D2X-XL History — D2X-XL: Descent 1 and 2 revived and enhanced!

v1.18 78 releases

v1.18.77

Fixed When changing the screen resolution, exiting and restarting the program, the previously made screen resolution change was ignored

v1.18.76

Fixed The program crashed when loading the new Pumo mines
Fixed HUD weapon and equipment icons of the new Pumo mines mission were way too large

v1.18.75

Improved Tracking angle, range and power of the Omega cannon can now be boosted for singleplayer and coop games (new option 'improve omega cannon' in gameplay options menu)

v1.18.74

Fixed Removed a small memory leak
Fixed Removed a couple of issues in the networking code causing synchronization failures in multiplayer games (particularly for large levels)
Improved The time to connect to a multiplayer game should now be significantly shorter (particularly for large levels)

v1.18.73

Fixed Hires animations from pog files didn't work anymore (only the first frame of the original low res animation got replaced)

v1.18.72

Fixed The program could use up all system memory and hang when loading a bugged level containing segment edges with zero length

v1.18.71

Fixed Overloading animations with hires textures didn't work anymore (textures weren't animated anymore)
Fixed The new game menu's 'enable mods' option didn't always stick

v1.18.70

Fixed Overloading an animated texture a hires animation existed for with a low resolution animation didn't work

v1.18.69

Changed Menu options can be operated with a single mouse click again

v1.18.68

Fixed The lightmap calculation's progress bar didn't work anymore when D2X-XL computed lightmaps on the fly during regular level launch

v1.18.67

Improved D2X-XL will now look for Descent song info (descent.sng) in the mod folders of the missions (to support for legacy custom missions Encounter At Farpoint 2 and Plutonian's Outbreak 2)

v1.18.66

Improved Thread load is better balanced during lightmap calculation

v1.18.65

Fixed The lightmap precalculation's progress display didn't always work, creating the impression the program would hang when it didn't

v1.18.64

Changed Added the new 'official' D2X-XL tracker's IP address to the internal tracker list
Fixed The external language files (English and German) were outdated. OS X and Linux users need to download and install the latest d2x-xl data file package for this update.

v1.18.63

Changed Data compression (for stored lightmaps etc.) is active by default now
Improved When downloading an update, D2X-XL will make the program root folder the current directory to make applying the update a bit simpler (no need to direct the sfx archive to the proper folder anymore)

v1.18.62

Fixed The update function produced a broken error message when no version info was found on the download servers

v1.18.61

Fixed Lightning effects could crash the program

v1.18.60

Improved The light contribution of indirect (scattered, reflected) light has been improved
Fixed When fog was disabled, rendering transparent textures at the surface of water and lava segments didn't work
Fixed The program could apparently hang when computing lightmaps (it didn't though, it just got unresponsive, but kept working)

v1.18.59

Fixed Indirect light distance often was too small because the geometrical distance was used instead of the shortest distance through the level from light source to illuminated point.nThis could cause too bright lighting or light source illuminating areas they couldn't physically illuminate.
Fixed If you had previously selected a mission via the main menu's 'single player' option, you could only select maps from the 'single' subfolder during subsequent lightmap precalculations.

v1.18.58

Fixed Light fall-off didn't take light brightness into account

v1.18.57

Fixed Light was way too dark at at light quality settings 'basic' and 'standard' (i.e. when using vertex based lighting) - much darker than lightmap based lighting

v1.18.56

Fixed Some hires texture were considered 'super transparent' (i.e. propagating their transparency through a base texture they were used as a decal on) although they weren't
Fixed The program could crash when loading levels containing segments with triangular sides
Fixed Lightmaps for triangular segment sides weren't properly computed

v1.18.55

Fixed Fog wasn't properly rendered in automap view, causing completely opaque fog for distant areas
Fixed The lightmap precalculation settings dialog lacked a couple of vital options
Changed Renamed minimalist HUD to compact HUD and changed all menu options accordingly

v1.18.54

Fixed Light cast by objects (particularly laser shots, rockets, explosions and flares) was way too dark

v1.18.53

Fixed Fog got thicker when the automap was displayed in a cockpit window
Fixed Fog wasn't properly rendered in cockpit windows (rear or missile view)

v1.18.52

Fixed The program used the wrong default transparency for light fog
Fixed The rain effect produced rain that was falling way too slowly
Fixed Open segment sides that were delimiting fog areas could be opaque when fog was turned off

v1.18.51

Fixed Flares (and light casting objects in general) could be too bright or fail to light nearby objects and geometry
Fixed The program could crash when loading a level right after lightmaps had been precomputed for it

v1.18.50

Fixed Objects (powerups, robots, etc) could appear too bright
Fixed The program considered itself being in stereoscopic render mode when it wasn't

v1.18.49

Fixed The program crashed when computing lightmaps ... (OpenMP is so unforgiving ^_^)

v1.18.48

Fixed Segment distance calculation could hang (usually happened during lightmap precalculation)
Fixed The program played water sounds when the player was outside of water segments
Fixed Fog settings weren't properly assigned to fog segments

v1.18.47

Fixed The program could crash during multi-threaded lightmap precalculation (single threaded worked)
New D2X-XL now supports adjustable fog color and opacity (can be set per level with DLE)

v1.18.46

Fixed Lightmaps sometimes had incorrect ambient light contribution (particulary for very close lights)
New Ship scrape sounds can now be turned off (in the sound & music options menu)

v1.18.45

Improved Lightmap calculation works a bit faster

v1.18.44

Fixed Depending on lightmap settings and level, lightmaps were recomputed everytime the level or a savegame from that level was loaded

