stk-code_catmod/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

This file documents notable changes to SuperTuxKart across versions since its inception.

It should be kept in mind that some versions have a less complete changelog than others, and that this changelog do not list the details of the many small bugfixes and improvements which together make a significant part of the progress between releases.

For similar reasons, and because some features are vastly more complex than others, attributions of main changes should not be taken as a shorcut for overall contribution.

Unreleased

• Networking game for normal race, time trial, free for all, capture the flag and soccer
• Better random item distribution for various numbers of karts by Alayan and hiker
• Numerous improvements to input on Android by deveee
• Unlockable SuperTux challenges in Story Mode by Alayan
• Race UI improvements (new speedometer, nitro gauge, bigger minimap) by Alayan
• Improvements to ghost replays (more data saved, live time difference, replay comparison, UI improvements, egg hunt replays) by Alayan
• Kart color customization by Benau
• Improved powerup handling in AI by Alayan
• Local multiplayer improvements by Fantasmos
• New coal skin by Alayan
• Visual improvements (new skidding particles, better rescue, bubblegum flashing before ending)
• Audio improvements (crash sound depending on speed/direction, sound cue in nitro challenges)
• Gameplay improvements (much better slipstreaming, GP points...)
• Terrain slowdown works again as intended on several tracks where it was missing
• Many bugfixes

Tracks and modeling

Tracks

• Many unwanted shortcuts and exploits fixed by Auria
• Las Dunas Soccer by samuncle

SuperTuxKart 0.9.3 (28. October 2017)

• Reduced RAM and VRAM usage, reducing load times by Auria and Benau
• New mesh format optimized for space and hardware skinning
• Code refactoring of both render pipeline by Benau and Elderme
• Physics improvements and various physics bugfixes by hiker
• Kart GFX improvements (exhaust and headlight)
• In-game screen recording powered by libopenglrecorder
• High quality mipmap generation by Stragus
• New smoother camera by Auria
• New grand prix win scene
• Gamepad configuration bugfixes
• 3 Strikes Battles : added spare tire karts
• Visual representation of the start line in all tracks
• Various improvements (starting boost effect, wall driving fixes, parachutes, GP points, help page for bananas, cannon fixes, colorization shader)

Tracks and modeling

Karts

• New kart Wilber and Hexley by Jymis
• New kart Kiki and updated Konqi by Benau

Tracks

• All tracks drivable in reverse, with arrows pointing in the correct direction
• Candela City by samuncle (replace Shiny Suburbs)
• Cornfield Crossing by samuncle (replace Bovine Barnyard)
• New battle track Las Dunas Arena by samuncle

SuperTuxKart 0.9.2 (1. July 2016)

• Ghost replay races by Benau
• Battle mode AI by Benau
• Soccer mode AI by Benau
• TTF font rendering by Benau
• New ruby and forest skins by Benau
• Kart properties refactor by Flakebi
• Scripting work under the hood
• Work on the track editor by mhp
• Tweak to challenges
• New farm track song by 0zone0ne and Krobonil
• Bugfixes

Tracks and modeling

Tracks

• Antediluvian Abysses by samuncle (replace Subsea)
• Volcano Island by Ponzino
• New icy soccer field by samuncle and Benau

SuperTuxKart 0.9.1 (17. October 2015)

• Many bug fixes
• Started to use scripting in tracks
• Significant audio performance improvements
• Tweak to challenges

Tracks and modeling

Tracks

• Better support for driving tracks in reverse
• Smaller tweaks and improvements to several tracks including
  • Math class
  • XR591
  • Fort Magma
  • Gran Paradiso Island
  • Subsea

SupertTuxKart 0.9 (24. April 2015)

• Fully shader-based rendering engine
• Online login which allows to:
  • connect with friends and see when they are playing
  • vote for addons
  • collect online achievements
• Grand Prix editor, including creation of random GPs
• Different kart physics

Tracks and modeling

Karts

• New karts Amanda and Gavroche by XGhost
• New and improved Tux, Adiumy, Sara the Wizard and the Racer, Xue

Tracks

• Cocoa Temple by samuncle (replace Amazonian Journey)
• Gran Paradiso Island by samuncle (replace The Island)
• Graphical improvements to many other tracks

SuperTuxKart 0.8.1 (26. November 2013)

• New Soccer mode
• New Egg Hunt mode
• Added Tutorial
• Added new Supertux difficulty
• New bubblegum shield weapon
• New Speedometer and nitro meter
• Add ability to filter addons
• Add ability to save and resume Grand Prix
• Improve skid marks and nitro effects
• Wiimote support

Tracks and modeling

Karts

• New karts Xue and Sara
• Updated Beastie kart

Tracks

• STK Enterprise by Rubberduck (replace Star Track)
• Gameplay and graphical updates to several tracks :
  • The Old Mine
  • Lighthouse
  • Zen Garden

Miscellaneous

• Updated nitro models

SuperTuxKart 0.8 (11. December 2012)

• Story mode and new challenge set
• Improved AI
• Skidding and better collision physics
• Reverse mode
• Updated menus
• New music

