Alpha 10.10 officially out

Alpha 10.10 adds the long requested feature: Paths. You can now build paths from the road construction menu and since employees walk slower on grass in this update, paths won't just be for looks.



Changes

• Added ability to favorite furniture to put it first, and filter furniture by favorites
  
• Added ability to fine tune sliders in options window using arrow keys while hovering with mouse
  

Fixes

• Employees will now attempt to get at a section of path in different ways if it is blocked, instead of just idling
  
• More work towards fixing save state corruption
  
• Benefits requiring money upfront (e.g. company car) would be free when activating them for new employees
  
• Fixed number keys getting translated as being 1 number higher in UI
  

Fixes

• Possible fix for rare save state corruption
  
• Fixed error sound still playing after successfully splitting a room
  
• Fixed being able to put furniture in invalid rooms by rotating near a wall while placing
  
• Improved feedback window content sizing at bigger UI zoom levels
  

Changes

• Added path system
  
• Added secondary role and task system, so certain tasks and roles can be prioritized over others
  
• Ability to drag selection to rectangle to select employees, furniture and parking spaces (using multi select will filter by current selection)
  
• Improved selection responsiveness
  
• Employee walk paths are now drawn when selected
  
• Snow is now dynamically added to exterior walls, roofs and paths (modding guide here: https://softwareinc.coredumping.com/wiki/index.php/Material_Modding )
  
• Added grass (you can increase the amount or disable completely in graphics options)
  
• Employees now walk 25% slower on grass
  
• Added performance column to active deals
  
• Road crossings are now added dynamically to improve look of roads and parking
  
• Added warning to product detail window when product has no more people to sell to
  
• Elevated roads no longer appear blocky in miniatures
  
• Added footprints and direction to dirt, and improved dirt spread
  
• Employees now actively look at what they're interacting with and randomly around when idling and walking
  
• Replaced newsfeed with offline patch notes in main menu
  
• Duplicate shortcut now works for rooms (in build mode) and room clone button works for furniture
  
• Anchor grid is now mapped to G by default and mapping is shown on grid gizmo
  
• Ability to use arrow, esc and enter key in save game window
  
• Price overlay when building will now default to being colored according to current bank balance
  
• Select building now includes roof in selection
  
• Improved how game generates nav and build mesh boundaries for modded furniture when using AutoBounds. Specifically sets minimum width and height for nav mesh and converts build mesh to a line if very thin. This should fix bugs with cubicles, if updated by author (If you are re-using the vanilla cubicle, leaving out nav and build boundary from the XML would be the best solution)
  

Fixes

• Fixed bug causing AI companies to sometimes heavily underestimate physical sales and not order enough copies
  
• Fixed room textures getting purged on Linux when changing resolution (would cause rooms to be black)
  
• Fixed options window spawning new controls every time it was opened
  
• Fixed snow and rain sticking to screen
  
• Fixed undo placing houses and skyscrapers in custom map mode not working
  
• Fixed employees walking through houses in town maps after load
  
• Fixed camera zoom being overridden by default value on load
  
• Coffee liquid held by employees on other floors would stay visible
  
• Fixed wall top edge sometimes having holes or poking out over outdoor areas
  
• Clone/blueprint tool will now correctly handle (recursively) surrounded open spaces in a building when checking for collisions
  
• Fixed FURNITURE_DEBUG lines not being drawn on top of everything else
  
• Fixed path to log file on Linux sometimes being incorrect
  

Optimizations

• Improved dirt mesh data handling
  
• Optimized all particle systems and disabled particle pausing to try and fix crashes caused by particle systems