (#473)

• FOR REAL THIS TIME, fixed the infamous "cuddle bug", where you'd sometimes be shoved around by other players while someone was in the process of joining the server (#474)
• Fixed visual glitches for a short time after someone joins or leaves the server where other players would appear to move around very far and fast
• Fixed connected clients sometimes erroneously seeing the default server closing message when the server is closed with a custom message
• Fixed missing server console message to confirm the world has been saved to disk when the server is closed and `SaveOnClose` is enabled
• Improved the phrasing of various messages printed to the server console

• Finding Parcels: tweaked the color of some sounds and fixed some audio artifacts
• Time and Science: fixed the ending note being cut off abruptly. It now fades out fully to silence.

• Translations for WIP languages now include non-approved Google Translate suggestions
• Updated translations and translator credits for Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian

• Fixed OBJ export not working at all lmao
• Added command: `objexport.currentworld [int textResolution]`
• OBJ exports should have much less texture duplication compared to 0.90.3. Textures are now reused where possible.
• Exported .obj and .mtl files are more human-readable compared to 0.90.3 thanks to added whitespace between objects, better organization of the data, and a few other improvements

• `token.dat` is now stored in the game install directory, next to the executable. This means your login is now specific to your installation of the game, instead of being shared by all installations on your machine.
• `token.dat` is now stored encrypted, with an encryption key and IV stored in a separate location on your machine. This means that in order to impersonate you, an attacker would now need access to two files instead of just one.
• Fixed the `LogicWorld.Online.Auth.ClearedToken` event never being invoked (#476)
• Added a smiley face when you log in using the browser

• Fixed incorrect integrated server paths on the Itch.io version, which prevented Itch.io players from loading singleplayer worlds
• The game handles input much better now if your binding for Multi-Select overlaps with your binding for a Build Action
• Fixed a crash to error screen when the main menu loads if you have a corrupted save file
• Added a check on application startup for whether the environment supports compute shaders, which are required to draw component/wire geometry since 0.91. If not, an appropriate error message will be displayed.
• Removed OpenGL support on MacOS, since OpenGL on MacOS does not support compute shaders
• Enabled Graphics Jobs and GPU Skinning in the player, which should provide a modest rendering performance boost

Greetings, gamers! We are finally ready to release our biggest update yet! Introducing Logic World v0.91: The Less Buggy Update. This update is now available, for free, to everyone who owns the game.
0.91 is a massive update that touches every area of the game, drastically improving performance, majorly improving stability, adding dozens upon dozens of little quality-of-life improvements and tweaks, and introducing a few radical new features. For this update, we've changed or added over 69,000 lines of code since 0.90.3 across over 1,000 files. It's been a big effort, but it's just the start of what's to come. We're very happy with Logic World v0.91. It's the best version of Logic World yet, and it's an excellent foundation for the really ambitious updates we'll be doing next. Thank you for playing our video game. Enjoy the update. From everyone at Mouse Hat Games, please have a happy holidays, and a wonderful new year!

0.91 Changelog

• Multi-Clone now supports cloning wires that connect the different selected objects (#73)
• Multi-Grab and Multi-Clone handle a bunch of placement edge cases much better, particularly related to circuit boards
• You can now configure the size of the Action Wheel
• Added a button in the Action Wheel configuration screen to reset to the default Action Wheel configuration
• Multi-Wire Placement is now treated as a single action in the undo/redo history, instead of one action per wire placed (#318)
• Multi-Wire Placements with only one peg in the first selection now work properly
• Wires can be slightly shorter now
• During Grab, Clone, and Resize operations, the placing ghost will now update its circuit states instead of being frozen
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.Building.PlacingGhostsRecieveCircuitStateUpdates`
• Various improvements to Multi-Edit, especially with regards to colorable components
• During a Multi-Select pass, components which are a child or parent of the initially-selected component will no longer be added to the selection
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.Building.MultiSelector.AllowSelectingChildrenOfFirstComponentInPass`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.Building.MultiSelector.AllowSelectingParentsOfFirstComponentInPass`
• You are now always allowed to proceed with a deleting operation when multiple components are selected (the previous rule was that you had to select all the children of a component)
• Fixed sometimes not being able to rotate Switches, Buttons and Keys without grabbing them first (#206)
• Fixed undo/redo stack breaking and causing errors sometimes (#396, #281)
• Fixed undoing build actions that deleted wires breaking the undo stack (#399)
• Fixed some issues with components moving around upon completing a multi-resize (among them #266)
• Fixed canceling multi-wire placement not removing the outlines of the selected pegs (#233)
• Fixed board drawing sometimes not properly snapping to a square size when holding shift (#203)
• Fixed flip state not always being correctly detected for Grab/Clone operations (#351)
• Fixed rotations getting out of sync during Multi-Clone if you try to rotate before the first successful placement (#268)
• Fixed not being able to resize short Flags
• Fixed warnings and errors in the console when grabbing and resizing Flags
• Fixed log spam with Look viewing rotation vector is zero during some edge cases with grabbing
• Fixed hovered colors in the Quick Color Chooser being persistently applied when the operation is canceled (#71)

• Added an option to Keys to only allow pressing them while in a Chair
• Added a reset button to the Edit Delayer menu, to reset it to the default delay of 10 ticks
• If you hold the Mod key while flipping a row of switches, they will all be set to the same state as the first switch flipped (#60)
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.InvertMultiSwitchInteractionModKeyBehavior`
• The input pegs on XOR Gates, AND Gates, D-Latches, Oracles, and Relays are now slightly longer
• Fixed some unintuitive Delayer behavior that could, among other anomalies, allow one-tick pulses to go through a two-tick Delayer (#183)
• Fixed Delayers getting out of sync after being cloned
• Fixed Chairs sometimes erroneously complaining that they are occupied (#223)
• Chairs will no longer be outlined if you look at them while they are occupied

• Added Simulation Speed menu. It can be accessed through a new button in the pause menu or with a hotkey, bound by default to `F9`
• Added a hotkey to pause or resume the simulation, bound by default to `F10`
• Added a hotkey to step one tick forward through the simulation (when the simulation is paused), bound by default to `Shift+F10`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.SimulationSpeedMenu.ShowRemoveFromListButtonsOnHover`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.SimulationSpeedMenu.SavedSpeedWiggleData`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.SimulationSpeedMenu.AutoResumeSimulationWhenChangingSpeed`
• Added server config value: `DefaultSimulationTPS`
• Added server config value: `MaximumSimulationTPS`
• Removed the server config value `SimulationTPS` as this is now configured per-save in ExtraData
• Renamed the server command `step` to `simulation.step` for consistency
• Fixed the simulation unpausing in multiplayer when a new player joins the server even if the players currently on the server have paused it (#347)
• Fixed the simulation unpausing in singleplayer when accessing a sub-menu of the Pause menu

• Outputs that should start on (such as the outputs of newly placed Inverters) now start on in the simulation
• Fixed Clone operations not properly copying the circuit states of the original objects, which would often result in flickers and broken feedback loops (#116)
• Fixed component outputs sometimes erroneously changing state when the number of inputs is changed
• Fixed weird simulation glitches (and occasionally server crashes) that would occur when changing the number of pegs on a component that has connected output pegs (#104, #250)

• Significantly improved loading times, especially for large worlds
• Improved game framerates for most scenarios, particularly for large worlds, and particularly if post-processing or shadow cascades are disabled
• Component/wire geometry is now rendered with GPU instancing instead of in combined mesh chunks
• Colliders are instantiated more efficiently
• Improved performance and reduced allocations when grabbing or cloning stuff
• Improved performance of checking Socket connections
• The game now logs how long it takes the client to load a save
• Removed the secret settings `MHG.Graphics.RenderDistance.Secret.IdealFramesBetweenRecalculations` and `MHG.Graphics.RenderDistance.Secret.MaxTimeBetweenRecalculationsSeconds`. Render distance is now recalculated when the player has moved to a new chunk, not on a time interval.
• Improvements to physics performance
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.UnityFixedDeltaTime`. Increasing this value can massively increase the framerate in very large worlds (with a very large number of colliders), but will reduce the accuracy of game physics.
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.UnityMaximumDeltaTime`

• Component positions are now stored as fixed point rather than floating point
• Component world positions are now calculated in the reference frame of the stack root component
• Rounding of component rotations is smarter and more consistent
• Due to these changes, components now stay perfectly aligned up to an arbitrary nesting depth (#269, #273) and no longer cause tiny erroneous intersections (#123)

• Upgraded to Blotter File Format v6, to store positions in the new way (fixed point rather than floating point)
• Blotter v6 also has support for multi-root subassemblies, in preparation for some 0.92 features
• Added save converter from v5 to v6
• The game no longer considers a save to be corrupted if it uses a previous blotter format version; instead, a helpful save converter UI is offered
• Fixed missing translation string for the file corruption state unknown save type
• Fixed sandbox list displaying an empty info box for saves with an outdated format version

• The About menu, Languages menu, and Teleport menu can now be accessed from the Pause menu
• The in-game changelog is much prettier, and the changelogs for each update can now be individually collapsed and expanded
• The in-game changelog now automatically generates and displays links for mentioned issues
• If another player edits the properties of a Flag (i.e. name, color, aspect ratio) while you have the Teleport Menu open, the Teleport Menu will now update to reflect those changes
• By default, the Edit Flag menu will no longer close immediately when you select a new color
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.UI.EditFlagMenu.CloseImmediatelyWhenBigColorClicked`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.UI.EditColorableComponentsMenu.CloseImmediatelyWhenBigColorClicked`
• The markdown renderer does a better job of rendering lists and headers
• The markdown renderer now supports superscript. This is disabled everywhere by default, but it can be enabled for chat via a new `Superscript` section in the secret setting `MHG.Chat.Secret.ChatMarkdownSettings`
• Added command: `UI.Debug.LogObjectsUnderCursor`
• Enabled smooth scrolling for the Settings Menu sidebar
• Fixed setting descriptions being cut off in the Settings Menu sidebar if the description is sufficiently long (#342)
• Fixed some visual issues with the Settings Menu sidebar for settings with names long enough to span multiple lines
• Fixed some inconsistencies with UI text boxes
• Fixed some visual issues with the custom avatar preview (under settings -> multiplayer)
• Fixed some resizing arrows not being properly disabled on configurable menus that are not supposed to be resizable, such as the Edit Delayer Menu (#377)
• Fixed the binding prompts in the Action Wheel not updating to show the new bindings if you change them
• Fixed jankiness when using the scroll wheel in the debug console
• Fixed some issues with UI usability when running the game at extremely wide aspect ratios
• Fixed the debug console window rendering in front of its hover tags
• Fixed hover tags sometimes not disappearing when theyre supposed to
• Fixed console error spam if you have the Help menu open and you switch game states on two consecutive frames (#395)

• Thumbnails are now anti-aliased
• Thumbnail lighting is now independent of environment lighting, so thumbnails will now always look consistent
• When a single component has an output that is supposed to start on, such as the output of an Inverter, the output is now properly rendered as on in the thumbnail
• Added command: `ExportThumbnailCache`
• Added command: `RegenerateThumbnailCache`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.Thumbnails.ThumbnailAmbientLighting`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.Thumbnails.ThumbnailDirectLighting`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.Thumbnails.ThumbnailRenderSizeFactor`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.Thumbnails.ThumbnailAntiAliasing`
• Renamed the secret setting `MHG.Secret.ComponentDisplayRotation` to `MHG.Secret.Thumbnails.ThumbnailModelRotation`
• Renamed the secret setting `MHG.Secret.ComponentDisplayRenderSize` to `MHG.Secret.Thumbnails.ThumbnailRenderResolution` and changed the default value from 256 to 128
• Due to a limitation of the new rendering tech, new thumbnails will now be blank for a single frame after creation. To avoid this, thumbnails are pre-cached as much as possible.
• Fixed visual artifacts when geometry intersects the edge of the thumbnail render

• Added support for emojis (i.e. )
• Added support for music symbols (i.e. )
• Added support for additional math symbols (i.e. )
• Added Hong Kong style option for CJK characters. Currently only accessible by setting the secret setting `LogicUI.Secret.CjkDefaultFontStyle` to `Hong_Kong`
• All characters in the Adlam script are now displayed in the joined style (previously some were in an unjoined style)
• All characters in the Arabic script are now displayed in a neutral Arabic style (previous some were in a Kufi style, and some were in a Naskh style)
• Added support for the following scripts: Bassa Vah, Bhaiksuki, Caucasian Albanian, Duployan, Elbasan, Elymaic, Grantha, Gunjala Gondi, Hatran, Indic Siyaq Numbers, Khojki, Khudawadi, Linear A, Mahajani, Manichaean, Marchen, Masaram Gondi, Mayan Numerals, Medefaidrin, Meroitic, Miao, Modi, Mro, Multani, Nabataean, Newa, Nshu, Old Hungarian, Old North Arabian, Old Permic, Old Sogdian, Pahawh Hmong, Palmyrene, Pau Cin Hau, Psalter Pahlavi, Sharada, Siddham, Sogdian, Sora Sompeng, Soyombo, Syriac, Takri, Tirhuta, Wancho, Warang Citi, and Zanabazar Square. PHEW
• Updated Noto fonts
• Updated Font Awesome to 6.1.2, with over 7,000 new icons!

