0.9.0 Beta Testing

hhyyrylainen · October 26, 2025, 3:20pm

There’s nothing yet on Github, which is what matters.

Dragonking · October 26, 2025, 4:32pm

Ok, glad they are on it. When I first saw the currents i thought they were worms to be honest…

aah31415 · October 26, 2025, 4:36pm

I can guess you’ve started in the tiding pools then since that’s where the transparency issue is the most visible.

Animalia · October 26, 2025, 10:41pm

The test build worked fairly solid. Up until the transition to the prototype of the macroscopic where the game had just crashed.

aah31415 · October 26, 2025, 10:48pm

Yeah I also think it might not be as bad as the PU painted it, besides the editor saving thing of course.

HyperbolicHadron · October 27, 2025, 3:06pm

github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive

Added current trail alpha scaling constant

master ← HyperbolicHadron:current_trails_alpha

opened 02:47PM - 27 Oct 25 UTC

HyperbolicHadron

+3 -1

**Brief Description of What This PR Does** Reduces the opacity of the current… trails, based on feedback from the community. I set it to 25% as that seemed like a good compromise to my eye, but the community does seem to have somewhat preferred the 12.5% screenshot I showed, so it could be changed further. If anyone wants to play around with the constant a bit to see what your preferred value is, then that would be good info to have. 100%: <img width="1908" height="1116" alt="Screenshot from 2025-10-25 13-10-02" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fab6c14c-f513-468e-a269-e1369d677d19" /> 25%: <img width="1908" height="1116" alt="Screenshot from 2025-10-25 13-08-58" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c108e48c-2d1b-4efb-853f-1ee0fdd9392d" /> 12.5%: <img width="1908" height="1116" alt="Screenshot from 2025-10-25 13-24-16" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c3fa5c3b-8532-462d-97f8-9c0c8148a8ed" /> Do note that in-game, the currents are somewhat more visible than a static screenshot would suggest because they are moving. **Related Issues** **Progress Checklist** Note: before starting this checklist the PR should be marked as non-draft. - [x] PR author has checked that this PR works as intended and doesn't break existing features: https://wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/wiki/Testing_Checklist (this is important as to not waste the time of Thrive team members reviewing this PR) - [ ] Initial code review passed (this and further items should not be checked by the PR author) - [ ] Functionality is confirmed working by another person (see above checklist link) - [ ] Final code review is passed and code conforms to the [styleguide](https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/blob/master/doc/style_guide.md). Before merging all CI jobs should finish on this PR without errors, if there are automatically detected style issues they should be fixed by the PR author. Merging must follow our [styleguide](https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/blob/master/doc/style_guide.md#git).

If anyone has any thoughts on the current visuals now, where do you fall on how much they should be adjusted? I have tested both 25% and 12.5%.

aah31415 · October 27, 2025, 3:46pm

I think I like the 1/4 option more. We could need a poll to decide this perhaps…

Animalia · October 27, 2025, 7:01pm

I think the new planet editor is really nice, kind of wish you could enter more extreme values for temperature, size and ocean coverage of the planet.

aah31415 · October 27, 2025, 7:03pm

Wasn’t the planet editor already introduced a release or two ago though?

Animalia · October 27, 2025, 10:07pm

Yes but the current update improved it. Now you can change the amount of compounds and look at the planet stats and planet map whilst in the editor

aah31415 · October 28, 2025, 5:29am

Oh well, didn’t really notice that. Guess the more customizability the better.

Animalia · October 28, 2025, 2:40pm

Made a neat planet with the new editor. Every region was a land area (estuary,coast etc) except for one in the middle in which it was a shallow ocean, where the hydro vents were only 110 metres below the surface (so more like a lake) and the avg temperature on the planet was 22 degrees celsius. How’s that for a desert world?

aah31415 · October 28, 2025, 3:06pm

Couldn’t that also be a wetland world?

AnthropocenianAge · October 28, 2025, 4:10pm

What Planet Seed and Planet Customization Settings did you use?

aah31415 · October 28, 2025, 4:23pm

Actually now that I think about it was it ever mentioned in the recent PUs the planet editor would be getting an upgrade?

AnthropocenianAge · October 28, 2025, 4:35pm

Yes. It was mentioned in a previous PU from 8-30-2025.

Added more planet customization options to the new game settings and a preview of planet stats

aah31415 · October 28, 2025, 4:48pm

Ah, that was a while ago as it seems. I suppose the world seed sharing thread of yours might find more use now…

AbrahamTheBro · October 28, 2025, 5:57pm

Not sure if this was already reported but looking on this forum it seems not, so I’ll share this error log that said “can’t save. there was an exeption” or something among those lines

