One big thing this iteration was to adapt the overlays to the new gameplay and improve them to the next level. I changed these overlays in different places, to gain more overview of what's going on and where the resources are.
Overlay - Resource Overview
When hovering over the Resource Overview Items below, it shows not only the connections for that resource Type as before, it also shows all resources the people have or interior items that consume, produce or store this resource.
Overlay - Storage Connections
When having a storage selected, it will now better display the connected storages, by showing animated lines with the resource types that can be transferred. It now respects the new filter on the connection and on the target storage.
Overlay - Interior Items
When having a storage selected, it will now better show the connected storages, by showing animated lines with the resourcetypes that can be transferred. It now respects the new filter on the connection and on the target storage.
To have an overview about the possible input or output storages, it now also displays all storages with potential problems, why the crew can’t transfer them. For example, here is one of the storage empty, the others in the crew room are not accessible because of the configuration.
Overlay - Air in Section
The last overlay I want to present to you is for the Air-values. Hovering over the Air values at the bottom side of the screen now also shows an overlay which displays where the consumers and emitters are.
New CO2 Scrubbers
The CO2 Scrubbers got a complete remake to fit the new graphic style.
New Dehumidifier
The Dehumidifiers Models are now also updated to the new graphic style, hope you like it :)
GarbageDisposal
A new Interior Item has been added, the Garbage Disposal. It can be used as a normal Storage Connection or as a target for the Empty Transport slot, like regular storages.
Translator Tool
More and more people from the community want to help translate the game to different languages. The game already supports directly adding or changing live the translation json files, but to make it even more convenient I migrated my tool to the game itself. It can be found at the language chooser.
It will show the outdated text parts and show the current English and current language to translate. It also has an auto-translate button, that uses the google translate api, to have a first suggestion. Above it has some filters and a search field to find things faster that need to be changed.
To make it easy to translate special things in the UI, it’s also possible to open the specific Text with AltGr + MouseClick.
Zoom Related Resource Overlay
To respect the new multi-filter storages, I adapted the Overlay, to see more icons at the same time. Its now zoom based, so zoom closer will show more resource icons.
Other changes
- Fixed ResourceBoxes could be transferred to Dock
- Fixed warnings when dismantle Mass Balancer
- Fixed not all water was transferred out from the Mass storage on Dismantle
- Fixed not requesting boxes for resource waiting building lot when door is finished
- Prevent Walk Activity to not finished rooms
- Improved visualizing paths to support more connections and show nicer less connections
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