NEW RELEASE: 2007-08-19 summer edition

by eihrul on 08/20/2007 09:36, 153 messages, last message: 09/12/2007 17:52, 230688 views, last view: 04/19/2024 10:21

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

Says the history.html:

* local server now respects "gamespeed" and "paused" vars
* added toggles for trilinear and bilinear filtering (via "trilinear" and "bilinear" vars)
* added "consize" var for controlling the size of the default/overlayed console
* server browser now sorts servers by number of players (empty servers still sorted by ping)
* directions and radiuses of entities now display in edit mode (toggled via "showentradius" var)
* added support for FBO depth+stencil format so dynamic shadows can render properly in water refractions
* "remip" now synchronized with all clients in coop-edit
* added "clearbans" command so masters can clear all bans
* added "floatspeed" var for controlling spectator/editmode movement speed
* added "outlinemeters" var for outlining capture meters
* added "teamskins" var for toggling usage of red/blue skins in FFA modes
* added "ogro" var for toggling use of Ogro
* models now use a bounding interval hierarchy for ray tracing/lightmapping instead of sphere trees (better memory/cache usage)
* added workaround for crashes with Linux ATI/fglrx drivers
* fixed collision bug that let players walk inside sloped geometry
* added blood decals (toggled via the "blood" var)
* added "insta capture" game mode
* tweaked capture gameplay timings
* added calclight visualization of lightmaps
* added "-v" command-line option for controlling vsync
* added "-k" command-line option for adding mod directories
* added "-q" command-line option to set per-user home directories
* added "-r" command-line option to load "init.cfg" on startup
* added "init.cfg" so init settings can be changed from in-game and take effect on restart without needing command-line
* added "guilistslider" command for selecting from a list of specific integer values
* added support for hardware-accelerated mipmap generation (via "hwmipmap" var)
* added "gui2d" var for making all menus/scoreboard 2D
* added "texreduce" var for scaling texture quality down
* added dynamic lighting system
* new "gridlookup" var controls whether cursor grid size is looked up from cube under cursor
* refactored gameplay and moved some of it (damage, ammo, health) server-side
* autoteam now only selects good/evil regardless of number of teams in play
* experimental server-side demo recording
* added "admin" privileges via "setmaster password"
* added support for translucent models
* made yaw/pitch of playermodels interpolated in multiplayer
* VBOs now supported on animated models
* added support for custom fonts
* added "lava" material
* added "goto" command for spectators
* made models share meshes/rendering data if same md2/md3 file is loaded for better memory usage
* connection to masterserver can now be aborted in case the http socket connect locks up
* fixed bug that caused some unnecessary sparklies in indoor maps
* glowmapped models/geometry now work in fixed-function mode
* models now support environment mapping (via custom envmaps or envmap entities)
* added (ugly) fallback for old cards with no multitexture support (rather than spitting out error and quitting)
* revised texture combiner support to more easily add fixed-function effects
* fixed particles and materials not fogging properly
* duplicate player names are now distinguished by client number
* optimized model rendering to batch similar models and reduce state changing as much as possible
* capture bases can now be named via "base_N" aliases
* animation now supports multi-part md3 characters
* added support for OGG sounds
* added "spotlight" entities
* added texture slot "e" for loading custom envmaps with envmapped shaders
* added support for post-pass blurring of lightmaps (via "blurlms" and "blurskylight" vars)
* added ambient occlusion for lightmaps (via "skylight" command)
* added softened explosions via shaders (spheres) or fixed-function mode (hemispheres)
* added workaround for explosions crashing on some Intel integrated graphics
* added vertex animation to water

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#21: By far the best release...

by ThomasX on 08/20/2007 17:03

Yes, This is by far the best version out there, I can\'t wait until there will be more maps that use the lava stuff and as for the model, It looks cool especially with the chrome shader :D

P.S:Switch to 3rd person mode and type /taunt ;)

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#22: ..

by Eris on 08/20/2007 17:04

This release is VERY cool! TY TY TY!

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#23: Re: ..

by a-baby-rabbit on 08/20/2007 17:09, refers to #15

Us mac devs have lives too - bad timing at the moment, I have no time to consider this until Tues evening (GMT)...

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#24: ..

by SheeEttin on 08/20/2007 17:13

> * fixed collision bug that let players walk inside sloped geometry

I sure hope so. If anyone has Senjou, try pressing yourself into a corner in one of the round rooms. It's possible to walk right through. (In the older versions, at least.)

