Changelog

Versions 0.3.x

Version 0.3.49

January 2 2016

• Disable GL_ALPHA_TEST in OpenGL renderer when when blending is disabled (potential performance improvement)
• Fix crash when area gets unloaded while queries were still in progress for that area.
• Fix delay in closing object properties window on Mac OS X
• Fix double entries in user list after teleporting on Mac OS X
• Fix hang on Mac OS X when other users change terrain
• Fix possible crash or slowdown in MD2 rendering because of NaN values in the currentFrame variable (uninitialized memory).
• Frame rate counter for Mac OS X
• Handle Direct3D 11 shader loading errors without crashing
• Join feature
• Experimental MD5 model loading and animation
• Say command
• Show total number of worlds and users in world list header

Version 0.3.48

October 12 2015

• Path objects and path command to make objects move along a path
• Fix sRGB rendering not being detected correctly when using an OpenGL renderer
• Fix application immediately closing without notice when there is an error during graphics initialization
• Fix crash when creating a Direct3D 11 device object fails
• Fix crash when Direct3D 9 initialization fails
• Fix login error handling for errors other than incorrect password
• Use a shader with a dynamic light count in Direct3D 11 mode when rendering for more than 8 lights
• Full resolution rendering on retina Macs
• Fix mouse look / freelook on secondary monitors (Mac OS X)
• Easier to select particle emitter objects
• Made black triangles for particle emitter selection non-solid
• Fix slowdown in 3rd person camera mode with highly detailed avatars

Version 0.3.47

May 27 2015

• Adone trigger
• Animate command
• Astart command
• Astop command
• Fix incorrect rotation in teleport command
• Fix possible crash in handling of "activate" triggers
• Fix possible stack corruption in RWX loader with unbalanced matrix stack inside a ProtoInstance
• Fix texture and picture commands where the tag is specified before the texture name
• Frame command
• More efficient deletion of textures
• Sign colors that could not be parsed are now interpreted as black
• Support loading password protected mask files
• Tag command and tag parameter for particle emitters
• Upgraded to Qt 5.4 on Windows

Version 0.3.46

March 1 2015

• Add option to only flash the taskbar item for chat messages that contain highlighted words
• Align user names in the chat to the right
• Anisotropic filter set to 4x by default
• Disable activate action trigger when there is a web view on the object
• Fix corrupt screenshots when using "Save screenshot" option in debug menu with Direct3D 11 and certain screenshot sizes
• Fix crash when choosing avatar
• Fix crash when client disconnects while it is at the login screen
• Fix freeze if the configuration file or particle emitter configuration contains a line of more than 511 bytes
• Fix incorrect lighting on non-uniformly scaled objects when using Direct3D 11 renderer
• Fix incorrect rendering because of a missing depth buffer on some graphics drivers with the OpenGL renderer
• Fix object properties window not switching to a different editor after changing object type
• Fix process not exiting after main window is closed on Linux
• Fix sign texture font size changing with Windows UI scale
• Limit shear at 20
• Mouse wheel support for web textures on objects
• Object group loading and saving
• Option to hide dock widget title bars
• Share vertex data of collision shapes for objects that use the same model (uses less memory)
• Show user id in context menu of user list
• Use double precision floats for object positions

Version 0.3.45

December 31 2014

• Avatar selection
• Remodeled object properties window
• Multi object editor (change mode/action/description of more than one object at a time)
• Keyboard input on Chromium web overlay
• Keyboard input on web textures applied to objects
• Checkbox to enable/disable debug menu in settings dialog
• Disable mouse look when 3D viewport loses focus (fixes bug #75)
• Support loading world setting preset files for overriding world settings
• Fix incorrect handling of lost connections
• Fix film strip animations being applied to non-JPEG textures

Version 0.3.44

October 31 2014

• Draw placeholder triangle for empty models (models with 0 triangles)
• Fix crash when colliding with triangle of deleted particle emitters
• Fix objects executing commands for activate trigger when selecting objects with the right mouse button
• Fix particle emitters not updating when they're changed by other users
• Fix selection bounding boxes and axis brightness being affected by world ambient lighting settings
• Fix textures on particle emitters appearing mirrored
• Fix users list not being cleared (like with the !bounce [Services] command)
• Improved OpenGL ES 2 renderer
• Start world setting in settings dialog
• Teleport command
• Terrain texture rotation
• World settings override in debug menu

Version 0.3.43

September 5 2014

• Particle emitter objects
• "Object Type" button to create particle emitter objects. Changing the object type only works for unsaved objects, not exising ones.
• Use a localized date format for the timestamp in object properties
• Automatic updating of terrain, it is no longer necessary to reload the world to see changes made by others
• Scrolling, middle mouse click and right mouse click on Chromium web overlay
• "Set web overlay URL" option added to debug menu for easier testing
• Fog. Can only be enabled with world settings. Only works with Direct3D 9 and OpenGL fixed function renderers at the moment
• Objects are now loaded immediately after receiving them from the server instead of when it's "black triangle" first becomes visible
• OpenGL ES 2 renderer that was previously only used on Android can now be used on other operating systems if the ARB_ES2_compatibility extension is available. While I don't recommend using it, it can be used by setting renderer=5 in the configuration file.
• What used to be an OpenGL 3.3 renderer now requires OpenGL 4.3 (or 4.2 + ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object extension). Still incomplete and experimental, set renderer=4 in the configuration file to try this renderer.
• Downloading and loading files now use two separate queues so a slow download will no longer stop cached files from loading
• Detect sRGB rendering capability when using the Direct3D 9 renderer
• Better error handling for both Direct3D renderers
• The texture_lod_bias config file option now works with the Direct3D 9 renderer
• Detect maximum supported texture size for OpenGL and don't try to load larger textures, this prevents crashes on some graphics drivers
• Support for loading gzipped DDS files (with file name ending in .dds.gz)
• Error handling for adding contacts
• Removing contacts from the friends list now works
• "Could not enter world" is now a warning instead of an error on login, so you can still go to other worlds if the start world is not online
• Change terrain cell texture using home/end keys
• Updated from Qt 4 to Qt 5 for Windows build
• Fix possible crash in screenshot feature
• Fix objects being selected behind web overlay even when clicking on opaque pixels

