Where's 3.14 at?
TL;DRChris Roberts says 3.14 is in Evocati, PTU is expected soon, and release is probably mid-July; he describes the Orison floating city and first-generation volumetric clouds, with dynamic weather further down the road.
Well, it's around the corner. I think probably middle of July is when it'll probably release. We're in Evocati right now. I think we'll be going to PTU in the near future. And it looks beautiful. I mean, I think we just released an Inside Star Citizen that shows off Orison, which is beautiful. And it's got the first generation of the cloud tech in that we're still continuing... I think there's a lot to work on that I think is pretty stunning and it's going to get better as time goes on, which is volumetric clouds, and it's a bit more of a challenge for what we need it for compared to, say, what you would see in Microsoft Flight Sim or some other games, because we have to deal with scales that they don't have to deal with. So we can pull all the way back and see the whole planet and have to see the cloud layers in a way that you wouldn't do, say, in Microsoft Flight Sim, and have it work as you come all the way in and fly through it. There's still some optimizations to happen and visual improvements and a lot of layering and detail on effects, but already I think it looks beautiful. It basically combines the rendering and the lighting all together with the atmospheric model. So we raymarch through all the clouds, and we'll have it on Orison first, and then as we go forward, we'll start to roll it out on some of the other planets and then start to work on dynamic weather. But that's down the road. But I think it's going to be pretty brilliant. And then Orison in itself, it's a floating cloud city. I mean, I'm sure I'm not the only sci-fi fan out there that's wanted to step foot on a floating cloud city in person. And it's beautifully done by Ian Leyland and his environment teams. They've just done an outstanding job on it. So it looks beautiful. So if you haven't seen it, you can check it out in the Inside Star Citizen, or obviously you'll be checking it out in the PTU or in the game in a few weeks, two, three weeks.