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Lighting Improvements

I really love the VRAGE3 lighting system – but we are always trying to improve. We want to achieve greater overall realism by properly mastering distance fog, atmospheric scattering, and shadow coloration.

Here you can see some of our experiments – creating stronger contrast and elimination of a “whitish specular halo” on foliage. I want to make light and subsurface scattering on vegetation look more vivid and natural.

Snowy Flora, Savanna Bushes & Planetary Stations

Mirko Bartolini, Art Team: “Implementation of snowy flora for tundra and high-mountain regions. Snow is procedurally applied through the material based on the biome/region. Flora distribution is built from five “altitude and position-based” layers, with tree density generally decreasing as altitude increases.”




And behold – a shrubbery!

Space Engineers News-Hub schrieb:

Hotfix 1.209.024 has been released!

• ➡️ Changelog: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/pc/announcement/update-1-209-economy-2
  
• ️ Support Portal: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers
  
• ️ Discord: https://discord.gg/keenswh

Stability

• Fixed a crash in Player created Courier contracts as it was searching for old definition "Deliver" instead of the new "Deliver_LowRisk"
  
• Fixed a crash in NPC pathfinding, NPCs will now rather stop navigating instead of crashing the game
  
• Fixed a crash in Device initialisation seemingly stemming from specific driver issues
  
• Fixed a crash in blueprint processing when it contained modded components from a missing mod
  
• Fixed a crash where the Voice chat over the Antenna system was not thread-safe

Functional

• Fixed an issue where a collaboratively built grid which wasn't over the limit for each individual contributor was allowed to be stored and later prevented from being

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VS 2.3 – Wheels

You already know that for VS2.3, we are working on wheels as one of the main features.

This is not just “add wheel block and done.” The physics team is implementing a custom friction estimator instead of using the default Havok one. We are also testing new wheel colliders that can behave either like cylinders or spheres – depending on the situation.

The reason is terrain. Ramps, slopes, and uneven surfaces can make wheels behave badly if the collider is too simple. So we are testing a hybrid approach and iterating/refining in Havok demos before we will release the wheels in-game.

Wheels are a tricky physics feature in a sandbox game where gravity and terrain can vary a lot, so