MHForever 0.9.5: no more shaking indoors and sharper texture packs

Fixed

• Shaking inside houses and the village cave: since 0.9.4, everything but your hunter could shake above 30 fps inside a house or in the village cave. There, a single big effect outweighed the whole room when MHForever worked out how the camera moved. Now no single object can outweigh the rest of the scenery, and areas like towns and Forest & Hills keep the 0.9.4 fix. Checked in game in the house, the village cave and the village. (Reported by Saint Conner, with a video, #87.) If you still see a shake somewhere, please tell us where.
• Texture packs sharp at a distance: texture pack images now use only the mip levels the pack ships, as PPSSPP does, so distant ground and grass look as sharp as in PPSSPP (packs such as KHD ship none). At low internal resolutions, fine detail far away may shimmer a little while the camera moves, as it does in PPSSPP. (Reported by L/\ME and Kaneda, #86.)

Notes

• Windows: MHForever-0.9.5-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-0.9.5-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 0.9.4: 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-0.9.5-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-0.9.5-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.