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This article tracks high-level changes compared to the original Arx Fatalis source code release. See Refactoring Arx Fatalis for some things still left to do.
Arx Libertatis 1.0 "Bloody Gobblers!"
Released: 2012-04-19
New Features
- Cross-platform support: Windows, Linux and possibly other UNIX-likes
- Configurable windowing + renderer, input and audio backends
- Save game list is sorted so that latest save is at the top
- Configurable number of quicksave slots
- Shortcut to toggle windowed and fullscreen mode (default is Alt+Enter)
- Video config menu displays the aspect ratio along with resolutions
- Separated window size and fullscreen resolution
- Added an "automatic" fullscreen resolution setting that always chooses the highest available one
- Support for system-wide installation and per-user configuration / savegames (follows the XDG Base Directory Specification under Linux)
- Ported to amd64 architecture
- A single binary can automatically run the demo or full game data
- Automatic language detection for the data files
- Added a crash reporter tool
- Added tools to extract .pak and savegame files
Fixed Bugs
- Fixed aspect ratio for interface elements when using non 5:4-resolutions (some are still stretched)
- Fixed various crashes
- Improved level loading speed by limiting the progress bar update rate
Technical Changes
- Ported text rendering from Windows GDI to Freetype
- Removed dependency on the proprietary PKWARE implode library
- This required changing the savegame format - saves produced by Arx Libertatis cannot be read by the original Arx Fatalis, but Arx Libertatis can still read the original save files.
- Abstracted windowing framework, with SDL and Win32 implementations
- Abstracted audio backend, with OpenAL and DirectSound 9 implementations
- Abstracted input backend, with SDL and DirectInput 8 implementations
- Abstracted renderer backend, with OpenGL and Direct3D 9 implementations
- Replaced custom image loading/saving code with DevIL
- Various code cleanup and performance improvements
Removed Features
- Editor mode (will be re-added)
- Texture size option (will be re-added)
- "Bump mapping" (proper bump/normal mapping will be re-added)
- PNUX texture effect
- Support for reducing textures to 16-bit
- Non-newcontrol mode
- Gamma/brightness/contrast correction
Patch 1.0.1
Released: 2012-04-22
- Fixed garbled text rendering in the Russian version (bug #226)
- Fixed a crash in the critical error dialog on some Linux systems (crash report #229)
- Loading files from the
graph
andmisc
directories is now case-insensitive - Switched to D3D and DInput backends by default on Windows
Patch 1.0.2
Released: 2012-06-14
- Fixed problems with the unity build under Linux (crash report #243, crash report #245)
- Fixed crashes and disappearing items when sorting the inventory
- Crafting now always adds items to an existing stack if there is one (feature request #109)
- Inventory sorting now works on all bags at once
- Fixed a script execution error when changing the heartbeat event while executing the heartbeat event
- Fixed compile errors with older Qt and SDL versions
- Fixed crashes due to random numbers, mostly occurring on Windows (crash report #258)
- Fixed a bug in loading the Spanish localization files (bug #259)
- Fixed transparent objects being drawn in front of opaque objects when a book/note is open (bug #252)
- Fixed a regression from the original game that made the player super stealthy (bug #262)
- Fixed a regression in the script timer code (crash report #251)
- Fixed label for the 'Full screen' checkbox not being shown in the German version
- Fixed cursor position not aligning with absolute input devices (e.g. tablets) in fullscreen mode (bug #269)
- Mouse sensitivity setting now only applies to turning the camera, not to cursor movement
Patch 1.0.3
Released: 2012-07-31
- Fixed crashes on startup after selecting the OpenGL renderer on Windows (crash report #290)
- Fixed crashes after Alt+TAB-ing out of fullscreen mode on Windows (crash report #274)
- Added support for graphics cards and drivers that don't support alpha-only textures to the File:Windows icon.png Direct3D renderer (bug #331)
- Fixed low mouse sensitivity with the File:Windows icon.png DirectInput backend (bug #334)
- Fixed some effects shining though walls while casting (bug #278)
- Fixed missing speech in cinematics for the Russian and Italian versions (bug #335)
- Fixed missing ambient sound effects (bug #341)
- Fixed the offset for the halo rendered around some equipped rings
- Improved the .ini parser to deal with broken syntax in the Japanese and Russian localization files
- Include attribute modifiers when calculating the effective object knowledge and projectile skills (bug #302)
- Savegames can now be deleted from the save and load menus