The Bibites 0.6.3 Alpha 3 : Settings Animator! (SEASONS!!!) (Patreon)

It's been a long awaited promise, and I think this is going to be incredibly worth it. You can now create animation curves for settings, so they change gradually and automatically over time!

You can specify any number of settings to follow a given curve. You only need to specify the base for each, and the settings animator will take care of the rest!The curves function multiplicatively, so that's why it's important to pick the bases correctly.In the example above, since the curve oscillates around 1.0 with an amplitude of 0.5, this means that the global fertility will oscillate around 10uE, with an amplitude of 5uE. Every 10h, the fertility will increase to 15uE, go back down to 5uE, and then return to 10uE, to then repeat the cycle.This had to be done so a single animator could animate many different settings together, even if they had wildly different scales and ranges.Since the animation curve is a spline that you can edit pretty freely, this allows you to make pretty much any curve you want ([CTRL + Click] to add/remove points)

And the ability to create as many animators as you want allows you to create environments that are a lot more dynamic and interesting

Other Changes and Fixes:

Added User settings to control how long auto-retargeting should wait (to allow to witnessing the death) and to choose wether going to next should happen right when the bibite dies, on after its corpse decayed

Reworked how one-time spawn settings work

Added an indicator to display how many were spawned

Added a button to reset the count, and restart the one-time spawn process from 0

Added simulation setting to control decay rate

Fixed Corpses still being counted in species count

Fixed Field of view requiring re-select to show up after bibite revival

Fixed Bibite not being added back to tag after reviving

Fixed being able to edit tags and revive bibites during challenges

Fixed pellets tooltip being misplaced for non-standard screens

Fixed bibites with no hidden nodes and saved placement crashing the brain diagram

Fixed most settings going negative crashing the game

Fixed Saves counting corpses in Bibites count

Fixed Saved Scenario not showing up before the Scenario Select Panel is opened back up

As always, you can have access to the alpha branch on Steam by following these instructions with the password "leoisawesome"