{"id":1182,"date":"2026-08-26T22:59:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:59:48","slug":"wrapping-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/wrapping-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with the Meshify improvements mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/more-dragontail-improvements\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1166\">last time<\/a>, the main push for the next build 4067 is build system quality of life improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One major example is that the background previewer now receives backpressure from memory usage and stops previewing if the usage starts getting too high. Previously, it would preview up to the maximum preview resolution defined in the program settings without regard for any other factors. That&#8217;s fine for for typical worlds, but for networks with thousands of nodes or with the preview limit set to 8k, it could easily grind your system to a halt on its own. The only solution was to turn down the preview limit &#8211; which is intended to be more of a system-wide setting, not a project one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of thousands-of-nodes projects, I also did another pass further improving the UI responsiveness for huge files, and you should find it significantly improved once again. The previous fix in 4065 took things from &#8220;unworkable&#8221; to &#8220;kind of janky but acceptable&#8221;, and this should bring it much closer to &#8220;smooth&#8221;, for those of you who are working on huge complex networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another responsiveness improvement: I made another major pass to make sure all devices can cancel within a handful of milliseconds. Combined with Dragontail&#8217;s focused previewer, this really makes things feel snappy as you click around and change the selected device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I&#8217;m hoping to release 4067 reasonably soon with these changes and some other fixes &#8211; just need to finish some testing passes, but I am hopeful that it will be available in the next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the Meshify improvements mentioned last time, the main push for the next build 4067 is build system quality of life improvements. One major example is that the background previewer now receives backpressure from memory usage and stops previewing if the usage starts getting too high. Previously, it would preview up to the maximum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"20","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"39929","discourse_permalink":"https:\/\/forum.world-machine.com\/t\/wrapping-august\/8528","wpdc_publishing_response":"success","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dayinthelife","category-dragontail-peak","category-world-machine-development-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}