Patch Notes - August 6 (0.7.47): Maintenance update towards the Vehicle update

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[h2] Patch Notes August 6 (0.7.47)[/h2]

• Fixed various navigation issues reported on Discord
  
• More Infected Hit reactions added
  
• Fix for rain emitter rotating with the camera.
  
• Rain VFX tweaked to look better visually
  
• Comms trailer unfold and amb loop sfx added across the forest
  
• More details added to the Grid 03 marina
  
• Further detail added to the beach zone
  
• finalized bridge structures
  

[h2] Patch Notes August 6 Public Beta (0.7.47)[/h2]

• New UI for vehicles added
  
• -Added radial vision 'target pointing' to the vehicle: if the vehicle gets close enough to something, it'll add what it sees to its garrisoned units
  
• Another fix for targeting issues for garrisoned units
  
• Vehicle path finding improved
  
• Added selection visuals (including healthbar) to the Scout Car
  
• Added a move safety loop to the vehicle movement to mitigate them from breaking over long distance moves
  
• Removed extra scout car from the master
  
• Made units 'halt' when the degarrison from new vehicles (so they won't move to a starting position after exiting a vehicle)
  
• Added basic explosion effect on Scout Car death
  
• Created a 'vehicle interaction widget' in place of the health widget:
  
• Contains the Garrison Widget now, instead of having the Garrison Widget be separate
  
• Has an ammo display which disappears if the vehicle has no gun
  
• Has a Hold Fire display
  
• Added proper Hold Fire logic to Vehicles:
  
• Units within a Vehicle will obey that Fire Mode. Order a Vehicle to Hold Fire, and anyone inside will Hold Fire.
  
• Cleaned out some unused actors.
  
• Added logic to 'divert' 'ProcessThreatFromDamageInflictor' to the vehicle someone is in if they shoot an infected while in a vehicle (so infected won't get 'confused' and fail to attack the guy in the car because the car blocks vision of the guy)
  
• Fixed a visual rotation issue w/ vehicle movement
  
• Fixed the Scout Car not properly rendering in custom depth (causing 'outlines' near the driver at nearly all times)
  
• Updated vehicles to (hopefully) reduce strafing
  
• Hooked up Juniardi's Scout Car minimap icon
  
• Added a 'velocity fix' to try to further mitigate the vehicles' 'stop/start' issue
  
• Improved the move safety loop for vehicles: smooths long rides (not perfect, but better)
  
• Fixed preview rotation for vehicles
  
• Added an accuracy reduction when a vehicle is at speed (at very low speeds nothing: above 400 units 25%, and above 800 40%)
  
• Added a potential fix when the vehicle fails to get a navpath to fix it stalling when it's trying to rotate
  
• Started re-adding the Motorpool:
  
• Hooked up its button (locked behind Phase 2, currently using medical facility button as placeholder)
  
• Fixed its physics asset to be far more accurate
  
• Boosted its construction radius to work better with the new construction system
  
• Added and tuned interaction points (for repair) to look good and function
  
• Started on rally-flag and spawning setup, as well as preview visuals for it
  (it's unhooked from the build menu for now, since it has nothing to spawn)
  
• Started on 'faking' vehicular movement to get wheels (and potentially, later, other parts) of the vehicle animating properly as it moves
  Results: wheels can stop and start and rotate based on the driver's anim state. Improvements to the anim state transitions should improve the wheels moving forward.
  
• Added 'block offset' logic to buildings, and used it for Motor Pools to 'block' more of an area for construction so vehicles have a place to spawn in
  
• Improved and fixed Motor Pool rally point setup (and ensured it still works with loading/saving)
  
• Improved shop item struct to contain image and hovertip data, to make it much more modular and easier to maintain (and ported the Barracks button data from the ShopsButton Hovertip function to the actual Barracks Shop setup in the ShopsCanvas
  
• Used the improved shop item struct to set up the JLTV button for the Motor Pool (currently just spawns a scout car as placeholder)
  
• Hooked up ShopsCanvas support for the Motor Pool to wire in to the Motor Pool's new vehicle spawn logic
  
• Made a 'SimpleShopTransaction' call from the PC that simply spends the money/DNA from the shop item struct as requested, for use by the Motor Pool shop
  
  Result: Shop logic modularity improved, and Motor Pool shop + unit spawning online.
  (still have the Motor Pool disabled for construction since we don't have any unique vehicles for it to spawn yet)
  
  

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