Blockland Updates - r1931 to r1983

There have been multiple updates to Blockland since the last news steam post.
Here's a catch up post.

r1983

• Fixed crash related to getWords/getFields

• Iconshots/ folder now writable from screenshot functions

r1981

• The fast connection packets introduced in r1972 can now be disabled by setting $pref::Net::FastPackets = 0; or unchecking the "Fast Packets" check box in the network settings tab. Note: this is a server-side setting.

• File downloads will now retry instead of stopping on the "got incorrect hash!" error (note: this is not the issue of downloads freezing in the middle)

• Fast packets will now stop immediately when client goes below the ghosting threshold

• Fast packets will now stop for a given client if their ping goes above 350

• Added missing Parent::onTrustCheckFinished to Brick_Large_Cubes

• Fixed some cases where you could create multiple orphan ghost bricks

• Fixed clicking while tumbling erroneously causing respawn

• Fixed instantly typing "wwwwwww" if you wrench a brick while moving

• Fixed ghost brick moving in the wrong direction while looking straight down

r1973

• Fixed WinXP compatiblity problem from r1972

r1972

• Multiple packets are now sent to ghosting clients on each network tick, reducing ghosting and file download times

• Fixed certain cases of file downloads stopping

• Fixed missing admin checks on some bot_hole server commands

• Fixed case where moving slow moving players can phase through walls

r1966

• Fixed issue where you could travel through a teledoor before it is removed by the build trust check

• Fixed vehicles not burning (both client and server will have to be running r1966)

• Fixed certain timescale/framerate combinations causing the game to freeze

• Fixed coverage issue on ModTer 8x CornerA brick

• Fixed crash when player type has no animations

• You can no longer execute files named "Support_AdminEvents.cs" - this user created script was used in several other add-ons and contained an eval injection vulnerability which would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary script code on the server. Note: this was not a malicious script, it was simply poorly coded and could be exploited to attack the server.

r1958

• Fixed LAA flag regression, should fix some crashes

• Reduced ghost lookup table size by ~10%

• Brick limit replaced by $pref::server::ghostlimit - this setting puts a hard limit on the number of ghosted objects in the game and reduces the size of the ghost lookup tables accordingly.

• You cannot change the ghost limit while the game is running.

• The ghost limit can also be set in gamemode.txt. Lower ghost limits are now set for the default game modes, saving significant amounts of memory per player.

• The label in the custom game gui still says "brick limit" so people might have a clue what it does.

• The valid values are powers of 2 from 32768 to 1048576, if you set some other value it will automatically round up to next highest power of 2

• $Pref::Server::BrickLimit checks replaced by getBrickLimit() - this function derives the brick limit based on the current ghost limit.

r1956

• Reverted ghosting optimization while I figure out what's wrong with it

• Fixed camera relative brick movement with supershift enabled

r1955

• Fixed issue with deleting bricks

r1954

• ParticleData framesPerSec value is now synced to clients

• Removed deprecated aiConnection class

• Removed old, non-functional "storm" features of precipitation object

• Sky object network update size reduced significantly, should fix bad packet when changing environment settings rapidly

• Light list in wrench gui is now sorted alphabetically

• Brick movement is now camera relative when in free cam mode

• Fixed https link parsing in chat

• Partially typed chat messages are now preserved when going from the loading screen to game

• Fixed case where player is stuck in animation on spawn (credit)

• Fixed chat being the wrong size in the loading screen

• Fixed backspace not repeating while playGui is active

• Delete buttons added to save/load bricks GUIs

• Fixed this graphical error on modTer ramp

• Miscellaneous network packing cleanup

• Added ballRadius field to projectileData, used to prevent sports balls from sinking into ground

• Fixed sports balls teleporting up through player when you run over them

• Certain cases of the master server failing will no longer kick players from the game

• Adjusted padding of listclients() console function for 6 digit IDs

• Addressed crash exploit related to NetStringTable - I've attempted to fix the actual bug in the class, rather than detect and filter bad traffic. Hopefully this works.

• Improved error handling on most master server posts/auth queries

• ModTer visible faces fix (credit)

• Client disconnect/CDROP echoes now show player name

• Fixed local connection IPX address echo displaying garbage on Mac

• Fixed screenshot functions being able to write outside of game folder

• Added more sanity checks for brick limit, as people are still somehow setting this to zero

• Made it less trivial to change your client timescale

• Health level of other players is no longer sent over the network

• Random environment button will no longer set transparent ground

• When ghosting, unghosted objects are now prioritized. This is to address slow loading when there are a lot of players/vehicles moving around.

• Increased maximum ghost limit to 1M, what could go wrong

• Increased datablock limit to 8k, that'll be fun to download

• You can now set individual player speeds directly using the following functions

• setMaxForwardSpeed

• setMaxBackwardSpeed

• setMaxSideSpeed

• setMaxCrouchForwardSpeed

• setMaxCrouchBackwardSpeed

• setMaxCrouchSideSpeed

r1931

• Shaders are now automatically enabled for supported video cards

• Removed "-1" chat spam event from lighthouse speedkart map

• Added flood protection to /activateStuff

• Added -serverName and -maxPlayers command line arguments