Version 0.3.42

July 3 2014

• Keyboard terrain editing
• Mouse input for web textures on 3D objects
• Use Direct3D 9Ex if it is available for the Direct3D 9 renderer
• Support maxfps configuration file option on Mac OS X
• Updated Chromium Embedded Framework
• Experimental OpenGL 3.3 renderer (incomplete, use renderer=4 in config file)
• Fix VP not starting on newer versions of Ubuntu (13.04 and later) because libudev.so.0 is not found
• Fix RWX parsing not working on Linux if the language settings use a comma for decimals (for example with Dutch and French)

Version 0.3.41

April 27 2014

• Bump events for bots
• Bump trigger
• BumpEnd trigger
• Change default object path to http://objects.virtualparadise.org/vpbuild/
• Don't send unnecessary avatar updates
• Enable web browser cache
• Fix crash that happened because of a race condition with a downloader thread loading a vp object and an vp object reload being requested
• Fix crash when pressing keys used for building after deselecting all objects using Shift+Right click
• Fix incorrect avatar position interpolation update interval
• Fix memory leak in save screenshot feature (D3D11)
• Fix solid not working with named objects when using "solid <name> no" syntax
• Invisible objects no longer clickable/selectable
• Make own avatar object selectable again
• OpenGL Vertex Array Object support
• Option to keep chat input keyboard focus after sending chat message
• Remember visibility setting after restarts
• Show object type in object properties for unknown object types
• show_object_id config file option to show an object ID field in object properties

Version 0.3.40

March 24 2014

• Map camera option in debug menu (orthographic top-down view, in the future other projections may be added)
• Screenshot option in debug menu. This can make custom size screenshots, even if it's larger than your display. Only works with D3D11 in this version.
• Toggle avatars visibility in debug menu
• Faster object picking (object selection and clicks should no longer cause a freeze when using high visibility)
• RWX extension for normal and specular maps
• Fix incorrect visible radius scale (the radius used was 10x what was specified)
• Fix incorrect skybox orientation in front facing third person camera mode (bug 76)

Version 0.3.39

February 1 2014

• Sign command with text embedded in the action instead of the object description (create sign "text here")
• Support for name command and name= arguments for various action commands
• Fix color getting lost after using ambient of diffuse command
• Fix small memory leak in connection code

Version 0.3.38

December 5 2013

• Alpha option for specular command
• Automatically close the object properties window when deselecting all objects (can be disabled in the settings)
• Automatically show object properties window when selecting an objects
• Don't scroll chat if text is selected
• Fix /me action messages from muted users not being muted
• Fix crash when loading incomplete texture file on Mac OS X
• Fix virtualparadise.exe process staying active in the background after it is closed if the web browser overlay was used
• Improved chat view on Windows and Linux, supports italic text for console messages from bots
• Maximum lights setting, can be used to limit the number of active lights
• Muted user names manager
• Sorted users list
• Statusbar compass (shows position and facing direction)
• Support up to 32 lights (Direct3D 11 and OpenGL with shaders, Direct3D 9 and OpenGL fixed function still have the same limit)
• Terrain grid, can be toggled from the View menu or by pressing F10 (shader based on OpenGL)

Version 0.3.37

October 5 2013

• Faster loading collision objects
• Fix crash if the terrain has no triangles
• Fix repeating text when a chat message contains multiple URLs
• Load distant terrain if far plane distance is increased
• Transparent overlay web browser (for HUD)
• Slightly faster RWX file parsing

Version 0.3.36

August 6 2013

• Better compatibility with some older graphics cards for masks and multitexturing (Direct3D 9)
• Changed limit for looking up or down from 80 to 90 degrees
• Command line argument(-invert-chat-colors) and config file option(invert_chat_colors) to invert chat colors, for readable text when using a dark CSS theme
• Faster locking of dynamic vertex buffers on OpenGL if GL_ARB_map_buffer_range extension is not available (should benefit MD2 model rendering)
• Fix bounding sphere not updating after shear is applied to an object(this caused disappearing objects at screen edges)
• Fix bug where 16 bit textures were enabled by default but not shown as enabled in the settings dialog
• Fix collision with large objects
• Fix incorrectly loaded color table for mask bitmaps when the bitmap header is not 40 bytes
• Fix leaking VBOs and incorrectly loaded compressed textures with OpenGL
• Fix opacity command making object more transparent every time the object is deselected
• Fix original object scale briefly showing after object change
• Fix pictures without "http://" before URL not working
• Fix possible crash because of race condition when textures on RWX meshes are replaced during rendering
• Fix scaled textures and signs being loaded as textures with alpha premultiplied
• Fix sync for rotate command disabled by default (bug introduced in 0.3.35)
• Improved teleport window that includes rotation, accelerating spinner fields and better aligned coordinates
• Much faster normal and tangent vector generation for RWX files
• Use QueryPerformanceCounter for timing on Windows
• User-created lights now affect objects with normal maps using OpenGL+shaders renderer

