People Playground News

Some minor changes have broken mod support on a few systems. The hotfix should solve this issue completely. Verify your game files to ensure you're running the latest version.

[h2][1.7.3] - June 19 2020[/h2]

[h2]Added[/h2]
- Overcharged jukeboxes playing head-destroying music now destroy heads
- ModAPI.CreatePhysicalObject
- Rotted humans are more stiff now, just like in the pre 1.2.2 days.
- The Jukebox now supports MP3 files
- ^ also goes for ModAPI.LoadSound

[h2]Changed[/h2]
- Bones are less easily broken
- Living beings are just a little more durable overall
- Gyro stabilisers now scale their strength with their size
- Added back in the beta sounds for the LMG
- ModAPI.Notify now accepts any object and prints it as a string
- Adrenaline syringe lasts 20 times as long

[h3]Fixed[/h3]
- Fixed some business regarding Steam and launching the game from the .exe directly
- Legacy wires are no longer super dark blue
- Adding a PhysicalBehaviour manually no longer causes many ObjectReferenceExceptions because there is no inspector to initialise the empty fields

[h2][1.7.2] - June 17 2020[/h2]

[h3]Added[/h3]
- "No mods found" message

- ModAPI.OnGunShot event
- ModAPI.OnDeath event
- ModAPI.FindPhysicalProperties function
- ModAPI.FindMaterial function
- ModAPI.CreateParticleEffect function

Visit the documentation for more information

https://www.studiominus.nl/people-playground-modding
[h3]Fixed[/h3]
- ModAPI.FindCartridge bug that nobody would've noticed
- ModAPI.LoadSound now allows both stereo and mono audio
- WireBehaviour.SetColor now sets the persistent colour as well
- Setting the sprite of a burnable object via mods is now reliable

[h2][1.7.1] - June 16 2020[/h2]
Small mod API patch

[h3]Added[/h3]
- Resource caching
- FindCartridge
- LoadSound
- Notify
- OnWireCreated
- OnItemSpawned
- OnItemRemoved
- OnItemSelected
- OnItemDeselected
- OnItemActivated
- GameObject.FixColliders()

- Added some friendly functions that are best showcased on the code snippet page

Visit the documentation for more information

New useful code snippet page

[h3]Changed[/h3]
- Default mod texture

[h3]Fixed[/h3]
- Improved how mods are loaded and how they are given an error state
- Inactive mod chaos
- Multiple bugs in the mod loader

[h2][1.7] - June 14 2020[/h2]

[h3]Added[/h3]
- Attraction god power
- Repulsion god power
- Lift god power
- Pyrokinesis god power
- Copy/paste shortcuts
- Pink explosive
- Pink syringe
- Adrenaline syringe
- Light machine gun
- Shock detector
- Spring wire
- Bandage wire (stops bleeding)
- Expanded decals option
- Specific round casing textures
- Experimental mod support (based on Talon's Green Brick mod)
https://www.studiominus.nl/people-playground-modding
[h3]Changed[/h3]
- Separated tools and god powers
- Minor changes to black hole
- General Purpose Bomb is now impact-sensitive
- Missiles are a little more powerful
- The missile will now compensate a moving target's velocity for more accurate seeking
- Changes to how bullet speed falloff is calculated
- Increased bleeding particle intensity
- Improved how the decal system works internally
- Wire rendering optimisation
- Fire extinguisher now updates visual state of burning object immediately
- "Flamethrower" now updates visual state of burning object immediately
- Decreased Deagle knockback
- Minor changes to machine gun and tank sfx/vfx
- Logs have their own folder now
- Increased firearm range
[h3]Fixed[/h3]
- Incompatible contraptions will no longer destroy the entire toybox
- Game shows info popups instead of letting the toybox crash when deleting a corrupt contraption
- Firearms are no longer inaccurately inaccurate
- Lightning power no longer makes noise when over UI
- Humans and (especially) androids are a little stronger. This should fix their weird behaviour when it comes to walking that as caused by increasing their weight.
- Increased increased performance of decal rendering
- Increased performance of other sprite rendering
- Missile Launcher range extended
- Launched missile going through objects in discrete mode
- Gorses are a little better at aiming
- Fixed unnecessary CPU usage on idle objects
- Fixed audio issues introduced in 1.6
- Clearing everything actually clears everything now
- Fixed spinny projectile problem
[h3]Removed[/h3]
- Sprite deformation (◞ ‸ ◟)
- Toolbar toggle shortcut is now merged with the toybox toggle shortcut (tab by default)