Nightblade Changelog

2008-05-16
[r612] - Fixed an issue causing the spectator cam to teleport when ceasing to follow a player.
2008-05-15
[r611] - Finished off rat spectator mode:
* Can dance with the RatDance command
* Spawns at a random location
* Can bite other rats (with attack animation)
* Dies on contact with a player
* Can change to behindview in multiplayer
* Lots of little bugs with rat spectating fixed
- Change the thief's walk run and crouch animations vary playrate by speed.
- Changed the thief to not hold his arms out when climbing.
2008-05-13
[r610] - Implemented support for spectating as a rat. Still lots of bugs to sort out with it.
2008-05-11
[r609] - Added display of a map description to the midgame menu page. This can be set through the NbMapInfo object (MapFlavorText variable).
- Added display of the map objective to the midgame menu page.
- Moved the Denny Thief animation code into the main code body.
- Started work on making the rat player controllable (for use by spectators). Created an animation tree for the rat.
- Remove the old Thief package.
- Reduced the physics momentum produced by attacks, so slashing junk with the sword doesn't cause it fly out of the world.
- Fixed up an issue where players could push around KOed bodies by walking into them.
2008-05-09
[r608] - Created a Kismet event for when objects are frobbed. Currently only triggered by loot and readables.
- Fixed an issue with the Guard scoreboard in the midgame menu showing thieves.
- Cleaned up a few UI bits and pieces.
2008-05-06
[r607] - Changed the weapon hud display to show water and vine arrows rather than a bow when those weapons are selected.
- Changed weapons to be affected by nearby lights.
- Made the sword a little shiny.
- Fixed an issue with weapon attachments flashing visible.
[r606] - A couple of fixes to the readables system: the readable now properly fills the screen, defaults to the correct collision settings, and the buttons are shown in front of the readable panel.
2008-05-05
[r605] - Added initial code for NbReadables. This allows mappers to place down a readable book and assign textures for each of the pages.
- Added collision boxes to readable meshes (scrolls, books).
2008-05-04
[r604] - Changed Doors, Scarabs, Mines and Lockpicking to generate noise for AI
- Created a NbBaseGameInfo to allow some noise code to sink down into NbLowLevel
- Made Scarabs repairable, fixed up some netcode issues with scarabs and whistlers.
- Added some code to allow long running sounds to change occlusion state.
2008-05-03
[r603] - Changed the positioning of the target enemy name slightly.
- Fixed an issue causing footsteps sounds to not be created on dedicated servers.
- Fixed up the closing of the midgame menu after a level transition.
- The scarab now detects noise and makes a racket. It is also disabled by water.
- Fixed an issue with the spark particle effect stopping after a while.
- Fixed some accessed nones between levels.
- Made a couple of small tweaks to DE.
2008-05-01
[r602] - Moved the third person camera down for easier screenshotting in vanitymode.
[r601] - Made footstep and landing noise strength modified by the material of the ground.
- Made the thief's feet align to the ground.
2008-04-30
[r600] - Some tweaks to Noise propagation
[r599] - Fixed up AI guard hearing
- Added a NoiseManager to propagate noise to AI
- Started working on making scarabs respond to noise
2008-04-28
[r598] - Added a mapper setting for whether torch flames can be lit by thrown flares.
- Started working on the recording of statistics. At the moment an XML file is created at the end of every match recording some simple details.
- Fixed up the damage types of a number of weapons to allow stats to be recorded for them.
2008-04-28
[r597] - Removed UT open/close sound from the mid-game menu.
2008-04-26
[r596] - Fixed a few small animation issues.
[r595] - Changed Nightblade crouch bind to be the same as UT3's
- Stopped AI guards footstepping while KOed.
- Implemented the potion drink and lockpick animations.
2008-04-26
[r594] - Bow charge animation rate for third person sped up to twice the speed to match first person.
2008-04-26
[r593] - Fixed an issue with the Nightblade Launcher sometimes adding in the NBKeyBindDataProvider references when it already exists.
- Implemented weapon charging and firing animations.
2008-04-25
[r591] - A blendbyspeed value has been fixed so the thief doesn't use the run animation when sneaking.
2008-04-24
[r590] - Moved the bow to the Thief's left hand.
[r589] - More work on the thief animations, added new anim node types to allow blending by Nightblade weapon type, blending by hands holding things, and a node to make playing actions easier.
2008-04-23
[r588] Implemented weapon idles.
[r587] - Implemented Thief Frob animation.
2008-04-21
[r586] - Set the thief to use Denny's animations by default.
[r585] - Set the thief to use Denny's animations by default.
- Fixed up the weapon sockets on Denny's thief so that weapons are held the right way.
- Modified the AnimTree to support the current method of attack animations for the moment.
- Switched some AnimTree nodes with versions that support animation previewing.
2008-04-20
[r584] - All required animations for functional gameplay has been added for the new Thief rigg. It's now ready for implementation.
2008-04-20
[r583] - Changed Marios to cause KOs.
- Made Whistlers, Mines, Bolts and Arrows make splashes when entering water.
- Removed speed potions from thief and guard loadouts.
- Fixed a bug causing Whistlers to fail to debase multiple actors when picked up
- Fixed up tag bolts so that the bolt does not stick into stone/etc.
- Tag bolt smoke and light is extinguished by water.
- Fixed up an issue with melee attacks being blocked by Music triggers and torches.
2008-04-19
[r582] -Swimming animations added for the Thief.
-Some changes in the AnimTree for future purposes.
2008-04-19
[r581] - Fixed up numerous issues with the Carleton font.
- Finished setting up keybinding support.
- Updated the Nightblade Launcher to make a change to UTGame.ini needed for keybinding support.
2008-04-17
[r580] -Jumping animation added
-Fixed AnimTree miss
[r579] -Crouch animations added.
-AnimTree corrected to fix animation sliding.
-All animations corrected so the mesh doesn't stick outside the collision cylinder in the moving direction, to avoid risk of making the character intersect a wall.
-Mesh was 5 units above the floor, lowered.
2008-04-17
[r578] - Made AI pawn team's configurable.
- Setting up the Key Bindings page to use a separate list of bindings than normal UT3, although it will crash if you try to set the keys the first time you play (UT3 issue).
2008-04-16
[r577] - Switched the settings menus with Nightblade ones.
2008-04-13
[r576] - Started work on fixing up/replacing the midgame menu. The Scoreboard is now the same as the ingame scoreboard, and the non-functional Change Teams button has been removed.
- Looked into PostProcessEffects further. Have set up the system to allow for effects to co-exist with PostProcessVolumes in maps, but have removed the DarkVision and Invis potion effects for now.
- Fixed an issue with guards waking up crouched on client machines.