Qfusion Game Engine Warsow 0.42 released news

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Qfusion is a 3D rendering engine based on sources from Quake II code. It is available for download and modification for free under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The project was started and is primarily developed by Victor Luchitz. It was programmed in C for use on all Windows and Unix-based computers. Qfusion has helped to set the bar for many other Quake II engine projects. A popular feature of the engine is that it is said to be able to correctly render the entire range of content for Quake III. More recent versions of Qfusion engine also extend the Q3 rendering scheme to include per pixel shading support, soft shadows, other newer generation features.

Report this article Warsow 0.42 released

After 4 weeks of hard work, it is time to release Warsow 0.42. This latest release contains various bug fixes, changes and new features. The list includes fixes for the challenge queue and some performance improvements for WarsowTV. New features include the ability for WarsowTV to playback demos. The release is focused on code improvements so there is no new media for 0.42, but be sure to check the blog and idle #warsow on Quakenet to be able to participate in public beta tests.

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The release comes in the form of a complete installer (for Windows and Mac) and a full or update package (for Windows and Linux). If you previously used the installer for 0.4 or 0.41, the 0.42 version will automatically recognise your configuration and take care of the update. If you are using the update package, please ensure that you have 0.41 installed first. To install the update, just extract the package over your Warsow 0.41 installation.

Thanks to everyone in the community for the massive amount of support you have demonstrated, and welcome to anybody who is trying Warsow for the first time (you won't look back :P)!

Please report bugs to this forum and most importantly, enjoy the release!

Full Changelog

New Features

Added game operator functionality
- Game operators are players with elevated status who have increased power over the server, but do not have rcon access.
- Servers admins set an operator password with
  code:
  1. g_operator_password
  .
- Players authenticate themselves as an operator using
  code:
  1. operator <password>
  or
  code:
  1. op <password>
  .
- Added opcall command, which allows game operators to call votes which instantly pass.
Added two new chat filtering commands -
1. code:
1. cg_chatFilter
and
1. code:
1. cg_chatFilterTV
- for filtering chat messages in normal games and when spectating tv matches respectively. These two commands accept the following bitmask values:
- code:
  1. 0
  enables all messages
- code:
  1. 1
  filters global chat
- code:
  1. 2
  filters team chat
- code:
  1. 4
  filters TV spectator chat
Added seek and pause functionality to demo menu.
Added demo playback capability to wswtv.

Changes

Changed network protocol to improve serverside culling of projectiles and playback of single-pov demos in wswtv. These changes are backwards-compatible.
Changed wswtv chat color to white.
Modified ip filters, they now stick around between maps.