Cube 2: Sauerbraten - Change History

2020_11_29

• added new MP maps
• aastha by firefly & Nieb
• abyss, eris, exo, ferguson, fragnostic, hektik, overdrive, phrantic, regal, zavial by Fatum
• access by SATAN!!!
• akimiski, asenatra by Ardelico
• albatross, tectonic by Kv
• antel by Ardelico & Doko & MasterTechCC
• anubis, gorge by Redon
• aod, lost_soul, pul1ctf by Suicizer
• asthma, colony, ruebli, zdm2 by Zoocata
• averas by Sheik & Doko
• awoken, catacombs by firefly & Fixxxer & swatllama
• bklyn by pix
• breakout, enigma, harbor by Gangler
• c_lone by t00l & Getridou & LURKing
• carbide, fallen, fdm6, fire_keep, frag-lab, laucin, luna, mc-lab, pandora, river_keep, stronghold by Fatality
• cartel, legacy, sandstorm2 by Sheik
• casa, janela, stadium by Akari
• cavefire by Cedii
• church51 by tool
• clash, earthsea by 7YearWitch & Sauce & Xadus
• collide by FixxxerSA & Redon
• conflict, crypta, dispute, disruption, idris, maple by fixxxer
• croma by 2+2=3 & Luffy & pix
• ctf_suite, ra by Nieb
• daemex, fubuki, hator, kiryu, ognjen, shellshock2, suisei, unworld by 7YearWitch
• destiny, divine, infernal, kastro, zamak by LURKing
• disc by firefly
• dopamine, saffier by Getridou
• duel5 by t-chen
• earthstation, meltdown2, metro, risk, surge by Pointblank
• exist by miscreant
• fortress, souls by Gangler & Nieb
• frag2 by 7YearWitch & makkE
• fusion by shuzo & Redon & Nieb
• genesis by Sauce
• ghetto by MaxedOut & Sauce & January & Nxy & Gear
• gothic-df by Adrelico & Doko
• headroom by Nieb & Redon & Frosty
• haze by Crap_I'm_dead & notas & starch & Galaxy
• hdm3 by Halbgar
• helligsted by Sprite
• hillfort by 7YearWitch & Nieb
• horus by fixxxer & swatllama
• idyll3 by 7YearWitch & Mmeaninglez
• imhotep by Nxy & Sauce & LURKing & FaZo & micai
• insipid by AtlasSteal
• lost_world by swatllama & 7YearWitch & firefly
• memoria, ventania by Salatiel
• mood by micai
• nessus, spcr2 by Sprite & Crap_I'm_dead
• new_energy by Mysterious
• oldschool, sauerowalk, stahlbox by rabe
• ow by siesta
• pariah by Pointblank
• purgatory by Frosty & Nieb
• rust by shuzo
• rm1 by HeWho & Nieb
• skycastle-r by Matt Bierner & Okicomputer
• slingshot by Fixxxer & 7YearWitch & Sauce & firefly
• tatooine by HeWho & nopnotme & Doom32 & Sheik
• toxicity by Doko & pyccna
• triforts by RaZgRiZ
• tubes by Gangler & RaZgRiZ & Gergely
• turmoil by Misan & Shuzo & KI113R
• unworld2, unworld3 by 7Yearwitch & Soyuz
• waltz by Doko
• warlock by Getridou & Sauce & LURKing & Doko
• ztn by Redon & 7YearWitch & swatllama & Fatality & Akari
• added new SP maps
• skrsp1 by Skur
• crnsp1 by crun
• multiplayer vslots in coop-edit
• multiplayer undo in coop-edit
• removed fixed-function rendering path and instead always use GLSL render path
• updated to SDL 2
• added "texrotate" modes 6 & 7 for transposing textures
• added "envmapbb" var for boxed envmap radius instead of spherical
• added support for alpha mask texture on alpha geometry
• added "getselpos" & "setselpos" & "movesel" for scripting edit selection
• added "getv*" commands for querying vslot information
• added "contags" var to control edit var spam
• added "entcamdir" var to control whether ents take their yaw from camera
• added atmospheric scattering shader for sky ("atmo")
• revamped spawn system that tries to intelligently select spawns
• flag can now be dropped up to 3 times in CTF modes instead of only once
• revamped timer in hold mode so that teammates can recover the timer if flag is recovered
• revamped health boost
• added colors to health hud ("healthcolors")
• added max health to hud
• added "hidefrags" var to control whether frags are shown in scoreboard for CTF/capture modes
• added "showdeaths" var to control whether deaths are shown in scoreboard
• added "jumpspawn" & "attackspawn" vars to control whether jump and attack actions try to respawn if dead
• added "respawn" command to explicitly request a respawn when dead
• added "showping" mode 2 for showing pj compactly
• added "hidedead" mode 2 for hiding enemy deaths but not player's
• added "seekdemo" comand for jumping forward to specific time in a demo
• "getdemo" now supports specifying a demo name
• added "demodir" var for specifying where demos are saved
• added "autorecorddemo" server var to control whether server automatically records demos
• added "modifiedmapspectator" server var to control if players who have modified the map should be forced to spectate
• added "persistteams" server var to toggle autoteam
• added "overtime" server var to optionally enable overtime behavior when score is tied
• added "regenbluearmour" server var to toggle blue armour in regen-capture
• 2D guis now always render over the HUD
• added "minimizedsounds" var to control whether sounds play when window is minimized
• added "audiodriver" var for overriding SDL sound driver selection
• allow max "soundfreq" of 48k
• made "maxsoundradius" read-only
• chat names are now team colored ("teamcolorchat")
• added optional ammobar hud ("ammobar")
• added optional score hud ("hudscore")
• added optional game clock hud ("gameclock")
• show status icons over players ("statusicons")
• show health status bars for teammates ("statusbars")
• added support for JPEG screenshots
• added many new textures and skyboxes
• countless bug fixes

