MHForever 0.9.3: HUD and texture pack fixes

Fixed

• HUD scale with a longer health or stamina bar: with the HUD made smaller, a health bar made longer by Health +50 or Nutrients, or a stamina bar made longer by rations, stayed at full size across the top of the screen. Now the whole HUD shrinks whatever the bars' length. The minimap and the item panel are also more robust: a mark at the edge of the minimap stays with it. Checked in game with a longer stamina bar, on the European release and FUComplete. (Reported by Ye and Saint Conner.)
• Texture packs blurry at a distance: texture pack images now use 16x anisotropic filtering, as PPSSPP does, so the ground and objects seen at a distance or at a slant stay sharp instead of blurring. No setting needed. (Reported by L/\ME, with Kaneda and pABLO finding the cause.)
• Monsters stuttering at high frame rates: since 0.9.1, monsters could move unevenly between frames above 30 fps while the camera turned. They now move between frames as they did before 0.9.1, while the scenery keeps the 0.9.1 fix. (Reported by Saint Conner.) Please tell us if you still see it.

Known issue

• Shaking in some areas of Forest & Hills (area 3 and others): rocks, trees and grass can still shake above 30 fps. We are looking into it. If you see it, you can help: close MHForever, open a Command Prompt in the MHForever folder, run set MHF_INTERP_V2_LOG=1 and then MHForever.exe, play in the area where it shakes, and send us the game.log next to the program.

Notes

• Windows: MHForever-0.9.3-windows-x64.zip. Keep the .dll files next to mhfu.exe, mhfu-us.exe, mhfu-jp.exe and mhfu-fuc.exe. Your settings and saves live outside the program folder, so unzipping a new version never touches them.
• Linux: MHForever-0.9.3-linux-x64.tar.gz. Built on Ubuntu 24.04 (glibc 2.38 or newer); the launcher window needs WebKitGTK 4.1 and GTK 3, MHForever-cli and the game need OpenGL 3.3 and nothing else.
• Updating from 0.9.2: the launcher offers it ("Update now"), checks the download and restarts. On a Steam Deck, run ./MHForever-cli --update.
• If something looks wrong, please send your game.log (next to MHForever.exe) on Discord, https://discord.gg/6xrxY2buDf

Download

Windows: MHForever-0.9.3-windows-x64.zip. Unzip it anywhere you can write to and run MHForever.exe. The programs are not digitally signed, so Windows SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC": choose "More info" and then "Run anyway".

Linux: MHForever-0.9.3-linux-x64.tar.gz. Extract it and run ./MHForever (if your file manager removed the execute permission: chmod +x MHForever MHForever-cli mhfu mhfu-us mhfu-jp mhfu-fuc). On a Steam Deck, or anywhere WebKitGTK is missing, use ./MHForever-cli (see the README inside).

You need your own copy of the game; the archives contain no game data, no texture pack and no FUComplete files. The code is on GitHub under GPL-3.0-or-later.