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* Predators no longer eat when not hungry, to prevent their food source going extinct * Predators only eat eggs when they see multiple, to prevent their food source going extinct * Optimization: don't show animations for animals further in the distance (except animals that can fly) * Optimization: don't calculate knee bend angles for animals further in the distance * Optimization: don't immediately disable unused 3D models; move them out of sight for a while first (enabling/disabling is expensive) Importantly, the first two changes allow for much larger carnivore populations, which in turn results in carnivores evolving on their own in the sandbox!

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* Optimization: shortened the render distance for underwater animals * Optimization: use the terrain height sampler also to determine camera height * Optimization: use the terrain height sampler also to determine where plants, eggs and animal babies should go * Optimization: created light weight variant of mouse hover logic (oa without tooltip options) for organisms, so it can handle large amounts of organisms better * Stopped carnivores eating meat of their own species (because in some situations populations could sustain themselves indefinitely this way) * Added percentage of deaths to extinction notification * Fixed bug where the death cause notification only considered deaths TODAY * Fixed incorrect 'random mutation chance' toggles after going into an editor * Fixed bug where omnivore species populations were artificially kept small * Fixed bug were the game lost track of recently evolved algae after loading a savegame * Added warning message when feet don't touch the ground to the movement panel of the animal editor * Moved several vertices in the small lobe fin models a bit lower, to increase the chance of them touching the ground * Changed 'first creature' level objective for clarity: your creature only needs walking limbs, it does not actually need to be able to walk * Fixed bug where you could click plants while in a UI view, like the time jump view * Fixed underwater music losing the lowpass effect if you changed the time speed * When random mutations are turned on, sight related instincts can now also mutate the darkness/brightness of their trigger color (forgot to add this so far) * Removed various asset bundle related error logs shown each time opening the animal editor

[ 2022-10-11 06:00:00 CET ] [ Original post ]