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D2X-W32 1.3.22: Friendly fire fix

• Fixed: Friendly fire off was inhibiting suicide as well. This should however work separately from FF.

D2X-W32 1.3.23

• Fixed: Kill count not incremented in multiplayer games.
• Fixed: Weapon auto switch setting being reset to "switch if empty".
• Fixed: Game crashes when playing D2:Vertigo.
• Improved: Bogus save game handling.
• Improved: Movement smoothing when zoomed.

D2X-W32 1.3.24: Hoard fix

• Fixed: Starting a hoard game would always start a team hoard game.

D2X-W32 1.3.25: D1 compatibility fix

• Fixed: Improper handling of animated D1 textures.
• Fixed: Crash when loading D1 missions w/o briefing.

(My 1000th post here, btw. )

D2X-W32 1.3.26

• Fixed: Player efficiency wasn't computed properly (shown instead of the player scores when pressing F7)

D2X-W32 1.3.27: MP Client Flicker Fix

• Fixed: Flickering when game clients move in multiplayer games.

D2X-W32 1.3.28: High res textures

• Fixed: You couldn't edit macros.
• Improved: D2X-W32 accepts textures up to 1024x1024x8. Add them to a level with DLE-XP.

D2X-W32 1.3.29: Dual missile launch

• New: Due to numerous requests of a single person, I have added a dual missile launch option to both the Toggles and the More Game Options menus.

D2X-W32 1.3.30

• New: Single player difficulty can be adjusted in the D2X Toggles menu.
• Fixed: Dead keys (CAPS LOCK, NUM LOCK) only worked at every second keypress.

D2X-W32 1.3.31

• Fixed: Dual missile launch always on in multiplayer/coop.
• Fixed: Inhibit suicide always on in multiplayer.
• Fixed: Robot animations in Descent 1 briefings.
• Fixed: Erroneous warning about hog file size when loading a save game from inside a game.

D2X-W32 1.3.32

• Fixed: Animated texture display in Descent 1 briefings.

D2X-W32 1.3.33

• Fixed: Overly restrictive player file consistency checking prevented player files created with D2/D2-W95 to be accepted by D2X-W32.

D2X-W32 1.3.34

• Fixed: A few toggles in the Toggles Menu didn't work any more.

D2X-W32 1.3.35

• Fixed: Several bugs in the renderer that could cause rendering faults or even program crashes.

D2X-W32 1.3.36

• Fixed: Ship spinning wildy when respawning with fast respawn enabled.
• Fixed: Removed some debug code.

D2X-W32 1.3.37 - 1.3.39

• Fixed: Turned off new rendering code causing rendering errors e.g. in missile view window.
• Fixed: Keys not displayed in HUD in coop games (note that keys will remain in the level even if picked up by one player to allow all players to grab that key).
• Fixed: Not playing level song when turning midi sound off and on again in-game.
• Improved: Briefing robot movies played even if -nomovies specified (that switch should only affect intro movie playback at game start).

D2X-W32 1.3.40

• Fixed: Robot movie position and size in D2 briefings for resolutions > 640x480.
• New: Transparent explosions, transparent powerups (shield, energy, invul, cloak, extra life).

D2X-W32 1.3.41

• Fixed: Guided missile reticle (now showing a cross as it should be).

D2X-W32 1.3.42: Full cockpit available

• New: Full cockpit available! Tadaa!
• Improved: Lehm has prettified the transparent explosion effect with some fading in/out.

D2X-W32 1.3.43

• Fixed: Explosions not clipped any more.
• Improved: Explosions will start pretty opaque now and then get more and more transparently while fading away.
• Fixed: Miscolored first frame of briefing robot movies.

D2X-W32 Online Manual

I have created a short online manual describing the most important menus and their various options. Read it here.

D2X-W32 1.3.44

• New: Transparent weapon shots (e.g. Plasma cannon shots).

D2X-W32 1.3.45

• Fixed: Frame around first image of D2 briefing robot movies.
• Fixed: Bug in bitmap animation causing not all bitmaps of the clip to be displayed.
• Improved: Weapon color determination.
• Improved: Transparent explosion visuals.
• Improved: Movie quality.

D2X-W32 1.3.46

• Fixed: Player appearance effect (lightning flash) wasn't created when starting a new game or respawning.

D2X-W32 1.3.47

• Improved: Increased field of view with full cockpit enabled.
• New: Bittersweet 'cheat' will now have an effect again (surprise, surprise ).