Version 0.3.35

June 20 2013

• Add option to enable or disable resizing of textures to power of two sizes in settings dialog
• Avatar hidden in first person camera mode
• Changed default color for highlighted messages to #ffff7f
• Changed word wrap width of chat messages above avatars to 256 pixels (was 300)
• Disable mouse look mode by pressing ESC
• Distance fade now works in world space, this means it stays the same when looking around
• Don't try to render avatars that are not visible
• EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK socket errors are ignored now and no longer cause a disconnect event
• Fix all textures (including signs) with an alpha channel loading as textures with premultiplied alpha on Mac OS X
• Fix distance fade not working (OpenGL+shaders)
• Fix errors when adding invalid URLs to the chat on Mac OS X
• Fix incorrect extension detection in OpenGL renderers
• Fix incorrect locking flags for updating terrain, causing problems when using OpenGL
• Fix issues with single face tags in RWX loader
• Fix object staying non-solid after removing "solid no" from action (bug #72)
• Fix objects jumping to a different location when rotating the object and then moving it
• Fix scaled (to power of 2 sizes) textures with an alpha channel loading as textures with premultiplied alpha on Windows and Linux
• Fix some 24-bit mask bitmaps loading incorrectly
• Global object clicks (can be used for things like doors opening for everyone instead of just the person who clicked)
• Improved rendering precision when using Direct3D 11
• Initialization error handling (when OpenGL or Direct3D failed to load)
• ProtoInstanceGeometry RWX command support
• Specular lighting no longer affects alpha when using the OpenGL with shaders renderer
• sRGB rendering / 2.2 gamma correction

Version 0.3.34

April 22 2013

• Console messages (styled chat messages sent by bots)
• Fix avatars sometimes not loading
• Fix crash when loading cloth object
• Fix crash in terrain loading when there is a response from the server about a terrain tile that has already been unloaded
• Fix darker avatar names if world ambient color is not white
• Fix incorrect locking flags for updating the object selection boxes
• Fix masks not loading when the file name has an extension in the RWX file
• Fix shaking objects at locations far from the center of the world (OpenGL and Direct3D 9, Direct3D 11 still has this problem)
• Improved precision when building
• Improved window resizing behavior on Mac OS X
• LTM option for move command
• Object and avatar click positions (bots can use this to more precisely determine where you clicked)
• Support 4-bit bitmaps for masks
• Support for TextureExt RWX command
• Support bitmaps with custom palettes for masks
• Teleport back/forward

Version 0.3.33

March 3 2013

• Automatically updating textures with the picture update= parameter
• Changed resize_textures setting name used on Mac OS X to resize_images as used on Windows and Linux
• Identical signs now share a single texture to save resources
• Less state changes when using OpenGL
• Light animations using the fx= parameter of the light command, supports the following animations: blink, fadein, fadeout, fire, pulse, rainbow
• Maxdist option for light command. This will disable the light if it is further away than the specified distance
• Sortable world list with icons
• Wireframe rendering. Only works with OpenGL renderer (wireframe=1 in the configuration file)
• Fixed chat input not having a maximum length(bug #52)
• Fixed crash when a nearby avaar sends multiple messages without delay
• Fixed incorrect rendering of text above avatars on Mac OS X
• Fixed incorrect directions when building in front third person mode
• Fix invisible facer objects in front third person mode(bug #51)
• Fixed password-protected zip files not loading on Ubuntu 12.10
• Fixed pictures not loading if there are extra spaces before the URL
• Fixed possible crash when sending a chat message while using v-sync on Mac OS X
• Fixed random(uninitialized variable) color when parsing the color of a color command failed
• Fixed some color names not working (bug #44)
• Fixed users panel having a maximum size(bug #35)

Version 0.3.32

January 21 2013

• Third person camera mode
• Chat text above avatars
• Menu items to show/hide dock windows
• Sort opaque objects front to back to reduce overdraw
• Fix crash when rendering animated textures on a Windows system that has an uptime of more than 24.855 days
• Changed specular lighting behavior in OpenGL render mode(alpha was not affected by specular material)
• Changed the way OpenGL is initialized on Windows and Linux, should prevent Qt from creating multiple OpenGL contexts.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the D3D11 renderer to delete the wrong vertex buffer
• Fixed slow flying with higher frame rates
• Fixed missing EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic extension error appearing even when anisotropic filtering is not enabled
• Fixed Debian/Ubuntu package not installing on newer versions of Ubuntu
• Fixed disappearing objects after certain rotations (bug #48)
• Fixed /me messages not working

Version 0.3.31

December 11 2012

• Mute chat functionality(not permanently saved yet)
• Precise object rotation when holding CTRL and SHIFT keys
• Improved distance sorting, no more errors at sector edges
• Specular lighting for OpenGL with shaders renderer
• Render skybox after opaque objects, could improve rendering performance
• 16-bit sign textures
• Send avatar clicks to server
• Make it possible for bots to teleport users
• Changed Direct3D 9 lighting to be more like the other render modes
• Config file setting for forcing Direct3D 9 software vertex processing(d3d9_forcesoftwarevp=1)
• Config file setting to use a white texture instead of disabling the texture on Direct3D 9(d3d9_white_texture=1, the white texture seems to be necessary for correct lighting on Intel GME 82855)
• Fixed broken multisample setting for Direct3D 9
• Fixed broken VSync setting for Direct3D 9
• Fixed incorrect animated textures when the resize_images=0 setting is used
• Fixed selection box not rotating with facer objects
• Fixed possible crash on disconnect(deleting object that is on the stack)
• Fixed edges on skybox when using Direct3D 11
• Fixed downloader hanging when loading some RWX files
• Fixed incorrect object click events being sent to the server when clicking ground objects

