Almost 6 months into 2017 and 7 months since the announcement that I was starting over, time flies huh? So here's a short status update that is a little bit overdue.
March was a lot and a lot of physics tweaking. The track and ski colliders has a lot of parameters that can be changed that affect how everything else behaves. The original colliders had more adjustment time than you might think, they have been tweaked ever since I started in 2011 so the new one will require a lot of tinkering and as I said in the announcement, that BTW is on the old website witch I'm still trying to get back as a legacy site, that my goal is to get the game more polished state. So a lot left to do but also a lot done.
April was to be honest very slow with very little progress for a number of reasons but anyway not much to report from that month and in may the sorta unplanned new website took a lot of time and it still does but I've managed to devote more and more time to the game, tweaking the colliders. It will be a lot of that so devblogs will be boring for a unforeseeable future.
To give you something new, someone asked if snow physics will be improved and a lot of people have asked since the initial release for terrain deformation / leaving tracks. Now I have an answer... sort of... well not really but I'm experimenting with terrain deformation. I don't know how big the performance impact will be over an entire map. I don't know how many problems this will cause and I don't know how it will handle multiple players. So don't expect to see this in game soon and I can't promise anything but just know that there is a chance that you maybe someday can leave a mark in the snow .
Remember I'm still just experimenting
With the snow trails, if you have a lot of lag after driving around for a while when trails are everywhere, Ive noticed other snowmobile video games erase the trail after it is a certain distance behind you.
looks good almost like mx vs atv reflex, when do you think the next update will be
Looks incredible, very good job! Had no idea you could make those kinds of trails in terrain in unity, must be some resource demanding stuff.
BoondockerTurbo keeping track of the "age" of the track takes more resources than just letting them stay at least with how this system works.
johnbjorklof yeah reflex is one of the games that I take ideas from and I have no idea when it will be.
ET340 it's actually a mesh above the terrain with tessellation so it isn't that demanding compared to changing the terrain directly which resulted in a steady 4 fps when I tried that I while back.
Oh okay, that's cool. Didn't know that, Could imagine that changing that massive size of an object (terrain) would cause a lot of lag. What's the next step in development? more tweaking?
Yes. I did't say it in the post but the game is playable but still isn't on par with the previous versions so first of all I'm trying make the game feel like the old one then improve on that
Makes a lot of sense, stuff felt pretty decent in last version.
Any chance you could either release a new update with what you have as like a test build or something so people could give you opinions on whether they like the new feel? Would love to try some new things in it rather than the same stuff haha. Keep up the great work though! It's going to be a great game!
No I want to at least match the physics with how it was before before I think about releasing anything. With that said I am thinking about maybe splitting up 0.3.0 into smaller releases like, 0.3.0 is the core 0.3.1 adds more planned things that are missing and so on until 0.3.x is where I want the reboot to be
When do you put it out
Ah, okay. Btw, is there anyway to remove the headlight, like black it out? I've been changing the textures to make my own special sled and want it all black, but I can't get the headlight black..
To answer @207xSledhead's question, no.
The light on the snowmobile is an light entity, meaning that it is bound to the sled object by the unity game engine.
(Mod related)
But for the current version. I am in fact working on a way to remove the light and the gloss that the snowmobile material has.
Sweet, that'd be awesome! Hopefully we'll have handguards and more options in the future!
when will tis be released
So, 9 months in, getting dark and cold. Any noteworthy progress made on the game?
me and my frend cant join each other in the game, how do we do it? do we need to just type the pasword or what do we need to type inn on ip and port? helpppppp
where are you 3r5k3n? I really love the game and I want to see it go somewhere, but i haven't seen any activity from you. Have you given up on the game?
Great job to the creator of this game i am very excited to have a realistic snowmobile simulator that is good quality as far as i know the creator is doing this on the side hence the slow progress I've had this game for a couple of months and it has changed lots great progress is to come and thank you for the good effort