{"id":2391,"date":"2012-02-15T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T11:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2012-02-15T21:03:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T11:03:16","slug":"a-day-of-bugfixes-and-restoring-old-functionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2012\/02\/15\/a-day-of-bugfixes-and-restoring-old-functionality\/","title":{"rendered":"A day of bugfixes and restoring old functionality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today I fixed a whole bunch of minor bugs.\u00a0 Folks who&#8217;ve been following the general game rules will remember that in MMORPG Tycoon 2, all art assets are brought into the game world through the respawn points;\u00a0 the respawn points are where developers (other than yourself) enter and leave the game world.\u00a0 As such, if you&#8217;re in an empty world, a respawn point is the only building you&#8217;re able to create.\u00a0 At some point in the last few months, I apparently accidentally made it so that even the respawn points are unavailable if there is no respawn point for a developer to use to bring it into the game world.\u00a0 Which means that in an empty world, you couldn&#8217;t build anything at all.\u00a0 Oops!\u00a0 Fixed now.<\/p>\n<p>I also spent time fixing the &#8220;grassy mountains&#8221; problem, where all terrain surfaces in the game were being drawn with a grass effect (which is why I haven&#8217;t been close to mountains in any of my screenshots in a very long time).\u00a0 This issue came in when I switched from old-style terrain rendering to the new (fast, and multiprocessor-aware!) style.\u00a0 The modifications to VectorStorm&#8217;s VBO support which I mentioned a few days ago was in preparation for this fix, so I could actually vary the amount of clutter in a region without killing performance.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for no screenshot today.\u00a0 Hopefully tomorrow I&#8217;ll have something screenshot-worthy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today I fixed a whole bunch of minor bugs.\u00a0 Folks who&#8217;ve been following the general game rules will remember that in MMORPG Tycoon 2, all art assets are brought into the game world through the respawn points;\u00a0 the respawn points are where developers (other than yourself) enter and leave the game world.\u00a0 As such,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-Cz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}