Sipho changes 0.7.0 - 0.7.8

Version 0.7.8f4
Spawn Cra'Than boss 3 whirlpool in the middle of arena
Fix save updating to new version
Support child colliders in Object Eraser


Version 0.7.8f3
Reduce crazy amounts of nutrition in Advena areas
Serialize Zooid rigidbodies so they're always available
Deactivate Zooid Reposition UI Stack if we are coming back to it dragging nothing
Add optional debugging to UIModuleStack
Remove duplicate event system from Aquarium menu
Serialize Canvas reference in Growth Manager so it can have Growth Point UI recreated early
Fix Spike throwing skill errors when becoming dead
Bump year label


Version 0.7.8f2
Update obsolete Bone Ball Obstacle references in scenes
Refactor achievements to support nonlinear levels
Add environment type analytics
Stop spike damage once it has exceeded pierce count and is still not retracted to simulate previous behavior
Spike weapon improvement - track damage time per damaged collider rather than per-spike
Debug improvements: add optional logging, allow turning off AI in debug enemy spawn menu, instantly spawn them
Spikes pierce all colliders when retracting. Tweak spike forces
Fix author of Crabs


Version 0.7.8f1
Move Siphonophore.GetDebugText out of Editor ifdef to make it build
Enemies now remember who damaged them and treat them more cautiously
Fix Zooids instantly exploding on death in previous commit
Refactor Zooid health change events
Add Siphonophore debug info to Development UI
Destroy blocking rocks and other environment features once Seanus Boss Fight 3 ends
Destroyed Sinkable Environment Objects handle being sunk
Tweak gamepad/camera code
Tweak Twister Narrows area - wider gaps, less food spawns, nicer bone spawns
Dirty Project Settings
Support controller with Camera Follow
Remove Input workarounds for controller inversion. Use built-in Input System UI Input Module
Use more generic IsPointerOverUI calculation code
Put tentacle sprite pivot at the tentacle base. Adjust all prefabs and placements of tentacles
Fix dead zooids throwing errors on whirlpool sink
Alphas should spawn without extra nutrition
Reimport all prefabs to populate serialized data
Cra'Than boss battle arena layout tweaked
Environment spikes remember damage time per-object - should feel much more consistent. Tweak damage values - damage more often, but require more velocity for full damage
If ungrowing a Zooid would leave some Zooids detached, ungrow them too
Fix glitch that allowed stacking zooids
Remove silly Saenus layout from built-in
Add powerups and Bone Balls to Aquarium UI
Update object database
Allow skipping objects from inclusion to the database
Create new Bone Ball prefabs with new prefab workflow
Decorate Cra'Than first Boss arena
Ignore .vsconfig
Upgrade Unity engine to 2020.3.0f1


Version 0.7.7f2
Make Advena Boss 2 rotate instead of constantly facing player
Skip a frame when registering for Sipho Inventory so that anything that sets up inventory doesn't trigger Zooid unlock popup
Rename Powerup Range to Range Powerup
Currents should not affect Ignore Raycast layer - fixes leeches being affected
Fix destructible object becoming almost invisible while damaged. Scale mass and hit damage with size
Set local scale to Poolable objects before spawning them
Do not lower clamp zooid decay to 0.01
Re-enable save compression


Version 0.7.7f1
Reduce spike launch and chip forces to accomodate for lower mass
Spread out enemy spawners a bit
Change Eating powerup to become Range powerup - it also increases zooid range. Make powerup IDs consistent, add save upgrade path.
Rock Editor Inspector supports setting depth for multiple rocks
Improve Cra'Than Boss 1 fights
Add proper save versioning and upgrade path
Change base time to spawn to 8 of Cra'Than Hole and scale it by their size - larger holes spawn more often
Scale Destructible Container drop amount and health by their size
Tweak Gemini boss, add its down aggro effect
Never scale zooid size below 0.01 - fixes rare cases of leech tips disappearing
Fix leech tips staying visually attached to pooled objects
Reduce camera change speed in growth mode
Print Siphonophore spawn log entry in Start instead of Awake - allows Enemy spawners to set Siphonophore name for better debugging
Improve Editor tooling for displaying selected layout values
Refactor how Enemy Spawners gather their settings. Clean up lots of parameters. Add scaled Alpha Enemy spawning to all areas. Tweak enemy Layout value level ratios
Tweak spike
Tweak spike to be less wiggly
Fix Cra'Than mover "hands" being below their elbows
Fix connection visuals not syncing correctly while dragging introduced in previous commits. Do not discard valid position when ending drag very close to zooids of that position (makes placing a bit nicer)
Use absolute position values when moving child zooids through repositioning in growth mode
Obliterate Zooid.transform references in Zooid Button UI - use Zooid.Position/Rotation instead
Allow setting Zooid rotation through its property
Add missing Peapod audio clip
Fix skill bar being limited after certain width. Also stretch it down if it doesn't fit the screen
Improve build sipho window
Fix hole sprite bone references