• Added WIP translations for Korean, Spanish (Spain), and Turkish
• Updated translations and translator credits for Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, and Ukrainian Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to all the volunteer translators! Because of your hard work, people from around the world can enjoy Logic World in their native language

• Fixed flying speed being non-configurable (and way too slow) when the setting Lock Flight Y Axis is disabled (#370)
• Fixed the secret setting `MHG.Flying.Secret.AutoEnterNoclipOnStartFlying` not even working, and breaking the game in various ways when set to `true` (#279)
• Fixed errors in the console when a player is standing on a component decoration (such as a Chair or the clicky part of a Button) and that component gets destroyed
• Fixed incorrect footstep sounds being played in some situations
• Fixed new player positions not being applied until all overlay UI is closed

• Added support for outlining Interactables that are not part of components. This is used for the big clicky button in the test world, which is now outlined when you look at it.
• Interaction-dragging behavior is now consistent between chairs and standing: when the cursor is moved to be looking at a non-interactable, the interaction ends
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.Interactables.StopInteractionIfLookingAtNonInteractable`
• You can now interact with the same Switch multiple times during one interaction
• When interacting with a Chair to sit in it, the interaction will now immediately end, instead of continuing while you sit in the chair. Fixes #103

• Added a Never option to the Music Frequency setting
• Changing Music Frequency will no longer cause music to stop playing (except when setting it to Never)
• Reloading the settings (i.e. by switching settings profiles) no longer causes the music to stop playing
• Tweaked the default parameters for the fancy pause menu music effects
• Music is loaded from disk more reliably; fixed music playback issues on some systems (#422)

• Fixed shared mod `.cs` files being in `shared/` instead of `src/shared/` (#341)
• Fixed mod compilation failing when a mod assembly does not have a path, i.e. when using Harmony mods (#308)
• Fixed exception when increasing the number of outputs on a component (#457)
• Fixed `InputPeg.AddPhasicLinkWith` throwing a `NullReferenceException` in many cases

• Dedicated server binaries are now placed in a sub-folder, to keep the root directory clean
• Periodic server tasks no longer cause a server death spiral if they take too long. This was often presenting when autosave was enabled on a very large world.
• If the server fails to broadcast its existence on the local network, it will now disable local network broadcasting instead of just crashing
• Reduced the minimum time between connections to a server from a single IP from 30 seconds to 3 seconds
• Messages in the server console announcing player leaves/joins are prettier
• Fixed the server always saving on close even if the server config value `SaveOnClose` is set to `false`

• Error messages about parsing SUCC files are much more helpful, and now contain the file path & line number
• Various SUCC files, such as `settings_master.succ`, will now be automatically reloaded and their changes applied when the file is changed on disk
• Configurable menu data is now stored in the profiled settings files instead of in a separate file for every menu. This means menu configurations now properly work with the settings profile system.
• The game now updates `___LastLoadedGameVersion` in `settings_master.succ` with the most recently loaded game version every time the game starts
• Removed `config_override` files. All server config values are now stored only in `config.succ`
• There are far fewer disk writes related to game settings, especially on startup, which should improve startup performance

• Fixed the game not properly detecting supported network protocols, which was causing various nasty bugs that made the game unplayable in certain network setups or when no external network interfaces are available (#204, #333, #229)
• Updated Unity version from 2019.4.17f1 to 2019.4.40f1
• Upgraded server runtime from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 7.0. For now, .NET 6.0 binaries are also included with the dedicated server.
• Fixed there being an omega () in the name of a dll, which prevented the game from working properly in some environments. This also accidentally prevented the game from working if you got it from a particular game pirating service, so uh, youre welcome, pirates. YAARRRRRR
• All error messages and APIs are now PG-13
• Added a system for updating CustomData in saves when the layout for a components CustomData changes between versions
• More kinds of errors in the game loop are now caught and trigger an error screen
• The `PrintUnityEnvironmentInfo` command now reports much more information, especially about the system hardware and the graphics API. The information is also now formatted much more nicely.
• Added command: `runtimeinfo`
• Added command: `input.ExportSystemKeyNames`
• The Resolution setting is now properly saved as a Vector2Int instead of a string with extraneous data
• Custom MessagePack formatters now use MessagePack best practices (#259)
• Fixed the integrated server process not being killed in some cases where it should be (#401)
• The server now explicitly rejects wire requests between two outputs (previously, it would throw an error if sent one)

• Added OpenGL as an optional graphics API on Windows and MacOS (used with the command-line argument `-force-glcore`)
• Added Vulkan as an optional graphics API on Windows and Linux (used with the command-line argument `-force-vulkan`). Vulkan still has issues on some systems, but once we work those out it will become the default graphics API on Windows & Linux.

• Linux: fixed mouse button presses sometimes registering as phantom scroll wheel events (#146)
• Linux: fixed the camera moving when the game window does not have focus and the cursor moves into the game window area (#148)
• Linux: fixed Action Wheel segments being invisible on Linux OpenGL (#41)
• MacOS: fixed keybindings in the UI sometimes displaying as empty/blank

• Changed default offline player names from Citizen [random number] to Bobby #[random number], and reduced the max size of the random numbers
• When taking a screenshot, the screen now flashes grey for one frame (this is a necessary temporary limitation and will be removed in a future release)
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.ScreenshotFlashColor`
• The FPS counter no longer erroneously reports 60FPS for the first second it is enabled (#350)
• The Resolution setting is now disabled while the game is running in windowed mode, and in general windowed mode is handled much better
• The 4D option for barrier shader quality is not displayed anymore because it is too slow; however, it can still be used if you enable the secret setting `LogicSettings.Secret.ShowHiddenDropdownValues`
• Updated the Performance Impact displayed in the settings menu for various graphics settings to be more accurate to the new rendering tech
• Fixed sometimes not being able to delete sandboxes using the UI (#101)
• Added a new setting: Pause on Defocus. Disabled by default. (#191)
• Removed intro screen in non-preview versions
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.PreviewsOnly_SkipIntroScreen`
• Added Herobrine

Greetings, gamers! After many months of very hard work, Logic World's first major update is almost ready. v0.91 has some major performance upgrades, countless bug fixes and stability improvements, a few juicy new features like the Simulation Controls, and many smaller tweaks focused on improving quality-of-life like Chair-only Keys. We hope you enjoy the update! If you're eager to try it out right away, follow the instructions below to check out the Preview versions. Once we've fixed all the nasty little bugs that the Preview People will surely find, the update will be fully released.

Help us localize the new features

Notification of upcoming price increase

Get access to the 0.91 previews

Select the "BETAS" tab, and choose the "public-previews" branch. [/olist]
Steam will now download the latest preview version. The same instructions work for the dedicated server. If you find a bug in the previews, please report it on the Logic World Issue Tracker, and specifically mention which preview you discovered it on. Please leave feedback on the new features and changes in The Big 0.91 Feedback Thread.

Known issues

This is a list of problems with the previews that we're aware of, and which we will fix before the full 0.91 release.

• When moving around large worlds, there are occasional lag spikes. Framerate is stable when standing still.

Changelog

Here is the full list of changes in the 0.91 previews! This post will be updated every time a new preview is published, and we'll also post a notification in the #news channel of the Logic World Discord server.

v0.91 Preview 461

• Fixed chunks starting out invisible until you go away and come back
• Fixed server errors when you modify the number of pegs on a Display (#419)
• More kinds of errors in the game loop are now caught and trigger an error screen
• Improved client-side loading performance a bit more
• The screen now flashes grey instead of white when you take a screenshot
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.ScreenshotFlashColor`
• Updated the "Performance Impact" displayed in the settings menu for various graphics settings to be more accurate to the new rendering tech

v0.91 Preview 451

Building

• Multi-wire placement is now treated as a single action in the undo/redo history, instead of one action per wire placed (#318)
• Wires can be slightly shorter now
• You can now configure the size of the Action Wheel
• Added a button in the Action Wheel configuration screen to reset to the default Action Wheel configuration
• Fixed undo/redo stack breaking and causing errors sometimes (#396, #281)
• Fixed log spam with "Look viewing rotation vector is zero" during some edge cases with grabbing
• Fixed a few issues with multi-edit
• Fixed some issues with components moving around upon completing a multi-resize (among them #266)
• Fixed board drawing sometimes not properly snapping to a square size when holding shift (#203)
• Fixed canceling multi-wire placement not removing the outlines of the selected pegs (#233)

Components

• Added an option to Keys to only allow pressing them while in a Chair
• Added a "reset" button to the Edit Delayer menu, to reset it to the default delay of 10 ticks
• If you hold to Mod key while flipping a row of switches, they will all be set to the same state as the first switch flipped (#60)
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.InvertMultiSwitchInteractionModKeyBehavior`
• The input pegs on XOR Gates, AND Gates, D-Latches, Oracles, and Relays are now slightly longer
• Fixed some unintuitive Delayer behavior that could, among other anomalies, allow one-tick pulses to go through a two-tick Delayer (#183)
• Fixed Chairs sometimes erroneously complaining that they are occupied (#223)
• Chairs will no longer be outlined if you look at them while they are occupied

Simulation Speed

• Added Simulation Speed menu. It can be accessed through a new button in the pause menu or with a hotkey, bound by default to `F9`
• Added a hotkey to pause or resume the simulation, bound by default to `F10`
• Added a hotkey to step one tick forward through the simulation (when the simulation is paused), bound by default to `Shift+F10`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.SimulationSpeedMenu.ShowRemoveFromListButtonsOnHover`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.SimulationSpeedMenu.SavedSpeedWiggleData`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.SimulationSpeedMenu.AutoResumeSimulationWhenChangingSpeed`
• Added server config value: `DefaultSimulationTPS`
• Added server config value: `MaximumSimulationTPS`
• Removed the server config value `SimulationTPS` as this is now configured per-save in ExtraData
• Renamed the server command `step` to `simulation.step` for consistency
• Fixed the simulation unpausing when a new player joins the server even if the players currently on the server have paused it (#347)

Circuitry

• Outputs that should start on (such as the outputs of newly placed Inverters) now start on in the simulation
• Fixed component outputs sometimes changing state when the number of inputs is changed
• Fixed weird simulation glitches (and occasionally server crashes) that would occur when changing the number of pegs on a component that has connected output pegs (#104, #250)

Optimization

• Significantly improved loading times, especially for large worlds
• Improved game framerates for most scenarios, particularly for large worlds, and particularly if post-processing or shadow cascades are disabled
• Component/wire geometry is now rendered with GPU instancing instead of in combined mesh chunks
• Colliders are instantiated more efficiently
• The game now logs how long it takes the client to load a save
• Removed the secret settings `MHG.Graphics.RenderDistance.Secret.IdealFramesBetweenRecalculations` and `MHG.Graphics.RenderDistance.Secret.MaxTimeBetweenRecalculationsSeconds`. Render distance is now recalculated when the player has moved to a new chunk, not on a time interval.
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.LimitColliderDistance`

Fixy Pointy

• Component positions are now stored as fixed point rather than floating point
• Component world positions are now calculated in the reference frame of the stack root component
• Rounding of component rotations is smarter and more consistent
• Due to these changes, components now stay perfectly aligned up to an arbitrary nesting depth (#269, #273) and no longer cause tiny erroneous intersections (#123)

Save Files

• Upgraded to Blotter File Format v6, to store positions in the new way (fixed point rather than floating point)
• Blotter v6 also has support for multi-root subassemblies, in preparation for some 0.92 features
• Added save converter from v5 to v6
• The game no longer considers a save to be "corrupted" if the saved blotter format version doesn't match the current blotter format version
• Fixed missing translation string for the file corruption state "unknown save type"
• Fixed sandbox list displaying an empty info box for saves with an outdated format version

UI

• The in-game changelog is much prettier, and the changelogs for each update can now be individually collapsed and expanded
• The in-game changelog now automatically generates and displays links for mentioned issues
• The About menu, Languages menu, and Teleport menu can now be accessed from the Pause menu
• The markdown renderer does a better job of rendering lists and headers
• The markdown renderer now supports superscript. This is disabled everywhere by default, but it can be enabled for chat via a new `Superscript` section in the secret setting `MHG.Chat.Secret.ChatMarkdownSettings`
• Enabled smooth scrolling for the Settings Menu sidebar
• Fixed some visual issues with the Settings Menu sidebar for settings with names long enough to span multiple lines
• Fixed some inconsistencies with UI text boxes
• Fixed the game being unpaused in singleplayer when accessing a sub-menu of the Pause menu
• Fixed some visual issues with the custom avatar preview (under settings -> multiplayer)
• Fixed some resizing arrows not being properly disabled on configurable menus that are not supposed to be resizable, such as the Edit Delayer Menu (#377)
• Fixed the binding prompts in the Action Wheel not updating to show the new bindings if you change them

