NEW UPDATE RELEASED: The Animal Update!
Nature Treks VR Patch Notes — February 17, 2018
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Hello Everybody,
The new update is finally ready, its taken longer than originally planned but hopefully it is worth it. Its a mixed bag of improvements and additions, most of them based on common requests, I have tried to listen and do what I can to keep improving the experience. I was planning to launch this next week accompanied by some marketing material and a new trailer but I have decided to release early.
A pass on all animal models has been completed, a number of new animals have also been added bringing the total number of animal encounters in excess of 60. I will be making a guide of all animals featured and where to find them in the next couple of weeks.
A completely new animal behaviour system has been implemented that allows the animals to behave in a more natural manner and lets them herd.
The audio has had a complete overhaul with approximately 80% of the audio effects being replaced. A volumetric audio system has also been incorporated.
The music tracks not ending smoothly has been fixed. A new simplified help panel has been added. An option to disable the audio visualisation elements but retain the music has been added. Icons now appear when toggling options to give some feedback to the user. Several trees have been replaced with higher detail versions (Most pine trees). Added some smaller animals such as dragonflies, wasps. bees and lady bugs.
Two new environments have been added. 'Jade Jurassic' features numerous peaceful herding dinosaurs in a prehistoric valley.
'Gray Storm' aims to provide a more localized experience and includes a Komodo dragon, giant tortoise, geko, iguana and a 'feature event' dragon.
Several incidental interactive objects have been added to 'Gray Storm' such as shells and sticks. This alludes to additional features that will be available in the next project.
There are a few things that didn't make it. Namely a full graphical interface (I tried but it broke everything) and some additional locomotion requests/options that really needed a graphical interface to implement/select them.
Nature Treks VR has become what a large project, now with 15 environments (from an original 8), making adjustments very time consuming. Given that, I have decided to focus additional requests and feedback into the new project which hopefully builds and improves upon the essence of the NTVR experience.
Changes in this update include:
- Added new environment 'Jade Jurassic'
- Added new environment 'Gray Storm'
- Added new audio system
- Added 2 new music tracks
- Added 16 new animals
- Added new animal behaviour system
- Added new help panels
- Added toggle icons
- Fixed bug with music not ending smoothly
- Various other tweaks and fixes
If you have an issues just let me know and I will be sure to take a look. On the flip side if you do enjoy NTVR a positive review is always appreciated, I read them all and its always a positive lift to get a nice one.
Thanks for supporting the project.
-John