CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

Unreleased

• Nothing

2018-02-15

Added

• Deliver Ambassador Gremus scenario.
• Scripts can CpuShip orders.

Changed

• Clean up the GUI code.
• SpaceObject:takeDamage allows setting the origin, frequency and system_target.

Fixed

• Different approach to prevent the radar from capturing clicks. #498

2018-01-05

Changed

• Allow spawning explosions from scripts.

Fixed

• Hang on start of tutorial with no tutorial selected.
• Add DMX cues for system status. #506

2017-12-25

Changed

• Make lower sector naming more logical.
• Reduced the amount of debug symbols in release builds.

Fixed

• Custom buttons for single pilot ships.
• Case of OpenAL32.dll filename to match what was generated by the openal-soft sources.

2017-12-22

Added

• Compiler optimization flags.
• Attempt to make Philips Hue hardware work.
• Script function to play sound files on the server.

Changed

• Pacing for beam aiming practise.
• Select selectable objects instead of targetable.
• Blackhole text in regard to escaping with different types of engines.
• Moved hardware devices to a separate directory.

Fixed

• Rendering of far away planets. Now done in multiple passes.
• Ship template was updating the wrong template. Fixes #494
• Tutorial correctly states that hull is only repaired when docked. Fixes #495
• Typos
• Custom fuction being removed before getting called. Fixes #501
• Missile Volley AI never firing. Fixes #500

Removed

• GameMasterUI class. Issue #491

2017-11-03

Added

• Game Master slides to control combat speed.
• Random object creation helper functions.
• Joystick controls for single pilot screen.
• Weapon hotkeys for tactical and single pilot screens.

Changed

• Can set a description on each object based on scan state.
• Darken screen when your ship is destroyed.

Fixed

• (Possibly) Crash on the relay station when your ship is destroyed.
• Main screen buttons properly reset state on target follow selection.
• Spelling on Birth of the Atlantis scenario.
• TOGGLE_AIM_LOCK will only work if button state is properly set.

2017-05-06

Added

• Number of hotkeys for the tactical, engineering+ and single pilot screens.
• Hotkeys to navigate between the screens
• Attempt to disable screen saving when netbooting
• "Can be destroyed" flag for ship objects
• 3D sprite for black hole
• script function to set the number and maximum of probes

Changed

• Adjusted the tutorial

Fixed

• Typo in the tutorial
• Communication dialogs not opening for second time on Game Master screens
• Options.ini diffusion

2017-02-23

Added

• Tutorial menu
• Default hotkeys
• F1 shows the available hotkeys

Changed

• Re-factored the all tutorial into individual stations

Fixed

• Joystick bug that allowed the combat power to cool down while moving backwards

2017-01-19

Added

• 5U circle around players on the Game Master screen
• Target drone for the quick basic scenario to practice firing missiles
• setShieldFrequency function
• getEnergy/setEnergy functions that take max_energy_level into consideration
• CMake error if DRMINGW_ROOT is not set

Changed

• Improved callback handling to prevent closures from being deleted while in use
• Renamed shield system to shield generators
• Timing of rescue ship in Beacon of Light scenario

Fixed

• Operations screen not being able to select things
• Set RESOURCE__BASE__DIR to fix missing resource directory when compling on FreeBSD
• Null pointer exception in getSystemHealth

2016-09-02

Added

• Operations tutorial (disabled)
• Option to loop tutorials from the command line
• Reset button when the tutorial is looping
• variant of the basic scenario that waits for the game master to start it so crews can get used to the interface
• Fully scanned ships now show frequencies and subsystem status in the science screen sidebar pages
• Scanned targets subsystems are colored red when damaged
• Ship control codes, which prevent a player from selecting a ship without the correct code
• setControlCode(string control_code) to add a control code to a ship via script or template
• Player page for the game master tweaks panel, to set control codes, see energy levels and manned stations
• Show the effectiveness of the beam subsystem on the Engineering screen (effects the rotation speed)
• Place/delete waypoints from the Operations screen
• Sound volume can be set in the options
• Help overlay and keyboard hotkey display
• Basic build instructions
• Relay can hack ship subsystems
• Planets can orbit other objects
• Scrolling banner of information for the cinematic screen
• Show planets in the 3D world

