World Machine Development Blog

The first half of september was all about getting Build 4067 and its improvements and fixes out the door, as well as website changes.

Along with the Meshify improvements mentioned last time, the main push for the next build 4067 is build system quality of life improvements.

These last few weeks have been a major push on website improvements, but as that is wrapping up I’ve been able to turn attention to a number of product-related changes.

I’m still working on the various release-related stuff for 4066.

I’m taking this opportunity with Dragontail to do a long-overdue design redo, improving both the asthetic quality and the UX of WM’s interface.

Just a quick sketch of what’s been happening since the first public release of Dragontail.

The first dev build of Dragontail Peak is going to drop soon, and I’m taking this opportunity to do some adjustments of how things are named and packaged.

Since the cat is now out of the bag in terms of VDM terrain, I figured I’d share a quick post with a few more examples as I work on getting things ready for the dev release!

I think we need to jump straight to the marquee feature for Dragontail Peak that I’ve been working on for the last two years. 🙂 Simply this: for the first time World Machine will be able to generate and manipulate non-heightfield terrain!

Another significant framework change is around how macro and code devices are handled.

I can roughly sketch out the changes for the next version of World Machine, code named “Dragontail Peak” into three categories of focus.