Difference between revisions of "News/2014"

Revision as of 11:49, 1 May 2014

In total, 145 commits were made in the UFO:AI repository in April.

2014-05-01 — mattn

As promissed, the CaveExpress source code is now available on http://github.com/mgerhardy/caveexpress. The source is released under the GPL3 and the game data is released under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

2014-04-07 — mattn

Maps
- +harbour some minor fixes
- +city3 updated
Scripting
- Fixed assert for MAX_AMMOS_PER_OBJDEF
- Attempt to improve alien team and equipment definitions
- Updated cities.ufo
Sounds
- Fixed sounds with a bad sample rate (Thanks to Crystan)
UI
- Correctly update info on actor wounds when opening the inv/stats window.
- Added toggle rescue zone button
- New mapicons for a lot of maps
- New icons for rescue zone (draft, could be somewhat changed)
Battlescape
- Speedup for rerouting of stacked tiles
- Fixed an ancient bug in with box traces
- Bumped bsp version (recompile your maps)
- AI friendly fire check only used the weapon spread instead of effective spread
- Attempt to fix #5272 (Smoke grenade, while crouching)
General
- Fixed SV_CompleteMapCommand
- Fixed Item::getFastestFireDef

In total, 220 commits were made in the UFO:AI repository in March.

2014-04-01 — mattn

General
- Lots of code refactoring.
- UI2 - reworked aircraft panel
- UI2 - reworked HUD functions
- Adjustments in AI code.
- Improved pathfinding code - rerouting for stacked tiles (city2 -40%, mansion_huge -10%
- Increased MAX_OBJDEFS by two.
- Implemented FR #5277 (Extend debug info about alien´s inventory/encumbrance)
Translations
- Updated German translation
Bugs
- Fixed bug #5235 (Crash when trying to max researchers in non researchable tech).
- Fixed a bug in the AI code that was causing the AI to always pick the last entity possible as target.
- Fixed dependencies in debian/control for newer deb-based distributives.
Campaign
- Implemented FR #4939 (Move aircraft being transfered out from source base so it does not affect capacity checks).
- Changed option text in aircraft menu to "_Soldiers & Pilots".
- Fixed possible problem with aliens never equipping Kerrblades.
- Allow auto-equip to put a weapon in the backpack as last option.
- Some minor fixes and improvments in equipment definitions.
- Removed "Soldier entered/left the rescue zone" message.
Maps
- Some minor fixes in harbour2 map.
- Implemented FR #4988 glowmaps for tex_ufo/ textures.
- Map [mansion] removed door entities to avoid 'strange-lighting' bug.

In total, 178 commits were made in the UFO:AI repository in February.

2014-03-26 — ShipIt

Battlescape
- Optimized the routing calculation code (speedup round about 33%)
- Now misc_mission spawned particles are freed correctly
- Splash effects for weather particles
- Basic implementation fo FR #5181 (Indicators for aborted reaction fire)
General
- Improved SDL2 fullscreen and resolution handling
- Updated icon packs and a lot of work on the UI conversion
Translations
- Updated German translation
- Updated English translation
- Updated Polish translation
- Updated Spanish translation
- Updated Russian translation
- Updated Ukrainian translation
Bugs
- Fixed #5235 (Crash when trying to max researchers in non researchable tech)
- Fixed #5249 (Connection to IRC crashes the game when DEBUG_CLIENT is set)
- Fixed #5146 (stunnedactor particle isn't shown)
- Fixed #5200 (Game not paused when enemy in sight moves)
- Fixed #5262 (Q_vsnprintf spamming)
Campaign
- Hire employees by clicking on their heads in base view
- Added radartower, ufoyard and samsite models to ufopedia
Skirmish
- Increased maximum soldiers limit in skirmish
- Fix alien skirmish counter
Maps
- +harbour2 (Some minor fixes in mh_a_09.map)

In total, 168 commits were made in the UFO:AI repository in January.

A lot of work was made in the UI conversion - ensure to check the latest dev build out.

2014-02-15 — mattn

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+{{news
+|title=Monthly update for April, 2014
+|author=mattn
+|date=2014-05-01
+|content=
+* Battlescape
+** Added stun damage bar to the hud
+** Make smoke from grenades cause a small amount of stun damage
+** Actors now also touch triggers at the start of the round
+** Made stunned actors affected by fire fields and other hurt triggers
+** Made use of the new wheather system
+** Also remove the stunnedactor particle when the actor dies!
+** Remove stunnedactor particle when the actor perishes.
+** Send death/stun states for invisible actors.
+* Maps
+** +resort: Minor fixes
+** +frozen: Minor fixes
+** +village2: New 2x2 map tile
+** +city3: Updated
+** +village2: Add connector tile and assembly
+** Updated various prefabs
+* Translations
+** Italian translation update {{patch|5300}}
+In total, 145 commits were made in the UFO:AI repository in April.
+<gallery>
+File:Village2-newtile1.jpg | New +village2 tile
+File:Village2-newtile1.jpg | New +village2 tile
+File:Village2-newtile3.jpg | New +village2 tile
+</gallery>
+}}
 {{news
 |title=CaveExpress source code release