Thumbnails

• Thumbnails are now be anti-aliased
• Thumbnail lighting is now independent of environment lighting, so thumbnails will now always look consistent
• Thumbnails for single components where the output is supposed to start on, such as Inverters, now properly appear on in the thumbnail
• Added command: `ExportThumbnailCache`
• Added command: `RegenerateThumbnailCache`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.Thumbnails.ThumbnailAmbientLighting`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.Thumbnails.ThumbnailDirectLighting`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.Thumbnails.ThumbnailRenderSizeFactor`
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.Thumbnails.ThumbnailAntiAliasing`
• Renamed the secret setting `MHG.Secret.ComponentDisplayRotation` to `MHG.Secret.Thumbnails.ThumbnailModelRotation`
• Renamed the secret setting `MHG.Secret.ComponentDisplayRenderSize` to `MHG.Secret.Thumbnails.ThumbnailRenderResolution` and changed the default value from 256 to 128
• Due to a limitation of the new rendering tech, new thumbnails will now be blank for a single frame after creation. To avoid this, thumbnails are pre-cached as much as possible.
• Fixed visual artifacts that appeared wherever geometry intersected the edge of the thumbnail render

Text rendering

• Added support for emojis (i.e. )
• Added support for music symbols (i.e. )
• Added support for additional math symbols (i.e. )
• Added Hong Kong style option for CJK characters. Currently only accessible by setting the secret setting `LogicUI.Secret.CjkDefaultFontStyle` to `Hong_Kong`
• All characters in the Adlam script are now displayed in the joined style (previously some were in an unjoined style)
• All characters in the Arabic script are now displayed in a neutral arabic style (previous some were in a Kufi style, and some were in a Naskh style)
• Added support for the following scripts: Bassa Vah, Bhaiksuki, Caucasian Albanian, Duployan, Elbasan, Elymaic, Grantha, Gunjala Gondi, Hatran, Indic Siyaq Numbers, Khojki, Khudawadi, Linear A, Mahajani, Manichaean, Marchen, Masaram Gondi, Mayan Numerals, Medefaidrin, Meroitic, Miao, Modi, Mro, Multani, Nabataean, Newa, Nshu, Old Hungarian, Old North Arabian, Old Permic, Old Sogdian, Pahawh Hmong, Palmyrene, Pau Cin Hau, Psalter Pahlavi, Sharada, Siddham, Sogdian, Sora Sompeng, Soyombo, Syriac, Takri, Tirhuta, Wancho, Warang Citi, and Zanabazar Square. PHEW
• Updated Noto fonts
• Updated Font Awesome to 6.1.2, with over 7,000 new icons!

Movement

• Fixed the secret setting `MHG.Flying.Secret.AutoEnterNoclipOnStartFlying` not even working, and breaking the game in various ways when set to `true` (#279)
• Fixed errors in the console when a player is standing on a component decoration (such as a Chair or the clicky part of a Button) and that component gets destroyed
• Fixed incorrect footstep sounds being played in some situations

Interactables

• Added support for outlining Interactables that are not part of components. This is used for the big clicky button in the test world, which is now outlined when you look at it
• Interaction-dragging behavior is now consistent between chairs and standing: when the cursor is moved to be looking at a non-interactable, the interaction ends
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.Interactables.StopInteractionIfLookingAtNonInteractable`
• You can now interact with the same Switch multiple times during one interaction
• When interacting with a Chair to sit in it, the interaction will now immediately end, instead of continuing while you sit in the chair. Fixes #103

Music

• Added a "Never" option to the Music Frequency setting
• Changing Music Frequency will no longer cause music to stop playing (except when setting it to "Never")
• Fixed reloading the settings causing music to stop playing (i.e. by switching settings profiles)
• The fancy music effects in the pause menu are now a bit more subtle by default

Modding

• Fixed InputPeg.AddPhasicLinkWith throwing a NullReferenceException in many cases

Server

• Periodic server tasks can no longer cause a server death spiral if they take too long. This was often presenting when autosave was enabled on a very large world.
• If the server fails to broadcast its existence on the local network, it will now disable local network broadcasting instead of just crashing
• Reduced the minimum time between connections to a server from a single IP from 30 seconds to 3 seconds
• Messages in the server console announcing player leaves/joins are prettier

Technical

• Fixed the game not properly detecting supported network protocols, which was causing various nasty bugs that made the game unplayable in certain network setups or when no external network interfaces are available (#204, #333, #229)
• Updated Unity version to 2019.4.40f1
• Upgraded server runtime from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6.0
• Fixed there being an omega () in the name of a dll, which prevented the game from working properly in some environments
• All error messages and APIs are now PG-13
• The server now explicitly rejects wire requests between two outputs (previously, it would throw an error if sent one)
• The game now updates `___LastLoadedGameVersion` in `settings_master.succ` with the most recently loaded game version every time the game starts
• Error messages about parsing SUCC files are much more helpful, and now contain the file path & line number
• Various SUCC files, such as `settings_master.succ`, will now be automatically reloaded and their changes applied when the file is changed on disk.
• Configurable menu data is now stored in the profiled settings files instead of in a separate file for every menu. This means menu configurations now properly work with the settings profile system.
• Removed `config_override` files. All server config values are now stored only in `config.succ`
• Added a system for updating CustomData in saves when the layout for a component's CustomData changes between versions

Miscellaneous

• Removed startup screen in non-preview versions
• Added secret setting: `MHG.Secret.PreviewsOnly_SkipIntroScreen`
• Changed default offline player names from "Citizen [random number]" to "Bobby #[random number]", and reduced the max size of the random numbers
• The 4D option for barrier shader quality is not displayed anymore because it is too slow; however, it can still be used if you enable the secret setting `LogicSettings.Secret.ShowHiddenDropdownValues`
• When taking a screenshot, the screen now flashes white
• The FPS counter no longer erroneously reports 60FPS for the first second it is enabled (#350)

[ 2022-09-25 07:37:51 CET ] [ Original post ]

Chair-only Keys - Jimmy

Even More Configurable Action Wheel - Jimmy

Even Clickier Switches - Jimmy

Web Request Tracing - Felipe

0.91 previews coming very soon

Super Sortable Issues - Felipe

Status Shenanigans - Felipe

Less Forgettable Image Attachments - Felipe

Beating Up Bugs like they Owe me Money - Jimmy

Greetings Gamers, I haven't been able to work on Logic World much this week, but in the time I've been able to carve out for it I've been plugging away at bugfixes and stability improvements. My current task is sorting out the various networking issues with the game. I hate networking. What a mess it all is. Can somebody remind me why I decided to make this game multiplayer? This week I made a decision I'd like to share with you: we'll be reducing the scope of update 0.91 in order to get it out to you faster. I'm aiming to publish 0.91 around the end of September, with a public preview sometime before that. 0.91 will contain performance enhancements, a whole lot of bugfixes & stability improvements, and a few smallish features like the simulation controls. Meanwhile, the new building mechanics I've been planning -- included the much-coveted ability to save and load subassemblies -- will be coming in update 0.92 a few months later. More development updates soon! Not too soon, though -- I'll be on holiday with my family next week, so I won't be around for a LWW. I expect the blog will return on the 31st. Keep on Gamin'

GREETINGS! It's been another fairly unexciting week for me, but I've continued to plug away at miscellaneous maintenance tasks. Although Hofstadter's Law continues to out-Hofstadter's Law me, lots of work is getting done on Logic World and I am super excited about how development is going. Here are some highlights from my work week:

Hot-reloadable SUCC files

.NET 6

The Most Important Video Game Feature in the History of Video Game Features, Maybe Ever

Hello Logicians! I've had a fairly pedestrian week of development, working on miscellaneous maintenance tasks. For example, I polished off last week's work on fixed point positions by updating the save format version: position data is now saved and loaded as fixed-point instead of floating-point, matching the new data structures that are used internally. I also added a save converter to the new format so that you can use all your 0.90 saves in 0.91, and I updated the sandbox list UI to notify the user of which saves are using the old format and need to be converted.
But my biggest task this week by far was to make some major updates to the world objects shader. This all started when I decided to address an issue with how thumbnails (the little isometric component graphics that appear in the Selection Menu and on the hotbar) are rendered. In 0.90, thumbnails look different depending on the scene in which they are generated. This is because the thumbnail renders use exactly the same materials as are used to render objects in the world. World objects are affected by environment lighting, so thumbnails are too.
This is kind of weird, but it's not a big deal in 0.90; I'm not sure if anybody but me has even noticed it. However, for some upcoming features I plan to add for 0.91, thumbnails really ought to be generated consistently and reliably, and look identical no matter where the generation happens. So, I've upgraded the shader I wrote for GPU instancing. It now has two lighting modes: environment lighting and custom lighting. We use this new "custom" lighting mode for thumbnail renders, and so now it doesn't matter where they're created, they always have consistent lighting. I also added support to the shader for rendering in non-instanced mode, so we can use it for non-instanced decorations like the clicky part of buttons and switches, and these decorations will also have consistent, custom lighting applied to them in thumbnail renders. Here's the result:
If you look closely, you'll notice a few more differences in the appearance of thumbnails between 0.90 and 0.91:

• Thumbnail renders are now anti-aliased, so the lines are smooth instead of jaggy. I already did this a few months ago, but I remember it was REALLY HARD so please appreciate it anew!
• I fixed some artifacts along the edges of thumbnail renders, most noticeably in components with pegs that go right to the edge like D-Latches and Sockets.
• The lighting is softer, with less contrast between the sides and tops of blocks. For now, the lighting otherwise emulates the 0.90 Grasslands appearance, but I'm still tweaking this. There will be secret settings for all the variables of thumbnail lighting, in case you want to customize it :)

Im back, baby!

Acknowledging the Absence

Poggers Performance

Depth texture slowness

• The world is medium sized (~50k-150k components)
• All post-processing is on
• Shadow cascades are set to 4

Colliders being little bastards

Glorious Glyphs

• 46 new written scripts are supported! These are mostly historical writing systems like Mayan numerals or Old Hungarian.
• Miscellaneous fixes for how the game displays Arabic and Adlam scripts (these and other RTL scripts are still not properly displayed as right-to-left, but will be soon!)
• Added an option to display CJK characters in the Hong Kong style (in addition to the existing options of Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)
• Updated Font Awesome to 6.1.2, with over 7,000 new icons!

Fixing Bugs by Fixing Points

Switching to fixed points for positions

Smart and consistent rounding for rotations

Root reference frames

Framerate go brrrrr - Jimmy

It's been sixteen wednesdays exactly since the previous LWW, and we're very excited to be back! Logic World update 0.91 development is underway, and we've got lots to talk about this week.

Configurable simulation speed - Jimmy

Soundtrack publication

Revamped changelog - Jimmy

Better handling of exceptional SUCC - Jimmy

• A description of the error
• The path of the file in which the error occurred
• The line number on which the error occurred

Optimization work - Jimmy

You've played the game, you've loved the music. You've wished you could keep listening to the music even when you're not playing the game. Well, today that wish comes true: the Logic World Original Soundtrack is now available on all your favorite internet music websites! [previewyoutube=l0fFw0iizOc;full][/previewyoutube]

Where can I get it?

• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7bhGjykTos9uWsdqUSEAZq
• Bandcamp: https://markkuwainman.bandcamp.com/album/logic-world-original-video-game-soundtrack
• Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/album/1604541523
• Tidal: https://store.tidal.com/album/212083784
• Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/album/286891282
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/markku-wainman-433596264/sets/logic-world-original-video-game-soundtrack
• Youtube: in addition to the "full OST" video embedded above, you can listen to this playlist of the individual songs

Wow that album art is beautiful! Tell me more about it!

Wait, I thought you said this would happen next Friday, on the 11th?

Ok music is cool and all but when are we getting news about game updates

Last week we released version 0.90.2 with lots of updates and fixes. Unfortunately, that version inadvertently introduced some new bugs, so today were releasing version 0.90.3 to squish them.

0.90.3 Changelog

• Fixed ExtraData being reset every time a save was loaded. This caused impersistence of all the systems stored in ExtraData, such as Display configurations, the Flag order, and custom Gridlands settings.
• Fixed volume slider values not being applied on game startup
• Removed the secret settings regarding max audio voices, as making these values configurable is what caused the above bug
• Fixed error screen when changing the number of pegs on a Panel Display when there are wires attached to it
• 1x1 Panel Displays are now limited to a maximum of 3 pegs
• Fixed servers allowing the placement of some invalid component types
• Servers now have additional checks to ensure that components being placed are valid
• Server-side checks now disallow making a component a child of its own children

Logic World released in Early Access four weeks ago today. In those four weeks, more than THREE THOUSAND people have bought and played the game. Thank you all so much, words can't express our gratitude for your enthusiasm and support. But maybe updates can! We've got a big juicy update for you today, full of improvements and fixes.

