{"id":5280,"date":"2022-08-18T08:51:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/?p=5280"},"modified":"2022-08-23T07:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:39:28","slug":"upgrading-our-engine-update-31-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/upgrading-our-engine-update-31-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading Our Engine | Update 31.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If Update 31.2 does not download automatically, follow these update instructions<\/a>, or buy Universe Sandbox via our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update 31.2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Unity Engine Upgrade<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve updated Unity, the game engine we use to create Universe Sandbox. While you won\u2019t see immediate changes, this will allow us to utilize new features for future improvements to our physics simulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instant Water Flow<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Use the Settle Water button to immediately stabilize the water level of a planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More Highlights<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Control the lowest temperature of space with the Background Temperature. By default, this is 2.73 Kelvin to approximate the Cosmic Microwave Background<\/a>. Adjust it under
Simulation > Advanced Simulation Settings > Temperature > Background Temperature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Random object icons in the Add tool have been updated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Learn about habitable zones and how Universe Sandbox models them in our guide
Guides > Science > Habitable Zones<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stellar collisions now partially merge and transfer mass before going supernova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Collision shockwaves are now realistically circular<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Particles now collide more consistently, and gas cloud momentum is now transferred to and from impacting objects<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This update includes 3+ additions and 27+ fixes and improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out the full list of What’s New in Update 31.2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please report any issues on our Steam forum<\/a>, on Discord<\/a>, or in-game via Home > Send Feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve updated Unity, the game engine we use to create Universe Sandbox. In addition, we fixed some minor collision issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":5302,"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-5280","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\/5280","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5280"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5315,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions\/5315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}