Engine X 4.64 Release

[Baker]

This took longer than I had hoped for a bug-fix release, I was making some incredible progress on several fronts and then real-life stripped away all my time for a while.

The next release of Engine X wasn't supposed to be just a bug-fix release, but as the real next version isn't nearly complete, I felt it was important to satisfy everyone with fixing that one super-annoying bug.

Download: Engine X 4.64 - 39 MB (Source)

[AAA]

Whats that one super-annoying bug?

[Baker]

You know .. the super-annoying one.

Kidding aside, it was the one that messed with angles. It had 2 causes, one was a horrific typo. I had planned a supermassive Christmas release chalked full of unbelievable stuff. That will still happen, but not immediately.

[leopold]

IIRC you had a linux port in the works, do you mind to release it/the source?

[Baker]

IIRC you had a linux port in the works, do you mind to release it/the source?

I'm getting there. It's an SDL port. Both the ProQuake and Engine X SDL ports need some attention to get to a level of quality that I wouldn't find embarrassing. I mean, for example, the mouse needs to work right --- and at the stage I'm at with the OS X and Linux ports, it doesn't. I can't release a hobgoblin like that.

It is a priority to get out both an OS X and Linux (32 bit -- I haven't had time to fully absorb x64 yet) port of Engine X. But it has to play third fiddle to the new enhanced administrative controls for ProQuake server and to the 5 maps in 1 tournament map/mod to jack up DM community activity.

[AAA]

5 maps in 1 tournament map/mod to jack up DM community activity.

That will be sweet, maybe WOLV will play then.

[leopold]

I'm getting there. It's an SDL port. Both the ProQuake and Engine X SDL ports need some attention to get to a level of quality that I wouldn't find embarrassing. I mean, for example, the mouse needs to work right --- and at the stage I'm at with the OS X and Linux ports, it doesn't. I can't release a hobgoblin like that.

It is a priority to get out both an OS X and Linux (32 bit -- I haven't had time to fully absorb x64 yet) port of Engine X. But it has to play third fiddle to the new enhanced administrative controls for ProQuake server and to the 5 maps in 1 tournament map/mod to jack up DM community activity.

Ok, I understand, take your time
I personally would like to have the source to play with it but no problem. Thx for all the awesome work on engineX, undergate and everything else

[Polarite]

Nice update.
I see that the pq_fullpitch problem is fixed now when connecting to servers with that set on "0" .(Like all servers)

[Mindf!3ldzX]

That will be sweet, maybe WOLV will play then.

Doubtful, he's still got teen-angst built up,being a whiney bitch and all. Hey you can hope though ,right??

[dfsp_spirit]

Thanks Baker!

[R00k]

One annoying thing...

static	int	originalmouseparms[3], newmouseparms[3] = {0, 0, 1};

That last 1 should be 0.

1 enables mouse acceleration, and whenever i load engineX the "Enhanced Pointer Percision" check box in my mouse settings for Windows7 gets set ON .

This will stay ON until I manually turn it off. I dont think WindowsXP is affected by this, though.

[Baker]

One annoying thing...

static	int	originalmouseparms[3], newmouseparms[3] = {0, 0, 1};

That last 1 should be 0.

1 enables mouse acceleration, and whenever i load engineX the "Enhanced Pointer Percision" check box in my mouse settings for Windows7 gets set ON .

This will stay ON until I manually turn it off. I dont think WindowsXP is affected by this, though.

Thanks R00k. Yeah, I know about this flaw. ProQuake doesn't have the issue, but I haven't updated Engine X to remove the issue. Who knows maybe I'll do yet another update today to resolve that issue. Might fix the menu issues too.

[Mr.Burns]

Thanks for the update Baker (and the nod on the front page ). I must confess that although the RJ bug had me switching back to PQ occassionally, it was becoming instrumental in the way I continued to mistakedly "grenade" myself when in a DM , I haven't lost the faith and I shall dl the new version and test this as best I can over the weekend.

Just an aside, and I'm guessing the answer if going to be a resounding "That's only possible within DP", but at some point in the future (so no pressure here ) will EngineX be able to support some of the impressive texture updates we have seen from Oppee, Seven, and co? Not hassling, just curious

Keep up the good work - I for one really do appreciate it.

Kind regards

Monty

P.S. You're right about Pol, he does things a T1000 can only dream of

[ShadoW]

I like how it all looks. Good work. My only note for now would be that main menu seems to be messed up .

[turtlevan]

baker im running this and it's good but the texture quality is at the minimum. I tried gl_picmip and gl_playermip and gl_texturemode. what is the command to increase texture quality (because the menu is messed up and the option to select tex quality via the slider bar (0-3) is missing).

Help!