0.90.2 Changelog

• Improved performance when grabbing/cloning very large structures by skipping the intersection tests on most frames
• Added secret setting to configure the specifics of the intersection test skipping: MHG.Secret.GrabbingIntersectionTestsSkipConfiguration
• Overhauled the algorithm that determines the default wire rotation. Wires in general should look better now.
• Added setting: "Outline Connected Peg Wires". If enabled, when you look at a peg, all wires connected to that peg will be outlined as well.
• When resizing a component, the colliders are no longer disabled
• When resizing or grabbing causes wires to be deleted, these wire deletions are now properly recorded as part of the same undo action instead of separate undo actions
• Fixed error screen when you multi-delete items that are connected by a wire
• Floating point errors in component position/rotations take significantly longer to accumulate to noticeable levels
• Fixed erroneous red outlines when multi-grabbing items and moving them around quickly
• Removed an erroneously included debug statement that would occasionally spit numbers into the console while placing boards
• The minimum wire length is now slightly shorter

• Changed the minimum Delayer length from 1 tick to 2 ticks. One-tick delayer functionality can be done with Buffers.
• Fixed being unable to adjust the delay length of Delayers in some circumstances where you should be able to
• Fixed text rendering breaking on some Linux systems when toggling a Label's monospace on or off
• Fixed error screen that could occur when moving many Sockets at once
• Fixed not being able to rotate Buffers without grabbing them first
• Fixed errors when changing the peg count of Displays that have wires between their pegs
• Fixed music components making awful clicking noises when they come into our out of the render distance range
• Removed the "applause" sound effect instrument from Singers, as it caused various bizarre issues

• Overhauled LogicScript. There are a lot of changes, for the new documentation see https://github.com/pipe01/LogicScript/wiki
• You can now edit ComponentList files while in-game, and your changes will be hot-reloaded

• Gridlands and Grasslands: changed the angle of the world light source to align with the location of the sun
• Gridlands: fixed boards being fine-placed on the ground sometimes having inverted fine placement point axes
• Test world: fixed not being able to press the big clicky button

• Added setting: "Help Menu Starts Open"
• Moving the mouse on the main menu now twirls the background camera a little
• Added several secret settings related to the main menu background camera; they all start with the prefix MHG.Secret.MainMenuBackgroundCamera
• Edit Display Configuration Menu: The "Set All States" UI is now only shown for configurations with more than one peg
• Create Sandbox Menu: hitting the Enter key when typing in the Title textbox will now create a new sandbox
• The console will now automatically clear when it exceeds 400 messages. This limit is configurable with the secret setting FancyPantsConsole.MessageLimitBeforeAutoClearing. This is just a temporary solution to prevent lag; we'll do a proper overhaul of the console soon.
• Removed crosshair options that look like weapon scopes

• Added command: objexport.world [int textResolution]
• Added command: objexport.allworlds [int textResolution]

• When many components and wires are placed at once (i.e. when a large assembly is cloned), only one sound will now play. Previously you'd get insane sound playage, with one sound effect per component or wire created during the operation. You can revert to the old behavior by turning off the new secret setting MHG.Secret.RestrictCrazyBuildingSounds
• Added support for loading MP3 and AIFF sound files
• Removed the legacy Exclusive Peg sound effects from the game files
• Added an unused sound effect for resizing components
• Added secret setting: MHG.Audio.Secret.MaxVirtualVoices
• Added secret setting: MHG.Audio.Secret.MaxRealVoices
• Tweaked how Barrier sounds propagate in 3D space, and fixed being able to hear them at infinite distance

• Added setting: "Music Frequency"
• Updated the secret settings under MHG.Secret.GameplayMusicTiming for the new Music Frequency system
• All music tracks have been updated to fade in gradually so they don't spook you when they start playing
• All music is now shipped as 320kbps .mp3s in the game files. These are much smaller than the old .wavs, and the smaller file size should fix the game lurching when music starts to play on older hardware.
• Endless Curiosity: added a new instrument to the intro
• Endless Curiosity: tuned some instruments that were out of key
• Endless Curiosity: adjusted frequencies and relative volumes across the piece
• Time and Science: adjusted frequencies in the 6kHz-12kHz range
• Fixed game music not playing until the game was paused/unpaused if a music component was played and "Music Components Stop Game Music" was enabled

• Simplified Chinese now correctly identifies itself as "", instead of ""
• Simplified Chinese now uses correctly localized glyph styles for CJK characters
• Fixed Slovenian localization being mislabeled as Slovak and using Slovak sample text
• Added a scrollbar to the list of translators in the language credits, so the list doesn't get cut off if there are too many translators. Shoutout to the huge and awesome German translation team for being the first language that needed this!
• Fixed not being able to scroll down to view more languages if there were enough languages in the languages list
• Added WIP Romanian translation
• Updated translations & translator credits for Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Portuguese (BR), Russian, Swedish, and Ukrainian

• Fixed the infamous "cuddle bug", where you'd be shoved around by other players while someone was in the process of joining the server
• The server will now reject building requests with component types not installed on the server (i.e. modded components on an unmodded server)
• The server will now reject building requests for dynamic components with peg counts that are outside the server limits. Server limits can be configured from the new componentrestrictions.succ configuration file.
• Fixed servers getting crazy errors if a connected player attempts to run an admin command when there are no admins on the server
• Previously, the server config value for timeout was called PlayerTimeoutMilliseconds and had a default value of 25000. However, this value was actually in *seconds*, so connected players would effectively never timeout. The value has been properly renamed, and the default timeout value is now 60 seconds.
• Fixed the integrated server not starting when there are no network interfaces available

• Fixed real-time reflection settings not working in some circumstances
• Fixed "See Your Own Shadow" being stuck on after turning it off, until you reload the world
• Fixed footstep sounds playing when you toggle "See Your Own Shadow"
• Fixed your footstep sounds getting louder and louder the more you toggle "See Your Own Shadow"
• Changed "Crouch Time" max value from 5.0 to 1.0
• Changed "Max Inverse Coyote Time" max value from 5.0 to 1.0
• Changed "Player Gravity Scale" min value from 0.0 to 0.1
• Fix typo in some graphics setting descriptions (refelctions -> reflections)
• Fixed typo in a setting description (hobar -> hotbar)

• CJK characters will now be displayed in non-CJK languages with Simplified Chinese styling instead of Japanese
• Added secret setting: LogicUI.Secret.CjkDefaultFontStyle, only used for non-CJK languages
• Add secret settings to control clipping planes: MHG.Secret.PlayerCamera.NearClipPlane and MHG.Secret.PlayerCamera.FarClipPlane
• Fixed ExtraData files being created with no value in the Data field
• More information is now logged for some errors

What's Next

It's been one week since Logic World came out, and what a week! As of this morning we've sold two thousand copies of Logic World - literally double our optimistic, best-case-scenario prediction for week one. Thank you so much to everybody who's supported us and bought a copy. You are making our dreams come true. We're going to repay your kindness with many many updates to Logic World, all of them free and all of them awesome. That starts literally right now, as update 0.90.1 is now available for download!

0.90.1 Changelog

• Fixed being unable to load a world when the system language is set to Slovak or Czech (#91)
• Fixed being unable to load a world when the local network does not support IPv6

• Added a little "Are you sure you want to quit the game?" confirmation popup when you press "Quit Game" in the pause menu. Like all confirmation popups in Logic World, this can be skipped by holding shift while you click the button.
• Moved some buttons around on the error screen
• Added a button on the main menu to open the Creation Hub
• Various aesthetic tweaks to the Languages menu
• Color Picker RGB/HSV sliders are now shown by default (previously they were hidden by default and had to be manually expanded)
• Renamed the secret setting MHG.Networking.Secret.InternetProtocol to MHG.Networking.Secret.InternetProtocolOverride. The client will now select an appropriate protocol by default.
• Renamed the server config value InternetProtocol to InternetProtocolOverride. The server will now select an appropriate protocol by default.
• Added server config value: AllowConnectionsFromADifferentGameVersion
• The gameinfo command now prints the commit sha and the date/time at which the commit was made
• Doubled the placing range of Fixed Placement Points (at the top of Mounts and Flags)
• Fully disabled Unity analytics and hardware reporting
• The default bindings for Increase/Decrease Multi-Wire Placing Offset now include options to use Q/E in addition to scroll up/down. You will need to reset these settings to use the new default bindings.

• Renamed Buffer to "Fast Buffer"
• Tweaked Fast Buffer geometry and colors
• Added new "Buffer" component, which is like a Fast Buffer but it has an output peg and has a delay of one tick. Buffers are smaller than Fast Buffers, and can be fine-rotated.

• Fixed the game not loading C# code files
• Added the following interfaces to LogicAPI: ICustomDataManager, ICustomDataManagerFactory
• Added the following interfaces to LogicAPI.Server: IPeg, IInputPeg, IOutputPeg, ILogicManager, IWorldMutationManager

• Bulgarian
• Chinese (simplified)
• Croation
• Czech
• Dutch
• Estonian
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Japanese
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Russian
• Slovak
• Swedish
• Ukrainian

• Fixed Relays not propagating the signal in some situations where multiple connected relays opened in the same tick (#111)
• Fixed sometimes failing to start the integrated server because the chosen port was in use. Previously we used an available TCP port; now we correctly use an available UDP port.
• Fixed circuit boards flying away like a butterfly when you try to place them on the bottom of a Mount or Flag
• Fixed Multi-Select still using Z after the initial state entry if Multi-Select was rebound to a different control
• Fixed being able to make Circuit Boards so dark the grid lines disappear

What's Next

Hey hey hey! Logic World came out today and it is just delightful and wondrous to see you all playing it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everybody who has bought the game and talked about it and shared their creations and left a review. It has been a crazy day but I am so lucky to be here right now. As many of you have noticed, the game is not quite flawless. Please go here for a list of commonly encountered issues and ways to deal with them, as well as instructions for reporting any new bugs you discover. We will be releasing a patch update, 0.90.1, to address as many issues as we can. I would love to get this update out to you tonight, but unfortunately theres an issue: I have been working very long hours for the past month or so to prepare for this launch. As a result I gave myself a repetitive strain injury. My wrists are in pretty constant pain, especially while Im typing (editors note: Jimmy is dictating to his mother, currently transcribing his words). At this point I really need to take a few days to let myself heal. Thus, I wont be working on Logic World for a few days. I expect to release 0.90.1 late next week. Im sorry for the delay, but my health must take priority Thanks for a great launch, my friends! Many more updates to follow. -Jimmy

Logic World comes out in two days! TWOOOOOOOO DAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful Main Menu - Jimmy

Help screen - Jimmy

Sandbox Uploads - Felipe

Pagier Pages - Felipe

Yet more bugfixes - Jimmy

The Big Flag Rework - Jimmy

I am a big flag nerd and I want flags in my game. [/olist] Flags, as they've been shown off before, offered a selection from a list of real-world flags to choose from. At first, I thought this would work, but I see now that I was blinded by my personal fascination with vexillology. Real-world flags are extremely cool, but they just have too much baggage associated with them. Logic World is supposed to be a fantasy, a separate universe from our own, one where conflict and war and hate are non-existent. I realized a while ago that the real-world flags had to go. This week I've started on the Big Flag Rework. As of the Early Access release, you'll be able to give each flag a color, a size, and an aspect ratio. This is nice for now, but in my opinion it could be a lot cooler and more awesome. Therefore, later in EA I'll be adding tools to make your own custom flag designs out of geometric patterns and shapes.

Localization Organization - Jimmy

I've done a big update to our community translation efforts! Every single string of text that will be in the Early Access release of Logic World is now available for translation there, and I've added translation guides for many strings. Thank you SO MUCH to all our volunteer translators. I see your hard work and I'm delighted by it. I am STOKED AS HELL to bring Logic World to people all around the world in their native languages. If you speak a non-English language and you want to help out with translations, please click this link and start translating! Languages will be added to the game as soon as they are finished, and translators get their name in the in-game credits :) -------------------------

The Future

Well, we've reached the end of the pre-launch Logic World Wednesdays. So what happens next? [olist]

Yes, you read that title correctly. After literally thousands of years in development, Logic World is releasing publicly on the 22nd of this month. [previewyoutube=OpTZ1geIECU;full][/previewyoutube] Thanks for sticking with us. We cant wait to get this game into your hands. There is much more to come; Early Access is just the beginning.
And by the way, we have a new FAQ for answers to all your burning questions. See you on the 22nd! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1054340/Logic_World/

That's right! Logic World comes out this month and in two days you'll know exactly what day of the month! Get your hype boots on!!!

