Verdite2 v0.3.3

This will be the final update before 0.4.0, which will probably land in about a week. There is some crazy stuff in store, and I'm extremely thankful for all the enthusiasm surrounding this project, so stay tuned!

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If you want to join the official Verdite Project discord server for previews and access to pre-release builds, join here

What's Changed

• DARK condition no longer causes strobing @Acranon in #42
• Keep the map's view cone when fog of war is set to "whole area" by @Acranon in #41
• Keep saved key bindings and volume when started from the launcher by @Acranon in #40
• Added discord link to readme, also added mod depot.
• Reduced perceived mouse latency by a factor of 5-7× in #45
• Fixed bug where gui would become unviewable on wayland after going in and out of fullscreen in #44
• Tell the player when a newer release is out by in #47

New Contributors

• @Acranon made their first contribution in #40

Full Changelog: v0.3.2...v0.3.3

Verdite2 v0.3.2

Tiny hotfix meant to address graphical issues experienced by users with an NVIDIA graphics card.

What's Changed?

• Fixed issue where the NVIDIA driver mis-compiled a conditional in the vertex shader, causing world surfaces to lose their textures and draw as a flat colour
• Added experimental screen-space and planar reflections

Full Changelog: v0.3.1...v0.3.2

Verdite2 v0.3.1

Interrim release focused mainly on fixing some stuff up on Windows. There could be issues on Nvidia since I don't have an Nvidia computer to test it.

Windows

• Fixed VSync on Windows (hopefully 💀)
• Fixed related issue with reading the control when vsync is on causing insane performance loss.
• Borderless Fullscreen as an alternative fullscreen option. (Useful for AMD systems with bad drivers)

Graphics

• Sensible defaults for normal computers.
• Ascii Entertainment spash plays again
• Fixed minor graphical issue with SSAO

Debug mod

• Added options for recording cinematic videos

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.3.1

Verdite2 v0.3.0

Lot's of incredible changes this week mostly focused on graphical stability and performance. Very exciting stuff! I'm working on a quick trailer for YouTube, so stay tuned.

What's new

Graphics

• Added Mipmaps
• Fixed evil texture filtering not working
• Fixed missing geometry viewed from oblique angles
• 4× the polygon buffer to stop geometry from being dropped.
• Fixed secret doors being transparent with AO on.
• Fixed shop entry sometimes replacing textures with stale textures.
• Instead of overlaying a bitmap, dialogue now renders proper text on the screen, allowing it to render over a live 3D scene, as well as allowing it to display at whatever aspect ratio is desired.
• Fixed flickering in the death fade and damage flash above 20 FPS.

Frame Rate and Smoothness

• Water and scrolling textures now animate at the game's frame rate instead of the tickrate.
• Added interpolation to the head bobbing animation.
• Fixed graphical errors and stutters when performing a level transition
• Area initialization is now performed during startup.
• Fixed bad performance when water is on screen.

Performance and Internals

• Rewrote recompiled map-tile and object/creature traversal in native C#, allowing the game to track which parts of the game are being drawn (this means nothing today but enables us to add cool features in the future).
• Added an optional area-aware ambient occlusion mode using the above feature. Not good atm, disabled.

Audio

• High quality reverb option.
• Better audio interpolation options.
• Positional 3D Audio.

Interface and Presentation

• Launcher now extracts the PS1 memorycard logo and uses it as the taskbar icon.
• Fixed poorly scaled map.
• Enhancements are enabled by default now.

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0

Verdite2 v0.2.0

First Public Release of Verdite2

Verdite2 ships no game data. You need your own dump of King's Field (NTSC-U, SLUS-00158) as a .chd, or .cue / .bin.

The first time the game is ran, Verdite2 will ask for your disc, where it will then build the game locally on your machine; in other words, no proprietary game data is shipped in this binary.

What's Changed

• Fixed music speed
• Added widescreen support (also 16:10 and ultrawide)
• Added agentic tooling for observing and interacting with the game
• Added true-color 24-bit output
• Fixed margin-latch handling
• Separated presentation logic from game logic, allowing the game to run at 20 Hz while rendering at higher rates
• Added a dynamic map
• Added first-run game building from disc images
• Named 997 library functions through signature matching
• Backported changes from upstream RecompOne
• Added mouse interaction with in-game menus
• Added frame profiling, frame capture, and a C# geometry pipeline
• Added per-pixel lighting, including fog and lighting
• Used C# geometry pipeline to improve Z-buffer depth handling and culling

Known Issues

• On windows, using V-sync causes major performance loss and frametime issues.
• On windows, there is screen tearing at the screen's native refresh rate (to get around this, set your cap slightly higher)
• On windows, full screen effects that appear when you take damage, appear to "travel" across the screen
• There are intermittent visual holes in the level geometry
• Z-buffer does not account for billboards
• This game has NEVER been tested on an NVIDIA machine, so YMMV. Please open an issue if anything comes up.