Dawn Apart 0.77.1.1 Update & Patch Notes — Dawn Apart Steam update #1106037

Hey There Everyone!We are creeping closer and closer to our Early Access release date and with that we've been making some massive changes. We are super excited to get them in your hands and hear what you think about them:OptimizationWe spent a good amount of time optimizing the game. Both in terms of rendering and game logic. We reworked how our renderer handles voxel data to allow not only for more efficient space skipping. We now store all voxel data in the gpu in a format that allows us to do some bitwise operations to determine if and 8^3, 4^3, or 2^3 region of voxels is empty before finally checking the lowest 1^3 level. In simple terms we use a smaller amount of faster operations during rendering. In even simpler terms: less + faster more gooder than more + slower.This new structure also comes with more or less also built in levels of detail (LOD)!Because of our top down camera yo...