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.
I am hoping that I have found most of the existing bugs in the tutorial stages of the project at this point. There may be some more minor ones, but there shouldn’t be too many.
I have fixed some issues with the vehicles in the project, as well as some issues with changing zones while under attack.
I am now working on the last major goal for the beta, which is fixing a bug with the grass displacement at non-y-up orientations. This is proving to be difficult, but I hope to get it solved in a week or so.
I have completed another round of testing.
This time, there were very few bugs found, and the ones that were found were all fixed.
I did discover a few issues that I was not able to reproduce, so I am hoping that these were one-off or testing glitches. I will need to look at them in more detail if they reoccur.
The testing is continuing to go well.
I have fixed two of the three remaining major issues.
There was a problem with the day/night cycle, which I have solved.
I also identified a possible issue with player positions not saving correctly, but I was not able to reproduce this, so it may have been solved or it may have been a testing anomaly.
I have also fixed some issues with the players inventory, and some other minor problems.
The testing is continuing to go well.
I have completed another full round of testing, and uncovered some issues that I hadn’t found previously, but almost all of these were minor.
There are still quite a few issues left, including two more serious issues, but the project is generally going well, and is becoming more stable and reliable.
I think I should be able to look at a beta release in a few months.
I have fixed some more minor issues with the project, and made minor improvements.
I have also added exception handling and error checking to some of the user inputs, guis, etc, and fixed some issues with the rover and AI systems.
There are quite a few minor issues and improvements that I need to make, but I have not uncovered any major issues.
I have completed more testing, and fixed quite a few more bugs.
I have added an in-game command console, so that players can input certain commands during the game. This is intended to be used for testing only.
I have also fixed quite a few issues with items and vehicles not being rotated correctly when being placed in the world.
I have also fixed and refactored the inventory system, but further testing is needed here.
I have finished a complete set of complex build testing, and the test were mostly successful, the project did work as expected.
However, there were quite a few bugs found that had gone unnoticed until now.
Most of them were minor, and were fixed very quickly, the rest should be fixed in the coming weeks.
There is only one more serious issue that I am concerned about, and I will be working on that next.
This issue is related to persistently storing the players location. It seems that if the player travels over a long distance and then saves, in some cases, the position isn’t stored properly. When they load the game, there is a slight offset.
This could potentially be an issue with the floating origin system, which could be difficult to fix.
I have run into quite a few more issues, which took some time to solve.
These were only uncovered after extensive testing of the build, however the vast majority of them have now been fixed.
The issues were mainly related to travelling over long distances, through many star systems, and orbiting stellar objects and planets.
There are still quite a few improvements to be made here, but in general things are going very well, and any issues are being solved quickly.
The server seems quite stable now.
There were some issues with variables not being saved, and some issues with the database, etc, but these have been solved.
The server setup was actually easier than I thought. It has been running continuously for some time, with multiple clients connecting and reconnecting, etc, and there have been no major issues.
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