Version 0.3.30

November 25 2012

• Unload areas that are no longer nearby, this reduces the amount of memory VP uses
• Support for 16-bit textures, uses half the amount of texture/video memory compared to 32-bit formats (does not work with Direct3D 11)
• Send message after 30 seconds of inactivity to keep connection alive(should help some people with frequent universe disconnects)
• Restore material after RWX ProtoInstance. This fixes some material errors like the white lane markings on grstreet1.rwx(should be yellow) and the incorrect colors on blip.rwx
• Fixed texture coordinates from RWX files not being loaded if they are after "#! Prelight" in the RWX file, like in ntree1.rwx
• Fixed url command not working when '=' is in the url
• Fixed incorrect loading of texture mipmaps in Direct3D 9 renderer, most often visible with masks

Version 0.3.29

November 11 2012

• Support for translated GUI(Dutch translation included)
• TeleportXYZ command
• Chat timestamps
• Automatically try to reconnect to server
• Ctrl+Shift precise movement for building
• Configurable maximum fixed visibility in configuration file(max_fixed_visibility=400 adds menu items up to 400 meters)
• Application icon
• Fixed loading of some RWX models like grstreet5.rwx
• Fixed bug that caused a model to stay after the object is changed to a different model

Version 0.3.28

October 27 2012

• 3D avatars(but still one per world)
• Better error handling after the connection to the universe server is lost(solves issue #11)
• Clickable links in the chat of the Mac OS X version
• Fix shear not resetting when an object is reloaded after changing it
• Jumping
• Specular lighting support in Direct3D 9 renderer
• Support TriangleExt command in RWX files
• Use specular light values from RWX files

Version 0.3.27

October 21 2012

• Fallback to 16-bit depth/z buffer for Direct3D 9, restores compatibility with older GPUs that don't support 24-bit depth buffers(like a Geforce 2MX)
• Fixed bug causing DrawPrimitive calls with PrimitiveCount set to 0
• Fixed D3D errors when restoring lights after device reset in Direct3D 9 renderer
• Fixed D3DSAMP_MIPFILTER being set to D3DTEXF_ANISOTROPIC in Direct3D 9(causes undefined behavior according to Direct3D documentation)
• Fixed falling after using shift key(issue #10)
• Fixed selection menu on Mac OS X
• Fixed view distance resetting to automatic after switching worlds(issue #9)
• Holding CTRL while duplicating an object makes it move the distance of the longest side of the object, making it easier to build repetitive things like roads or walls
• Improved object selection, distant objects can now be selected(fixed issue #1)
• Limited (up/down) camera rotation for all input devices, not just the keyboard(issue #7)
• No longer create a backbuffer the size of the main display when initializing the Direct3D 9 device
• URL command
• WASD keyboard controls

Version 0.3.26

October 10 2012

• Pass through objects when holding shift key
• Solid command
• Chat log
• Changeable color for highlighted messages
• Shearing of 3D objects using the shear command(issue #5)
• Some changes in VP SDK socket handling, this could solve some problems with corrupted data on connection loss
• Mac OS X: duplicate objects using space bar
• More space for user names in chat
• Fixed issue #8: Duplicating objects causes crash

Version 0.3.25

September 26 2012

• Action messages with /me
• More space for the usernames in the chat view
• Disabled teleporting back to the starting point of the world when you go below -50m Y
• Fixed Direct3D 9 rendering bug
• Fixed bug that occurred when duplicating objects with animations, the animations are now disabled for the new object(s) after duplicating.
• Fixed crashes when loading some bitmap mask files
• Fixed problems loading some RWX objects

Version 0.3.24

September 6 2012

• Strip unnecessary information from vertex buffers when using a renderer that doesn't support normal maps
• Setting for disabling multi-threaded OpenGL on Mac OS X
• Frustum culling for terrain tiles
• Frustum culling for sectors before sorting and culling each object in the sectors
• Terrain height offset world option
• Object path password world option (this is not secured, but it does allow using password protected object paths)
• Improved hex color parsing

Version 0.3.23

August 5 2012

• Normal mapping for Direct3D renderer(also affected by user created lights instead of just the world light)
• Handle Direct3D 9 lost device(fixes broken 3D view after locking the screen or pressing ctrl+alt+delete)
• Faster parsing and normal generation of RWX files
• Keep old model until new model is loaded when an object is changed(reduces flicker of objects that are regularly changed by bots)
• Fixed memory leak after each terrain query
• Fixed uninitialized data in selection bounding box vertex buffer
• Fixed crashes decoding messages from server when receiving object click event