Tracks and modeling

Tracks

• Green Valley by Wolfs (replace Tux Tollway)
• Blackhill Mansion by samuncle (replace Crescent Crossing)
• Gameplay and graphical updates to several tracks :
  • XR591
  • Fort Magma
  • Jungle
  • Sand

SuperTuxKart 0.7.3 (2. November 2011)

• New graphical effects
• New weapons 'Swatter' and 'Rubber Ball'
• 3 Strikes Battles now displays lives as spare tires
• Improved bubble gum
• See progression during Grand Prix
• Improve physics for tall karts (e.g. Adiumy)
• Lots of bug fixes
• Improved kart control at high speeds
• Better placement of rescued karts
• Transition track-making to blender 2.5/2.6

Tracks and modeling

Karts

• New Suzanne kart

Tracks

• Zen Garden by samuncle (replace Secret Garden)
• New Subsea
• New Island battle arena

Miscellaneous

• Added Thunderbird as race referee

SuperTuxKart 0.7.2 (15. July 2011)

• Added in-game addon manager
• Fixed major memory leaks
• Show when you get a highscore
• Improve gamepad configuration under Windows (add ability to tell gamepads apart)
• Various other tweaks done and glitches fixed

Tracks and modeling

Karts

• New Beastie kart.

Tracks

• Improved Snow Peak by samuncle
• Improved Star Track UFO by Rudy

SuperTuxKart 0.7.1b (21. April 2011)

• Fix circular dependency in challenges
• Updated translations

SuperTuxKart 0.7.1 (15. April 2011)

• Particle (smoke, splash, fire) and weather effects
• Added internet news
• Support for live language switch
• Added optional minimal race UI
• Temporary invincibility after being hit
• Added support for full-screen anti-aliasing
• Clearer multiplayer setup
• Renamed many tracks to nicer names
• Basic level-of-detail (LOD) support
• Debug features for track makers
• Update to bullet 2.77
• Replace more sounds to be DFSG-compliant
• Fixed character names that contain non-ASCII characters
• Full RTL (right to left) support
• Various other tweaks done and glitches fixed

Tracks and modeling

Karts

• New Beagle kart by wolterh

Tracks

• New Fort Magma by samuncle
• New Shiny Suburbs by Horace

SuperTuxKart 0.7 (December 2010)

Too many to list them all. Main points:

• Irrlicht:
  • Ported from plib to irrlicht
  • Added animations to karts and some tracks
• GUI
  • Completely new designed GUI
• Other improvements
  • Allowed alternative ways/shortcuts in tracks
  • New item 'switch'

Tracks and modeling

Tracks

• Farm
• Hacienda by samuncle (replace Beach)
• Scotland by Canis Lupus
• Secret Garden

SuperTuxKart 0.6.2a (October 2009)

• Bugfix: STK would crash while trying to save the config file on Windows Vista.

SuperTuxKart 0.6.2 (July 2009)

• Bugfix: Game could crash in rare circumstances.
• Bugfix: Restarting a GP (with the in-race menu ESC) would not subtract already allocated points.
• Bugfix: A race could be finished with an invalid shortcut.
• Bugfix: Playing a challenge after a splitscreen game would play the challenge in split screen.
• Bugfix: Items explode over void.
• Bugfix: Grass in castle arena slowed down the kart.
• Bugfix: GP result showed kart identifier instead of name.
• Improvement: there is now 1 1 sec. wait period for the race result screen, avoiding the problem that someone presses space/enter at the end of a race, immediately quitting the menu before it can be read.

SuperTuxKart 0.6.1a (February 2009)

• Bugfix: battle mode would not display track groups.

SuperTuxKart 0.6.1 (February 2009)

• New music for Snow Mountain.
• Fixed bug in track selection screen that could cause a crash when track groups were used.
• Fixed crash in character selection that could happen if an old user config file existed.
• Fixed incorrect rescues in Fort Magma.
• Improved track selection screen to not display empty track groups.
• A plunger in the face is now removed when restarting.
• Added slow-down for karts driving backwards.
• Somewhat reduced 'shaking' of AI driven karts.

Tracks and modeling

Karts

• New Puffy kart

Tracks

• New Cave battle map

SuperTuxKart 0.6 (January 2009)

• New improved physics and kart handling
• Added sharp turns and nitro speed boost (replacing wheelies and jump)
• Totally rewrote powerups (plunger, bowling ball, cake, bubblegum) and new look for bananas
• New game mode : 3-Strikes Battle
• Major improvements to AI
• Improved user interface
• Karts now have a visible suspension effect
• Fully positional audio with OpenAL
• New music and sound effects (including engine, braking and skidding sounds)
• Better support for mods and add-ons (kart and track groups)
• New/updated translations (ga fi de nl sl fr it es ro sv)
• Allowed 'Grand Prix's of Time Trial, Follow the Leader, or any other mode
• Challenges are now specified and config files, and are thus easy to create by users
• Improved build system to better detect missing dependencies
• Improved shortcut-detection
• Initial work towards networking (disabled and hidden by default)
• Bug fixes and code refactor/cleanup/documentation
  • Fixed 'joystick locks' (kart would turn even if the joystick is in neutral), thanks to Samjam for the patch.

