veloren/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Added

• Added music system
• Added zoomable and rotatable minimap
• Added rotating orientation marker to main-map
• Added daily Mac builds
• Allow spawning individual pet species, not just generic body kinds.

Changed

• Brighter / higher contrast main-map
• Removed highlighting of non-collectible sprites

Removed

[0.5.0] - 2019-01-31

Added

• Added new debug item
• Bows give experience by projectiles having an owner
• Allow cancelling chunk generation
• Include licence in assets
• Added dropping items
• Added initial region system implementation
• Added /giveitem command
• Strip Linux executables
• Added moon
• Added clouds
• Added tarpaulin coverage
• Added ability to jump while underwater
• Added proper SFX system
• Added changelog
• Added animated Map and Minimap position indicator
• Added visuals to indicate strength compared to the player
• Added Scrolling Combat Text (SCT) & Settings for it
• Added a Death Screen and Hurt Screen
• Added randomly selected Loading Screen background images
• Added options to disable clouds and to use cheaper water rendering
• Added client-side character saving
• Added a localization system to provide multi-language support to voxygen
• Added French language for Voxygen
• Added rivers and lakes which follow realistic physical paths.
• Added a sophisticated erosion system for world generation which dramatically changes the world layout.
• Added tracking of sediment vs. bedrock, which is visually reflected in the world.
• Added map saving and loading for altitude and bedrock, with built in versioning for forwards compatibility.
• Added a default map, which is used to speed up starting single player.
• Added a 3D renderered map, which is also used by the server to send the map to the client.
• Added fullscreen and window size to settings so that they can be persisted
• Added coverage based scaling for pixel art
• 28 new mobs
• Added waypoints
• Added pathfinding to NPCs
• Overhauled NPC AI
• Pets now attack enemies and defend their owners
• Added collars to tame wild animals

Changed

• Controls pane in settings window now shows actual configured keys
• Fixed scroll wheel and roll keys on OS X
• Fixed near and far view planes
• Improvements to armor names
• Animation fixes to line up with true positions
• Proper message for command permission check failure
• Improved meshing
• Improved dusk
• Improved movement and climbing
• Improved water rendering and chunk render order
• Moved computations to terrain fragment shaders
• Fixed title music
• Made rolling less violent when changing directions
• Fixed singleplayer crash
• Improved error information in client and server
• Store items as RON files
• Updated download info in readme
• Fixed cloud performance
• Fixed region display name
• Fixed the bow fire rate
• Healthbars now flash on critical health
• Fixed ghosts when going back to character screen
• Fixed not being able to unmount
• Fixed non-humanoids being able to climb and glide
• Made shadows and lights use interpolated positions
• Changed "Create Character" button position
• Made clouds bigger, more performant and prettier
• Terrain meshing optimized further
• Tree leaves no longer color blended
• Actual character stats displayed in character window
• Made significant changes to the noise functions used for world generation.
• Improved colors during world generation.
• Significantly reduced the use of warp during world generation.
• Parallelized and otherwise sped up significant parts of world generation.
• Various performance improvements to world generation.
• Nametags now a fixed size and shown in a limited range
• Non-humanoid skeletons now utilize configs for hotloading, and skeletal attributes.
• Names of NPCs spawned in the wild now include their species.

Removed

• Remove heaptrack as it is now deprecated

[0.4.0] - 2019-10-10

Added

• Added adjustable FOV slider
• Added /explosion command
• Added first person switch
• Added singleplayer server settings
• Added admin check for commands
• Started asset reloading system
• Added SRGB conversion in shaders
• Added adminify to give temp admin privilages

Changed

• Collision and fall damage fixes
• Switched to eventbus system
• Improved seed generation, diffusion function
• Switch to hashbrown in server/client
• Improved colors and lighting
• Replaced view distance culling with frustum culling

[0.3.0] - 2019-08-04

Added

• Added enemies
• Added player info to debug window
• Added server info
• Game settings persist after closing
• Added caves
• Added random NPC names
• Added tree roots, houses, basic lights
• Added XP and leveling
• Added build mode
• Character customization, multiple races
• Inventories (WIP)
• Day/night, better shaders, voxel shadows

Changed

• Fixed attack delay
• Fixed disclaimer to show only once
• Only send physics updates for entities within view distance
• Fix for headphones and invalid device parameters
• Fixed asset names for consistancy
• Fixes animals jumping after their target no matter how far\
• Improved SFX in caves
• Better combat, movement, and animations
• Many performance optimizations
• Better world generation, more biomes

[0.2.0] - 2019-05-28

Added

• Hang Gliding
• Pets: Pig and Wolf. They can be spawned with /pig and /wolf commands.
• Name tags: You can finally know who is this guy with the blue shirt!
• Singleplayer: No need to start a server just to play alone
• Character customization: It isn't fully complete but still allows you to look different than others
• Music!
• Major performance improvements related to the fact that we rewrote the entire game
• 0% chance to get a deadlock
• Animations: You finally can move your limbs!
• Combat: You can finally swing your sword that has been on your back. Enemies are coming soon, but you can always fight with other players
• When a server dies the game no longer crashes - you will be just kicked to the main menu

[0.1.0] - 2018-XX-XX

0.1.0 was part of the legacy engine