Quick fix to accurately display entity counts for visited sectors
Updated readme to rewrite the introduction and move the Discord link closer to the top
Added credits display to trade screen
Fixed bug in inventory screen where a failed drag from a cargo bay would make the item disappear until a refresh is triggered
Changed behavior of Escape key to exit menu if a menu is open
Fixed zone map gravity isolines to correctly track maximum gravity depth
Refactored orbit and planet data to replace reactive variables with regular ones
Removed hard zone boundaries
Fixed stuff that broke because of hard zone boundary assumption (stardust placement, vertical fog)
Added a skybox!
Removed density-based albedo boost (_TintExponent) to improve perceptual uniformity at different step sizes, reconfigured shader to achieve / surpass previous looks and performance
Cell Brush has a material editor now to enable variant selection
Enabled Caching Shader Preprocessor
Moved raymarching loop into CloudShader
Get environment settings from game manager to enable configuration / variation
Introduced slope-based nebulae damping and volumetric flow
Hid optional volumetric features behind preprocessor branches
Created shader variants selected by global keywords for all shaders depending on volumetrics
Environment settings used to configure shader variant selection
Moved dynamic lighting settings to own subclass
Dynamically adjust gravity map isoline contour depth range according to zone contents
Improved volumetric flow performance by orders of magnitude
Cleaned up old raymarching support code
Moved asteroid height calculation to vertex shader
Manual culling for asteroid field render update
Converted remaining .blend files to .fbx
Type check safe cast operator broken in DictionaryInspector? Wrote around it
UI Materials not blending properly - fixed by switching to Fade transparency mode
Fixed towing system
Tweaked Nebula Flow (a lot)
Extracted environment appearance settings into ZoneEnvironment data structure
Stardust particles now follow global flow field
Implemented hostility system - entities can mark each other as friend or foe depending on changing conditions (currently only depends on local security level)
Added "friendly" target indicators in blue
Implemented saving/loading of custom input settings
Incorporated Input Screen in game
Organized UI scripts into folders
Deleted some unused UI scripts
Reimplemented Fog Blur (by copying modified DoF to assets)
Replaced Unity TAA with PlayDead TAA
Custom keyboard layout test scene
Adjusted Aetheric Drive VFX to be more subtle
Reworked stardust VFX to reduce flickering artifacts
Added Action Bar & weapon groups saving/loading
Implemented security levels and faction safe zone visualization
Improved station placement (now include defensive turrets)
Selecting a weapon now displays weapon group toggles
Added global drag and drop handling in game manager
Weapon group toggles can be dragged to action bar to bind them
Marking player location on galaxy map
Fixed non-input field focus disabling global key map
Player start ship is now always the same
Loadout generator now demands exact match for item dimensions
Thermal damage now triggers ItemDamaged event = player can die from cockpit wear!
Properties panel now has a much more attractive UI
Implemented curve control for properties UI
Centralized number formatting in player settings
Moved significant digits to player settings
Added temperature unit option in player settings
Implemented hypothermia death, with associated postprocessing and HUD UI
Fixed heatstroke and hypothermia not triggering death events
Fixed target inventory dropdown not working in trade menu
Added ability to rename ship
Added player death on cockpit destruction
Fixed confirmation dialog not using onconfirm callback
Fixed faulty double click in inventory panel
Fading out heat texture when ship has uniform temperature
Fixed inventory panel displaying incorrect default when no cargo bay equipped
Fixed incorrect state for console and weapon effect managers when restarting from in-game menu
Fixed save/reload when ship is docked at a station
Copied Main Menu to gameplay scene
Added Pause functionality (ESC key)
Save & Restore discovered zones
Applied vertical offset to asteroids (no more intersections!)
Nebula shader optimized to improve early exit
Nebula shader outputs light scattering to second render target
Modified depth of field shader to use nebula light scattering
Changed title font to Montserrat
Added trailer-specific camera transitions
Added key to hide UI
Fixed input listening while console is open
Added animated zone reveal effect in galaxy map
Added Ping action for sensors
Added debug console commands (e.g. give command to get any item in legendary+ quality)
Temporarily disabled wwise
Fixed infinite loop in weapon penetration code
Guided missiles now predict target position
Fixed hitscan weapons
Fixed invisible enemies bug
Fixed various loadout generator issues (can now generate turrets!)
Fixed wormhole crash when enemy is targeted
Saving/loading current zone time when exiting game (planets keep their positions)
Created slime simulation in test scene - WIP
Redid all of the property panel UI prefabs (oof)
Implemented saving and loading of the game state
Moved sector generation to sector constructor (along with loading from save file)
Entity settings now separate from player settings
Player settings (incl. saved run) now statically accessible from game manager
Added animations and submenus to the main menu
Unified main menu settings and properties panel styles for prefab reusability
Added Main Menu scene
Tweaked world map to incorporate secondary colors in zone icons + glowing links
Entity Serialization is now generic
Zone Serialization now includes entities
Fixed bug where wormhole traversal would unbind from player entity
Game Manager no longer spawns entities (loadout file format changed)
Wrote extension to randomly select weighted items from collections (for generating enemies)
Fixed Laser cancelling bug
Fixed Turrets not activating
Added ability to bind player perspective to orbital entities
Added Markov Chain name generator + Australian place name dataset
Modified old "galaxy" shader to serve as sector background
Implemented Cem Yuksel's Weighted Sample Elimination for Poisson Disk Sample Sets
Created sector generator which places sectors using WSE
Converted entity materials to new fade shader
Implemented visibility system
Refactored per-instance entity code to run inside monobehavior on entity instances
Created state machine AI for enemy ships with basic patrol and combat routines
Removed legacy AI code (controller item behaviors)
Added automatic trigger group assignment for matched weapons
Created ship collision system
Created shield VFX and colliders
