Mod Double Feature! vonHUD & vonCommander Update plus one for vonBiomes, too

Dear Friends & Patreons!

The ongoing work of the last weeks did flow into vonHUD & vonCommander, the interface for commanding not only your Mech around but bow also drop battlefield supplies, build bases and more.

This new version brings plenty of fixes and new features for vonHUD and vonCommander, which you can access in missions with the Page Up key on your keyboard.

Download:

OneDrive: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvPmUYHEcNJx-UYtIYhYNlfKrrb8?e=e0Es9q

Performance, Performance!

Many optimizations and performance fixes have found their way into the new version. A big thank-you goes out to the Discord community for testing and reporting!

This is for sure the most important part of the update, so vonCommander gets a real asset for your MW5 missions. This process of polishing took felt-ages, but it's an essential step.

Unstuck Target Cam

In the previous version, the vonHUD target cam sometimes got stuck. This should also be fixed.

Added Battlefield drops

vonCommander gives the Mechwarrior 5 Airstrike points more purpose. With the points, you can not only drop airstrikes, but also call in other Mechs, VTOLs or tanks, or even build support bases. The new version adds the Scanner Base, which will do a sensor sweep every 15 seconds.

Some Interface Updates and new mod options

The update has also some minor improvements to the vonCommander interface elements, and I have added headlines to the vonHUD Mod Options for better overview.

Known issues:

* The visual lines can still go off sometimes when commanding Mechs, but the commands are still registered (visual bug)

* Coop: I have added lock-ins for some functions to only work in single player. Furthermore, the drop ins are probably not synchronized and hence won't work in coop — or should not be used. Something to extend on in the future.

With these steps, we get closer to a functional release, as long as no new bigger things or issues emerge.

If you encounter any issues, hiccups, or something you want to report, please be invited to hop on the vonMods Discord: https://discord.gg/eaTa8zGbRf or you can also use the forum on the website at https://www.vonHQ.com to get in contact. There will be probably more work hours go into it to further fine-tune and extend vonCommander, but I would rather not hold back this important update for too long. :)

But wait, there is more!

Here is also a quality update for vonBiomes, which has some fine-tuning for the lighting system and brightness settings under the hood. It also adds a new mod option: sky brightness. You can simply leave it at the standard setting of 1.0, since it is more for debugging/development, but if you like to tinker its one more thing;)

Download:

Onedrive: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvPmUYHEcNJx-UMwKQFYWabDwHxC?e=hQjCTR

Edit: the version number here is 20.6. — but the previous version here on Patreon was already 21. I totally forgot that, sorry! Those late nights… So: this here IS indeed the latest update, but the version number should be higher.

Have fun, Mechwarriors! :)

Thank you for the ongoing contributions to the mod development, I sound like a broken record probably, but without your support all that would not be possible.

Cheers!
Jonathan