Difference between revisions of "Changes"

Changes since latest released version

Translation improvements

Unconfirmed

• Spanish translation updated (currently being worked on)
• Turkish translation created (currently being made)
• French translation updated (hows this going nct?)

Confirmed

• Catalan translation updated
• Danish translation updated
• German translation updated
• The tutorial has been translated to french

Gameplay improvements

• Prevented key scrolling while in-game menu is active (fixes bug 16091)
• Unit to building allocation system rewrite started

General improvements

• Per-unit skinning and parameter editing
• Map generator now places stone and fruit (fixes bug 16080)
• Synced the amount of teams that can be placed on a map automatically, and while editing (now 16 is the highest) so that the game no longer crashes when playing a map with 17 or more teams (fixes bug 16097)

Miscellaneous improvements

• New tooltip system implemented in libgag, curtesy of Sebastien, now displays tooltips (in French however :( Translation is importent) of the Globulation 2 menu screen. Intergration with the rest of Globulation 2 still to come
• Gradients have been modified a fair bit. They are now updated when a building is destroyed by an enemy. And all war flags are updated when any building is destroyed. Also, a gradiant patch was applyed (supplied by Kai, fixes bug 16257) and several tests have been put in place to test the new changes. Also, there is now a #define to allow easy change of the gradient computation system between the default algorithm, kai's algorithm or simon's algorithm
• Fixed bugs 16350, 16323, 16148, 16171, 16096, and 15908

0.8.19 (released 20060312)

Translation improvements

• Polish translation updated.

Gameplay improvements

• The old tutorial has been completly revamped. It is now more in-depth and covers more aspects of Globulation 2.
• Fixed a bug which prevented players to be dropped correctly when someone is disconnected.
• Fixed a bug which prevented linux systems not named localhost to join themselves

General improvements

• GUI improved following the comments submitted by Ellen Reitmayr which can be found at Usability issues.
• Fixed a bug which made compiling on Windows difficult.
• Fixed two bugs with YOG. One that prevented the game name from being displayed correctly, and another that prevented players in YOG from seeing people in IRC.

Miscellaneous improvements

• The red X on the campaign and custom game screen has been replaced with the text "Please choose a map".
• You can now click 'cancel' to go back to the menu screen from campaigns or the tutorial if you decide not to play it.
• Script state is now saved, which means scripted maps such as the tutorial can now be saved and loaded.
• New SGSL keyword 'space', which simply put halts any other actions until the spacebar is pressed.
• Several bugs fixed.
• Dumping mean CPU usage in Engine.log.

For changes older than these, please check out the Older Changes page.