Bonelab (2022), Stress Degree Zero’s sequel to physics-driven VR shooter Boneworks (2019), simply acquired an enormous replace which brings greater than a yr’s value of enhancements to Quest 3 along with a ton of recent content material for Quest and PC VR headsets alike.
The studio detailed the modifications in a prolonged replace, revealing a sequence of core developments created over the previous 18 months. Stress Degree Zero says these have enhanced efficiency and launched quite a lot of general enhancements to the sport, calling them “in depth under-the-hood modifications.”
The ‘Patch 4’ replace, which is now dwell on Quest and PC VR headsets, features a few key areas of enchancment: enhancements to the participant rig, SDK updates, and overhaul to the Zone System, and an growth of spawnable belongings for stage creators. This follows Patch 3, which was launched in beta in February 2023, and subsequently by no means went public.
As for Quest 3, the sport now has 4x anisotropic filtering, improved foveated rendering, and a “tremendously” elevated texture cache. You’ll be able to take a more in-depth have a look at every on the backside of the article.
Notably, the huge Patch 4 replace comes on the tails of a mod from ‘volx64’ that brings everything of Boneworks into Bonelab, letting you play Stress Degree Zero’s PC VR-exclusive recreation on Quest for the primary time (and at no cost).
Yow will discover Bonelab out there on Quest, as nicely on PC VR headsets through Steam and Meta PC.
Participant Rig Enhancements: The participant rig has considerably progressed to grow to be extra bodily, extra performant, and really feel higher to manage. Explicit consideration was paid to mantling, interplay with levers and lockers, small pops when interacting, aiming weapons, recoil, including a bodily neck, and bodily twist bones on the higher arms, decrease arms, and thighs.
SDK Updates: Patch 4 comes alongside a big replace within the MarrowSDK geared particularly in the direction of Mod Degree creation. Place spawnables with ease now utilizing the dynamically loaded Spawner Preview Meshes! No extra VOID meshes in every single place. This may even work with Pallets created by different customers.
Zones: The Zone System has been fully rebuilt, refactored, reworked, retooled for stage creation, Marrow Entity monitoring, and efficiency optimization. This allows modders to extra seamlessly create top quality ranges with extra complicated participant involvement. For added info please see up to date Marrow SDK documentation!
Spawnables: Spawnable dynamic objects (Marrow Entities) fill the library of things you are actually in a position to make the most of in your stage creation. By referencing the Bonelab pallet of spawnables in your mod mission, now you can place and spawn nearly any Bonelab object the identical method we will. Since these things are all Marrow Entities, they’re tracked and dynamically culled per zone for optimization.
Extra Modifications: A mess of additional modifications have been made to issues akin to Spawngun UI, group, high quality of life improvemens, grips, and stage changes. Tons of additional optimizations have been made to rendering, loading, asset streaming, interactive set items, colliders, occlusion, nav-mesh, textures, sounds, lightmaps, shaders, supplies, fog, static batching, reminiscence use, asset file dimension, and so forth. This all comes together with an general huge polish move and too many bug fixes to rely starting from logic errors, collider points, incorrect scales, UI bugs, objects double spawning, objects turning into damaged from spawning, texture errors, incorrect references, mysterious cursed anomalies, and blown-out lightprobes.
Mod.io subscription downloading: Now you can connect with your mod.io account and immediately obtain all subscribed mods. Be aware: it will solely obtain mods suitable with this MarrowSDK model and above. You’ll be able to nonetheless manually set up older mods however they may doubtless have issues in the event that they haven’t been up to date.