2013_01_04_collect_edition

• 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

2010_07_19_justice_edition

• 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)

2009_05_04_trooper_edition

• added new player model Snout X10000 by Geartrooper
• added new hudguns and vweps by Geartrooper
• added new logo and loading screens by Blindabuser
• added new soundtrack "Odious" by Fanatic
• added new MP maps by Nieb (flagstone, turbine), Meister & Com3t4 (valhalla), Blikje Bier (konkuri-to), KaiserTodretter (redemption), Blindabuser (fc4), THEtarget (l_ctf), Halleck (neondevastation), mIscreant (refuge, forge), MX (sdm1), viruz (dust2), schmutzwurst (campo), KI113R & Redon (killcore3), Majikal (damnation, torment), Hero (europium), Kal & Halleck (kffa), Meister (shinmei1), Destroyer (dock), Hero & viruz (cwcastle), Redon (memento, frozen, recovery), Drakker (sacrifice, powerplant), Kretren (core_transfer), and MisanthropX (arabic)
• added new SP map by Redon (lost)
• added new stained glass texture set by PainKillAH and snow texture set by TomekGNO
• backported bots from Blood Frontier by Quin
• new announcer voice by Blindabuser
• added "protect" and "insta protect" game modes
• added layer blending for world geometry
• added flame particles (particle types 0 and 11) and smoke particles (particle type 12)
• all map vars (skybox, fog, watercolour, etc.) now save inside maps and sync during coop-edit
• ambient light can now be colored (with "ambient R G B")
• "fogcolour" variable can now be set with the form "fogcolour R G B"
• renamed "aiclip" material to "gameclip" and allowed it to be used to prevent flag dropping in areas in CTF/protect modes or base capturing in capture modes
• "editmat" command can now specify an optional filter material which limits the cubes it modifies
• added "gotosel" command to go to the current selection's position in edit mode
• simplified "calclight"/"patchlight" quality levels to 1: high, -1: low, and 0: determined by "lmshadows" and "lmaa" vars
• particles now show in edit mode (controlled by "showparticles" var)
• pickups now show up immediately when added in edit mode
• added support for optional hit sound (toggle with "hitsound" var)
• added configurable mini-console for chat (configurable via "miniconsize", "miniconwidth", "miniconfilter", and "miniconfade" vars)
• made key-binding menu easier to use
• extended damage compass to 8 directions (from 4)
• added ammo inventory display to HUD
• made "sensitivity" variable floating-point (no more "sensitivityscale" needed)
• added "dropflag" command for CTF modes to drop the flag
• main menu is now shown instead of dumping to local map when game starts up or when disconnected from multiplayer
• players can now un-spectator themselves if mastermode is less than 2 (locked)
• can now keep servers in the server browser with the "keepserver" command and also specify passwords for it to use
• demo recording now works for local MP modes
• re-enabled listen server functionality (via "-d1" command-line option or "startlistenserver" command)
• can now setup server parameters with "server-init.cfg" instead of using command-line options
• can now specify different ports for servers to use (via "-j" command-line option)
• included source code for new master/auth server
• added optional master authentication system instead of old "approve" command
• added support for locking servers with passwords (via "-y" command-line option)
• server admins can now pause matches with the "pausegame" command
• collision boxes for mapmodels now support yaw
• smoothed out player collisions against stairways
• added optional ragdoll physics for skeletally-animated models
• added movie recording in uncompressed AVI YUV format (via "movie" command)
• screenshots now save as PNG images instead of BMP
• added support for loading files directly out of ZIP archives
• added support for DDS DXT1/3/5 compressed textures
• removed dependency on libGLU
• added view frustum/PVS culling for particle entities
• deferred loading of world shaders until they are used
• replaced "setpixelparam"/"setvertexparam" with easier "setshaderparam" command
• rewrote grass rendering to support blending and better batching
• made "mdltrans"/"mdlscale" use matrix transforms instead of preprocessing vertexes
• added cheap blob shadows fallback for player shadows
• removed old/inefficient stencil shadows fallback
• added support for shadow mapping in fixed-function mode
• added support for dynamic lights in fixed-function mode
• rewrote post-processing shaders to allow stacking