Media Updates - Jimmy

The Hub - Felipe

Fixes & Polish - Jimmy

Howdy hey hello, Earlier this year, I stopped publishing our weekly devblog here on the Steam forums. I apologize for that. I was under a lot of stress, and I kind of shrunk away from a lot of my responsibilities. But we haven't stopped working on the game and we haven't stopped doing the blog! You can catch up on any Logic World Wednesdays you missed here on logicworld.net. All future LWWs will be posted here to Steam as well, starting this Wednesday. Logic World is nearly ready for public release. Contrary to what we previously announced, we've decided to do Early Access, so you can play sooner and so we can gather more feedback during development. The game will launch in EA later this month, and if everything goes according to plan, the full version will come out next year. The specific date of the EA launch will be announced this Friday, accompanied by a sexy new trailer. In the meantime, please check out the updated Steam store page! I added a bunch of new screenshots and wrote a new description. Most of the screenshots are 4k or 8k, you can view the full resolution by clicking on the image and then on "Download full-size version". Thank you so much for your interest in Logic World, and thank you for your patience as we work to make it the best game we can. See you Friday :) -Jimmy
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1054340/Logic_World/

Logicworld.net Rises to Glory - Felipe

Comment button rearrangements

Better markdown styling

Navbar social media links

Fun spinny loading icon

Cute error page

Undo Improvements - Jimmy

My Color Picker grows Ever Stronger - Jimmy

Web refactor progress - Felipe

Undo and redo - Jimmy

General building overhaul progress - Jimmy

Debug Displays - Jimmy

Local Network Servers - Jimmy

Very nerdy technical tidbits

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed not being able to see your own reflection in SHINY BOBBY
• Fixed IPv6 networking not working on Windows
• Fixed being unable to initiate connection to a server from the server list if a discovery response packet hasn't been recieved yet
• Fixed "offline name" setting description using outdated nomenclature
• Fixed all the server config player lists (whitelist, banlist, admin list) not working
• Fixed items in the server list sometimes displaying incorrect data if you spam the refresh button too quickly
• Fixed being able get a Sandbox or Saved Board without a title by editing the title after creating one
• Fixed the "Create Sandbox" and "Save Board" buttons sometimes being hidden when they should be shown
• Fixed many text boxes throughout the game interpreting a "cancel" action (by pressing escape) as a "submit" action (what should only happen when you press enter)
• Fixed pressing tab/shift-tab to switch between textboxes not working properly when Popups are open; tabbing between textboxes is in general much more reliable
• Fixed Labels and Panel Labels having a slightly different color to the other off-white components
• Fixed being able to see the reflections of player nametags in SHINY BOBBY
• Fixed the nametag on the little bobby model in the Avatar settings not properly showing when you mouse over the bobby model
• Fixed the integrated server not shutting down correctly when leaving a singleplayer game

Very Excellent Building Mechanics Coming Soon - Jimmy

Multiplayer Menu and Networking Upgrades - Jimmy

You can now connect to servers by hostname instead of just by raw IPs. So if you own, for example, "EpicPeanutButter.com", you can host your server at that address, and others can type that into the game and connect to it. Previously you could only use raw IPs, which look much less interesting -- usually something like this: "217.160.0.132". [/olist] Making this menu was very difficult and time-consuming, far more so than I expected going in. I had a lot of fun learning about networking, but I'm really glad I never have to do it again.

Seeking your feedback on server authentication modes

As can be seen in the video above, there are presently two authentication modes for Logic World servers: Unverified and Verified. Unverified servers will allow any player to join, with any username, and this identity is not checked at all. Verified servers only allow players to join who are logged into their logicworld.net account, and it is impossible to fake your identity to a verified server. Verified mode is useful when you want to have a whitelist of players who are allowed to connect to your server; only the people who are really on your whitelist will be able to connect. But it's less useful if you want to have a public server and ban players from it. Because creating a logicworld.net account is free, a banned player can simply create a new identity and rejoin your server. With this in mind, we are considering the addition of a third authentication mode to servers, "Super-Verified". In Super-Verified mode, the server would only allow connections from players who are logged into their logicworld.net account, and whose accounts are verified owners of Logic World. This means that to evade a ban, a player would have to buy another copy of the game, which they are a lot less likely to do than simply create a new account for free. However, Super-Verified mode would introduce hassle for players; unless you purchased directly from logicworld.net, you would be required to link your logicworld.net account with the account you purchased the game on (i.e. Steam) before connecting to a Super-Verified server. We've been discussing this and we aren't sure how to proceed or how useful such a feature would be. And so, we ask you -- would you like Logic World to have a Super-Verified mode? If you're interested in hosting a server, would you turn it on? If you're interested in playing on servers, would you prefer to play on servers that have it on? Let us know in the comments, on discord, or in an email :)

Mice are Nice - Felipe

When I returned from my vacation, the first thing I needed to do was to test the services that I had migrated from Nitro to mice. I could have just created a "test" service that was hard-coded to call certain methods on certain services, but that's a very inflexible way of doing it. With that in mind, I started the MiceUI project. This project consists of an Electron application that lets you load protobuf files containing the method definitions of a given service, and then lets you send requests to the service instance and inspect the response.
This tool will let me test each and every one of a service's endpoints, making sure that the service is working as it should. In the future I plan on upgrading MiceUI with some sort of test suites, automating the process of E2E testing and even integrating it into the site's CI pipeline.

In-Game Theme Editor - Jimmy

Many of our beta testers have been playing with the menu themes capability of LogicUI, and many more of you in the community have voiced interest in doing so. Until now, making new themes was very difficult, requiring tedious manual editing of individual RGB values in a config file, and you'd have to restart the game to view the results of your labor. I decided to make this process easier, and added some in-game UI for making a custom menu theme. [previewyoutube=y7CShp9uaYc;full][/previewyoutube]

Even Beta than Ever

We've added several new testers to our internal beta! These lovely folks are helping us track down bugs, giving great feedback about features, and making cool content to showcase the current state of the game. There is a bunch of said cool content in the #beta-content channel of our discord, so join us there if you haven't already and check it out! And if you haven't seen it yet, shortly into the break we held a big multiplayer playsession with a bunch of the beta testers. Jimmy's perspective of that event is up on youtube: [previewyoutube=6KwwzsmLN50;full][/previewyoutube] I mentioned that the testers have been helping us find bugs, and well, holy moly they've helped us find a lot of bugs. An absolute tidal wave of them. Here are just the ones we've fixed...

Bugs Fixed Since Last Time

• Fixed the "Pick Component" feature not properly recognizing the components already on your hotbar in some specific circumstances
• Fixed world rotations being bad and glitchy for components placed on the environment with a non-standard up direction (i.e. on the side of a hill)
• Fixed awkward-axis rotation being incorrect for grabbed boards placed on the environment with a non-standard up direction
• Fixed Edit Title textbox not being properly selected when you create a new sandbox or saved board
• Fixed linux version not starting up properly due to a file system error
• Fixed linux version not loading some important resources from GameData which was causing a myriad cascade of issues
• Fixed scroll wheel input direction being inverted on linux
• Fixed scroll wheel having 1/120th sensitivity on linux
• Fixed Keys going crazy when you try to press them if another player is in their range
• Fixed server giving a Load Board response to every player on the server instead of just the player who requested to load the board
• Fixed decorations on grabbed, cloned and loaded components not being tested for collision
• Fixed missing flag graphics in Choose Language menu
• Fixed double newlines in the beta start screen
• Fixed "Realtime GI is not supported in Universal Pipeline" console spam
• Fixed failure to connect to a server if another player makes changes to the world while you're connecting
• Fixed moving and then deleting a socket causing server errors and sometimes corrupted saves
• Fixed sockets not connecting properly after they've been moved
• Fixed error and disconnection if another player moves/rotates/deletes the chair you're sitting in
• Fixed various cases where the server could crash if a client sent them bogus data
• Fixed component position/rotation imprecision issues within deeply nested stacks of many child components
• Markdown renderer: fixed weird visuals on the first and last line of a list if that line is very long
• Fixed changelog saying "2020" for all the dates in 2021 lol
• Fixed client going to error screen if it tried to connect to an unverified server when the Logic World servers are unreachable
• Fixed servers having a hard cap of 32 maximum players connected even if a higher value was set in the config file
• Fixed servers crashing if a client sends garbage data in the discovery request packet
• Fixed clients connecting to the wrong server sometimes
• Clients now ignore the data instead of going to an error screen if a server sends garbage data in the discovery response packet
• Fixed the volume sliders on music components having the incorrect range (0-10 instead of 1-100)
• Fixed fatal error if you tried to delete a component on the same frame you modified its data (i.e. pressing a button and deleting it on the same frame)

SOCKS

This Christmas might possibly have been the best Christmas ever. Jimmy's mom and brother Andrew teamed up to make two pairs of got dang Logic World socks, giving one pair to Jimmy and sending the other across the ocean to Felipe.
Just look at those things. Absolutely fabulous. --------------------------------------------- Thanks for reading our blog :) lots of fun stuff is coming up, so watch this space. We absolutely cannot wait to get this game done and into your hands. To get updates on Logic World beamed directly into your inbox, you can sign up for our newsletter. Be sure also to wishlist Logic World right here on Steam and join the official Discord. See you next Wednesday! View this post on logicworld.net More Logic World Wednesdays https://store.steampowered.com/app/1054340/Logic_World/ More Logic World Wednesdays

[ 2021-01-28 03:36:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

Performant Building - Jimmy

Finished server authentication - Felipe

Server discovery - Felipe

Multiplayer Menu Progress - Jimmy

• It remembers the most recent IP you typed in. (Passwords are currently not remembered, but most servers won't have a password anyways)
• The password box has a button to toggle password visibility
• As soon as you open the popup, the Server IP text box is fully selected, so you can start typing/pasting an IP immediately
• The two text boxes can be switched between with the tab key
• Hitting Enter in either text box will start a connection to the server

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed some simulation bugs that could occur when deleting components with wires attached to them
• Fixed not being able to connect to a server when signed in to your logicworld.net account
• Fixed crazy lag that could sometimes happen when managing your hotbar
• Fixed search box text being cut off if you typed too much in it
• Fixed the "disconnected" screen not displaying the reason for disconnection
• Fixed popups not being removed properly in some circumstances
• Fixed not being able to connect to a server when logged in

Reflections

Optimizations - Jimmy

Moddable Sound Effects - Jimmy

Ground Types - Jimmy

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed non-connected input pegs sharing a circuit state with some random piece of circuitry in worlds that have filled up all the starting circuit state indexes
• Fixed a couple issues preventing you from loading a second save after already doing so once in a given session
• Fixed exclusive pegs not having a deterministic update order relative to components
• Fixed some potential issues with unconnected exclusive pegs
• Fixed music not playing if the path to the music contained a '#' or a '%' or was a UNC path or various other edge cases

Moar Awesome Character Movement - Jimmy

Terrain Tech - Jimmy

Stochastic Texturing

Triplanar Mapping

More mice - Felipe

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed player vertical flying speed not changing proportionally with player scale
• Fixed "Player Gravity Scale" slider being adjusted in increments of 1.0 instead of 0.1

Arbitrary World Gravity - Jimmy

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed visual teleport errors if the teleport exit had a different rotation or scale from the teleport entrance
• Fixed incorrect player capsule rotation in Chairs
• Fixed missing lighting data on Grasslands
• Fixed '\\' not being correctly detected and replaced when validating file names for sandboxes and saved boards

Yet More Chat Upgrades - Jimmy

Mice: my new microservice framework - Felipe

Text Box Settings - Jimmy

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed various bugs with the markdown renderer
• Fixed issues with caching links in text, leading to apparent clickable links on regular, non-link text
• Fixed some situations where HoverTags could become stuck open

It's been a bit of a lighter week for us, but regardless we continue to polish up Logic World.

Chat Enhancements - Jimmy

The Merge - Felipe

A Glorious Animation

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed the unicode shortcut being unreliable and buggy in some circumstances
• LogicUI: fixed the ConfigurableMenu OnWidthChanged and OnHeightChanged events not firing when the width/height was changed by resetting the menu settings
• Fixed menu buttons sometimes being the wrong color
• Fixed being able to open the console while typing in an InputField, making it impossible to type "~" or "`"
• Fixed various bugs with the markdown renderer and link clicking utility

Multiplayer Text Chat - Jimmy

SharpVue Shenanigans - Felipe

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed being able to make your teleport shells cast shadows if you turned on the see your own shadow setting during a teleport sequence. Now, teleport shells intentionally cast shadows, which looks awesome, and they are properly handled by the see your own shadow setting.
• Fixed fancy pause menu music effects persisting to the main menu music
• New character controller: fixed player movement not being frozen during the first phase of the teleportation sequence
• New character controller: fixed weird collision with the ground while flying
• New character controller: fixed noclip mode not working
• New character controller: fixed inverse coyote time not working
• New character controller: fixed raycasts using the position of the player on the previous frame instead of this frame

Its been a bit of a lighter week for us, with Jimmys second-favorite holiday and some very stressful world events. But regardless, weve continued to plug away at Logic World, and weve got some juicy tidbits to share with you on this fine Wednesday.

