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Hammer of Thyrion 1.5.2 (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 09.04.2012, 23:57

On 04 Apr 2012, the developers of Hammer of Thyrion (HeXen II) released version 1.5.2.

Noticeable changes:
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* All platforms: Incremented versions for the hexen2 engine to 1.25, hexenworld engine to 0.25, gamecode to 1.25 and the gtk-launcher to 1.0.7.
* All platforms, gamecode: Fixed occasional crashes in the original hexen2 game with the Paladin's axe.
* All platforms: Added support for transparent console in the software renderer, controlled by new cvar "contrans". Valid values for contrans are 0 (solid), 1 (transparent) and 2 (very transparent).
* All platforms, software renderer: Fixed wrong transparency issue with certain models when not using the x86 assembler drawing routines.
* All platforms: Added on-screen fps counter to hexen2 (do "showfps 1" from the console). Updated existing showfps code of hexenworld.
* All platforms, input: Discard mouse/joystick motion when in cameramode. Discard the accumulated mouse motion when starting a game or when loading a saved game to prevent any unintended viewangle changes.
* All platforms: Revised the cross-episode demo recording and playback behavior, allowing the intermission screens to be displayed.
* All platforms: Majorly revised the support mechanism for different versions of progs. Added old v1.03 progs support to hexen2, added old v0.11 and v0.14 progs support to hw.
* DOS: Added WatTCP (WATT-32) networking support for hexen2 internet play.
* DOS: Added experimental DOS support for hexenworld using WatTCP library. (doesn't work yet due to WatTCP bugs.)
* DOS: Added "-nogus" command line option so that UltraSound initialization can be skipped by the user if necessary.
* Miscellaneous source code cleanups.

Website: http://uhexen2.sourceforge.net/
Full changelog: http://uhexen2.sourceforge.net/ReleaseNotes-152.txt
Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/uhexen2/files/Hammer%20of%20Thyrion/1.5.2/

Complete thread:

• Hammer of Thyrion 1.5.2 - Rugxulo, 09.04.2012, 23:57 (Announce)
  • Hammer of Thyrion 1.5.2 - RayeR, 10.04.2012, 00:24
    • Hammer of Thyrion 1.5.2 - Rugxulo, 10.04.2012, 00:32