Bullet and/or our collision handling code doesn't like timesteps much
smaller than that. Ideally we should do physics in 60fps (or even 30fps)
steps and use prediction and interpolation to get more, but that's not
straight forward and needs a fixed timestep loop to lock physics and
logic together.
The branch merged in 5a863589b4 removed fine-grained configure-time control
over install paths. This is necessary to accomodate various linux distros'
policies, eg. Gentoo wants games installed in /usr/games, but with resource
files in /usr/share/games.
DOCDIR and MANDIR appear to be unused, and were not re-introduced.
- 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
scrawl
Chris Robinson
vorenon
Marc Zinnschlag
Tom Mason
eroen