Version 0.3.22

July 18 2012

• Terrain (incomplete, hard to use without keyboard controls and holes in the terrain can't be selected)
• Store data for multiple objects in one vertex buffer when using OpenGL (opengl_shared_buffers=0 to disable in configuration file)
• IPv6 connection support
• Support for connecting to world servers at different TCP ports
• Changed cache directory layout
• Windows: File downloader no longer stores 404 and other error pages as succesful downloads in the cache
• Windows/Linux: Changed layout on the graphics tab in the settings dialog
• Windows/Linux: Highlight messages with certain words(settings on the chat tab of the settings dialog)
• Windows/Linux: Clickable links in chat
• Windows/Linux: Frame rate limiting enable/disable setting
• Windows/Linux: Settings option in the menu of the main window
• Windows/Linux: Teleport window size improved for some window themes
• Mac OS X: Animate tab bar opening, closing and switching tabs
• Mac OS X: Fix corrupted display while resizing window
• Fix black surface on MD2 models when using the Direct3D 11 renderer
• Fix incorrect coordinate system conversion of MD2 models
• Fix incorrect use of lock flags for vertex buffers in some cases
• Fix random bounding box when selecting an object that does not have a bounding box

Version 0.3.21

Released March 4 2012

• DDS Texture loader(only works with DXT1, DXT3 and DXT5 textures)
• Account info window(display only, no editing)
• Better layout for settings dialog, especially on Linux when using larger fonts
• Removed 120 vertex limit for polygons in RWX loader
• Option to force using gluBuild2DMipmaps for loading textures, seems to prevent some problems with Intel drivers on Linux. Add use_glubuild2dmipmaps=1 to the configuration file to use
• View distance now affects lights
• Better handling of lost connections
• Action triggers and command names are no longer case sensitive
• Disable the Direct3D renderer options in the settings dialog when not running on Windows
• Fixed hang in RWX loader when reading a prototype with lines longer than 512 characters
• Fixed leaking textures when switching worlds
• Windows/Linux: Remember window size and position
• Windows/Linux: Focusing chat text field by pressing return/enter key now also works if the chat window is detached from the main window
• Windows/Linux: Show version number in the login window
• Mac OS X: Use CVDisplayLink for rendering when V-Sync is enabled
• Mac OS X: Focus chat text field by pressing return key
• Mac OS X: Changed login window layout
• Mac OS X: Fix incorrect display of add friend dialog

Version 0.3.20

Released January 3 2012

• Support for user created point lights
• Alpha to coverage option(can be enabled using alpha_to_coverage=1 in the configuration file, requires multisampling)
• Option to disable distance sorting of objects(disable_distance_sort=1 in the configuration file, for use with the alpha to coverage option)
• Improved sorting and merging of RWX render groups
• Query cells further away when using higher view distance
• Crosshair cursor when using the mouse to control the camera
• Fixed objects animations not resetting after the object has changed.
• Fixed avatar names not working
• Fixed incorrect scale if only 2 scale factors are given in the scale command

Version 0.3.19

Released September 6 2011

• 64-bit build for Windows
• Selection menu. Hold alt/option when right-clicking to select any object under the mouse pointer, even if it's behind another object
• Move command, animate the position of an object
• Rotate command, animate the rotation of an object
• Added world option to swap the left and right faces of the skybox
• Merge and sort RWX mesh groups, improves rendering performance for many models
• Improved sorting of which cells to query first
• Sort objects by vertex buffer to reduce switching vertex buffers
• Downloads on Linux and Mac OS X can now be interrupted when switching worlds
• Mac OS X: Support for multisample anti-alias
• Mac OS X: Support for V-Sync
• Mac OS X: Show error in chat when entering a world failed
• OpenGL mipmap generation using GL_ARB_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object or GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap(tried in that order)
• Sign textures no longer load halfway through rendering a frame
• Don't render MD2 mesh when updating the animation failed
• Fixed memory leaks in MD2 mesh loader
• Fixed memory leaks in texture mask loader

Version 0.3.18

Released June 16 2011

• Don't reopen model files that are already loaded
• Made some changes to the Direct3D 11 renderer that may help fix device creation errors some people were having
• Removed object space normal mapping code, it was broken anyway
• Added frame time indicator, enabled by adding show_performance_indicators=1 to the configuration file
• Don't reopen model files on every use just to check the file type in the zip file
• Added commands for setting MD2 animation("animation [start frame] [end frame]" and "framerate [frames per second]")
• Better text alignment of chat on Mac OS X
• Added field of view world option
• Added near and far clipping planes world options
• Added timeout to login
• Ignore joint transform commands in RWX files, they were treated the same as the other transform commands in earlier versions
• MD2 loader now works on big endian platforms, but there aren't any where VP is used right now
• Use less render commands for RWX models in some cases
• Fixed crash changing model ambient/diffuse/specular when the model isn't loaded
• Fixed crash creating collision shape after MD2 model failed to load
• Fixed parts of objects without texture coordinates being invisible when using normal maps
• Fixed bug where previously hidden objects(create visible no) would not reappear after editing the object

Version 0.3.17

Released April 16 2011

• Smooth movement
• Flashing taskbar item when a new chat message arrives
• OpenGL matrix stack no longer used, improves performance with some graphics drivers
• Reduced delay in downloaders on Mac OS and Linux
• Added minimum and maximum frame rate for automatic view distance(option was already available, but not
• Added maximum number of simultaneous queries
• Load nearby cells first
• Fixed some problems with the Ubuntu installation package
• Fixed VP not working on some old CPUs
• Fixed invisible objects when the model fails to download on Windows

