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First movement update build is live

[p]For the brave, not scared of bugs and crashes, I just uploaded the first unstable build of the Movement update to the beta branch![/p][p][/p]
New features
[p][/p][p]A new terrain editor which works both in the planet editor but also during a simulation, allowing you to:[/p]
  • [p]Draw your own continents[/p]
  • [p]Delete continents[/p]
  • [p]Modify continents[/p]
  • [p]Move continents[/p]
  • [p]Adjust calculated land statistics (like temperature and moisture) OR[/p]
  • [p]Manually draw statistics[/p]
[p][/p][p]Extended the procedural walking system to add support for:[/p]
  • [p]Legs besides the body[/p]
  • [p]Hopping [/p]
  • [p]Steeper terrain, and special limbs that can handle it[/p]
  • [p]Tails swinging and heads bobbing[/p]
[p][/p][p]Various new limbs inspired by arthropods, some of which:[/p]
  • [p]Allow the animals to walk on the ocean floor[/p]
  • [p]Produce sound when used for flight[/p]
[p][/p][p]Limbs without any movement speed at all, creating sessile animals[/p][p][/p][p]More filter feeder mouths inspired by sea anemones[/p][p][/p][p]Upright body postures[/p][p][/p][p]Animals that can hang from branches, sometimes upside down[/p][p][/p][p]More movement animations in general:[/p]
  • [p]Undulating swimming[/p]
  • [p]Jet propulsion swimming[/p]
  • [p]Swimming with fins, without tail[/p]
  • [p]Flying fish[/p]
  • [p]Walking on water surface[/p]
  • [p]High frequency wing flapping flying animation (like insects)[/p]
  • [p]Fluttery wing flapping (like butterflies)[/p]
  • [p]Floating flying animation with gasbags[/p]
[p][/p][p]Other new animations:[/p]
  • [p]Idle animations[/p]
  • [p]Swinging between branches[/p]
  • [p]Dying[/p]
[p][/p][p]Parasitic fungi and fungi that spread their spores by being eaten[/p][p][/p][p]In the disaster panel, you can now[/p]
  • [p]Change the ocean temperature independently from the land temperature[/p]
  • [p]Change the moisture of the whole world[/p]
[p][/p][p]Reworked volcanoes that grow when they erupt[/p][p][/p][p]A climate zone recognition system[/p]