tools/quake3/q3map2/changelog.q3map1

   1 Old Q3Map 1.x and Early Q3Map2 Changelog (Chronological Order)
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   6 Date            Version                                 Notes
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   8 2001-12-03      1.2 (ydnar) Alpha               Initial version (win32)
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  10 2001-12-03      1.2 (ydnar 2) Alpha             Tolerance expanded
  11                                                                         (more brush faces caught)
  12
  13 2001-12-04      1.2 (ydnar 3) Alpha             Detail faces inside other
  14                                                                         detail brushes now culled,
  15                                                                         Small against large detail
  16                                                                         faces also culled.
  17
  18 2001-12-04      1.2 (ydnar 4) Alpha             djbob found a bug where
  19                                                                         coincident caulk faces
  20                                                                         were causing textured
  21                                                                         faces to be caulked. Fixed.
  22
  23 2001-12-04      1.2 (ydnar 7) Alpha             5 and 6 were internal test
  24                                                                         versions. This version
  25                                                                         takes into account extra
  26                                                                         surface info, so coplanar
  27                                                                         clip brushes no longer
  28                                                                         cull away textured sides.
  29
  30 2001-12-22      1.2 (ydnar 8) Alpha             Optimized light. Lighting
  31                                                                         for most maps should now
  32                                                                         be measurable in minutes
  33                                                                         as opposed to hours.
  34
  35 2001-12-24      1.2 (ydnar 9) Alpha             Fixed light. It is still
  36                                                                         faster, but to enable
  37                                                                         "blinding fast" mode,
  38                                                                         you must supply the -fast
  39                                                                         switch on the commandline
  40                                                                         after -light. Fast mode
  41                                                                         should be approximately
  42                                                                         2x as fast as build 8.
  43
  44 2001-12-24      1.2 (ydnar 10) Alpha    Grid lighting is now
  45                                                                         optimized. Not as much
  46                                                                         as I would like, but
  47                                                                         a distance^2 cull before
  48                                                                         traces on EVERY SINGLE
  49                                                                         SURFACE LIGHT IN THE MAP
  50                                                                         certainly speeds things
  51                                                                         the fuck up. -fast not
  52                                                                         necessary to see this
  53                                                                         optimization. Also added
  54                                                                         the -cheap switch to
  55                                                                         limit light contributions
  56                                                                         to a point when it exceeds
  57                                                                         255 in R, G, and B. This
  58                                                                         *may* cause artifacts.
  59                                                                         Test away...
  60
  61 2001-12-24      1.2 (ydnar 11) Alpha    Now using PVS data (vis).
  62                                                                         Well constructed and
  63                                                                         hinted maps should now
  64                                                                         see a bit of a speedup.
  65                                                                         Lights in the void are
  66                                                                         also now removed as a
  67                                                                         byproduct.
  68
  69 2001-12-24      1.2 (ydnar 12) Alpha    Fixed bug that caused
  70                                                                         vlight to crash.
  71
  72 2001-12-27      1.2 (ydnar 13) Alpha    - Fixed broken PVS check.
  73                                                                         - Cheap now supresses sun
  74                                                                         Sun trace skipped if
  75                                                                         sample is "cheapened."
  76                                                                         - Experimental -smooth
  77                                                                         option for subsampling
  78                                                                         shadow edges.
  79                                                                         - Experimental radiosity
  80                                                                         code. Will probably crash.
  81                                                                         - Other minor optimizations.
  82
  83 2001-12-27      1.2 (ydnar 14) Alpha    Build 13 always subsampled,
  84                                                                         making it slower. Fixed.
  85
  86 2001-12-28      1.2 (ydnar 15) Alpha    Bad windings from edge- or
  87                                                                         vertex- manipulated brushes
  88                                                                         no longer created. Vertex
  89                                                                         lighting on func_* with
  90                                                                         an origin now works.
  91                                                                         Radiosity should be more
  92                                                                         stable (but not fully
  93                                                                         correct yet). Light
  94                                                                         envelopes now properly
  95                                                                         calculated for entities
  96                                                                         with origins.
  97
  98 2001-12-28      1.2 (ydnar 16) Alpha    Un-vised maps will now light.