v1.18.43

Changed Explosion shrapnel effect (fast moving, small explosion fragments) is available again (adjust in effect options menu)
Changed Smoke puffs from firing gatling guns is independent from player smoke setting
Improved Tweaked gatling smoke and gatling bullet trails
Improved If particle fx are enabled and render quality is set at 'high' or better, a particle fire effect will replace the sprite based muzzle flash effect of gatling guns

v1.18.42

Fixed The program could crash during lightmap calculation on rare occasions
Changed Water haze is a bit stronger

v1.18.41

New Added volumetric fog
New Added a 'fog' control to the effect options menu
New Added two new segment properties: Light fog and dense fog
Fixed Lightning fx of robots and powerups remained visible in the automap even if rendering of robots and powerups was turned off there

v1.18.40

Fixed The program crashed when first precomputing lightmaps and then computing lightmaps on the fly during level load

v1.18.39

Fixed Lightmap calculation worked wrong for faces that shared a vertex with a light emitting face

v1.18.38

Fixed Not all 3D powerups were aligned as intended
Fixed Fast moving objects didn't reliably operate fly-through triggers they passed
Fixed You could pass through the deflecting side of a speed boost (aka wind tunnel)
Fixed Player orientation wasn't always set right by teleport triggers or the subspace cheat
Improved Objects (players) leave speed boosts (aka wind tunnels) with a reasonable speed now
Improved Energy sparks are nicely aligned now

v1.18.37

Fixed When loading a savegame of a level with waypoints, the waypoints didn't work anymore
Fixed The program could occasionally crash (when computing dynamic light)
Improved Energy sparks are nicely aligned now

v1.18.36

Fixed The program could crash at program start
Fixed Descent 1 weapon info could become corrupted while being loaded

v1.18.35

Fixed The program could crash during lightmap calculation if the required lightmaps were present already

v1.18.34

Improved The lightmap precomputation's remaining time estimation works better during the first level it processes
Improved Music shuffling works right from program start now
New You can now unnerf all Descent 1 weapons in Descent 2 missions (see the physics options menu)
Fixed (prox / smart / small) mines weren't rendered

v1.18.33

Fixed The program could crash at the end of a Descent 1 exit sequence

v1.18.32

Fixed Certain sounds (like afterburner, lava or water) built extremely up
Fixed You could set the energy recharge delay to zero

v1.18.31

Fixed Neither players nor robots could fire any weapons in Descent 1 missions

v1.18.30

Fixed On some systems, lightmaps were recomputed even if lightmaps for that level were present and up to date.

v1.18.29

Fixed When changing the sound channel setting in-game, nearby ambient sounds got muted
Fixed Slow moving objects could get stuck at the opposite side of an open wall if that side had a non-passable wall (e.g. single sided force fields)
Changed Forcefield sound volume is now controlled by global ambient sound volume
New Added a scrape sound when the ship is scraping along a wall (requires a data file update on Linux and OS X)

v1.18.28

Fixed Sound was stuttering
Fixed Call stack trace was overflowing

v1.18.27

Fixed Most of the cartoon rendering effects weren't applied any more
Fixed Lightning effects sometimes weren't rendered although they should have been
New Added a call stack trace feature that will print the chain of functions calls to the log file when the program crashes. Enable with '-tracelevel {0|1|2|...}'.nCaveat: This option will decrease framerate to a certain extent (the more, the higher the trace level)

v1.18.26

Fixed The program occasionally crashed when using the cartoon style renderer
Fixed You couldn't select a savegame by pressing the number key its name is prefixed with in the savegame list
Fixed The program could crash when trying to select a target for a homing weapon
Fixed The main screen got black or segment edges were rendered at wrong positions when rendering auxiliary cockpit windows (e.g. the missile view) while glow was set to full
Fixed The glow renderer didn't work right in auxiliary cockpit windows
Fixed The flash effect during the reactor countdown didn't work
Fixed The flash effect when picking up powerups didn't work

v1.18.25

Fixed A bug in the sound system could cause sporadic program crashes (usually when a lot of sounds were played simultaneously)
Fixed If observer mode was enabled, the player immediately respawned after having died in single player games (since observer mode is not entered in singleplayer games)

v1.18.24

Fixed The program crashed when computing lightmaps before the player entered a mine during regular playing
Fixed The lightmap precalculation progress display showed partially wrong values

v1.18.23

Improved The lightmap precalculation progress display now also shows the time passed, remaining time and settings used

v1.18.22

Fixed Unless in nostalgia mode, D2X-XL always started multiplayer games at level one of the selected mission, regardless of which level you chose in the multiplayer options menu

v1.18.21

Fixed The program could crash when it was looking for targets for homing weapons a player had equipped (crashes seemed to happen particularly when viewing the automap with a homing weapon equipped)

v1.18.20

Fixed Homing weapons weren't always properly homing in on available targets
Fixed Demos were still run even if a lightmap calculation required to properly render them was aborted by the user
Fixed Lightmap precalculation only worked if lighting quality was at least set to high in the render options menu
Fixed The program crashed for multiplayer participants when the game host disconnected while they were in the end level score screen
Fixed Players could disconnect from other players in multiplayer games while flying through the exit tunnel or waiting in the end level score screen
Fixed The difficulty level wasn't described in the additional multiplayer options menu
Changed When Descent 1 briefing audio is available, music will be muted during Descent 1 briefing audio playback
Improved Lightmap computation should be about twice as fast as before now

v1.18.19

Fixed Rotation angles of various 3D powerups were wrong
Fixed Lightmap and lighting calculation was still broken

v1.18.18

Fixed Too strict FoV checking lead to earthshaker and smart missile children not finding targets and explosions not doing splash damage
Improved The blue expanding shockwave effect is now better visible

