Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 6:52 pm Post subject:
Ares 0.6 available
Hey guys,
Ares 0.6 is out! If you have followed the development, it will hardly surprise you that 0.6 is a service release and does not contain as many new goodies as the previous ones. Many features were updated internally, but several glitches in the game were fixed also, like GIs in Battle Fortresses jamming Tesla Coils.
The new features can't be easily grouped under labels like "cloak", but some are related to each other. For example, CellSpread has been enhanced quite a bit, and it is now possible to make buildings only be hit by the same weapon once. So if you use warheads with obscenely large CellSpread values way beyond reason, that will work nicely and buildings will no longer be affected once for every cell of their foundation. No surprise there, is it?
That's almost all for today, and I think it isn't relly news to you. Maybe next time. If you had hoped for more: I also got the limits out of Sight.
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Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:16 pm Post subject:
So, mobile air aircraft carrier confirmed? I see that air units can dock in carriers in the air. _________________ Mod Leader and founder of World Domination
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Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:22 pm Post subject:
Infinitive CellSpread is added? I thought that was a joke. D:
Also, custom building crew? How did I missed these, really?! D:
Good job, Alex. _________________ "If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care about the end result, and are doing something wrong." - Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Is there a full changelog of all of the versions you've worked on, Alex? I'm always curious as to the minutiae of the changes as well. I'm just weird like that. _________________ KGR | AT
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FurryQueen and Aro: I don't keep a list of things I work on, but the source code is on GitHub (the 0.6 code will be available soon). You can look at the commit messages, and sometimes there are [...] boxes, which show some extended information. I try to give the reasons why a change was required or what the bug was, but most of the commits are intermediate steps and some cannot be connected to specific features or bugs. So this is the most detailled "who what when and why".
Another site is LaunchPad, where Ares tracks the feature requests and bugs. You can see the graph of all versions here. These are the added features and fixed bugs by version (the links below the lines are the releases).
A list of all issues I completed is here. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
Congrats on the release Alex, its too bad I never got a chance to bugtest it. As everyone says, you're doing a great job and fast.
I can't wait to try the fixed/enhanced CellSpread, that sounds very amazing.
EDIT: I see you managed to throw out the table lookup, so awesome. _________________ "Don't beg for things; Do it yourself or you'll never get anything." QUICK_EDIT
Thanks! Yeah, the lookup table is gone. I got a PM some time ago requesting this, and I implemented it around November, iirc. This feature was even included in some 0.5 builds, and sloppy me forgot to remove one line (thus some code of 0.5 was actually not compilable for weeks). It was a sneaky feature, though I didn't plan to do this. I tried to point it out and raise suspicion by coming up with this all the time, but all the people who tested it apparently thought that it was normal that CellSpread=12 or 22 worked on warheads, even if they announced their test results in a full chat room. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 7:27 am Post subject:
I remember there were 0.5 builds which had RadLevel expanded to infinite cellspread, but not the actual warhead, which IIRC I did found wait what... probably I missed the full chatroom one.
Sorry about that. _________________ "If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care about the end result, and are doing something wrong." - Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 10:48 am Post subject:
Though not much here, the things this release brings are pretty useful!
P.S. What about the fancy manual that was included in testing versions of Ares? _________________
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If someone announced that in the chat room (i think after you yourself mentioned that warhead CellSpread was changed to use SW routines), then obviously that person didn't think it's normal. QUICK_EDIT
Parasite03: If you mean a very long page with many features, that's the Ares before-0.2 documentation that is still bundled with the unstables. I should change that some time.
mevitar: Maybe. But yet another person said something like "I put CellSpread=12 on the Nuke and it worked". That also went unnoticed. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
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Ares 0.6 available
But yet another person said something like "I put CellSpread=12 on the Nuke and it worked". That also went unnoticed.