2008_06_17_ctf_edition

• added new MP maps by Nieb (hallo, shipwreck), schmutzwurst (akroseum, berlin_wall), KillHour (hog2), KaiserTodretter (paradiselost), Mayhem & mIscreant (duomo), Mayhem (tejen), Hero & WahnFred (mach2), TUX (capture_night), SATAN!!! (reissen), Redon (c_egypt), and Kal & DairyKing (kalking1)
• added MitaMAN's new SP campaign: "Private Stan Sauer"
• added Fanatic's new 10 song soundtrack "Spontaneous Failure"
• added geartrooper's new MD5 character model: Mr. Fixit
• added ctf and insta ctf game modes
• added support for cloud boxes and cloud layers over sky box
• added in-game text editor for editing cfg files
• texture browser now displays glow, rotation, and offsets
• added console message filter (controlled via "confilter" and "fullconfilter" vars)
• "follow" command now works in first-person (can spectate in third-person via "thirdperson" var or 9 key)
• added support for Cube Server Lister extended information
• added support for Mumble positional audio (contributed by The Conquerors clan)
• added "apply changes now?" dialog using "resetgl" command (toggled via "applydialog" var)
• made clip material coexist with other materials (so water/lava can clip)
• added "death" material for forcing player suicide
• added "fullconsize" var for controlling the percent of the screen the full console occupies
• undo now works with heightmap editing mode
• now automatically pick up ammo boxes when touching a base in normal capture mode (toggled via "autorepammo" var)
• lowered the minimum gridpower to 0
• added "texoffset", "texrotate", and "texscale" commands for more easily specifying texture slot parameters
• texture rotation is now done via texture coordinate generation (instead of making copies/wasting memory)
• added "sayteam" command for chatting to teammates (bound to Y key by default)
• added optional t-joint removal to fix world sparklies (toggled via "filltjoints" var)
• made hit crosshair show when successfully hit enemy (duration set via "hitcrosshair" var)
• made teammate crosshair show when aiming at a teammate (toggled via "teamcrosshair" var)
• player is now dumped to an empty map if he does not have the particular map in multiplayer
• added support for soft particles/explosions (toggled via "depthfx" var)
• added support for "pulseglow" shaders in fixed-function mode
• added "texscroll" command for scrolling texture slots
• added cheaper/more-controlled glow/specular bloom (controlled via "glare" var)
• added "texgui2d" var for toggling whether the texture palette uses a 2D or 3D gui
• scoreboard now always defaults to 2D, regardless of GUI settings (controlled via "scoreboard2d" var)
• added "waterfallcolour" command to control coloring of waterfalls separately from water
• optimized water reflection/refraction with scissoring and tighter frustum culling
• added refractive waterfalls (controlled via "waterfallrefract" var, disabled by default due to cost)
• added environment-mapped waterfalls (controlled via "waterfallenv" var)
• added tethers that show who is capturing a base (controlled via "capturetether" var)
• rewrote particle renderer to make it more extensible
• rewrote world renderer to more efficiently batch draw calls
• made lightmaps use a texture atlas to enable better batching of draw calls
• locked physics at fixed rate of 200 Hz (no more variable rate)
• revised handling of slopes in physics to reduce sticking problems
• made underwater fog/caustics fade in instead of turn on immediately at the surface
• added "resetgl" command to restart the renderer while running
• added builtin zoom (toggled via G key or "zoom" var)
• added directional damage indicator to the HUD (toggled via "damagecompass" var)
• smoothed out the shadow boundary caused by the shadowmap depth peeling
• softened water edges now work when under water
• players can now reconnect to private games when disconnected, so long as their IP matches
• added precomputed visibility/PVS system for occlusion culling on 3D cards that don't support OQ (see editref.html)
• added support for environment-mapped water reflections as a cheap fallback (used if "waterreflect" is off)
• added movement smoothing for other players in multiplayer (reduces jumpiness from packet loss)
• added "fullbrightmodels" var for controlling fullbright-ness of player models
• added MD5 model support with new skeletal animation system (see models.html)
• added OBJ model support (see models.html)
• added new decal system for bullet holes, scorch marks, etc.