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#25: Re: ..

by mr on 08/20/2007 17:17, refers to #11

Yup - I'm a mac user for who developing is way beyond me, but playin' aint, so I'm very grateful to those who can! So whenever its up is cool by me - can't wait to start playing!

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#26: ..

by randomcivilian [just found linux] on 08/20/2007 18:07

YAY!!!!!!!!! al though its allitle late to be calling it "summer" edition because the summers almost over

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#27: nice! thank you so mutch!

by ot4ku :> on 08/20/2007 18:09

thanks for providing sutch a good game for free, its awsome!
thanks!!

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#28: ..

by randomcivilian [just found linux] on 08/20/2007 18:10

whoa, what happened to the original "ironsnout"? the concept shot showed him as a bumbling dude with a fallout mask on. this on just looks like the man version of Samus????

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#29: Re: ..

by ot4ku :> on 08/20/2007 18:10, refers to #26

yeah almost.. but it is summer, so its right

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#30: ..

by silvercharcoal5 on 08/20/2007 18:26

thx for the new release.

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#31: ..

by Julius on 08/20/2007 18:28

Really great release, with nice feature added.

But could you elaborate this further:
* added "-k" command-line option for adding mod directories

What can be done with this? Is that the total conversion mod support that was rumored for some time?

Oh and am I guessing right that this:
* added dynamic lighting system
Is an important step for non precomputed normal maps?


BTW what happend to the (static) LOD support? Is it in this release?

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#32: ..

by Whitetemplar on 08/20/2007 18:32

WOWOWOWWWWWWWWWWOOOOO SAUER POWER :D POWER SAUER GOOD GIGA GAME HELL YEAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THIS VERSION IS HELL GGGGGGRRRRRRREEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTT NICE VERY NICE CONGRACULATIONS

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#33: Yeah!

by /Kraid/ on 08/20/2007 18:33

Hey guys!
With the new lava material there will be some lavapits builded ^^

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#34: ..

by Julius on 08/20/2007 18:38

Hmm oh and I am getting kicked back to the desktop with a "floatingpoint excerption (core dumped)" quite often :(
I am running Sauerbraten on Ubuntu 7.04 with a Nvidia graphics card.

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#35: Some criticism

by Skilled player on 08/20/2007 18:39

I think there are some features in new version that make gameplay worse than in previous one. First of all: rocket is too powerful. There are no weapons that can argue with rocket because it's been made too strong and shot too fast. For example grenade is fast weapon but too weak and so does machine gun. Rail gun (q3 analogy) is powerful but very slow and so does shotgun. In other words weapons are very unbalanced.
Permanent health bonus is also very arguable, IMHO.
I appreciate the work you do. Graphic increasing from version to version is outstanding. New maps is very interesting. I just hope that graphics will not "eat" the main feature of this game - its style.

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#36: Sweet again!!!

by blikje bier on 08/20/2007 18:52

Still running with my old hardware (Athlon 1.8, 1 gig, Gforce 3 (64 mb), but no problems so far.

The only question is, why do so many free and open-source games improve so much over time without me having to upgrade my hardware when the newest commercial releases only will run decently on the latest most expensive hardware.

So hats off again for yet another excellent (summer) release. Mind you, not that we had much of a summer over here in the Netherlands.

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#37: ..

by wa on 08/20/2007 19:04

So if I were to download the Linux version on a Mac, would I be able to compile the source that might be included with it? Does it have an Xcode folder? I'm not downloading 200 MB just to find out.
Also, someone screwed up the CVS and it's asking for a file that doesn't exist, and if I download the old one, it gives me 25 errors.
And thank you so much for fixing the collision bug.

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#38: ..

by Eris on 08/20/2007 19:22

Lava is so hot!!!

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#39: Re: Some criticism

by makkE on 08/20/2007 19:31, refers to #35

Afaik, only the size of the rocket explosion (the mere graphical effect) has changed.

Still I agree, the (un)balance and healthboost is something I don´t like as well. Sauerbraten will probably never change that, I hope for SauerMod to adress some of those issues.

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by w4 ¿?¿?¿ on 08/20/2007 19:44

what exactly is the dynamic lighting like


i would find out but there is no mac version out yet

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