The Bibites 0.6 Alpha 7: Chubby to the brim
Like too often, this was initially supposed to be a quickfix alpha but I decided to add just a feeewww new features.... welcome to the largest alpha in a while
Spatial Organs and Genes
Some organs now take up physical space inside the bibite's body (Stomach, egg organ, fat reserves), and their respective size will be decided by apportionment genes (WAGG). The organ's inspector in the biology panel won't change size for now.
Added 3 apportionment genes, one for each of those organs
Added a new Eye Color Offset gene, that does just that
Fat Reserves
Added Bibite Fat Storage
Base capacity is decided by apportionment genes
Bibites can store up to 2X their base fat capacity, but so will gradually inflate the bibite, expanding their tail collider, and changing their appearance, finally including the larger body sprites that have been added a while ago
Added two genes to manage production/burning of fat (threshold and headband)
Added fat material settings to tune the system's behavior/capacity
Added UI for fat storage (in Biology panel)
Sustaining stored fat consumes a small amount of energy ( setting: 0.01% of stored energy/s by default)
Update sprite generator to include inflated bodies
Balanced default pellet size and fertility to take into account the increased survivability of bibites (previous saves will be automatically updated)
Matter Material Parameters
Perishable factor settings updated and replaced to take advantage of log sliders
Range for most parameters increased
UI/UX Improvement
Fixed most settings being able to go negative
Bettered the zones editor panel Layout
Added disclaimers when no zones or no groups
Added zone preview to the dynamic settings panel
Added zones production to preview
Added gradual zoom when holding middle mouse button
Gradual zoom affected by speed change when using Page-Up/Page-Down
Dragging camera with right click should now display exact movement
LeftCtrl + rightClick, allows smoothly moving the camera
Pellet mass added to pellet tooltip
Pheromones production settings can be set to 0
Added settings for amount of pellets dropped on death
Added back tagging option for bibite template settings
Increase scroll speed in dropdowns
Many adjustments to the sizing/coloring of the UI
Performance Improvement
Reworked a lot of internal logic to use more efficient data structures
50x to 100x improvement in memory allocation rate
Around ~15% improvement in overall performance
Fixes
Fixed most settings being able to go negative
Fixed Int settings causing an error with logscale sliders
Renew Biomass option on Zones Should work correctly
Fixed rendering not updating for ring zones
Removed none setting and duplicated from lineage panel parameters
Fixed rendering error that made it like a zone group seemed to still exist after being deleted
Fixed Zones target defaulting to none when saving scenarios
Fixed many bibite stats not being saved
Fixed "Delete all zone" still keeping the Default Zone around
Fixed Over-recycling of pellets when max biomass is lowered
Pellet now have physically accurate drag like bibites
Color settings should now cancel correctly when hovered off or when escape is pressed
Changing the physical settings of materials during sim should now properly update existing pellets
Fixed zone positioning on project load
Fixed incorrect bibite sizing constant (42u² to 80u²) (and automatically updated Bibite mass density from earlier saves/scenarios to preserve behavior)
Fixed "Select Member of species" button not being available when one member alive
Fixed microscope rendering on bigger maps
Fixed multiple issues (UI, bibite selection, camera, etc.) with lowest sim size (<=100u)
Fixed some inconsistent camera movement behavior
Fixed bibite minimum setting not going all the way down to 0
Fixed error when loading some older versions
Fixed moving the camera also impacting time scale slider if recently interacted with
Fixed error in genetic distance calculations
Fixed a bug that would vary the the growth rate of bibites with timespeed