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

• New level of detail feature, letting you see all the world's terrain at any view distance.
• Point and directional lights now cast realistic shadows, using shadow mapping.
• Added leaf and chimney particles
• Some more combat sound effects
• Beehives and bees
• Fireflies
• Fullscreen modes now show two options (exclusive and borderless)
• Added banlist and /ban, /unban, and /kick commands for admins
• A new dungeon boss (venture there and discover it yourself)
• Adaptive stride setup for more dynamic run behavior
• Theropod body
• Several new animals
• Item quality indicators
• Added a jump/burst attack for the bow to the skillbar
• Gave the axe a third attack
• A new secondary charged melee attack for the hammer
• Added Dutch translations
• Buff system
• Sneaking lets you be closer to enemies without being detected
• Flight
• Roll dodges melee attacks, and reduces the height of your hitbox
• Persistent waypoints (start from the last camp fire you visited)
• NPCs use all three weapon skills in combat
• Speed stat to weapons which affects weapon attack speed
• Saving of the last selected character in the character selection screen
• Autoselecting the newly created character
• Deselecting when the selected character is deleted
• Upscaling support
• Added "Persist Combo from Combo Melee State" when rolling mid-combo
• You can no longer spam hammer and bow special when stamina is 0

Changed

• The world map has been refactored to support arbitrary sizes and compute horizon maps.
• Veloren's lighting has been completely overhauled.
• The graphics options were made much more flexible and configurable.
• Many shader optimizations.
• Voxel model creation was switched to use greedy meshing, improving performance.
• Animation and terrain math were switched to use SIMD where possible, improving performance.
• The way we cache glyphs was refactored, fixed, and optimized.
• Colors for models and figures were adjusted to account for the saturation hack.
• Overhauled world colours
• Improved projectile physics
• Improved overhead aiming
• Improved first person aiming
• Figure meshing no longer blocks the main thread.
• Overhauled persistence layer including no longer storing serialized JSON items in the database
• Overhauled representation of blocks to permit fluid and sprite coexistence
• Overhauled sword
• Reworked healing sceptre
• Split out the sections of the server settings that can be edited and saved by the server.
• Revamped structure of where settings, logs, and game saves are stored so that almost everything is in one place.
• Moved hammer leap attack to skillbar
• Reworked fire staff
• Overhauled cloud shaders to add mist, light attenuation, an approximation of rayleigh scattering, etc.
• Allowed collecting nearby blocks without aiming at them
• Made voxygen wait until singleplayer server is initialized before attempting to connect, removing the chance for it to give up on connecting if the server takes a while to start
• Log where userdata folder is located
• Switched to a Whittaker map for better tree spawning patterns
• Switched to procedural snow cover on trees
• Significantly improved terrain generation performance
• Significantly stabilized the game clock, to produce more "constant" TPS
• Transitioned main menu and character selection screen to a using iced for the ui (fixes paste keybinding on macos, removes password field limits, adds tabbing between input fields in the main menu, adds language selection in the main menu)
• Made settings less likely to reset when the format changes
• Adjusted some keybindings
• Consumables can now trigger multiple effects and buffs

Removed

• MSAA has been removed due to incompatibility with greedy meshing.
• Removed a saturation hack that led to colors being improperly displayed.

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where leaving the Settings menu by pressing "N" in single player kept the game paused.
• Fixed a bug where the closest item would be picked up instead of a selected item.
• Fixed a bug where camera zoom in and zoom out distance didn't match.
• Fixed a bug where a nearby item would also be collected when collecting collectible blocks
• Fixed a bug where firing fast projectile at a downwards angle caused them to veer off at a higher angle
• Fixed a bug where ui scale in the login menu was not updated when changed in-game

0.7.0 - 2020-08-15

Added

• Display item name over loot/dropped items
• Added Lottery system for loot
• Added context-sensitive crosshair
• Announce alias changes to all clients
• Dance animation
• Speech bubbles appear when nearby players talk
• NPCs call for help when attacked
• Eyebrows and shapes can now be selected
• Character name and level information to chat, social tab and /players command
• Added inventory, armour and weapon saving
• Show where screenshots are saved in the chat
• Added basic auto walk
• Added weapon/attack sound effects
• M2 attack for bow
• Hotbar persistence
• Alpha version Disclaimer
• Server whitelist
• Optional server-side maximum view distance
• MOTD on login
• Added group chat /join_group /group
• Added faction chat /join_faction /faction
• Added regional, local, and global chat (/region, /say, and /world, respectively)
• Added command shortcuts for each of the above chat modes (/g, /f, /r, /s, and /w, respectively and /t for /tell)
• Ability to wield 2 × 1h weapons and shields (Note: 1h weapons & shields are not currently avaliable, see !1095 for more info)
• Zoomable Map
• M2 attack for hammer
• Spawnable training dummies
• New quadruped_low body for reptile-likes
• Added new animals
• Better pathfinding
• Bombs
• Training dummy items
• Added spin attack for axe
• Creature specific stats
• Minimap compass
• Initial crafting system implementation
• Protection stat to armor that reduces incoming damage
• Loading-Screen tips
• Feeding animation for some animals
• Power stat to weapons which affects weapon damage
• Add detection of entities under the cursor
• Functional group-system with exp-sharing and disabled damage to group members
• Some Campfire, fireball & bomb; particle, light & sound effects.
• Added firework recipe
• Added setting to change resolution
• Rare (unfinished) castles
• Caves with monsters and treasure
• Furniture and decals in towns

