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HDRP Update

The game now uses Unity's High Definition Rendering Pipeline to bring you higher quality graphics.

The Unity Engine has been updated to the newer major version of 2023.2.

Dinosaur AI spawning is now multithreaded to improve the game's performance.

Dinosaurs have received some optimizations to improve the game's performance.

Reduced Game RAM usage by approximately 1gb+ by restructuring the scent system.

Nearly all of the dinosaurs in the game now use Streaming Virtual Texturing to reduce the amount of RAM used by their textures.

Improved the game's startup time.

The "Cozy 2" sky/weather system has been updated to the new major version "Cozy 3".

The "Stylized Water" water system has been replaced with the "Crest HDRP" water system.

Some trees and plants have been replaced with prehistoric trees and plants. More to come soon.

The frequency that dinosaurs could fall through the ground has been reduced.

Dinosaurs can now regenerate stamina if they have food poisoning.

AI max level has been reduced because a lot of AI was just too powerful compared to the player.

Starting to sprint no longer costs 5% of your dinosaur's max stamina.

Dinosaurs now have collision with other dinosaurs.

Dinosaur elder stage base size was reduced from adult + 50% to adult + 10%.

Dinosaur infinite growth (after reaching the final growth stage of Elder) has been greatly toned down. Now you gain growth points at 5% the normal rate (was 20%) and the size you do grow is now 5% of the normal growth rate (was 100%). This was done to keep elder dinosaurs closer to their adult size and not be so extreme so easily.

Swim speed has been decreased to about 50% for all aquatic dinosaurs.

Precise movement speed has decreased to about 25% for all dinosaurs.

If a group of dinosaurs spawns, they are now spread further apart from each-other.

Increased the rate at which edible fish/plants/trees fill the map at startup.

Dinosaurs are now more abundant in the Pangaea map.

AI now lose stamina from running and require it in order to run.

AI run and sprint speeds have been lowered.

Aquatic AI is now less likely to get beached.

If the player spawns as a species that doesn't have a nest in their current map, the default nest that they spawn at will now be gradually populated with dinosaurs of their species. This was done to help hatchlings' chance of survival.

Herbivores will no longer attack other dinosaurs unless they are attacked first. This is now the "default" herbivore behavior.

Fish will no longer attack other dinosaurs unless they are attacked first or are hunting that other dinosaur.

Wind has been toned down for vegetation.

Nests now spawn food for hatchlings and juveniles. This does not work with nests that the player places manually, for those kinds of nests the player will need to provide food for their young.

Other improvements and adjustments.

Bug fixes.

Game News

Hey everyone!
You may have noticed I haven't released any major updates to the game in awhile, I've been taking a break from Isles of Pangaea and working on a new side project. I've also been waiting for a couple of new Unity assets to get released so that I can use them to upgrade the game. One of them is called "NanoTech" and it basically supercharges your rendering of things and optimizes it, if all goes well it should be released within the next couple of months. Another one that I may use if the testing goes well is a terrain voxel system so we could have caves and tunnels built into the terrain and dinosaurs that can dig.

My side project uses the High Definition Rendering Pipeline (HDRP) to achieve higher quality graphics and so having gained some experience with it, I thought I would apply that to Isles of Pangaea.
In some of my free time I've been working on converting Isles of Pangaea over to use Unity 2023 and HDRP to be able to have higher quality graphics.
Its still a work in progress, not everything is converted yet, so keep that in mind if you decide to test it.
You can test it out on the "testing" branch of the game on Steam.

I will not make this the main game download until I've finished upgrading everything and everything is working good and has good performance.

Thanks for reading.

Updated Engine Version

Updated the Unity Engine from 2022.3.12 to 2022.3.16.
Updated some 3rd party plugins.

Scavenging Nests for Twigs

You can now also find twigs while scavenging at other nests.
This was done to make building your own nests easier.

Scavenging Fix

Scavenging from nests should now be working again for terrestrial and aquatic nests.
You still cannot scavenge from your own nest. (Including the nest you spawn at)