Hello, KitHackers!

We're back with another Patch to address some of the issues players have encountered, plus a range of tutorial fixes and quality of life updates. More updates to come soon!

ROBOTICS

• Decouplers, Pistons and Rotary Tables now shows the not-connected warning pip if not connected to power
  
• Rotary Table Motor mode now works (tries to maintain a target rotation speed)
  
• Fixed issues with placement and updating of nodes for semi-flexible parts in the Flex physics simulation
  
• The Sym Lock option in Rotary Tables and Pistons now works.
  
• Decouplers will no longer cause parts outside their own subtree to become disconnected after detaching.
  

VEHICLE EDITOR

• Fixed an issue that caused newly-attached parts to be positioned incorrectly when using the Mechanisms tool.
  
• Fixed a VERY old bug where symmetry clones of ctrl surfaces with manually configured inputs wouldn't mirror the roll/yaw axes correctly.
  
• Revised the entire logic for Input Configuration Options on Control Surfaces, Motors, and Robotics parts
  
• All inputs can now toggle mirroring over symmetry - Roll/Yaw do this by default.
  
• Fixed custom engine input configurations reverting to default sometimes.
  

UI

• Fixed Tooltips visibly jittering sometimes.
  
• Fixed radial sliders in morphing part context menus triggering an undo state to be recorded on just opening the menu.
  
• Fixed several UI elements being whited out and hard to read
  
• Fixed the placement of the Motor Power LED on electric motor context menus.
  
• The [Reset (Auto)] button in part menus with configurable inputs is now consistently placed just below the inputs themselves.
  

FLEX PHYSICS

• Rotary tables now hold position in servo mode a lot harder.
  
• Lowered the coupling constants for external forces on flex physics. All physics constraints should be more rigid now.
  

VEHICLE EDITOR

• Automatic Resource Network generation now tries to maintain isolation of subtrees under decouplers.
  
• The vehicle editor now generates a recovery autosave in case it is shut down unexpectedly in multiplayer.
  

TUTORIALS

• Fixed prop heights in car controls tutorial
  
• Car controls tutorial now only allows the Mudmog
  
• Removed some AI drivers from Car Controls, to not hit performance as much when they spawn.
  
• Car controls tutorial text now suggests going into the stock crafts tab after opening the craft selection panel.
  
• Aircraft controls tutorial no longer allows scoring beyond the max by hitting invisible waypoints.
  
• Aircraft controls tutorial now lets player go back to workshop whenever without interrupting flow or forcing any particular changes.
  
• Rearranged pages of aircraft controls tutorial so CoM tutorial is required before flying. Fixed arrow pointing to offset tool.
  
• Aircraft controls tutorial uses Aero battery now.
  
• Aircraft controls now suggests cycling attach points and tells player to pick up their airplane before throwing.
  
• Aircraft Controls tutorial now instructs player to connect propellers via the drive node.
  
• Aircraft Controls tutorial now suggests using a different motor, so it's easier to gain altitude.
  

STOCK VEHICLES

• Recreated Extinctor to remove deprecated parts and make it more structurally stable.
  

PROPS

• Fixed tire LOD being offset from others on clubhouse tent prop.
  

CAMERA

• Implemented Locked external camera mode, because I was peer-pressured into doing it by the test team.
  

VEHICLE RESOURCES

• Fixed an old bug with resource net discovery that caused (rare) cases where parts would not be able to find resources after decoupling or losing parts.
  

FIXES AND TWEAKS

• Vehicles now locally send out an event to notify of imminent despawning just be fore the network client removes them.
  
• Fixes game freeze states in cases where the RPC pre-despawn message for some reason fails to arrive in time.
  
• Fixes errors from Vehicle Inspect mode if that was active during vehicle remote de-spawn.
  
• Added sanity checking around several sources of errors from null parts/vehicle instances, most frequently due to unexpected multiplayer object removals.
  
• Craft loading error messages shouldn't appear duplicated anymore.
  

Happy KitHacking!
HarvesteR & Curve Games