Ninkyo Dantai v1.0.0 - Lighting Engine

Hi all,

I am happy to announce Ninkyo Dantai v1.0.0, has just been released.

In this update, I've focused on adding a lighting engine for the first time into the game. It was a lot of work to get working with the existing game codebase. Lots of work has been done on optimising the game texture streaming and garbage collection.

I have also started work on a new City: Ichihara (which will be unveiled in the next update).

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Additions

• Added lighting to all house and shop tiles.
• Added lighting to a baseball bat and gave it a soft glow
• Added new prop: Park Lamp Post, which emits a white light during night time.
• Added new prop: Lamp Post, which emits a white light during night time
• Added 4 new texture LODs for Residential Building
• Added 4 new texture LODs for Wooden Bench
• Added garbage collection for Residential Building
• Added garbage collection for the Wooden Bench
• Added map to Ichihara
• Started work on the Ichihara map (work in progress)

Fixes and Updates

• Fixed a bug where the vending machine was casting an invisible bright green light when the player is exactly 1024 metres from the nearest house block.
• Fixed a bug where debug command /time set day does not set the minutes and seconds.
• Fixed a bug where debug command /time set night does not set the minutes and seconds.
• Updated the day and night cycle to incorporate a realistic day and night cycle like one found in the real world.
• Updated the texture for the wooden bench.
• Optimised the Residential Building texture by setting the largest texture size to 1024x1024.

Load Order

• Improved and optimised texture streaming during the loading sequence.

Changes

• Changed the default values for graphical settings to medium.