JoeQuake 0.17.9

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Changes:

• Added slightly better looking movement keys UI
• Added new feature to store movement keys in demo files
  • Movement keys stored as of now: +forward, +back, +moveleft, +moveright, +jump
• Added nicely animated zoom FOV and related commands from Ironwail (per user request)
  • New cvars: zoom_fov, zoom_speed
  • New commands: togglezoom, +zoom, -zoom
• Various changes in the Options menu
  • Color chooser menus:
    • Changes are auto-saved from now, instead you can undo your pending changes
    • Offering the entire Quake palette colors to select from
  • Mouse menu: sensitivity slider has higher resolution allowing lower values to set
  • Weapon menu: added slider for cl_gun_fovscale
  • Hud menu: added option for show_movekeys
  • Textures menu: added slider for anisotropic filtering
  • View menu: added new options to switch on players/monster wallhacked outlines, bounding boxes
  • Misc menu: added new options to toggle demo player UI, automatic demo recording, precise intermission time
• Added experimental wallhack for monster models by drawing their model outlines
  • New cvar: r_outline_monsters
  • The color of the outlines can be controlled by the existing r_outline_color cvar
  • Important: This feature is denied while demo recording!
• Supporting md3 models for r_outline_players cvar
• Fixed a bug on r2m8 when the timing ended on a cutscene (by @matthewearl)
• Added support for LiveSplit autosplitter (by @kugelrund)
  • Any new JoeQuake version will immediately have autosplitting support
• Fixed crash with playdemo dzip and pause (by @matthewearl)
• Fixed bug when JoeQuake sometimes showed an error "Couldn't set fullscreen DIB mode" after ALT-TAB
• Got rid of default auto-aim setting: changed value of sv_aim to 1 (was 0.93 by default)
  • A warning message is displayed if value < 0.93 is set (which is illegal for speedrunning)
• Added r_ambient cvar to control ambient light level of maps
  • Works the same way as it did in the software version of Quake
  • Valid values are positive integer numbers, e.g.
    • 0: no ambient light level added (default)
    • 10: slightly lighter
    • 50: very light
    • 100: extremely light
• Got rid of legacy code which changed weapon position based on FOV

JoeQuake 0.17.8

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Changes:

• Fixed bug with rare warping entity positions when movement lerping was used (gl_interpolate_movement)
  • It was most noticable with torch models at map startups
• Always render unlit maps in fullbright mode (fixes lighting on e.g. map 180)
• Fixed a Sys_Error in lim_daviddg map from Liminal Spaces Jam (from QuakeSpasm)
• Fixed stack buffer overrun when loading lim_daviddg.bsp from the Liminal Spaces Jam (from QuakeSpasm)
• Added visible bounding boxes around models (by @matthewearl)
  • New cvar: cl_bbox
• Reconsidered autodemo recording feature
  • Renamed cl_autodemo_name to cl_autodemo_format
  • cl_autodemo_format now contains a template with placeholders how the demo file to be named
  • cl_autodemo now only has 0 and 1 modes, spamming a new .dem files for every recording is removed
• Fixed autoid text not getting displayed if resolution scaling was used (by @matthewearl)
• Show ghost name when scr_autoid is set (by @matthewearl)
• Allow overriding spawnparams (by @kugelrund)
  • An engine-side variant of what qdqstats provides, to work with custom mods too
  • New cvar: sv_override_spawnparams
• Fixed speedometer in multiplayer (by @kugelrund)
  • The less accurate fallback value is only used if really needed
• Workaround for skyfog value not being reset (by @kugelrund)
  • When the value of r_skyfog wasn't reset to a default value on the start of a map, it used the value from the end of the previous map
  • New cvar: r_skyfog_default
• Allow higher framerate limits up to 100,000 fps (by @kugelrund)
  • This is useful for super high fps frame blending video renders
• Fixed wrong size for already loaded images (by @kugelrund)
  • On certain occasions the size of skybox images was messed up (e.g. loading another map after ad_tears)
• Added movement indicator UI
  • New cvar: show_movekeys
• Added Quake Champions style player outlines (with wallhack)
  • New cvars: r_outline_players, r_outline_color
• Fix potential infinite loop in S_PaintChannels (from QuakeSpasm/Ironwail)
• Removed deprecated texture size check to fix an issue with the map s3m1_fw
• Fix cl.onground for packets without clientdata (by Sphere)
  • This bug could break the view step smoothing when on elevators or slopes
• Added freefly mode during demo playback (i.e. live recam) (by @matthewearl)
• Added DemoUI cvars and hide cursor (by @matthewearl)
  • New cvars: cl_demouitimeout, cl_demouihidespeed
• Fixed coop marathon tracking when ghost was used (by @matthewearl)
  • The problem was that non-host clients couldn't track marathons correctly

JoeQuake 0.17.7

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Changes:

• Created a new project page in GitHub pages
• Added youtube-like demo player UI (by @matthewearl)
• Ghost is fixed when rewinding through finale (by @matthewearl)
• Ghost now properly works on levels ending with svc_cutscene (e.g. hipend)
• Fixed bug when ambient sounds kept playing after level changes in multi-level demos
• Fixed bug when changing gl_part_telesplash (from 2 or 3) crashed the game
• Raised default JPG screenshot quality from 75 to 90 (jpeg_compression_level)
• Added optional precise time printing on intermission (by @matthewearl)
  • New cvar: scr_precisetime
  • When set to 1, the intermission time is shown with two decimal places
• Added feature to reload ghost demos on-the-fly, so no demo restart needed (by @matthewearl)
• Fixed producing corrupt savegame files due to CR/LF characters in map name (e.g. autumn_sp)
• Fixed drawing of Quake3 multimodel shadows
• Made visible portion of weapon models adjustable (from Ironwail)
  • New cvar: cl_gun_fovscale
  • Values from the 0...1 range are valid
• Fixed rendering mode when r_lightmap is 1
• Changed vertex lighting mode to be switched off by default
• Smaller fixes to support Mjolnir episode 4
• Ghost splits are now shown during finale (by @matthewearl)
• Added demo summary text on intermission when ghost recording is enabled (by @matthewearl)
• Optimized video renderer when large number of models were drawn
  • Special thanks to @matthewearl for tracking down a long-standing bug on certain GPUs
• Made location of HUD icons slightly customizable
  • New cvar: cl_sbar_offset
  • The position of the HUD icons are lifted by the offset amount (valid from 0 to 8)
  • The specified offset is only applied if cl_sbar is 0 or 2
• Slightly increased lighting overbright on maps and made it available on models either
  • New cvars: gl_overbright, gl_overbright_models
  • Default values are 1 (overbright enabled) for both
• Fixed show_speed value when playing cooperative
• Added anisotropic filtering support (from QuakeSpasm)
  • New cvar: gl_texture_anisotropy, to set the desired filtering amount (2x, 4x, 8x, 16x)
• Added fix to avoid occasional 3s pause on restarting level (by @matthewearl)
• SDL build improvements (by @matthewearl):
  • Fixed cl_minpitch and cl_maxpitch
  • Keypad support
  • Added resolution scale option to Video menu
• Fixed potential crash after loading a savegame (by @matthewearl)
• Fixed bug when the same skin was loaded for different models (occured in Re:Mobilize)