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NEW RELEASE: 2007-04-13 spring edition

by Aardappel_ on 04/13/2007 10:23, 170 messages, last message: 10/07/2007 19:55, 206458 views, last view: 05/05/2024 11:04

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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#87: ..

by Grogan on 04/21/2007 09:38

"Sauerbraten occasionally gets this horizontal "artifact" like there's some polys or some object going through my view. Nothing specifically triggers it except music and map changes, even then it's random..."

I can confirm that I've seen that artifact a few times, but that was with the gui edition. It only seemed to happen at certain times, like while playing multiplayer in killfactory.

I thought I had that one solved by compiling my own client, but I saw it once more after that. In killfactory again. I chocked it up to a network related thing, or possibly players with varying degrees of lag all hopping around.

I've never seen it playing single player games.

I compiled my own spring edition client as well (didn't try the supplied binary), and I have not seen that artifact. I probably have not used it long enough to see it though, because it was rare for me.

About the segfaults... with the gui edition precompiled binary I had that happen a few times. That was strange to me, because I'd never had sauer mess up on me before. What I got was the game freezing up. That's it, no more input. The only way out of it for me is to ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X, ctrl-alt-f1 to drop to another virtual console and kill shit, or ssh in from another box.

If I ctrl-alt-backspace I saw a segfault message on the screen. (because of the way I start sauer from an XFCE panel shortcut, that's where the output goes, into garbage land)

This problem (the segfault and game not responding) has NOT occured again since compiling my own client. (The only thing I edited was the Makefile to get it to compile). It has been some time too, because this was the gui edition.

My Linux system is a "from scratch" kind of thing so it didn't surprise me that compiling it on my own system solved a problem.

I wish I'd have taken note of details at the time, but I didn't think it important because I thought it was more of a system specific problem. It's too occasional to try to reproduce now with the binary too.