Build 1.029

We’ve uploaded a new build to Steam and the Humble Store (backers only). This build focused on performance improvements, code cleanup, bug fixes, and notably, an experimental saving/loading feature.

The full change log:

1.029

• – Fixed bugs with saving/loading AI scripts
• – Old game saves are now incompatible with 1.029
• – Centered loading message
• – Saves now stream directly to disk rather than wasting memory
• – Default update time, visiblility time, etc. reduced

1.028

• – Reformatted some code, made some parts cleaner, removed some redundancies
• – Cleaned up code folder structure.
• – Fixed numerous bugs with Timer class being used improperly (was causing *major* issues with performance)
• – Converted large amounts of iterative code to LINQ expressions
• – Improved performance of octrees
• – Created octree groups for dynamic/static objects
• – Fixed broken hash function for chunks
• – Better alignment of GUI elements
• – Slider responsiveness improved
• – Mouse wheel response for vertical sliders
• – Created GUI debug visualization
• – Added icons to some buttons
• – Fixed numerous GUI bounding boxes
• – Cleaning up some behaviors and fixing bugs with them
• – Made path planning delete old paths before planning new ones
• – Dwarves clean up more state when a behavior fails
• – Enforcing “blackboard” paradigm accross behaviors to make the code cleaner.
• – Relaxed constraints on which objects will be drawn (If the camera turns too fast, now causes artifacts)
• – Made it possible to delete saved “worlds” from inside the game.
• – Entities no longer strictly thread-safe. (May cause unknown crashes) TODO: Make a seralizable thread-safe entity.
• – Made it possible to save and load games (warning: experimental). Some state not yet saved.
• – Massive refactoring to make everything serializable.
• – Pressing “ESC” now opens up a pause menu instead of going back to the main menu.
• – Pressing “End” will now forcefully close the game
• – World pictures come from saved screenshots instead of being loaded from the world file
• – Fixed bugs with deleting worlds/saves
• – Worlds are now saved to their own directories.
• – Worlds are given a random name when created instead of an empty one
• – Old world saves are now incompatible with 1.028
• – Changed all directory seperator chars to platform-independent ones