Changelog

This article tracks high-level changes compared to the original Arx Fatalis source code release. See Porting Arx Fatalis for the porting progress and Refactoring Arx Fatalis for some other things to do.

Features

• Save game list is sorted so that latest save is at the top.
• Configurable number of quicksave slots. (no GUI yet)
• Configurable windowing + renderer, input and audio backends (no GUI yet)
• 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.

Technical Changes

• Ported text rendering from Windows GDI to Freetype.
• Removed dependencies on proprietary PKWARE implode library. (replaced with zlib and code from the zlib source tarball)
• Abstracted windowing framework, ported to SDL. (Win32 backend is still available)
• Abstracted audio backend, ported to OpenAL. (DirectSound 7 backend is still available)
• Abstracted input backend, ported to SDL. (DirectInput 7 backend is still available)
• Abstracted renderer backend, ported to OpenGL. (Direct3D 7 render is still available)
• Removed various win32 dependencies. (threading, timing, string manipulation, ...)
• Ported to amd64 architecture.
• 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 and HALO texture effects (may be re-added)
• Support for reducing textures to 16-bit