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Dev Build - Environment Tech

Added 2025-04-04 17:29:50 +0000 UTC

IMPORTANT (Read before downloading):
The following dev build was made by extracting multiple environment features from the commercial branch and combining it to some demo branch elements.

This method is messy, will produce possible conflicting files and doesn't represent what the actual early access will look like since there's still demo elements in place related to this extraction method.

The goal of this dev build is purely to test whether I managed to optimize 2x map size, 2x nature density and all the dynamic stuff to somewhat same performance as the demo.

In the dev build there's Dynamic Debug overlay where you can test the dynamic stuff and walk around the Template map. In the settings menu, there's also few things to toggle like real-time water reflections, grass shadows etc.

One thing to also note, that Dynamic Debug tool will give you an option to simulate x100 speed, this will produce visual jittering for the shadows, since it's not designed to be used, so the x1 simulation speed should be the stable one.

How to give useful feedback:

I'm mostly interested about the performance and possible hardware issues related to the dynamic TOD simulation, water reflections etc.

Once you have tested those Dynamic Debug tools, go the the highest place of the Template map and turn on the simulation (1x speed) which represent the actual day & night cycle speed that it will be in the early access.

Highest point (example):

Once this simulation is on and you are at the highest point of the map, meaning there are thousands of trees being rendered across the view distance, take some notes with different quality values and let me know some of the average FPS you are getting. Also remember to turn of the VSYNC if you are locked to your monitor frame rate in order to get the average FPS, otherwise VSYNC should be turned on to reduce screen tearing.

Download link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vFsGpI7r0T-LZlDBnZrd3NcaUVFFbJgK/view?usp=sharing

How to test?

Download the entire .zip folder, not individual files.
Once downloaded, extract zip file.
Run development build through .exe file.

General info

Development builds are not designed for public, do not share files or download links.
Development builds might override the demo save files.
You can record and publish content (images/videos) from these development builds.
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