2007_12_22_assassin_edition

• added new "slowmo" sp and dmsp modes (-5 and -4 respectively), see sp modes description
• added lots of functionality to the rpg game
• capture meters now decay instead of reset if you leave their radius
• added assassin, insta assassin, and regen capture game modes
• models (hudguns, characters, etc.) are now preloaded to reduce load pauses during play
• switched the quick-edit menu key from TAB to F3
• air speed bonus now works when moving backwards
• added geartrooper's new hudguns and vweps
• improved remip
• added dtrace probes for cube script
• added "aiclip" material for clipping monsters in SP
• added exploding barrels, movable boxes, platforms, and elevators for SP (via "barrel", "box", "platform", and "elevator" entities)
• added support for anisotropic texture filtering (via "aniso" var)
• re-enabled occlusion query on Linux ATI/fglrx drivers due to some massive improvements in version 8.42
• cut capture/spawn times in half for insta capture
• added support for depth-fogged water in fixed-function mode
• softened up water edges when using refractive water with shaders
• master status must now be approved by one other person (via "approve" command) when using the "-o1" public server option
• rewrote heightmap. Hold LCTRL or press H to activate.
• added workaround for broken demo recording on Windows
• added normalmapping support for models (via "md3bumpmap" command)
• taunting now causes player to stop moving
• fixed bug with explosions not doing damage
• made client and server sync their clocks as often as possible to compensate for inaccurate clocks on some hardware
• replaced the display list fallback for models with vertex arrays instead (allows better reuse of model animation on older 3D cards)
• player animation is now cached so its only done once per frame despite multipass rendering (reflections, shadows, etc.)
• player models now use occlusion queries so only visible players are animated (huge SP speedup with lots of monsters)
• environment map textures are now automatically scaled so that all sides have matching resolution
• added lightning particles
• added experimental soft shadow system based on shadowmapping and depth peeling
• Cube map importer can now handle AssaultCube maps
• added spectator follow camera (via "follow" command)
• added "loadcrosshair" command
• improved scoreboard for team modes
• miscellaneous crash/bug fixes

