#distance beta

[refractstudios]

Refract’s Workshop Picks (Mar. 18th)

To accompany the updated levels listed in the main menu, below is a quick overview of this week’s community level picks from Refract. If you have a level you'd like to see highlighted let us know in the Imgur comments or @refractstudios!

[greatrunner]

Racing games outside of simulators and cart racers seem few and far between, so Distance as introduced by Woolie and Matt looks super promising. Not sure if it'll succeed in the Journey-esque "story" with a vehicle, but it looks promising nonetheless.

[mikelikegaming]

In this episode of Distance we try out more awesome levels made by the community.

Distance (Beta) describes itself as a survival racing game where you boost, jump, and fly your way through different areas. Join me for a let's play as I explore this world.

[mikelikegaming]

In this episode of Let's Play Distance we try out some awesomely made community levels.

Distance (Beta) describes itself as a survival racing game where you boost, jump, and fly your way through different areas. Join me for a let's play as I explore this world.

[mikelikegaming]

In this episode of Distance (Beta) we finally manage to finish the campaign for the beta game.

Distance (Beta) describes itself as a survival racing game where you boost, jump, and fly your way through different areas. Join me for a let's play as I explore this world.

[mikelikegaming]

In this episode of Distance we get further acquainted with difficult jumps, burny lasers, and scary saw blades.

Distance (Beta) describes itself as a survival racing game where you boost, jump, and fly your way through different areas. Join me for a let's play as I explore this world

[refractstudios]

Distance Beta Build 3265 Released

Today's Distance build update contains a ton of level editor improvements such a grouping system, new/improved simple primitives, undo/redo bug fixes, a Quick Tools menu, an improved Layers menu, and more. The Adventure mode level Ground Zero was updated with some new content as we continue to iterate on the story design, and we also just converted the entire game's audio engine to Wwise which comes with some cool new features.

This update is likely the last major update before we release on Steam Early Access! For a fast and dirty look at the new features check out the Imgur album with a bunch of GIFs and screenshots!

(new camera modes)

(new and improved simple primitive objects)

NEW CONTENT

Added a number of new camera positions to the car

Improved the Graphics Options to be better organized and include text descriptions of the options

Added Cinematic Letterbox mode in Graphics Options which locks the screen to 21:9 or 16:9 for an anamorphic widescreen look

Added and improved content in Adventure mode level Ground Zero (tons of new audio with a teaser of upcoming story content)

Added Car, Environment, Obstacles, and Menu volume sliders to the Audio Options

Added low pass and reverb effect when inside a tunnel

Added high pass audio effect when inside a quarantine zone

LEVEL EDITOR IMPROVEMENTS

Added new Simples, swapped out plane for lower poly one.

Created and added emissive versions of all the new simples added

Fixed transform property inspecting undo/redo with tracks

Now when copy and pasting road sections in the level editor the track links will connect properly on any pieces that should be connected

Added Quick Tools menu when pressing Space in the level editor

Track splines are now calculated globally, leading to less bugs and faster calculation

Added the ability to press “T” in the level editor to toggle the Track Manipulator Nodes

Changed the colors on the Track Manipulator nodes to help them stand out a bit more

Now the level editor gizmos axis light up yellow on mouse hover instead of on mouse click to make it more clear before clicking what axis is selected

Whenever a layer becomes visible or active the Layers Tab updates properly, fixing a bug where sometimes the Layers Tab wouldn't be updated when layers where modified

Level editor centerpoints now don't display when objects are added to the level if centerpoints are disabled

LoadLevelTool now displays the relative level path when loading the level

Track Manipulator Nodes now use MeshColliders instead of BoxColliders since the collision was wonky with them before

Added Group Tool with the hotkey Ctrl+G (ungroup tool can be used with Shift+G)

Improved the text that is displayed when mouse hovering over the tabs in the level editor

Added CustomName component so Groups in the level editor can be named

When a CustomName is edited in the properties it's centerpoint, properties tab, and level objects name are all updated

Improved the level layer system in the level editor: now layers save/load their states such as if they are frozen, visible, or the active layer

Selecting objects in the level editor has been improved

When raycasting it now doesn't rely on hitting only the root objects, child objects work too

Undo/redo now selects the affected objects

Fixed issue where level loads would add null objects to layers

MODIFICATIONS

'The Monolith' is now just named 'Monolith'

Changed over to Wwise as our primary audio engine (for the most part nothing should be different, but some things might sound cleaner)

Changed some MusicTriggers values to match up with Wwise's internal values

Updated the gold, silver, and bronze medal image

Improved the positions of the hover text for the different car camera angles (to improve visibility)

Capped use of some sounds (e.g. popup blockers, whooshes, shard impacts, etc.)

BUGS FIXED

Fixed bug where exploding or avoiding VirusSpirits would lead to the glitch screen effect staying on

Fixed several bugs in the Layers Tab

Fixed a bug where if someone launched the game without a profile it would have the profile creation menu over top of the main menu