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What are some of the improvements that have been made [to the planet painting tools] over the last year?

TL;DRThe biggest improvement is a simpler single brush replacing separate painting passes, making work several times quicker and letting color, objects and ground materials be changed afterwards without repainting.

Patrick GladysEnvironment Artist

The biggest improvement probably would be a much simpler and more compact design of those painting tools, which means that whenever we do these painting passes, and I told you that all individual pieces of content have to be applied separately, with that simpler design, we basically pack everything into one single brush. So it's basically a reduction, like four or five times quicker. When we had to do five separate painting passes before, it's all reduced into one now. The cool thing is all the color information and everything is saved dynamically in these brushes now. Whenever we want to change the color or change the objects or the ground materials, we can do so after all the painting is done and we won't have to repaint anything. It's not just a more compact and more simplistic design of the brushes that we use and the painting tools, but it's also much more dynamic. So we won't have to do tedious reworks and repaints of something whenever we want something changed. We can simply pick another color and it'll automatically update all over the planet. And this will save us, as I said, lots and lots more time.

Star Citizen Live›Making Mountains·
Published on this date.2 Oct 2020