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2006-12-04 "gui edition" release is out!

by Aardappel_ on 12/04/2006 07:50, 107 messages, last message: 01/15/2007 09:53, 89987 views, last view: 05/02/2024 06:39

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=102911

from the history:

* added 'particletext' var for toggling particle text
* alias arguments now set by 'push' on execution, and restored by 'pop' after
* added 'push' and 'pop' commands for saving and restoring aliases
* glass reflection using environment maps
* added environment map entities (created by "newent envmap") for reflecting geometry
* added S3 texture compression support (controlled by "mintexcompresssize" var)
* added Gregor's new texture set and map, and many other new maps/media
* added heightmaps for most existing normalmapped textures, so we can have parallax on everything
* added scripting documentation for the rpg
* model rendering code now automatically generates triangle strips for both md2s and md3s
* added workaround for garbage in skybox on ATI cards (must be enabled explicitly by "/ati_skybox_bug 1" if necessary)
* fixed lighting bug in fixed-function mode that caused textures to saturate
* made selections solid. you can still use 'passthrough' to suppress it
* changed some default editing key bindings. right mouse is now the 'editextend' command, B is now change brush, Alt is now passthrough
* added multiple entity selection.
* added boolean operators to cubescript: &&(and), ||(or), ^(xor), !(not)
* exposed selecting to cube script. see "entselect, moving, dragging, entmoving" and related commands. ex: KP_Enter selects entity's within selection, etc.
* added a bunch of new editing commands to seperate much of the entity and cube commands in engine. overloading behaviours is now left to scripts. see data/stdedit.cfg
* new gui/menu system
* added surface merging that drastically reduces world geometry (done on remip/calclight)
* teams now automatically selected on any team mode by server
* added support for md3 vweps
* default enemy ogro skin is now always red (teammates always blue)
* added progress meters for base captures
* server will now pick map with most pending votes (if possible) at the end of a match
* reflections now use occlusion queries instead of distance check
* changed geometry rendering to use triangles instead of quads (consistent subdivision on all platforms)
* "newmap" is now synchronized across all clients in coopedit
* revised networking code to better utilize enet (less lag and bandwidth usage)

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by sinsky on 12/08/2006 12:12

People always try to go the easy way, even when they get paid. I haven't seen many mmos but I think there isn't a mmo, or there are few, where PvP is shadowed by some kind of working in-game economy and trade. Haven't seen this anywhere except in Ultima, there might be more such games but I don't know of any really. Year after year new mmos emerge, with improved engines and fantastic art, but that part of gameplay is somehow neglected. My guess is that it's the ultimate, ultra-tough, ultimatistic mmo feature that would require tons of gold and long years of slave labor, as well as reworking entire gameplays and a good deal of luck, and piles of failed projects of course, to implement right :)

Oh that went way off-topic and surreal as usual. Anyway, here are some buggy screnshots from my Radeon 9550 videocard:

http://www.geocities.com/sdsinsky/cube/r9550.htm

These are not specific to this release, but since you fixed the skybox bug, perhaps you can make some kind of workaround for this too, or if it's trivial to fix, post a guide or something. I think this glitch is present on Radeon cards on Cube as well (can make screenshots if needed, don't have Cube installed right now). The dots are not static, they disappear and new ones appear someplace else while moving.