Homebrew - Patent Unknown News

[h3]Thin Atmosphere[/h3]

Homebrew now calculates ambient pressure, and uses these calculations for parts!

This affects the performance of wings, props, jet engines, ramjets, and internal combustion engines.
Rockets, Solid Fuel Rockets, and Electric Motors remain unaffected by these changes.


The shock-cone effect also takes the altitude and pressure in mind, making it less visible with altitude, and removing it entirely apart from trans-sonic, and hyper-sonic speed regions.

Along with that, all engines now consider wind-speed in their thrust calculations as well!

There's also some visual changes because of this! You can now see the atmosphere 'thinning' out with altitude.

You can see the result below. (click on it for a better preview, and bug Steam to add Webm support!)


[h3]Smooth Spawning[/h3]
We've also added a new way to spawn in world and user assets, Smooth Spawning.

This will make it a bit slower to spawn everything in but, should decrease the amount of stuttering that could occur during spawning of assets. (This only applies to assets that were already spawned asynchronously, so spawning a vehicle locally will still try to spawn it in a single frame. Just to be ready as soon as possible!)

Changes

• Added 'Smooth' spawning
  
• Clutch rewrite
  
• Props now get effected by Wind
  
• Props thrust and drag decrease linearly with air pressure
  
• Combustion engine torque decreases linearly with air pressure
  
• Wing performance decreases linearly with air pressure
  
• Jet turbine & Ramjet caluations now consider head/tailwind
  
• Jet turbine & Ramjet thrust and fuel consumption decrease linearly with air pressure
  
• Shock Cone now changes transparency with altitude
  
• Shock Cone now considers wind speed
  
• Shock cone now only appears briefly around 1200km/h and above 3000km/h
  
• All speed-related sounds decrease in volume with altitude
  
• All speed-related sounds now consider wind speed as well
  
• Skybox adjusts several parameters to visually show the atmosphere thinning out with altitude
  
• Weather script also considers altitude
  
• Fixed issue where the game would fail to detect any world changes when the /sectors folder didn't exist
  
• Fixed issue where the game would delete the existing /Sectors folder and fail to re-create it
  
• Fixed some Memory leaks
  
• Fixed chat not displaying multiple messages anymore
  

(Many thanks to @ImSimplyAnna for helping out quite a bit with this update! We owe you one)

As always, we'll keep our eyes open on Steam, DISCORD and our other channels.

DREAM - BUILD - ENJOY



Copybugpaste Team

Version 15.1 - 637215215458562798

[h2]Small Ammo Box[/h2]


This new ammo box is a lot more ideal for smaller creations, especially compared to the regular one! Perfect for little RC destroyers, or popping a quick weapon on any of your creations.

We can't wait to see what creations will pop-up with this new tiny part.

As for the other changes, we've got quite a list, with a lot of fixes

[h2]Changes[/h2]

• Fixed issue where Steam Workshop item would pop up incorrectly on boot
  
• Changed /reload to call OnDestroy before awake more reliably
  
• Remember ZoneOut in builder when entering/leaving Test-Mode
  
• Driver-Seat is renamed to Ownership Priority
  
• Fixed hidden parts still being able to be selected in the builder
  
• Fixed 'HideNames' not working as intended
  
• Added HBU.UnzipAsync(path, extension, onComplete)
  
• Changed SpawnVehicle to use the new UnzipAsync
  
• Fixed multiple memory leaks (MeshUtilities, AssetManager, HBKeyBind, HBPlayer, HBSeat, ...)
  
• Fixed Chat Messages duplicating sometimes
  
• Added Small Ammo Box
  

As always, we'll keep our eyes open on Steam, DISCORD and our other channels.

DREAM - BUILD - ENJOY



Copybugpaste Team

Version 15.1 - 637207495597852840

Ever wanted to weigh down a creation, but didn't want to use the Ballast due to its size?
Or maybe the minimum weight allowed by the Ballast was just a bit too much?
Maybe you want a more "diverse" part to add some weight..

Well fear no longer! For the Weight has arrived! Modeled by our new intern, D-Licious!

It scales completely based on the weight! So small weights will weigh a little, and lots of weights will weigh a lot!

As you can see in the gif, the difference in size can be quite drastic, depending on how much you want it to weigh.


As of right now, we're making the final list of parts to add to Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

For those of you that have been watching our Progress Tracker, you've probably realized there's already a couple of parts on there.

This allows us to focus our energy on fixing more immediate bugs, and working on new features, while D-licious is working on some of the new parts.


As always, we'll keep an eye out on Discord, and the Steam Discussions.

Let us know what you think! And please welcome D-Licious as our new intern!🥳🥳


DREAM - BUILD - ENJOY



Copybugpaste Team

Version 15.1 - 637177356274186496

Hotfix number 7 is up.

hot:

• added rpm output wire for wheels
  
• added suspension length output wire for wheels
  
• added is grounded output wire for wheels
  
• added rpm output for propellers
  

• expanded the world system to include assets placed in userdata/MyWorld
  
• added chat command "worldscanchanges" to scan for new assets in userdata (the game will automatically check for changes on startup)
  
• added world asset support for Warehouse (we can upload our world assets created in devkit or via other tools to the Warehouse)
  
• improved copy pasting logic boxes in the tuner, they maintain links within the selection that is copied
  

other:

• made number value indicator more visible in tuner
  
• exposed wing perlinScale variable "HBWing.perlinScale"
  
• added wind turbulence min and max values in NatureManager "NatureManager.windTurbulanceIntensity"
  
• fixed issue where some terrains did not have ground type data
  
• added backspace shortcut to go up one level in the builder parts browser
  
• removed the car circuit in middle of the desert
  
• fixed issue where old valley rock wall is invisible in the builder and to bullet raycasts
  
• added camera controls to the F1 menu
  
• fixed issue where detacher would not detach in test vehicle mode
  
• fixed issue where measurement text floated behind its background on some camera angles
  
• fixed typos in script "adjsut" > "adjust"
  
• renamed the radial engine to "M14P radial engine"
  
• renamed the F119 jet to "F119 vector turbojet"
  

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Copybugpaste Team

Version 15.1 - 637170355909844587

Another hotfix ready to hit the shelves!

• Re-Added Steam Workshop import (now asks for import if it notices a change in files)
  
• World now automatically unhides when entering test mode
  
• FPS and Version display over UI items properly
  
• Fixed issue where chat would display messages twice/thrice in some instances
  
• Fixed Gun-Sounds looping in builder
  
• Fixed Error-spam with SnowMod on initialization (which slowed down execution)
  
• Added `Inventory.curGadget` reference (gameObject)
  
• Fixed Seat rebinding bug introduced in Hotfix 5
  

As always, we'll keep our eyes open on Steam, DISCORD and our other channels.

DREAM - BUILD - ENJOY



Copybugpaste Team

Version 15.1 - 637159907810202218