Version 0.7.6f1
Enable random motors on tentacles to make them move
Cra'Than boss battle 2
Set up Cra'Than holes which spawn food
Turn off batching on tentacle sprite skins to attempt fixing flying vertices
Conver "bulp" audio file to ogg and trim silence
Add minimum delay option to Audio Player
Support looping audio on following effect
Turn off always update on sprite skins of tentacles and holes
Spawn bonus nutrition where the boss was
Tweak tentacles
Set Ragdoll layer to not collide with Default layer
Set up Hole sprite bones
Add new environment objects to environment object collection
Polish tentacle physics
Improve Cra'Than Twin boss fight
Fix layout author search not being lowercased
Add sorting and filtering to Layout browser
Add joints to tentacle objects
Generate sprite bones for tentacles
Allow rocks to set different solids layer than Default
Add Ragdoll layer
Add random motor speed script for Tentacle use
Add music beat detector script
Add 2D skinning package
Do not use Growth Point UI while Sipho structure is dirty - fixes rare cases of entering bad UI state when quickly doing growth things
Add multiple boss support
Add Rect extension to incorporate Rect expansion
Tweak depth colors so that mid depth is not as desaturated and dark
Set up Cra'Than obstacle colliders
Add Cra'Than prefabs and gallery scene
Add new Cra'Than environment sprites
Fix camera having slower zoom change speed than intended


Version 0.7.5f1
Beautify Buginis boss 3 arena
Workaround boss manager throwing error when boss level is loaded from editor
Add plant Nest formation
Add damaged effect to Sipho container
Fully zoom out when using custom views - makes boss fight zoom consistent
Buginis boss tweaks
Make swamer movement fully boid based with goal support
Sipho eggs spawn siphonophores using their own direction
Tweak Buginis Boss 2 arena camera limits
Revert accidentally enabling sipho container explosion again
Add Camera Follow Overriders to boss arenas to limit vision only to relevant area and allow zooming out further
Tweak swarmer behavior to include player as goal in Boid simulation
Workaround Sipho size being very large after boss area load by skipping a frame
More Rect tests
Add Camera Follow Overrider to enable custom camera control for boss fights
Remove explosive sweeping from Sipho container


Version 0.7.4f2
Fix off-by-one zooid boss fight reward errors which ended up locking the game


Version 0.7.4f1
Less error prone way of applying zoom to view margins
Reduce duration for camera animation if there is no spawn animation
Use boss battle zoomout for other bosses
Allow overriding zoom level for camera follow. Use zoom overrides for boss battle initial camera animation
Swarm AI and arena improvements
Add Buginis Boss 3 Swarm Layouts
Add automatic Editor-To-SerializedEnvironmentObject serializer for creating persistent arenas. Unused for now
Do not save game while boss fight has not ended yet. Deterministically select zooid unlock drops
Add XXHash implementation
More appropriate way of saving Boss Battle state
WIP Buginis swam boss - swap arena art to Buginis environment, boid movement improvements, spawn swam from destroted eggs
Add Destructible Sipho Container which spawns Siphos upon destruction
Add HUE shift property to environment shader
Add test for finding duplicate Environment Object IDs
Swarmer Boid AI is now Faction based - boids will follow anyone in their faction
Add Intended Rotation property to Siphonophore
Update Siphonophore physical radius each frame instead of on Structure change


