Changelog

0.3.11

• Removed the F8 test-spawn key and its configuration so it cannot conflict with boat mods.
• Water Walking Boots are now obtainable only through the Island 4 StoreClerc purchase.
• Reduced the invisible water support from 4x4 metres to a compact area beneath the player's feet.
• Made the water support ignore boats, loose and held items, NPCs, and other players so it cannot push or launch them.
• Preserved normal walking, sprinting, and jumping on the water surface.

0.3.10

• Fixed sprinting while standing on water with the boots active.
• Fixed normal ground jumping from the water surface.
• Registered the invisible water support as jumpable ground.
• Prevented the swimming movement state from overriding boots-supported movement.
• Raised the support height slightly so the player no longer rests partly inside the water.

0.3.9

• Fixed a multiplayer third-person issue that could stretch one of the holder's arms across the map.
• Removed stale hand IK references inherited from an unrelated vanilla item prefab.
• Kept the custom 3D boots model, pickup, drop, vendor sale, and water-walking behavior unchanged.

0.3.7

• Removed the separate hotbar icon and green status-effect overlay objects.
• Displays the transparent boots image through the slot's own built-in image surface.
• Clears the boots' hidden 3D preview mesh so it cannot render a white or missing-material artifact.
• Captures and restores every slot's original texture, material, UVs, color, and input state when the boots move.
• Tightened the icon framing while retaining a narrow transparent safety margin.

0.3.6

• Replaced the hotbar artwork with a clean transparent 3D-style boots preview.
• Reset the custom hotbar image material and UVs whenever a slot receives the boots.
• Water Walking Boots can now be sold through a money vendor for $7,500, half their purchase price.

0.3.5

• Renamed the model hierarchy and materials so Better Oceans no longer adopts the boots as stray water surfaces.
• Added a material keeper that restores the original boot materials if another renderer system replaces them.
• Added the required Item tag to the pickup trigger so dropped boots are detected by the normal hand scanner.
• Explicitly keeps the custom item pickable and ignored by seagull and money-NPC item handling.
• Removes stale custom hotbar overlays immediately when an inventory slot is reused.

0.3.4

• Replaced the generic blue box with a low-poly pair of water-walking boots.
• Added separate uppers, soles, glowing water treads, cuffs, straps, and buckles.
• Uses the same 3D model when held and when dropped in the world.
• Kept the 0.3.3 pickup fix, item behavior, vendor, controls, hotbar icon, and water-walking mechanics unchanged.

0.3.3

• Fixed Water Walking Boots becoming un-pickable after being dropped.
• Added dropped-item state keeper.
• Re-enables pickup trigger whenever boots are not held.
• Re-enables physical world collider whenever boots are not held.
• Restores rigidbody gravity, collision detection, non-kinematic state, and wake state.
• Refreshes dropped-item state immediately after SetSyncedHolder changes.
• Water-walking mechanics and v0.3.2 visuals are unchanged.

0.3.2

• Left working water-walking physics unchanged.
• Added dedicated first-person Water Walking Boots visual.
• Hidden item's broken runtime renderer while boots are locally held.
• Held visual now uses the same blue box + boots-art design as the purchased/dropped item.
• Added fixed first-person held position/rotation/scale.
• Disabled the game's broken custom-item preview only on boots hotbar slots.
• Added clean static boots icon overlay to the hotbar slot.
• Restores vanilla item preview when the slot no longer contains boots.
• Replaced green ON indicator's default UI Image with a generated 1x1 RawImage texture.
• Intended to eliminate white/glitchy hotbar artifacts.
• Vendor, price, toggle controls, dropped model, and water walking are unchanged.

0.3.1

• Added actual water-surface footing while Water Walking Boots are ON.
• Added invisible 4x4 support collider that follows the local player at water height.
• Added player-feet correction to lift partially submerged players onto the surface.
• Added downward-velocity suppression near the water surface to prevent sinking through the support.
• Left normal land movement untouched.
• Replaced broken custom-item hotbar preview with a separate static boots-icon UI overlay.
• Static icon does not overwrite the existing hotbar texture.
• Kept the small green ON indicator above the boots slot.
• Kept E activation/deactivation overlay.
• Kept Island 4 StoreClerc vendor and $15,000 price.
• Kept blue-box dropped item model.

0.3.0

• Added E-key Water Walking Boots ON/OFF toggle while the boots are held.
• Added held-item overlay showing E: Activate Boots / E: Deactivate Boots and current ON/OFF state.
• Removed custom hotbar texture replacement that was corrupting the hotbar visuals.
• Added a tiny green ON indicator above the boots' hotbar slot.
• Indicator is hidden while boots are OFF.
• Reworked dropped world item into a plain blue cube with boot-art icon faces.
• Added visual keeper to keep dropped/held boots from being replaced by the moving-water-looking renderer/material.
• Island 4 StoreClerc vendor target and $15,000 purchase remain unchanged.
• F8 host test spawn remains available.

0.2.3

• Fixed v0.2.2 compile failure.
• Restored TryPurchaseBoots().
• Restored SetPurchaseStatus().
• Restored InstallVendorHoverPatch().
• Restored interactable hover callbacks.
• Exact Island 4 StoreClerc targeting is unchanged.
• Purchase price remains $15,000.
• F8 test spawning remains available.

0.2.2

• Removed generic vendor/shop/merchant detection.
• Removed the temporary F7 vendor scanner.
• Vendor purchase is now restricted to the exact Island 4 main-shop clerk.
• Exact target: IslandHolder/NPCs/StoreClerc NPC in scene Island4.
• Added camera-raycast matching based on the successful diagnostic scan.
• Added a small proximity fallback that still requires the exact Island 4 clerk.
• Casino, grill, gun shop, unrelated NPCs, and other islands no longer qualify.
• Purchase remains [9] Buy Water Walking Boots - $15,000.
• F8 host test spawning remains available as a development backup.

0.2.1

• Added F7 vendor/NPC diagnostic scanner.
• Scanner reports the hovered interactable when available.
• Added camera-raycast fallback for NPCs that do not expose the normal hover reference.
• Added nearby-NPC fallback when neither hover nor raycast resolves a target.
• Scanner logs scene name, GameObject name, position, hierarchy path, layers, tags, parent components, and child components.
• Existing F8 test spawning and generic vendor purchase logic remain unchanged.

0.2.0

• Added Water Walking Boots vendor purchase option.
• Shows [9] Buy Water Walking Boots - $15,000 while at a shop/vendor.
• Added shop/vendor detection through the game's Interactable hover system.
• Added proximity fallback for shop stands when hover focus is temporarily lost.
• Added affordability check using MoneyManager.Money.
• Successful purchase deducts $15,000 with MoneyManager.AddMoney.
• Purchased boots spawn through ItemManager.Instance.SpawnNewItem.
• Purchased boots are placed directly into the local player's hands with SetSyncedHolder.
• F8 host test spawning remains available as a development fallback.

0.1.1

• Fixed build failure caused by the missing Unity input assembly.
• Added UnityEngine.InputLegacyModule.dll to the project references.
• Added UnityEngine.InputLegacyModule.dll to build.ps1.
• No gameplay behavior changed from the v0.1.0 item test.

0.1.0

• First custom-item foundation test.
• Added runtime registration for Water Walking Boots.
• Added host-only F8 test spawn.
• Added custom Water Walking Boots inventory/hotbar artwork.
• Simplified dropped world item to a blue cube using the boots texture.
• Assigned the item a $15,000 cost/value for the future vendor implementation.
• Water walking, vendors, toggling, and glow are intentionally deferred until the item itself is verified.