Patch Notes from 2001-12-19

Patch Notes from 2001-12-19

Client Patch 3.0.6e

Dec 18 2001 2:58PM CST Several updates and bug fixes for both clients, including numerous party system bug fixes, mip-mapping, 2D and 3D additions, general performance improvements, and miscellaneous bug fixes.

2D Client

• The 2D client will get a menubar.
• Added support for new 2D monster art.
• Interface drawing optimizations.

3D Client

• Added support for more fonts.
• Fixed issues involving the color picker.
• Increased the radar gump drawing speed.
• The version string will no longer display a build number.
• Mouse cursor will now be correct when over generic gumps.
• Fixed an issue involving pathfinding when zoomed in.
• You will be able to switch 3D from fullscreen to windowed mode on the fly (Alt-Enter).
• You will be able to resize the game in windowed mode as big as you want. However, the bigger you go, the slower the game will run.
• Added Mip-mapping. (Mip-mapping is a method of drawing fewer and larger textures when the camera is zoomed farther out, eliminating the "sparkly" effect some users may have noticed in Third Dawn.)
• Tweak for drawing spider silk when zoomed in.
• Particle density configuration setting now works.
• Fixed an issue with garbled textures on GeForce 3 cards.
• Improved rendering of transparency on dragon wings.
• When zooming in, objects that are no longer in view will not be drawn. This can be used to speed things up at crowded areas like banks.
• General performance improvements (5%-20% depending on hardware and what's going on in game)

Party System Bug Fixes

• 2D - Fixed a bug relating to party status bars becoming “frozen” and not closeable.
• 2D – Fixed an issue involving overlapping text and the party manifest.
• 3D - Fixed an issue with health bars moving to the center of the screen whenever party members reconnected or joined the party.
• 3D - Fixed an issue relating to a party leader’s paperdoll automatically closing whenever a player would accept an invitation to join their party.
• 3D – Fixed an issue regarding the “kick” button being displayed incorrectly in the party manifest.
• 3D – Fixed an issue with party health bars not updating properly.
• 3D – Fixed an issue involving skin hue and resurrecting dead party members.
• 3D – Fixed an issue with names not being displayed for certain people when using the party speak option after reconnecting to the game.
• 3D – Fixed an issue involving party message color.
• Both - Typing ‘/#’ will no longer send a direct tell. Now you must type ‘/t#’ or ‘/t #’ to send a direct tell.

Both Clients (Miscellaneous)

• Added support for the Virtue gump.
• The version string will now have the patch number in it.
• Both clients will get the new "Codex of Wisdom" help system.
  • F1 or clicking on the "?" button on the menubar will bring it up.

• The old popup help system has been disabled.
• Various localization files.