v1.18.17

Fixed Lightmap calculation didn't work properly anymore
Fixed The configuration file scanner didn't properly process negative numerical arguments

v1.18.16

Fixed The program could crash when robots were in sight of the player or vice versa
Improved Found a better way to manage vulcan ammo clips
Improved A shield orb's lightning effect will only be animated and rendered if the shield orb is visible
Improved 'Full' glow will now work faster
Changed 3D powerups now all have the same orientation and rotate around their vertical axis at an angle of 22.5 degrees (similar to the 2D powerups)

v1.18.15

Fixed Missiles fired and vulcan ammo used in multiplayer games weren't respawned (note: this still is the case in coop games, where this is the intended behavior)
Fixed In multiplayer games, Vulcan/Gauss ammo a player brought into a new level after level transition didn't count towards the allowed powerup count, causing the PSALM (Powerup Spam And Loss Minimizer) to remove vulcan ammo powerups that should have stayed in the mine
Fixed The main menu wallpaper wasn't cartoonized after program start despite that being requested in d2x.ini
Improved Players can now pick up some of the ammo in a vulcan ammo clip, and D2X-XL will keep track of the ammo remaining in the ammo clip and only remove the clip when it is empty

v1.18.14

Fixed The program occasionally crashed when the player was firing at robots
Fixed Hires animations were occasionally rendered with the upper/left half of the image below/right of the lower/right half
Fixed The renderer output occasionally was messed up (hall of mirrors / tunnel effect / segment outline or objects rendered anywhere or moving with the player view)

v1.18.13

Fixed The program frequently crashed when creating an explosion with a lightning effect
Fixed Rendering glow for lightning often failed to work

v1.18.12

Improved At the highest render quality setting, spherical 3D powerups now have a bright ring moving vertically over their surface
Improved Partial shield effect brightness toned down, resulting in a nicer effect
Improved Color effect for spherical 3D powerups is now rendered by a shader program, resulting in a significant performance boost
Changed Shield boost lightning effect doesn't cast light anymore
Changed Sphere quality now depends on render quality setting
Fixed Depending on chosen homing weapon turn rate, missiles pointed a bit away from their flight direction
Fixed In spectator mode, hit effects of hits on the player ship appeared at the spectator position
Fixed When shadows were rendered in cartoon rendering mode, segment outlines appeared everywhere
Fixed Savegame preview images got cartoonized

v1.18.11

Improved Line width of robot and player ships scales better in cartoon render mode

v1.18.10

Fixed When advanced collision detection was enabled, visibility detection used for homing weapons (among others) caused constant critical hits on robots and player ships, crippling the player ships' maneuverability and causing hit sound spam
Fixed The program could crash when loading a level due to an overflow on in the segment edge collection
New D2X-XL can now render 3D invulnerability, cloaking device and extra life powerups (requires a data file update on Linux and OS X)

v1.18.9

Fixed Hires door frame masks weren't properly initialized when loading a save game after such a door was opened, causing graphical errors when displaying such doors while opening, potentially causing program crashes

v1.18.8

Fixed Mod playlists weren't used
Fixed D2X-XL frequently crashed when the player fired guided missiles
Improved Shuffled playlist handling works a bit better

v1.18.7

Improved Since energy spark rendering can significantly reduce framerate, spark amount can now be adjusted in the effect options menu
Fixed Ship module integrity values of the advanced damage model overlapped with other elements of the miminalist HUD

v1.18.6

Fixed Shield orb lightning effect didn't disappear when decreasing lightning quality below 'maximal' - it had to be lowered to 'basic'
Fixed 3D shield orbs were too dark

v1.18.5

Improved The cloak effect for player ships and robots now looks much better when glow is enabled
Improved 3D shield spheres now have a black outline in cartoon style render mode
New Added a lightning effect for 3D shield boosts
New Increased the number of lightning quality settings in the effect options menu (maximum now enables the shield boost lightning effect)
Fixed The hires reticle got a black outline in cartoon style render mode
Fixed 3D shield boosts didn't have a glow effect

v1.18.4

Fixed The program crashed when loading a level if it had to compute the level's mesh
Fixed With cartoon style rendering, some doors were transparent while opening or closing
Fixed 3D spheres didn't have a halo
Changed The 3D shield powerup and shields now use a different texture (feel free to supply a better one - it just has to tile at each side with each other side)
Improved 3D spheres (shield powerups, monsterballs) now have an outline with cartoon style rendering

v1.18.3

Fixed The texture outliner created ugly artifacts (staircase patterns)
Improved The texture outline now creates smoother outlines

v1.18.2

Fixed Not all level edges were outlined that should have been
Fixed The Blur shader produced slight artifacts
Improved D2X-XL will now dynamically outline edges at walls that change their state
Improved D2X-XL will not draw an outline between faces that have the same base texture and bear overlay textures that do not cover the entire face
Improved D2X-XL will now add outlines to textures containing transparency where possible and meaningful

v1.18.1

Fixed The cartoon render style was turned off during level transition
Fixed The program could crash when applying cheat codes that involved killing (boss) robots
Improved Tweaked outline rendering

v1.18.0 — Added a cartoon style render mode

New D2X-XL now offers a cartoon style render mode
Improved D2X-XL doesn't not need to compute b/w lightmaps for non colored lighting

v1.17 135 releases

v1.17.134

Improved Added some diagnostic messages to precomputed lightmap processing

v1.17.133

Fixed In the status bar HUD, afterburner, energy and shield level texts were misaligned - the more, the higher the screen resolution was
Fixed Overriding weapon and/or robot models in a mission specific ham file could lead to robot models used for weapons (e.g. robots firing other robots instead of missiles)
Fixed Lightmap precalculation dialog showed the level number selection control when chosing a mission the player had played recently

