Update 5033 + Hotfix 5038: New Furniture and Structure Catalogs
Greetings shopkeepers!
After the smaller intermediary update from last time, it is now time for what we could not include then. This update marks a major milestone for the UI overhaul, with the largest overhaul done yet. So have a seat, get yourself something nice to drink and strap yourself in, we've got a lot of cool stuff to go over. Of course I can only tell you so much about it, the real kicker is in the experience, so after you're done reading, why not give the new features a try and play some Winkeltje for yourself? Browsing, buying, placing and expanding have never been easier.
We have teased it in the previous update, but now the next installment of the UI overhaul is finally here. The furniture and structure catalogs are a complete rework of the UI for buying furniture and building your shop.
[h3]New Grid Based Browsing[/h3]
Using the new grid based catalogs you can now browse, buy, place furniture, and select your floor and wall faster than ever, no more scrolling endlessly until you find the furniture piece or wall you want to place.
[h3]Preview with properties[/h3]
Previews have been redone to more elegantly show the information for each different piece, with properties of each piece clearly expressed with icons.
[h3]Favoriting[/h3]
Favorite furniture, walls and floors to quickly find them again using the new sorting and filtering methods.
[h3]Sorting and Filtering[/h3]
Sort based on price, appeal, item slots, wall type, favorites and more to find what you're looking for much faster than before. Use the filter to show only those things you really want to see in the catalog, filter based on favorites or any of the specific properties of a piece. And of course they both work together, now you can find that most expensive winter decoration piece in a cinch.
[h3]Variants[/h3]
Variants of the same type of item are collapsed under one base instance, so no more seeing all 8 different bushes in the list with all items. Just one bush is in the list, but you can easily go to the different variants and quickly switch between them there as you're tending to your garden.
Let us know what you think of this update in the comments or join the Discord (https://discord.gg/winkeltje) where you can get in touch with us and the rest of the community. On the Discord you can also sneak a peek at the change logs as the game is being made so you know what to look forward to or what you can expect on the unstable branch where all the changes will be immediately playable.
[h2]New[/h2]
[h2]Changes[/h2]
[h2]Fixes[/h2]
After the smaller intermediary update from last time, it is now time for what we could not include then. This update marks a major milestone for the UI overhaul, with the largest overhaul done yet. So have a seat, get yourself something nice to drink and strap yourself in, we've got a lot of cool stuff to go over. Of course I can only tell you so much about it, the real kicker is in the experience, so after you're done reading, why not give the new features a try and play some Winkeltje for yourself? Browsing, buying, placing and expanding have never been easier.
Update Highlights
We have teased it in the previous update, but now the next installment of the UI overhaul is finally here. The furniture and structure catalogs are a complete rework of the UI for buying furniture and building your shop.
[h3]New Grid Based Browsing[/h3]
Using the new grid based catalogs you can now browse, buy, place furniture, and select your floor and wall faster than ever, no more scrolling endlessly until you find the furniture piece or wall you want to place.
[h3]Preview with properties[/h3]
Previews have been redone to more elegantly show the information for each different piece, with properties of each piece clearly expressed with icons.
[h3]Favoriting[/h3]
Favorite furniture, walls and floors to quickly find them again using the new sorting and filtering methods.
[h3]Sorting and Filtering[/h3]
Sort based on price, appeal, item slots, wall type, favorites and more to find what you're looking for much faster than before. Use the filter to show only those things you really want to see in the catalog, filter based on favorites or any of the specific properties of a piece. And of course they both work together, now you can find that most expensive winter decoration piece in a cinch.
[h3]Variants[/h3]
Variants of the same type of item are collapsed under one base instance, so no more seeing all 8 different bushes in the list with all items. Just one bush is in the list, but you can easily go to the different variants and quickly switch between them there as you're tending to your garden.
Let us know what you think of this update in the comments or join the Discord (https://discord.gg/winkeltje) where you can get in touch with us and the rest of the community. On the Discord you can also sneak a peek at the change logs as the game is being made so you know what to look forward to or what you can expect on the unstable branch where all the changes will be immediately playable.
Update Notes:
[h2]New[/h2]
- Community Request: Favoriting of Furniture/Wall/Floor - Favorite furniture, wall and floor pieces so you can quickly find them later.
- Community Request: Filtering of Furniture/Wall/Floor - Filter pieces in the new catalog to only show pieces that fit a certain filter.
- Community Request: Sorting of Furniture/Wall/Floor - Sort the items in the new catalog based on various sorting methods.
- UI - Added bottom bar UI
- UI - Added catalog menus (buying & building)
- Audio - Added new autumn night music.
[h2]Changes[/h2]
- All - Numerous changes to support new catalog menu features
- Objectives - Removed prompt for using tab to manage the shop from "Placing Furniture" tutorial objective to reflect the new catalog changes.
- Objectives - Table is now only unlocked after completing the "Placing furniture" tutorial objective, instead of at level 1.
[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Customers - Customers should get stuck in queue less often
- AI - Fixed multiple AI issues with the commission pickup.
- UI - The shop open/closed contextual prompt was not updated correctly when the shop was opened.
- Objectives - "Placing items" tutorial objective could be soft locked if tables with items were placed before the objective activated.
- Translations - Dynamic text which isn't found in the loaded language should now also revert to English by default
Hotfix 5038
- Objectives - Issues occured during the "Item Placement" tutorial if a furniture piece without accesspoints was selected for placement.
- Tutorial - Rotating furniture prompt should now correctly show shoulder buttons prompt when playing with controller.
- UI - Picking up furniture using controller will now toggle the L2/R2 prompts to avoid confusion.
- UI - Catalog grid items are now set to be interactable when item values are set to prevent a rare case where grid buttons are no longer interactable.
- UI - Fixed a critical error that could occur when placing furniture.