Beta 1.15

OpenMBU Beta 1.15

Summary

This release has many additions, fixes, and changes. It is one of our biggest releases so far!
You should expect a drastic performance increase with this version. In some cases up to a 10x increase!

Changes/Additions

• Implemented Interior Testing
• Spawn quickly in multiplayer if there is only the host
• The glow/bloom effect now matches the Xbox 360 version exactly
• Some partial support for DirectX9 Fixed Function
• Render code cleanup
• Startpad ring now looks the same as Xbox 360
• Some rendering optimizations
• Future support for GGConnect if we ever need it
• New UI for mouse support (you can switch to the Xbox 360 one in the options)
• You can now right click to go back in menus
• Partial support for MBG Mines for future use
• Added option to set preview camera in the editor
• Custom level support for SinglePlayer
• -editor command line argument to use the editor
• Added plate_1_small material for ease of level building with the plate texture
• Started working on Leaderboards (not functional yet)
• Reverse engineered more engine functions
• SinglePlayer GemHunt (from MBO)
• Chat in Multiplayer (from MBO)
• Added euler rotation to editor
• Levels are now identified by GUIDs to help with leaderboards support
• New score format due to GUIDs
• Scores should automatically convert to the new format, if any of them fail, they will be backed up to an old_scores.cs file
• Added VSync option

Bug Fixes

• Fixed lots of console errors
• Fixed graphics bugging out when changing resolution
• Fixes for Gui Editor
• Fixed checkpoint flickering
• Fixed massive bottleneck with rendering, expect drastically increased framerates
• Fixed being unable to instantly use multiple powerups