Hi Folks!
Welcome to the first Pioneer upload of the year to Mod DB. Lots of improvements for this month so please do check out the change list below.
Have fun folks! :)
Changelog
For January 2014. Full changelog.
- New features
- New ships "Malabar" and "Vatakara" (#2599)
- Show hull heating effect in atmosphere (#2550)
- Shield meshes with hit effects (#2491)
- Show trails behind ships (#2529)
- Skybox support (#2570)
- Initial cockpit support (experimental) (#2603, #2614, #2679)
- Minor changes and tweaks
- Ship stat balancing (#2620, #2673)
- Atmospheres in gas giants are much deeper (#2609, #1395)
- New "free software" charity on the bulletin board (#2611)
- Change start ships and initial equipment (#2696)
- Add delta-v data to ship market (#2616)
- Earth start position now starts at 13:00 (Pioneer time) (#2615)
- Misc. tweaks for the intro animation (#2649)
- Improve the sector view map, giving more navigation info (#2640)
- Improve cargo and cabin use gauges, easier to understand (#2657, #2648)
- Key bindings of sector view are now configurable (#2542)
- Advert type icons in the bulletin board (#2668)
- Remove unnecessary colon from ship empty weight description (#2682)
- Show min/max crew in shipmarket (#2681)
- Show labels on stations and cargo models (#2680)
- Show decals on models (#2680)
- Improve error reporting (#2694)
- Xylophis textures updated (#2700)
- Don't allow cargo to be jettisoned wile docked (#2699)
- Script and UI API changes
- Game.StartGame now takes an optional start_time argument (#2615)
- New method, Random:Normal gives a random number with normal distribution (#2651)
- New method, SpaceStation:SetEquipmentPrice to override equip/cargo price at station (#2654)
- New method, ChatForm:ClearFace removes face without clearing whole form (#2663)
- Model changes
- Modelviewer: Show bounding box when showing collision mesh (#2664)
- "Landing" tag-point to define where the bottom of the ship is for the landing collision test (#2695, #2656)
- Fixes
- Fix label positioning in orbit and galaxy views (#2608, #2576)
- Various fixes for keybinding modifiers and repeats (#2524, #2523, #2618, #2630)
- Fix Taxi "group of one" mission (#2623, #2628)
- Fix Taxi and Delivery assassins never spawning (#2622, #2624)
- Reset table scroll position when it goes off screen (#2629)
- Clean up station state correctly between games (#2631)
- Fix TradeShips crash when trying to launch after failing to add fuel or cargo (#2634)
- Fix ship pattern selection (#2645)
- Fix shipyard adding ships faster than it sells them (#2653, #2650)
- Fix that fuel was not displayed as percentage after load (#2659, #2660)
- Clear chat form face when showing crew candidate list (#2663, #2647)
- Calculate a sane mousewheel scroll step for scrollable regions
- Internal changes
- Render screen to texture in preparation for post-processing effects (#2525)
- Various code cleanups (#2621)
- Serializer Reader class can now load data from any file source (#2646)
- Expose models to Lua, move pattern methods from ModelSkin to Model (2645)
- Add initial model binary converter/loader (#2643)
- Replace GatherTransforms with a visitor (#2686)
- RefCounted(Ptr) with atomic counter and allowing const correctness (#2688)
