Tower Unite News

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for September 8th, 2020, detailing all the changes that have happened since August 31st, 2020. Note: Devs that don't appear in the weekly log are not necessarily away or not doing work, but may be working on things currently not announced or backend work that doesn't need to be detailed.

[h2]Update 0.11.0.0 and Hotfix 0.11.0.1[/h2]
Last week, we released Update 0.11.0.0, which introduced Workshop Condos, a feature that allows you to upload your condo to Steam Workshop for other users to download and explore. We also released Hotfix 0.11.0.1 to fix some issues found in the initial Update 0.11.0.0 release. You can read more about Update 0.11.0.0 here, and Hotfix 0.11.0.1 here.

[h2]Update 0.11.1.0[/h2]
After this release, we quickly started working on Update 0.11.1.0, which will contain a number of bug fixes, improved condo load times, and the new Desertion virus map overhaul. You can read more about Update 0.11.1.0 here.

[h2]September 2020 Condo Contest[/h2]
We're running another Condo Contest this month! This month's theme is a tiny-potion build. Make a tiny room, house, or secret area that is only accessible by using a tiny potion. Other than that, you can theme this build however you want, so have fun with it! First place wins 1,000,000 units. Contest ends 3PM PST on September 15th, 2020. Read more here.

[h2]Co-op Condos[/h2]
macdguy continued working on Co-op condos, which will allow authorized users to help build a condo with the host's items. He worked on upgrading the inventory system to support displaying any inventory (which is required so that condo guests can see the host's items). He also started working on the system to network the host's inventory to the other players. He also worked on the permissions system, as well as some fixes for some bugs and annoyances that come up with building in condos.

[h2]Condo Item Snapping[/h2]
Madmijk continued working on condo item snapping, finishing the application of the actors to the building block items, and now focusing on adding them to the modular furniture and canvas primitives.

[h3]Condo Item Snapping: Glass Wall to Window Frame[/h3]

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[h3]Condo Item Snapping: Structure Demo[/h3]



[h2]Miscellany[/h2]
Caboose700 finished the re-write of the forum's Trello bot.

Johanna finished working on Pine Valley: Track 2, and also continued working on the Plaza Lighthouse upgrade.

JJosh started working on the Pizza NPC for the Arcade, while also implementing more third-party plushes.

Lifeless finished the Desertion art pass. He then started working on the Accelerate map, "Waterfall", formerly known as "Wishy Washy".

macdguy worked on some fixes for Update 0.11.0.0 and improved the edit and color UI.

Sketchman fixed a bunch of collision issues with the House condo, replaced some collisions on trees with capsule collisions, continued the clean up on the weapon system, fixed several issues with the undo/redo system, added canvas data and scale tool to the undo/redo system, disabled the undo/redo notifications if nothing actually happened, fixed some issues with the edit UI, looked into the "Transaction Failed" issue on the AGC, implemented some potential fixes for crashes related to Workshop and fixed an issue with Condo Permissions.

Wheezwer worked on updating the foliage, and updated the palm tree texture. She also worked a tiny amount on the Steam Emotes.

Will continued working on music for the Accelerate map, "Waterfall".

[h3]Edit UI Improvements[/h3]



[h3]Foliage: New Flower Textures[/h3]



[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since August 31st, 2020 at PixelTail Games. See you all next week!

This update focuses on fixing various issues in the game, mainly issues that came up from the recent Workshop Condo update.

Changes

• Condo Workshops: Visually combined tags by category for easier viewing in the condo workshop browser (ex. Interactivity: Game, Interactivity: Puzzle would appear as Interactivity: Game, Puzzle)
  
• Condo Workshops: Turned Item Usage tags into icons for easier viewing
  
• Condo Workshop Browser: Added quick install buttons and download progress per item button
  

Bug Fixes

• Condo Workshop Browser: Fixed tags overflowing in the UI
  
• Condo Workshop Browser: Fixed tag filtering not initiating a search
  
• Condo Workshop Browser: Fixed tooltip on condos not removing after you click on a condo for more info
  
• Condo Workshops: Fixed intro description text going past the background container
  
• Condo Workshops: Fixed being able to rehost a condo workshop as a different condo map through the pause menu
  
• Condo: Fixed locked items highlighting
  
• Condo Workshop: Fixed a bug with special characters and saving a condo for upload
  
• Condo Workshop Browser: Fixed clicking on other condos while downloading a condo causing the download bar/install UI buttons staying inactive
  
• Condo: Fixed tool weapons being usable even if you aren't the condo owner
  
• Condo - House: Improved collisions and resolved some bad collisions
  
• Condo: Fixed spinning light items not always spinning
  
• Condo: Fixed weather settings not applying in certain condos (default condo, house, highrise, suite)
  
• Condo: Fixed skylight issues
  

Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! https://discord.gg/pixeltail
We love awesome people like you!

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Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time:
https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

Take a peek at what's being worked on every week in our weekly dev logs! There's bound to be something interesting every week! http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/weekly-dev-logs

Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help.
For bug reports: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report/18
For suggestions: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/suggestions/7

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We've updated the Oasis beach building house with a completely new and unique take. It is now 100% more beach. It is most TUbular!





