diff --git a/docs/changelogs/1.31.0.md b/docs/changelogs/1.31.0.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cc7b985c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/changelogs/1.31.0.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +# BlitzKit 1.31.0 + +This update massively upgrades BlitzKit's graphical fidelity (while making it faster) and updates the way BlitzKit deploys updates, speeding up future versions. + +## Features + +- Improved the performance of the Tank Sandbox in Tankopedia + - Reduced the number of lights by 25% + - Reduced the resolution of shadows by 50% +- Improved the graphical fidelity of tanks in the Tankopedia + - Added soft contact shadows below tanks + - Added sky and ground reflected lighting to the top and bottom of tanks + - Removed the fog that used to darken tanks when zoomed far away + - Made BlitzKitLandā„¢ fade out circularly to hide the sharp edges + - Pointed the lights 1.5m above the ground + - This genuinely makes BlitzKit almost photo-realistic in my opinion +- Non-PBR tanks are now lit up brighter to accommodate for their dark textures + +## Fixes + +- Fixed a bug where the ambient occlusion map (a measure of how dark a part of a tank gets due to low light bounces) was applied to the color of the tank directly, making many tanks appear dark even in direct light +- Tanks with chinese characters now generate urls through transliteration + +## Known Issues + +- The flags found behind the selected tank in the tech tree section of the Tankopedia is offset incorrectly + +## Technical Features + +- BlitzKit can now calculate and store performance statistics and account details for up 10,000,000,000 players + - This will help make the BlitzKit Performance tool more accurate, and play well with an upcoming, unannounced major feature + +## Technical Changes + +- The `production` branch now deploys updates to `blitzkit.app` instead of the `main` branch +- `robots.txt` now disables indexing of BlitzKit variants based on the environment +- The website is now compiled in "chunks" of which the `api` chunk now takes on the task of mangling what was previously stored in `assets3` + - `assets3` will be removed in `1.31.1`, please migrate to the new `api` if you use any BlitzKit assets +- Removed the `bot` and `app` packages +- Removed Prisma