D2X-W32 1.3.48

• Fixed: Crash when turning on the bar HUD (with the minus key).
• Fixed: Reticle position in the cockpit view.
• Fixed: Numerical energy and shield displays weren't updated in the cockpit view.
• New: Transparent effects can now be turned off in the toggles menu.
• New: Seismic effects (E-Shaker, Reactor/Boss destroyed, Fusion charging) limited to 40 fps.
• New: Fusion charging limited to 40 fps.
• Fixed: Flash effects will not change the color at high brightness levels (e.g. when charging the fusion for a long time).

D2X-W32 1.3.49 - 1.3.50

• Fixed: Firing angle in cockpit view.
• Removed: Frame rate limitation for fusion charging.

D2X-W32 1.3.51

• Fixed: Miscolored textures in Descent 1 levels (some brainiac had put a function call essential for D1 texture handling into an assert macro, which are disabled in the release code, so that function was never called. You need a miracle to find bugs like that).
• Reverted: Overcharging the fusion will turn the screen color from purple to white to yellow again.
• Fixed: Firing angle and missing laser or vulcan shots or flares.

D2X-W32 1.3.52

• Fixed: Switching between fullscreen and cockpit view will now preserve the view angle.
• Fixed: Colored overdraw when charging the fusion missing.
• Improved: Sound buffer handling (size) depending on sample rate.
• Improved: D1 texture conversion (more D1 textures will be used now, and some substitutes are better matches for the D1 counterparts).

D2X-W32 1.3.53: D1 music activated

• New: D1 music available in Play Songs menu if D1 data installed in D2 folder.
• New: D1 level songs played in D1 main mission.
• Fixed: Incorrect view angle when starting a level or respawning with cockpit view enabled.
• Fixed: Improperly translated D1 grate texture.

D2X-W32 1.3.54: D1 boss behaviour activated

• New: D1 bosses teleport and end levels
• New: D1 end level song played when leaving a D1 mine.

D2X-W32 1.3.55

• Fixed: D1 end level song starting too late.
• Improved: Some more D1 texture conversion fixes.

D2X-W32 1.3.56

• Fixed: Wrong firing angle in multiplayer games if some players use cockpit view and others don't.

D2X-W32 1.3.57

• New: Robot visibility in the automap can be turned off.

D2X-W32 1.3.58

• Fixed: Bomb display not always shown in cockpit view.
• Fixed: Force field sound not turned off when disabling a force field.
• Fixed: When starting a new game, the chosen difficulty level wasn't used in the D2X options menu.

D2X-W32 1.3.59

• Fixed: Level destruction countdown time was too slow after making seismic effects framerate-independent.

D2X-W32 1.3.60

• Fixed: Hidden surface removal.

Background: Jeff250 has created a level with a pretty sophisticated architecture that causes some faces not to be rendered at certain view angles. It has turned out that this bug is caused by D2(X)'s hidden surface removal - not by the OpenGL driver. I have added an option both to d2x.ini ("-render_all_segs 0|1"} and to the toggles menu ("render entire mine") to get around this. Rendering the entire mine means that every side of every segment of the mine is drawn - whether visible or not - and that the OpenGL driver determines visibility based on each pixel's Z (depth) coordinate. This is a little slower (about 30%) than using D2's hidden surface removal, but will work for levels like yours (insane architecture btw, really cool ). On today's gfx hardware that speed penalty shouldn't be crucial.

D2X-W32 1.3.61

• Fixed: Semi-transparent walls (e.g. fuel sparks) behind other transparent walls (e.g. some cloaked wall) sometimes not being rendering if full mine rendering was enabled.
• (Hopefully) Fixed: Textures sometimes "popping".
• Changed: F3 key will now cycle through HUD modes (full screen -> cockpit -> bar hud -> full screen). If switching from cockpit view to the bar hud by pressing the minus key, pressing F3 will return to the cockpit view to stay compatible with the previous behaviour.

D2X-W32 1.3.62

• Fixed: Fuel and afterburner gauges sometimes rendered full when fuel < 100 or no AB available.
• Improved: D1 texture matching.

D2X-W32 1.3.63: Cockpit view available in all resolutions

• Improved: Cockpit view and status bar now available in all resolutions (minor drawing flaws due to rounding errors possible).
• New: Letterbox (widescreen) view enabled (F3: Fullscreen -> Cockpit -> Status Bar -> Widescreen -> Fullscreen).
• Fixed: Bomb count not visible in status bar display.