v1.17.132

Fixed Homing missile turn rate setting in the physics options menu didn't have an effect on homing missile turn rates. You can now chose between an update frequency of 25, 33, 40 and 60 fps.
Fixed The multithreaded program versions could crash when multiple homing weapons were active

v1.17.131

Fixed Custom ham files (e.g. for weapon modifications) weren't loaded from mission files (only from mods)

v1.17.130

Improved During lightmap precalculation, a second progress bar displays the calculation progress per level

v1.17.129

Improved When a player picks up a keycard in a coop game, all other players automatically get that keycard, too
Improved Tweaked missile smoke trails

v1.17.128

Fixed When a mission didn't have secret levels, the mission lightmap precalculation showed an error message about a level it couldn't load after completion
Improved When loading a new level, chase cam, free cam and observation mode are cancelled

v1.17.127

Fixed When aborting lightmap calculation for entire missions, the menu background wasn't properly restored
Fixed During lightmap calculation for entire missions, the program window wasn't refreshed properly

v1.17.126

Fixed Smart missile blobs and shaker megas frequently started homing in on the player who had fired the smart or earth shaker missile they had originated from
Fixed The program could crash when the player spammed a wall or door with gun fire at close quarters

v1.17.125

Fixed Multiplayer client players could freeze after transition to a new level
Fixed Player ships stopped to wiggle after transition to a new level in multiplayer games
Fixed The program could crash when a real lot of flares were spammed
Fixed When entering two cheat codes right one after the other, parts of the previous cheat could could contribute to the next one
Changed Descent 2's fullmap cheat code now also works in Descent 1 levels
Improved Certain lightning effects looks a little more natural

v1.17.124

Fixed Bomb status (equipped or not) wasn't properly shown in the minimalist HUD
Fixed When enabling the minimalist HUD, the minimalist HUD selection slider didn't stay the current menu option
Fixed Assigning joystick axes to flight controls didn't work
Improved The minimalist HUD can now have separators (gray lines) for its main areas
Improved In the fullscreen HUD, the lock indicator is now drawn below the reticle to make it more visible

v1.17.123

Fixed Flares often disappeared
Fixed Stuck flares had a long light trail

v1.17.122

Fixed Lighting and lightmaps weren't always properly computed
Improved Lightmap calculation should be a bit more efficient
Improved Lightmap calculation can now be aborted by presscing ESC
Improved The program can now be terminated by pressing ALT+F4 during lightmap calculation

v1.17.121

Fixed Vertigo data wasn't always loaded when a mission required it
Fixed Error and warning messages weren't displayed anymore
Improved Light calculation has become a tad better again

v1.17.120

Fixed Light ray casting for lighting and lightmap calculation didn't always work right, leading to areas remaining unlit that should be lit

v1.17.119

Fixed In multiplayer games, weapons dropped by players other than the game host could disappear from the game

v1.17.118

Improved Light ray casting for lighting and lightmap calculation is a bit more precise
Fixed Homing weapons could occasionally make the program crash

v1.17.117

Fixed The program could crash when the player collected or activated a cloaking device while using the minimalist HUD

v1.17.116

Fixed The current control input field in control setup menu wasn't blinking
Fixed Mouse and joystick handle movements were hardly recognized by the input configuration menu
Fixed After transition from a level to the next one, client players in multiplayer games could be unable to move
Fixed The game could crash when loading a standard level containing a boss robot

v1.17.115

Fixed The sound system had a small bug
Fixed The program could crash when loading a savegame

v1.17.114

Fixed After transition from a level to the succeeding one, the program could crash upon entering the new level
Fixed When cloaked, the wrong ship models were rendered for Phantom and Wolf
Improved Removed a bunch of potential crash causes

v1.17.113

Fixed Due to a faulty file URL, the windows version's program updater didn't download the most recent game installer, but only a small file instead

v1.17.112

New You can now chose from three different colors for the Minimalist HUD's equipped weapons indicator
New The player can now control whether weapon icons are sorted in the order he has prioritized his weapons or in the standard order
Improved Width and vertical position of the minimalist HUD can now be adjusted
Improved To make sure that D2X-XL will actually use a mission it downloaded from a multiplayer host, D2X-XL's download folder will always be checked for the mission to be loaded before all other folders
Changed Reenabled Descent Underground ad (will be automatically removed after april 10th 2015, i.e. when the DU KS campaign ends)
Fixed Players couldn't join hoard games (due to an obsolete data compatibility verification colliding with D2X-XL's current minor version number)

v1.17.111

Fixed Homing weapons didn't work right after a recent change to their update frequency
Fixed Savegames could be corrupted

v1.17.110

Fixed Earth shaker bomblets and smart missile blobs kept bouncing off walls until they hit an object or their lifetime was expired

v1.17.109

Fixed Firing a weapon in a multiplayer game could cause the other clients to go into message editing mode

v1.17.108

Fixed Descent 1 reactors weren't firing at the player
Fixed The player ship froze when being in sight of a Descent 1 reactor

v1.17.107

Fixed The player couldn't be killed anymore (shields would never go below zero)

v1.17.106

Changed Removed the Descent Underground advertisement

v1.17.105

New Shields and energy can now recharge over time. The settings to control this are found in the gameplay options menu
Fixed Shields shone through walls when glow effects were enabled
Fixed Color of weapon tags in minimalist HUD did not always correctly indicate weapon state
Fixed The game could crash when a lot of explosions were going on

v1.17.104

Fixed The minimalist HUD showed wrong tags for Mega and Smart missiles in D1 missions

v1.17.103

Fixed Savegames made when explosion effects were active could be corrupted and unreadable