2007_08_19_summer_edition

• 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

2007_04_13_spring_edition

• added hudgun sway (toggled via "hugunsway" variable)
• "crosshairfx" variable now works again
• servers now report correct IP to masterserver with the -i command-line option
• 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)

2006_12_04_gui_edition

• 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)

2006_09_12_water_edition

• added "setteam" command for forcing teams via mastermode
• added support for material texture slots
• added "shaderdetail" var that can turn off some expensive shaders
• new water rendering supporting reflection & refraction
• monsters wake up if monsters close to them get shot by a visible player
• dying while using a menu doesn't pop up the scoreboard anymore
• added a static version of the wiki to the documentation
• uniformly scaled down the spec factor in all maps from 8 to 6 (as used in metl4)
• deaths now spawn a number gibs depending on the amount of excess damage, if that is a lot then no corpse is rendered
• increased the minimum ambient light factor for opponents in multiplayer a lot (can't hide in the dark anymore)
• added simple keybinding options to the menus
• added damageblendfactor & damagespherefactor var
• starting grenades reduced to just 1
• added support for md2 vweps
• added optional flipping over X and Y axes to "texture" command
• added makke's new ammo/health models
• added models for rocket/grenade launcher projectiles
• fixed broken world-specular on ATI cards
• changed rendering architecture to do seperate Z pass to get more accurate occlusion culling and reduced pixelshader load

2006_07_22_normalmap_edition

• added support for "dot3 lightmap / radiosity lightmap" mode that works well with normalmaps & per pixel light, various shaders supporting bump/parallax mapping, glow/specmaps etc.
• added lots of normalmapped textures
• many new maps using normalmapping
• extended Fanatic's amazing soundtrack with 8 new tracks!
• added dbghelp.dll to the bin folder that win98 users need to rename...
• clearer color coding in the console: green: player talk, blue: "echo" command, yellow: gameplay messages, red: important errors, white: everything else
• added -z (z-buffer precision), -b (bits per pixel), -a (FSAA), and -f (shader precision) command-line settings (see config.html)
• added "trigger" command for opening/closing doors
• added entity selection by left mouse button.
• added entity copy and paste
• added entity undo / redo support
• added entity support to flip and rotate
• added editmove command
• added replaceents command
• made sure that textures of 'new cubes' are appropriate. Maps need to be remipped for this to fully work.
• added outline mode for showing geom boundaries (toggled by "outline" var)
• added -p (admin password) and -c (maxclients, default 4) command-line options for servers
• added setmaster command
• added voice announcer for certain gameplay events
• quad & boost powerups are now randomized in spawn times, but their spawn is announced 10 seconds before (so everyone will have to fight for it :)
• added showcharacterboundingbox var (useful when creating new models)
• increased rhino bounding box size

2006_06_11_sp_edition

• scripting language: every command/block/exp can now return string values (no more use of variable "s", much cleaner code)
• scripting language: reduced allocations a great deal, should execute faster now
• scripting language: can now write X = Y instead of alias X Y for more readable code
• If sauer crashes on a non-programmer machine on Windows, it will now output a stacktrace (both in a popup and the console window) which can be copy-pasted and sent to the developers (do this before you press "OK" to close the program, from the console windows menu).
• added provisional "sendmap"/"getmap" commands for coopedit mode
• explicit sky polies are now outlined in editmode (toggled by "showsky" var)
• now shows names of entities floating in edit mode (in green, closest = red)
• any non-multiplayer games can now be paused (variable "paused", default key F1)
• fixed rockets exploding mid-air if they were aimed at a moving target
• copy/paste now work in coop-edit
• moved all mapmodels into the menus
• new SP respawning system! read "SP Respawning" in game.html
• console language macros now allow code generation (see config.html)
• added customizable file completion (via "complete" command)
• aliases and vars set in map cfgs are now sandboxed (don't persist)
• world shaders can now work with any number of textures (see "texture" command).
• support for specularity maps and glow maps on md2/md3 models (see md2.txt/md3_sauer_howto.txt)
• new "editbind" works like "bind", only the key is only available in edit mode. cleaned up keymap/default cfg files (no more bindings in keymap)
• added triggerable mapmodels (see editref.html for more info)
• removed the z-offset attribute from mapmodel info and ents and moved mapmodel ent skin attribute to mapmodel info (see editref.html)
• added support for full screen pixel shader effects (see setfullscreenshader, and the "option" menu)
• removed obsolete editheight command
• added powerful new heightmap mode! use getheightmap command [default H key] when there is a selection box to activate (see editref.html for more info)
• added selectbrush modifier [default J key] that switches between brushes defined in data/brush.cfg
• added copybrush [default K key] to use current heightmap as brush. see data/brush.cfg for more info.
• editable brushes for heightmap mode. see data/brush.cfg for more info.
• capture gameplay mode fixes
• ip address lookups now use the concurrent resolver
• added redo command [default I key]
• made importcube remip while importing to save memory
• removed some lighting/physics bottlenecks in SP mode
• removed 256 textures per map limit (is now 64k)
• fixed incorrect mapmodel shadows on Windows
• fixed invincibility bug

