{"id":4388,"date":"2021-02-24T16:44:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T00:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2021-05-27T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T21:02:07","slug":"splish-splash-filling-a-bath-update-26-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/splish-splash-filling-a-bath-update-26-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Splish, Splash, Filling a Bath | Update 26.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4400\" src=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Universe-Sandbox-20210223-131039-3-5120x2880-650x366.png\" alt=\"Three Earths with varying sea levels, one being impacted by a stray moon.\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Universe-Sandbox-20210223-131039-3-5120x2880-650x366.png 650w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Universe-Sandbox-20210223-131039-3-5120x2880-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Universe-Sandbox-20210223-131039-3-5120x2880-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Run Steam to download Update 26.3, or buy Universe Sandbox via our&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/\">website<\/a>&nbsp;or the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/230290\/\">Steam Store<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Update 26.3<\/h3>\n<p>Drastically increased collision fragments and framerates, overhauled planetary water distribution, plus dozens of improvements come together in Update 26.3.<\/p>\n<h4>Oceans Filling Like a Bathtub<\/h4>\n<p>Water fills a tub from its lowest point &#8211; why not on a planet? Oceans now start at the lowest elevations and fill valleys like you would a bathtub, creating more realistic-looking continents and oceans. (Previously liquid water would \u201cprecipitate\u201d evenly across the surface.)<\/p>\n<h4>Buttery Smooth Collisions &amp; Particles Aplenty<\/h4>\n<p>Major performance improvements have resulted in epic collisions with double the particles. Fragment generation is substantially more consistent across various simulation speeds. Collisions now perform much more smoothly: in many cases, we\u2019re seeing as much as triple framerate increases.<\/p>\n<h4>More Highlights<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed the \u201cannoying bug\u201d that darkened customized planet surfaces<\/li>\n<li>Ice &amp; Snow, which are simulated separately, now have color options<\/li>\n<li>Avast, Matey! Change an object\u2019s Sea Level in the properties panel<\/li>\n<li>Cleaned up the object property panel and added new action buttons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/whatsnew\">Check out the full list of What&#8217;s New in Update 26.3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please report any issues on our&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/app\/230290\/discussions\/1\/\">Steam forum<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/us\">on Discord<\/a>, or in-game via Home &gt; Send Feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Run Steam to download Update 26.3, or buy Universe Sandbox via our&nbsp;website&nbsp;or the&nbsp;Steam Store. Update 26.3 Drastically increased collision fragments and framerates, overhauled planetary water distribution, plus dozens of improvements come together in Update 26.3. Oceans Filling Like a Bathtub Water fills a tub from its lowest point &#8211; why not on a planet? Oceans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":4406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4735,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions\/4735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}