GameGuru MAX - what's new?

This new build of GameGuru MAX Early Access brings many speed optimisations and issue fixes plus a brand new Demo Game - Canyon offensive! 

First the fixes! We've sorted many speed optimisations and whole host of issue fixes including: 

Level Editor

• The widget can now be toggled on and off with the F1 key, and the F2,F3 and F4 keys control both the widget and smart positioning mode
• The undo/redo will now work when moving objects with the widget
• Fixed the widget from toggling on/off multiple times with one key press
• Particles - selecting particles will not longer resets their scale
• The shooter relationship dialog box is now correctly positioned

Test Level

• Lower FPS no longer causes slow walking of the player
• Bullet holes no longer have a white artefact around them
• Added CTRL+H to toggle the HUDs on/off during test level (makes it easier to take screenshots)

Standalone

• AI characters will now speak
• Animated objects should now animate
• Revolver ammo can now be collected

The Hub

• When clicking on a game thumbnail it will now respond immediately and show the right preview image
• A few users were not seeing weapons appearing when they pressed Play Game from the Hub. This should be fixed
• The number of demo games now corelates to number of demos in tutorialbank/games
• Updated the Discord link in the Hub

Assets

• Stopped a shack building from losing it's walls from appearing

Optimisations

• The shadow system now avoids over shadowing further away from the player which speeds up the process
• Objects that are occluded by other objects are no longer drawn
• Objects that are small and far away from the player are no longer drawn
• Ensured the CPU and GPU stats both show on the left tab screen and are not off screen
• Split up the draw call count into opaque, shadow, and transparent calls in the profiler
• Added the number of triangles being drawn to the profiler
• Made sure fpe "WEMaterial" setting is used over old cullmode
• Optimized by ensuring wicked particles and water ripple are now used
• Technical optimization: Added a flag to remove Temporal AA
• Technical optimization: Added a flag to remove ray traced shadows
• Temporary removed tessellation becuase it does not currently work well
• Technical optimization: DrawDebugWorld limit and do not always BindCommonResources only if needed a little more speed

AND.......we've added a NEW Demo Game, 'Canyon Offensive' by Wojciech Zyza, where you can battle through this fantastically designed level to freedom

Dream it ∙ Build it ∙ Play it!