I have made additional improvements to the crafting and item spawning systems.
It is now easier to harvest multiple items from the world, and easier to spawn and pickup those items.
I have also made other improvements to the inventory management and crafting databases.
The next goal is to work on the story elements, as well as tutorials, etc, and then work on more debugging and improvements.
I have finished most of the final testing, and I have added some last minute quality of life improvements to the project.
I have fixed some lighting issues and other minor problems, and decided what I want to to in the next part of the project.
I have also fixed some issues with the item persistence.
I have completed another round of testing, and this time, I discovered no new issues. The position issue and AI issues are still present, and there is a lot of balancing and minor improvements to make, but there are not additional issues to fix.
I will focus on the remaining intermittent bugs next. These will likely take some time to fix, but they need to be fixed before I can move on.
Testing and improvements are continuing to go well.
I will continue testing and improving the project well into the beta.
I believe I have basically finished the pre-beta stage, including the debugging, at this point.
There are two or three main bugs left to solve. One is the AI bug, the other is the Position bug, both of which I posted about already, and there is also, potentially, an issue with collision when changing star systems.
I am most concerned about the Position bug. I can’t seem to reproduce this reliably, but the persistent location system is complex, so a bug here is worrying.
I intend to start working on these bugs now, and fix them early next year.
I have not been able to reproduce the AI bug, it does not occur every time.
I have continued to research it though, and I have some concept solutions that should work.
I just need to reproduce the issue in order to test these, and then apply and test the solution.
I have also fixed quite a few more simple bugs and made more simple improvements.
I have uncovered quite a few new bugs during my extensive testing.
Most of these are minor, and should be fixed in a day or so.
There is, however, another bug with the AI that I am concerned about. In some conditions, the AI characters seem to be stuck in some places. This is intermittent, so it might be difficult to track down.
There are also some minor issues with the timing of the state variables (Such as hunger, thirst, sleep, etc). These seem to be poorly balanced, and interrupts gameplay.
It will probably take a few more weeks before I will be able to fix all of these issues, but the project is definitely becoming a lot more stable and reliable as a result of all of this testing.
I have created some new art for the project, as well as added some new improvements and bug fixes.
I have made improvements to the on-screen displays, and post-processing effects, and various general bug fixes
I have also added more effects to the game, such as visual effects for hunger and thirst, etc.
I am about to start another full set of tests tomorrow.
I have been moving ahead with the testing and improvements.
There are still quite a few minor issues with the project that need to be solved.
It will probably take several weeks to properly fix all of these minor issues, and add essential quality-of-life improvements.
I have decide to postpone the issue with the grass displacement for now, since it has turned out to be much more complex than expected, but this is an aesthetic feature, so this shouldn’t be a major problem.
I have created an official forum for my projects. At the moment, I am intending it to be used mainly for beta testing and support, although it does include a general discussion forum as well.
The forum is located HERE.
I have also added links to the forum on my main page.