Endless Pauseabilities - Jimmy

Web split - Felipe

Notifications: finale - Felipe

Continued work on new player controller - Jimmy

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed Hue slider being 0-255 instead of 0-360
• Fixed being able to scroll in the InputFields of some InputSliders
• Fixed text links still changing color if you click on a part of the text that is not a link
• Fixed a rare fatal error when trying to press a Key from a specific angle
• Fixed footstep sounds not playing
• Fixed weird scaling issues with the player controller if you spammed the crouch key fast enough
• Fixed physics objects being unstable when resting on the ground in Gridlands and Grasslands
• Fixed the server commands simulation.pause and simulation.resume not working

Smooth Scrollin - Jimmy

Notifications - Felipe

Player Controller Overhaul - Jimmy

• Much smoother and more reliable collision detection, and better handling of edge cases like sloped hallways
• More customizability to the user: parameters like step up height, max stable slope angle, stick to ground force ect can now be tweaked to preference
• The ability to rotate the character, so world types with custom gravitational geometry -- like a spherical planet -- can finally be added
• Way way way WAY better modding support. It is now crazy ridiculously easy to implement custom character movement logic.
• The ability for players to stand on platforms that are moving and rotating, with momentum handled properly as you jump on or off of them. This is unused in Logic World for the moment -- at least, without mods -- but its needed for some stuff we want to do after 1.0.

Color Picker Refresh - Jimmy

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed being able to exceed the maximum CircuitBoard size using the Board Drawing mechanic
• Fixed being able to exceed the maximum CircuitBoard size using the "snap resizing size to square" mechanic
• Fixed intro screen text not changing color with UI palette
• Fixed SUCC newline escapes not working properly
• Fixed various issues with clickable links in setting descriptions and the about menu tabs
• Fixed various typos in the localization files
• Fixed not being able to hold down Buttons and Keys with the mouse while in a Chair

Happy Halloween from Mouse Hat Games!

Welcome back to Logic World Wednesday! Were hard at work on your game, and this week weve been focused on optimization.

Super Speedy Save Loading - Jimmy

Socket Slowdown Solution - Jimmy

Even More Web Fun - Felipe

• All timestamps are now updated every 30 seconds to more accurately show the age of recent posts and comments.
• The scroll position will now be properly saved and restored once the page is fully loaded when navigating to and from pages, or reloading.
• Comment permalinks now work properly
• Fixed quote formatting not working
• Fixed comments not being sorted by date.
• You can now edit comments, and the date and time of a comments last edit will now be displayed alongside the original post date.
• Added Related posts column to all posts with a list of the newest posts in the forum that the current post is in.

Cubic Chunks - Jimmy

Packet Compression - Jimmy

Hotbar Customization - Jimmy

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed sometimes not getting your position set by the server properly when you load into a world
• LogicSettings: fixed being unable to save or load settings with a value of null
• The game won't complain anymore if you've added files to the Backups folder that don't conform to its expected folder structure

Weve had a productive week, working on various odds and ends throughout the game.

Multiplayer Menu - Jimmy

Web Fun - Felipe

More Robust Save Loading - Jimmy

Convertible Boards - Jimmy

Persistent Hotbars - Jimmy

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed "Cannot initialize Cloth: scale is zero!" issues
• Fixed a rare memory leak related to the music player system
• Fixed not being able to auto-delete old backups that were made with suffixes
• Fixed your settings being reset every time you start the game
• Fixed a save-conversion log message not being triggered when it should be
• Fixed worlds being force-loaded always instead of just in appropriate situations
• Fixed disconnecting while placing a loaded board creating permanent "phantom components" that cannot be interacted with but nonetheless lag up the world

Reorderable Lists - Jimmy

Heavy UI Polish - Jimmy

Im rewriting the website again lol - Felipe

The History of Logicworld.net

The Kubening: The Final Form of Logicworld.net

• SPA sites are heavier on the first load than HTML sites. Since the main use for the site (at least right now) is to read LWWs you are unlikely to navigate much around the site, so the SPAs benefits of only loading assets once doesnt give it an advantage over plain HTML, and in fact makes it a bit worse.
• Some people have JS disabled on their browsers (usually for privacy reasons), which makes an SPA completely unusable.
• An SPA is a bit overkill for a games website.
• An SPA communicates with the server via an API, which also has to be developed and maintained.

The Vuening: The True Final Form of Logicworld.net

• While it is true that the initial load time of an SPA is slower than a pure HTML site (sending 3-4 times the quantity of data), this advantage disappears once youve navigated to a couple more pages. Our envisioned future for logicworld.net is one where most people are doing a lot of page navigation, browsing forum posts and uploaded creations. When you consider that as the typical use case, the SPA actually wins for total data sent and total time spent loading pages.
• Only a [very small percentage of people](https://deliberatedigital.com/blockmetry/javascript-disabled) have JavaScript disabled, so making such a huge decision to appeal to that small fraction of people does not make sense. While we support folks efforts to retain more privacy online, we ourselves are not actually stealing any data using JS, and the most important thing is that we have a functional website at all:
• An SPA is *much* faster to develop new features for, see the below paragraph. I think that in the future when we introduce workshop features I will be very glad to be using one.
• My worries about maintaining an API were partially extinguished when I decided to use GraphQL, which I will talk more about down below.

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed other players not affecting flag cloth physics
• Fixed not being able to see your own reflection in SHINY BOBBY
• Fixed the loading screen not displaying when connecting to an external server
• Fixed the "Disconnected" screen becoming stuck on if you used the console to connect to a server while on the disconnected screen
• LogicUI: fixed HoverButton still registering ClickBegin events when EnableButton is set to false
• Fixed some color picker menus not playing nice with menu resizing
• Fixed being able to set the size of the Edit Display Configurations menu to so small that the UI would glitch out

Multiplayer Settings - Jimmy

The Logic World Original Soundtrack is complete - Markku

Player Authentication - Felipe

Localization Updates - Jimmy

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed being able to manually enter values to an InputSlider that are out of its range
• Fixed glitches when setting the min/max of an InputSlider at runtime
• Fixed not being able to place Flags in tight spaces
• Fixed various weird issues caused by Flag cloth trigger colliders
• Fixed Flag cloth being cut off for hotbar renders of flags with a short flagpole or a long cloth
• Fixed not being able to flag-teleport into spaces occupied by wires
• Fixed Chair colliders not lining up well with the visual geometry
• Fixed player looking direction resetting when exiting a Chair
• Fixed Sandbox List menu throwing an error and not generating if there is a sandbox present using an outdated save format version which has a valid save converter
• Fixed missing rocket ship icon in Create Sandbox menu
• Fixed none of the Settings Preview Images working
• Fixed the flippy part of switches not showing up in SHINY BOBBY when realtime reflections are enabled
• Fixed background of Pig Flag being transparent instead of a beautiful sky-blue
• Fixed missing description for the Open Teleport Menu and Open Load Board Menu bindings
• Fixed missing localization for Delayers
• Fixed incorrect hover tag localization key on the "show/hide sliders" button in the Color Picker menu
• Fix embarrassing misspelling in title/description of movement setting (Analogue -> Analog)
• Fixed part of the Edit Bindings menu not being localized

Wednesday is a state of mind.

Fancy new inputs - Jimmy

Building Enhancements - Jimmy

Yet Another Flag Video - Jimmy

Texture Optimization - Jimmy

Save file error handling - Jimmy

Back That Save Up - Jimmy

• Both sandboxes and saved boards are automatically backed up
• Backups are stored in a unique folder for each item that can be backed up
• There is a configurable number of backups to keep per item before old backups of that item start getting deleted -- by default this number is 10
• Backups of deleted items will be kept for a while, then deleted. By default, backups of deleted items will be kept for 50 days.
• Sandboxes are automatically backed up while youre playing in them; by default this happens every 5 minutes
• Saved boards are backed up if they are being overwritten with a new saved board of the same name
• Sandboxes and boards are backed up before they are deleted
• Sandboxes and boards are backed up before they are loaded if there was a potential issue detected before loading

Still alive - Felipe

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed not being able to place things very close to the top of Flags
• Fixed flag hotbar rendering being based on the wind direction at time of render
• Fix unnecessary lag while grid-placing Chairs
• Fixed incorrect grid placing dimensions on Inverter, XOR Gate, D Latch, Oracle, Relay, 3-way AND Gate, and 4-way AND gate
• Fixed sandbox title input field sometimes being way too small
• Fix sandbox list order not updating when sorting by title and renaming an item
• Fixed build pipeline being broken in several ways

Hello, its me, Jimmy! I forgot to get Felipes section before he went to bed, and it took me the entire #$@& day to make a script for mass-exporting flag SVGs to PNG which left me no time to finish the two other features I wanted to talk about in this blog post. Well be back with a full-sized post next Wednesday, but today we have just the one lil section on Flag improvements. Hope you enjoy!

Flag Fun - Jimmy

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed the back side of Flags rendering without lighting
• Fixed OrganizedList search results not updating when an item was added/deleted/edited
• Fixed custom search tags not working due to outdated localization keys
• Fixed NullReferenceException and glitchy behavior when trying to resize after reloading a save
• Fixed timing issues with setting player rotation during teleport

Super Sexy Sandbox Selector - Jimmy

Networking Abstraction - Felipe

Lightning fast MessagePack packets - Felipe

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed weird behavior on Windows when editing the description of an OrganizedList item
• Fixed OrganizedList categories not being deleted when they're emptied
• Fixed missing hover tag localization on "add new tag" button
• Fixed Flags hanging from the wrong side

Hello Logicians! We are back from our break, and so are our Wednesdays. Were more excited than ever to be making your game, and were hard at work on the remaining features and polish needed to get it into your hands. We dont have anything to announce right now with regards to Logic Worlds release date. Please be patient with us; as soon as we know, you will know as well.

Balance at Last - Markku

Better Delayers - Jimmy

Server refactoring - Felipe

Saving Refactoring - Jimmy

• Faster save load times, particularly on machines with slower hard drives
• We can now check if a save file is corrupted before loading it
• Without loading the save, we can now extract various metadata, such as the number of components/wires in the save
• Save format converters (discussed [here](https://logicworld.net/view/pst-000f007e/logic-world-wednesdays-selfreflection#save-converters-jimmy)) now also work with saved boards, in addition to worlds

Quick and Easy Multiplayer - Felipe

Flags - Jimmy

Transparent Resizing UI - Jimmy

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed not being able to bind Keys to a key that would close its menu (i.e. the Escape key with default bindings)
• Fixed the resizing arrow on Mounts pointing sideways instead of up
• Fixed the Console being unavailable while on loading screens
• Fixed the Console rendering underneath popups
• Fixed closing the console by pressing Escape also closing some menus if they were open under the console

Upcoming Hiatus

Editable Controls - Jimmy

New Website - Felipe

Hole-punching - Felipe

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed various issues with game input when there is no keyboard or mouse plugged in
• Fixed not being able to bind Keys to buttons on a gamepad or joystick
• Fixed not being able to bind Keys to mouse buttons or to scroll wheel actions

Workshop - Felipe

Lights out - Felipe

Custom Crosshairs - Jimmy

New Sletter System- Felipe

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed various errors with multiplayer and with reconnecting to a server
• Fixed placing a Display crashing the server
• Fixed being unable to load saves with Displays in them
• Fixed "Draw Shadows on Additional Lights" setting being forced to off when "Draw Shadows" is turned off and then on again
• Fixed pressing the "Open Screenshots Folder" hotkey causing an error if it was pressed before taking any screenshots

Keybindings Menu WIP - Jimmy

Fun with Bob - Jimmy and Felipe

Lighting Settings - Jimmy

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed being unable to select hotbar slots beyond slot 10 by double tapping or ctrl+tapping a number key
• Fixed client throwing an error if you tried to run an autoexec.lsf
• Fixed being unable to make pegs exclusive if they were part of a dynamic prefab (i.e. on a Panel Display)

The Logic World Community Translation Project

Component Resizing: Endgame - Jimmy

In-game logins - Felipe

Friends list - Felipe

Color picker square - Jimmy

Sexy New Server -- Jimmy and Felipe

Not having physical access to the machine made troubleshooting and problem-solving more difficult than it should be [/olist] So this week, Jimmy built a new server for us. And if youre gonna build a server, why not make a vlog about building a server :) [previewyoutube=sPnkxg4gOeo;full][/previewyoutube] But building the hardware is only half the battle. Were still working on the software part: weve got the operating system installed, weve got all the networking configured, and weve successfully activated a Unity Plus license on the server (something we were never able to do on a machine we couldnt physically access). The next step is to set up all of Felipes fancy build software on Bob. Once thats complete, well finally be able to build Logic World quickly, reliably and cheaply. Any disasters notwithstanding, youll be hearing about the completion of this project next week :)

