Rover Builder update - New planet, new tools!
The 3rd planet is here! You get to fly with rockets on this snowy planet, trying to complete the missions with limited fuel. Can you do it?
The central unit now has damage, so you have to complete the mission without destroying the unit. The unit is relatively strong. The damage was added mostly to prevent being able to slam to the telepad with high speed (in the rocket planet) and still get the mission completed even though the rover is obliterated. You also have to wait for a couple seconds on the pad in the traveling missions.
There’s also 2 new tools: Split and Join. With Split (shortcut: Alt) you can split a steel beam in 2 or more pieces that are connected together. You can then e.g. remove the unwanted part. Very handy for shortening steel beams without having to delete the whole beam, or cutting parts of the rover off to be moved with the Move tool. You can also join 2 parallel&connected steel beams together by selecting both of them and pressing the Join button (or J key).
The driving camera is now fully rewritten, to make it more intuitive and less jittery. The camera now rotates so that it always keeps the rover dead centered, i.e. no more weird swinging when rotating the viewpoint while driving. There was also a stuttering problem with the camera’s movement (when the rover was going fast), and that’s also fixed.
Other changes/additions:
- There’s now a music mute button in the menu
- Rover Gallery now has custom naming for rovers
- Tutorial video is now hopefully less laggy (a completely new tutorial coming
soon!)
- Selecting, deleting and part placing are now also mirrored when mirroring is
turned on
- Many small bugfixes
The central unit now has damage, so you have to complete the mission without destroying the unit. The unit is relatively strong. The damage was added mostly to prevent being able to slam to the telepad with high speed (in the rocket planet) and still get the mission completed even though the rover is obliterated. You also have to wait for a couple seconds on the pad in the traveling missions.
There’s also 2 new tools: Split and Join. With Split (shortcut: Alt) you can split a steel beam in 2 or more pieces that are connected together. You can then e.g. remove the unwanted part. Very handy for shortening steel beams without having to delete the whole beam, or cutting parts of the rover off to be moved with the Move tool. You can also join 2 parallel&connected steel beams together by selecting both of them and pressing the Join button (or J key).
The driving camera is now fully rewritten, to make it more intuitive and less jittery. The camera now rotates so that it always keeps the rover dead centered, i.e. no more weird swinging when rotating the viewpoint while driving. There was also a stuttering problem with the camera’s movement (when the rover was going fast), and that’s also fixed.
Other changes/additions:
- There’s now a music mute button in the menu
- Rover Gallery now has custom naming for rovers
- Tutorial video is now hopefully less laggy (a completely new tutorial coming
soon!)
- Selecting, deleting and part placing are now also mirrored when mirroring is
turned on
- Many small bugfixes