4.0 Beta 3 (Texture Atlas/Async Texture Loading)

🚀 Improvements

• 🔥 Major Performance Upgrade – Texture Atlas System

  • Implemented and optimized Texture Atlas to reduce texture binds, improve GPU batching, and boost rendering performance.
    • Initial optimization – #1252 (by @mehah)
    • Further improvements – #1259 (by @mehah)
    • Cleanup & stability – #1270 (by @mehah)
  • Impact: Up to 1.4x–3x FPS boost in heavy rendering scenarios.

• ⚡ Async Texture Loading (SPR/DAT) Performance Boost

  • Replaced mutex with atomic in async sprite loading to reduce contention – #1240 (by @mehah)
  • Implemented faster sprite decoding & streaming – #1265 (by @mehah)
  • Impact: Significantly reduces map/asset load times, especially on large datasets.

• Android

  • Update Android Project – #1217 (by @SkullzOTS)
  • Fix Android startup – #1218 (by @SkullzOTS)

• System & Performance

  • Refactor things.lua to Controller System + add loadDat fallback logic – #1224 (by @mehah)
  • Optimize drawpool – #1235 (by @mehah)
  • Replace Mutex with Spinlock in Dispatcher & Draw Pipeline – #1238 (by @mehah)

• Features

  • Add protocol 14.00 ~ 14.12 support + features – #1171 (by @kokekanon)
  • Add Windows title bar color customization – #1258 (by @libergod)

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🐛 Fixes

• UI & Interface

  • Fix map resizing in extended view when toggling topmenu (Ctrl+Shift+T) – #1220 & #1225 (by @vllworldbuilding)
  • Fix vBot analyzer button – #1223 (by @BastardofWinterfell)
  • Fix game_actionbar sending text to the correct channel – #1228 (by @kokekanon)
  • Properly animate items in outfits – #1241 (by @nekiro)
  • Fix battlelist widget with Object Pool – #1260 (by @kokekanon)
  • Container window like RL Tibia (miniborder) – #1262 (by @Nottinghster)
  • Text window like RL Tibia – #1263 (by @Nottinghster)
  • Fix m_effects ordering – #1267 (by @kokekanon)
  • “Clear messages” works with readonly mode – #1268 (by @Nottinghster)

• Shop

  • Fix negative balance in game_shop – #1239 (by @Nottinghster)
  • Adjust shop history display – #1247 (by @Nottinghster)

• Console

  • Read-only tab now clears and closes correctly – #1246 (by @Nottinghster)

• Gameplay

  • Fix Prey Actions – #1249 (by @AndreFaramir)
  • Fix boundKeyPressCombos [#1000, #1251, #1231, #738] – #1253 (by @kokekanon)

• Rendering & Sprites

  • Fix sprite loading – #1264 (by @mehah)
  • Fix texture rendering – #1266 (by @mehah)

• Miscellaneous

  • Prevent textedit crash – #1271 (by @hugoj-goncalves)

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🧹 Code Cleanup

• Event Dispatcher – #1248 (by @mehah)
• Texture Atlas – #1270 (by @mehah)

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👥 New Contributors

• @vllworldbuilding – #1220
• @AndreFaramir – #1249
• @libergod – #1258
• @hugoj-goncalves – #1271

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Full Changelog: 4.0b2 → 4.0b3