Ironwail 0.8.2

[andrei-drexler]

Download:

Note: Linux binary requires glibc 2.31 or newer, e.g. Ubuntu 20.04, and was compiled with DO_USERDIRS=0.

Changes from 0.8.1:

• Initial compatibility with the 30th anniversary Quake update

  Setup instructions:

  • Using an existing Steam installation:
    • unzip this release in any folder on your system that isn't a Quake installation (for example, on your desktop) and run ironwail.exe; the game directory should be detected automatically
    • when prompted to choose between Remastered and Original content, choose Remastered
  • Using a custom Quake installation:
    • copy steamapps\common\Quake\rerelease\mg3 to your Quake directory, alongside id1
    • rename mg3\pak0.pak in your custom Quake dir to pak1.pak
    • copy pak0.pak from steamapps\common\Quake\rerelease\id1 to mg3 in your custom Quake dir
    • unzip the Ironwail archive into your Quake directory and run ironwail.exe as usual

  In both cases you should be able to find MG3 - Dawn of the Machine in the Mods menu.

• Added support for mod-specific entries in the Key setup menu defined in a bindlist.lst file, based on QSS (example from the Keep codebase, used in Mjolnir)
  Note: unlike in QSS, the binds in bindlist.lst are merged with the engine-defined ones instead of completely replacing them
• Added alt modifier key for gamepads, allowing two binds (regular/alt) on the same button (by @protocultor)
• Added automatic map checks for NextBroom and Qrucible
• Reduced MD3 VRAM usage by 4x (same size as MDL now) and improved MD3 loading times by decoding vertices on the GPU
• Fixed a GPU buffer leak
• Added scr_infoscale cvar (default: 2.0), controlling the scale of r_showfields and r_showbboxes text
• Made Mods menu work with mods containing spaces (thanks to @andrey-budko)
• Changed custom mod descriptions (via descript.ion files) to take priority over add-on server descriptions
• Fixed JPEG screenshot saving code to create subdirectories and handle Unicode paths
• Fixed camera jitter after using "centerview" during a cutscene
• Fixed handling of BSPs with non-NUL-terminated entity lumps
• Added r_showskel cvar (for MD5 skeleton visualization)
• Changed default cl_confirmquit value to 2 ("Classic") to prevent closing the game by mistake (without any confirmation)
• Changed default value for scr_centerprintbg to 2 ("Menu box") to improve readability
• Removed legacy -fitz mode
• Improved frametime hitch handling for live option previews (e.g. when setting models to "Enhanced")
• Added a more informative error message when trying to reference a MD3 model directly, instead of having it as a replacement for a MDL (which should always be referenced by the map/progs)

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This discussion was created from the release Ironwail 0.8.2.

[tiodonas]

Amazing timing! Thanks for the new release. Any hope for re-implementing Steam presence on Linux?

[SirrionSunblaze]

There is a way to deploy mg3 and mg1 on a custom install without needing to rename the paks: Extract the /localization folder from the id1 pak and drop it into the /id1 folder.