Another two weeks have passed and its time to update again. We have lots of stuff going on under the hood this time, networking is where the focus is right now, and we will be sharing more information about this soon. But we have some new features for you guys to play around with as well. This fortnight, we bring you sound! Thats right, we have some early music in this week! Composed by Pim ”Sir Xemic” Schreurs. For the moment it’s just the one song, but expect more to come in the near future as we build on our sound engine and start supporting more audio.
Apart from sound, we’re also introducing the basics of power distribution and system connectivity. This system is a very early work in progress, but we want to get it into your hands and see what you think about it right out of the gate. This system needs refining and might change a lot over the coming weeks and months but we want you guys to be comfortable using it, since it’s going to be the backbone of your starship.
We’re also adding support for multi-block props, this feature is necessary for tech II and higher ship systems and certain large props. This automatically creates room space for the placed prop. This will also enable us to place things like the hyperdrive we showed you in the devblog without it poking through the hull on all sides. For this update however we have only added the tech II hydrogen generator. But expect a lot more to come soon.
You can find the new editor available for download here. We appreciate any input and critique you guys are willing to share.
Just started demo...is there not in game sounds?
As this is a pre-alpha build there are no ingame sounds yet just music in the menu. But now that we have support for sound in the engine the doors are open for us to add more over the coming weeks and months.
Great look forward to it...thank you.