You can now upload and publish your Condo for everyone else to explore and enjoy!

Simply load up your Condo, click Upload from the scoreboard menu, take a few shots of your condo, tag, name, and add a description, and upload your condo directly to Steam Workshop.

Explore various user creations such as cozy homes, puzzles, haunted houses, and more! Favorite, rate, and host Workshop Condos for you and your friends.

Workshop Condos cannot be edited by players, but we do plan in a future update to allow players to build off of Workshop Condos.



Tired of making the same mistakes in life? Well, with the new Undo feature, you can undo your mistakes with CTRL+Z. To go back, use Redo with CTRL+Y. Moved the table too far to the right? Just undo that. This new feature will make it easier for builders to revert changes they made to their condo.






Changes

• Added Workshop Condos: You can now upload and share Condos on Steam Workshop!
  
• Added Undo for Condo Editing
  
• Plaza Update: Oasis Surf Shop now has a new home (art pass)
  
• Plaza Update: Lazy river night lighting
  
• Plaza Update: Jungle-side path lighting
  
• Removed FPS cap when in Singleplayer hosted games
  
• Enabled "Surfing" movement in Condos
  
• Accelerate: Added auto-accelerate toggle accessibility setting, turns the accelerate key into a toggle, removing the need for holding forward while in Accelerate
  
• Condo: Added option to disable Firework RPG rocket jumps in your Condo
  
• Condo: Added option to disable Milestone/Annoying Weapons in your Condo
  
• Cleaned up workshop browser UI and search bar UI
  
• Trampoline no longer halts horizontal movement/velocity
  
• Firework rocket jump improvements: Less delay between fire, improved horizontal movement, added wall jump ability
  

Bug Fixes

• Accelerate: Fixed a bug in sunrise isles that would incorrectly mark the players as out of bounds when near a track railing
  
• Fixed media player vote skip not working properly
  
• Fixed the garage door in the House condo from disappearing at different angles
  
• Condo: Fixed tree colors not networking to other players
  
• Fixed rocket jumping not applying the force when you jump first then fire
  
• Fixed Projector not rendering media unless the projector item was in view
  
• Fixed Flamethrower flame effects only displaying on the host of a Condo, now it only shows for the user of the flame thrower
  
• Plaza: Fixed a bug that caused the fog to not render over the ocean
  
• Plaza: Fixed some instances of grass being black or otherwise miscolored
  
• Plaza: Fixed a section of path floating
  
• Plaza: Fixed some bad LODs in the tower lobby
  
• Plaza: Fixed some instances of grass being black or otherwise miscolored
  
• Plaza: Fixed the trees on the upper level of the stores area glowing blue at night
  
• Plaza: Fixed several instances of grass clipping through objects
  
• Plaza: Fixed rocks going into the train station
  
• Plaza: Fixed some flags on game world ports building being the wrong size or mirrored
  
• Plaza: Fixed an issue in the plaza that caused the skylight to not properly toggle.
  
• Plaza: Fixed a bug that caused a visual square appearance underneath the ocean
  
• Plaza: Fixed the skylights in one side of the condo lobby from incorrectly not covering up the ceiling holes completely
  
• Plaza: Added collision to an archway at the entrance of the gameports building that did not have collision
  
• Plaza: The gameport building's planetary rings no longer have collision
  
• Plaza: Fixed the archways at the back of the tower rooftop from having no collision
  
• Plaza: Fixed some windows on the tower rooftop from having no collision
  
• Plaza: Removed a hole in the terrain underneath the boardwalk
  
• Plaza: Fixed some wall ivy leaves from using the old texture
  
• Plaza: Added path lights to the jungle-side of the plaza island, and added night lights to the lazy river
  
• Plaza: Updated Accelerate's mural in the Game World Ports
  

Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! https://discord.gg/pixeltail
We love awesome people like you!

We're also active on Twitter! https://twitter.com/PixelTailGames

Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time:
https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

Take a peek at what's being worked on every week in our weekly dev logs! There's bound to be something interesting every week! http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/weekly-dev-logs

Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help.
For bug reports: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report/18
For suggestions: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/suggestions/7

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for August 31st, 2020, detailing all the changes that have happened since August 24th, 2020. Note: Devs that don't appear in the weekly log are not necessarily away or not doing work, but may be working on things currently not announced or backend work that doesn't need to be detailed.

[h2]Update 0.11.0.0[/h2]
Work continues on getting the next update, 0.11.0.0 ready for release. This update will contain Workshop Condos, which will allow players to upload their condo to the Steam Workshop for other players to download and explore. To see everything that's slated for this update, click here!

[h2]Workshop Condos[/h2]
macdguy continued working on Workshop Condos.

Last week, he worked on the canvas explorer which allows the condo owner to view all of the canvas data, sorted by file size, so that the condo owner can manage their canvas data better. He fully implemented the Workshop Condo canvas cache which will upload canvas data directly to workshop, to prevent dead links.

