Pixel Tennis Progress

[WongKit]

- Not released yet-

Character Design
Added human character models Kuro and Lea
Added rackets
Added support for equipment swapping
- Remove character geometry behind equipment to improve performance and prevent clipping
- Move clothing with the players bones
- Adjust equipments depending on other gear (e.g. widen bottom part of a shirt when wearing a skirt, increase character height based on shoe sole thickness, ...)
- Adjust eye color
Added 6 hair styles
Added shirt, shorts, skirt, jeans, shoes!
Added support for facial expressions
Added "anime"-shader with cell shading and outline support
Added support for equipment variations (different materials and textures)
Added simplified models (LOD) which are used, when the camera is far away to improve performance

Animation
Added custom character animations "Idle", "Run", "Stroke", "Lob", "Smash/Serve", "Miss", "Knockback", "Dive", "GuardBreak"
Animate eye blinking
Custom weight painting for better joint animation
Characters look at the ball (head movement)
Knockback sliding progresses more natural

Visuals
Switched renderer to Universal Render Pipeline
Improved lighting of all courts
Added custom skyboxes
Improved shadow quality/resolution for highest setting
Allow setting custom render resolution (0.5x - 2.0x) for better performance
Support for "AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution" for the highest quality setting

UI
Replaced local player glow with player circle in team color
Added/Improved some UI animations
Added more random loading screen messages
Added consent for logging ip address and device id
Updated credits

Gameplay
Increased hit air hit stun
Dive knockback now overrides smash knockback due to its higher stun time

Network Gameserver
Doubled server capacity/performance
Improved logging

Misc
Updated to Unity 2021.3 LTS
Removed unused assets

[WongKit]

- Not released yet-

Character Design
Added slight smile to neutral pose
Added support for clothing color variations
Added support for hair color variations
Added support for left-handed characters

Visuals
Improved character model performance
Improved court lighting
Added soft shadow support
Added more details to Court Arena pillars
Added water shader to Court Isle
Improved antialiasing performance
Fixed changing graphics quality during match did not set post processing

Added awesome Dragon Racket by Milov

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Gameplay
Added boundaries to Court Isle
Moved Court Isle Palm trees further out to not block the ball path on doubles matches
Removed colliders of court marks as they could slightly slow down player movement

Network Gameserver
Simplified database access
Added support to automatically update database schema from files
Fixed using a "Character Slot" item does not require logging off and on again
Fixed crash with malformed admin command

Shop
Added way to handle obsolete items. Purchased items that will not be valid in the next update (e.g. pill faces) will be automatically sold for a higher rate compared to manually selling the item.

Android
Fixed ball prediction not working

Misc
Improved handling of the internal item catalog

[WongKit]

- Not released yet-

Visuals
Greatly improved character equipment loading performance
Improved ambient court lighting performance
Improved effect pooling performance
Added custom ball model (if you have not noticed yet, the current tennis ball is just a plain yellow sphere ^^)
Added new smash, guard break and special shot hit effects
Added camera shake on special shot return
Added racket charge animation
Added light to special shots
Fixed charge animation not cleared after special shot

Item System
Updated item handling to potentially allow for individual item leveling/refining
Set default equipment color to grey
Removed "Invisible" property from rackets

Network Gameserver
Fixed character creation and attributes set error
Fixed database query error on initialization
Log device id

UI
Added permanent version overlay

Gameplay
Reverted diminishing returns for main attributes

[WongKit]

- Not released yet-

Audio
Added individual music for each court

UI
Concept for new UI

Misc
Successfully run 16 player gameplay/stability test with new character models and rendering pipeline
Updated Unity release due to issues with Visual Studio 2022

Rebuilding the UI is the main priority right now. Why? Because it will allow for easier changes and additions in the future

[WongKit]

- Not released yet-

Visuals
Fixed court basic net shadow
Fixed court isle plant artifacts
Adjusted lightmap resolutions for ground objects

UI
Added workflow for new ui system
Rebuild main ui
Rebuild popup messages
Rebuild login menu
Rebuild settings menu
Rebuild custom progress bar logic
Rebuild character select menu
Rebuild character menu
Rebuild lobby menu
Rebuild room settings menu
Rebuild ui localization
Added more ui animations
Added custom ui scaling logic to better handle exotic screen aspect ratios
Added handling for phone's notch area (true fullscreen with some shifted menu elements)
Improved rendering of custom fonts
Added several workarounds for bugs and replacements for missing features of the new ui system x.x

Misc
Updated Unity version
Updated anime style shader
Added more framerate options