September Notes / Whats Next

The first half of september was all about getting Build 4067 and its improvements and fixes out the door, as well as website changes.

There is one more feature-build planned (4068) that contains a significant feature still missing from Dragontail, which is re-integrating the ridge breaking mode into flow restructure. That is almost ready – there were some edge cases to chase down and behavior to tune but it’s feeling and looking pretty good right now. I still need to finish finalizing its behavior and then make sure all of the various modes and inputs interact well together – the usual combinatorial explosion of settings that makes things more difficult to test and validate.

We’re also getting very close to cutting an LTS build for Dragontail as we hit the end of the planned major features for DT.

Looking longer term:

As mentioned on https://www.world-machine.com/roadmap , the primary feature goals for the following release are improved water devices, mesh editing support, and integration/automation.

But… the more I think about it, the more I think that those areas are each big enough, and seperate enough from each other, that they could be rolled out as 2-3 named releases rather than all packed into one.

For example, all of the mesh editing releated devices need to go together, but there’s not any reason they need to be held back while I’m working on improved water systems.

This has the major benefit of keeping a steady cadence of useful releases which seems like a major win.

What do you think?