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Project Revamp Part 10

Added 2024-02-04 02:51:25 +0000 UTC

Video shows the summary. Text shows the technical!

This week:

Feedback received
Small Physics Rework
Chairs

Feedback

I received a decent amount of feedback to make the playing experience smoother. Namely:

[x] User should press escape to defocus game window
[x] improve orienting items with right click
[x] pick up distance is too low
[x] crouch speed too slow
[x] certain software modules have empty HUD items
[x] right click action distance too close
[ ] no jump button
[x] controls super floaty
[x] limbs clip into each other when ragdolled
[x] doors should not be double clicks (hold click)
[ ] cable should detach based on pull force (like a real cable)
[x] Limbs roll away
[x] items should not collide with player

Anything with an [x] was addressed and updated into the build I released last week. The rest will all be addressed in time for the full v0.1 probably late next month (March), after some more gameplay additions.

We had a playthrough over in the discord: https://discord.com/invite/X7pxCef6QB , it was fun and there were many bugs and people flying out of the map!

Small Physics Rework

Many of the notes that I took were related to physics. People were able to break the game in some fun ways I didn't imagine. Namely, exiting the map by rotating yourself into the door that was locked. This was caused by the joint used to grab onto objects ignoring the collisions of the door:

Also picking up the robot and forcing looking down at the same time would cause the player to spazz out and explode the physics:

These bugs have since been fixed already. I had to modify puppetmaster again.

Chairs

Chairs were a fun new feature. The cool thing about them is that they update the navigation mesh of the robots so it's totally possible to block their navigation pathing by just blocking a doorway with a chair.

As for the public announcement. It will be a spiritual successor to Viva. In case you are curious, here is Viva's 2018 original public announcement.

The public announcement will include footage of some unreleased WIP features, such as emotions!