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v2.4.1 — G3 visual parity: fancy water, glass lighting, full decal cap

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@matthewdeaves matthewdeaves released this 04 Jun 16:51
v2.4.1
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Brings the Power Mac G3 (Rage 128 / Panther) up to the same visual tier as the G4/G5.

Changed

  • Fancy water on the G3 — gl_caustics (animated water caustic shimmer) now on by default on yosemite.
  • Glass / grate lighting — gl_trans_lighting now on (the old "start a new game" glass freeze was fixed back in v2.2.5).
  • More wall marks — bullet/blood/scorch decal cap raised 8 → 32, life 15 s → 20 s, matching the G4/G5.

These were previously off out of Rage-128 fillrate caution. An A/B timedemo on the actual R128 showed no measurable cost (20.7 → 20.6 fps), so the oldest box gets the full look for free in practice (may dip only on unusually water-heavy scenes).

Everything from v2.4.0 (the Apple Watch tactical-computer companion / watchlink — companion app at https://github.com/matthewdeaves/quake2-tactical-watch) is included.

Verified

  • DMG content-verified byte-for-byte vs source at build (Tiger-built, mounts Panther→modern).
  • caustics-on confirmed running on the actual G3 R128 (timedemo PASS); binary identical to the G3+G4-smoke-verified v2.4.0.

One fat image (ppc750 + ppc7400 + ppc970 + x86_64) installs on every supported Mac.

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