The engines are now painted up, and while I have a few more things to fix up with the Conn, the exterior of the ship is effectively “alpha ready”.
Alpha testers just got sent links to the very first version with all the raytracing and texture features cranked all the way up and animated ship and station.
A pretty solid test for the “deluxe” edition footprint.
Performance reports so far:
@MiguelB: 144 FPS in Linux/Windows with an RTX 3060 
@JustJess: 12 FPS in Linux with an Intel HD 650 
@stenpett: 120 FPS in Linux with 1650 TI
@stenpett: 60 FPS on Steamdeck
@SnakeEyes319: 158 FPS in Windows with an RTX 3080 TI
@SnakeEyes319 : 60 FPS in Windows with an RTX 2070
@Mytho: 60 FPS in Windows with a 1050 TI
@edallical: 144 FPS in Windows with Radeon 6700XT
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Interior work coming along nicely
This shot on Godot I think stacks up pretty well to how it looked on UE4. We’re still some placeholder art pieces, but the models, shaders, and textures are coming along nicely!
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The new Bounty Hunter/Smuggler/Pirate backer reward ship is coming along nicely, and it’s closer to being ready for Godot.
Now that the model is back in range for verts and ‘watertight’, it’s time to do the first pass on the normal map, UV mapping, and vertex work.
Took roughly 130 hours to get it from the artist concept to this nearly game-ready model.
We’ve now got an “alpha ready” Spectre. It’s not perfect and it’s not “done”, but it’s good enough to put in the game for players.
Time to move on to the interior of the station!
As always, the ship is vertex color based so the players can adjust the color of the armor, the hull, the wings, the engines, the contrast pieces, all that. Initially it will be available with just one engine configuration (not several, like the Toro) but that may change later. It does have some neat stuff like a big rear loading bay and configurable mission-specific pylons.
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Happy to update that the alpha team now has a bleeding edge flyable test build to to get opinions and FPS info on.
This new test build includes a new much higher res HDRI backdrop, SDFGI, and the new Godot 4 RC 6 as well as a ship that can be piloted around to see how the lighting and scene looks from more angles.
The feedback will be immediately integrated.
And now with the planet coming along, as well as the camera controls.
Early indications are that we’re still doing fine on FPS on Steam Deck and 1650ti, waiting for more results.
Chapter 19 of Final Lap by @JustJess is now up on the patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/smugglers-of-lap-79429052
This time in Godot it took under 24 hours to rebuild the Job Board, which took the month of February on UE4.
Started work on the Job and Mission system, that’s proceeding rapidly right now.
I’ll update with some screenshots when there’s something more to show.
Just to make sure my testing is reasonably comprehensive:
UI running at 1024x768 (via wine emulated desktop sizing):
1152x864:
1280x720:
The very important Steamdeck resolution of 1280x800:
And now the native scaling base of 16x9 at 1600x900:
1920x1080, the ideal 1080p resolution:
Got confirmation dialogs for taking jobs, for replacing jobs all set, got the destination triggers started and all that.
Shouldn’t be too far out from being able to get jobs and complete them.
Viewport scaling tweaks now done to improve the resolution scaling further.
The job system is now implemented, and you can now chain jobs together. Jobs can be taken any time from the tablet (accessible via ctrl key - soon to be gamepad enabled)
The UI element for the destination works just like it did previously. You can click on the “i” or gamepad key equiv to bring up the job info on your tablet as well.
A test binary is uploading for backers right now.
Moon Alpha 1 Minor has been added, collisions set up, and testing with the backers is in progress!
Controls are left stick/arrow keys for movement, right stick or mouse to look around, 1 and 2 for incr/decr thrust (should also be the shoulder buttons on the gamepad), z/c or the triggers to roll, ctrl button to open/close the tablet for the job window.
Thank you for the reminder @edallical!
The controls are now back on the screen for the first 30s where they belong
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