Devlog Update 176 + Beta 2 — Parkitect Steam update #289829

Due to the upcoming holidays this release is a bit earlier than usual. We’ll be on our winter break now and will return to the usual weekly devlog schedule on January 15th. Beta 2 is now available for download! The full change log is at the end of this post. Happy Holidays everyone and see you in 2018! Devlog Gordon finished another three awesome ride music tracks: Western, Banjo and Polka. Check them out! I’ve spent this week on performance optimizations. The worst performance experienced in Parkitect is usually when zooming all the way out so that most of the park is visible on screen at once. To a degree this is simply due to needing to render a lot more stuff, but partially it’s also because we can’t do certain optimizations - for example, we don’t run animations on guests who are not visible. Since one of the biggest performance costs in Parkitect is animations that is a problem wit...