Author: Menne Kamminga

Hi!

A new version of LBZ is online today with the following changes:

• 1 nasty crash has been fixed.
• All particle systems (blood, debris, dust, energy particles) have been removed.
• A new particle engine is available: can be controlled from LGS: check default_resources.lgs and classes/particles.inc for examples!
• A few optimization make everything faster

In a coming version i still need to:

• Make the particles draw smarter/faster.
• Make a new aura based on particle system.
• Add posibility for particles to be point lights.

EDIT: oopsie: i added a new crash in 8939, fixed in 8940….

• Fixed a crash when pressing L to load a new model in the level editor.
• Fixed a crash in the physics engine.
• The networking code got a speed boost factor 20 for clients, factor 15 for server. Networked games should be smoother now.
• Time in the console is now expressed in hours,minutes,second etc etc for clarity in logs.
• Much better backtrace info in crash logs
• EDIT: patch updated to 8937, fixed really bad crash in new model animation loading… (Sorry about that Cocou and ZheOther….)

Hello folks!

I uploaded a new version today:

• Fixed a crash when resizing textures
• Fixed a crash when OpenGL was providing debug output
• Made OpenGL do debug output on by default
• Added a lot of extra debugging info to physics system (since i observed crashes there)
• Democracy: if you forget to vote, it will now auto-vote yes after 10 seconds!
• Added a work-around for a INTEL HD 4000 chipsets, since this chips seems to be allocating memory wrong for GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER

In the other news:

• Prepping for the birth of my son! excited!

Just posting to let you guys know i am still working on LBZ.

My wife is almost 8 months pregnant with our first child, and we are pretty busy with it! :-)

Todays update changes the way debugging works in the game and i have redone some of the work on texture Loading to make it safer. (So… i hope less crashes! :))

Hi folks! I released a quick patch for the game, this changes the way textures are loaded. This was causing hick-ups at the start of the game. This version should load and play smoother.