v1.17.102

Fixed Removed an ambiguity from the networking code

v1.17.101

Fixed Removed a couple of bugs in the netcode that could prevent connecting to a game host via the tracker

v1.17.100

Improved Horizontal minimalist HUD how offers more information
Changed Vertical minimalist HUD now presents similar information to the vertical one
Changed Homing missiles are now updated at 25 fps

v1.17.99

Improved The minimalist HUD now has a complete, sorted weapon list
Fixed Lightmaps weren't always properly read, leading to D2X-XL recomputing them everytime a level was loaded that already had lightmaps computed

v1.17.98

Fixed The program crashed when trying to process network connection requests from other players as host of a multiplayer game

v1.17.97

New New: Ship and weapon states can now be displayed next to the reticle in fullscreen mode (the layout is controlled by a new option in the cockpit options menu)

v1.17.96

Fixed Version info got printed in the game view while playing

v1.17.95

New Added support for the Descent Underground Kickstarter campaign

v1.17.94

Fixed The program could crash when reading outdated or corrupted lightmap files
Fixed Lives and score were occasionally printed only a few pixels big in the HUD

v1.17.93

Fixed When pressing the weapon shortcut key assigned to the currently selected weapon in a Descent 1 mission, D2X-XL tried to select a (D2) super weapon and issued an error sound when failing to do so

v1.17.92

Fixed Multiline help messages were truncated and not fully displayed
Fixed Sprite-based powerups weren't rendered in rear view
Fixed The destruction of the player ship in Descent 1 missions was accompanied by the sound of a closing door and not an explosion sound
New D2X-XL can now precompute lightmaps for a part or all levels of a mission. Start lightmap precalculation with the new mainmenu option 'precompute lightmaps'

v1.17.91

Fixed D2X-XL will not produce an error sound or error message anymore when pressing the key bound to the currently equipped primary or secondary weapon while playing a Descent 1 mission

v1.17.90

Fixed The data folder detection code of the 64 bit Windows version of D2X-XL could crash
Improved The default robot generator texture (#361, purple veins) will start to pulsate a few seconds after the robot generator has turned inactive

v1.17.89

Fixed Effects got messed up when loading a save game

v1.17.88

Improved The 64 bit Windows version of D2X-XL will automatically find the data files if they are in the standard location (i.e. in the 64 bit version's parent folder)

v1.17.87

Fixed The function of the mission config's parameters '-3d_powerups' and '-colored_segments' were exchanged
Fixed Added msvcr100.dll to the Windows release package

v1.17.86

Improved Tweaked the Weyrman effect a bit more

v1.17.85

Fixed The Weyrman effect's shield sphere was opaque unless the blur buffers were enabled before rendering the effect
Fixed You could activate the automap during the weyrman effect
New The mine is gently feded in during the Weyrman effect

v1.17.84

Fixed The Weyrman effect's energy bubble was opaque when shadows were turned off

v1.17.83

Improved Missile smoke trail now gets emitted from a missile's rear and not its center anymore
Improved The explosion blast effect will now collapse back to its origin at the end of its life time

v1.17.82

Fixed The program could occasionally crash when lightning quality was set to full and lightning bolts with branches were rendered
Fixed The Weyrman effect showed an opaque white sphere when lighting effects were enabled, which wasn't intended

v1.17.81

Changed Smoke is less dense when disabling smoke dispersion in the smoke effect detail settings menu

v1.17.80

Fixed The keyboard type setting in the keyboard settings menu didn't stick
Fixed Shifted keys weren't always properly translated when the keyboard type was set to German (QWERTZ) or French (AZERTY)

v1.17.79

Fixed Robots often were idling instead of patrolling when they should do patrol duty
Changed Robots will not attack a player ship during its Weyrman effect

v1.17.78

Fixed Particles emitted from segment faces consisting of two triangles were occasionally only emitted from one triangle of the emitting face
Fixed Savegames could be corrupt under rather special circumstances (a lot of explosions going on while saving a game)

v1.17.77

Fixed Changing slider values with the mouse didn't work
Changed Single mouse clicks only select menu options now; To execute them, you need to double click them

v1.17.76

Fixed Headlights didn't illuminate objects anymore
Fixed Stereo rendering modes couldn't always be enabled
Fixed When setting -use_shaders to 0, the renderer didn't work
Fixed You couldn't pick demos with the mouse

v1.17.75

Fixed The menu context help function didn't work anymore
Fixed Invoking the context help for the game play options menu's 'observer mode' option and the effect options menu's 'shield effect' option crashed the program
Fixed A few context help messages were missing
Changed If the Weyrman effect is enabled, there will be no delay for other players spawning before the effect is displayed in multiplayer games
Changed The warp appearance effect now has three settings (none / basic / full). At the basic setting, the effect will only be shown if a player spawns when entering a new level or after dieing. At the full setting, the effect will also be shown when using in-level teleports.

