v0.117.0-rc29 Whole Worlds

Everything in rc28, plus a fix for planets that drew as one flat colour, and the floating origin distance as a project setting.

Terrain drawn in the wrong colour

A game that destroyed a terrain during play could leave every other terrain drawn in a flat colour: the sand or teal of whatever node was made next. It varied from run to run, and day, night and weather made no difference.

• A terrain destroyed during play is forgotten everywhere, as it already was in the editor.
• A reference to a destroyed node now finds nothing, where it could find the next node to be made.
• Each terrain draws with its own Material. One without a Material uses the active terrain's, and otherwise the same terrain's every run.

Floating origin distance

Project Settings → Game → Floating origin distance (origin_rebase_m in project.ron) sets how far the camera may get from the physics' origin before the origin moves to it. Physics positions are finest near the origin: 4 km out they move in steps of about 0.25 mm. A shorter distance keeps what is near the camera finer, and moves the origin more often. Each move shifts every body by a whole number of metres, exactly, so nothing jumps. The default stays 4,096 m.

Upgrading

Nothing to do. What you may notice:

• A project with several terrains, only some of which have a Material, now draws each terrain that has one with its own.
• Code that kept a node after destroying it and read it later now gets nothing back, rather than the node made in its place.