News/2015

Monthly update for February, 2015

• Code
  • Lots of small fixes and improvements
  • Let GAME_AppendTeamMember() also auto equip robots and UGVs
  • Added a provisional tag_rweapon to ugv and bloodspider models
  • Tweak UGV stats
  • Allow to enable/disable music with the snd_music_play cvar.
  • Add music toggle to sound options
  • Added type and default value of angles property for misc_model
  • Fix the display of wounds in the hospital window
  • Merge hospital wound icon components to hospital entry component
  • Disable font hinting for SDL2
  • Fix text alpha blending for SDL2 - really improves text rendering here
  • Allow to toggle true fullscreen with Ctrl+Enter (use fake FS with Alt+Enter)
  • Don't create a borderless window when starting on fullscreen.
  • Added missing crouching anim defs to both bloodspider models
  • replaced calls to fopen() by Sys_Fopen() to make the windows port handle unicode file paths (see bug #4867)
  • Don't crash the server if the actor didn't spawn (see fr #4108)

• AI
  • [AI] Raging actors don't care about herding
  • Experimenting with morale reduction by near missed shoots, disabled for now

• Bugfixes
  • fixed bug #5089 Cvar for dropship and UFO not set correctly in mp
  • fixed bug #5370 enabling/disabling audio doesn´t work correctly in game
  • fixed bug #5163 Crash on exit, testall and ufo
  • fixed bug #5402 Soldier info missing in 2.6 compared to 2.5 (second part)
  • fixed bug #5417 Raptor facing backwards in aircraft screen
  • fixed bug #5424 Soldiers cry because of area damage even if unaffected
  • fixed bug #5430 Maps bug (some assemblies missing valid dropship values)
  • fixed bug #3059 "Reaction fire default setting ON" (fix for campagn only)

• Tools
  • Blender TAG script: Import all frames by default
  • Blender MD2 script: Assign the correct UV map to the material
  • Blender MD2 script: Fixed copy of texture images
  • Blender MD2 script: Use correct search directories for texture image loading
  • Blender MD2 script: Don't add the same texture file twice
  • Blender MD2 script: Write the correct skin size

• Tests
  • Split the CountSpawpoints test

• UI
  • Implemented fr #4843 UI2: Indicate soldiers assigned to dropship
  • Some tweaks on the UI scripts
  • Add hospital button to main base window
  • Some fixes for the aircraft screen

• Maps
  • various fixes and additions in +industrial map theme
  • huge revamp of +forest map theme
  • fixed multiplayer def for city_industry and england maps
  • updated UFO prefabs
  • lots of prefabs for +forest map theme
  • fixed description in mapdef village_small_crash
  • moved the 'small_house' map to +forest map theme
  • moved the 'gate' map to +forest map theme
  • enabled coop-multiplayer for +forest mapdefs

In total, 164 commits were made in the UFO:AI repository in February.

2015-03-02 — ShipIt

Monthly update for January, 2015

• Code
  • Welcome to 2015.
  • some cleanups
  • Stricter bounds check for CL_ActorDoMoveTime()
  • Converted objDef_t::weight to int (fixes problems caused by rounding errors in weight system)
  • Started to lay the foundation to be able to script a team lua ai.
  • Lots of improvements to the LUA AI
  • Weapons that spawn triggers no longer activate all the triggers in the area
  • Fix invalid %s marker in German translation
  • When disabling RF due to not having a valid firemode force the state change
  • Change employee hire window to use dynamic nodes.
  • Minor refactoring of some hospital functions.
  • Some more work on FR #4112 (Show which soldiers are in hospital)
  • Let forchildin also iterate the node's last child.
  • Prevent renaming of non-hired employees.
  • New 'exit' behaviour for textentry node.
  • [keys.cfg] Fixed keybindings for employee window.
  • Hopefully better timing for EV_MODEL_EXPLODE.
  • Update RF status before removing the weapon used for RF.
• Bugfixes
  • fixed #5400 Market view should stay open when iterating through bases
  • fixed #5405 "Shooting over crouching adjacent soldier" can fail
  • fixed #5404 Item is heavier in knapsack than in hand
  • fixed #5407 Strength gain seems abnormally high
  • fixed #5408 Suffocation is applied when IR goggles are used
  • fixed #5406 Too many aliens in a mission
  • fixed #5413 A flying alien
  • fixed #5412 Crash in battlescape when using Plasma Blade for reaction fire
  • fixed #5410 Skirmish menu misses 'UFO' entry
  • fixed #5402 some soldier info is missing in 2.6 UI compared to 2.5
• UI
  • New load & save game buttons; delete button rework.
  • New component for use in hire window.
• Maps
  • map [+village] some fixes and improvements in vil_england.map
  • moved city_industry map to +industrial theme
  • map [+alienb] moved worldspawn settings to .ump file
  • removed negative-zero values in +alienb map files
  • various improvements in +industrial map theme
  • new prefabs for forklift model
  • prefab for models/objects/vehicles/forktruck/palette.md2 model
  • updated various prefabs
  • moved the +spedition semiRMA to +industrial map theme

In total, 90 commits were made in the UFO:AI repository in January.

2015-02-14 — ShipIt

HTML5 test versions of CaveExpress and CavePacker

I've put HTML5 ports of my small sideprojects CaveExpress and CavePacker (sokoban) online at http://caveproductions.org. If you have a recent browser, please give it a try and let me know whether they work for you. I would especially be interested in the performance in your browser. Send me a message via the forum, or an email to info at caveproductions.org. I would also be very glad if you could spread the word about it to hopefully receive more feedback.

And to those who are interested: This is a cross compilation from C++ to JavaScript via emscripten and its SDL2 port. You can find the source code also linked on the homepage.

2015-01-04 — mattn

Monthly update for December, 2014

• Battlescape
  • [LUA AI] don't flee from civs unless panicked
  • [LUA AI] more checks for enough TUs and allow to specify how many to use
  • [LUA AI] AIL_positionherd: Allow to pass TUs to use
  • [LUA AI] AIL_positionhide: Allow to use inverse team rules, pass TUs to use
  • [LUA AI] make sure we have enough TU for actions that specify the TUs to use
• Campaign
  • allow transferring soldiers with equipment and aircraft with crew
• UI
  • implement #4918: Show which soldiers are bleeding
  • some more work on #4112: Show which soldiers are in hospital
• Maps
  • update on the +village theme
  • moved england map to +village map theme
• Translations
  • updated Dutch translation
• Tools
  • Blender MD2 plugin: Check that the object has a correct number of skins
• Build chains
  • fixed Code::Blocks Unittest project

In total, 69 commits were made in the UFO:AI repository in December.

2015-01-01 — geever