NEW RELEASE: 2007-04-13 spring edition

by Aardappel_ on 04/13/2007 10:23, 170 messages, last message: 10/07/2007 19:55, 206753 views, last view: 05/16/2024 10:46

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

from history.html:

* scoreboard now displays mode, map, and time remaining
* bases now produce ammo in capture mode (take ammo with R key or "repammo" command)
* added reflective water in fixed-function mode
* added reflective glass in fixed-function mode
* made waterfall top/bottom correctly align with water surface
* player vs. player collisions now use ellipses instead of bounding boxes
* added new functionality to the rpg prototype (WiP)
* added planar shadows for most dynamic entities
* added -o option for servers to disable "locked" and "private" mastermodes
* dead players now colored gray on scoreboard
* changed experimental movement speedup code to include both jumping & forward independently (see game.html)
* added F key support to heightmap editing.
* improved "fastshader" system to support more than 2 performance levels
* added environment-mapped geometry shaders (via "bumpenv*world" shaders)
* added ambient sound entities (via "mapsound" and "newent sound")
* added alpha-masked shadows for mapmodels with alpha-channel skins (via "calclight 3")
* added animated caustics effect to underwater geometry
* added experimental animated grass system
* added support for GLSL shaders
* added entautoview, entitysurf and selectionsurf
* added Marc's latest 8 tracks, for a total of 31 now!
* added visual entity box handle. allows easy choice of orientation. hovering over an ent now replaces closest ent as implicit ent selection.
* added smoothmap command for heightmaps. (default press H when already in hmap mode) executes a moving avg filter over hmap
* added context sensitive entity menu (default TAB)
* added a scale parameter to the "texture" command, for changing the apparent size
* texture combining now scales combined texture to match size of base texture
* command "showtexgui" (default F2) allows for comfortable texture browsing
* made gui stick to player's Z
* fixed server lockup (in patch)

Enjoy!

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#49: ..

by absinth_nocookie on 04/16/2007 01:25

btw rpointon, some of the new stuff in the launcher doesn't seem to be 10.3 clean:

Launcher.m: In function '-[Map text]':
Launcher.m:46: warning: no '-initWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:' method found
Launcher.m: In function '-[Launcher initViews]':
Launcher.m:139: warning: 'NSWindow' may not respond to '-setShowsToolbarButton:'

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#50: Re: ..

by baby rabbit on 04/16/2007 02:01, refers to #49

People still using 10.3? gosh... See fix in CVS

- aka rpointon

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#51: Teleport model && more announcements?

by CrazyTB on 04/16/2007 02:23

I think the new teleport model looks better than the previous one. However, to look more realistic/natural/conceivable, it should have an animated texture at center.

BTW, would be nice to have some more announcements, like "Killing Spree".

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#52: ..

by W4,. on 04/16/2007 04:07

The only flaw i noticed was on some textures with bumb mapping, when the player moved closer to the texture, the texture began to warp around the cursor.

Also lights still bleed through walls but this has always happened

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#53: ..

by Grogan on 04/16/2007 10:51

Wow, this release is impressive. Marvelous work, folks. A big thanks, too.

I love the new sounds, textures, effects, decent looking splatter and maps. In addition to the fabulous new maps, I like the new textures in some of the old maps. It's like they got a makeover.

I even got to play some instagib on one of the akrion.net servers. That's come to be my favourite mode of game play. (not that I'm good at it or anything). Lost in Space was a blast.

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#54: ..

by absinth_nocookie on 04/16/2007 16:01

thanks rpointon

new mac version up

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#55: ..

by w4 on 04/16/2007 16:27

I think the bump map warping thing is only on some video cards and varries because i get it all the time but only on one type of wall facing one direction. It also effects only some of the bump map textures. Even with a calclight its wont go away.

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#56: ..

by w4 on 04/16/2007 16:30

The last thing i dislike in this great realease is that the noise brush is gone. It was really helpful for terrain and a more natural look

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#57: ..

by Acord on 04/16/2007 19:09

I've noticed that the bumpmap bug can be fixed by reducing the contrast on the heightmap files so that there isn't an extreme high or low.

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#58: ogromines

by CrazyTB on 04/16/2007 20:37

Hey, wtf happend to that old \"ogromines\" map? It is so ugly now!

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#59: ..

by enigma_0Z on 04/16/2007 20:58

Nice release, but is there somewhere that details the new grass? It automagically appears on the default "green bumps" texture...

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#60: Re: see backlog

by MeatROme on 04/16/2007 21:42, refers to #59

Post #39 already explains the lack of documentation.
http://cubeengine.com/forum.php4?action=display_thread&thread_id=1347&start=20

Try looking at exisiting cfg-files and just experimenting with settings for now.

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#61: Re: ogromines

by SanHolo on 04/16/2007 22:27, refers to #58

Ogromines is indeed uglier, plus you can't climb the big ladder any more – maybe it works again with the new 15-4-2007 release, haven't checked.

But altogether GREAT release; needs some time to get used to the air-control, but it feels good. Thank you all!!

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#62: Re: see backlog

by randomcivilian [just found linux] on 04/17/2007 00:34, refers to #60

I looked at the default_map_settings.cfg file but all it told me was the default grass texture for the autograss.... can I have some help on how to put it ingame.

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#63: Re: see backlog

by enigma_0Z on 04/17/2007 00:44, refers to #60

LOL. thanks for not saying "RTFM" or... RTFP as the case may be.

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#64: bumpmapped textures

by kurtis84 on 04/17/2007 04:11

Seeing these oddities in a non-lit area is common, it's the parallax causing it. Solution: have no ambient lighting in maps, or try to cast light from a nearby light entity....or just ignore it. I had to be told about this before I noticed it, not a big deal. The one thing I would not do to the textures, is smooth out the heightmaps. There are shader scripts controlling these features, if you do not like them, turn them down, or off.

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#65: ..

by Grogan on 04/17/2007 19:17

I tried Ogromines last night (I love that map) and I thought it looked OK. In some ways better, though perhaps the ground textures are cheesier.

I was able to get up that ladder and it didn't seem any different from before, though I did fall through the broken rung once which has never happened to me before. I've always had to jump to get up some of those rungs. So that appears to be fixed if it was broken.

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#66: ..

by Passa on 04/18/2007 08:07

Awesome release, love the new tracks from Fanatic especially!

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#67: About screen

by CrazyTB on 04/18/2007 18:41

This is VERY important (and very simple, at same time). The "About" screen (from main menu) must show the sauerbraten version!!

To avoid forgetting to update that screen on every release, add a hardcoded read-only variable called $game_version (or something like that).

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#68: Re: About screen

by Drakas on 04/18/2007 19:32, refers to #67

I prefer $version

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