Cube 2: Sauerbraten Changelog

What's new in Cube 2: Sauerbraten 2013_01_04

Jan 10, 2013

reanimated Ogro (by Geartrooper) with skeletal animation so he supports vweps and ragdolls
added new MP maps by 4t3one & Snowy (collusion), viruz (subterra), Windecker (alithia), miscreant (turbulence), Suicizer (evilness), sinsch (catch22), flubz0r (hidden), Skur (skrdm1), SuperMan (bvdm_01), Fatum (tumwalk, snapper_rocks, bad_moon, shiva, elegy), Meister & Fatum (mill, asgard, legazzo, teahupoo, gubo), rabe (outpost), Doko & MisanthropX & Nieb (renegade), Nieb & RaZgRiZ & SirAlex & Windecker (garden), Chris_0076 & Nieb & SomeDude (hashi), t-chen (simplicity, fury, mbt4, mbt9, arbana, haste, forgotten), t-chen & RaZgRiZ (mbt12), RaZgRiZ (twinforts), cm|CubicMatter (kopenhagen), Nieb (autumn), ac & Boxx & HeWho (depot), HeWho (rm5), Sprite & Crap_I'm_Dead (spcr), Crap_I'm_Dead (dirtndust), Maycrus & AtlasSteal & HeWho & Somedude & Chris (masdm), Star (sauerstruck), b4lkLu & Chris_0076 (donya), Majikal (siberia), Ardelico & HeWho & Suicizer (force), Snowy (nucleus), Zeronic & HeWho & Cooper (eternal_valley)
added "collect", "insta collect", and "efficiency collect" game modes
new weapon sounds by Slawomir 'Q009' Blauciak
added support for directional sunlight for lightmaps (controlled via "sunlight", "sunlightyaw", "sunlightpitch", and "sunlightscale" vars)
added "savebrush" and "pastebrush" commands for saving and pasting selected geometry
added support for up to 4 types of water, lava, and glass materials (using "water2", "lava3", etc. materials)
added geometry filter modes for "editmat" command ("empty", "notempty", "solid", and "notsolid")
now uses GLSL as the default rendering path when available (use "forceglsl 0" to use the old assembly shader path if necessary)
added support for international character sets
added support for 64-bit Windows builds
config files and maps are now saved to the My Games directory on Windows
added auto-update and auto-sort options to the server browser
made server browser stay open on connect failure
server browser now displays time remaining for the match on servers
server now shows up as a system tray icon on Windows
server now loads entities directly from maps if available
server may now have multiple masters, auths, and admins at the same time
server now controls its own map rotation
server now supports configurable teamkill limits
increased pistol and grenade damage, and lengthened yellow armour spawn time
health boost and quad spawn times are no longer randomized
shortened game times to 10 minutes in all team modes
players now spawn with blue armour again in FFA
teammates are now shown on minimap
team frags are now tracked independently of player frags
in CTF the same player that dropped a flag may now pick it back up one time, but not twice in a row without a teammate picking it up in between
teamkilling the flag runner in CTF modes now disallows the teamkiller from picking up the flag (toggled via "ctftkpenalty" var in server-init.cfg)
team damage no longer contributes to accuracy
gamehud and edithud may now span multiple lines
added "hidedead" var to control whether players disappear immediately once killed
added "restrictpausegame" var for controlling whether need to be admin to use pausegame during multiplayer
added "restrictdemos" var for controlling whether need to be admin to record a demo and "maxdemos"/"maxdemosize" vars for limiting the number and size of demos
movie recorder now supports larger than 1 GB files using OpenDML/AVI 2.0
added "ignore" and "unignore" commands to locally ignore chat from players
added "-g" command-line option which sets which file console output is logged to
added support for DDS DXT1/3/5 compressed skyboxes and envmaps
added simplified IK for pitch animation
added support for applying transforms to bone tags on skeletal models
revised internal geometry format to support merging cube faces into convex triangle fans instead of just rectangles
use premultiplied-alpha for grass textures to avoid darkening around grass outlines
improved model lighting that preserves contrast on unlit side
added cubescript recursion limits
added "local" command to cubescript that allows you to declare local variables
added cubescript compiler
added snow particles (particle type 13)
"lightthreads" and "pvsthreads" vars now default to the estimated number of CPUs when set to 0
fixed lightmap blurring (controlled via "blurlms" var) at lightmap borders
normals are now sampled at all t-joints for smoothing rather than speculatively subdividing edges
improved packing of lightmaps when a cube face has more than one plane
added "guispring" for creating springs inside a list

