opengothic-v1.0.3010

Game

• Improve handling of BS_STUMBLE/BS_PARADE
• Disallow to open inventory menu, while character is laying on the ground
• Disallow sliding, when character is in 'walk' mode
• Perception range for npc's are now driven by game-script
• Fixup for isNoisy check, when player interacting with MOBSI
• Gothic-1: added PERC_ASSESSREMOVEWEAPON
• Gothic-1: multiple improvements to spell-casting and alignment (#676)
• Now, best weapons are automatically equipped by npc on spawn (alignment to original game) (#653)
• Limit mouse rotation speed
• Filter out mouse-wheel event with zero delta
• Fix critical damage calculation for monsters (#599)
• Make sure that text messages do not overlap with health-bar
• Now npc view direction is aligned with corresponding way-point (#644)
• Multiple improvements to friendly-fire game mechanic, for companions and enemy
• Falling mechanic and animations are now closer to vanilla in behavior

General

• Marvin: add ztimer multiplyer
• Marvin: "set time" minutes argument can be omitted
• Marvin: add goto vob and goto camera commands (#634)
• Introduce support for iOS builds
• Log detail info for DeviceLostException
• Added extended gpu-crash logging for Metal on MacOS and iOS
• Use key down and support key repeat in game menu (#651)
• Systempack compatibility: added configurable camera-FOV
• Systempack compatibility: UI scale
• Systempack compatibility: INTERFACE/InventoryCellSize
• Systempack compatibility: health, mana, swim bar options
• Systempack compatibility: added INTERFACE/SaveGameImageSizeXY
• Added check for useQuickSaveKeys option when handling F5/F9 keys
• Game-config cleanup
• Disallow quick load while at pause
• Improved world load time
• Improved save-game time
• Now 'free' camera can be moved or rotated, while game is in suspended mode
• Hp bar for dead npc is now hidden

Graphics

• Experimental support for virtual shadowmap (-vsm 1 in command-line or toggle vsm in marvin)
• Optimize shadows rendering for alpha-tested objects
• GPU-driven rendering optimizations (#576)
• Implement physically accurate sun color calculation, based on atmosphere properties
• Adjust sky and fog rendering to path-traced reference
• Fix appearance of clouds in water reflections
• CMAA2 integration (#655)
• Added basic(lanczos) upscaler
• Added optimization of ray-traversal flags for AMD
• Quality of SSAO significantly improved
• Skip mip-map generation for texture, if original texture has no mip's
• Added support for A4R4G4B4 texture format
• Introduce single pass hiz generation

Music

• Introduced dmusic library as an option for music backend (#613)

Script-api

• Added wld_removenpc
• Initial support for cutscene-camera(CsCamera, #531)
• npc_changeattribute: don't reduce hitpoints of immortal npcs (#631)
• npc_changeattribute: don't reduce hitpoints in godmode (#586)
• wld_getmobstate: function now detects nearest mob (#629). This change is needed for correct work of some Gothic1 scripts

Bug fixes

• Fix some Gothic 1 magic bugs (#682, #685)
• Fix npc-to-ray intersection test
• Fix possible use-after-free error in key-dispather
• Fix ini parsing: handle multiple values in the one line (#672)
• Fix(perf) workgroup size in copy-image
• Allow exit from load menu after trying to load empty save (#650)
• Do not apply TA(daily routines) to npc controlled by player
• Don't use a time limit for non-daily routine states (#648)
• Drop items from right hand instead of left hand (#654)
• Do not crash, if font-file is missing
• Allow spaces, tabs and unknown words in GAME/invCatOrder
• Added workaround for AMD driver issue with mesh shader (#583)
• Fix handling of Metal shading language versions
• Fix Gothic 1 melee blocking (#630)
• Fix spell charging animation (#659)
• Fix weapon undraw sound not being played (#652)
• Fix rendering of lock-picking messages
• Fix some dialog lines with guru in G1 (#660)
• Fix handling of fireDelay parameter in triggers (#636)
• Add missing failureTarget trigger for CodeMaster trigger (#606)
• Praying/Sitting npc's now standing up on player interaction (#615)

New Contributors

• @houkama made their first contribution in #194
• @lmichaelis made their first contribution in #209
• @fhanrath made their first contribution in #219
• @matthiakl made their first contribution in #284
• @thokkat made their first contribution in #317
• @Reveares made their first contribution in #383
• @CReimer made their first contribution in #397
• @sjavora made their first contribution in #400
• @raphaelahrens made their first contribution in #415
• @yuriytaranov made their first contribution in #429
• @PoetaKodu made their first contribution in #441
• @striezel made their first contribution in #472
• @ThielHater made their first contribution in #515
• @KirillAlekseeenko made their first contribution in #572
• @hwnde made their first contribution in #583
• @Pinemarten made their first contribution in #650
• @Domarion made their first contribution in #672
• @LordKobra made their first contribution in #694