2006_04_26_occlusion_edition

• tweaks & fixes to the capture gameplay mode
• added high resolution skyboxes, and some of the g_pack textures to the standard set
• fixed newent sending invalid attributes in coopedit mode
• models with a specularity of 0 now have a specialized shader ("nospecpvmodel") for faster drawing (mainly for vegetation)
• grenadelauncher damage increased to max 75
• multiplayer players & flag models will not be culled no matter how far away they are
• added waterfall effect for water material sides
• added pistol ammo (ent type "cartridges")
• added linearly-interpolated normals for lighting (controlled by "lerpangle", "lerpsubdiv", and "lerpsubdivsize" vars)
• added HW occlusion culling support (requires NV GeForce3-class hardware or better)
• reduced overdraw dramatically
• reduced size of vertex data by using short instead of float
• removed ZYX order inconistency from math classes
• fixed lights placed outside the world not casting shadows
• fixed grenades being stopped by clip material and being stuck in walls
• made networking protocol use less bandwidth
• calclight now uses multi-sampling and adaptive sampling
• faster mapmodel ray intersects with spheretrees instead of bsp
• shorter fuse on grenades (2 seconds)
• fixed hudgun light computation related crash

2006_03_20_shader_edition

• registersound now allows individual sound volume adjustment
• can now render md2s without back face culling (good for vegetation models), custom specularity, custom shader.
• console now supports line-editing
• calclight now forces a map remip automatically, and has 4 quality settings you can pass (see ref)
• added workaround for texgen bug in nvidia drivers
• added goal-oriented team player mode (mode 12, "capture", see game.html, try playing it on face-capture map)
• added initial version of the grenade launcher
• added macros to the scripting language
• everything in the engine is now rendered using shaders
• converted the engine's use of OpenGL from xzy to xyz (don't ask)
• added phong lighting for models
• added shader system, each world surface can now have its own shader, and maps can have their own shaders. Look at the shader and setshader commands.
• reorganized directory structure
• can now specify custom animations and other properties for md2s (see docs/dev/md2.txt)
• clip material no longer stops bullets (only the glass material does)
• added spectator mode (toggled by "spectator" command, or mastermode 2)
• many mastermode bug fixes
• fixed line wrapping to depend on screen resolution
• added map model shadows for md2s (available in maximum quality mode of "calclight", see ref)
• added Cube-like "replace" command that will repeat a texture edit across matching parts of a selection
• maxhealth now persists across disconnects

2006_02_27_physics_edition

• added Fanatic's new soundtrack! 15 2 minute tracks, played at random in sequence (they were meant to "connect"), an endlessly varying song! :)
• experimental gameplay feature: the health boost / megahealth now only gives you +10, except it is permanent to your maxhealth for this game, as opposed to just health.
• experimental forward push on jump. Let me know if this is cool..
• text particles can now be any size, and now show the player's name permanently in 3d as well as any chat
• made T default key for multiplayer chat again, Y is now default for texture edits.
• frags now persist across disconnects
• fixed hellpig bounding sphere
• added menu page scrolling
• "sleep" command now supports multiple timers
• "music" command can now execute commands when a song is done playing
• optimized material rendering by grouping into larger surfaces (toggled by "optmats" var)
• many tiny tweaks to the multiplayer gameplay
• "maxfps" var for limiting fps
• "showmat" var for rendering invisible materials and selecting materials in edit mode
• edited cubes default to fullbright until calclight/patchlight
• added coopedit support back in | no map uploading yet...
• rewrote physics to be closer to the original Cube physics

