D2X-XL Update Notification Thread

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:38 pm

D2X-W32 1.3.64

New: Wall type "Transparent" creating impenetrable, colored, transparent walls.
Fixed: Missing reticle, flag and orb displays in letterbox view.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri May 13, 2005 5:34 pm

D2X-W32 1.3.65

New: Wall transparency can be changed in the D2X options menu
Fixed: Cockpit mode will now be preserved across menu calls and screen resolution changes.
Fixed: Cockpit window position and size for resolutions > 640x480.
New: Improved menu structure: New menus "Gameplay options" and "Render options", moved options from D2X options and Toggles to Config, Gameplay options and Render options.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sat May 14, 2005 11:32 am

D2X-W32 1.3.66 - 1.3.67

Fixed: Mouse/Joy sensitivity always set to lowest value when leaving the controls config menu.
Fixed: Objects behind cloaked walls not rendered when "render entire mine" option enabled.
Improved: Bitmap reticle (the original one) scaled according to screen res.
New: Joystick and mouse sensitivity can be adjusted separately now.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sun May 15, 2005 5:59 am

D2X-W32 1.3.68

Fixed: Config menu not working properly (couldn't 'customize above' or 'customize keyboard')
Fixed: Mouse not working after calling the controls config menu.
Fixed: Movement direction after teleporting.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sun May 15, 2005 11:29 am

D2X-W32 1.3.69

Fixed: Some cockput and status bar view elements not rendered at the proper screen locations in resolutions > 640x480.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sun May 15, 2005 5:31 pm

D2X-W32 1.3.70

Fixed: Program crash when "Render Entire Mine" is enabled.
Improved: Energy display in cockpit mode.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Mon May 16, 2005 4:20 pm

D2X-W32 1.3.71

Fixed: Bug in tracker code that could lead to other programs' (e.g. TeamSpeak or mIRC) inet connections being terminated.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:17 pm

D2X-W32 1.3.72

Fixed: Bug in tracker code that could lead to bandwidth saturation on network connections, disconnecting other applications (e.g. TeamSpeak or mIRC).
Improved: Joystick sensitivity will now create an attenuation curve always reaching the max. possible value.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Wed May 18, 2005 5:35 am

D2X-W32 1.3.73

Improved: Movie playback on older gfx hardware. If movies are played in slo-mo, set "-movie_quality 0" in d2x.ini or uncheck "High Movie Quality" in the render options menu.

Background: Movie images are filtered to improve quality. On older gfx this seems to be done by the driver in software, which takes too long.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu May 19, 2005 8:11 am

D2X-W32 1.3.74

Fixed: Render depth with "Render Entire Mine" was very low, leading to most of the level not being displayed (this was due to some experimental code being left in the program).
New: "Colorize Transparent Walls" switch to turn off colorization of transparent walls if desired (find it in the render options menu).
Fixed: Several game variables (mouse sensitivity among others) weren't saved when leaving the game.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu May 19, 2005 2:23 pm

D2X-W32 1.3.75

New: Added option "linear joystick sensitivity scaling" to controls config menu. If enabled, the old-style joystick sensitivity scaling will be enabled at the cost of not reaching full turn speed at lower sensitivity settings.
Improved: Ship movement will not be stopped after teleportation any more, but the ship will continue in the new direction at the speed it had when entering the source teleporter.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu May 19, 2005 4:01 pm

D2X-W32 1.3.76

Fixed: New non-linear joystick sensitivity scaling was framerate dependant and could lead to extreme sensitivity.
Fixed: Rounding error when sampling joy axes movement could lead to values too small in the program, which in turn made the aforementioned behaviour worse.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri May 20, 2005 2:18 am

D2X-W32 1.3.77

Improved: Frame rate when "Render Entire Mine" is enabled. Some objects behind cloaked walls might still be invisible at certain view angles, but if that happens, it will be much less apparent and annoying than disappearing mine walls.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri May 20, 2005 5:31 am

D2X-W32 1.3.78

New: 100% transparent cloaked/colored walls will not be rendered (they will still be impenetrable).

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri May 20, 2005 8:59 am

D2X-W32 1.3.79

Fixed: 100% transparent walls still got rendered.
New: Max. # of objects raised to 3500.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri May 20, 2005 3:06 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.0: Hyperspeed Tunnels

New: Support for D3-like hyperspeed tunnels. Adjust the speed boost in the gameplay options menu. See my level Glass House for a construction example.
Fixed: Rounding error leading to ship slowly drifting/rotating if left w/o thrust.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Mon May 23, 2005 4:39 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.1 - 1.4.2