  99
 100 2001-12-30      1.2 (ydnar 17) Alpha    Radiosity. Use q3map_bounce
 101                                                                         in shaders to specify
 102                                                                         amount of light to reflect.
 103                                                                         Use -bounce N after -light
 104                                                                         to enable radiosity. Use
 105                                                                         -dump to emit radiosity
 106                                                                         lights as a prefab.
 107
 108 2001-12-31      1.2 (ydnar 18) Alpha    Normalization release. New
 109                                                                         features include -fastgrid,
 110                                                                         -cheapgrid, and -fastbounce.
 111                                                                         Running with -fastgrid and
 112                                                                         -cheapgrid will produce
 113                                                                         results identical to normal
 114                                                                         q3map (with the lightgrid
 115                                                                         being a little darker).
 116                                                                         Also added q3map_nofast to
 117                                                                         shaders to override -fast
 118                                                                         switch for a surface light.
 119
 120 2002-01-01      1.2 (ydnar 19) Alpha    Fixed an odd vertex lighting
 121                                                                         bug (thanks Quakin) that was
 122                                                                         causing sun to leak to brush
 123                                                                         faces when using r_vertexlight
 124                                                                         ingame. Changed a little bit
 125                                                                         of the default behavior, so
 126                                                                         test with vertex lighting
 127                                                                         and with terrain. Minor
 128                                                                         shader changes might be
 129                                                                         necessary to get some maps to
 130                                                                         look as before.
 131
 132 2002-01-01      1.2 (ydnar 20) Alpha    Colored alpha shadows. Some
 133                                                                         minor optimizations in
 134                                                                         shadow tracing. Should be
 135                                                                         slightly faster than 19.
 136
 137 2002-01-02      1.2 (ydnar 21) Alpha    Set up colored shadows
 138                                                                         properly to use
 139                                                                         surfaceparm lightfilter.
 140                                                                         Shaders must use this parm
 141                                                                         to have colored shadows.
 142                                                                         Can be used with alphashadow
 143                                                                         as well.
 144
 145 2002-01-04      1.2.1-y1 (nightly)              This version is all new,
 146                                                                         based off the official
 147                                                                         GtkRadiant tree, which has
 148                                                                         all the previous enhancements.
 149                                                                         New features include colored
 150                                                                         lightgrid tracing through
 151                                                                         lightfilter shaders, and
 152                                                                         surfaceparm lightgrid, for
 153                                                                         large/space maps with large
 154                                                                         volumes. Also fixed are
 155                                                                         potential broken brush
 156                                                                         winding radiosity crashes.
 157                                                                         Maybe.
 158
 159 2002-01-05      1.2.1-y2 (nightly)              Merged latest CVS. Removed
 160                                                                         bug where ambient was getting
 161                                                                         calculated into the radiosity
 162                                                                         solution for every pass,
 163                                                                         leading to overbright maps
 164                                                                         in a hurry. Also removed
 165                                                                         the bad PTPFF reporting,
 166                                                                         as it only caused problems
 167                                                                         with radiosity in a big way.
 168                                                                         Sue me.
 169
 170 2002-01-05      1.2.1-y3 (nightly)              I really suck. Sample color
 171                                                                         now properly cleared to 0
 172                                                                         when bouncing.
 173
 174 2002-01-07      1.2.1-y4 (nightly)              Particle Studio generated
 175                                                                         brush faces should no longer
 176                                                                         be culled. I no longer cull
 177                                                                         faces that are autosprite.
 178                                                                         Added -bouncegrid to have
 179                                                                         radiosity add to lightgrid.
 180
 181 2002-01-08      1.2.1-y5 (nightly)              Same as y4, but compiled with
 182                                                                         full optimizations. Should
 183                                                                         be 10-25% faster in all,
 184                                                                         including BSP and vis
 185                                                                         stages.
 186
 187 2002-01-09      1.2.1-y6 (nightly)              Brushfaces with polygonoffset
 188                                                                         in their shader will no longer
 189                                                                         be faceculled.
 190
 191 2002-01-11      1.2.1-y7 (nightly)              Increased stack size for threads
 192                                                                         to 4MB on Win32 to (hopefully)
 193                                                                         elminate stack overflow
 194                                                                         crash with radiosity. Also
 195                                                                         made subdivision use the heap
 196                                                                         to lessen the stack load. Fixed
 197                                                                         bug where q3map_bounce was not
 198                                                                         being used in shader parsing.