Version 0.7.3f3
Use automatic Graphics API for MacOS
Move LUTs to Textures directory out of PostProcessing
Show Builtin layouts first if there are no manually saved layouts in Layout Browser
Rename few particles options
Re-grather shader variants
WIP Buginis boss
Add some particle graphics options
Remove two unused texture lookups in whirlpool mist shader
Choose another enemy spawner layout if enemy spawner fails to spawn in 100 tries
Increase level end timeout to 30 minutes


Version 0.7.3f2
Correctly decrease poison duration by 30% for each stack
Balance sum skill costs around 4-5 zooids rather than 2-3. Generally makes skills cheaper
Heads by default have 0 melee damage, but can deal damage if buffed.
Set poison duration to 3 for real this time
Fix some environment objects remaining collidable after level ends forcefully
Fix environment some objects not fading out correctly


Version 0.7.3f1
Add Fixed set class
Muck and Poison clouds are now colliding with environment
Remove Rock component from Environment Spike
Fix Swarmer minion animations lagging behind. Movement Force stat no longer affects Swamer Minion speed
Tweak Seanus boss 2 arena to make it unescapable
Add Important setting on spawners and mark obstacle spawners as important. Do not spawn enemies inside chunks of important spawners that have not been loaded yet. Fixes rock-squished enemies
Fix error when kill point receiver tries to unsubscribe from nonexisting Siphonophore
Swarmer minions now crawl on top of obstacles
Add timer based melee damage to all heads
Kill point receivers (Soul Eater and Swarmer) kill dead Zooids on collision
Pusher Penetration stat allows pushing more objects at full force by 30% per stat
Improve whirlpool particles
Zooid description shows Penetration stat as relevant if Ranged stat is non-zero
Twister Penetration stat increases Swirl lifetime by 30%
Poison debuff now has a duration of 3 (was 1) and scales duration down by 70% with each stack.
Allow buffs and debuffs scale duration depending on stack count
Enemy Spawner bases spawns on current wealth rather than Recent Wealth. Fixes Aquarium spawners not adapting quickly enough
Add world position scale parameter to Scrolling Texture shader and use it for Muck clouds
Muck doesn't affect its owner anymore. Increase Muck cloud duration to 5 (from 3.5) and radius per range to 0.3 (from 0.25)
Dash now costs 20 Energy + 5 per zooid
Added tooltip translations
Show skill cooldown difference in tooltips. Tell players how to rebind skills
Move GameKey beatifying code to String Beautifier
Round energy capacity bonus instead of flooring it down. The effect is most noticeable with Energy powerup
Change how extra cooldown is displayed - show delta in tooltips
Commit new ogg file
Cooldown translations renamed
Rebalance skill costs so they scale with the count of zooids with that skill
Proportionally increase skill cooldown if it is more costly than max Sipho energy. Display skill cost energy breakdown in tooltips
Gray out energy regeneration buff if it's irrelevant
Fix growth points improperly registering themselves at manager
Improve skill tooltip to show skill energy costs
Reduce flak shoot audio latency
Update Burst and Collections packages
More speedy Growth Point generation
Forcefully end level if player doesn't clear it in 5 minutes
Change object layer to Ignore Raycast when sinking to avoid unnecessary raycast hits
Stagger sinkable sinking
Serialize Zooid connection angle masks
Remove duplicate standalone input module
Set Growth Point parent to be the same as zooid button parent
Do not despawn growth points that are going to be used - improves growth performance
Log executable build times in Editor
Forgot to commit job file
Fix incorrectly caching zooid button children
Use growth manager to store growth points instead of searching globally
Lazy initialization for Zooid Buttons when Sipho structure gets changed
Use Burst to calculate growth point positions
Use Burst compiled MatrixUtility outputs as out rather than ref so they can be inlined
Also store zooid connection angles as bitmask
Do not throw errors when no Area is loaded
Remove unused trail renderers from movers
Remove pushing capability from Saenus Jet. Change dash multiplier from 2 to 3, reduce drag from 0.25 to 0.2, increase health to 11, do not penalize turning force - set it to 1
Parametrize Dash multiplier
More robust way of instantiating System Callbacks singleton
Do not regenerate Drifter health when zooid is dead
Update one of builting Saenus layouts to be more menacing
Reserialize sprite atlases
Better utilities for Layout editing and refactor of layout selection logic for Campaign levels
Only apply buff if base stats are relevant rather than current
Update project to Unity 2019.4.17f1
Tweak Spike and Santa hat to behave more controllably
Serialize zooid component references in prefabs. Serialize zooid radius instead of calculating it from collider
Update two Cra'Than layouts
Improve editor build game window
Set Squirter skill energy base cost to 10 (was 25) and per-zooid cost to 5 (was 0)
Set Spike skill energy base cost to 25 (was 50) and per-zooid cost to 10 (was 0)
Set Flak skill energy base cost to 20 (was 55) and per-zooid cost to 15 (was 0)