Changed

• Adjusted the nebula in the basic scenario
• Avoid spawing asteroids on the player start position
• Game master friendly spawned ships are already scanned when created
• Expanded utils.lua (more documentation, setCirclePos and vectorFromAngle)
• Avoid spawning black holes too close to stations in the basic scenario
• Updated fighters and advanced gunships to the new template
• Systems become degraded when low on power (< 10%)
• Increased the height of the frequency graphs for better contrast
• Radar signatures can be referenced in scripts
• Game masters can change object callsigns and descriptions
• Replaced the hotkey system with something better
• Revised the options menu
• Improved the cinematic screen

Fixed

• Prevent bad use of faction friend/foe calls from crashing the game
• Game crashed if the game master presses a button that is removed durring event handling
• Calls for reinforcements were impeded
• Science screen from overlapping or running off the bottom edge of the screen
• Orders not showing on the game master screen
• Text entry fields #373

2016-06-24

Fixed

• Fix issues preventing JC-88 from jumping in the Birth of Atlantis scenario
• Initialize beam and turret arc values to fix crashes when drawing beam arcs on Odin dreadnoughts

2016-06-23

Added

• New scenarios
  • Quick Basic scenario (for quick setup and with a time limit)
  • The Birth of Atlantis scenario, with less combat and focused more on features
• New ships and ship options
  • Jump Carrier ship template, capable of quickly carrying docked ships across extremely long distances
  • Maximum jump drive distance configurable per ship (setJumpDriveRange())
  • Beam turrets, an option to make beam weapons rotate within an arc (setBeamWeaponTurret())
  • Stations repair the hull of any docked ship
  • Flag to toggle whether ships and stations share energy with docked ships (setSharesEnergyWithDocked())
  • Option for player ships to have automatic coolant distribution (setAutoCoolant())
• New sounds
  • Self-destruct sequence
  • Shields up/down
• New Game Master screen features
  • Player ships' radar range indicators
  • Button to copy Lua script lines for selected objects to the clipboard
  • Option for the Game Master to intercept and respond to all player hails
  • Player ship selection on the game master screen
• New Engineering(+) screen features
  • Show the effects of boosting subsystem power
  • Flashing overheating warning icon
• New Science/Operations screen features
  • Target's hull information
• New Tactical screen features
  • Combat manuever controls
• New Relay/comms features
  • Ship's log overlay, which replaces the log screen
  • Colors for ship's log entries
• New spectator views
  • Top-down 3D view UI to follow a player ship (press H to expose UI)
  • Cinematic view; fly-by camera that follows player ship, with optional target lock. Same keyboard controls as top-down 3D view
• New main screen controls
  • Overlays can be displayed on the main screen
  • Target lock view, selectable if a player has a weapons station and main screen controls
  • Comms windows on main screen, selectable if a player has a comms station
• Game log and log viewer features (/logs/index.html)
  • Show the probe radius
  • Zoom slider
  • More faction colors
  • File picker input
  • Log station factions to game state log
• New scripting features
  • Scripts can move player crew positions (transferPlayersToShip(), transferPlayersAtPositionToShip()) and check if a station is occupied (hasPlayerAtPosition())
  • Scenario type identifiers
  • Scenario descriptions can span multiple lines
  • utils.lua function to create a grid of objects
• Search list for Linux serial devices
• On-screen keyboard for text communications on touchscreen devices

