Lay of the Land 0.13.0 The UI Update

Hey everyone,

The UI Update is here and brings Controller Support, a whole New Building UI, and many other new changes, additions, fixes and improvements.

I hope you enjoy the update and thank you all so much for the support :)

Controller Support

The game now has full controller support. The entire game can now be played with a controller and all the ui can be navigated with one. Any controller supported natively on windows should work out of the box. The game currently only has icons for Xbox/Xbox style controllers. PlayStation controller icons will be coming at a later date.

Building UI Improvements

The entire Building UI has been overhauled and now uses a radial menu system. Shapes now use a physicalized gizmo system for adjusting their parameters/positioning.

Building Prefabs/Shapes can now be rotated on any axis using the new Building Transform UI. Prefabs also can be flipped/mirrored on any axis.

Custom prefabs can now be sorted into categories. The categories correspond to the folders inside the CustomPrefabs folder. You can move prefabs into different folders to change their category.

Interaction Improvements

You can now pick up and carry small objects with an empty hand. Also you can now also destroy single voxels with an empty hand. Sprinting is now a toggle instead of a key hold by default. This can be changed in the control settings.

How to Install and Play

Windows

• Download the .zip file attached to this post

• Place the .zip file into the folder where you want to install the game

• Right click the .zip file and click Extract All

• A window will open. Click Extract

• Open the LayOfTheLand_0.13.0 folder

• Double click LayOfTheLand.exe

Linux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8lfMfjMVAE

Changelog

Gameplay

• Can now pick up and carry small objects with an empty hand

• Added ability to break single voxels with an empty hand

• Sprinting is now a toggle instead of a key hold. Can be changed in the controls menu

Controller Support

• Gameplay controller input

• UI can now be navigated with a controller

• Controller keybinds

• Control hints now display either Controller hints or Keyboard hints depending on last used input device

Building

• New Building UI

• New Building Transform UI

• Physicalized Voxel Building Shape UIs. Procedural shapes such as cylinders, spheres etc are now defined through the use of in world gizmos to adjust things like radius, position etc.

• New Building Sounds

• More precise obstruction detection for building shape previews. e.g can now stand inside a hollow cylinder preview while building

• Can now flip/mirror prefabs on x,y,z axis's

• Prefabs/Shapes can now be rotated on any exis

• Custom Prefabs are now sorted into categories. The categories correspond to the folders inside the CustomPrefabs folder. You can move prefabs into different folders to change their category.

• Custom prefabs in the CustomPrefabs root folder are placed into a Misc category.

• Increased max custom prefab size to 25.6m

• Custom Prefab icon generation

UI

• New UI font that includes non-English characters

• Added contextual control hints to inventory ui and radial menus

• Can now right click on an inventory slot when moving an item to place one item in an empty slot or a slot with the same item

• Shift clicking items in and out of the hotbar now combines item stacks correctly

• Radial menus will now split into pages if they have lots of options to prevent options from overlapping and becoming hard to select.

Misc

• Refactored item logic system to be modular. Item logic is now much more maintainable and easier to extend/more friendly to modding.

• All voxel surface types now have hit sounds

• Increased monster spawn exclusion radius around spawn

• Physics objects that were asleep when they were simulating physics now start asleep when loaded back in. This prevents the small amount of jitter that would happen when physics was enabled which could cause objects to phase into eachother or fall off things over time.

• Spider webs not thrown by the player now decay over time

• Burnt voxels/vegetation now recovers over time

• Launching the game for the first time will now automatically set the fps cap to the displays refresh rate.

• Crafting tutorial is now a pop up when the crafting tab is opened for the first time

• Reduced amount of iron plate loot in tomb ruins

Fixes

• Fixed lag when leaves are removed from trees

• Fixed music tracks not being properly marked as played and sometimes repeating

• Fixed useable placement overlap detection for smeltery and kiln

• Fixed incorrect ore amounts on mould tooltips

• Fixed road voxel assets having a higher priority than cliffs causing intersecting part of a cliff to take on the roads voxel id

• Fixed bombs now exploding gunpowder barrels

• Fixed first person item rendering inconsistencies

• Fixed mummy not throwing molotovs correctly

• Fixed auto item pickup for vegetation items attempting to pick up items that are being placed duplicating the item every frame.

• Fixed player getting locked in place if they walk off the edge of the map. They will now just fall out of the world and die gracefully

• Fixed player getting stuck on ledges when entering a crouched state when jumping/falling