Pioneer "October 2013" 20131021 news

For October 2013. Full changelog.

• New features
  • New ship "Xylophis Short Range Shuttle" (#2442, #2515)
  • New ship "Kanara Interceptor" (civilian version) (#2454, #2461)
  • New ship "Nerodia" (#2505)
  • New ship "Sinonatrix" (#2503)
  • New settings screens (#2490, #2512)
  • Vertical speed is shown with altitude, up to 10000 km or half the planet's radius (#2446)
  • The random face system now supports multiple species (#2440)
  • The eclipse effect can now be disabled in the config file (#2439, #2497, #2176, #2190)
  • Allow up to two keys to be bound to a single input (#2222)
• Minor changes and tweaks
  • Improved ship textures (#2450)
  • Resized DSMiner
  • Updated the Deneb to use new camera and gun tag-points (#2460)
  • Set Speed mode is now initialised with the ship's forward speed (#2469)
  • Cleaned up translation files (#2490)
• Script and UI API changes
  • UI now uses a stack of layers instead of floating widgets (#2475, #2478)
  • Multiline text widgets now default to 75 chars width (#2488)
  • New UI methods and extended Lua interfaces (#2490)
    • Checkbox: Toggle, SetState, IsChecked, onValueChanged
    • List: GetSelectedIndex, SetSelectedIndex, NumItems, IsEmpty
    • DropDown: GetSelectedIndex, SetSelectedIndex, NumItems, IsEmpty
    • TextEntry: SetText
    • Slider: GetRange, SetRange
    • Basic joystick event support
  • FileDialog now has a way to enter a new filename (#2490)
  • Expose game settings, languages settings and keybindings to Lua (#2490)
  • Models can now supply an "idle" animation that plays continuously (#2514)
  • Models can now have multiple collidable parts that move with their animations (#2493)
  • ShipDef now has fields effectiveExhaustVelocity and thrusterFuelUse (#2492, #2492)
• Fixes
  • Modelviewer now correctly reloads tag-points when switching models (#2451, #2456)
  • Correctly setup UI sizing from window size (#2455, #2453)
  • Fix TradeShips hang when trying to add cargo to almost-full ship (#2459, #2432)
  • Fix window/GL setup when multisampled antialiasing is requested but not available (#2425)
  • Fix a thread shutdown race condition that caused crashes at game exit (#2464)
  • Fix crash when game load fails (#2467, #2466)
  • Fixed model spinner view distance (#2481)
  • Stopped mouse movement when grabbed (#2485)
  • Fixed UI::Margin sizing with non-ALL direction (#2490)
  • Fix UI::Margin being created with an incorrect inner widget (#2513, #2511)
  • Fix FileDialog not handling empty list and text entry (#2510, #2494)
• Model changes
  • Pattern textures can now have alpha channels (#2449)
• Internal changes
  • Enable C++11 (#2330)
  • Lua blobs will now be correctly serialized (#2463)
  • Removed many unnecessary uses of reinterpret_cast (#2465)
  • Fix some problems reported by valgrind (#2472)
  • Miscellaneous code improvements (#2474)
  • Better Unicode handling in scan_enums (#2479)
  • Cleaned up, fixed and documented LuaTable and LuaPushPull (#2332)