3708 ongoing development thread

[PhilipJFry]

Hello there,

this thread is meant to give you an overview of what is going on regarding the next game development/bugfix patch.
Since we're currently at version number 3707 and i assume we'll release this before the next balance patch i will claim the patch number 3708 for now.

I will tag all Pull Requests for this patch with the 3708 milestone so you can easily filter and find them here
currently the following changes are merged into the deploy/fafdevelop branch and thus available for public testing via the faf client by playing the FAF Develop game mode:

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1 - Add new icons for E storages - fixes a visual bug with power storages as explained here
2 - Add missing categories into sACUS BPs - adds a few unit categories to the Support Command Units
3 - Destroy Billy when hitting Aeon TMD flare - pretty self explanatory
4 - Fix Salem floating when killed during landing - also pretty straight forward
5 - Fix Hives build effects
6 - Add missing rebuild IDs into BPs - allows you to rebuild the ED4 and AEON Air support factory
7 - Fix invulnerable sub-carried units - fixes bug that makes units invulnerable and invisible reverted since nobody was able to fix bugs this change would have introduced
8 - Fix ML exhaust effects playing during construction
9 - update seraphim shader to be more realistic - this change should improve seraphim units visually
10 - Updating spelling, punctuation
11 - Supreme Props: reduced LOD Cutoff from 1000 to 750 - fixes potential fps drops at certain zoom levels due to the increased amount of props being displayed due to the supreme props integration
12 - Fix target bones of Cybran T2 Land HQ
13 - Curated maps button - adds a button to the lobby that directs the user to the curated maps thread on the forum
14 - Change air staging icon to T1 since they are no longer t2 structures
15 - AutoFill lobby slots
16 - Fix strats scripts Fixes issue 2839 - warning when a strat takes damage from aoe
17 - Cleanup terran units file - Some clean up + fix for UEF factory build arms
18 - Use LOD1 models - making use of existing low detail lvl models
19 - TryCopyPose for unit without death animation - fixes wrecks facing in a different direction than the one they had upon death
20 - Blacklist old nomads version - To avoid people hosting game with it instead of the featured mod.
21 - Refactor updateBuildRestrictions - improving code and mod support for units available in factories depending of the HQs
22 - Broadsword jamming e consumption fix - Fixing a bug preventing broadsword from draining 25e when built.
23 - fix T3 uef gs jammer ring - Display the broadsword jammer ring.
24 - Mass storage low target priority - Making mass storage targeted after everything else, will make unit target mexx over the mass storage.
25 - add cquemov to T3 sonars - Allow to give order to T3 sonars before they are completed.
26 - fix air facto rebuild on wreck - air facto won't rebuilt air units on top of wreck, thus removing a bug allowing them to start construction of unit at 50% completion already.
27 - add INSIGNIFICANTUNIT cat to dummy harms - Remove dummy harms from unit database.
28 - fix eye not being build drag - Allow to build several Eye of Rhianne with a drag build order.
29 - Supreme Props: Added missing fix

Contributors:

• speed2
• eforgacs
• BlackYps
• Icedreamer
• badbwoi
• PhilipJFry
• KionX
• keyser
• Exotic-Retard

Going to update this post every once in a while with PRs that have been merged.
Feel free to test these changes and provide (constructive) feedback regarding these changes/this patch if you wish.

Best Regards,
PhilipJFry

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edit: 30.7.2019
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[BlackYps]

Shouldn't this be 3707? We are currently at 3706. And some of the pull requests have the 3707 milestone and not 3708.

[keyser]

we are 3707, due to an hotfix to revert exe change from 3706

[BlackYps]

I see. I got confused because the latest development thread and news post are both about 3706.

[speed2]

In order to test the new sera shader you might need to purge the cache folder first:

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C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\cache

[PhilipJFry]

updated the OP to add

11 - Supreme Props: reduced LOD Cutoff from 1000 to 750 - fixes potential fps drops at certain zoom levels due to the increased amount of props being displayed due to the supreme props integration
12 - Fix target bones of Cybran T2 Land HQ

especially the supreme props change could use some public testing since the fps issues we have noticed in the current patch differ vastly depending on your setup (the better your gfx card the less you may notice the current issue)
to compare the change you can sandbox on any map with lots of tree groups (like Selkie Island) and break as many tree groups as possible and press "/" on your numpad to display the fps in game

[PhilipJFry]

updated the OP to add
13 - Curated maps button - adds a button to the lobby that directs the user to the curated maps thread on the forum

currently the link leads to a placeholder thread which needs to be filled with content
hopefully we can encourage users to play more different maps by promoting them in various ways

[PhilipJFry]

bumping the thread since a few more changes were added

Keyser and i agreed on calling it a day for new features within this patch - from now on only fixes for bugs introduced by the patch will be reviewed/merged and we will release the new patch on the 5th of October

We know of a few bugs with change nr. 7 - should we not find someone who can fix them for us i will revert the PR to avoid introducing known bugs

Please help us test the patch by playing the FAF Develop game mode and give us feedback if possible/required

[Little Miss Murder]

9 - update seraphim shader to be more realistic - this change should improve seraphim units visually

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All jokes aside, thank you to every person who makes this game possible. <3

[ZLO_RD]

this summary helps to see faf progress and that work has been done. This is inspiring.