02-26-2018, 11:09 AM
v1.23.1 would have been released Friday, however the main art contractor decided to fix painting on several of the older models. This resulted in the need for me to rescale those car models which broke all "saved" car bodies you created in game.
So good news and bad news. Good news first. Many cars are now more paintable with proper metal and leather paint areas. Some additional accessories have been added, and some accessories are also paintable now.
The bad news is, all car files made before v1.23.1 are broken. So any vehicle body you designed in the last 8 years and saved will no longer work. I have implemented a system to delete your old .car files so it will not clutter the system.
Since the artist broke the old .car files. I decided to take the opportunity to fix all sub-contracted artwork's broken "English" for the morph animations on the cars and accessories. This means no more (hopefully) misspellings and more descriptive terms used animations.
So v1.23.1 has been pushed back indefinitely until the artist finishes what he's doing and switches over to what I asked him to do (make premade cars). I do not want to break .car files again. Hence the delay. I am hoping it will not take more than 2 weeks, but I can never guarantee when it comes to sub-contractors. Sometimes they work fast. Sometimes they're horribly slow (guy working on the new translation site for example).
In the meantime, I will switch over to map data and possibly start working in smaller v1.23.2 tickets into v1.23.1 while we wait.
-Gameplay: Reduced munition's revenues during WW1.
-Bugfix: Fix munitions manufacturing popup when countries that you only have branches in goes to war.
-Gameplay: Modification system can only be done once every 2 years for components.
-Gameplay: Increased Modification system's exponential costs.
-Engine: Implemented a revision system into the .car loader system
-Engine: Implemented a checker and delete system to purge un-useable user created .car files from the game.
-Engine: Switched default renderer for new purchases to OpenGL.
-Artwork: Improvements made to UV coords of many models.
-Artwork: Additional paint ID's added to older vehicle models for slightly better player painting.
-Artwork: Renamed morph animations for all models to better improve terminology and fix misspellings.
So good news and bad news. Good news first. Many cars are now more paintable with proper metal and leather paint areas. Some additional accessories have been added, and some accessories are also paintable now.
The bad news is, all car files made before v1.23.1 are broken. So any vehicle body you designed in the last 8 years and saved will no longer work. I have implemented a system to delete your old .car files so it will not clutter the system.
Since the artist broke the old .car files. I decided to take the opportunity to fix all sub-contracted artwork's broken "English" for the morph animations on the cars and accessories. This means no more (hopefully) misspellings and more descriptive terms used animations.
So v1.23.1 has been pushed back indefinitely until the artist finishes what he's doing and switches over to what I asked him to do (make premade cars). I do not want to break .car files again. Hence the delay. I am hoping it will not take more than 2 weeks, but I can never guarantee when it comes to sub-contractors. Sometimes they work fast. Sometimes they're horribly slow (guy working on the new translation site for example).
In the meantime, I will switch over to map data and possibly start working in smaller v1.23.2 tickets into v1.23.1 while we wait.
-Gameplay: Reduced munition's revenues during WW1.
-Bugfix: Fix munitions manufacturing popup when countries that you only have branches in goes to war.
-Gameplay: Modification system can only be done once every 2 years for components.
-Gameplay: Increased Modification system's exponential costs.
-Engine: Implemented a revision system into the .car loader system
-Engine: Implemented a checker and delete system to purge un-useable user created .car files from the game.
-Engine: Switched default renderer for new purchases to OpenGL.
-Artwork: Improvements made to UV coords of many models.
-Artwork: Additional paint ID's added to older vehicle models for slightly better player painting.
-Artwork: Renamed morph animations for all models to better improve terminology and fix misspellings.
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good human beings save the world, so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead it means I made it." ― Charles Bukowski