2006_01_31_mp_edition

• disconnection messages now show why you were disconnected
• multiplayer enemies show firing/pain animations
• weapon pushback (esp for rockets) now works over the network, and for monsters
• reduced ammo you can carry from 5 to 3 boxes each, and increased ammo respawn times by 33%.
• machinegun now has mild inaccuracy at distance
• fixed shotgun (all rays are now individual so you can hit multiple targets optimally, better spread pattern, slightly wider)
• fixed all hitscan weapons not stopping at first target
• fixed RL splash damage, now does more damage in radius and rocket jumps work better
• masterserver functionality restored
• added flare particles to help emphasize hitscan weapons
• interpretation of cubes edges switched from 'edgepan' to 'vector'
• passthrough command. normally cubes of equal size to the grid are given priority when selecting; passthrough removes this priority while held down. (default key: LCTRL)
• fixed ghost/disconnection problems in multiplayer
• "allfaces" var for texturing all faces at once
• "writeobj" command writes a sauer level out as .obj file for potential use in other apps.
• added "text particles": small bits of text that can float in 3d space. Currently used for damage numbers (red) and other gameplay events (green).
• gameplay changes: pistol damage 40 -> 25
• "mastermode" for having easy, cheater-free multiplayer games with the people you want. Read the section "Cheating & Multiplayer" in game.html to learn how to use it.
• gettex command
• fixed sky HOM when fog was closer than size of world

2005_11_07_agc_edition

• warning will appear if player cannot see most of selection when trying to edit
• selecting now ignores the cube the player is currently in
• "importcube" command for converting old cube maps
• fixed animation blending
• fixed being at the surface of water generating many sound events
• did an endless amount of more refactoring to seperate the game code out more. Multiple "games" can now coexist in the same exe
• "lanconnect" command for broadcasting connection requests over a LAN
• "maxparticledistance" variable culls all particle splashes at distance
• "maxmodelradiusdistance" variable calls models at distance, relative to their size. One day we will render models as sprites in the distance, but for now this is a cheap way to significantly reduce the rendering load on large maps
• "loddistance" sets the distance at which vertex array blocks of world geometry use a lower LOD approximation. Significantly reduces amount of small detail rendered at distance. Useful on larger maps only.
• "lodsize" must be set to 32 to turn lod on for a map (use only for really large maps), 0 turns it off. saved with the map.

2005_08_15_quakecon_edition

• animation blending... makes 3rd person view, other players and monsters look much better
• now saves to config.cfg automatically so you can change settings persistently in game
• first attempt at factoring out all gameplay code, results may be buggy

May 22 2005

• 101 small changes to bring all the old cube functionality back up and running, mostly affecting gameplay & rendering. Singleplayer and Multiplayer mostlty work again.

May 21 2005

• lots of updates to lightmaps, and related stuff
• prune micro cubes in editing
• limit texture selection

May 17 2005

• raycube changed to support lightmaps better

May 16 2005

• inital lightmap code added

May 15 2005

• added a cube validator that's called after a map is loaded.
• added a ray casting function in preperation for lighting. Using it to get editing cursor for now.
• added some collision detection / response against entities. they still get stuck...

May 8 2005

• collision detection / response is now functionally done.
• cleaned up editing a bit.

May 6 2005

• remip functionally done. will want to clean it up a bit though.

Apr 24 2005

• more tweaks to remip

Apr 23 2005

• remip. still need to integrate it with editing commands.

Apr 22 2005

• added reorient command.
• changed collision detection. Now player treated as rectangle. Much simpler and faster. still need to find proper floorheight
• Collision clipping planes added to cube structure. Are generated at same time as vertexes are. (currently static arrays, though will probably allocate dynamically in future to save mem)
• also a few other minor changes to subdivision etc, since no need for gentris().

