Update 1.181.0 Major - Big Optimizations, Multithreaded Physics & More!

Whooooo!

 

Yay!

 

Cool Stuff, Like it - have to say was REALLY waiting for this as well..

 

sounds extremely useful.
anything to make the game easier to run is always good. for everyone.

 

OMG

 

No wheel changes yet?

 

May Clang Be With You.

 

Windmill? wheel Changes?

 

Keep up the good work!

 

Multithreaded HAVOK physics!!!
(Hundreds of bugs and problems will appear, but it does not matter, making the improvements in physics were fundamental and really necessary)
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"Windows look more realistic!" - literally showing the tinted side being black at the same time.

Edit: a few observations, one of which REALLY pisses me off... others are more enjoyable.
Good ones first: SimSpeed for moving big grids has improved a little. That is great. Not perfect, far from it, but it's a lot of progress for a single update. FPS have improved as well, though more slightly.

Here's the problems:
1.) This is what the game looks now with Shadows turned OFF:



and
2.) I've noticed that they changed the color for the "inactive" state on the HUD. Let me demonstrate the difference:


This new grey is so close to white i have an even harder time making out what's going on here than before. It's like Keen heard the feedback of "This HUD is hardly useable for the colorblind", ignored it for three months and THEN chose to take it as a challenge to make it worse.

 

Wot no wheels, windmills or engines?

 

great! simply put but deserved.

 

Camera fixes? Again? Keen, when will you learn?

 

Finally!!

 

Yeah, that was surprising and no-teaser for this time... maybe for the next update if I remember well the last big implementation

 

Awwww yissss. Thanks for all your hard work

 

First day of machinist training and a nice SE update? Today has been a good day ^^

 

It's Ok I suppose, meyhh!!!

 

Great Scott!

 

How many threads will it scale to?

wondering as servers I run range from 8 core/16 thread to 28c/56 thread

 

Well just to confirm, this update DEFINITELY borked a lot of mods. Most obviously many modded blocks control panels are teenie tiny and SUPER-difficult to click: Kolt's consoles, many many other mods with control panels.
And it completely broke Guided missiles again...... yaaayyyyyyyy!!!!! Joy joy, hopefully they aren't too majorly unfixable this time around. And, sadly, I haven't gained a performance boost with this update. Bummer of an update. Nice effort though.

Edited to fix erroneous mistake about ARC reactors, and to remove Nanite Factory, as he fixed it already, gg me

 

Cool... but where's the "full list" of bug fixes and changes? There was like a sentence and a half describing what has changed.

 

Well I've never been able to paste in Commander Rotal's ship the Amanda Tapping and with this update I now can (although it takes a while). SO a massive thank you to Keen for their hard work

 

nice, Thanks!

 

Um.. why do the windows now look like they've got badly applied mobile phone protector film on them, complete with bubbles? Did someone actually ask for that?

My last save point was made while looking out through a previously spotless window in deep space and, on reloading it, I genuinely thought for a few seconds they'd added galaxies to the sky-box.

Guess I'll get used to it, but it does strongly remind me of that scene in red dwarf with the grit on the scanner scope. I wonder how many times I'll swing my ship into violent avoidance maneuvers, in order to miss those incoming finger prints, before I do.

 

How did you get the game to only show both Sim Speeds, FPS, and UPS in the upper left? I've only ever seen with a million other stats that I don't care about so I'm always hitting Shift+F11 to hide/unhide it. If it only listed these 4 items I would leave it up all the time.

 

They changed that relatively recently. Didn't quite work for a week or so but it seems fixed now. It's the usual Shift-F11 combo i think.