Full Changelog: v0.48...opengothic-v1.0.2997

opengothic-v1.0.2207

• Game

  • Action focus is no longer available, if player is unconscious/dead
  • Improve camera inertia
  • AI now can use ladder for path-finding
  • Ice-block spell: auto close inventory, if player is unconscious
  • Fix ice-block stan duration
  • Fix sell-price, when selling more than one item (#429)
  • Disallow turning animation when action-key is held down. (#400)
  • Disallow underwater way-points in AI_Flee
  • Implement sneaking reactions
  • Rework damage calculation (#434)
  • Remove room check for SENSE_HEAR
  • Align spell-cast player controls to original game

• General

  • Optimize save-game time
  • Added rechargeable spells support
  • Fix Greg's hat display
  • Biff dialogs: add orderId's for aiStopProcessInfo
  • Added fallback for invalid start point (#443)
  • Fix input problem when releasing one of two mapped keys (#441)
  • GothicStarter: add -devmode flag support
  • Add zCVobStair object type
  • Add gothic1 skill values (#423)
  • Added extra marvin commands (#398, #404, #471)
  • Change waypoint indexing to support G1

• Graphics

  • Physical lighting support
  • Add irradiance support
  • RayTracing: use hint gl_RayFlagsCullNoOpaqueEXT, if bindless in not available
  • RayTracing: use proper opaque flags in TLAS
  • RayTracing: enable bindless textures in DX12
  • RayTracing: improve bindless for Vulkan
  • Added stochastic fog support
  • Optimize fog for low-quality setups
  • Rescale alpha, after a-test
  • Added blendOut for animations
  • Better support for large-coordinates
  • Water wave rendering
  • Togglable water reflections
  • Brightness/Contrast/Gamma settings
  • Optimize fog shading
  • Optimize meshlet packaging

• MacOS

  • Automatic installation detection
  • Fix key input in save-game menu
  • Query max texture size on Metal
  • Cleanup and generalize work with MacOS coordinate system
  • Fix buffer alignment issue in Metal
  • Make Mac-Command keys actionable (#402)

• Script-api

  • Align PERC_ASSESSPLAYER to vanilla
  • Add DAM_CRITICAL_MULTIPLIER, for Gothic 1
  • Implemented AI_LOOKAT (#397)
  • wld_insertnpc: allow empty waty-point names

• Bugs:

  • Fix hnpc stashing at transform spells
  • Fix PfxController in oldworld.zen
  • Fix AI_UseItem
  • Fix issue, when using transform spell, that is last in inventory
  • Fix for G1 chests (#422)
  • Fix npc deduction in wld_playeffect
  • Prevent ranged damage from hitting twice (#424)
  • Avoid issue in Silvio quest with Npc_ExchangeRoutine
  • Avoid crash with Union.vdf
  • Avoid soft-lock in B_AssessQuietSound
  • npc_isdead : return false if npc is null (#457)
  • Adjust camera selection for G1 (#437)
  • mdl_applyoverlaymdstimed: do not apply overlay, if not compatible

opengothic-v1.0.1891

• Bugfix for OpenGothic to Union interaction
• Bugfix for Serialization issues on Linux

opengothic-v1.0.1878

• Game

  • Improve path-finding algorithm, for AI
  • Adjust combo-attacks and battle animations to vanilla
  • Added specific controls, related to Gothic2 control scheme
  • Fix sneaking with bow animation
  • Added support for ladders (#325)

• General

  • Fix camera stutters
  • Fix behavior of -rt command line key
  • Added marin 'set time' command
  • Add support for hideFocus and discard noFrate options in *.ini file (#364)
  • Allow to pick items and use bow, while sneaking

• Graphics

  • Switch rendering engine to linear color space
  • Optimize SSAO, with help of compute shaders
  • Improve sky scattering
  • Added ray-query shadows
  • Migrate geometry rendering to GL_EXT_mesh_shader
  • Added per-particle trails
  • 32-bit depth buffer is now default
  • Added support for soft-shadows

• Music

  • Update OpenAL to 1.22.2
  • Enable music on MacOS
  • Fix loading of sound variations (known as sheep sounds problem)

• MacOS

  • Improve full-screen mode on Mac

• Bugs

  • Avoid false-locking of UI thread, while loading
  • Fix crash in npc_getequippedrangedweapon
  • Fix exception handler in TriggerScript
  • Fix ai_printscreen execution order
  • Fix issue, that caused invalid world-state restore in some mods

opengothic-v1.0.1705

• Game

  • Do not allow to loot equipped items
  • Align rotation speed to original game
  • Fixed Francis dialog soft-lock
  • When player about to interact with MOBSI, angle title will be reset
  • Correct weapon stats, when forced to unequip (#323)
  • Ignore bad input in pick-lock sequence
  • Improved range-attack AI
  • Fixed various beliar-sword issues
  • Fixed double removal of items, when smitthing

• General

  • Allow assign of num-keys to spells/runes directly
  • Allow to open inventory while walking (walk animation will stop in that case) (#326)
  • Allow using Enter in addition to LMB in journal and inventory (#332)
  • Fix startup point fox npc
  • Fix dialog window activation, when player uses interactive object
  • Play stow animation if a drawn weapon is unequipped (#317)
  • Added workaround for "TOT" freepoint
  • Enable quickload hotkey (#284)
  • Improved save-game dialog

