Luuk added a bunch of statistics across all of your play sessions and some global ones (this uses Steam statistics, so they are only available when playing through Steam):

And we decided to make a somewhat breaking change: we’re changing the terrain to use less steep half-unit high slopes. Naturally this includes placing rides and walls at half unit high increments and less steep stairs.
To keep old savegames compatible they will continue to use the steep terrain and only new parks will use the flat slopes. The old steep stairs will still be available in old and new parks.

Art Stream

Hey! As usual near the end of the month, come join us on Garrets Twitch channel on Wednesday (March 1st) at 1pm PST to chat while watching some new Parkitect art being created.

Devlog

I’ve returned to working on the terrain to hopefully resolve all of the remaining tasks. The first one: preventing terrain from clipping through flat rides/shops/utility buildings.

The biggest challenge with this was not actually making the terraforming stop in occupied places but figuring out whether the place is occupied or not with acceptable performance. We’re obviously using space-partitioning data structures (Octrees in this case) to speed up our collision checks, but if you need to do many lookups that gets slow too at some point…

Just like we’ve already done it with guests activities we’re also putting markers for thoughts in the park now when their thoughts tab is opened, so it’s a bit easier to see what the thoughts are referring to:

Unitys text rendering isn’t the greatest currently - text looks blurry, styling and layouting is fairly limited, and when it had some trouble with handling a custom font as part of our current UI overhaul it was clear that it was time to switch to a 3rd party text rendering solution. Here’s a direct comparison:

The deco window is quite big and can get in the way, so we’re experimenting with automatically minimizing it as soon as the cursor leaves the window. Not sure yet if this might be confusing new players, we’ll have to see :)

Tim has spent the last couple weeks on adding a random terrain generator to the scenario editor, and it’s producing pretty nice results now :) There’s lots of options so you’ll never have to play on empty flat terrains anymore (although that’s still possible if you want to):

Garret added a smaller park entrance that can be themed more easily:

And some wooden paths, queues and more deco objects, including additional nice building pieces based on designs by StolleJay: