cleanup some debug messages so they can be turned off if needed
get rid of extra strstr() check for thrusters since it should never get that far anyway
page_in/page_out of model glows should be better now
removed a bunch of unneeded casts and get type specific math functions right
add lab stuff to Makefile
build unbreakage for everything that's not MSVC++ 6
lots of warning fixes
fix OpenGL rendering problem with ship insignias
no Warnings() in non-debug mode for Linux (like Windows)
some campaign savefile fixage to stop reverting everyones data
silence warning about depreciated strings.h stuff for MSVC 2005
final model_unload() stuff for WMCoolmon, put in missionweaponchoice.cpp
remove really old project files
and the foundations of a submodel animation system,
the calls to the animation triggering code (exept the procesing code,
wich shouldn't do anything without the triggering code)
have been commented out.
Simulated speech doesnt say tags marked by $ now.
The following are fixes to issues that came up testing TBP in fs2_open and fred2_open:
Changed vm_vec_mag and parse_tmap to fail gracefully on bad data.
Error now given on missing briefing icon and bad ship normal data.
Solved more species divide by zero error.
Fixed neb cube crash.
It doesnt use the backgrounds anymore but its still an improvement.
Currently it fogs to a brighter colour than it should because of Bob specular code.
I will fix this after discussing it with Bob.
Also tided up some D3D stuff, a cmdline variable name and changed a small bit of
the htl code to use the existing D3D engine instead of work around it.
And added extra information in version number on bottom left of frontend screen.
still needs a lot of work, ubt the frame rates were getting with it are incredable
the biggest problem it still has is a bad lightmanegment system, and the zbuffer
doesn't work well with things still getting rendered useing the sofware pipeline, like thrusters,
and weapons, I think these should be modifyed to be sent through hardware,
it would be slightly faster and it would likely fix the problem
also the thruster glow/particle stuff I did is now in.
cell shadeing has been added activated via the comand line '-cell',
3D shockwave models, and a transparency method I'm calling edge and center alpha that could be usefull for other things, ask for details
useing a phong lighting model I have made specular highlights
that are mapped to the model,
rendering them is still slow, but they look real purdy
also 4 new (untested) comand lines, the XX is a floating point value
-spec_exp XX
the n value, you can set this from 0 to 200 (actualy more than that, but this is the recomended range), it will make the highlights bigger or smaller, defalt is 16.0 so start playing around there
-spec_point XX
-spec_static XX
-spec_tube XX
these are factors for the three diferent types of lights that FS uses, defalt is 1.0,
static is the local stars,
point is weapons/explosions/warp in/outs,
tube is beam weapons,
for thouse of you who think any of these lights are too bright you can configure them you're self for personal satisfaction
taylor