Changelog

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 and misc 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
• 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