blitzkit/docs/changelogs/1.31.0.md

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 BlitzKitLand™ 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