Garret created this fantastic Haunted House during this weeks art stream, and some fitting terrain textures and fences:

(We also fixed that annoying bug where objects placed in front of water would have lots of white pixels around them)

Gordon created a new spooky ambient song :)

And Pre-Alpha 4 is available now! :D

Happy Halloween!

Pre-Alpha 4 Changelog

- added Alpine Coaster
- added Haunted House
- added people voices
- added 2 new fences
- added a bunch of spooky scenery items
- added 2 new terrain materials
- added assigning employees to zones
- added Imperial unit system option
- added LOD for a couple of objects
- added terrain height limit
- added transparent tunnels while in underground view
- updated path builder (improved build previews, raising/lowering paths)
- made snapping to paths work while in underground view (improves building underground paths, shops, benches etc.)
- improved underground view on/off toggling
- allowed placing new initial station platform after removing all segments of a ride from within the track builder
- increased max. path height
- performance: loading blueprint lists is pretty much instant now
- opened up more systems for modding
- improved park loading speed a bit
- fixed Double Ferris Wheel not working anymore after loading savegame
- fixed wrong sitting pose on Log Flume cars
- fixed not being able to right-click-delete through build previews
- fixed: removed handrails on stairs into underground tiles
- fixed follow-cam button scrolling view to wrong position if putting a tracked ride into test mode while game is paused
- fixed built object moving around while shift-raising and moving the camera
- fixed various smaller annoyances related to building stuff
- fixed white artifacts around objects placed in front of water
- fixes problems with cursor not matching UI positions in fullscreen mode
- fixed Janitors path sweep animation not playing correctly
- fixed Janitors sometimes getting stuck in toilets if cleaning them while guests are using them

We’ve added another 12 voices to the game, which puts us at a total of ~1.700 different voice audio clips. They still need some proper mixing and Gordon intends to record even more but it’s starting to sound pretty good! :)

Here’s an impression:

The path builder has been long due for a bit of a rework since it hasn’t changed much while the rest of the game grew and evolved. It received previews for the initial tile to make it work like all the other builders in the game:

That also makes building underground and raised paths work as you’d expect:

And other objects snap to underground paths now while in underground view:

I’ve also worked a bit with Luuk Holleman on opening up more systems to modding, so you should be seeing some cool stuff from that area in the future :)

Garret created a new outfit for the Workmen during last weeks livestream:

(They previously used the same outfit as the Janitors)

We added a new confirmation UI element that should be less annoying than the previous “Are you sure you want to do this?” dialog that popped up in the center of the screen before:

I’ve added some caching for blueprint files, so even with hundreds of blueprints the blueprint picker should open without any lag now, whereas previously it had to touch and evaluate every file. It also allows us to add the number of available blueprints for a ride to the UI:

We put the first guest voice into the game! It’s 138 different sound clips alone and Gordon recorded a bunch of different voices, so there should be enough variation in the end :)

Gordon also finished another track! It’s another active one (don’t worry, there’ll also be really calm ones):