First playable version now available!

Ok so here is a copy of the error I get when trying to run the game on my singleplayer offline PC (after copying the downloaded game from my laptop).

Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit (Desktop) Direct3D 11.0 [level 11.1]

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9600K CPU @ 3.70GHz, 6 Cores, 3696 MHz

MS-7C09 (Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.) 16326 MB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, 5991 MB VRAM, 2020-07-05, 27.21.14.516

Commit: decd9931dbd268cdf31e0298e513bcc82f8d5b01

Branch: master JobID: 2248

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InitializationException - Missing credentials

Not sure whats going on as I have the correct serial and it works on my laptop.

Thanks.

THANKS! I downloaded and played on the Mac side (Catalina 10.15.7) and it did play fine. Very cool. The world looks much more realistic. Very curious to see how we'd use the various "talking devices". Don't want to spoil it! Ha.

So I guess I'll download on the bootcamped Win side and see how that goes too. I expect I will get slightly better performance on my native OS side if possible to play that way in future. Also curious about the paint!

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Ok so here is a copy of the error I get when trying to run the game on my singleplayer offline PC (after copying the downloaded game from my laptop).

Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit (Desktop) Direct3D 11.0 [level 11.1]

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9600K CPU @ 3.70GHz, 6 Cores, 3696 MHz

MS-7C09 (Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.) 16326 MB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, 5991 MB VRAM, 2020-07-05, 27.21.14.516

Commit: decd9931dbd268cdf31e0298e513bcc82f8d5b01

Branch: master JobID: 2248

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InitializationException - Missing credentials

Not sure whats going on as I have the correct serial and it works on my laptop.

Thanks.

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I'm guessing copying files even with a valid serial won't work. It's not the normal way to install - no registry entries, and it would be far too easy to pirate a game if you could do what you're attempting.

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I'm guessing copying files even with a valid serial won't work. It's not the normal way to install - no registry entries, and it would be far too easy to pirate a game if you could do what you're attempting.

I've already asked about this as the Java version worked that way, its basically DRM FREE which many games are, so my understanding is that this should work according to red51, but don't know if its changed since then, hoping not!

This new version is amazing Red got me curious how you built all those stuff n things So I set out on a grand adventure to explore around and even found bricks with a dummy in the closet? Was funny and great took some time now it's time to ponder and think, what console commands work? And which ones don't? For on this Merry Christmas Eve I'll try them all just to build in this world till the new version is out, we're in for some fun. Let's break this game Merry Christmas to All, and to all a Rising Star red51

I see we can not fly through the land and other things any more. That will add better security and allow us o enable flight easer. Wondering if plugins work yet? Like area protection and portals and such.

Wow! Very impressive red51 . This peek into the new version was well worth the wait. The mountain edges gave me a bit of vertigo... perfect!

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Dear Community!

We're pleased to announce that the first playable demo of the new version is finally available! It is available as a separate Beta branch on Steam - if you select it, you will still keep the current Java version and the new version will be downloaded into a separate subfolder. This first demo will serve as foundation for future update, and once it's a bit more fleshed out, it will replace the Java version (but of course you will still be able to play the Java version at any stage).

We've also prepared a new survey for the demo and would appreciate your feedback: https://forms.gle/7Tf95343NQtgSUou8

In order to get the demo, just rightclick on Rising World in your Steam library -> Properties -> Betas -> select "New Version Preview" and wait until the download is ready. When launching the game, a dialog shows up: Select "New Version" to launch the new version of Rising World.

NOTE: Always launch the game from your library, do not launch it right from the "Downloads" section because this always launches the default Java version.

If you have the Standalone, you'll find a new launcher in your download section. Make sure to download it into a separate folder (do not put it into your existing Rising World folder)

However, there are a few important things you need to know about this version:

Features and Content

This version is quite limited and it lacks several features and any serious gameplay content. It rather serves as "tech demo" and is meant to give you a very first impression of the new version. We've also disabled some features in this version - for instance, only a small part of the world is generated and many plants and forests are missing.

Here you find a rough overview of some of the features of the demo version: https://forum.rising-world.net/thread/11064/

Performance

We're using Unity new scriptable render pipeline, more specifically the HDRP which has a rather high base overhead - much higher compared to the Java version. In return we're able to achieve much better scalability, especially if the world consists of lot of buildings. This means it's extremely important that your machine meets at least the minimum requirements of the game (which are stated on the store page). However, if you experience performance issues, please let us know! There is definitely room for improvements

View distance

One important note about the view distance: Basically the new version is able to achieve much larger view distances compared to the Java version. On the one hand, chunks are now twice the size. On the other hand, values are treated a bit different in the new version; while a view distance of 20 chunks, for example, referred to 20x20 chunks around the player in the Java version, this value now refers to 20 chunks in each direction (effectively being 40x40 chunks now). In other words: A view distance of 50 in the new version would be equivalent of a view distance of 200 in the Java version

Weather

There are a few weather effects available which can be set via console command. Just like in the Java version, type "weather <name>" into console (if you put a "1" at the end, the weather changes instantly). In addition to the weather effects of the Java version, there is now snowfall available (which covers the world in snow over time). The names for these effects are "snow" and "heavysnow"

