Author Topic: Release: 24.2.0 (Read 1219 times)

SirKnightly · **on:** October 27, 2024, 08:40:59 pm

Change log: (chronologically ordered)

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Big Feature Highlights

Use new in-game options, which allows users to set all options in-game instead of via flag. To access this go to the Options screen in game and follow the instructions to press F3 to access the new menu. To disable the new in-game options and allow command-line options to take precedence, use -no_ingame_options.
Completed SCPUI with access to all menus and screens, including multiplayer. SCPUI allows mods to create fully customized UIs, such as those used in BtA2.
Add 'Flight Cursor' flying style option, which allows players to change how the mouse or other input is used for flying (ie Freelance style movement vs traditional FS mouse movement) This option is available to change via the new in-game options.
Animation Drivers for Cockpits has been added, which allows modders to make moving submodels in a cockpit model.

Game

Make Shockwaves in-game option force multi-value selection.
Fixes Lab Rendering when Zooming
Add 'Flight Cursor' flying style option
Fx incorrect processing of keys during ESC popup
Better stats handling when switching or resetting campaigns
Deprecate some commandlines and make some options not require restart
Fix screen shudder option issue
Allow player-specific options even when using In-Game Options
In-game options respect mods
Fix option manager importance
properly distinguish between adjusting voice and effects volume
Cockpit FoV option
Mission goal cheat fix
Fix retail options not saving
Fix CTD with HUD Preset Switching
Retail in-game options
Animation
Animation Drivers for Cockpits
Fix an issue with animation directions
Controls
Allow targeting subsystems on already targeted ship under reticule
Save current preset name and use as default when saving new preset name

Graphics

Default post processing to on because so many things require it
Adds conditional impact functionality.
Prevent SCPUI flicker on Win11
Fix Framebuffer Effects
Fix for 'decloaking' effect
Fix Transparent Cockpits
Default framebuffer effects to off
Add runtime flag to split up the main render shader
Improve Volumetrics Performance
Stop constantly rechecking the options value for deferred lighting
Interpolate particle spawning positions for moving spawner objects
improve model texture parsing
Fix Insignia Checkbox in the Lab
Created per-weapon field for laser min pixel size.
Adds muzzle effect functionality.
Laser bolt offset
Make headon transition behavior consistent between laser and glow bitmaps
Fix edge case in MSAA shader
Fix beam particle velocity
Allow replacement of skybox textures
add support for decompression of DDS textures

HUD

Assign hud in ships.tbl
Remove some int3s from offscreen indicator drawing
Fix renderLeadCurrentTarget
fix a minor bug with directive marking
Don't kill paused messages
Fix DRADIS blips

FRED/QTFRED

set the modified flag in the Voice Acting Manager
Fix fade icons not matching parent
Fix: Always check for nullptrs and make red-alert respect cur_waves from last mission
Fix brown asteroid being an immortal member of the asteroids kingdom
implement don't-change-position and don't-change-orientation
add option in FRED to lock objects from being edited
Respect tabled delay for arrival and backup messages
Fix `short read` error with red alert csg file reading
make sure 'tactical' variants of disable and disarm are allowed
Arrival/Departure Paths Dialog
Follow-up to Unified Scanning
Fix "missing" command brief data
add extra ways to modify background elements in missions
Fix crash when right-clicking on a container modifier
check for potential issues in FRED missions
Fred autorecover
make initialization consistent among FSO, FRED, and qtFRED
add 'In back of ship' arrival location
QTFred Loadout Editor
speed up FRED reloading with this one weird trick
add a new check to the Voice Acting Manager
add skybox alpha, and add scripted functions for alpha and orientation
Properly validate mission custom data keys
fix "this ship name is already in use" bug

SEXPs

Upgraded Asteroid Field SEXPs
Add a has-time-elapsed-msecs SEXP
Adds Voluemtrics Toggle SEXP
Friendly fire control flags and SEXP
Add bad-rearm-time sexp
add percent-ships-scanned
add is-species SEXP operator
make is-in-mission work for wings
enhance lock-perspective to also lock slew mode
Clarify some SEXP operator documentation
add for-subsystems
don't short-circuit eval_sexp on any nodes in a when-argument tree
Add waypoints-no-formation flag
hide key-reset
improve set-support-ship description
allow boolean and numeric scripted SEXPs to return special values
Update Settings for movie subtitles
add flag to not show callsigns in escort list
fix bad node identification for certain SEXP errors
adjust ship registry checks to accommodate support ships
fix help descriptions for string-greater-than and string-less-than
fix time-to-goal edge cases

Localization

Fix Settings Localization IDs

Modding

Unlimited Asteroid/Debris Field Types & Subtypes
Scanning is chaos, let's make it sane
Add `$player orders afterburn hard` flag
Add AI Flag to `align to target when guarding stationary ship`
Add 'alignment' for poofs
allow game_settings options to be read in any order
Allow explicitly empty sounds
allow a ship class's type to be set more than once
Improve Mainhall Button Responsiveness
Allow finer control of particle rotation randomization
Add 'Circ' default curves
Allow skipping using retail mainhall defaults
add ship flag to disable message scrambling when EMP is active
Custom Strings for ships and weapons
Allow defining custom message types
Add flag for debris respecting big damage
Generic random distributions, including curve-based
Accessibility IFF colors
Adds warning if cond-impact armor type not found.
Add offset for tabled particle effects
fix fighter beam FOV calculation
Accept "color" and "colour" in game_settings.tbl
Beam slash curves
Per weapon auto convergence
Ensure guards ignore protected attackers
Allow for more field of fire cooldown shenanigans
Expose Minimum LoS Detection Radius
Make laser glow scaling configurable.
Makes random life factor of children configurable.
Sets type 5 end point rand to use correct values.
Make the $Shots parameter work for beams.
add "override submodel impact" subsystem flag