Fixed: Crash when loading older save games.
Fixed: Objects not moving properly.
New: Toggle "Drop All Missiles" in the gameplay options menu. If checked, D2X-W32 will not only drop 10 missiles of each kind max., but all an exploding player ship had actually loaded.
New: Toggle "Always Respawn Powerups". If checked, used up missiles will not disappear from the game in single player or coop, but respawn somewhere in the level.
New: Segment types "speed boost" and "blocked" to aid in construction of speed boost and impassable, no-spawn areas.
Cameras and monitors.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Tue May 24, 2005 2:38 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.3 - 1.4.4

Improved: Camera performance.
New: Camera output speed and format settings in render options menu.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Wed May 25, 2005 8:39 am

D2X-W32 1.4.5 - 1.4.6: TGA image support

Changed: Max. speed boost area speed doubled, in-game default speed boost modifier set to 50%.
New: Support for pog files containing TGA images.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Wed May 25, 2005 2:18 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.7 - 1.4.8

Fixed: Save game bug leading to game states not being properly restored (i.e. Thief spawned 10 Extra Lives when killed).
New: Fusion damage adjustable from 100% to 400%.
Fixed: Error message in automap in levels with more than 900 segments.
Changed: Automap cannot be opened in speed boost areas any more.
Fixed: Ship stopping periodically in speed boost areas when flying close to a wall.
Fixed: Ship stopping due to weapon blast radius in speed boost areas.
New: Repair centers are marked by green lines in the automap.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri May 27, 2005 5:51 am

D2X-W32 1.4.9

Improved: You can now maneuver in speed boost areas.
Fixed: Could hang at speed boost area walls if adjacent segment had type "blocked", or current segment had type "speed boost" and adjacent segment had another type.
Improved: D2X-W32 specific, multiplayer relevant game options will be disabled in multiplayer games if the game host doesn't use D2X-W32.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sun May 29, 2005 3:13 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.10

New: Segment type "No Damage". Ships in such segments cannot fire weapons or drop mines, nor can they be damaged.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:39 am

D2X-W32 1.4.11

Fixed: Ship doesn't stop moving after releasing thrust control keyboard keys, but slowly slides on.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:56 am

D2X-W32 1.4.12

Fixed: Ship could go half-way through walls.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Mon May 30, 2005 2:49 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.13

Improved: Frame rate with "render entire mine" enabled. No or minimal frame rate hit should be noticeable now with this option enabled.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:02 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.14

New: Shots and missiles can now traverse blocked segments.
New: Toggle "Draw HUD" will disable drawing the HUD in full screen mode when unchecked (for nicer screen shots).

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:44 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.15

Fixed: Bogus client view in multiplayer games.
Fixed: Game hanging when adding trackers via d2x.ini.
Fixed: Clients didn't find the last tracker in tracker lists from d2x.ini.
Fixed: Tracker ports weren't read properly from tracker lists in d2x.ini.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:53 am

D2X-W32 1.4.16

Fixed: Reticle visible during and after player death animation.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:41 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.17

Fixed: Boss robots sometimes stopping to act properly.
Fixed: Robots too dark after loading a save game.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:16 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.18

New: Lightmap controlled light rendering. This is still experimental. Lightmaps are computed on the fly when loading a level (actually they're computed on the crawl currently. ). Lightmaps are not available in multiplayer for the time being.
Improved: Auto-Download connectivity problem tolerance.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:18 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.19

Fixed: Object blobs in automap were painted jaggy and distorted.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 7:40 am

D2X-W32 1.4.20

Fixed: Levels too dark with lightmapping enabled (I have found some levels that are still considerably darker than w/o lightmapping).
Fixed: Lightmapping dysfunctional when switching screen res or toggling fullscreen in-game.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:19 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.21

Fixed: Lightmapping didn't work anymore.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:33 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.22

Fixed: D1 iris door was not properly converted.
Improved: Lightmap range will take base face size into account.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:17 am

D2X-W32 1.4.23

Fixed: Dynamic lighting not working with lightmaps (i.e. blasting or turning off lights did not darken their vicinity).
Improved: Lightmap range calculation. Levels still too bright with lightmaps though.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 1:16 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.24

Improved: Render quality with "Render Entire Mine" checked.
Improved: Brightness with lightmap rendering.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:44 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.25

Changed: Lightmap range.
Fixed: Slight bug in lightmap range calculation.
Fixed: Some yellow light texture casting red light with lightmapping enabled.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:27 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.26

Fixed: Cockpit and status bar HUDs in 320x200.
Fixed: Credits screen.
Fixed: Show HUD toggle gone awol.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:40 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.27

TGA texture alpha channel support.
Changed: Movie quality now defaults to low at program start to avoid having the intro movie played at high movie quality on machines that cannot handle that.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 4:51 pm

D2X-W32 1.4.28

Fixed: Black outlines around non-transparent areas of see-through textures (e.g. force fields or energy sparks).
Fixed: Partially missing frame around menus.
New: Lightmap range slider in render options menu.