Cube 2: Sauerbraten source port

A client mod for Cube 2: Sauerbraten. Aims for a vanilla-like experience, but more polished.

This mod can also be used as a server mod, although there are currently no changes to speak of when running as a server.

Currently based on Sauerbraten SVN revision 6217. Work is in progress to rebase on the 2020 edition and include the latest official fixes and improvements.

Features

• Improved coloring for player numbers in the server browser (gray = empty, yellow = almost full, red = full).
• Colored pings in the server browser and scoreboard (greener = better).
• Improved coloring and capitalization for console messages.
• New ^f9 console color code (light gray).
• Automatic FOV adjustment for widescreen aspect ratios. Specify a 4:3 horizontal FOV and it will be adjusted automatically to any aspect ratio.
• Strafe movement animation is now used when moving diagonally forwards.
• Improved animation and zoom FOV interpolation using in-out easing.
• Tweaked default color for bot waypoints to make them more visible.
• Quad damage attack sound now plays continuously when firing the chaingun.
• Customizable color for bot waypoints (e.g. /showwaypointscolour 0xffffff).
• Customizable weapon trail colours (/rockettrailcolour, /rifletrailcolour, /grenadetrailcolour).
• positionpacketdelay and disableenetlimits variables ported from sauer-sdl2. Both are set to values optimized for responsive, jitter-free gameplay by default.
• Blob shadows are now displayed when shadow maps are enabled to fake ambient occlusion.
• Tweaked blob shadows to be more subtle and fade more progressively when jumping.
• Made the /ragdolleyesmooth and /ragdolleyesmoothmillis variables persistent across restarts.
• Made the hudgun FOV variables (/avatarfov and /avatarzoomfov) persistent across restarts.
• Exposed /dbgspawns 1 to debug playerstart spawn probability in local games and coop edit mode.
  • This feature is present in the vanilla codebase, but is commented out.
• Improved hudgun swaying:
  • Slightly decreased overall swaying speed.
  • Increased swaying speed when moving forward/backward to compensate.
  • Subtle swaying is now applied when not moving to make the player feel more alive.
  • The /swayside, /swaystep and /swayup variables are now persistent.
• Improved particle effects:
  • Players landing from a high jump now create a smoke puff (/landingvfx 0 to disable).
  • Entering and leaving water/lava now creates splash particles (/liquidvfx 0 to disable).
  • Teleports and teledests now emit blue sparks when used (/teleportvfx 0 to disable).
  • Jumppads now emit green sparks when used (/jumppadvfx 0 to disable).
• Improved dynamic light effects:
  • Teleports and teledests now emit a blue dynamic light when used (/teleportvfx 0 to disable).
  • Jumppads now emit a green dynamic light when used (/jumppadvfx 0 to disable).
  • Hitscan shots now emit a dynamic light at the point of impact (/hitscanlight 0 to disable).
• HUD improvements:
  • /hudicons 0 variable to hide icons on the HUD (defaults to 1).
  • /radardeadplayers 0 to hide dead player icons ("×") on the minimap.
  • /crosshairforceadditive 1 variable to force additive blending for crosshairs that contain an alpha channel (defaults to 0). If 0, "mix" blending is used as in the vanilla game.
  • /crosshairwaitalpha 0.0..1.0 to control the opacity of the crosshair while the weapon is reloading (1.0 is fully opaque, defaults to 0.5).
  • Crosshair health is now a smooth gradient (red-yellow-white). The crosshair will also progressively become greener if your health goes above 100.
  • Teammate crosshair is now displayed on top of the main crosshair so that you can still know your health status.
  • Tweaked the teammate crosshair color to be more visible.
  • Armor count is now colored depending on the current armor type.
  • Health and ammo are now hidden in instagib modes.
  • Health is now hidden while dead.
  • FPS counter is now colored depending on the framerate.
  • The respawn counter on the minimap now turns green when it reaches 0.
  • Blips on the minimap (flags, capture bases, in-game hold flag) now blink faster for easier recognition and following.
  • Game clock now becomes red (instead of yellow) when there is less than 1 minute left, and yellow when there are less than 3 minutes left.
  • Own chat messages (standard and team) are now displayed in light gray to be easier to distinguish from other players' messages.
  • Chat messages containing your name (case-insensitive) are now displayed in orange ("highlight" messages).
    • If your name contains clan tags or is frequently shortened by other players, define /chathighlightname to use an additional highlight word (in addition to your player name). This word is also case-insensitive.
• Tweaked variable defaults:
  • aniso (0 → 16) – 16× anisotropic filtering to make textures look better when viewed at oblique angles.
  • conscale (0.33 → 0.42) – Larger console text.
  • consize (5 → 7) – More console messages on screen.
  • depthbits (0 → 24) – Fixes Z-fighting in large maps on Intel IGPs.
  • fov (100 → 90) – Hor+ FOV is now used (the new value is equivalent to /fov 90 on 4:3).
  • zoomfov (35 → 45) – Wider zoom FOV to be more useful in common situations (also using Hor+ now).
  • avatarzoomfov (25 -> 30) - Wider hudgun zoom FOV to match the new default zoom FOV.
  • fsaa (-1 → 4) – 4× MSAA to combat aliasing on polygon edges.
  • fullconsize (75 → 85) – Taller full console (saycommand line is still visible just below).
  • guiclicktab (0 → 1) – Click to switch GUI tabs (instead of merely hovering them).
  • hidefrags (1 → 0) – Always display frags in the scoreboard, even in capture and CTF modes.
  • miniconsize (5 → 8) – More chat messages on screen.
  • minimapsize (8 → 10) – Sharper minimap.
  • showdeaths (0 → 1) – Display the number of deaths for each player in the scoreboard.
  • showwaypointsradius (200 → 500) – See waypoints from further away.
  • soundbufferlen (1024 → 768) – Lower sound latency.
  • soundfreq (22050 → 48000) – Improved sound quality.
  • animationinterpolationtime (150 → 220) – Smoother animation interpolation (visible on players).
  • zoominvel (250 → 220) - More reactive FOV change when zooming.
  • zoominvel (100 → 160) - Smoother FOV change when unzooming.
• Tweaked variable limits:
  • conscale (0.001..1000.0 → 0.3..2.0) – Prevents the console from becoming unusable due to extremely low or high values.
  • minimapsize (7..10 → 7..11) – Even sharper minimap.
  • shadowmapsize (7..11 → 7..12) – Sharper/better-looking shadowmaps.
  • zoomfov (10..60 → 10..150) – Allows for more subtle zoom FOV.

Installation

No binaries are provided yet. Therefore, you must build this project from sources to run it.

• Clone this repository or download a ZIP archive.
• Copy or symlink the packages/ folder from your Cube 2: Sauerbraten installation. (This must done because packages/ can't legally be redistributed in modified versions of the game.)
• Compile a client and server binary. On Linux, enter make -C src install in a terminal while in the root folder of the cloned repository.
• Run the game by entering ./sauerbraten_unix in the root folder.

License

Copyright © 2001-2020 Wouter van Oortmerssen, Lee Salzman, Mike Dysart, Robert Pointon, and Quinton Reeves

Mod changes © 2020-2022 Hugo Locurcio (see Git history)

Licensed under the Zlib license, see LICENSE.txt for details.