Planet Explorers - Alpha 0.9 Weather Update

Pathea Games released a new video of Planet Explorers on Steam this week that talks about how they improved the games weather in the next game update.

As we get closer to the release of A0.9, more and more systems are coming together. Here, we show you several new things going on in the game. The weather system has been updated to dramatically improve it's efficiency and effects, rain will no longer fall through buildings and there are more ambient colors around to give a much more consistant look (it's sped up in the vid). We've also updated the grass system so that grass will sway when things go through them, the wind will no longer be in set waves and instead will be random. The water shader has also been updated so that things walking through water will create waves. All of these together will make for a much richer world experience, and best of all, they're very efficient, so the framerate won't be affected much.

We're mostly done with all the game systems that we set out to rewrite, we're waiting for animations to come back from some of our sourcing partners as well as our own inhouse animators (we're trying to do about 2200 new animations) to tweak these systems (such as player, battle, ai, ui). Another problem we've encountered is that the physics in Unity 5 is very different from Unity 4, so we're having to spend more time than we'd like on tweaking some of it (wheel, AI collision, aircraft). But overall, we're pretty close to finishing out a0.9 (yay!).