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🚚DyingStar Meeting of 09/15

Truck: new in-game model with 4 component slots. Next steps: integrate the elevator and transcribe the engine formulas.
Roads: highways with rock fusion and an Ares Transport-style waffle pattern, taking on the biome's color. A road can follow the terrain or, beyond a maximum slope, dig a tunnel 🕳️ (turns and junctions not handled yet).
Rail: Creative Commons model simplified from ~35,000 down to ~3,600 triangles (thanks The_Moye for the optimization).
Chunks: purple "skirts" removed, better stitching between LOD 0→4. Still a few performance issues (and part of the atmosphere shader will be adjustable in the settings).
Entity streaming: works well, much faster builds (no more gigabytes of elevation data bundled in).
Rocks: 10 to 12,000 rocks on the server side tested without a hitch 💪
FPS bug fixed 🎤: a LiveKit constant in seconds instead of milliseconds was making the game lag with the mic enabled.
Ground: hex tiling shader (random rotation per tile), avoids repetitive patterns, with no performance cost.
Editor: chunk loading just like in-game + a free-roam camera (thanks warpzone), ideal for level design 🗺️
Godot 4.8: texture streaming is coming, a big FPS gain is expected even on low-end machines. Godot 4.x version upgrades remain painless.

bitogno fixed the Sandbox density values and added colored biome generation (areas more or less blue/red/green depending on the ore, with noise).
Reference point added to the wiki for roads.

T1 engine validated (BARDOK's values): 100 electric / 600 torque → ~103 km/h top speed, 0-100 in 22-23 s. A starting point, adjustable.
Battery: dedicated channel opened. Leads: ~100 km per engine, swap frequency, avoiding "full batteries" making everything too easy.
Roads & driving: the idea that the road type affects acceleration and sliding. The starter truck would be average everywhere.
Speed limiter: debate in progress (toggleable or not, scroll wheel, memorizing the current speed…).
Vehicles in cities: not decided yet. Leads: pedestrian cities, automatic restriction via zone markers, warehouses on the outskirts / right next to the elevator and the spaceport.

2% CO2 below the cloud + uranium/thorium in the ground: we want to avoid a starting planet that is deadly everywhere.
Direction: localized dangers (high-concentration areas) that block the player without the proper equipment.
Datapad: default readings (gravity, breathable air, radiation…).

We're keeping the current corundum types to stay simple (brown corundum for ferrous areas).
Rocks will take on the color of their ore. Rock weight ratio to be applied this week.

Houses & prefabs
Warehouse improvements (docks, shelves…)
Mining and transport missions (full loop or separate missions)
A single vehicle for now; we flesh out the gameplay before multiplying vehicles

Inventory and wallet: not a priority for the MVP (batteries and rocks are carried by hand).

Thanks everyone! 🚀

Project information development godot

DDddurieux9/16/26

LOLorem Ipsum01/01/1970

Truck: new in-game model with 4 component slots. Next steps: integrate the elevator and transcribe the engine formulas.
Roads: highways with rock fusion and an Ares Transport-style waffle pattern, taking on the biome's color. A road can follow the terrain or, beyond a maximum slope, dig a tunnel 🕳️ (turns and junctions not handled yet).
Rail: Creative Commons model simplified from ~35,000 down to ~3,600 triangles (thanks The_Moye for the optimization).
Chunks: purple "skirts" removed, better stitching between LOD 0→4. Still a few performance issues (and part of the atmosphere shader will be adjustable in the settings).
Entity streaming: works well, much faster builds (no more gigabytes of elevation data bundled in).
Rocks: 10 to 12,000 rocks on the server side tested without a hitch 💪
FPS bug fixed 🎤: a LiveKit constant in seconds instead of milliseconds was making the game lag with the mic enabled.
Ground: hex tiling shader (random rotation per tile), avoids repetitive patterns, with no performance cost.
Editor: chunk loading just like in-game + a free-roam camera (thanks warpzone), ideal for level design 🗺️
Godot 4.8: texture streaming is coming, a big FPS gain is expected even on low-end machines. Godot 4.x version upgrades remain painless.

bitogno fixed the Sandbox density values and added colored biome generation (areas more or less blue/red/green depending on the ore, with noise).
Reference point added to the wiki for roads.

T1 engine validated (BARDOK's values): 100 electric / 600 torque → ~103 km/h top speed, 0-100 in 22-23 s. A starting point, adjustable.
Battery: dedicated channel opened. Leads: ~100 km per engine, swap frequency, avoiding "full batteries" making everything too easy.
Roads & driving: the idea that the road type affects acceleration and sliding. The starter truck would be average everywhere.
Speed limiter: debate in progress (toggleable or not, scroll wheel, memorizing the current speed…).
Vehicles in cities: not decided yet. Leads: pedestrian cities, automatic restriction via zone markers, warehouses on the outskirts / right next to the elevator and the spaceport.

2% CO2 below the cloud + uranium/thorium in the ground: we want to avoid a starting planet that is deadly everywhere.
Direction: localized dangers (high-concentration areas) that block the player without the proper equipment.
Datapad: default readings (gravity, breathable air, radiation…).

We're keeping the current corundum types to stay simple (brown corundum for ferrous areas).
Rocks will take on the color of their ore. Rock weight ratio to be applied this week.

Houses & prefabs
Warehouse improvements (docks, shelves…)
Mining and transport missions (full loop or separate missions)
A single vehicle for now; we flesh out the gameplay before multiplying vehicles

Inventory and wallet: not a priority for the MVP (batteries and rocks are carried by hand).

Thanks everyone! 🚀

Project information development godot

DDddurieux9/16/26