Version 0.3.16

Released March 13 2011

• Max cloth resolution set to 100
• Some small collision fixes
• Support for greyscale colors in color command and sign command
• Opacity command
• Fixed cloth rendering when using Direct3D 11
• Faster camera rotation
• Vertex buffers for static objects now marked as immutable in Direct3D 11 renderer, this makes rendering faster
• Downloaders stop faster when switching worlds
• Fixed Direct3D 11 renderer not working if an older version of DirectX is installed
• Direct3D 11 renderer no longer depends on d3dx11_43.dll
• Use precompiled shaders for Direct3D 11
• Fixed memory leaks in Direct3D 11 renderer
• Fixed problems resizing and moving windows
• Added missing 2x multisample option to settings dialog
• Direct3D 9 and 11 renderers now support multisampling, vertical sync and anisotropic texture filtering
• Fixed objects with masks appearing black when using texture compression(OpenGL)
• Fixed bug that could cause a crash when the resolution of a cloth object is set too low(reported by cube3)
• Fixed invisible selection boxes
• Improved alpha/depth sorting
• Width and height options for cloth objects

Version 0.3.15

Released February 6 2011

• The resize_textures configuration option now works again
• Run action commands on background when loading
• Generate sign textures on background thread(reduces lag while loading)
• Reduced downloader CPU usage on non-Windows platforms
• Lower frame rate when the application is inactive
• Increased timing precision on Windows(smoother movement)
• Changed character height to 1.75m
• Use a sphere as the collision object for tiny objects
• Don't distance sort objects in zones that are too far away to be seen
• Support for cloth simulation, but it's not really usable right now and doesn't interact with other objects
• Added max_texture_level configuration option
• Added texture_lod_bias configuration option
• Added auto_view_distance_min_fps and auto_view_distance_max_fps configuration options
• Tools window moved to collapsable sidebar on Mac OS X
• Fixed incorrect current height on teleport dialog
• Fixed selection boxes not working on Direct3D 11 renderer
• Fixed multisampling always being enabled after using the settings dialog
• Fixed mask textures not loading when using Direct3D 11 renderer with Direct3D 9 hardware
• Fixed crash that occurs when running action commands if the model hasn't loaded

Version 0.3.14

Released January 3 2011

• Direct3D 11 renderer, still incomplete but mostly works fine for me
• Smoother movement, it accelerates a bit before reaching full speed
• Settings dialog
• Load mask files saved as 24 bit bitmaps
• Clear the users list when changing worlds on Mac OS X
• Changed skybox texture mapping
• Larger socket read buffers to speed up loading of world data
• Group downloads by URL so objects aren't unnecessarily waiting to load when the download has already finished
• Load password from file if set
• Distance fade is now optional
• Fixed black screen on start that stays until an object using a texture mask has been loaded
• Fixed incorrect view on start that stays until the user resizes the window
• Fixed non-solid ground object when further away from world center
• Fixed object paths with question marks in the URL not working
• Fixed selection boxes not appearing when the last object drawn uses normal mapping
• Fixed bottom face of skybox not working
• Fixed impossible to select objects after using reset rotation button

Version 0.3.13

Released December 23 2010

• Fallback to software vertex processing in Direct3D 9 renderer
• Button to align selection to half meter grid
• Button to reset object rotation
• Correctly update object distance for objects over 200m away from the camera
• Read server host name from configuration file on Mac OS X
• Optional texture compression with OpenGL renderer
• Optional anisotropic filter with OpenGL renderer
• Optional multisample anti-aliasing with OpenGL renderer
• Option to disable vertical synchronisation with OpenGL renderer
• "visible" action command radius= option
• Teleport to coordinates in world
• Read start world from configuration file on Mac OS X
• Disabled specular light on avatars that could make them too bright
• Improved object depth sort near zone boundaries
• Reduced number of draw calls necessary for some RWX models
• Fixed black sky problem on some graphics cards
• Fixed black selection boxes on some graphics cards
• Fixed crash in RWX loader when incorrect indices are used with the polygon command

Version 0.3.12

Released December 11 2010

• Fixed crash when unloading texture
• Fixed crash when clearing socket write buffer
• Fixed incorrect ambient light color in OpenGL renderer
• Support margin and alignment for signs
• Added color tint action command
• Use local viewer light model in OpenGL renderer
• Use triangle strips instead of triangle fans for skybox and avatars
• Use WASD keys for controls on Mac OS X
• Added setting to disable hardware mipmap generation in OpenGL renderer
• Added setting to disable the use of BGRA textures
• Added setting for avatar texture URL

Version 0.3.11

Released November 20 2010

• Fixed crash on failed connection for Mac OS X
• Added world lighting settings
• Added object deselection
• Read sign font size from configuration file
• Removed dependency on D3DX for Direct3D renderer, it should now work without having to run the DirectX Web Installer on your computer
• Don't load objects that are over 60m away until they are visible on screen

Version 0.3.10

Released November 5 2010

• Improved rendering of avatar names
• Users list for Windows and Linux
• Save window positions
• Fixed distant objects not rendering when visibility is higher then 200m(still some performance issues)

Version 0.3.9

Released October 25 2010

• Support for normal mapping when using pixel shaded OpenGL render mode
• Added ambient, diffuse and specular action commands to set the material values for an object
• Create less groups when loading RWX models with tags specified per face
• Improved normal generation on RWX models
• Load masks as alpha only textures instead of RGBA textures
• Load textures without alpha as RGB textures instead of RGBA
• Made sign font size smaller on Mac OS X
• Fly and move objects using plus and minus keys without holding shift
• Read minimum and maximum view distance from configuration file
• Return key moves keyboard focus to chat input
• Fixed mask bitmap loading
• Fixed bug where you would not receive any updates from the server on the Mac OS X version after someone left

