Alpha 9 Live

Summary of Changes:

Art:

• Completely revamped cities (15+ new buildings)

• New City Starport

• New Small Starport

Core:

• Renderer code went through a full upgrade to OpenGL 3.1/3.2 core profile (3.2 prefered)

• All shaders ported to GLSL 1.4/1.5 and uniform blocks for big data structs like Lighting

• All Paragon rendering upgraded to the new renderer

• Tested for visual and stability bugs on intel, NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards

• New renderer ported to linux successfully. OSX WIP

Graphics:

• New shader-based antialiasing (FXAA)

• New tone mapping effect that includes: gamma, exposure, color balance and vignette

• New approximate irradiance diffuse/gloss lighting effect on all game models

Game:

• New camera freelook feature by default SHIFT + cursor keys

• New current mission feature allowing player to set a specific mission as current

• Extended mission system to include a variety of new states

• New ability to cancel active missions

UI:

• Mission info menu now includes Cancel mission button

• Missions list shows and allows setting of current mission

• Sector view shows destination of current mission

• Modified control system to allow more flexibility

• Added loading screen between main menu and game start

Fixes:

• Fixed issue with specular shininess being set incorrectly

• Lots of other small adjustments and fixes