Error Saving - Saving failed! An exception happened exception: System.ArgumentException: Type is not registered for archive writing: Components.EntityLight+Light
   at SharedBase.Archive.DefaultArchiveManager.GetObjectWriteType(Type type) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/RevolutionaryGamesCommon/SharedBase/Archive/DefaultArchiveManager.cs:line 270
   at SharedBase.Archive.SArchiveWriterBase.WriteObject[T](IList`1 list) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/RevolutionaryGamesCommon/SharedBase/Archive/SArchiveWriterBase.cs:line 328
   at SharedBase.Archive.ISArchiveWriter.WriteObjectOrNull[T](IList`1 list) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/RevolutionaryGamesCommon/SharedBase/Archive/ISArchiveWriter.cs:line 183
   at Components.EntityLight.WriteToArchive(ISArchiveWriter writer) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/src/engine/common_components/EntityLight.cs:line 23
   at Saving.Serializers.EntityWorldSerializers.WriteEntityWorldToArchive(ISArchiveWriter writer, ArchiveObjectType type, Object obj) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/src/saving/serializers/EntityWorldSerializers.cs:line 139
   at SharedBase.Archive.DefaultArchiveManager.WriteIfRegisteredObjectType[T](ISArchiveWriter writer, T value) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/RevolutionaryGamesCommon/SharedBase/Archive/DefaultArchiveManager.cs:line 388
   at SharedBase.Archive.SArchiveWriterBase.WriteAnyRegisteredValueAsObject[T](T value) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/RevolutionaryGamesCommon/SharedBase/Archive/SArchiveWriterBase.cs:line 675
   at WorldSimulation.WriteBasePropertiesToArchive(ISArchiveWriter writer) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/src/general/base_stage/WorldSimulation.cs:line 596
   at MicrobeWorldSimulation.WriteToArchive(ISArchiveWriter writer) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/src/microbe_stage/MicrobeWorldSimulation.cs:line 156
   at SharedBase.Archive.SArchiveWriterBase.WriteObject(IArchivable obj) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/RevolutionaryGamesCommon/SharedBase/Archive/SArchiveWriterBase.cs:line 284
   at CreatureStageBase`2.WriteBasePropertiesToArchive(ISArchiveWriter writer) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/src/general/base_stage/CreatureStageBase.cs:line 326
   at MicrobeStage.WriteToArchive(ISArchiveWriter writer) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/src/microbe_stage/MicrobeStage.cs:line 204
   at SharedBase.Archive.SArchiveWriterBase.WriteObject(IArchivable obj) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/RevolutionaryGamesCommon/SharedBase/Archive/SArchiveWriterBase.cs:line 284
   at SharedBase.Archive.ISArchiveWriter.WriteObjectOrNull(IArchivable obj) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/RevolutionaryGamesCommon/SharedBase/Archive/ISArchiveWriter.cs:line 107
   at Save.WriteToArchive(ISArchiveWriter writer) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/src/saving/Save.cs:line 223
   at SharedBase.Archive.SArchiveWriterBase.WriteObject(IArchivable obj) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/RevolutionaryGamesCommon/SharedBase/Archive/SArchiveWriterBase.cs:line 284
   at Save.SerializeData(ThriveArchiveManager archiveManager) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/src/saving/Save.cs:line 262
   at SaveHelper.PerformSave(InProgressSave inProgress, Save save) in /home/hhyyrylainen/Projects/Thrive/src/saving/SaveHelper.cs:line 648

it happened right after I exited the editor with nothing else remarkable honestly.

Edit: Also it kept happening after the first time, not allowing to save.

hhyyrylainen · October 28, 2025, 6:31pm

I think that by carefully reading the microbe background particles code, I finally noticed what the problem was and made a fix:

github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive

Fixed a case where background particles were deleted twice

master ← fix_particle_destroy

opened 06:27PM - 28 Oct 25 UTC

hhyyrylainen

+11 -1

**Brief Description of What This PR Does** This was leading to an error when …visiting a specific sequence of patches, also improved efficiency a bit by not recreating the background particles if they were already the right type **Related Issues** https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/0-9-0-beta-testing/8710/17?u=hhyyrylainen **Progress Checklist** Note: before starting this checklist the PR should be marked as non-draft. - [x] PR author has checked that this PR works as intended and doesn't break existing features: https://wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/wiki/Testing_Checklist (this is important as to not waste the time of Thrive team members reviewing this PR) - [ ] Initial code review passed (this and further items should not be checked by the PR author) - [ ] Functionality is confirmed working by another person (see above checklist link) - [ ] Final code review is passed and code conforms to the [styleguide](https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/blob/master/doc/style_guide.md). Before merging all CI jobs should finish on this PR without errors, if there are automatically detected style issues they should be fixed by the PR author. Merging must follow our [styleguide](https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/blob/master/doc/style_guide.md#git).

If that does fix it then this was a bug introduced by the new current particles.

Edit:

Yes, this was just reported on the Discord. But I did see the reports and made a fix for 0.9.0 already. The problem is caused by bioluminescence not being hooked up to the saving system as I overlooked testing that (and also couldn’t really test everything due to the extreme time pressure).

If you remove all your bioluminescent vacuoles and respawn then you can probably save again.

aah31415 · October 28, 2025, 6:52pm

Considering the current plan for what’s to come before 1.0.0, perhaps all those versions released between 0.9 and 1.0 should be called betas considering there will probably be little time to check much vulnerabilities in them?