Linux

There are unfortunately a few bugs in Unity which are out of our control. They were reported to Unity. For instance, it's currently not possible to change the resolution on Linux without restarting the game (Mac and Windows are not affected by this issue). There are a few other issues as well, but if you find any bugs, please don't hesitate to contact us

Multiplayer

Unfortunately the multiplayer part isn't fully ready yet, but we already wrote the code with multiplayer in mind - so it's basically almost ready. It's our intention to release a working multiplayer shortly after the upcoming building update

Plugin API

Unfortunately the plugin API isn't ready either - this means it doesn't work in the demo yet. There is still some work to do, but we've set up a new section in our forum which contains more information about the new API: https://forum.rising-world.net/thread/11062/

Future

Obviously the demo took a lot longer until it was ready - much longer than expected. We're so sorry about that, but we also appreciate your patience! Good news is that many core mechanics are now implemeted or almost ready (and this was the most time consuming part), so we should soon be able to get into a state where content can be added more quickly

Feedback

We really hope you enjoy the demo! Even though it's still very limited and cannot be considered a full game, it should already give you a good idea of what Rising World will look like in the near future. We are looking forward to your feedback, please let us know what you think about the new version! As mentioned above, we've prepared a survey for that purpose: https://forms.gle/7Tf95343NQtgSUou8

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Hello. I encountered this error:

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Windows 7 64bit (Desktop) Direct3D 11.0 [level 11.0]

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4170 CPU @ 3.70GHz, 4 Cores, 3691 MHz

8108 MB RAM

Commit: decd9931dbd268cdf31e0298e513bcc82f8d5b01

Branch: master JobID: 2248

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DllNotFoundException - Unable to load DLL 'native': The specified module could not be found.

at RisingWorld.Native.NativeManager.Initialize () [0x00000] in <00000000000000000000000000000000>:0

at RisingWorld.Content.Game.InitDefaultSettings () [0x00000] in <00000000000000000000000000000000>:0

at RisingWorld.Content.Game.OnInitialize () [0x00000] in <00000000000000000000000000000000>:0

at UnityEngine.RemoteSettings+UpdatedEventHandler.Invoke () [0x00000] in <00000000000000000000000000000000>:0

at RisingWorld.Common.JIWApplication.Update () [0x00000] in <00000000000000000000000000000000>:0

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I am more than sorry if this has ben answered before, I looked into the thread, could not find any other mention of it.

EDIT:

With the Java version I'm also getting an error, unlike the Unity version, the game starts and then the loading screen (JEW GAMES logo with a Christmas hat) appears but it flickers and after a few seconds the game crashes, here's it is: (maybe because the screen is flickering it's an issue with my graphics card, I'll try replacing it with a different one to see if it works, but from the log it looks like it's a problem with FMod)

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Not initializedpool-2-thread-1

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: C:\Users\[CENSORED]\Rising World\JavaFMod64.dll: Can't find dependent libraries

at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.System.load(Unknown Source)

at de.jiw.fmod.core.utils.NativeLoader.loadNative(NativeLoader.java:88)

at de.jiw.fmod.core.utils.NativeLoader.load(NativeLoader.java:32)

at de.jiw.fmod.wrapper.JavaFMod.init(JavaFMod.java:23)

at content.audio.c.<init>(SourceFile:95)

at content.Game.initSoundState(SourceFile:3223)

at w.h.b(SourceFile:87)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

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Currently the collision during fly mode is optional - the noclip behaviour like in the Java version can be enabled by setting Game_NoClipping to true in the config.properties file But maybe it makes sense to move this setting to the permissions, so admins can disable this behaviour

I think it would be great to have it in permissions for the fact of being able to allow flying for normal players, with them not being able to pass through things, yet still have the noclipping set for admin so they can still do there job.

I like the LOD options, now i can play without worrying about low poly objects, Thank you. I can't wait to reconstruct my hometown.

how are our old blueprints going to still be usable if there is no pnb and we are just resizing the blocks to do the job?

Not to sure how feasible or even if we could resize blocks with the use of a mouse? at the moment we resize planks n beams using a combiation of arrow keys with CTRL / Shift ect ect, how possible would it be to have highlighted points (say on each corner) that we can click and drag with the mouse to the size that we need and rotate instead of using the keyboard?

How can i put the rifle on the wall ? Does anyone knows ?

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Not to sure how feasible or even if we could resize blocks with the use of a mouse? at the moment we resize planks n beams using a combiation of arrow keys with CTRL / Shift ect ect, how possible would it be to have highlighted points (say on each corner) that we can click and drag with the mouse to the size that we need and rotate instead of using the keyboard?

I have always loved the idea of a transform widget like you might get in a game engine or The Sims. Default is the x,y,z handles for placement, but then ctrl turns it into a rotate widget and shift gives you the scale handles. Something like that would be absolutely amazing for doing small random rotations rather than having to keep going into the console and setting the rotation amount from 1 degree to 5 or 15 and back. Could even have it so as there's a snap toggle, which responds to the "setr" command if you want precise rotation or switched off to be totally free rotation.

Ahhh red51 previously I downloaded the Java version and used the correct serial and then copied this across to my PC without needing to connect that one to the internet, am I unable to with the new version?

Thanks.