Tabletop Simulator Newsletter - March/April 2016

Tabletop Simulator Newsletter - March/April 2016 View this email in your browser Welcome to another month of excitement and board gaming! It seems we forgot about March, so this newsletter combines both March and April together! A lot of great new additions have been added to Tabletop Simulator in the past couple of months and there's even more to come. Read about new features, new DLCs and some community spotlights as well! Remember to check out our Knowledge Base for all kinds of tips and tricks that you didn't even know existed! This will always be updated with the latest info. A lot of you have expressed interest in seeing more tutorial videos, so I'm happy to say that I will be starting those up again  since Tabletop Simulator is now at a point where the basic functions won't be changing much, so stay tuned for them as I'll begin working on them soon! If you'd like to keep track of our community posts, then follow us on Facebook and Twitter! Tabletop Simulator is on sale! If you missed out in our other sales, now is your chance to get TTS for 50% off at the Bundle Stars Store!  You can choose from either the individual or the 4-pack. Sale ends Friday, April 29th! Please note that when purchasing the 4-pack, you must NOT already own Tabletop Simulator due to Steam's rules on 4-packs to prevent abuse and reselling. If you want to gift a copy to a friend, you'll need to either buy the individual copy or gift them the 4-pack and have them pass the other copies around. Please only do this with people you trust. DLC NEWS: We have partnered up with Atlas Games to bring Three Cheers For Master to life in Tabletop Simulator! In Three Cheers For Master you're the minion of an evil overlord. When Master's blue, it's the minions who suffer. As a lieutenant in Master's army — a foreminion — it falls to you to cheer him up. Not the easiest task, even in the best of times. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We also recently announced our partnership with Cool Mini Or Not! Zombicide is coming soon to Tabletop Simulator to a DLC near you! Zombicide is the board game that lets 1-6 players live out their zombie survival nightmares! Players take control of one of six survivors, each who have their own special abilities and skill trees. Using unique and clever mechanics, Zombicide is designed as a fully cooperative game where no player has to play as the zombies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And most recently, we have released RARRR!! By Ape Games  and Tiny Epic Kingdoms with the Heroes' Call expansion by Gamelyn Games, which brings us to a total of 10 released games with many more on the way! While the amount may seem small, we work hard to ensure these games are high quality, and each having a special theme. Stay tuned for more DLC announcements and updates in future issues of The Scoop, posted on our website, Facebook and Twitter. We have some other great companies we have partnered with that we will announce soon! MONTH IN REVIEW: This month in review focuses on both March and April. A lot of exciting new things have been added and there's even more to come! The main focus was getting Tabletop Simulator updated to Unity 5 and it has been a great success thus far. Thanks to everyone who helped us beta test! We also added a lot more functionality to scripting and enabled support for external editors. Update v7.0 was the big one as it was the one where we made the full switch over to Unity 5 after having it on the beta branch for a couple of patches. Upgrading to Unity 5 improved: Overall performance improvements Physics stability and performance Objects will no longer go through each other Optimized many scripts for improved performance Loading objects is much faster No more hard locks when cleaning up tons of objects Stutter reduction from optimizations Joints are much more solid and don't jitter like before Greatly improved the accuracy of auto raise Zones (Hidden, Lua, etc.) are now much more reliable Increased the number of objects that can be selected / grabbed from 64 to 128 There are still a few limitations like the touch input not working properly, the tablet for linux users not working and concave/nonconvex colliders only working for locked objects. We added compound colliders which can be used to make an object have concave collision by separating the collider into multiple meshes in one .obj file. Compound colliders are only supported when non-convex is not checkboxed. Hand Zones have also improved let you use the entire width of the hand allowing for massive hands. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update v7.1 brought in a brand new file browser to easily import files from your computer into your games to create custom content. This vastly improves the custom content allowing you to create and keep everything in game. You can choose from using Steam Cloud to import files or your local files. The Joints Tool has also been improved so that the object that it is jointed to is now highlighted in a dark pink. The Joints menu will now be initialized with the value of the current joint.   There are a lot more great features and improvements to come! COMMUNITY: ORIGINAL/SCRIPTED MOD:  Community member albatross4242 created the awesome mod TTS Racing! Race with up to 10 players! 5 different vehicles to choose from, 10 different deployable weapons, victory podium displaying the winners, and so much more! This is a fully scripted and working racing game. You actually control your cars! This is a great example on how versatile Tabletop Simulator is and how you can create almost anything! Have fun with it and be sure to post any comments, suggestions and bugs on the Workshop page, so the modder can update it. Here's a video of it in action! Tabletop Simulator Racing 1.0 82 views   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEbwOayWIdA FANDOM: Looking for a nice treasure chest for your next RPG? Check out the one created by community member Bakersfield! It even works as a bag, so you can put your hidden treasures inside. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=669443130 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Or how about some dice trays? Community member Tumba made a cool set. Either an all-in-one that has a set in a State or you can get them individually. These dice trays are great because you can throw your dice in without having to worry about them rolling out. Check them out for yourself! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=626518989   Here's a cool video with the dice trays in action: Tumba's Magic Dice Tray 6 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM6t7Rhl9Sk We LOVE original games or models you've created that are 100% owned by you. So if you have anything, tell us all about it! Post all your findings on our dedicated forum post here. You can also post it on our Sub-Reddit, Twitter and Facebook. While we can't respond to everything, we do read everything, so get posting and we might just feature your game! Thanks for your continued support and hope you like our updates! 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