Changed

• AI
  • AI ships refill missiles when docked at a station
  • AI takes advantage of non-standard jump drive ranges
• Crew station interfaces
  • Alert overlay size reduced
  • Edges of warp jammers are more obvious
• Weapons/Tactical station interfaces
  • Aim lock buttons moved
  • Weapon tube control width reduced
• Relay station interface
  • Distant sector designations improved
  • Database view margins standardized
  • Change Relay's zoom control to a slider
• Science/Operations station interface
  • Synchronize the Science/Operations screen's zoom slider behavior with the mouse wheel zoom
  • Adjust Science station layout to avoid overlaps
  • Adjust Science info sidebar's database lookup button size and position to avoid overlap
  • Move Operations screen communication buttons to avoid overlapping the radar
• Engineering(+) station interface
  • Only show combat recharge modifier on Engineering screen's Maneuverability subsystem if the ship has combat maneuvers available
  • Engineering subsystem bars are more visible
  • Moved shield buttons on Engineering+ screen to avoid overlap
• Ship selection screen interface
  • Show which crew stations are occupied by players
  • Show how many players occupy each ship
  • Changed Ship Window angle selection to a slider
  • Changed selectors with only two options into toggle buttons
  • Show server's long-range radar range in U instead of raw values
  • Reworded headings and buttons
• Scripting
  • Moved callsigns and setCallSign() to spaceObject, allowing scripts to assign callsigns to any object
• Game state logging (/logs/) and log viewer (/logs/index.html)
  • Draw non-ship objects as circles
  • Sector designations
  • Moved the scenario loading code out of the scenario selection screeen
  • Show ship and station factions
  • Reset coordinates when loading a log if they are not a number
  • Move game state logging from server creation to start of scenario
  • Scale objects with zoom
  • Cap mouse wheel changes to avoid breaking the zoom
• Ships and ship options
  • Player ship hulls strengthened
  • Repair speeds increased slightly
• Expand and restyle the HTTP API sandbox (/www/index.html)
• Auto connect selects on filters rather than index

Fixed

• Crew station interfaces
  • Missile tube state changes are more accurately reflected on the Weapons screen
  • Sector name rendering at edge of radar improved
  • Communications "OK" button doesn't overlap notification text
• Expand slider ranges on Game Master screen's Tweak UI
• Game state logging (/logs/) and log viewer (/logs/index.html)
  • Operations screen's communication buttons from appearing in the database view
  • Autoplay on game state log viewer
  • Game state logger performance
• Resolve issues with the weapons phase of the tutorial
• When exiting a scenario while using auto-connect, return to the auto-connect screen instead of ship selection
• Setting on_value on hardware blink effects

Removed

• Swear words from communication scripts
• Text from red/yellow alert overlays

2016-06-02

Added

• New web folder content (/www/index.html)
  • HTTP API examples and sandbox
• Game state logs (/logs/) and log viewer (/logs/index.html)
  • Basic log viewer using HTML and Javascript
• Top-down 3D spectator view controls
  • Top-down controls for zooming (R and F) and panning (WASD)
  • Lock camera to player ships with L
  • Select player ships with J and K
  • GUI controls; visibility toggled with H
• Game Master screen interface features
  • Button to copy Lua script lines for all objects to clipboard
  • Buttons to create an asteroid or supply
• Single Pilot interface features
  • Combat manuever controls
• Helms station interface features
  • Missile tube indicators for helm
• Science station interface features
  • Raw scanner overlay on probe view
  • Button to open the Database view for the targeted ship
• Weapons station interface features
  • Icon for HVLI ammo
• Music features
  • Music playback on clients
  • Option to toggle music playback; defaults to play music only on Main Screen clients, with options to always or never play music
• Faction communications for Ktlitans
• AI ships include missile counts in status reports
• Basic logging of model pack contents

Changed

• Game Master screen
  • Ship Tweak UI elements standardized
  • Tweak UI's speed slider range expanded to 35
  • Missile storage capacity and amount converted to sliders
  • Warp and jump drive toggles converted to toggle buttons
• Engineering station interface
  • New Engineering ship room background
  • Shields reduce more damage when overpowered
• Ships and ship features
  • When a ship takes hull damage, damage only 1 random subsystem instead of 5
• Helms/Tactical/Single Pilot station interface
  • Combat maneuver control is a two-dimensional rectangle instead of two sliders, allowing boosting and strafing at the same time
• Weapons/Tactical station interface
  • Improved the weapons UI when the shield frequency feature is disabled
• Replaced std::stoi calls with toInt() for consistency
• Standardized Database screen margins and distance between elements
• Ship and station communication scripts edited

