The Printer Shop opens its doors

This may have been the biggest visual day of the month.

Real shops

The Printer Shop, Filament Shop, boxes shop, post office, furniture store and your later business buildings now have real Blender models with interiors. The Filament Shop has shelves full of spools sorted by colour. The town centre now has a square with a fountain, benches, a kiosk and flowers. The sun moves from east to west, so the shopfronts are lit all day.

Four new printers

The PW-20, PW-25, PW-30 and PW-50 were redesigned from the owner's reference art: enclosed cabinets with glass doors, an LED bar, orange corners and a control tablet. The PW-50 has double doors and two print heads.

Shopkeepers

Every counter now has a shopkeeper. They were made with Meshy from concept art and come in six variants, so each shop has a different person. They look at you and wave when you walk in.

And it runs faster

A few expensive lookups every frame cost 26 ms. In the bedroom, frame time dropped from 46.6 to 11.6 ms. Your eye height is realistic now too: 1.65 metres instead of 'gnome height'.