Version 0.7.2f3
Return minimum value when input device is unknown instead of zero - might fix controls sometimes locking up
Plant boss 1 - Patroller
Disable default collider on Tree_1
Optimize initial spawner spawn to not sync physics objects when it's not necessary
Delay forceful whirlpools by 5 seconds
Experiment with quick heal distribution
Prevent Layout corruption at rare cases when zooid repositioning happens very fast
Reserialize all Environment Objects to ensure correct data
More strict serialization validation of Environment Object to catch out-of-sync serialized values
Grid spawner improvements
Buginis boss setup and WIP arena
Make Queen area use new sprites
Skip same depth values when changing them in editor


Version 0.7.2f2
Fade out objects that are deeper than deepest depth
Do not continue spawning certain spawners in Underwater level
Forceful whirlpool improvements - cull offscreen particle spawning, sink things earlier, cache sinkable objects
Add base linear drag to decorations so they don't fly around levels when sinking
Camera follow now calculates visible point with world space margins
Rock depth utility for getting normalized absolute depth
Change Decoration collision matrix to not collide with anything
Do not spawn certain spawners after levels are clear
Offset every second column for whirlpools
Reuse Physics 2D collision callbacks: true
Simplify some formations
Do not correct rock rotations in Editor while in play mode
Do not flip formations
Optimize spawner radii


Version 0.7.2f1
Add experimental Bouncer script
Always create new campaign state if it's not present after loading
Do not flip current spawners in Plant 2 area
Clearer environment object editor tool UI
More plant objects renamed
Tidy Plant Obstacles. Now all Plant objects are Obstacles
Do not error out when there are no zooids in inventory
Branch leaves fade with depth correctly
More user friendly spawner depth settings
Linear campaign level size scaling rather than exponential
Plant 1 area using new sprites
Add WIP sine wave spawn function
Various noise textures and import setting tweaks
Allow scaling spawner tiles to rectangular shapes
Add a bunch of patterns for noise
Correct collider references
Tweaks to leaves
Make branch leaves a nested prefab and set it up
Add leaves to plant branches
Tidy up skill names


Version 0.7.1f5
Always allow selecting all adapted zooids ever
Revert "Decompose Zooid instantly if it gets overkilled"
Show sonar in Freeroam
Decompose Zooid instantly if it gets overkilled
Fix some non-damaging debuffs having damage over time set to non-zero
Better way of doing what last commit does
Don't unlock pop zooids that have been disconnected from Sipho
Fadeout environment objects render above player
Fixed rare occasion of Head Selection throwing error when enabling UI before Head Selection was initialized
Correctly fully fade-out decorations when close to them
Update rotation in deformable when adding first zooid
Hard limit Spike distance to 2x of normal distance
Missing verlet meta
Add experimental Verlet Constraint based soft body simulation


Version 0.7.1f4
Fix input not working when hovering objects in game


Version 0.7.1f3



Demo Day 35 Version 0.7.1



Version 0.7.0a8
Return default skill cooldown if there is no skill group (for example if zooid is dead)
MegaDebug buff buffs all stats
Fix Despawner breaking due to referencing deleted food prefab and not respawning anything when it's empty
Tidy consumables
Tweak Cooldown Reduction and Damage powerups
Make Cra'Than Boss 3 spawner zooid regrowable
When rebinding keyboard, ignore special controls as anyKey and imeSelected
Add Cooldown and Damage powerups. Spawn them everywhere
Add Health Regenerator script
Remove accidentally added component
Pusher tweaks to allow it being put on anything
Serialize reference to Zooid in Zood component
Support arbitrary connection angles for zooids
Add Cooldown Reduction Powerup to destructible food containers
Support cooldown scaling with most of the zooids
Add cooldown reduction stat
Make renderer cloner more silent
Make Seanus boss 2 asymmetric
Place Growth Point UIs in Zooid local position. Obstacles block new zooid growth
Remove buffs before dead zooid is destroyed