Fixed

• Window title is "EmptyEpsilon" on all platforms
• Communications button usable on Single Pilot screen
• Game state logging (/logs/)
  • Log information on stations
  • Game state log entry converted to Boolean
  • Small fixes to the game state logger
• Correctly modify player ship in Edge of Space scenario
• Fix system-to-shield connection on ships with more than 2 shields

2016-05-22

Added

• Station descriptions
• Name of missile tube on the firing button
• Show the "ship destroyed" dialog even if the game is paused
• Game state logging (/logs/)
  • Log the game state to JSON during gameplay for post-game analytics
• Ships and ship options
  • Flavia and Flavia Falcon light transport frigate, to replace the deprecated tug
  • Player variant of the Flavia (Flavia P.Falcon)
  • Starhammer II corvette ship template
  • Player variant of the Piranha frigate ship template
  • Defense platform ship template, to replace deprecated weapons platform
  • Ship templates to replace strikeship and advanaced striker
  • Beam weapon and engine emitter positions on some models
  • Extra set of 3d models for use as frigates
• Headless server options
• Allow tweaking weapon tube details and availability at load time
• Allow game master to change a ship's callsign

Changed

• Scenarios
  • Use new ship templates in scenarios
  • Use new power/coolant request functions in the tutorial
• Crew station interfaces
  • Reduce alert overlay
• Science Database content
  • Add faction descriptions to Science database
  • Moved descriptions in the database to the rightmost column
  • Add ship descriptions
• Weapons/Tactical station interface
  • Label directional facing of weapons tubes
• Relay station interface
  • Waypoints can be dragged to change their position
  • Limit number of waypoints to 9
• AI
  • Prevent AI from firing missiles on scan probes
  • Improve AI missile behavior
• Ships and ship options
  • Adjust model sizes
  • Adjust beam weapon ranges
  • Allow scripts to set the number of repair crews in a ship template
• Use pngcrush to reduce file sizes

Fixed

• Parts of the tutorial failing to appear
• Docking hardware event
• Iterating over the small_objects map doesn't modify it
• Ready button's enabled state on ship selection screen
• HVLI fires in correct direction
• Nebula positioning

2016-05-07

Added

• Try to support uDMX hardware
• Stalker sniper-type cruiser ship template
• Direction to waypoints outside radar range on Helms screen
• Waypoint color settings in colors.ini
• Basic scenario Game Master improvements
  • Game Master functions to manually spawn enemy waves and random allies
  • Blank variant with no enemies and no victory condition
  • Game Master functions to manually award victory
• Comments to scenario code
• Freighter ship templates

Changed

• Clicking outside of a target on the Weapons station unselects the current target
• Reverse default order of weapon tube rows on Weapons/Tactical screens
• Shield frequency configuration moved from Engineering station to Weapons
• Power Management screen shows both the actual and requested levels of power and coolant for subsystems
• Move the alert overlay behind controls
• Docking is now defined by which classes are allowed to dock with a ship
• Improved the feedback of the "Link to Science" button on Relay
• Edit tutorial text

Removed

• Custom ship template in the PvP scenario

Fixed

• Friendly ship broadcasts
• Adjust ship station selection button
• hacked ships communications pointing to old script in Ghost from the Past scenario
• missile AI only fires the tubes with a targeting solution
• AI only tries to jump with the drive is charged
• main screen controls
• station selection overlap
• broadcast to friendlies

2016-04-30

Changed

• Use generic distance unit (U) instead of kilometers/km
• Waypoint rendering
• Improve use of forward declarations
• Use a different icon for weapons tubes that can launch only mines

Removed

• gui2.h catch all header

Fixed

• Science cannot select targets when probe view is active
• Prevent multiple simultaneous communications to the same object
• Fix a compile warning