v1.17.74

Fixed Vertigo weapon info wasn't properly read, with the effect of certain Vertigo robots not being able to fire their guns
Fixed Menu fonts were too large when using the Descent demo data
Fixed The camera perspective could be changed by moving the mouse at the start of the 'Weyrman effect'
Fixed The new game menu's highest permissible level now is properly updated when chosing a mission to play
Fixed The Weyrman effect's lightning bolts often weren't visible
Changed The player spawn effect now has lightning bolts at the lower lightning effect setting
Changed The player spawn lightning effect now has fixed size and duration parameters
Changed The new game menu's mission selector now needs less space
Changed The new game menu's level selector now is a slider
Changed The distortion shockwave effect will only be created when explosion shockwaves are set to 'full' in the effect options menu

v1.17.73

Improved The 'Weyrman' effect now begins with a nice flash of light

v1.17.72

Fixed Smart mines blew up two seconds after having been dropped without apparent reason
Fixed The program could crash when loading levels while mesh improvement was turned on
Improved 'Weyrman effect' (warp-in effect) will show the ship's front, not the rear

v1.17.71

New Added a player ship appearance effect similar to the one from Descent's rendered jump sequences at the start of a new level

v1.17.70

Fixed Object triggers could be operated when loading a savegame

v1.17.69

Fixed Demo recording didn't work anymore
Fixed Triggers didn't reliably open all doors or walls they should
Fixed The high score table (the one that can be invoked from the main menu) could cause 100% CPU load on the D2X-XL process

v1.17.68

Fixed At the highest lighting quality setting (lightmaps + per pixel lighting), the player ship's headlight illuminated the entire area around the player instead of creating a light cone in front of the ship
Fixed The player ship could slip through solid walls when switching to the automap while moving the ship against a wall
Fixed At highest lighting quality, certain light sources (e.g. flares or lasers) created light circles with sharp edges when decaying
Fixed Per pixel lighting didn't always work right anymore
Fixed Robots often were periodically doing small jumps while moving

v1.17.67

Fixed The game could crash when a robot containing powerups or other robots was destroyed
Fixed When soft particle rendering was enabled, sparks had distinct edges around them
Fixed D2X-XL didn't find savegames anymore
Changed Combined soft spark and soft particle rendering options from the effect options menu to a single check box

v1.17.66

Fixed Robot cloaking didn't work right
Fixed Lightmaps often created dark dotted lines across faces

v1.17.65

Fixed The automatic mission download didn't work anymore
Fixed Missiles weren't always respawned after they had been exploded in multiplayer games

v1.17.64

Fixed When particle collision was enabled, the program could crash when rendering smoke in segments with triangular sides

v1.17.63

Fixed When entering a new level after having left the previous one through the exit tunnel (or after having died there), the ship could be immovable
Fixed When entering a new level after having left the previous one through the exit tunnel (or after having died there), the lores ship model was used for the player ship
Changed Automap controls work like before the recent change again (i.e. the thrust control moves the view center instead of simply zooming in and out from the view center)
Improved D2X-XL will now try to detect the amount of physical CPU cores and only uses as many threads as there are physical CPU cores available
Improved Physics calculations have been optimized a bit
New You can now turn the shield effect for player ships and robots on and off in the effects options menu

v1.17.62

Fixed The automatic data installation (-check_setup) didn't work anymore
Fixed When idling in the automap for a short while, the view was moved to or close to the player ship position and you couldn't move anymore
Changed Restored automap navigation to the original Descent 2 behavior and improved the responsiveness of the navigation controls
Improved Trigger integrity is supervised better, preventing program crashes due to corrupt trigger data in level files

v1.17.61

Fixed Some multiplayer messages weren't properly processed due to an error in the program's message handler table
Fixed When a destroyed player had observer mode enabled, his powerups were dropped where he reappeared as observer and not where his ship had been destroyed
Fixed The ships of the other players weren't always rendered as hires models in multiplayer games
Fixed The gameplay options menu was completely disabled in multiplayer games, not allowing you to change your weapon priorities or chose another ship
Fixed Destroyed player ships didn't always drop the right number and types of powerups on the other match participants' computers
Fixed When players picked up powerups dropped by destroyed other player ships, these powerups often remained in the mine for the other players
Improved The network communication has been optimized a bit

v1.17.60

Changed when observing a disconnected player, observer mode will automatically switch to the next connected player or to free roaming mode
Changed When the final boss or reactor of a level is destroyed, players in observer mode will be dropped into the mine

v1.17.59

Fixed Joining a multiplayer game in progress could take very long or fail altogether
Changed Unless playing in nostalgia node, the automap flight controls now behave like the regular in-mine flight controls
New D2X-XL has an observer mode now, allowing you to either freely roam the map or follow other players between having died and respawning.
In observer mode, you are initially placed in the automap. You can toggle between players or free roaming mode by pressing the space bar.
This goes in a round robin mode: Free roaming -> player 1 -> player 2 -> ... -> free roaming.
In team games, you cannot freely roam the map, but only watch your next spawn location. You also can only follow players from your own team.

v1.17.58

Fixed The screen area used to render the image didn't always correspond with the cockpit/HUD mode chosen
Fixed When changing the ship type, the old ship still got rendered until it got destroyed or the gameplay options menu was opened
Fixed When the Fusion gun was set as built-in weapon, the Phoenix was equipped with it although it should not be able to carry Fusion guns
Fixed Object information could get messed up when loading a save game
Improved Depending on the internal object list usage, savegames can take less space particularly with many objects in a level

v1.17.57

Fixed The PSALM (Powerup Spam And Loss Minimizer) occasionally removed powerups when it shouldn't
Fixed Joining a multiplayer game could take very long or fail completely
Fixed Descent 1 triggers weren't properly stored in savegames, resulting in them not always working when playing using a Descent 1 savegame
Fixed The program could crash when starting to render a Descent 1 mine exit sequence
New To reduce desync'ing of multiplayer games, D2X-XL now sends confirmation messages on receipt of certain multiplayer messages with important information
(e.g. dropped or picked up powerups, destroyed players and robots, etc), and will resend important messages until every other player in the match
has sent a receipt confirmation or a timeout has expired. In competition mode, players failing to send a confirmation in time will be disconnected.

