Natural Selection 2 - Update

[Dirty]

Feature

- Added the name of the player being followed while waiting to spawn to the screen.

- Added server browser filter option for passworded servers.

 

Optimization

- Improved the performance of lighting calculations.

- Changed fullscreen passes to be rendered using a single triangle rather than a two triangle quad to eliminate overshading pixels along the diagonal.

 

Fix

- Fixed bug causing text in a message box on the main menu to overflow outside the box.

- Fixed bug in the sv_ban command when banning a player not currently on the server.

- Fixed bug causing the Fade to "teleport" to the ground while Blinking into walls and the ceiling.

- Leading and trailing whitespace characters are ignored in the server list filters.

- Filtered out duplicates when mounting mods.

- Eliminated duplicate log messages when mounting mods for consistency checking.

- Fixed bug where returning nil from GetAttachPointCoords would result in uninitialized data being used.

- Fixed issue where having non-ASCII characters in the Windows user name would cause the game to not save mods, settings or cache files properly.

- The Command Structure health will no longer be displayed for enemy structures when they spawn in a nearby room.

- Fixed crash after alt-tabbing.

- Removed the "Attack" button from the ARC as it is not needed and was causing some problems.

- Fixed crash during precaching when a cinematic couldn't be loaded.

- Signaled Steam to stop refreshing the server pings when connecting to a server to avoid cases where the routers NAT table overflowed.

- Fixed issue where LaunchPad didn't properly specify the -game command line parameter when running NS2.

- Crash when acquiring physics models from different threads.

- Fixed bug where collision detection would fail on bodies which had extreme off-axis scaling applied to them (affected Harvester flinch animation)

- Fixed bug allowing the Alien Commander to cancel research on a lifeform egg at the end of research, gaining back the resource cost but not canceling the research.

- Fixed bug where ARCs didn't fire at targets when they had an attack order. They still need some work for actually listening to attack orders though. #3921.

 

Improvement

- The "Update" button in the server browser now changes text when finished updating servers.

- Steam overlay based web views moved over to in-game web view.

- The load progress is now displayed as a percent instead of a count.

 

Editor

- Removing the shift-hover-select thing that just spams undo items. Some other polish/fixes.

- Fixed crash/bugs with copy/paste then undo.

- Hardcoded hotkeys 0-9 for viewport settings (perspective, lit/unlit, etc.)

- Made Tool Settings dialog taller to not hide stuff..heh.

- Added an origin cycle mode to put the gizmo at the first selected object, so you can move a group of props without bad grid-snap.

- Fixed editor bug where you could create empty props.

- Fixed bug when undo-ing face merges.

- Welding vertices will now auto-cleanup things like degenerate edges, duplicate edges (that were formerly different), etc.

- Made camera acceleration an option (tools|settings|general|display settings). off by default now.

- Fixing some issues with deleting faces, undoing, etc. Details: FaceIds are NOT reliable when faces are deleted, so each vertex now stores Face pointers rather than IDs.

- Work in progress checkin for fixes to welding. Just adding some un-used stuff for now.

- Fixed some bugs introduced by adjacent faces optimization.

- Move operations, with/out texture lock, should now be a lot faster and smoother. Using a adjacent-faces-set per vertex instead of doing global face search.

- On second thought, completely removing scale tool restrictions. Mappers use negative values.

- Changed some scale tool parameters so it's less restrictive when sizing small-ish objects.

- Added weld-selected-vertices command. Activate Select Tool, select a group of vertices, then Edit|Weld Selected Vertices (at the bottom of the menu)

- New "knobs" for texture mapping (and other) spinners. purely mouse-movement-based. Up/down arrow keys still work if cursor is in text box. CTRL and ALT modifiers work on both.

- Fixed lost-focus for hotkeys.

- Feedback about how many faces were affected by texture replace.

- Added ALT shortcut for texture replace; added F, C keys to move up/down when in first person camera.

- Fixed annoying scrollbar reset with prop/texture browser windows.

- Added Texture Replace tool (red paint bucket, all the way to the right of the toolbar)

- Removed (-1000,1000) range limit on texture shift spinners. This fixes some of the texture lock-move blank-field issues..

- Grid snapping for texture gizmo. There is some weirdness with snapping, but it works.

- Ctrl + doubleclick on face now adds a whole body to selection.

- Paint(Texture) Tool now has moving handles, in addition to rotate and scale.

- Switching to hash_set instead for faster "used asset" lookups.

- Texture browser now has "show used only" filter as well.

- Props browser now has "show used props only" checkbox. Same thing for textures browser coming soon.

- Custom colors now saved to *.level files.

- Custom colors now saved between selections. Next todo: save per-level custom colors to disk.

- Autobackup filenames now include level name, e.g. ns2_refinery.autobackup2.level.

- Tooltips for tool bar buttons now display bound hot key. Bug: If you change them, the tooltips won't update until restart. Ah well.

 

SDK

- Added the ability to specify default values for settings in a render_setup file.

- Added Clear Level menu option in the Cinematic Editor to clear out the currently set level file.

- Fixed issues with COLLADA files that contained instance_material nodes.

- Fixed issue where COLLADA files that referenced textures with spaces in the file name would not be properly loaded if the file name used a relative path.

- Fixed loading of COLLADA models in the Viewer.

- Enhanced the sound picker with a hierarchical folder display.

- Added support for hearing sounds effects placed in the level in the Editor.

- Added support for displaying cinematics in the Editor.

- Added support for displaying web pages in game.

 

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