Cosmoteer Release Candidate 0.13.3_rc1

Walt

Release candidate 0.13.3_rc1 is now available!

I wasn't planning to do a release so soon after 0.13.2, but the 64x64 sprite multiple requirement was a bigger issue than I anticipated and it has prevented a lot of people from playing their favorite mods using the latest version of Cosmoteer, and so I have decided to release 0.13.3 with fewer features than I originally intended in order to fix this sooner rather than later. Any mods that were compatible with 0.13.1 but were incompatible with 0.13.2 should now again be compatible with 0.13.3_rc1 (and will be compatible with 0.13.3 stable).

Download 0.13.3_rc1

Changelog:

Screen shake now feels more organic and scales with game speed.
When the camera is focused on a ship and that ship becomes sufficiently destroyed such that it is no longer considered "significant", then the camera will now automatically break its focus on that ship.
Using the part selection tool with mirror mode enabled will now select mirrored parts with different rotations when the rotation is of no consequence (such as for Crew's Quarters, Ammo Storage, and Reactors).
The galaxy map no longer displays the number of enemies in each sector, since that number is no longer accurate due to the possibility that enemies will spawn in fleets.
The Mods Manager will now display a message when running the game in "No Mods" mode.
The path in which game assets are cached can now be customized by using the '--rootcachepath path\to\cache\files' command-line option.
Bugfix: Any errors loading a cached texture will no longer cause the game to crash. The game will simply delete the cached texture file and load it again from the original PNG file.
Bugfix: Crash when clicking "Reset Crew Positions" and the ship has more crew than it does beds.
Bugfix: In some situations, parts could be individually repaired even if they weren't connected to an existing part of the ship.
Bugfix: A.I. would constantly change targets when multiple enemy ships were extremely close.
Bugfix: Graphical glitch on part health bars.
Modding: Removed the requirement that atlased sprites be a multiple of 64x64 while still fixing the underlying graphical glitches that were caused by non-multiple-of-64x64 sprites. Any mods that were compatible with 0.13.1 but incompatible with 0.13.2 should again be compatible with 0.13.3.
Modding: The "Example Mod" now increases the starting credits for Easy difficulty to 200,000 instead of lowing it to 50,000.

Drakador_Chaos

Walt If I got that right the mods that have been already updated for 13.2 also worked on 13.1 which probably means that the mods updated for 13.2 will work on 13.3 fine, huh?

RandomCommander

Walt Now that you have the news section in the main menu up and running, perhaps you can use it to alert mod-makers in the future when the mod requirements are going to change, preferably BEFORE the change actually takes place, so that they can update their mods accordingly.

A smoother transition in updates for the community would do wonders for all of us.

Undated_Abyss

Walt Could you patch in the modfix into the 13.2 stable version?

s36350

I am impressed. This came out fast!

Walt

Drakador_Chaos Mods that were already working in 0.13.2 should still work in 0.13.3.

Walt

RandomCommander I would like to reserve the in-game news section for things that most players would be interested in, not just modders. If I posted about every modding change, then most people would probably turn the news feature off.

RandomCommander

Walt Well, I meant for potentially game-breaking mod changes. Though you could tailor it to say something like "WARNING: If you use mods, there is a good chance some or all of them will cause Cosmoteer to crash to desktop in this next update."

Walt

Undated_Abyss Planning to release 0.13.3 stable today unless any big issues appear.

Undated_Abyss

Walt Really, today?! Thanks for the quick turnaround on 13.3!
Edit: do you know roughly what time?