Pioneer "September 2013" 201309.116 news

Change list for September 2013 build 201309.116

• New features
  • New ship "Kanara Police Interceptor" (#2441)
• Minor changes and tweaks
  • Improve thruster rendering (#2426, #1960)
  • Added OpenGL debug output. Set EnableGLDebug in config.ini to enable it (#2413)
  • System Info View now shows orbital info for binary pairs (#2423)
  • System Info View now shows body radius in kilometres (#2423)
• Fixes
  • Fix SmartTable scrolling (#2349)
  • Fix huge memory consumption on heightmapped terrains (#2418, 2405)
  • Partially fix terrain collision failures (#2429, #2337)
  • Allow an arbitrary number of navlight tags (#2427, #2438))
• Script and UI API changes
  • A new module import system is now in place. Each dependency now

    needs to be declared explicitly. See the Pull Request discussion for

    more details (#1499)

  • Lua scripts now run in individual sandboxes, with their own global
    

    table. Interaction between modules needs to be done via explicit APIs

    and imports. PersistentCharacters has been moved to Character.persistent

    (#2417)

  • Removed deprecated ShipType interface
  • Rand.New now checks the type of its optional seed argument (#2445)
• Model changes
  • Camera and gunmounts are now specified using tag points in the

    model. Ship definition fields "camera_offset" and "gum_mounts" are now

    deprecated (#2422)

• Internal changes
  • Converted to SDL 2.0 (#2433)
  • Remove GLU dependency (#2414)
  • Bundle GLEW 1.10 (#2415)
  • Upgrade miniz and force inline/static use (#2444)