Development Status #114

Dear Mechanics,

Welcome to our one hundred and fourteenth development status update.

We are coming to you with some news and work in progress update regarding in-game museum editor called by us Museum Creator.

Museum Creator

As we mentioned in previous development status - part of a stage from the roadmap is about extending a museum rooms. We would like to present you something we have been working on for quite some time now.



The Museum Creator, as we called it, is an upgrade that can be purchased from the Upgrade Panel. Each unlocking adds another room to the Tank Manager which we can modify. It is currently possible to unlock and have 100 such rooms in the game. Each of these rooms have a maximum of 12 slots. Unfortunately, we have some capacity constraints in game performance.



There are 12 slots, but nothing prevents you from creating your own museum for, say, six tanks. By moving a tank to a slot in the room, the game will take us to the Museum Creator. On the initial screen we have the choice to use a template, create a new one or load an existing save. The template will include a layout prepared by us with objects - in our case these objects are called museum props. But if you want to start from scratch, it's not a problem. There will be only basic logic components on a scene such as the computer, editor stand, player spawn or tank slots.



Props can be moved around the scene to adjust their position. Update will already contain a collection of props that you can put on the scene to build our own museum. Some of the items are already prepared by us for you to choose from, but the fun is that you can make the props by yourself.



You will be able to upload props to the Steam workshop as mods or download other mods like props to the game. Once you have built a room, you will be able to save it for your own use or share it and publish it as a mod on the Steam workshop. Alongside the roadmap update, we are preparing an update to the modding tools which includes newly edited tutorials in PDF form. As well as a tutorial written for Museum Creator, which will be available directly on Steam in the guides section for TMS.



That's as much as we wanted to show you, let us know what you think in the comments!

Thanks for all the support and have a good weekend.
DeGenerals