 199                                                                         Redid some of the divide math
 200                                                                         to work in 0-255 instead of
 201                                                                         0-256.
 202
 203 2002-01-11      1.2.1-y8 (nightly)              More Win32 threading
 204                                                                         crutches. Eat me, Bill.
 205
 206 2002-01-15      1.2.1-y9                                RR2DO2 noticed a stupid bug
 207                                                                         in my PVS code. Fixed it,
 208                                                                         so the PVS light opts work as
 209                                                                         they should. Lighting is
 210                                                                         faster. Also got rid of some
 211                                                                         redundant square roots from
 212                                                                         the raytracing, speeding up
 213                                                                         lighting another ~25%.
 214
 215 2002-01-20      1.2.1-y10                               Fixed a potential crash bug
 216                                                                         with maps with 0 lights. Also
 217                                                                         changed how lightmaps are
 218                                                                         projected onto patches that
 219                                                                         lie in a single plane (bevel
 220                                                                         endcaps, floors, etc). Shadows
 221                                                                         now work properly on them.
 222
 223 2002-01-22      1.2.1-y11                               Fixed a divide-by-zero crash
 224                                                                         with maps with no lights or
 225                                                                         no tracing. Also added
 226                                                                         code to make brush/patch
 227                                                                         vertex lighting more closely
 228                                                                         resemble lightmap, even on
 229                                                                         less-than-perfect maps. And
 230                                                                         -light is faster, too...about
 231                                                                         25% on q3dm17. 34->25 seconds.
 232
 233 2002-01-24      1.2.1-y12                               Completely rewrote the path
 234                                                                         argument handling. Should find
 235                                                                         the Quake 3 dir and other
 236                                                                         dirs properly now. Needs to
 237                                                                         be tested on Linux though.
 238                                                                         Also made lights linear by
 239                                                                         default when run with -game
 240                                                                         wolf. This is to match the
 241                                                                         Gray Matter q3map and
 242                                                                         entity definition.
 243
 244 2002-01-28      1.2.4-y1                                Merged from 1.2.4-nightly CVS
 245                                                                         sources. Fog sparklies gone.
 246                                                                         -nopatchfix so vlight works
 247                                                                         properly again. Cleaned up
 248                                                                         paths processing some more,
 249                                                                         including Linux stuff. Added
 250                                                                         _lightmapscale entity key.
 251                                                                         Brought -game wolf lighting
 252                                                                         to parity with GM tools.
 253                                                                         RR2DO2's PCX loading fix. A
 254                                                                         bunch of other useful fun shit.
 255
 256 2002-01-29      1.2.4-y2                                Fixed a bug in RR2DO2's PCX fix.
 257                                                                         Fixed a stupid bug in lightmap
 258                                                                         dimension bounds checking (thanks
 259                                                                         Laerth).
 260
 261 2002-01-29      1.2.4-y3                                Now will detect (and report to
 262                                                                         GtkRadiant) all degenerate patches
 263                                                                         like those created by capping a
 264                                                                         cone.
 265
 266 2002-02-23      2.0.0-a1 thru a3                Rewrote about 30% of the code.
 267                                                                         Lots of cool new shit.
 268
 269 2002-02-24      2.0.0-a4 thru a8                Terrain fix (thx Pointy), patches
 270                                                                         are no longer circus colored, more
 271                                                                         terrain texturing fixes.
 272
 273 2002-02-26      2.0.0-a10 thru a11              Adjacent coplanar surfaces now
 274                                                                         will share lightmaps. This prevents
 275                                                                         most wierd edge cases with filter
 276                                                                         and speeds things up a bit. Patches
 277                                                                         too.
 278
 279 2002-02-27      2.0.0-a12                               More lightmap fixes for non-planar
 280                                                                         surfaces. Bugfixes in allocation/
 281                                                                         compression of lightmaps as well.
 282
 283 2002-03-02      2.0.0-a13                               Fixed some surface light bugs,
 284                                                                         adjusted the occluded-luxel finding
 285                                                                         code, and amped the radiosity. Other
 286                                                                         fixes to RTCW lighting code (better
 287                                                                         angle attenuation on linear lights).