v1.17.56

Fixed In case of packet loss, synchronizing multiplayer participants with the game host could take very long or fail completely
Fixed After loading a savegame, all restored objects (robots, powerups, weapons, etc.) were inactive
Fixed Shots could do too little or too much damage to targets (kudos to Drakona for this fix)
Fixed Entering a Monsterball level caused the program to crash or freeze
Fixed The Monsterball did not appear monsterball matches
Fixed The Monsterball was shown at the right spot
Fixed Shots could get suspended mid-air and powerups frequently couldn't be picked
Fixed On very rare occasions, levels were rendered using only the default rock texture (rock021)
Changed Reduced homing weapon update frequency from 40 times per second to 30 times per second
Improved The new network game menu is tidier

v1.17.55

Fixed Descent 1 hires textures weren't used
Fixed Particle effect quality was reduced due to an overlooked syntax error in the related shader program
Fixed If hires textures and hires models were enabled (d2x.ini) and 3D powerups were turned on (render options menu),
but neither hires textures nor hires models were available, hostages and keys weren't rendered despite them being present and in sight
Improved D2X-XL will try to compensate for losing packets containing information about destroyed robots during multiplayer games
Improved Throttled the end level score screen renderer to 30 fps

v1.17.54

Fixed A couple of effects has stopped to work
Fixed The background network communication spammed the log file with messages

v1.17.53

Fixed Too few powerups were dropped from exploding player ships on all clients except the one owning the ship during multiplayer games
Fixed Multiplayer game clients often went out of sync when destroyed robots dropped powerups or spawned other robots
Fixed Robots often were passive when facing other players than the game host in multiplayer games
Fixed Robots often dropped too few powerups on all clients except the one controlling the robot in multiplayer games, causing increasing desync'ing of the clients' game states
Fixed Missiles could just disappear after having been fired during multiplayer games
Fixed Standard lighting didn't work right anymore

v1.17.52

Fixed Rendering post effects still didn't work right, causing screen flickering
Fixed Light trails were rendered at the wrong position in spectator mode
Fixed The program could crash when rendering low resolution models
Fixed Opening a menu in Oculus Rift mode lead to extremely distorted letters in the menu
Fixed Some HUD texts were miscolored and/or too dark
Fixed Players couldn't properly join multiplayer games
Fixed Players weren't properly assigned to teams in CTF
Fixed Flags picked up by a player from the opposing team were immediately respawned in CTF
Fixed The program crashed when returning the own flag to the flag pit in enhanced CTF
Fixed Players didn't always get a proper team-specific start position in maps containing such start positions
Fixed Players were occasionally spawning at the same position
Fixed The program could crash when failing to join a multiplayer game because the game was full
Fixed Players didn't reconnect properly during the transition from a level to the next
Fixed If 3D powerups were set to full and the 3D shield's texture was not available, no shield powerups were rendered
Fixed There were more instances of temporary stuttering due to textures not being pre-loaded to the graphics driver
Fixed Trying to quit the game in the end level score table (by pressing Esc and chosing to abort the match) didn't work
Fixed The program could crash when transferring the player from a level to next
Fixed Loading missions containing RLE encoded bitmaps with row sizes > 255 pixels caused crashes (this affected Descent: The Enemy Within level 1 among others)
Fixed In the 64 bit executable, the mouse could leave the game window although -grabmouse was specified
Fixed The complete Descent 2 (512x512) hires texture pack didn't have the textures in the proper subfolder, causing a faulty installation of the textures
Fixed Players could leave the end level score screen and proceed to the next level although not all other players had finished the previous level
Improved The hires hostage texture has been made bigger
Improved The hires hostage texture has been added to the complete Descent 1 hires texture packs
Improved A multiplayer client that is temporarily unresponsive due to performing lengthy tasks (like loading a level or computing lightmaps) will not disconnect anymore

v1.17.51

Fixed Textures always got resized to 64x64 regardless of chosen render quality
Fixed In side by side rendering modes the player ship's post effects weren't rendered in the right place
Fixed Post effects (e.g. the Fusion gun's shockwave effect) weren't visible in side by side rendering modes
Fixed The game crashed when trying to render an effect where the texture required for it wasn't available (because e.g. the addon texture folder wasn't found)

v1.17.50

Fixed Lightning effects could crash the program under rare circumstances
Fixed Polygon model (robots, weapons, powerup, player ships) textures were only loaded when they were rendered the first time, causing some stuttering

v1.17.49

Changed Removed the command line switches -lowmem and -preload_textures, since these can have harmless, yet annoying effects the cause of which aren't necessarily obvious to the users experiencing them
Improved With multi threading, objects are now rendered up to twice as fast as before

v1.17.48

Fixed Various game settings could be set to default values regardless of what had been set by the player everytime a new game was started, a savegame was loaded, or another pilot was switched to

v1.17.47

Changed For polygon model based objects, their size from the original game data is used during collision detection (even if a custom model with a different size is used by a mission)
This means among others that you will not get stuck in certain missions having custom ship models

v1.17.46

Fixed Standard high resolution music wasn't played
Fixed Playlists weren't properly processed, resulting in playlist controlled music not being played

v1.17.45

Fixed Triggers were randomly operated when loading a level or a savegame
Fixed The program could crash when loading levels containing a lot of in-level teleporters

v1.17.44

Fixed Permanent and fly-through sound triggers were disabled after having been operated once
Fixed Mods' level specific models and sounds weren't loaded
Changed Removed MP3 support (was broken anyway)
New Level music can now be shuffled (new option in sounds and music options menu)
New D2X-XL now supports standard custom (hires) music in ./music/d1 and ./music/d2 (only ogg).
Level song names have the format level01.ogg, level02.ogg, slevel01.ogg, slevel02.ogg ...
Title (menu), briefing and credit songs need to be named title.ogg, briefing.ogg and credits.ogg Default custom music can be controlled via playlists ('playlist.txt' in the music folder)

