Thrive v0.3.2 almost beta.

Hooray!
I found a few issues, some are bugs and some are things that bothered me:

The placement of some GUI elements seems to be messed up, as seen here. (resolution 1680 x 1050)


CO2 is almost completely invisible against the background.
Ammonia seems to be a little too bright. Maybe make it darker, or brighten the other compound clouds (they seem a bit dull at the moment)
I like the new zoom, but maybe make it a tiny bit faster?

Bugs:
- Most text boxes are to small for the text, so i cant read most of it. (1920x1080)
- The text box in the editor cant be clicked away and i cant build organelles because they cant be placed behind the textbox.
- Cant finish the tutorial, because the last textbox stays wherever i click. And the metabolism doesnt start, since the textbox isnt clicked away.
- Nuclei are still discoballs, but i guess this is not a big problem^^
- White glucose cloud follows your cell, like said before.
- There is a gap between flagella and cellmembran

The compound clouds look amazing, and I like the membrane animations more than I thought I would. The tutorial is brilliant, and nice touch with the new scrolling.

But of course, here are the bugs:

- Nucleus is still a disco ball. After taking damage and flashing red for a while, it turns white.
- Engulfment and reproduction sounds are sometimes too loud, sometimes too quiet (I can fix this).
- There's no green ring to escape from in the tutorial, even though the text says there is. It isn't necessary to have one, but if there isn't one that text should be changed.
- The compound clouds seem to change shape too fast. This isn't much of a problem now, but once that same fluid simulation starts carrying microbes around things might get a bit hectic.

EDIT: No crashes though. Not even from trying the same things which created crashes for those above.

Amazing work! But here are some bugs:
-Mouse too small
- The game crashed after a while, for no apparent reason
-New game, crashed again after reproduction
-I thought you were putting a new endoplasmatic reticulum model, but it is only seen the old.

When fully zoomed out, the compound clouds can be seen "poofing" into existence at the left and right sides of the screen. Large clouds can also be seen despawning.
In the help popup accessed by pressing the '?' button, there are a few typos:

"Discover and unlock the Toxin Vacuole and, the Chloroplast floating in the environment." Unnecessary comma after second 'and.'
"You can also engluf cells that are smaller than you... Don't forget to press G a second time to stop englufing." Engulf is spelled wrong twice.

In the editor, 'Mitochondria' is still 'Mitochondria' and not the singular 'Mitochondrion' as it should be.
Compound clouds move when the help panel (accessed by the '?' button) is up.

Allow zooming during the tutorial?

Real good work so far! Really liked seeing others of my kind. In addition to membrane blobbyness and compound clouds, it made things feel more alive.

It DID crash for me on the first run. I think it was at the point where a toxin predator got close to me and would've spat out its agent.

EDIT: Also, after clicking the tutorial box saying to click the evolve button instead of doing what I was supposed to do, the game jumped the gun on continuing the tutorial and threw me into the world like I'd come out of the editor.

This has taken me far too long, but I'm here to respond to all your bugs and give you all a progress report.


Atrox ,

Organelle tooltips showing the price of the organelle is a good idea.
I will make the compound tab test smaller.
Tutorial window is now centered.
I feel like starting out zoomed in is a good idea, so the player can familiarize themselves with their cell.
Definitely agree with a dark overlay, but have no idea how to do it.


Could you explain what you mean with the glucose cloud?
Yeah, I need to fix that...
Will look into this.
Will look into this.

@narotiza, the resolution issues have been fixed, and I'll make the zoom a bit faster.

fourfire , no crashlog, you need to read the console behind the game. As for your collisions bug, it has been fixed thanks to jjonj.

Nornjen ,

The text boxes was my fault, I accidentally spesified the dimensions in absolute coordinates, but it should be fixed now.
You need to press the question mark, though it might make sense to let the player be able to just click it away.
Which textbox? If you're talking about the one that says "you are ready to reproduce" you need to click the green button to the top left.
I'll fix the discoball nucleus.
The cloud is just being constantly spawned until you absorb 10 units of it.

@longisquama,

I believe that is WAD, because it used to be fairly large in the old releases, but was changed before I joined the team.
I'm hoping the crash you witnessed was the agent cloud one, which was fixed.
The new model will be added once we get organelle upgrades in place.

fourfire , does the console show anything when you exit the editor and the game crashes? To prevent the console from closing, you need to run Thrive from the command line (i.e. cd to the bin directory and then type in Thrive).

@narotiza, I'll fix the typos when I have some time. Also, the game doesn't actually pause when the help panel is opened, I guess that decision doesn't make much sense. Can you explain why zooming during the tutorial is useful, since a lot of people seem to ask for it, but I don't see the need.

alexthe666 , @jjonj was working on a launcher/options menu before 0.3.0, but had to stop because we didn't have the necessary assets. The aspect ratio bug is fixed.

WaapFu , I'll look into what you said.

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Now that that's done, I'll update the first post with all the current bugs and we will hopefully have a new iteration for you to play with this week.

The tutorial stars with the camera zoomed on my cell, and so I naturally want to zoom out. I guess I feel kind of claustrophobic with so much of the cell taking up the screen. Plus it helps with seeing the clouds and stuff.

upDATE!!!


Oh wow hey, you used my nucleus sketch as a texture! That's pretty neat ;D Thanks!

As usual, bugs:

• Other members of your species die almost immediately from what I could tell.
• After dying myself, the nucleus stays white... but that's not the worst of it.
• The slow turning of the cell breaks and it turns very quickly to orient itself with your cursor.
• Spinning your cell fast enough and hitting another microbe causes your cell to rocket off through the environment spinning uncontrollably.
• Moving forwards caused me to become Sonic the Hedgehog