• Script-api

  • AI_PrintScreen is now asynchronus, as it should be
  • Align SPL_NEXTLEVEL behavior, for non-leveled spells, with vanilla
  • Read enabled .mod files from ini file (#285)

• Music

  • Added workaround sound issues in Jharkendar

• Graphics

  • Added water reflections support
  • Added volumetric fog effect (Options -> Extended configuration -> Radial fog)
  • Added clouds color hinting
  • Added clouds occlusion
  • Added support for ZMAXFPS
  • 2-phase culling for HiZ
  • Fix fatness for skeletal meshes

• Linux

  • Fixed unicode inputs
  • Fixed path-resolve for videos

opengothic-v1.0.1527

• Game

  • Added quest-log view
  • Added pick-locking for doors
  • Added the marvin 'o' command (#223)
  • Fix pathing for Thorben, Vatras
  • Fix character angling, while run
  • Fix swiming in caves (Jarkentar)
  • Fix AI_Flee implementation
  • Fix bow-arrows sound effects
  • Fix animation on chest closing
  • Fix camera look-back
  • Fix double damage for lurkers
  • Fix atack+run animation, when G1 controls are disabled
  • Disallow to use inventory, while in dialog

• General

  • Added GAME.camLookaroundInverse option
  • Allow to use OU files from archive
  • Allow usage of mouse 4 and 5 (#220)
  • Added DEF_INV_TORCH tag support
  • Added windIntensity support
  • Added default settings values for case, when there is no ini-file

• Script-api

  • Move init_global, startup_global to game loadtime phase, to better match original game

• Music

  • Fix playing of zero-sized music patterns (Jack light-house)

• Graphics

  • Added mesh shaders support
  • Added RayQuery shadows
  • Added SSAO support (Options -> Extended configuration -> Cloud shadows)
  • Improved animation smoothing
  • Add support for zWindEnabled option

• MacOS

  • Fixed mouse-camera controls

• Windows

  • System independant mouse sensitivity

gothic-win64-v1.0.1311

• General

  • New save-file format (#202)
  • Improve camera behaviour, to match original game (#198)
  • Added k-key functionality in Marvin Mode (#194)
  • Marvin mode is now disabled by default (use b-marvin-b to activate)
  • Added climb behaviour for AI
  • multiple CPU-performance improvals

• Game

  • Adjust melee combat to original game
  • Added theft reaction
  • Optimize sound occlusion calculation
  • Add dynamic multi line support for dialogs (#189)

• Script-api

  • Added wld_sendtrigger, zCTrigger.fireDelaySec
  • Added init_global

• Graphics

  • Added animation blending
  • Use DEFAULT.TGA as fallback for missing textures
  • Added wind animation
  • Added model-fatness

• MacOS

  • Fixed mouse-camera controls

gothic-win64-v1.0.1177

• General

  • Added bounce behaviour for npc collision
  • Improve swimming and diving
  • Recognize spellType
  • Improve torch mechanics
  • Overall CPU usage optimization

• Script-api

  • Implement AI_Flee
  • Implement AI_LookAt
  • Implement AI_PointAt, AI_PointAtNpc, AI_StopPointAt
  • Implement Npc_IsInState
  • Implement Wld_GetFormerPlayerPortalGuild
  • Implement MOBSI::conditionFunc
  • Implement Npc_GetDistToPlayer

• Bugfix

  • Fixed wrong output of Npc_GetEquippedMeleeWeapon
  • Fixed cliff sliding
  • Fixed wall tonneling
  • Fixed ground alignment for monsters
  • Fixed animation solver cache

gothic-win64-v1.0.1123

• General

  • Fix jump animation, for case when acrobatics skill is learned
  • Fix VDF file loader, to improve mods-compatibility
  • x64 is now default build type for windows

• Game

  • Added support for area-spells, like rain/ice-wave
  • Visual effect updated to look closer to original game
  • Added support for "lightPresets"
  • Equipped rings are now displayed on separated slots
  • Equipped weapons are now displayed on separated slots
  • Added support for GAME:INVCATORDER setting
  • Added PERC_ASSESSENTERROOM perception for npc
  • Allow invalid way-point names for npc (#138)

• Graphics

  • Animation code is more robust now to prevent crashes, when mods are incompatible
  • Fixed push-block size in Vulkan shaders
  • Improved sky/fog shader

• Physics

  • Added bullet-dynamics support
  • Enable continuous collision detection
  • Improved arrow physics: now arrows are bound back

gothic-win32-v1.0.1035

• General

  • Added names for save-games
  • Adjust behavior of AI_ProcessInfo, to stop walking animation before dialog
  • Optimize ZenLib to improve game load-time
  • Added oCMobFire support - city lighting now works
  • Initial torch support

• Graphics

  • Added morphing animation
  • Major progress on shadowmaps: shadows-pass now faster and image is more detailed
  • Improve camera collision
  • Particle-fx trails initial support

• Script-api

  • Bugfix: initialize HERO, before calling any scripts(initScripts)
  • Added dedicated overlay queue ("For the king!" quote now works)

• UI

  • Multiple UI adjustments, to have consistency with original game (#135)