Finally back and ready to continue. Having multiple jobs sucks.
New story preview content for Aintzira and Celik, featuring a bit of a cave quest right after acquiring his sword.
Mana and buff-granting wisps added.
Online mode and server app upgraded, allowing headless and optimized CPU-usage server instances via terminal/command prompt.
Two new dance emotes and three new growth animations, the latter can be invoked using pulsegrow1, pulsegrow2 and pulsegrow3 and will accelerate any ongoing transformations.
Meios system added (limited spunk reserve, basically), with avocados, kissing and a couple items made available in order to overcome that limitation by turning mana into pearl juice (corruption, genie rings and brute bracers); the conversion has specific consequences under certain conditions, like corruption or wearing active brute bracers. Meios under 8 will not allow you to achieve a fusion.
Trigger chambers (Static permanent AOEs)
Self-suck on self-action now works online.
Scars now work online.
Right-click commands can be added via right-click menu to consenting online players (master-slave roleplayers, have at.)
Offline, right click commands can be added to any orc by using clickchoice customcmd console command. Usew clickchoicedel to remove them.
Rework of drone AI and pathfinding
RAM usage optimizations regarding texture cache, which could get as bad as going above 8GB when too many orcs came in and out of the scene. Yikes. As a side effect, this also fixed that bug regarding badly mapped tattoos.
Colliders generated for peach and lakeview trees.
Data flag items can now be directly edited from hidden-view-enabled inventories, useful for mod developers (and myself...)
Reduced flappiness on physics. Extremely low framerates will still cause some of it.
This practical hiatus allowed me to focus on writing and boarding the culmination of the story regarding the two most important characters in this project, and pretty much its main axis. I feel it's much, much closer now, and I find it hard to resist giving you spoilers.
Have a wonderful time for the remainder of this month, and a happy new year 2022. That sci-fy-like number feels so odd to write down, but it's just around the corner.
0.49.1 Free update
Fixed issue regarding mass consent console command during online play.
Fixed online issue regarding fusion splitting online.
Optimized physics culling on verlet-based character effects.
Added Lua listeners oncursed() and ongeniefied()
0.49.2 Free update
Server cache optimizations and reworks for character inventory and tattoo synching, after severe lag issues were found when players tried to join using large tattoos.
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