New in Cube 2: Sauerbraten 2010_07_21 (Jul 23, 2010)

added new player models Inky and Captain Cannon by Geartrooper
added new MP maps by t-chen & MisanthropX (tempest), MisanthropX & Finn & t-chen (xenon), mIscreant (mercury), Nieb & Geartrooper (justice), Blindabuser & PainKillAH (fc5), KI113R & Redon & SkiingPenguins (alloy), TomekGNO (ruine), Kretren (core_refuge), KaiserTodretter (infamy, desecration), Nieb (bt_falls), viruz (abbey, tortuga), Jonlimle & Argh! & Nieb (injustice), Jonlimle & Nieb & Razgriz (curvy_castle), Nieb & Jonlimle (authentic), t-chen (duel7, duel8, mbt1, mbt2, mbt10, caribbean), MisanthropX & t-chen & Nieb (industry), Fatum (nitro), Vincent (suburb), BlikjeBier (akaritori), Nieb & Destroyer & MisanthropX & viruz (park), KaZ (dune), Justin (pitch_black), and Meister (osiris)
added trak5 texture set by TRaK
added "efficiency ctf", "efficiency protect", "hold", "insta hold", and "efficiency hold" game modes
green and yellow armour spawn delay is now partially randomized and do not spawn immediately
can return the flag to base in protect mode by dropping the flag on top of the base
if a player explicitly drops a flag in ctf mode, he can't pick it back up (only his teammates can)
added numbered base blips for capture modes (toggled via "basenumbers" var, contributed by NancyWilliams)
players are now notified of team switches, and team switches can only be done while dead (forces player to die if alive)
teleports now preserve velocity if third attribute of teledest is set to 1
smoothed out climbing of 1:1 stairs
added mini-map to radar
match time remaining is now displayed in minutes and seconds
added crosshair selection menu
can now change the texture configuration in-game of all textures within a selection (via "vrotate", "voffset", "vscale", "vscroll", "vlayer", "valpha", "vshaderparam", "vcolor", "vreset", and "vdelta" commands)
added support for alpha-blended textures (controlled via "editmat alpha", "texalpha", and "valpha" commands)
added color scaling for diffuse textures in all shaders (via "texcolor" and "vcolor" commands)
added support for fogging skybox (controlled via "fogdomemax", "fogdomemin", and "fogdomeheight" vars)
added support for coloring skybox (via "skyboxcolour" var)
sky-textured geometry no longer blocks skylight (controlled via "skytexturelight" var)
added multi-threading for "calclight" command (controlled via "lightthreads" var)
edit clipboard is now synchronized when a new player connects to a coop-edit
added "replacesel" command that only replaces textures within the current selection
added "shrinkmap" command for reducing oversized maps
cubes are now textured on all sides with the second texture slot by default
added optional Quake-like mouse acceleration (controlled via "mouseaccel" var)
added "reconnect" command for connecting to the last connected server
added optional wall clock (controlled via "wallclock", "wallclock24", and "wallclocksecs" vars)
added "conscale" var that controls the size of console text
added teamkill filter for console
added "screenshotdir" var that controls where screenshots are placed
"writeobj" command now exports texture assignments
revised vertex format to be more efficient on older/generic 3D cards
added GLSL render path (toggled via "forceglsl" var)
added support for uniform buffer objects to GLSL skeletal animation path
improved skeletal animation blending quality in fixed-function mode
added support for environment-mapped world geometry in fixed-function mode
added rotational friction for ragdolls to make them settle more quickly
revised collision detection to use Minkowski Portal Refinement (allows for easier extending of collision to new shapes)
improved adaptive sampling for calclight (faster "calclight 1")
added motion blur effect (toggled via "motionblur" var)
"deathscore" variable controls whether scoreboard is shown on death
scoreboard shows the server you are currently connected to (toggled via "showservinfo")
added "guinameslider" for selecting from a list of names with a slider
added "guialign" for creating aligned lists
added SMD and IQM model support (see models.html)