Hello players and robots,
Us Pixels have been busy working on a huge update that we are very proud to announce today. We have more cool features in the oven, stay tuned.
New:
- 2 unique speakers, 2 Jukeboxes, and a turntable to choose from
- 4 different animation effects
- Load songs from SoundCloud to anywhere in your gallery
- Choose the radius distance of the music
- Let visitors hear your music all over your gallery with the global setting
- Place multiple speakers and only hear only closest (great for specific rooms)
Grid Snapping
Perfectly align art and objects
- 6 different grid snap sizes
- Enable/disable snapping using the checkbox on the left
- Select the Grid Rotation option to snap to the default grid
New Piazza Dei Miracoli
Formally known as Plaza, this new Piazza is unlike anything you have seen before
- New starting zone
- Take a walk with nature, even into the ocean, dynamic day/night sky
- An easter egg, or two
- Build an exhibit in one of the 16 large rooms
- Mysterious vortex (New feature coming soon)
Zero Gallery
- New starting gallery
- 33 new assets, including ladders and stone paths! (search 'zero' in inventory)
Mouse unlock
Faster building!
- Use F to unlock/lock mouse, faster deleting, building, etc
- Ability to interact with the UI using the mouse
- Use any tool (Build,Delete,Move,Expand,Frames,Puzzles,Picker)
New vendor assets
- New assets are available over the next few weeks
Tags on artworks
- Added Owned and Placed tags on Artworks in Daisy
- Owned shows when you have the artwork bought
- Placed shows if the gallery you are currently in has the artwork on display
CloudSound
Add music from SoundCloud to your gallery
Improvements/fixes and optimizations:
Building Improvements
- Increased the distance of Expand tool
- Removed backlight from artworks and replaced it with more even lighting.
- Decreased delay between tool usage (building, deleting, expanding, etc)
- Structures now allow floors to be placed on top
- Fixed bugs when some users were not able to create a second/third gallery
- Duke boxes and Turntables can have SoundCloud tracks playing on them.
DAISY
- MAISY (Similar) screen now shows 3 pages (36 artworks) of suggested artworks
- Pagination added to Wishlist, Artist, and Collection windows.
- Fixed repetition of the same artworks in DAISY over a short period of time
- Fixed bug when owned artworks would appear in DAISY
- Fixed bug when collection page wouldn’t show all artworks
General performance/optimization fixes
- Greatly optimized loading of artworks
- Improved loading speed in galleries
- Optimized tutorial, made some steps skippable
Game UI and visualization updates
- Mirror button moved to a side menu (M) and now clickable with the mouse
- Updated visualization of player name tags
- Game cursor is now more visible
- Updated Help menu to reflect changes and fixed formatting bugs
- A guiding quest icon has been added to the tutorial
- Updated teleportation effect, no more paint!
- Slightly updated Mosaic UI
- Added partial Catalan localization
- Search bar in inventory is now more visible
- “Hide HUD” F6 toggle also hides interaction and outlines (awesome for filming!)
- Updated chat hint instructions
- Changed the way how the Interact/Build/Delete/Move hint is displayed. It is now attached to the object.
Other fixes:
- Fixed crash when editing text assets
- Fixed process not closing after quitting the game (you may need to verify game files in Steam)
- A million music/sound-related fixes
- Player name no longer stays in the gallery after player teleporting
- Fixed some artworks that would not link correctly when shared to chat
- Fixed case when gallery screenshot would not appear during loading
- Fixed ability to teleport while in the tutorial (before passing the step that allows it)
- Fixed registration bug when entering email with a space at the end.
KULTURA
Kultura Updates:
- New domain! From Kultura.oww.io to Kultura.art
- New Search
- Shows result by 3 categories: Artwork, Artist, Collection
- Improved Dropdown look with preview
- New art uploaded will go directly to the uploading accounts in-game art inventory
Kultura Fixes and improvements:
- Greatly increased loading of Artworks and statistics
- Improved buy codes page with animation on hover over the code packs
- Fixed pagination bugs
- Fixed bug when some of the UI will load the mobile version on Mac Safari.
- Fixed back button on the artwork upload page
- Fixed bugs with long artwork titles
- Fixed bugs with spaces in Artist profile links
- Fixed ability for artists to edit links
- Fixed rounding of artwork sizes during upload
- Fixed case when resetting a password fails if you type the username in a different case
- Fixed loading animation on artist and collection pages
- Minor UI changes
Hope you’re all safe and ‘artsy’,
StikiPixels,
London, April 2021
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