Add custom music to galleries, Perfectly align any asset, Piazza Dei Miracoli, New assets, performance boosted + more
Hello dear 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:
CloudSound - Add music from SoundCloud to your gallery
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
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 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