Version 0.3.8

Released October 4 2010

• Support MD2 models(inluding animation)
• Resize textures to power of 2 sizes on Mac OS X
• Work around a crash in the Mac OS X OpenGL stack by using a different vertex format for placeholder meshes(black triangles)
• Fixed skybox vertex buffer memory leak
• Fixed crashes when loading objects before OpenGL or Direct3D is initialized
• Fixed most crashes when switching worlds
• Fixed missing ground object when loading before OpenGL or Direct3D is initialized
• Fixed texture mask files not being closed after loading

Version 0.3.7

Released September 24 2010

• Use HTTP Keep-Alive for downloading objects if available(much faster downloads)
• Support for loading masks from Gzip files
• Support for SOCKS4A proxy
• Move sideways when holding shift key
• Support for Data Execution Prevention(DEP) on Windows
• Added timeout for connecting and entering world
• Added loading indicator on status bar of Qt GUI(Windows/Linux)
• Added frame rate indicator on status bar of Qt GUI
• Added view distance indicator on status bar of Qt GUI
• Fixed uninitialized variable that made the client send object changes even when the objects didn't change
• Fixed possible crash parsing incorrectly formatted message from the server
• Fixed possible buffer overflow when connecting to world server
• Fixed incorrectly recognizing certain textures as animations
• Fixed inability to select non-RWX models
• Fixed extra arguments to picture command being included in the URL

Version 0.3.6

Released September 8 2010

• Faster loading(especially for very large models)
• View distance menu on Mac OS X version
• Object moving relative to object rotations
• Correctly rotate multiple objects
• Use axis/angle instead of Euler angles to store rotations
• Free look mode
• Added application icon on Mac OS X
• Show axis of last selected object instead of first selected object
• Removed unnecessary texture mirror in texture loading code
• Rotate objects with scroll wheel
• Added color name 0 as black
• Added support for color command
• Don't use non-power-of-two textures as that seemed to cause a slowdown on most systems
• Support for object scaling
• Add http:// to picture URLs if it is not included yet
• Fixed last used mask visible on avatars
• Fixed slowdown after activating or selecting objects
• Fixed seams on skybox mesh
• Fixed physics meshes being left in scene when they are too far away, causing slowdown after exploring larger worlds for some time
• Fixed possible crash when loading RWX files
• Fixed crash when using buttons on object properties window while not in building mode
• Fixed crash when using scroll wheel when not in building mode on Mac OS X
• Fixed possible crash because of uninitialized variable
• Fixed incorrect translation on some RWX models
• Fixed keys / and * for rotation not working
• Fixed incorrect parsing of object change message

Version 0.3.5

Released August 24 2010

• Removed unnecessary error checking in OpenGL renderer(speedup)
• Removed unnecessary texture bind in OpenGL renderer(also possible speedup)
• Support for double sided faces from RWX files
• Removed unnecessary texture bind in RWX renderer
• Disable texture masks when rendering skybox
• Send object clicks to world server
• Loading indicator for Mac OS X version
• Set 24 bit Z-buffer in Direct3D renderer
• Fixed Direct3D transparency issues
• Users list on Mac OS X version
• Physics mesh generation on background thread
• Selecting placeholder objects(black triangles) now possible
• Ground object updates when changing worlds
• Add messages in chat box when connection to universe or world server is lost
• Fixed race condition that could result in a crash
• Added b and x for black as color names
• Fix partly transparent object placeholders(black triangles)
• Removed unused material calls for specular lighting
• Added check to prevent crash when object is not found in object change event handler
• Better normal generation for RWX models
• Support avatar model RWX files
• Don't load texture if it doesn't have any references left after downloading
• Added OpenGL renderer using shaders
• Fade objects in distance for OpenGL renderer with shaders
• Gradually change view distance
• Added support for mask= and tag= in texture command
• Read configuration file to select renderer
• Read configuration file to get frames per second limit
• Less format conversions when loading images

Version 0.3.4

Released July 21 2010

• Fixed model not changing when others are building
• Fixed incorrect user ID displayed for newly built objects
• Fixed incorrect timestamp on changed objects
• Fixed incorrect timestamp on new objects
• Fixed crash when reselecting an object after duplicating it while it is still selected.
• Added colors on sign textures

Version 0.3.3

Released July 15 2010

• Fixed object selection in Direct3D mode
• Fixed bounding box display in Direct3D mode
• Added lines that show local X, Y and Z axis of a selected object
• Fixed unable to activate objects that are over 40 meters away
• Fixed wrong rotation with home and end keys
• Added support for texture masks when specified in RWX files(In Direct3D mode, only power of 2 sized masks work)
• Added AW style filmstrip animations
• Fixed missing smooth lighting on RWX models where the lighting mode was specified using one or more uppercase letters(Like on the mailbox model)
• Fixed incorrect camera orientation when looking up and down in Direct3D mode

Version 0.3.2

Released July 4 2010

• Fixed possible(very likely) crash when deselecting a newly created object.