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed 'Tried to add entity at invalid circuit state index' error, requiring a game restart, if you built a world with more than 10,000 concurrent circuit states
• Fixed errors when you tried to resize a component with wires directly attached to it (Panel Displays)
• Fixed board hitboxes becoming squished when you moved or placed a board on their edge
• Fixed sometimes not being able to resize objects for no reason
• Fixed being able to interact with Interactables that are behind players
• Fixed various crazy visual errors when cancelling Multi-Wire Placing at stage 0
• Fixed in-game changelog not rendering
• Fixed the `MissingLocalizations` command incorrectly stating that present localizations were missing
• Fixed the Configurable Menu scale slider label having an incorrect localization key
• Fixed Resizable Menus always starting in fullscreen when the game is played in Europe

Wait a second, did I read that last bug correctly? Yes you did! This is one of the most interesting bugs weve ever had in Logic World. Can you guess what caused it? We sure couldnt for several hours! Pause reading here if you want to think about it and try to solve the puzzle yourself :) We were going absolutely mad trying to figure out this bug. We each did the same thing, but got different results. Who could have guessed that the difference in our digital setups was the physical location? It turns out the culprit was different regions using a different character for the decimal indicator! The resizable menus save their size to a SUCC file. In North America, the menus were saving their size as something like 205.872. But in Europe, they were saving their size as something like 205,872. You can probably see where this is going: the numbers were saved using the local culture, but they were loaded as a global culture. So all of the values were being blown up by 3+ orders of magnitude! A couple of quick commits to SUCC, and the bug was fixed. Sometimes, bugfixing can be delightful. When the symptoms are bewildering and random, but the cause (and fix!) turns out to be simple and logical thats one of the finest feelings in programming.

Regular Logic World Streams!

The lovely @Daniel, a beta tester for Logic World, is now doing regular streams of the game! So far on-stream hes built a Nintendo CIC), a binary adder, a tic-tac-toe machine and more; right now hes working on a playable game of Battleship). In our biased opinion, Daniels streams are always tons of fun, and you should check them out! Follow him on Twitch and Twitter to be notified when he goes live.
--------------------------------------------- We'll keep releasing these weekly updates right up until the game comes out. To make sure you don't miss them, you can sign up for our newsletter or join the official Discord, and of course you can wishlist and follow the game right here on Steam. View this post on logicworld.net. More Logic World Wednesdays https://store.steampowered.com/app/1054340/Logic_World/

[ 2020-06-25 11:29:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

Grabbing Rotations - Jimmy

Generalized Packet System - Felipe

Fancy Circuit Optimizations - Felipe

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed vertical flying controls getting "stuck" when Lock Flight Y Axis is off
• Fixed Color Picker often opening by default to a white color
• Fixed Gridlands worlds by default being created as pure white
• Fixed boards flying away like a butterfly if you grabbed them at an angle that didn't immediately provide a reference location
• Fixed crazy errors next time you load a save if you quit to main menu while placing a component
• Fixed Edit Label Menu not doing "select all" when it's opened
• Fixed fatal error when spamming the rotation key on buttons and keys

PLUSHIE BOBBY

Devilish Details #2 - Jimmy

Benchmarks - Felipe

Jarvi Makes a Mandelbrot, LIVE

Bugs Fixed This Week

• Fixed Oracles generating a new value when their circuit network is updated, i.e. by adding or removing a connection to their input
• Fixed "ghost" display configurations on picked-up Displays with deleted configurations
• Fixed Buttons and Switches making extra sounds when they are placed, rotated, moved, and when the sandbox loads
• Fixed Buttons and Keys getting stuck on if they are rotated or flipped while being pressed
• Fixed held-down Buttons and Keys going up if another player joins the game while they're being pressed
• Fixed being able to press Keys when you couldn't see the actual key part
• Fixed Keys turning on but not moving and not making sound when a different player presses them
• Fixed being able to press Keys when they are visible only via their reflection in SHINY BOBBY

• Resizing components: fixed holding shift to snap to square size not working properly\
• Fixed wire ghosts sometimes having a different rotation from the wires they create
• Fixed multi-wire placing outlines sometimes being the wrong color

• Fixed player jump sounds always coming from the world origin, rather than the position the player jumped from
• Fixed players sticking to the ceiling when they jump into one
• Fixed players falling at an inconsistent, and usually too fast, speed when walking off the edge of a platform
• Fixed players decelerating in the direction they're facing instead of the direction they're moving
• Fixed players accelerating too slowly when the game is lagging

• Fixed hover tags rendering behind popups
• Fixed visual artifact on settings sliders when set to minimum value
• Fixed terrible glitchy behavior when clicking on scroll bars
• Fixed incorrect hover tag text localization key on "Add New Tag" button
• Linux: fixed resizable menu custom cursors being gigantic and taking up half the screen

• Fixed positional sounds not getting quieter with distance
• Fixed client's 'quit' command hard locking the application
• Fixed component registry not properly detecting the error when a mod adds duplicate component IDs

Time and Science - Markku

Loggy Loggy Log Log Log Log thats fun to say out loud - Felipe

In-game mods menu - Felipe

Logic Maker progress - Felipe

Editable Display Configurations - Jimmy

Logic Worlds Release Delayed again.

Amazing New Displays - Jimmy

Cloud metrics - Felipe

Extensible Menu Settings - Jimmy

And So We Danced - Markku

Sandbox Menus & World Types - Jimmy

New Epic Website - Felipe

LogicScript: Ludicrous Speed - Felipe

Extra Data - Jimmy

Background Blur - Jimmy

More Menu Updates - Jimmy

Socket Shenanigans - Jimmy

Modding Documentation - Felipe

UI Themes - Jimmy

Menu Redesigns - Jimmy

This blog was originally posted last week, but I forgot to post it here on Steam. This week's Logic World Wednesday will be coming tomorrow, on Thursday.

Travelers Peak - Markku

Sexy sexy menus - Jimmy

Web Services Overhaul - Felipe

Modding Updates & Documentation - Felipe

Beam Me In A Given Arbitrary Direction, Bobby - Jimmy

This week we have made the unfortunate decision to postpone the release of Logic World again. The new, and with any luck final, launch day is June 12. Read more in the official announcement.

Player Positions - Jimmy

Build pipeline - Felipe

Fun Spinny Triangle - Jimmy

The Socket - Jimmy

LogicScript components with hot reloading - Felipe

Popups - Jimmy

• If a popup starts off-screen, it must be moved on-screen
• If a popup is taller or wider than the screen, it must be compressed to a size where it can be viewed in its entirety, and a scrollbar must be added to it
• If a menu closes while it has a popup open, that popup must close as well
• If the screen resolution changes while a popup is open, the popup must resize itself appropriately

Quick Colors - Jimmy

New Build Pipeline - Felipe

One Year of Logic World

A New Pursuit - Markku

Smooth Grids - Jimmy

Modding System Fun - Felipe

The Oracle - Jimmy

Bobbys Birthday is this Friday!

New Horizons - Jimmy

Logic Scripting - Felipe

AND, AND, and AND- Jimmy

Instrument Sounds - Jimmy

Settings Profiles - Jimmy

Unexciting Things - Felipe

Bobbys Birthday

The world flounders, but a beacon of stability shines brightly through the fog of panic and pandemic. That beacon is Logic World Wednesdays: ever on time, ever organized, ever punctilious. We are here for you when you need something dependable in your life.

Settings Menu Polish - Jimmy

Tracker Improvements - Felipe

More SECCS - Felipe

Robust Initialization - Jimmy

Welcome back to another Logic World Wednesday! Its been a busy week for Mouse Hat Games and weve got a lot to talk about. But first! This week the Youtube algorithm blessed us with an auto-generated channel for Logic World. Check it out here, and be sure to subscribe. All future LW videos will be found there -- videos from us, from beta testers, and from anyone after May 1st who makes a LW video.

VLOG - Jimmy and Markku

A New Wave - Markku

Player Presence - Jimmy

Faster load times - Felipe

SECCS Rewrite - Felipe

Color Accuracy - Jimmy

Networking Abstractions - Felipe

Analytics - Felipe

Save Converters - Jimmy

Server-side component data - Jimmy

In case you havent already heard, this week we made the difficult decision to postpone Logic Worlds release. Were sorry about this, but weve got our heads down and were working hard to make sure the game you play on May 1st is the best it can be.

More Bug Squashing - Jimmy

• Chairs now work properly when theyre placed at odd angles
• Your multiplayer model will now appear in chairs to other people

Tracker - Felipe

Server Docker Image - Felipe

Screenshots - Jimmy

On Monday of this week, we started beta testing! A few select individuals have gotten advance access to Logic World. These folks are helping us perfect the game by finding bugs and giving feedback on features. Theyll also be building contraptions to help us with marketing the game. Beta testers have no restrictions on sharing their experiences, so from this week forward youll have a lot more Logic World content to look forward to! Check out the first CPU in Logic World, built by @Mr_IO: [previewyoutube=ZYqOWHymmT0;full][/previewyoutube] And check out this awesome synchronous program counter from @TheWildJarvi: [previewyoutube=_XH41SKf2sU;full][/previewyoutube] Beta testers are often sharing screenshots and videos on the Logic World Discord, so make sure youre hanging out there if youre not already. Furthermore, well soon be setting up Steam Broadcasting for Logic World, so keep an eye out for that. Edit: Steam Broadcasting is live! Go to the Logic World Steam Page, where our beta testers are streaming their gameplay :) Without further ado, lets get into this weeks Wednesday!

When Time Waits - Markku

More Displays - Jimmy

Dedicated server on Steam - Felipe

Movement Settings - Jimmy

Literally Hundreds of Bugs - Jimmy

Mac OS Finished - Jimmy

Unity 2019.3 - Jimmy and Felipe

Audio Overhaul - Jimmy

Output Groups

Music Component Spatial Audio

Music Player

RSS - Felipe

Cloud Build & Deploy Completed - Felipe

Load game directly into save - Jimmy

Server Features - Jimmy

Whitelist

Banlist

Password Protection

Admins

Max players per server

Pause empty servers

Information Screens - Jimmy

error screen

disconnection screen

Mac OS - Jimmy

Linux - Felipe

Hello and welcome back to Logic World Wednesdays! In case you missed it, this week we announced Logic Worlds release date: March 13, 2020.
Weve got a big Wednesday for you today, so lets get started!

As We Change - Markku

Actual Clouds - Jimmy

Fake Internet Clouds - Felipe

The resulting build is compressed and optionally uploaded.[/olist] (Note: steps 4 and 5 are not yet implemented) Were going to start beta testing very very soon, and during beta testing well be building and deploying the game several times per day. So its important that this complex task is automated for us.

Website Error Handling - Felipe

Our website, logicworld.net, has had some issues in the past, like comments being duplicated and posts not working. More often than not the hardest part about solving these problems was identifying what parts of the site were causing the problem, which required digging into the logs to find out the exact message and stack trace. This is the main reason I decided to implement an error logging system, which will gracefully detect and notify the user about any failed requests that have been executed, as well as helping us identify the errored request through the use of a request ID.

Game Flow - Jimmy

Thanks to Felipes excellent work on the integrated server (you can read more here), this week Ive been tightening up the flow of the game between macrostates. We can now connect to an external server, then disconnect, then connect to a local server (singleplayer game). Furthermore, Ive added loading screens and an error screen -- though neither is particularly pretty right now, so Ill show those off when they are :) Ive also added the ability for you to run commands on an integrated server. Everything is now seamless; weve fully merged the client and server software into one smooth and sexy game. Of course, the standalone server software will still be available for those who want to run dedicated servers.

Hotbar Shortcuts - Jimmy

I added some hotkeys for managing your hotbar! [previewyoutube=75ORqV2vvuw;full][/previewyoutube] With these hotkeys, Im opening the selection menu less than half as much as I used to when I play the game. Once you get used to them, theyre a real time saver. --------------------------------------------- We'll keep releasing these weekly updates right up until the game comes out. To make sure you don't miss them, you can sign up for our newsletter or join the official Discord, and of course you can wishlist and follow the game right here on Steam. See you next Wednesday! View this post on logicworld.net. More Logic World Wednesdays https://store.steampowered.com/app/1054340/Logic_World/

[ 2020-02-13 21:00:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

We have a release date! Logic World will be in your hands on Friday, March 13, 2020. It's been an incredible journey to get to this point, and we are absolutely pumped to polish off this game and get it into your hands. Thank you, so much, for following and supporting us along the way.
For more details, and for information on pricing, see our blog post here: https://logicworld.net/Post/113 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1054340/Logic_World/

Relays - Jimmy

Store Pages - Felipe

Settings Menu Generation - Jimmy

Welcome back to another Logic World Wednesday! This week, in The Shiny Edition, were polishing up the game and getting it prepared for release. Before we begin, we have a very special announcement. Logic World is going to have a full original soundtrack, and weve found the perfect person to write it. It is our pleasure to introduce Markku Wainman, composer for Logic World!

