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Development Update Blog: Troubleshooting the Shift to UE5.4
🕑 Added 2024-07-19 11:29:37 +0000 UTCHi all,
Just a brief development update to give you an idea of where we are. Some of the new systems which we showcased in the last development blog required us to upgrade the engine to version 5.4, which we had already done at time of last posting. Since then, and as we approached our initial estimate of the end of July, we began our usual process of test builds to check for any unexpected surprises.
In UE5.4, Epic have included some fairly hefty performance improvements, however these have not come without a cost. The "improvements" have slightly altered the way that lighting works, creating some fairly unpleasant visual errors that we're not happy with. Having spent the past week crunching on almost nothing but a fix for these, we've resolved most of the lighting errors that impact characters, however there are still some which we're not prepared to ship with.
These errors do not exist in the 'editor' version of the game, only the shipping build (i.e. what you all get to play) which does help somewhat with narrowing down what Epic have broken. That said we don't want to have all our hard work undermined by a graphical glitch that ruins the final look of DSS 2.0. To this end the art team will be doing little else until we've resolved the issue, a decision that will necessarily add to our development time.
We will keep you in the loop and let you know as soon as we have it nailed down. What we can say fairly conclusively is that we're not going to have DSS 2.0 out in July, rather it'll drop sometime in August. We appreciate that you want to get your hands on it ASAP, but we also know you won't want a scuffed release that's been pushed just to meet an arbitrary date. This shouldn't impact our additional planned updates for the year, as these are mostly being worked on by different team members in parallel (that is to say that you can still expect multiple content updates from us, after DSS 2.0, before the year is out).
In the meantime I wanted to share one of the small upgrades that's coming in the DSS 2.0 update (though technically it's already been revealed on the Patreon-exclusive "Behind the Scenes" section of the Disord), and that's correctly coloured genitals. All genitals will now have differing tones based on your selected skin, so you'll no longer sport a generic colour when it comes to your "equipment". This also means that particularly vivid skins may sport some fairly outlandish genital colouration, giving us more ways to express differences between subtypes of various forms. We'll extend this colouration to female genital variations in time.
So that's where things stand, a slight halt whilst we fix what Epic have broken. Shouldn't be too long and be assured that we're working on it. Watch this space.
Team Carnal Instinct
Comments
Kyle Mclean
Looks good
Skillex2525
Any chance we can get an update whether the DSS 2.0 is still going be released in August? If it is going be pushed out later that is fine just would be nice to have an update on the timeline since we are close to the end of August.
Jacob H
thats what im saying
ONI_AEON
Come on DSS 2.0!!
RaviWolf
Is Damaris supposed to still be stuck at the (coming soon) for the kiss? I have the Ascended version and thought there was more now?
Lloyd Licht
Will there be an option to have a straight pole instead of one with the bulge towards the end?
MyBatteryIsAlmostDead
Yep. I don't like saying it, but I quit the game even tho it used to be my favourite one. There is nothing to do anymore and instead of adding stuff they remove it. Game died when trading was gone
K Z
o i see couldnt find out what it was until u say it
some bird
dss just means Dynamic Sex System its a game mechanic not a GPU tech
Grim Eye
Silly question about Cosmetics but will the female Jackals and Felians will have the '"SHort Fur" hairstyle or was that only for UE4? I kinda prefered it when the furred anthro females didn't have "hair"
K Z
dss 2.0 doesnt make any sense far i can see that it run off nivida 4090 otherwise this piece tech may not work at all it best push it back stick to ue5 get it done and going before u make any other move to different software because if you move on to new software you may end up with ton of bugs and ton of broken stuff on way to door step it best avoid it i dont use nivida gpu im on amd gpu it have best perform
Christopher Williams
What would be really cool is if the character wasn’t always hard. Would be nice if they were flaccid while going around the world, and during interactions/fighting with other characters it went erect.
LukkaDev
Thanks for update and picture frankly reminded me, I don't know if anyone has made this request/suggestion but since you have the option to visually hide your balls in game, could there be a toggle option to do this to herm NPCs as well?
TooMuchLove
True, isn't rocket league still running ue 3
TooMuchLove
Thanks for the update
MyBatteryIsAlmostDead
As someone who played Rocket League for a lot of years, hearing the phrase "Epic broke something" doesn't surprise me at all Lmao
Aigil
love the content and the effort!
Zybrix
It is better to get a delayed better update than a rushed one