Version 0.3.1

Released July 3 2010

• Renderer abstracted from other code
• Support for multiple renderers
• Direct3D 9 Renderer
• Vertex buffers are used for in-world objects.
• Mesh data shared between objects.
• Fixed materials on RWX models that did not specify any materials
• Fixed incorrect tags on RWX models that specify tags for a single face.
• Axis aligned RWX models(mostly trees)
• Restore previous material after ProtoInstance(black borders around doors and windows like pw01.rwx)
• Support for worlds over 10x10 km in size(500 cells in each direction)
• Support for worlds with over 10000 objects
• Objects dynamically added to and removed from collision world
• Support for gzipped object files, even when they end in .zip like on some object paths.
• Less out of control walking speed
• Repeating ground object
• Automatic view distance
• Adjustable fixed view distance
• World welcome messages
• Aligned chat messages in Qt(used for Windows and Linux) version
• Support for colored messages in Qt(used for Windows and Linux) version, used for welcome messages
• Fixed crash while logging in to world after switching world a few times(dangling pointer)
• Fixed crash when deleting data about a texture that failed to load
• Fixed aspect ratio on user name tags
• Smiley face placeholder for avatars :-)

Versions 0.2.x

Version 0.2.13

Released 28th December 2009

• Added particle emitter.
• First load nearby cells before loading distant ones.
• Added object depth sorting.

Version 0.2.12

Released 20th December 2009

• Fixed bug where the program would hang when changing worlds on Windows(bug was introduced in 0.2.11)
• Empty chat messages are no longer sent on Windows and Linux.

Version 0.2.11

Released 14th December 2009

• Fixed loading transparent textures on Mac OS X
• Added support for double-sided faces for RWX files.
• Fixed opacity on some RWX models.
• Fixed possible crash when deleting texture from wrong thread.

Version 0.2.10

Released 30th November 2009

• Windows GUI rewritten, lots of changes there.
• Enabled alpha testing so you can see through the (fully) transparent parts of a texture
• Fixed crash in Lua script
• Rotating objects using scroll wheel in Windows
• Fixed collision for Milkshape3D(.ms3d) files
• Fixed hang on big endian machines(like PowerPC macs)
• Fixed possible memory leak in JPEG loading code for Mac OS X
• Updated Bullet Physics engine to 2.75
• Added Lua dependency to Debian package.

Version 0.2.9

All operating systems:

• Friend list
• Lua scripts on objects
• Show warning messages when connection is lost
• Home world is read from config file
• Fog world settings
• Fixed crashing when leaving a world with Milkshape3D models

Linux(GTK):

• World list updates instead of adding new items for every change.

Mac OS X:

• Fixed crash when closing and reopening toolbox/tabs window
• Toolbox window using selectable toolbar instead of tab control
• World list updates instead of adding new items for every change.
• Script editor with basic highlighting

Windows:

• Fullscreen mode
• Fixed error messages to show error codes again

Version 0.2.8

All operating systems:

• Writing to sockets is buffered
• Fixed crash when deleting rigid body without collision shape.
• Fixed crash due to double delete when removing a just created object from the scene.
• Partial support for MS3D files again, this time with animation. You just can't control the animation yet.
• Flying works again.
• Added support for some world settings.
• 3D sound actually comes from the right place now(the object location).

Linux(GTK):

• Created installable deb package.

Mac OS X:

• Disabled color correction on textures done by the system.

Windows

• Fixed crash when selecting object with incorrect timestamp.
• Fixed lag/hang when building.
• Fixed typing K or M in chat while the 3D view has focus.
• Fixed crash when clicking an object while VP is loading.
• Fixed lag when clicking an object.
• Load JPEG files with CImage instead of libjpeg.
• Removed dependency on pthreads-win32.
• Moved sockets to main thread.
• Added icon to executable.
• Error messages instead of numbers on login.

Version 0.2.7

All operating systems:

• Non-blocking sockets.
• Textures load on different thread.
• Avatars are now removed when you leave the world.
• 3-axis rotation
• Sound using OpenAL and Ogg Vorbis
• Object click now gets sent to server for use with bots.
• Added picture command for loading textures on locations other then the object path.
• Download 3 files at the same time.

Mac OS X:

• Fixed JPEG loading errors for some files.

Windows

• Copy/paste for text now works.
• Colored, bold and italic text support in the chat Window, but not actually used for chat.
• Added tab stop to chat window so the chat looks better and is more readable.

Version 0.2.6

All operating systems:

• Fixed a bug in the vertex buffers that made VP crash on most systems.
• Use ray picking for selecting objects instead of the GL_SELECT render mode, which caused problems with many graphics cards.

Version 0.2.5

All operating systems:

• Works with new world server.
• Show errors when changing an object fails.
• Objects reset to their original properties when changing an object fails.
• Automatically create object cache folder.
• Use vertex buffer objects when available.
• Fixed crash when DNS lookup for server fails.

Linux(GTK):

• Use system font DejaVu Sans when available.

Version 0.2.4

All operating systems:

• Rotating multiple selected objects now works.
• Some minor memory leaks fixed.
• Object properties don't get overwritten when multiple objects with different properties are selected.
• Build window changes depending on the type of object that's currently selected, but there is only one type at the moment.

Linux(GTK):

• Added working world list.

Mac OS X:

• Sockets now run on the main thread.
• Separate login window instead of login sheet on top of the main window.
• Added DMG installer.

Windows:

• Fixed bug where the background of the chat window was not repainted.

Version 0.2.3

All operating systems:

• Added collision detection.

Linux(GTK):

• GUI is now usable. Moving around, chatting and building work.
• Now works with NVidia graphics drivers.

Mac OS X:

• Added working build window.

Windows:

• Added the possibility to type chat messages while the 3D view is selected.
• New look for tabs window.
• Fixed bug that prevented names from showing up in chat.
• Themed border for chat display.
• Added user id of object owner to the object properties window.

Older versions

Information about older versions is not available.