Vox v0.20 file - Vox

Vox V0.20
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New Features:

• Actionbar quick keys for the keyboard number keys.
• Drag items from the inventory to the action bar to assign number keys.
• Use the number keys to activate the quick items that have been assigned.
• Allow for items to be stored in the chests - drag from inventory.
• Improvements to the character stats screen.
• Button on the HUD for the inventory and the character stats.
• Switch over to using sphere bounding volumes for chunk frustum culling - more efficient.
• Item placement mode, you can now place items in the world from your inventory - chests, signposts, ore, etc.
• Display the coins collected count on the HUD.
• Make skeleton archers have a bit of randomness in their shooting direction.
• Item library - easily browse and edit all the vox files that have been created.
• Random quest generation - Each time you accept a quest it is random with random objectives and enemies, etc.
• After completing a quest NPC will generate a new random quest.
• Import vox models into the world, during chunk creation stage.
• Random tree generation algorithm. (Also works for cactuses!)
• Add flag to particle editor to allow for random rotations on particles (or not).
• Add Create world screen to the front-end. Link in world generation systems.
• Smoother player movements - dont suddenly stop when finished walking, come to a gradual stop.
• Create random world objects during chunk setup phase.
• Add block sprite manager to chunk manager.
• Re-use block sprites for world scenery generation.
• Allow us to ignore the modify flag when importing world scenery, we dont want this to trigger a load/unload to file.
• Depth of field shader!
• Depth of field shader combined with SSAO.
• Depth of field toggle on the options menu - Enable or disable the DOF effect.
• New world for alpha version of Vox, Tanubis! Desert world with cactus world objects.
• Different enemies spawning in different locations, i.e. forest enemies and desert enemies.
• New ores - copper, iron, silver, gold.
• Give player rewards and experience when completing quests.
• Allow inventory and character stats screen to be open at the same time.
• Player stats in player and points on leveling up.
• Enemy target mode - activated by pressing the right mouse button when crosshair is on an enemy.
• Item collection quests implemented.
• Enemy targeting on the X360 control pad - Left sholder button.
• Occlusion culling for the world, based on the bounding box of the chunks.
• Add occluded cache flag to the chunks, so we only calculate the occlusion when the camera changes.
• Outline rendering shader of the players target.
• Hover outline rendering when the player is targetting an enemy with the cursor

Bugfixes:

• Switch between shadow and non-shadow versions dynamically if shadow FBO can't be loaded.
• Automatically turn off DOF and shadows if we fail to load the shaders.
• Disable DOF in the options menu if not available.
• Fix the bug where sometimes the inventory icons background would 'detact' from the icon.
• Enemy and chest spawning within the proper world sizes, based on chunk size.
• Make sure that ALL inventory GUI components are removed when the inventory is unloaded.
• Unload the action bar when the front-end is selected.
• Convert blocks to use an integer for colour rather than dumbly storing floats.
• Remove the blocktype enum from being stored in Blocks, it wasnt being used anyway!
• Don't crash the renderer if we try to load a texture that doesnt exist!
• Fix bug where if we remove a GUI component while we are still interacting with it, mouse events still get sent (and crash).
• Change the warning popup text, remove the references to 'demo'.
• Better player alpha when shadow mode enabled/disabled.
• Properly unset the player selection box render when switching between equipped items.
• Use proper world folders for different world indexes, when loading/unloading chunks.
• Use the scenery file in the front-end folder for loading the frontend scenery.
• Remove the 2 smallest screen resoltuions from the options menu 640x480 and 800x600.
• Increase options border size, so all GUI controls fit inside.
• Dont import mouse clicks to the GUI is we are in player mode.
• When importing world scenery, dont fill with empty (non-active) blocks - ignore them.
• Dont allow selection movement in the speech manager if the current speech bubble doesnt have options.
• Null pointer fix when getting the selection index from the speech bubble.
• Don't show the button graphic on the speech bubbles.
• Dont allow player movement from the X360 while we have a speech bubble open.