The cell loading threshold (default: 1024 units) prevents exterior cell loading until the player has travelled part-way into the next cell. This gets rid of excessive cell loadings when walking along an exterior cell border.
Lower the maximum allowed view distance in options menu to accomodate. Change setting name so that old settings files are upgraded.
Bug is fixed, but appears to have broken vision underwater. Notes:
+ basically fixed by darkening the colour of water such that it is
darker than refracted terrain
+ also disabled sunlight scattering at night. This may actually be
desirable, but given there is no visible moon it seems unlikely to make
much sense, and blends a lot of green into the water colour appearing
luminescent at night
- Consistent triangle alignment, fixes a noticable crack near the census and excise office. Note that alignment is still not the same as vanilla. Vanilla uses a weird diagonal pattern. I hope there aren't more trouble spots that will force us to replicate vanilla, but at least we can do that now.
- Fixes several blending issues and cell border seams
- Fix map render to use the terrain bounding box instead of an arbitrary height
- Different LODs are now properly connected instead of using skirts
- Support self shadowing
- Normals and colors are stored in the vertices instead of a texture, this enables per-vertex lighting which should improve performance, fix compatibility issues due to the PS getting too large and mimic vanilla better
- Support a fixed function fallback (though the splatting shader usually performs better)
- Designed for distant land support - test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wnd9EuPJIY - we can't really enable this yet due to depth precision issues when using a large view distance
Jordan Ayers
scrawl
Fil Krynicki
Marc Zinnschlag
mrcheko
Emanuel Guevel
Chris Robinson
Kolzi
Tom Mason
Glorf