Models

Have TMAP chunks report >25 verts polygon error as well
Model range fix
Enhancements for submodel collisions
Fix broken collision pair caching

Multiplayer

fix data length bug in PXO hole punch packet
add support for PXO's UDP hole punch feature
fix crash when chatbox message is all whitespace
Convert multi team chat to use a struct/list setup
Fix multi option virtvars so they can be read without being set
Make Active_games_head an SCP_list
Scripting
Return false if skip to string can't find the string
use functions for getting swarm info and corkscrew info
Fix WeaponClass.SwarmInfo
Grant access to shipclass shield hitpoints value
Increase Lua safety
Add lua function to validate a string as a valid IP
add scripting support for wing wave min/max delay
safety check for lua_tostring()
add method for determining whether the HUD is hi-res
Print in game options data to scripting output files
Allow accepting a pilot without changing gamestate
Expose shockwave damage
add Team virtvar to parse objects
Add scripted model 'lightning' arcs
On loading complete hook
connect ship and parsed ship in Lua API
isValid refactor
Allow lua to lock/unlock cutscenes
cover all stages of ship warping in the Lua API
Expose method to kill all current voice messages
add API for glow point banks
Exposes the New Flight Cursor Mode to Scripting and Fixed Aiming Setting
Expose Impact Damage Type to Scripting
more electrical arc API features
Allow overriding low-level keypresses
add createRandomOrientation
Expose Collision Rotation Factor to Players
Skip some more retail UI stuff with API
Fix message api out of bounds check
Account for scripting when dealing with velocity
add getStringHeight and getStringSize
add a HUD virtvar for contrast
Allow ba.xstr to lookup from strings.tbl
Ingame prejoin API
Team Loadout API for SCPUI
Expose parse skip_to_string
Misc Methods for SCPUI Multi
Multi general api
Multi dogfight debrief API
API for the Multi Pause UI
Multi sync API
Multi Start Game UI API
API to get the PXO urls
Multi Join API
Scpui multi pxo api
Basic implementation of some audio options in-game
Don't init the debrief ui in API mode
Add opf custom string as a lua sexp return type
Lua method to get the number of object sounds
allow invalid arguments to be nil

Technical

Fix overlappig XSTRs
change atan2_safe to atan2
properly handle game sounds with numeric IDs
remove bogus ship types from objecttypes.tbl
properly initialize cargo titles
Clarify options popup message text
add preliminary support for Windows ARM64
Fix deferred lighting Option
fix sound initialization
Fix Briefing Icons at 4K in SCPUI
update detection of save version
fix deletion of looping sounds
improve sounds.tbl index ordering
Fix unreliable Sounds index retrieval
bump version to 24.2
Reduce absolute volume threshold
fix template warnings when compiling 2d.cpp
Fixes CTD with new Friendly Fire Feature
Switch options manager from signaling empty keys with exceptions to use optional<>
Slightly clean up RPC API
Fix a sound crash
Adds consts to parameters for a couple laser rendering functions.
Fix SDL2 pkg-config name
update to newest prebuilt libs
Fix ingame options init bugs
Generalize linear interpolation
limit debug log spam from file shadows
use C++ casts for floating.h and floating.cpp
make mission log dynamic
Prevent printing a warning every frame
replace pointers with indexes in object_h
utility functions for counting and searching
Split up debris and asteroid types
Fix SSM strikes with a variable count.
Assorted beam fixes
bitstring poofs
convert model_h and submodel_h to use indexes
Use uniform random vector for createRandomVector
Move Ship Editor Files And Coverity Clean-up
Refactor replacement texture to a modelinstance parameter
Better rand vec for createRandomorientation
add "cloaked" to list of flags
fix issues with get_text() and set_text() for INPUTBOX
refine process for capping speed due to physics whack/shock/collide
Changes particle effect functions to take consts.
Update `Align to target when guarding still`
Do not unload debrief bitmaps in API mode
allow restriction to vanilla time compression range
patch hud_support_find_closest
call set_modified() when cmd_brief data has changed
make fireball types dynamic
convert arrival/departure locations to enum classes
fix checkVisibility
fix deprecated/removed code in cutscene ffmpeg
fix fixed-missile-detonation
update Fix_ai_path_order_bug for new waypoint options
Fix coverity time t issues
Coverity: Change many auto calls to const auto& to avoid unnecessary copies.
add weapon preloader
add ShipBSubmodel to ship collisions
Handle container data nodes correctly with eval_num()
clean up and update macOS bundle info
make several miscellaneous timestamps type-safe
Change special IFF color `#define`s into `extern int`s.
Code to check if a medal is rank or badge

Deprecations:
None

Deprecations are a mechanism in FSO where a certain feature or aspect of the engine has changed or is no longer supported. Since this would normally break existing mods, we have the mod table feature "$Target Version:" with which a mod can specify what version of FSO it was developed with. Any features listed under Deprecations will be removed or changed when the target version of a mod is at least the version released in this post.

Previous 24.0.2 Release Thread

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Windows (32/64-bit)
Compiled using GitHub Actions on Windows Server 2019 (10.0.17763), Visual Studio Enterprise 2019

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Compiled with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit, GCC 5
fs2_open_24_2_0-builds-Linux.tar.gz

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Author Topic: Release: 24.2.0 (Read 1219 times)

SirKnightly

Release: 24.2.0