2016-04-28

Added

• icon to show missle tube direction
• corvette class ships disabled
• player variant of the corvette class ship disabled
• frigate variations disabled
• abort the game on script errors in important files
• ship templates can be copied
• quick debug button to show all ship models in a single overview
• all colors of the new models to the model_data
• allow combat manuvering data to be set on active ships
• added functions to remove game master function buttons
• allow the amount of repair crew to be set per ship template and at runtime
• functions to get the current radar range
• draw the engine/tube/beam positions in the rotating model view when debugging
• allow the beam weapon energy and heat to be set per beam
• missile tubes have a direction

Changed

• increase system power usage
• power and coolant take time to change
• append callsign when broadcasting
• msgamedev model to point in the proper direction
• slight improvement to the database view when there are lots of items
• science database uses a tree structure
• how the probe link is implemented in science
• player cruiser and missile cruiser use the directional tubes
• mines are fired in the direction of the tube
• missile path projections are only shown when loaded
• station selection from row of buttons to a drop down
• transparent wormhole images
• higher resolution blackhole image

Removed

• custom ship templates from the Ghost from the Past scenario
• obsolete functions

Fixed

• crash when models are ot found
• slight layout
• database scroll bar overlapping with database entry
• label in game master screen for laser damage
• asking a friendlies status made it defend the player
• do not drain energy from docked ship when energy is full
• player spaceships and stations from being incorrectly reported as not used models
• margin calculations
• game master script buttons overlayed with ship orders

2016-04-12

Added

• allow the game master to close communications
• allow safe destory of GuiElements
• allow clipboard paste in text fields
• function to shutdown the game
• function to get what the game master has selected.
• examples of how to use the addGMFunction
• option to set margins on controls
• function to change the scenario to a different one.
• log to a file in windows
• allow the user to specify the serial port for DMX with or without /dev/ on linux
• server can register with the online master server
• browsing for LAN and internet servers
• server password
• 4 new ship models
• scan probe model
• logging to show which model data deinitions are not used by ship templates
• damage/power indicator for beam info
• engineering column icons
• show current frequency on the beam and shield curves in engineering

Changed

• improve the dynamic layout of the ship selection screen for wide screens
• improve the dynamic layout of the serer start screen using the new column auto layout
• changed the default release log level to info
• use a different icon for the warp and jump drives
• server screen uses less magic numbers
• return to the scenario selection instead of closing the server
• improve science radar positions on wide screens
• improve the layout of engineering controls
• system icons updated

Fixed

• unfocusElement which only worked for the top level element of the tree
• possibly fixes keyboard related crashes
• changes to server name were never applied
• scroll bar look
• touchscreen calibration
• main screen first person view rotating like an idiot

2016-04-07

Added

• indication that chat has changed on game master chat dialogs that are minimized
• image for the resize corner
• include ship tweaks when exporting from the game master screen with F5
• icons for Tactical and Single Pilot
• option to tweak ships from the game master interface
• indicators ticks for power and coolant
• function to broadcast faction messages
• AI ships inform when taking new orders
• state to let the communication officer to know when the other side closed communication
• option to abort docking
• scan state for ships
• icons for each support OS
• joystick controls for 3/4 player tactical screens
• allow for direct and hex value entry
• per station settings for which weapons they supply

Changed

• cursor blinks in text emptry field
• constrain resizable dialogs to the window
• game master can have multiple sessions
• updated icons for stations
• updated logo on the main menu
• more realistic asteroid texture
• new cursor design
• resized button icons to fit better
• round beam range on 100m intervals
• game master screen now has multiple pages
• broadcast function has three thresholds: allies, neutral, all
• new shield, hull and self destruct icons
• increased the sharpness of the skybox
• updated the star field image
• images for active/disabled/hovered buttons
• images for regular/focused text inputs
• updated colors
• alpha transparency for UI elements

Fixed

• text centering
• shield icon using speed icon
• inverted pause button
• create button visible through the cancel button on game master screen
• clicking outside the radar circle but inside its reactangle caused callbacks