Update 37 - Smooth camera moves & keyboard inputs


Greetings, Hard Chip players!

1. New Camera Control Scheme: the editor camera had fixed rotation positions and a fixed angle as well. It was a bit restrictive at times. You can now move the camera around at any angle with the middle mouse button.

Another move that is shown in the video is to "grab" the die with the right mouse button to slide the camera precisely to a specific location matching the cursor!

Plus when controlled with the keyboard, the camera will move more precisely when close to the die and faster when far away.

All camera sensitivities across the game should match now and can be changed in the settings. (wheel sensitivity for zoom!)

Another quality-of-life improvement regarding the camera is the center camera shortcut. Press the space bar at any time, and the camera will reset its position in order to see the whole die.

2. Update Keys pressed issues: It seems that for a long time, specific keyboard layouts and/or certain physical keyboards (like laptop ones) would result in no input registered by the game. This behavior has been reproduced and fixed. If any issues regarding input still occur, please leave a message on the Discord server!

 QOL, Bug, and Crash fixes:
1. The game window now has the proper Icon (in taskmgr and in the Window tasks bar)
2. Challenge Full Adder has a starting height shorted
3. Demos are separated from savefiles into a dedicated tab
4. New Reset Settings option.
5. Bindings has more Keyboard entries now, but it is still not editable for now.
6. SSAA is disabled temporarily because of a Z-buffer issue
7. Changing simulation speed now stops validation. Relaunching validation will reset the speed to a predefined value.
8. All text sections are skippable with any key press. You can then close any text sections by pressing any key as well.
9. Puzzles will now stay marked as resolved even if you change the puzzle solution to a nonfunctioning one afterward
10. All cameras have anti-gimbal-lock logic.

As always, your feedback/suggestions/comments are instrumental in making this game.

Thank you for playing Hard Chip, and stay tuned for more updates and new features!

Files

HardChip_win64_v0.0.4.4.zip 185 MB
Feb 27, 2024

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