Fireworks Mania News

## CHANGES
- Turned off this "black ground" in the horizon - looked stupid
- Changed sun and moon position from being "Realistic" to be "Simple". This should hopefully avoid the scenario where the moon sometimes wasn't present at night
- Removed the "steam" at the spawn location in the City, as it was kind of weird to spawn more or less directly in steam
- Increased the "glow" of various materials related to the "Tools", so they should glow a bit more like they use to do. We cannot get enough glow right?
- Increased the "glow" of some of the native materials in the game used for fireworks, which should result is slightly more glowing and better looking firework effects
- Decreased the stars intensity, as they were a bit too shining and therefore was a little distracting when looking at the fireworks
- Adjusted the ambient light in all maps to make the shadow side of objects a bit darker. I turned it up to make the game be a bit lighter and easier to see, but it just makes parts of the world, depending on the light, look way to flat, so I'm trying this out now and think it looks better now
- Lowered ambient sound in City, Flat and Ranch - just a tiny bit
- Updated translations

## BUGS
- Fixed the bug where smoke in general sometimes turned almost black, should be much less now, meaning smoke, especially smoke related fireworks, looks much better now, even at night time

New Years eve is approaching and I thought that would be a great time to release a major update of Fireworks Mania - so lets get to it!


One of the most requested features for Fireworks Mania have always been mod support/workshop support. Therefore it is also high on my todo list, as stated in the roadmap.

During 2021 I have been working on making it a reality and today I give you an in-game Workshop from where you can subscribe to mods.



This is only the first version of workshop/mod support, as there are lot more I can do to give modders more possibilities and make it easier for them. So I plan to just continue on improving and extending this over time.

Over the past 3-4 weeks, mod creators have had early access to the Mod Tools and have already produced over 60 mods that are ready for you here at launch day for this new version - really well done modders!

A really big thanks to the mod community for Fireworks Mania, which have already managed to do some really really great fireworks and other funny items that you can get now via the Workshop.

By the way, the Workshop is in the game and that's where you actually download the mods by subscribing, but the Workshop can also be browsed in your browser, where you can also provide feedback to the mod creators etc.

https://fireworksmania.mod.io

If you want to try and make mods yourself, you can start here:
https://fireworksmania.mod.io/guides/how-to-create-your-own-mod

If you run into problem or have questions you can always head over to the mod section of our Discord, as there are some really talented and helpful people there: https://discord.gg/SzZD77p



Another requested feature is the ability to play at day time. For most fireworks this doesn't really make sense, as they are hard to see, but for smoke fireworks for instance it looks much better.
By using the new "Day Night Time Tool" you can adjust the speed of the cycle to set the mood/light you want for your fireworks show.





The request to be able to fire of fireworks in a big city, maybe even from the roof tops, have also been very requested - so I bring you the City map.




There are a ton of other minor changes, most things you won't see directly.
However, there are also changes that you will see, like some more destructible things, a few new fireworks and maybe also a single new hidden firework.

- Enjoy :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1079260/Fireworks_Mania__An_Explosive_Simulator/

These changes only applies to the EXPERIMENTAL branch.

## CHANGES
- Upgraded various internal packages
- Added a fallback text to the "Workshop" tab in the Inventory if a player have no mods installed. It is informing about how to get mods to get that part of the Inventory populated. It's currently not possible to localize it for the localization team as I have some more localization things and will wait for people to translate until there is a bit more

## BUGS
- Fixed bug where custom sounds from mods was not unloaded properly, resulting in these "MasterAudio" errors

To get started making mods here is a perfect collection of useful links.

As of writing the EXPERIMENTAL branch holds mod support changes:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1079260/view/3092278281653654318

On the 16th of December 2021, around 16:00 (04:00PM) CET, the next major update for Fireworks Mania will drop.

Christmas comes early this year :)


In case you haven't heard it, the biggest change in this update is the mod and workshop support - so what does that mean?

Mod and workshop support enables the community (modders) to create their own fireworks to be used in the game. Once its ready they can share with the the community via the mod.io workshop.

For you as a player this means you can now get tons of more items in your inventory to play around with - with new ones being added every day/week, thanks to some awesome modders we have in the Fireworks Mania community!

Over the last few weeks where mod support have been on the experimental branch, modders have managed to publish no less than 58 mods!

You can browse the workshop here: fireworksmania.mod.io

There is a workshop directly in the game where you subscribe to the mods you want to install. So installing and uninstalling mods is literally as simple as clicking a button in the game.

I showed of how it basically work in this dev log if you are interested.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

I'm really excited to see what modders will create over time as I expand what is possible with the mod tools and what players will do and build with it - I'm foreseeing a blast of a New Years this year :)


I'm not saying I have added a bit more to the game than mod and workshop support, but I might have added a bit more than mod and workshop support to the game.

You will see on the 16th ;)

- Enjoy!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1079260/Fireworks_Mania__An_Explosive_Simulator/

It is Steam Award time - and this year you can nominate Fireworks Mania!

Yes that's right - Fireworks Mania can be nominated - so don't hold back if you like the game.

Together with the community, I am closing in on the first official release of mod support / workshop support which I hope to be able to release in mid December 2021.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1079260/view/3092278281653654318

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1079260/Fireworks_Mania__An_Explosive_Simulator/

I'm out again - the game does not build itself you know ;)

- Enjoy!