The server browser will now show that a condo is indeed a workshop condo, and before joining will display the workshop condo's information to the user prompting them to download it before joining. The Workshop Condo upload UI was completed, including a system for taking screenshots and tagging within the game.

Finally, an intro and outro was added. When the player joins a workshop condo, it will display some information that the Workshop Condo author provided (such as screenshots, description, etc). When the player leaves a workshop condo, a prompt will appear allowing the user like the condo, favorite the condo, or view the Steam Workshop page for the condo.

[h3]Workshop Condos: Upload UI[/h3]



[h2]Virus: Desertion Art Pass[/h2]
Lifeless continued working on the art pass for the Virus map, Desertion.

[h3]Virus: Desertion Art Pass WIP[/h3]



[h2]Miscellany[/h2]
Caboose700 started working on a re-write for the forum's Trello bot.

JJosh continued working on the model for one of the Arcade NPCs.

Johanna implemented the new Oasis store into the plaza. She also continued working on track 2 of Pine Valley for Accelerate.

Madmijk continued working on the snapping system for items.

Sketchman finished working on the undo / redo system for condos (except for Canvases). He also started looking into networking issues with Tower and Unreal Engine, looked into the old Weapon System code, and worked some more on the player grouping system.

Wheezwer worked on art for the new Oasis store, and continued working on item cards for Accelerate.

Will finished the new version of the main menu music, while also working on music for Phase 2 of Arcade.

[h3]Plaza: New Oasis Store Building[/h3]



[h3]Arcade: New Arcade NPC[/h3]



[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since August 24th, 2020 at PixelTail Games. See you all next week!

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Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! https://discord.gg/pixeltail
We love awesome people like you!

We're also active on Twitter! https://twitter.com/PixelTailGames

Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time: https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

Take a peek at what's being worked on every week in our weekly dev logs! There's bound to be something interesting every week! https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/weekly-dev-logs

Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help.
For bug reports: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report/18
For suggestions: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/suggestions/7

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for August 24th, 2020, detailing all the changes that have happened since August 17th, 2020. Note: Devs that don't appear in the weekly log are not necessarily away or not doing work, but may be working on things currently not announced or backend work that doesn't need to be detailed.

[h2]Update 0.11.0.0[/h2]
Work continues on getting the next update, 0.11.0.0 ready for release. This update will contain Workshop Condos, which will allow players to upload their condo to the Steam Workshop for other players to download and explore. To see everything that's slated for this update, click here!

[h2]Accelerate Progress[/h2]
Johanna is almost done working on Track 2 of Pine Valley. The map is slated to be completed and ready for internal play testing sometime this week.

[h3]Accelerate: Pine Valley Track 2 WIP[/h3]



[h2]Virus: Desertion Art Pass[/h2]
Lifeless continued working on the art pass for the Virus map, Desertion.

[h3]Virus: Desertion Art Pass WIP[/h3]



[h2]Workshop Condos[/h2]
macdguy continued working this week on Workshop Condos, creating systems to save, upload, download, and view condos on Steam Workshop. He also started working on the canvas data system, which will pack all of the canvases into the workshop file when the condo is uploaded to Steam Workshop, to prevent the possibility of dead links.

[h3]Initial Workshop Condo UI[/h3]

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[h3]Updated Workshop Condo UI[/h3]

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[h3]Downloading Workshop Condos[/h3]

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[h2]Miscellany[/h2]
JJosh continued working on the model for one of the Arcade NPCs, along with a new rocket launcher item.

Johanna worked on implementing the new Oasis store into the Plaza.

macdguy worked on a better Weapon FOV system, allowing for the scale of weapons to be adjusted independently of the screen FOV.

Madmijk continued working on the snapping system for items.

Sketchman continued working on the Undo system for Condos. This week he added undo support for Emitters, Lights, Light Stands, Fog, Projectors, Signs, Stairs, Surfaces, MultiMeshes, Teleporters, Launchers, Workshop Items, Sound Emitters, NPCs, and Targets. He also finished actor aliasing so that placing objects can be undone/redone, and worked on integrating the undo logging into the Inventory UI. Aside from the undo system, he continued working on the player grouping system.

Wheezwer continued working on art for the Maze Spinner game in the Arcade, now named "Prismatic", as well as finishing the Game Worlds Ports Mural Art for the Accelerate and Ball Race ports.

[h3]Weapon FOV System (Before / After)[/h3]

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[h3]New Rocket Launcher Model[/h3]



[h3]Plaza: New Oasis Building (EARLY WIP)[/h3]



[h3]Game Worlds Ports: Accelerate and Ball Race Murals[/h3]



[h3]Arcade: Prismatic Art WIP[/h3]



[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since August 17th, 2020 at PixelTail Games. See you all next week!

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Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! https://discord.gg/pixeltail
We love awesome people like you!

We're also active on Twitter! https://twitter.com/PixelTailGames

Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time: https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

Take a peek at what's being worked on every week in our weekly dev logs! There's bound to be something interesting every week! https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/weekly-dev-logs

Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help.
For bug reports: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report/18
For suggestions: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/suggestions/7