Naughty Sandbox is going to space! November Update (Patreon)

Hey peeps.

Been working silently on some big updates for a release end of November. First, have had a few suggestions on UI improvements and some complaints about the current state of UIs in Naughty Sandbox sooooo I thought it was time for an overhaul.

First complaint / suggestion was that in spawning multiple characters, the character creator UIs cluttered the scene as one UI panel was spawned for each character. From the Nov release of Naughty Sandbox onwards, all character creation UIs will be consolidated into the new Character Manager.

The Character Manager is essentially just a Character Creator UI with tabs on top, and characters spawned into the scene will appear in those tabs. If players have named their character, her first name will appear on the tab. Selecting those tabs will, as you probably guessed, switch the Character Creator UI to edit that girl. I hope this is a relatively seamless way to create multiple characters at once.

The Character Manager also includes the ability to despawn girls. New girls are spawned from the + button on the top left, and spawned girls will appear in front of you now, rather than to the side of the previous character. Girls are despawned by the x button on their tab.

For Desktop players, most of the UI elements are now docked onto the screen rather than floating in 3D space. The floating UIs are remnants of the VR UI system, and were never really great for Desktop use, so hopefully the new UI overhaul rectifies that nicely. Each user interface panel can be moved, resized, and minimized.


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And if the header for this post and the video clip wasn't obvious enough, the new environment for November will be an absolutely sick space station setting! This 3rd party env was funded by you guys, so thanks so much for the opportunity to have so much awesome art from other devs included in Naughty Sandbox.

I've done some relighting, optimization, sound design and a few special effects to the environment to hopefully give it some very space-tastic presence, as I want it to be as immersive as possible for both Desktop and VR players.

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Among some general bug fixing (and no doubt creating more bugs by accident ;-;) there are a few other minor features in the upcoming build:

Character Waist size is now adjustable, along with Hips width and Arms thickness, for more control over character proportions. Between now and release at the end of the month, I'll hopefully have a chance to throw a few more bits in. Testing on Discord for tuhis build will likely commence next week so jump into the Discord if you're not already!

That's it for now, expect a few more update posts throughout the month! :) :)