12/08/24 0.1.2c Update

0.1.2 Update Changelog 

I've known about the various framerate issues people have been having so I had started looking into how various objects/systems were performing a few weeks back. 

Turns out, I built all of my models improperly, causing an incredible amount of meshes to be generated per object and, well, you can only send a few hundred to a GPU at any given time, not the 2700+ my improper modelling technique had created. 

There are a bunch of objects in the world already. I went ahead and rebuilt a few objects to follow this much nicer modeling method and the performance change was immediately noticable. The next update following this one will be entirely focused on rebuilding all existing models to use this new method. 

I strongly believe that you all should be able to hit a solid 60/144/(enter monitor refresh rate here) fps by this next performance focused update.  

*Added shop key on shop counter 

*Added icebox outside of gas station 

*Added electrical box outside of library 

*Added 14 missing houses 

*Added a decorative building next to the furniture store 

*Added couch and matching smaller couch 

*Added movie catalog (no functionality yet, tapes still spawn on store shelf) 

*Added two more decorative bushes 

*Added door to the gas station 

*Added cassettes and cassette cases (spawn on shelf under tapes) 

*Added a pistol 

*Added apples, chips to gas station 

*Added coffee pot and coffee to gas station 

*Added coffee steam (WIP) 

*Gas station now has an interior light and a sign light that turns on for a few hours of the night 

*Gas station door shuts and locks when the store is closed (Midnight to 5am) 

*Player can use the shop key to lock, unlock the shop doors (hold key and interact with door) 

*Cassettes point towards custom folders in '/assets/cassettes/'. Folders must be named 'cassette1', 'cassette2', etc. 14 song limit per cassette. Numbered track names should be '01 songname.mp3' rather than '1 songname.mp3' but it will play whichever order it sees the songs in the folder, it doesn't specifically have to be numbered for it to load. 

*Cassettes can be loaded/unloaded from the radio and can be played after loading. They will retain which song and how far along that song it was upon reloading 

*Cassettes can have custom loaded cover art, must be png format at the moment 

*Cassette and VHS covers now only need one image (auto wraps) there are templates available in /assets/textures/blankcassette and assets/textures/blanktape 

*Added Hunger, Thirst, Fatigue and Health bars, the first three of which have their own time based decay rates. Upon dropping to 0, the player's Health will then start to decrease. Hunger, Thirst and Fatigue negative health buffs stack. Nothing happens upon death as of yet 

*Can interact with apples, chips and bottles on the gas station shelf (locations, prices, various effects all subject to change) to purchase them. Will deplete it's cost from you total money 

*Can move around purchased apples, chips or bottles from the gas station or interact with to replenish hunger/thirst 

*Can toggle UI bars on/off with F11 key (pretty large performance increase by disabling) 

*Added money visibility, hides/shows with UI bar visibility 

*Hiding UI bars also hides center crosshair 

*Added 'Toggle FOV' setting in settings menu 

*Added 'Toggle Object Render Distance' setting in settings menu for allowing object culling from a variable distance 

*Player can shoot the pistol by interacting while holding it (shoots towards the cursor regardless of gun aim at the moment, this was mostly just a novelty addition) 

*Added console command 'set player' or 'sp' which is similar to 'set game' and can be used as such: 

'set player health to 100' 

'sp fatigue hunger thirst to 100' 

'sp money to 69' 

'set player hunger to 0' 

*Added console command 'set time' or 'change time' used as such: 

'set time to pm' 

'set time to monday' 

'change time to 10' 

'change time to 10:03' 

'set time monday pm to 10:03' 

*Added console command 'rotate x to h=#p=#r=#' and also gave it individual h,p,r rotation ability also. Can be used as such: 

'rotate vcr r=90' 

'rotate vcr h=90p=90r=90' 

*Modified console command 'teleport' to allow individual x,y,z teleporting as well. Ex: 'teleport vcr to location z=10' 

*Added console command 'print time' which prints out nicely the time and date 

*Added console command 'print stats' which prints out the players stats in a numerical representation 

*Added console command 'print masslist' to see picked up objects temp mass dictionary 

*Added experimental 2k, 4k resolution support also added 720x576 

*Added Antialliasing support 

*Added object throwing with 'T' key on keyboard or Right Bumper/Shoulder on controllers 

*Some vague performance changes 

*Even more performance changes, like a lot (a ton more to come) 

*Significant performance increase while inside player's house 

*Changed clock for hour check funtion to only happen during the actual hour change (rather than every minute) 

*Changed size of clock collision box to make it easier to grab 

*Changed size of interact area for shop lightswitch 

*Reformatted keyboard/controller layout page 

*Hid 'F12 - Show/Hide key layout' top left corner text by default, now is visible when menu screen is pulled up 

*Added 'E' and 'F' keys back to game, now the entire game can be played solely with keyboard again 

*Added a way to escape the clipboard if only using controller 

*Added Control as an alternative key for crouching 

*Can now use gamepad d-pad up and d-pad down for scrolling object distance 

*Fixed an issue with purchased food/drink items corrupting save file (purchased food/drink items do not save/load at the moment) 

*Console commands are no longer case sensitive 

*Fixed (again and final this time) VHS tapes spawning behind the shop and cassettes spawning next to their cases 

*Objects no longer lose mass upon picking up 

*Fixed texture sorting issue with VHS and Cassette custom covers