Cosmoteer Release Candidate 0.13.2_rc1

G4L4XY

Well, that's a shame. I'm switching to 0.13.1 to use my mods.

Equalizer

G4L4XY I don't understand why so many mod images are 1 pixel off of being a multiple to 64x64
(e.g. 64x129 when it should be 64x128).

edit:
This wasn't an issue in 0.13.1 (the multiple of 64x64 being a new requirement with 0.13.2_rc1).

G4L4XY

Equalizer Nor do I.

Walt

Equalizer I don't understand why so many mod images are 1 pixel off of being a multiple to 64x64
(e.g. 64x129 when it should be 64x128).

I even caught a few places in the base game by adding that check, though in those cases it was caused by a Photoshop bug causing the PNGs to be saved 1 pixel smaller.

Walt

Equalizer There appears to be a bug that prevents ship images from being drag and dropped into the game.

Thanks, I'll fix that for the official update.

Equalizer It looks like the texture compression should help the big mods like Abh that often caused memory issues on lower memory computers. I currently see Abh + SW as using less than 2 GB when before it was over 4 GB (I need to make some superficial changes to get them to conform to the 64x64 multiple image size requirement). Starting the game also seems faster (other then the first time when the textures are compressed).

Glad to hear it makes a big difference. I personally tested with Abh and saw it drop from like 4GB to about 1.2GB.

zergRush99

Developer mod....what are the tools? im in this mod right now.

Walt

zergRush99 Developer mod....what are the tools? im in this mod right now.

I'm going to make a wiki page with all the things you can do in dev mode. But for now, press Ctrl+~ to access the developer menu. There's a bunch of stuff you can access from there (including many new ways to crash the game!)

zergRush99

Walt Thx!

zergRush99

Walt Yup, the dev mod need a wiki, but its grate that we(modders) have this thing!

Walt

Atarlost Not noice. It crashes on startup. Windows no longer gives detailed crash reports.

I need more info in order to solve that problem. What exactly happens when you run the game? And can you please post your log file?

Atarlost

Walt Whatever it was, RC2 fixed it.

zergRush99

My mod can now load so fast(After I added alot of new weapons(and now my mod is 43mb big)) and still it loads friking fast! But something is wrong with the icons of my mod, they look really pixelated.

Walt

zergRush99 But something is wrong with the icons of my mod, they look really pixelated.

That's probably because I changed the default sample mode to point instead of linear. If you prefer linear for your icons, specify SampleMode = Linear.

zergRush99

Walt Amd the ships icons, on the librerys the samething for the "my ships" library. And it is Linear in my mod.

Walt

Here is some info about Developer Mode.

Dalas120

Walt Bugfix: Shields weren't properly blocking shots when the edge of the shield overlapped a tile that technically belonged to a part but had no collision geometry. (Such as thruster nozzle tiles.)

If I understand this right, it's a nice buff to ion beams (before the "barrel" part stuck out of shields placed directly behind the weapon).

Walt

Dalas120 If I understand this right, it's a nice buff to ion beams (before the "barrel" part stuck out of shields placed directly behind the weapon).

I believe that is correct.

Sombreroman

Walt Cosmoteer will now show "news". These are short informational articles from the developer (hey, that's me!) about game updates, events, and other relevant topics. By default, any unread news articles are automatically displayed when the game is started, but this can be turned off in the settings. There is also a "News" button on the title screen that can be clicked to view the latest news.

Could there also be Joke news, like minecraft's splash text? 😃