Tiny Glade News

Hi, y'all! Another small patch is coming your way :3

* Tweaked global illumination. Light now bounces more naturally, and has less noise, especially in the shadows and on grass.
* Fixed a bug when the "continue wall" gizmo would pop up even if you're holding the "disable snapping" key
* Fixed a bug where placing a wall lantern on an invalid location would delete all terrain lanterns
* You can now enjoy the views from your windows when inside a building! (no, we're still not adding interior decoration 😅)
* The first person camera now correctly collides with columns and freehand walls, and can fly through roofs in ghost mode (LCtrl)



Cheers,
Tom & Ana

Good day folks! It’s another day of Steam Next Fest, which means a new #TinyDaily ✨

Today’s theme is 🥁🎶

[h2]Wizard Tower 🔮[/h2]

Please share your magical builds in the replies or, if you share on Twitter, mention #TinyWizardTower so we (and others) can find them 💜

Cheers,
Oda and Martin

Hi, y'all! A small patch again, but potentially huge for owners of older NVIDIA cards.

• Improved rendering performance on NVIDIA GTX-series graphics cards
  

We had an oopsie. Somewhere in the middle of last month's optimizations, we missed a performance regression on pre-RTX cards. As a result, owners of e.g. GTX 1080 Ti have been getting terrible performance, in the ballpark of 40 FPS, and it would not get better with lower screen resolutions. That should be greatly improved now. Older GTX cards should see a boost as well.

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This required some plumbing work, so please let us know if you experience any new graphical errors or corruption. FWIW, we've tested on RTX 3080, RTX 2080, GTX 1060, GTX 760, RX 6800 XT, Vega 5, R9 270, Arc A380, and UHD 630, so it should be fiiiine.

Notes for nerds: turns out that if you use "vkCmdDrawInstancedIndirectCount" on pre-RTX NVIDIA hardware, you'll be paying a hefty price for that "maxDrawCount" parameter. Wish I had known before changing most of our rendering to use it 😛 RTX, GCN-generation AMD hardware, and even Intel UHD were all fine with it, but we've failed to benchmark older NV.

Cheers,
Tom

P.S. Thanks to LordMustang for help tracking this down 💕

Hi, y'all! This is a very tiny patch 🤏

• Added option to save screenshots as PNGs (in Settings->Game)
  
• Brought back `H` key to hide Photomode UI (you can rebind it in the Settings->Controls)
  
• Swapped order of pages in Controls tab to show the key rebinding options right away, since reading through feedback it seems some were missing that it was possible. Hopefully, it's more discoverable now ^^
  
• Added some additional checks to help us catch the cause for a crash when splitting compound windows
  

Love,
Ana & Tom

Wow, we are already halfway into Steam Next Fest, time sure flies!

We all love the little fluffy friends who wander around in our glades. They’ve been very busy receiving all the pets and now they need a rest 🥱
Let’s see if you can make them a sweet little spot for a nap. Today’s #TinyDaily is 🎶🥁🎶

[h2]Where the sheep go to sleep 🐑💤 [/h2]

As always, we would love to see what you come up with, so make sure to share in the replies or mention #WhereTinySheepSleep on Twitter! 💙

PS: a pro-tip, sheep follow you for a bit after you pet them :3

Love,
Martin and Oda