Tracks and modeling

Karts

• Improved Wilber
• Eviltux
• Hexley
• Some old karts have been removed

Tracks

• Skyline
• Snow Mountain
• Race track
• Old Mine
• XR591
• Improved track :
  • Star track

SuperTuxKart 0.5 (May 2008)

• Complete Challenges to unlock game modes, new tracks and a skidding preview
• New Follow the Leader game mode
• New Grand Prix
• Improved User Interface
• Improved game pad/joystick handling
• German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and Swedish translations
• Additional music
• Many Bugfixes including:
  • a memory leak fix (Charlie Head)
  • an AI crash fix (Chris Morris)

Tracks and modeling

Tracks

• SnowTux Peak
• Amazonian Journey
• City
• Canyon
• BSODs Battlements renamed to Fort Magma
• Improved Crescent Crossing, Fort Magma, and Star Track

SuperTuxKart 0.4 (February 2008)

• New physics handling using the bullet physics engine
• Improved AI
• New GUI handling, including resolution switching GUI
• Improved input handling
• Jump and look-back featue
• Additional music and main theme

Tracks and modeling

Karts

• New kart: wilber

Tracks

• Improved 'Shifting Sands' and 'Lighthouse'

SuperTuxKart 0.3 (May 2007)

• Highscore lists
• Shortcut detection
• Improved AI
• Fullscreen support
• New track: the island
• New penalty: bomb
• MacOSX support
• OpenAL and ogg-vorbis support
• Two new Grand Prixs
• Improved user interface:
  • New racing interface
  • Better track map
  • Player kart dots in the track map are bigger than AI dots
  • Track selection screen has topview pictures
  • Added "Setup new race" option when a track is finished
  • Added "Restart race" option when a track is finished
  • The keyboard can skip vertical spaces between buttons
  • Better control configuration
  • Better in-game help
  • Added .desktop file for menus and icon
• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed bug in ssg_help::MinMax, which could cause a significant performance loss.
  • Fixed bug that allowed the joystick to erase the main menu
  • Fixed bug that allowed the joystick to "play the game while paused"
  • Fixed screen_manager assert failure bug
  • Fixed sound_manager assert failure bug
  • Fixed keyboard keys unable to work on the first key press bug
  • And others

SuperTuxKart 0.2 (22. Sep 2006)

• Significant performance improvement by using display lists
• Improved AI
• Support for different grand prixs
• Too many bug fixes to list them all, but the important ones:
  • Work around for 'karts fall through track' compiler bug
  • Fixed rescue mode
• Two new collectables: parachute and anvil
• Track screen shots in the track select screen
• Keyboard handling allows gradual turning
• Improved physics (still work in progress)
  • All hard-coded properties like maximum velocity have been replaced by dynamically computed data dependent on kart parameters, allowing for karts having different characteristics.
• Added help and about screens, added credits to track designer
• Items were added to all tracks

SuperTuxKart 0.1 (04. May 2006) (not officially released)

• Significant speedup by using a new HOT and collision algorithm --> all tracks are now playable
• Removed all SDL dependencies, only plib is needed
• Single and multi-window menu can be used
• Code structure changes
• Some bug fixes and small improvements
• Added profile option to support automatic profiling

SuperTuxKart 0.0.0 (22. Dec 2004)

• new tracks
• new characters and karts
• new user-interface
• some additional effects (skid-marks, smoke)

##TuxKart v0.4.0 (March 19th 2004)

• Changes for compatibility with PLIB 1.8.0 and later.
• Removed some features that were only there to support truly ancient graphics cards like 3Dfx Voodoo-1/2.

##TuxKart v0.3.0 (??)

• Converted to use the new PLIB/PW library and thus avoid the need to link to GLUT.

##TuxKart v0.2.0 (Sept 3rd 2002)

• Changes for compatibility with PLIB 1.6.0 and later.

##TuxKart v0.0.5 (??)

• Changes for compatibility with PLIB 1.4.0 and later.

##TuxKart v0.0.4 (??)

• Changes to suit rassin-frassin-Windoze-junk.
• Steady-cam camera - courtesy of cowtan@ysbl.york.ac.uk
• Changes for compatibility with PLIB 1.3.1 and later.
• Added new music courtesy of Matt Thomas.

##TuxKart v0.0.3 (July 4th 2000)

• Fixed bug in Keyboard driver when no joystick driver is installed.
• More CygWin fixes.
• Started new feature to allow you to be rescued from lava, etc.

##TuxKart v0.0.2 (July 2nd 2000)

• Added ability to add new tracks without recompiling.
• Can now drive using keyboard only - no joystick required.
• Should compile and run under Windoze using CygWin.

##TuxKart v0.0.1 (July 1st 2000)

• Fixed a couple of files missing in initial Distro.

##TuxKart v0.0.0 (June 29th 2000)

• First CVS release.

##TuxKart (unnumbered) (April 13th 2000)

• First hack.