Devlog Update 131
We added the Jumper ride from this weeks Art Stream:
Tim added receiving more park area as a reward for completing scenario goals, which should allow for some interesting scenarios:
And Luuk added a default configuration for the Steam Controller. I don’t own a Steam Controller and was surprised to see how well it works in Luuks demo - almost as fast as using a mouse and keyboard. Pretty cool!
Devlog Update 130
Once again, it’s time for an Art Stream! Come join us on Garrets Twitch channel on Wednesday (January 25th) at 1pm PST to chat while watching some new Parkitect art being created.
Signs can be set to “no entry” per employee type now, so you can for example keep Entertainers from running around on your shop stock supply paths:
The blueprints browser received a list of categories to make finding what you want easier:
And deco objects can be filtered by theme:
Objects are also grouped by theme in the object list now instead of purely alphabetical so that for example all the castle walls are listed together instead of having to look for them all over the place.
This is also open for modding. Mods can add their objects to an existing theme or add entirely new themes.
Garret added the wall pieces that were missing in the spooky and brick sets:
And there are a bunch of new fun animated mechanical props:
Tim made banking tracks across the 180° mark work as you’d expect (it used to snap all the way around instead of going across 180°):
This also allows building a full 360° roll using just one segment which looks smoother than building it from two segments as before.
Devlog Update 129
Hey, welcome back! Hope you all had great holidays.
I had time to think about some of the remaining technical challenges and how to solve them. One of them were a couple of visual glitches related to tunnels. I’ve reimplemented them this week and that’s all fixed now:
There was also an annoying bug where you’d occasionally get a “location occupied” error message while building coaster tracks even though that wasn’t the case, which should be fixed now too.
Tim added adjusting the weather for scenarios. There are some presets or you can fully customize it:
And we’ve started working with Gabby. She’s a UI designer and 3D artist and is working on cleaning up and improving our UI :) More on that later.
Devlog Update 128 + Alpha 9
Surprise! Alpha 9 is here a week earlier than usual! The full change log is at the end of this post.
The reason is that after working non-stop since early 2014 we’re taking a two week holiday break to recharge and think about other things than theme parks for a bit :)
We’ll be back in the second week of January 2017. Hope you all have nice holidays! :)
Luuk added adjustable coaster lift speeds:
Tim added a bunch of scenario goals:
They can be set up in the scenario editor with customizable settings and rewards:
We’ve got some pretty big performance improvements coming up for multi-core systems when lots of objects are on screen. It especially helps when zooming all the way out in very detailed parks, but should also improve performance overall to a smaller degree. In our tests we’ve seen CPU load improvements of up to 35%.
Before turning them on for everyone we would like to do some more testing though! We have created a Steam beta branch for this. If you want to give it a try, right-click on Parkitect in your Steam library, then select Properties, go to the Betas tab and select “Experimental”.
Savegames are compatible between the regular and this experimental version, so you can give it a try without any risk. If you do please let us know your results!
- added Mine Train Coaster
- added Turbine
- added Market Research
- added scenario goals
- added sorting attraction/shop list by various properties
- added adjustable chain lift speed
- employees only work on tasks outside their assigned zone if there’s nothing left to do in their zone
- less blurry shadows
- fixed Ferris Wheel being a sadness factory
- fixed all kinds of problems with wooden supports
- fixed problems with building tracked ride blueprints near park border
- fixed lag if loading a new savegame while the game is paused