Perfect Round Disc Golf News

8/15/21
-fixed a few bugs relating to restarting rounds

8/14/21
-fixed controller bug on inventory
-added shot preview line. sadly for both controller & keyboard This involves a change in key bindings. The shot preview for keyboard is on "C", moving the Hyzer/Anhyzer angle adjustment to Shift. Where it probably should have been in the first place. On Controller it is set to the upper face button(Y, Triangle), moving the hole preview to D-Pad up. I am planning on adding some more camera controls to the D-Pad, so that seems like a natural fit
-The Shot preview is the current throw angle at max power, perfect accuracy and no wind
-Cleaned up/ re arranged some of the HUD

8/4/21
Mountain View DGC
-New course with 2 layouts
-Most challenging course to date, with long but fair distances and the tightest fairways in game
-Changed the pipeline for creating this level, which resulted in much more natural looking terrain & features.
-Grass is also different from the other maps, peforms better and does not pop in any more
New Round Start Screen
-rrorganized level select screen, now shows a preview of the selected course
-no longer have to select Front 9/back 9/18 to lock in course change, displayed course is now selected course
-also brought Par 2 course to the list of courses, so the leaderboard can now be viewed in game for that course
QoL changes
-added restart option to pause menu
-added option to change the distance at which the game automatically switches to putting, from 33ft - 66ft

Enjoy!
Rob

Lemme just over TRIPLE the number of the discs in the game real quick

-All the discs on the 2021 Discraft flight chart are now in the game, 49 in total
-I have the stamps for 36 of them, and some have an alternate stamps that has a 30% chance of appearing, whether it is a Paul McBeth, Page Pierce or soft version of that disc. the others will get an art stamp, as always each disc has a 10% chance of generating with an art stamp
-made changes to reduce skips, especially at lower speeds
-removed the power boost on a perfect 3rd click to make the disc more predictable

5/10/21
Weather + Volumetric Clouds!
-Incorporated new volumetric clouds in UE4.26 and weather effects alongside. The weather is all hooked up to the in game wind so rain and snow particles & clouds above will show you the wind speed & direction
-Weather does not have an effect on gameplay. You can select it when starting the round or leave it on dynamic and watch the weather shift during the round
Improved performance!
-when adding the new weather I started investigating different rendering modes, so basically performance is way better, especially at higher resolutions. I was seeing 2x the frame rate at 4k and 25% better at 1080p
4k screenshot at epic settings-2x fps

Leaderboards!
-added leaderboards for every course & layout, spit into the wind setting used. i.e. Cascades longs - front 9 - high wind
-view these on the course select screen when you have a course selected. they should also be viewable from the community hub once I update the backend
-the par 2 course is keeping leaderboards, but not visible in game just yet. will have to reorganize the layout to incorporate that
-Oh yeah, leaderboard scores can be set at any skill level(doesn't have to be on the save file), and any player in multiplayer
Bug Fixes
-lots of random bugs, notably the infinite putting bug in multiplayer and discs blocking other discs in multiplayer. at least I think I fixed that last one, let me know if it still happens

Next few days/week will be fixing a long list of bugs I have written down from users on Discord, and anything else that will pop up.

Enjoy!
Rob