 288
 289 2002-03-04      2.0.0-a14                               Vertex light should now be near-
 290                                                                         perfect on clean (and mostly on not-
 291                                                                         so-clean) maps. Unlit maps will no
 292                                                                         longer have tri-fanned brush faces
 293                                                                         with random vertex colors. VLight is
 294                                                                         now totally gone (reverts to -light).
 295
 296 2002-03-06      2.0.0-a15                               Relaxed the planar check, should now
 297                                                                         classify all slightly-off plane brush
 298                                                                         face metasurfaces as planar. Triangle
 299                                                                         checking much more stringent as well.
 300
 301 2002-03-11      2.0.0-a16                               Vis crash gone. Lightmap allocation
 302                                                                         now sorted by shader to minimize
 303                                                                         shader count (and lessen chance for
 304                                                                         RTCW shader substitution bug). Hit
 305                                                                         big quarter-century also.
 306
 307 2002-03-12      2.0.0-a17                               Dammit.
 308
 309 2002-03-12      2.0.0-a18                               Hunting phantom lights...
 310
 311 2002-03-16      2.0.0-a19                               Fogclip and _celshader. Check the
 312                                                                         extras folder...
 313
 314 2002-03-18      2.0.0-b1-rc1                    Beta release candidate. Fixed the
 315                                                                         stupid phantom light bug finally.
 316                                                                         Tricked out the sun tracing a wee
 317                                                                         bit as well, should be a little
 318                                                                         faster + more accurate. Other little
 319                                                                         bits fixed up as well. Thanks to K,
 320                                                                         {wf}ShadowSpawn and RR2DO2 for their
 321                                                                         help tracking these last bugs down.
 322
 323 2002-03-19      2.0.0-b1-rc2                    Increased some maximums, and got
 324                                                                         rid of some cruft.
 325
 326 2002-03-22      2.0.0-b1-rc3                    Some minor optimizations.
 327
 328 2002-03-30      2.0.0-b1-rc5                    Now with fur (see extras/fur.shader).
 329
 330 2002-04-01      2.0.0-b1-rc6                    Enhanced with baby seal technology.
 331
 332 2002-05-01      2.0.1                                   OK, better late than never. Fixed the
 333                                                                         alphashadow = 255 = transparent bug.
 334
 335 2002-06-24      2.1.0-b1                                Added _foghull functionality. Works
 336                                                                         like terrain "_shader" where
 337                                                                         you don't need "textures/" prefix.
 338                                                                         Also added q3map_normalmap. See
 339                                                                         NVIDIA's website for Photoshop filter
 340                                                                         to generate normalmaps from grayscale
 341                                                                         heightmaps. This makes lightmaps
 342                                                                         look bumpmapped. Currently 50% broken.
 343
 344 2002-07-06      2.2.0-b1                                Empty epairs now stripped from map,
 345                                                                         fixing Wolfenstein crash bug. Func_*
 346                                                                         entities are now fogged properly.
 347                                                                         Sort of. This will be enhanced later.
 348                                                                         Added the .srf file to store all the
 349                                                                         extra crap I was hiding in the BSP.
 350                                                                         It's an editable text file that
 351                                                                         -light uses, so you can change the
 352                                                                         samplesize w/o recompiling the map
 353                                                                         (just -light'ing it). Changed color
 354                                                                         normalization to clamping, because
 355                                                                         it looks better. Other stuff got
 356                                                                         fixed as well.
 357
 358 2002-07-08      2.2.0-b2 thru b11               Test versions. Thanks jer and jet!
 359
 360 2002-07-09      2.2.0-b12                               Larger-than-life lightmaps are now
 361                                                                         supported, up to 1024x1024. Add
 362                                                                         q3map_lightmapSize H W to a shader
 363                                                                         to use. Lightmaps are stored in
 364                                                                         maps/{mapname}/_lm_NNN.tga and a
 365                                                                         shader script q3map_{mapname}.shader
 366                                                                         is generated. Also added
 367                                                                         q3map_lightmapGamma N.N. Use a
 368                                                                         value of 2.0 to simulate
 369                                                                         r_overBrightBits 1 and
 370                                                                         r_mapOverBrightBits 2 on external
 371                                                                         lightmap images.