Feb 2 2005

• fixed dropped geometries in octarender (#58)

Jan 24 2005

• simplifyied the rendering and partial update code
• rearranged the hud map numbers abit, added allocated vertex array counter "va"

Jan 18 2005

• fixed crash due to failed to clear va pointer

Jan 9 2005

• changed cvec into ivec (integers instead of uchar)
• changed most integer points into ivec
• fixed cursor position depth for small gridsizes
• added error msg to newmap when not in editmode
• started to clean up some stuff

Jan 4 2005

• make _DEBUG gcc friendly

Jan 3 2005

• fixed memory leak (vertex array not destroyed)
• force all children in selection area to update

Dec 31 2004

• fixed GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object function pointer dereference when extension not present

Dec 19 2004

• revision 1.12 of the exe has a new command "fixmap", that can be entered through the console. this will convert older maps that had problems because of recent updates. it acts as a toggle. "fixmap" will not be a part of future exe s, and I haven't bothered putting it in the source code.

Dec 18 2004

• fixed partial update bug, now calls addchanged() after octree is changed
• perfoemance improvement for partial updates
• added partial updates

Dec 13 2004

• more work on ramp collision and response (very smooth now)
• fixed bug #15

Dec 12 2004

• rework vertex array code to better fit model
• GNU g++ compatibility in physics.cpp
• add framework for partial map updates

Dec 11 2004

• fixed up ramp collision

Dec 8 2004

• added VBO support
• fixed possible memory leak
• removed VAR code

Dec 6 2004

• make tools.h more compatible with gcc
• comment out VAR code
• improved hidden face rejection
• added hierarchial vertex arrays
• added view frustrum culling
• updated included glext.h to latest from SGI

Dec 4 2004

• fixed edgeinv creating invalid cubes
• fixed grid being changable while dragging
• fixed #2, #3
• added selection support to cube hud counter
• misc cleanup in octaedit
• made tools.h more compatible with gnu c++, based on somebody's (D.plomat?, Thailon?) mingw cube source.
• added subdivision special cases. still need to add slightly stronger condition for 'peeling'

Nov 30 2004

• tiny bug fixes, like #8 and selgrid init
• selection support for rotation
• changed edge configuration. simplifies flip and rotate, while everything else should be unaffected.

Nov 28 2004

• real gravity (but too much air friction)

Nov 27 2004

• starting to refactor some things like subdivision (but need to fix special cases), RCD, loopsel, gentris etc
• made bounding box react more elliptical... though still need to fix physics/collision stuff with z dimension like changing gravity to a velocity.

Sept 8 2004

• added stairs support
• added jumping

July 29 2004

• fixed player starting inside the ground when newmap
• took out the newworld function
• cubes are now always convex (well except for some very rare special cases)
• added collision detection for ellipsoid players. step response is only partial finished.

May 21 2004

• added red 0 reference box
• added selection support to copy and paste
• added selection support to undo
• added selection support to flip

May 19 2004

• tweaked cursor depth
• added 3D selection
• added selection support to fill command
• added selection support to edittex
• made undo more conservative

May 15 2004

• fixed subdivision happening in cursorupdate, cube stat
• fixed subdivisions 'peeling' and 'cracking' to a decent degree
• changed fill command to no longer fill cube when scrolling down
• added selection functionality to fill command
• added ad-hoc vertex lighting editing
• more rearrangement of faceverts.
• added fixfaces to fix old maps that are displayed differently because of faceverts changes (remove after next release)
• finished empty_world / newmap
• updated menu.cfg, autoexec

May 11 2004

• added cube stat to hud

May 09 2004

• rearranged faceverts in octarender, which removed the need for some hacks

May 06 2004

• added geomip (though not inverse)
• added cubic copy and paste
• added cubic flip and 90 degree rotate
• added undo (doesn't work with selections fully )
• added texture edit
• changed pitch/yaw derived selection to cubic boundary face selection
• cleaned up octaedit
• hacked a fix for a culling error in touchingfaces