Soundtrack - Markku

Completed Integrated Server - Felipe

SHINY BOBBY - Jimmy

Character Customization - Jimmy

Settings Menu - Jimmy

• When you mouse over a setting, you can see a written description of what the setting does, a visual preview of it, and how performance-intensive the setting is.
• There are now multiple profiles for settings (bottom right). When you edit the settings on one profile, all the other profiles are unaffected.
• I ran into several issues using the built-in Unity dropdowns and toggles, so I programmed my own. Every single thing you see in that screenshot is now running custom code.
• Many parts of the visual design have been tweaked and polished since last week

Lighting & Graphics - Jimmy

Pick Up Component - Jimmy

Settings Menu - Jimmy

Sexy Notifications - Felipe

Open Source Shenanigans - Jimmy

BobbyBot - Felipe

Resizable Components Polish - Jimmy

Outline Tech Upgrade - Jimmy

Spinny Compass - Jimmy

Status - Felipe

Welcome back to another Logic World Wednesday! Were back from the holidays, and the push for release is underway.

Checkerboard World - Jimmy

Modding API Consolidation & Documentation - Felipe

Tons of cloud stuff - Felipe

• We have migrated from having a single server to having two: Phobos and Deimos.
• Migrated from a monolithic architecture to a microservices one, which means that we now have a small service for tasks like emailing, logging, storage, etc.
• Migrated from regular Docker to Docker Swarm, allowing us to deploy these services very easily and scale them up by changing a single number in the configuration file. This will let us easily scale up the server to meet the demand if we find the need to do so.
• Migrated from Caddy to Traefik as our edge proxy.

Refined Building Mechanics - Jimmy

(this blog was originally posted 2019-12-18) Welcome back to another Logic World Wednesday! This is our last post before the holidays, and weve got some real goodies for you this week.

Draggable Colors and More - Jimmy

Mod Hooking - Felipe

Player Identification - Felipe

Yet More Unexciting Code Work - Jimmy

(this blog was originally posted 2019-12-12)

Better Saved Colors - Jimmy

Website Work - Felipe

• Post embeds on Discord, Reddit, etc are much nicer. before, after
• The Facebook link has been smited from the site. More info
• When logging in you will now be redirected to the page you were previously in
• Comments will now be counted recursively in the comment section
• All notification emails will now contain the reason why you got them

Unexciting Code Work - Jimmy

Logic Maker - Felipe

Hover Tags - Jimmy

Camera Controller Upgrade - Jimmy

Bug Squashing Palooza - Jimmy

Website upgrade - Felipe

Oh yeah, its all coming together. Logic World is nearing completion. All the various parts of the game are coming together to form a complete product, and we couldnt be more excited about it.[/size]

Overhauled Display Menu - Jimmy

• Circuit Boards
• Switches
• Labels
• Singers
• Drums
• Chairs
• Delayers
• Buttons
• Keys

Integrated Server - Felipe

Sandbox Menu - Jimmy

Intro animation - Jimmy

Welcome back to another Logic World Wednesday! Logic World grows closer to completion every day. This week, we've got a preview of the Logic World Theme, a look at the Main Menu and Languages Menu, and a story about the Bug from Hell.

The Logic World Soundtrack

Main Menu and Languages Menu - Jimmy

Felipe Martnez and the Bug from Hell

(this blog was originally posted 2019-11-13)

Display Configurations - Jimmy

Cloud mod compilation - Felipe

SUCC v1.1 - Jimmy

Welcome back to another Logic World Wednesday. After a three week hiatus, we are back! If you havent been keeping up with us on Discord, the break has been because we were reorganizing Logic Worlds 50,000 lines of code. That work is finally done, and your regularly scheduled Wednesdays have returned!

New Menus - Jimmy

MIDI Input Support - Jimmy

New Game State System - Jimmy

Server architecture & networking refactor - Felipe

Modding System Progress - Felipe

• assets/
  • my_image.png
  • my_mesh.obj
  • my_unityassets.assetbundle
• data/
  • components.succ
• lib/
  • MyLibrary.dll
• manifest.json
• server.dll
• client.dll
• shared.dll

An Early Phriday

Welcome back to another Logic World Wednesday! If you havent already heard, we have made the difficult but necessary decision to delay the release of Logic World. The game will be released in February 2020. More information can be found here.

Adjustable Delay - Jimmy

Resizable Mounts - Jimmy

Rainbow Keys - Jimmy

Labeled Buttons - Jimmy

Client/Server integration - Felipe

More Resizables and More Displays - Jimmy

The Logic World Store - Felipe

Automated website testing - Felipe

(this blog was originally posted 2019-09-11)

Multiplayer

Logic World Wiki - Felipe

New Player Controller - Jimmy

• walking
• running
• crouching
• flying
• flying can be with or without a locked Y axis
• optional & adjustable movement smoothing
• optional & adjustable mouse smoothing

Dynamic Components - Jimmy

Advanced Console Functionality - Felipe

Input System Overhaul - Jimmy

• each action the game can interpret - walk forwards, jump, place item, etc - has one or more bindings that can trigger it.
• bindings can reference direct input like key presses or other bindings. For example, the jump action is bound to space, and the fly up action is bound to jump.
• bindings can reference multiple direct inputs or other bindings, requiring you to press both of them to trigger the action
• bindings which can be held down have two options: actually hold them down, or tap once to toggle on and tap again to toggle off
• bindings can reference double or triple taps/clicks

• a much greater variety of input devices are supported, and adding new supported input devices is much easier
• the bindings can be edited at runtime
• mods can add and use custom bindings
• the new system is significantly more performant
• binding data is stored in an easily-editable file next to the game executable, rather than in the registry

Welcome back to another Logic World Wednesday! This week Logic World passed 4,000 wishlists on Steam. Thank you to everyone who has wishlisted, that number is just crazy!!!

Chairs and Better Keys - Jimmy

LICC: Console Backend - Felipe

Fancy Pants Console Frontend - Jimmy

Search All the Things - Jimmy

• the Selection Menu
• your Saved Boards
• the list of Singer instruments
• the list of Drum instruments
• messages in the new Console (shown above)

Sound Effect Randomization - Jimmy

Monospaced Labels - Jimmy

Miscellaneous Website Tweaks - Felipe

• Comment likes now count towards your profiles total likes
• Timestamps are now updated in real time
• You can now automatically quote comments by selecting some text and pressing reply
• You will now get a notification when someone mentions you in a comment or post (this can be adjusted in your account settings
• Now there are breadcrumbs in all forum pages, for example:
  
• Collapsed comments are now more collapsed: Before:
  After:
  
• The comments section now has some more space and a comment counter: Before:
  After:
  

Drums - Jimmy

Keys - Jimmy

Post image uploading - Felipe

Post visual editor - Felipe

Input Animations - Jimmy

(this blog was originally posted 2019-08-14) Hello everyone! This week Jimmys on vacation, so itll be just me and my web shenanigans.

Comment "soft"-deletion - Felipe

Visits chart - Felipe

Data prefetch - Felipe

(this blog was originally posted 2018-08-06) Logic World Wednesdays on a Tuesday? What is the world coming to? If you havent already heard, Logic Worlds release has sadly been postponed to October.

Board Sharing - Felipe

Comment rating - Felipe

Singer Polish - Jimmy

• Sine
• Sawtooth
• Square
• Triangle
• White Noise

Welcome to another Logic World Wednesday! This week, logicworld.net passed 10,000 unique page views. Woohoo!!!

Singers - Jimmy

Board uploading - Felipe

UI Refactoring - Jimmy

Welcome back to another Logic World Wednesday! This week, Logic World surpassed 3,000 wishlists on Steam. Thank you to everyone for your support!

Board Models - Jimmy

Resizable Components - Jimmy

Label UI - Jimmy

Grid Placing - Jimmy

C# to JS - Felipe

Sorry for the late post. Programming is hard!

D-Latches - Jimmy

Board Saving Menu - Jimmy

Form validation - Felipe

Board Save Format - Jimmy

The logicworld.net Store - Felipe

Saving Boards - Jimmy

Website Update - Felipe

Configurable Displays - Jimmy

Details

Color Picker v2 - Jimmy

• an HSV wheel
• a hex code input
• sliders for red-green-blue and hue-saturation-value
  • these can be toggled on and off individually
  • the slider colors update to reflect what changes they would cause
  • each slider has a field to manually enter a value
• a list of saved colors
• keyboard shortcuts

Profile Pages - Felipe

Configurable Menus - Jimmy

Welcome back to another Logic World Wednesday! Before we begin, wed like to share that this week Logic World surpassed 2,000 wishlists on Steam. Thanks everybody!

Colors! - Jimmy

Graphics Improvements - Jimmy

• Performance. LWRP is built to be as fast as possible. Its missing some advanced features - such as realtime global illumination and detail maps - but Logic World is not a realistic looking game so we dont need realistic rendering.
• Modernity. Unity is moving away from its old built-in render pipeline and will eventually deprecate it entirely. By using one of the modern render pipelines, we ensure that well always have access to the newest and fanciest rendering tech.

Web notifications - Felipe

Better notification settings - Felipe

Big Component Rotation - Jimmy

Friends List- Felipe

Friends/RPC system - Felipe

Game ownership verification - Felipe

Component Flipping - Jimmy

Remote World Downloads - Jimmy

Save Options - Jimmy

• automatically save when the game is closed (true/false)
• enable/disable autosave
• time interval between autosaves
• enable/disable auto-backups
• time interval between auto-backups
• an option to make a backup every time the game is saved (this would be in addition to auto-backups if you have them enabled)
• the location on disk which backups are saved to
• the maximum number of backups to keep per-save before the oldest one is deleted

Image Embeds - Felipe

Search Shortcuts - Jimmy

• alt+enter will add the item to the beginning of the hotbar instead of the end
• shift+enter will replace the currently selected hotbar slot with the item
• ctrl+enter will insert the item into your hotbar right after the currently selected hotbar slot

Welcome to another Logic World Wednesday! This week, Jimmy works on the UI system for the game, and Felipe continues to add features to logicworld.net. Were trying out a new format this week: rather than giving each developer their own section, the post is divided into sub-topics, each with a developers name attached.

UI Refactoring - Jimmy

Localization Improvements - Jimmy

Post likes - Felipe (aka pipe01)

Nested comments fix - Felipe (aka pipe01)

Comment notifications - Felipe (aka pipe01)

Delete comments - Felipe (aka pipe01)

Comment permalinking - Felipe

Menu Palettes - Jimmy

Thumbnail fetching - Felipe

Search Lock - Jimmy

Database backups - Felipe (aka pipe01)

• Polish: @Qik
• Estonian: @woox2k
• German: @JuliaEllie
• French: @Nano

Jimmy

Felipe (aka pipe01)

Welcome back to Logic World Wednesdays! Before we begin, wed like to share an exciting milestone with you: a few days ago, Logic World passed 1,000 wishlists on Steam. Thank you - all 1,000+ of you - so much for your support!

Jimmy

• added diagonal arrows
  • holding shift while resizing diagonally snaps the shape to a square
• added checks to prevent resizing the board into an invalid position
  • board arrows will be disabled if you cannot resize at all in that direction
• redesigned arrow appearance
• you can now see and interact with the arrows if theyre occluded by something
• you can now click any part of the arrow and it works correctly
• some arrows now smoothly animate into position rather than snapping

Felipe (aka pipe01)

Hello and welcome back to Logic World Wednesdays!

Jimmy

Felipe (aka pipe01)

Welcome to the very first Logic World Wednesday! Each week, we will be sharing our progress on Logic World. This blog is going to be a mix of technical and non-technical discussion.

Jimmy

Felipe (aka pipe01)

Key Features

• Digital Logic - Build circuits that work the same way real world computer chips do.
  
• Challenges - Solve puzzles from simple logic gates to complex machines like calculators and data storage.
  
• Multiplayer - Logic World is built from the ground up for collaborative multiplayer. Take on Challenges with your friends or build together freely in Sandbox mode.
  
• Performance - Build massive circuits and simulate them at thousands of updates per second - all without lag.
  
• Modding - Logic World features powerful modding tools - the same tools the developers are using to make the game.
  
• Online Hub - Players can upload their builds, mods, and custom challenges and share them with other players.

• OS: Ubuntu 14.04
• Processor: 2.4GHz Quad CoreMemory: 8 GB RAM
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or AMD Radeon R5 series
• Storage: 2 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: system requirements might be adjusted before release