Re: Client updates
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:38 am
Client 4.4.6b has been released. It is strongly recommended to update.
(Note that both sound and music pack have been updated a few times since 4.4.5, so if you never updated it, now might be a good time to get all cumulative changes in at once.)
Changes/fixes/new features:
-Client now supports a couple of new mechanisms that for example allow you to play the board game "Go in the Casino in Minas Anor. These new mechanisms could be used for more cool things in the future.
-The glitch causing a crash with lots of funny blinking colourful garbage on the screen (when leaving the macro menu) should be fixed.
-New targetting mode '.' was changed to '-' since '.' was in use by rogue-like keymap.
-Another new targetting mode '+' was added. See guide. The macro wizard now asks for desired target mode and also explains them.
-Example macro sets for Linux have been added. (The current ones only worked for Windows). The macro set files have been renamed accordingly. (In lib/user/.)
-SPACE key can be used to cancel various repeated actions (searching, disarming, tunneling) and now also cancels resting.
-Specifying items by name instead of inscription now also works for '/' command ('generic use/activate').
-'w0' default macro on SHIFT+X was changed to 'x0' (requires @x0 inscriptions on the two items accordingly).
-Taking off ammo will prompt again for 'How many?' even if option 'whole_ammo_stacks' is on, to allow easy ammo sharing (magic arrows etc.).
-Activating an item will first check your equipment instead of your inventory, because you have to equip items anyway to be able to activate them. This fixes a problem if you have two items of the same inscription, one equipped and one in inventory.
-Linux client now allows much more things to be set in the .tomenetrc file, such as fonts and window sizes, instead of having to use environment variables or recompiling.
-Weather now reaches the bottom-most line (Hi, Sav).
-Snowstorm weather effect now plays in the correct situations.
-3 new UI options added: A simple hourly chat timestamp; Page beep on private message; Page beep on private message while AFK.
The server-side code has of course also undergone changes meanwhile, check out the 'Server updates' thread for that.
(Note that both sound and music pack have been updated a few times since 4.4.5, so if you never updated it, now might be a good time to get all cumulative changes in at once.)
Changes/fixes/new features:
-Client now supports a couple of new mechanisms that for example allow you to play the board game "Go in the Casino in Minas Anor. These new mechanisms could be used for more cool things in the future.
-The glitch causing a crash with lots of funny blinking colourful garbage on the screen (when leaving the macro menu) should be fixed.
-New targetting mode '.' was changed to '-' since '.' was in use by rogue-like keymap.
-Another new targetting mode '+' was added. See guide. The macro wizard now asks for desired target mode and also explains them.
-Example macro sets for Linux have been added. (The current ones only worked for Windows). The macro set files have been renamed accordingly. (In lib/user/.)
-SPACE key can be used to cancel various repeated actions (searching, disarming, tunneling) and now also cancels resting.
-Specifying items by name instead of inscription now also works for '/' command ('generic use/activate').
-'w0' default macro on SHIFT+X was changed to 'x0' (requires @x0 inscriptions on the two items accordingly).
-Taking off ammo will prompt again for 'How many?' even if option 'whole_ammo_stacks' is on, to allow easy ammo sharing (magic arrows etc.).
-Activating an item will first check your equipment instead of your inventory, because you have to equip items anyway to be able to activate them. This fixes a problem if you have two items of the same inscription, one equipped and one in inventory.
-Linux client now allows much more things to be set in the .tomenetrc file, such as fonts and window sizes, instead of having to use environment variables or recompiling.
-Weather now reaches the bottom-most line (Hi, Sav).
-Snowstorm weather effect now plays in the correct situations.
-3 new UI options added: A simple hourly chat timestamp; Page beep on private message; Page beep on private message while AFK.
The server-side code has of course also undergone changes meanwhile, check out the 'Server updates' thread for that.