Changed

• Improved camera aiming
• Made civsim, sites, etc. deterministic from the same seed
• Improved animations by adding orientation variation
• new tail bone for quad_small body
• slim the game size through lossless asset optimization
• Lanterns now stop glowing if you throw a lit one out of your inventory
• Fixed a crash caused by certain audio devices on OSX
• Bow animations now show held arrows
• Fixed a bug where walk/run sfx played while a character rolled/dodged
• Energy regen resets on last ability use instead of on wield
• Fixed unable to use ability; Secondary and ability3 (fire rod) will now automatically wield
• Gliding is now a toggle that can be triggered from the ground
• Replaced log with tracing in all crates
• Switch to a new network backend that will allow several improvements in the future
• Connection screen fails after 4 minutes if it can't connect to the server instead of 80 minutes
• Rebuilt quadruped_medium/quadruped_small animation and assets
• Disabled destruction of most blocks by explosions
• Disable damage to pets
• Made pets healable
• Rebalanced fire staff
• Animals are more effective in combat
• Pathfinding is much smoother and pets are cleverer
• Animals run/turn at different speeds
• Updated windowing library (winit 0.19 -> 0.22)
• Bow M2 is now a charged attack that scales the longer it's held
• Fixed window resizing on Mac OS X.
• Dehardcoded many item variants
• Tooltips avoid the mouse better and disappear when hovered
• Improved social window functions and visuals
• Changed agent behaviour to allow fleeing
• Waypoints now spawn on dungeon staircases

Removed

• Wield requirement to swap loadout; fixes issue with unable swap loadout outside of combat
• Disclaimer wall of text on first startup

0.6.0 - 2020-05-16

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
• Configurable fonts
• Configurable keybindings from the Controls menu
• Translation status tracking
• Added gamma setting
• Added new orc hairstyles
• Added SFX for wielding/unwielding weapons
• Fixed NPCs attacking the player forever after killing them
• Added SFX for collecting, dropping and using inventory items
• New attack animation
• Weapon control system
• Game pauses when in single player and pause menu
• Added authentication system (to play on the official server register on https://account.veloren.net)
• Added gamepad/controller support
• Added player feedback when attempting to pickup an item with a full inventory
• Added free look
• Added Italian translation
• Added Portuguese translation
• Added Turkish translation
• Added Traditional Chinese translation
• Complete rewrite of the combat system into a state machine
• Abilities like Dash and Triplestrike
• Armor can now be equipped as items
• Fireball explosions
• Inventory supports stacking
• Many new armors and weapons to find in chests
• Fleshed out "attack" animation into alpha, beta and spin type attacks
• Fleshed out range attack into charging and shooting animations for staff/bow
• Customized attack animation for hammers and axes
• Added German translation
• Added a silhouette for players when they are occluded
• Added transparency to the player when zooming in
• Made armor and hotbar slots actually function
• Added dragging and right-click to use functionality to inventory, armor & hotbar slots
• Added capes, lanterns, tabards, rings, helmets & necklaces as equippable armor
• 6 new music tracks
• Added basic world and civilization simulation
• Added overhauled towns
• Added fields, crops and scarecrows
• Added paths
• Added bridges
• Added procedural house generation
• Added lampposts
• Added NPCs that spawn in towns
• Added simple dungeons
• Added sub-voxel noise effect
• Added waypoints next to dungeons
• Made players spawn in towns
• Added non-uniform block heights
• Added /sudo command
• Added a Level of Detail (LoD) system for terrain sprites and entities
• Added owl, hyena, parrot, cockatrice, red dragon NPCs
• Added dungeon entrances
• Villagers tools and clothing
• Cultists clothing
• You can start the game by pressing "enter" from the character selection menu
• Added server-side character saving
• Player now starts with a lantern. Equipping/unequipping a lantern has the same effect as the /lantern command
• Added tab completion in chat for player names and chat commands
• Added server persistence for character stats
• Added a popup when setting your character's waypoint
• Added dungeon arenas
• Added dungeon bosses and rare boss loot
• Added 2 sets of armour. One Steel and one Leather.

Changed

• The /give_item command can now specify the amount of items. Syntax is now /give_item <name> [num]
• Brighter / higher contrast main-map
• Removed highlighting of non-collectible sprites
• Fixed /give_exp ignoring player argument
• Extend run sfx to small animals to prevent sneak attacks by geese.
• Decreased clientside latency of ServerEvent mediated effects (e.g. projectiles, inventory operations, etc)
• Started changing the visual theme of the UI
• Merge of the Bag and Character-Screen
• Merge of the Map and Questlog
• Overhauled icon art
• Asset cleanup to lower client-size
• Rewrote the humanoid skeleton to be more ideal for attack animations
• Arrows can no longer hurt their owners
• Increased overall character scale
• /sudo player /tp is short for /sudo player /tp me
• The /object command can create any object in comp::object::Body
• The /help command takes an optional argument. /help /sudo will show you information about only the sudo command.

Removed

0.5.0 - 2020-01-31

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 single player 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 single player 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!
• single player: 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