MegaGlest v3.6.0.2 Release

• bugfixes reported in the bugs forum since 3.6.0

MegaGlest v3.6.0 Release

• bugfixes reported in the bugs forum since 3.5.2.4

MegaGlest v3.5.2.4 Release

• bugfixes reported in the bugs forum since 3.5.2

MegaGlest v3.5.2 Release

• Lots of work to make MegaGlest a Linux distro friendly package (Debian, Arch, etc)
• Added Support for Russian and Ukrainian with proper fonts in Linux if installed.
• Map editor now supports diagonal flipping
• Windows users now have a shortcut to the mod folder in their MegaGlest programs Menu.
• Bug fixes including:
  • Fix corrupted g3d viewer screenshots, and automatic screenshot mode does not steal focus for Linux users
  • Proper network disconnect detection when connection drops in an abnormal way
  • Avoid crash when user has no soundcard installed
  • Better video handling for buggy opengl drivers that don't properly handle non power of two textures
  • Better support for non ASCII file paths (like Japanese, etc) for international users and Unicode enabled parts of the code

MegaGlest v3.5.1 Release

• Much better pathfinder performance
• Allow servers to temporary block specified network players from the game lobby
• Better Linux distro packaing support (by default megaglest works in standard linux paths and make install added)
• Game data cleanup (duplicate sound files have been merged in megapack) and non free content replaced.
  (autumn and desert tilesets)
• Displayed up to 15 queued commands (observers can view all players queued commands)
• Allow factions in a techtree to share common data using the special tag in xml files $COMMONDATAPATH
  which points to the techtrees commondata/ folder.
• standardized games and tools startup scripts with names starting with 'startup_'
• updated translations for German, Italian and French
• bugfixes reported in 3.5.0
• AI enhancements (better repair, and safer build positions)
• Improved network code, fixes some out of synch issues.
• Display players svn revision# in network game lobby

MegaGlest v3.5.0 Release

• Menu changes to better group similar items
• Added Blender related tools in blender sub folder
• Modified binary and script names for Linux builds to avoid conflicts with original glest
• Added preview info in mod menu, scenario menu and tutorials
• End game stats have more info now
• Added more validations for modders for techtrees and scenarios (commandline options)
• Bugfix for OpenAL (now works in v 1.13)
• Updates to Romans faction
• Network messages generated by the game are now displayed in the local users selected language
• Support for custom credits (add the file data/core/menu/credits.txt)
• More AI player improvements
• Default screenshot format is now jpg (configurable in options menu)
• Fixed some performance problems with 'stuck' units
• improved resource selection
• performance improvements, now make it possible to play with more units and slower hardware than before.
• new maps with cliffs and higher terrain
• support for sending 7z tilesets and techtrees over network
• new game mod management console to download new game content or remove existing mod content
• multi-threaded pathfinding for better performance when many units are moving
• CPU AI player improvements (units get unstuck more often and stationary air units attack more efficiently)
• new tileset and resource particle support.
• added jpg screenshot support
• optional compressed GPU texture support
• improved harvesting and resource selection
• better support for multiple platform compiling
• Modifiable keyboard hotkeys
• bugfixes for map editor and g3d viewer to work more stable on multiple platforms
• LSB conform ".megaglest" usage

MegaGlest v3.4.0 Release

• new attack alarms use visual and audio cues to indicate when and where you or your team are under attack
• new auto router configuration for Internet hosted games will auto port forward (for UPNP enabled routers)
• new network file transfer system current allows servers to send missing maps and tilesets to clients
• new IRC client built into the Internet lobby (uses freenode's megaglest-lobby channel)
• improved sound handling for better stability and smoother game play
• CPU AI players now can have their resource multiplier manually changed
• new fog of war setting allows showing resources on the map at game start (thanks GAE team)
• many new commandline options (try --help to see)
• texture compression for video cards that support it
• improved AI players are much harder to defeat
• new Romans_beta faction in megapack
• new language translations
• new tilesets, maps and a tutorials
• G3D Viewer enhancements including PNG screenshots with alpha transparency option
• performance improvements for both rendering and network play
• FreeBSD support has been added in this release
• no more selection problems!
• bugfixes discovered in 3.3.7.2

MegaGlest v3.3.7.2 Release

• This is primarily a bugfix release to correct noticable issues from 3.3.7

MegaGlest v3.3.7 Release

• Again more performance updates to rendering and game updating
• screenshots work again in windows ( bugfix )
• some new maps especially meant for coop multiplayer
• map preview in the game setup menus ( can be switched off in options for performance reasons )
• new features for unit particles ( for example see genies new green glow )
• observers ( implemented as special faction to choose )
• multibuild
• teamates are shown with yellow cycle now ( instead of red )
• bugfix for AI not losing HP when food is out
• added more LUA functions
• player number based map filter in cutom game menu
• toggle of music in custom menu while waiting for players
• advanced features switch to simplify the game setup
• faction preview ( a small version of the loading screen is displayed )
• working transparency textures for units! ( basically like trees in tilesets now )
• smooth shadow on/off while playing when needed for performance reasons.
• new unit property max-unit-count to limit the amount of living units of this type
• harvesting units of size bigger one work better now
• free BSD support ( thanks to M0llemeister! )
• first MacOS support ( alpha, thanks to GeoVah! )
• several other minor changes/bug fixes

MegaGlest v3.3.6 Release

• More performance updates to rendering and game updating
• Improved network play for slower clients (new game options for lagging players)
  • Added the ability to toggle Pause or Disconnect for lagged clients per game
  • Better error detection of network state
• Updated client and server lobby screens to show more game information
• Added more per game changable settings for network games
• Updated support for GAE pathfinder (but should ONLY be used in single player
  mode as network use is experimental)
• Added new commandline parameter for modders to validate their techtrees, usage:
  ./glest --validate-techtrees
• Added new commandline parameter to display openGL driver information, usage:
  ./glest --opengl-info
• Added support for Open Suse
• Fixed bugs where invalid IP addresses were used for NIC's that are not active
• Added the ability to turn OFF sounds via the options menu
• Some bug fixes and changes were made to the AI
• Fixed issue where command queues and multi-unit selecting was broken
• Fixed map editor for windows users where tooltips didn't show properly and memory corruption.