Version 0.7.0a7
Graphics settings after build
Preload Input Settings
Track Burst compilation settings
Allow Renderer Cloner be destroyed when scene is being unloaded
Change linux build target to x64. Universal is not supported anymore by Unity
Missed project settings file
Upgrade project to Unity 2019.4.13f1 (518737b1de84)
Grappling hook is now affected by Penetration stat
Update zooid graphics when outline color changes
Re-gather Environment Objects for spawning and automatically gather them on build
Fix Side Popup double translating
Play sounds when zooids are picked up, grown and placed
Remove obsolete deformable synchronisations - we don't rely on world positions that much anymore
Add debug message to catch level load exception
Gather original zooid neighbor indexes after zooids have been detached
Do not break Extra Zooid UI when adapted zooid list contains unknown zooid ID


Version 0.7.0a6
Fix keyboard selection for rotated Growth Points
Cleanup Layout calculation maths
Growth point fixes WIP
Reduce buffer zooid sizes to 75%
Better growth background tiling
Use growth points for growing new Zooids
Find correct neighbors when repositioning and use Layout data for new zooid growth
Use Layout data to gather neighbors
Support rotation bias when repositioning. Calculate growth points for further positions too
Fix repositioned zooids getting wrong neighbor
Add Plant leaf sprites
Plant Prefabs
New Plant sprites
Rename old plant dir to old
Fix repositioning when root zooid isnt at 0
Iron out all repositioning bugs in Layout code
Correctly transform repositioned zooids
Make Siphonophore handle Zooid addition and removal
Half-working logic for repositioning zooids
Remove and add back Zooids when dragging and ending drag
Start using growth points for repositioning zooids
Start cleaning up Growth Point UI code


Version 0.7.0a5
Set Rock type to legacy obstacles
Add neutral-colored pickup sprite
Add placeholder powerups
Auto-size tooltips according to their length. Add background
Fix skill UI keybind text getting in the way of showing tooltip
Fix Advena boss error spam
Disable Aquarium UI when entering cinematic mode. Fixes Aquarium UI still being visible when exiting gameplay
Fix reduced drop not working for Boss siphos
Tweak min distances for other areas
Scale minimum distance with level. Larger minimum distance for Advena 2 area
Add Editor utility to preview level scaling
Add better shaped growth point representation
Increase min obstacle distance in Underwater 2 map


Version 0.7.0a4
Fade out when quitting game
Clean MenuUI stack on destruction and handle empty stack
Correct boss Layout author name
Tweak Advena 1st boss Layout
Enemies move towards other faction Siphos instead of attacking player at level end
Advena Boss 1 nerfed and caged
Grid spawners can now have fixed position
Do not assume scale of Advena and Sea levels which were made for backwards compatibility
MinMax Includes is now inclusive
Sample direction of texture noise
Advena level tweaks and Advena 2 level
Have impact damaging callback as separate component from damageable obstacle
Add texture based environment spawn patterns
Use cell position rather than randomized position when deciding on scale and object prefab when spawning through Grid Spawner
Editor Utilities for Rock depth debugging
Underwater 2 tweaks
Make MidLow rock color brighter
Tweak Underwater levels
Fix Grid Spawner's random int generator
Allow non-quantized depth set to rocks
Refactor campaign logic to be more robust
Fix Sonar being visible at first frame after loading


Version 0.7.0a3
Better support for said thing
Support version tag in build path
Fix stat descriptions sometimes showing wrong stat effect icon
Start in random area when starting game for now
More shader variants
Update preloaded shader variants - fixes things not fading out in built game
Add fixed frame skipper utility which allows skipping time based events if they have not occured recently
Tweak whirlpool looks
Store Campaign level instead of calculating it
Fix layout wealth scaling so that level 10 has valid value
Add utility tool to tell how many layouts each level will have for each breed
Teleport player as soon as possible in Boss arenas so that physics collisions don't register yet and send things flying
Ignore downloaded steamworks files
Forget all downloaded steamworks files. Add URL to download them
Fix game breaking when renaming player profile file to already existing one
Generate spawner ID at runtime instead of storing it to avoid duplication