v1.17.43

Fixed The Pause dialog didn't work
Fixed The program crashed when trying to play back music from a mod
Fixed Level specific custom models and sounds from mods weren't loaded
Fixed OOF models from mods weren't loaded
Fixed Single loop triggered sounds that had been played already were played again when loading a savegame that had been made after the sound had been made
Fixed Briefings were rendered in anaglyph stereo when anaglyph stereo was enabled, which didn't work all that well
Fixed Lightning effects could disappear when particle effects were visible
Improved Lightning effect on damaged robots looks better
Improved A new (old) effect options is back. Glow now has three settings: Off, fast and full. The 'fast' method tries to save some graphics memory bandwidth, but can lead to small artifacts in certain situations

v1.17.42

Fixed Menus often were too narrow, causing e.g. sliders to overlap with their labels
Fixed If D2X-XL couldn't create a log file, it froze
Changed The current log file will always be named d2x.log; If an old log file is found, it will be renamed to d2x.log.bak (previously, d2x.log.1, d2x.log.2, etc. were created)
Changed D2X-XL will only fall back to the default application folder if it cannot find the application in a folder with a user supplied name and the application folder passed by the OS as first command line argument
Changed On OS X, D2X-XL will look for the application data in the default application folder first, and will only use the current application folder if it cannot find the default folder
Changed Removed the '-gamedir' command line parameter, since it is redundant (-datadir does the same)
Improved Game data folder detection works better now

v1.17.41

Improved D2X-XL now supports custom music for secret levels (put a '-' in front of a secret level song file name)

v1.17.40

Fixed Not all briefing info was shown when pressing the spacebar or enter keys to speed up print speed of briefing page
Fixed If 'show all players on automap' was disabled in multiplayer games, you couldn't see your own ship on the automap
Fixed D2X-XL dropped super lasers for lasers
Fixed Multi-line messages (where the lines of a message are separated by the two character string 'n') weren't correctly processed
Fixed The frame around triggered in-level messages was too large
Fixed The program could freeze or crash when trying to read mission files (*.msn, *.mn2) containing empty lines
Fixed D2X-XL couldn't play back ogg music anymore
Fixed When saving a demo, the filename entered by the user was ignored
Fixed Multiplayer demos couldn't be played back
Fixed Enabling the minimum HUD made the status bar and full cockpits disappear, leaving a black bar at the bottom of the screen
Fixed The radar was rendered although the minimum HUD was enabled
Fixed The message displayed when picking up an energy to shield converter referred to the key bound to the headlight instead of the converter
Fixed You couldn't take screenshots during briefings
Changed On OS X, user data (both static like game configuration and pilot data and computed, like mission states and downloads) will be stored in the application folder,
and shared computed data will be stored in the subfolder 'D2X-XL' of the system's cache folder (~/Libraries/Cache/D2X-XL).
These folders can be overridden by the user with the -userdir and -datadir command line parameters
Improved Mission parser does more detailled logging of its actions

v1.17.39

Fixed The program could crash if the add-on sounds weren't available to it
Fixed On Linux and OS X, level message (*.msg) and sound (*.snd) files weren't properly read, which could cause corrupted in-level messages and missing triggered sounds

v1.17.38

Fixed when mesh optimization was turned on, light emitting faces could have dark spots

v1.17.37

Fixed The shared data folder wasn't always computed correctly on MS Windows
Fixed If no user data folder was specified with the -userdata switch, D2X-XL did not always find the initialization files and pilot profiles

v1.17.36

Fixed Loading compressed mesh data could fail with 64 bit versions of d2x-xl, resulting in failure to load a level
Fixed Some game folders weren't set up properly
Fixed Add-on sounds stored in the d2x-xl subfolder of the sound folder weren't loaded anymore

v1.17.35

Fixed The program could crash when launching a level if it hadn't been built with Oculus Rift support
Changed D2X-XL will fall back to standard Descent sounds if it doesn't find a hires replacement sound for each standard sound. In that case, add-on sounds will not be played at all.
Improved The standard Descent sounds will now play properly if the hires sounds aren't installed
New D2X-XL will write the name of hires sound files it couldn't find to the log file

v1.17.34

Fixed D2X-XL could crash when trying to access sound files in mods
Fixed D2X-XL created unneeded subfolders in the sound folders
Fixed D2X-XL erroneously reported missing game configuration files
Changed Updated the texture and sound folders in the d2x-xl distribution file and the d2x-xl addon data archive

v1.17.33

Fixed D2X-XL didn't load hires models any more
Fixed D2X-XL didn't load hires sounds any more
Fixed On Linux, the setup function tried to copy data to the system and not the user's home folder
Fixed On Linux, d2x-xl tried to load hires textures and models from the shared instead of the static data folder

v1.17.32

Fixed The internal d2x-xl sound folder name was overwritten by the music folder name
Fixed The program crashed when specifying an alternative config file with the -ini command line parameter
Fixed Texture and sound reorganization was flawed

v1.17.31

Fixed Removed several bugs in game folder detection and handling
Changed D2X-XL will now store all files it creates in the private or public cache folders (particularly downscaled textures and binary model files)

v1.17.30

Changed To decrease latency, max. packets/sec for multiplayer games can now be up to 100

v1.17.29

Fixed Some addon bitmaps weren't loaded anymore after the recent changes to data folder handling
Improved Improved: D2X-XL will now automatically reorganize the Descent 2 hires textures if necessary
New Added support for a third data folder for shared computed game data (lightmaps etc.)
New Added the command line parameter -cachedir for specifying the shared data folder

v1.17.28

Improved Game does now distuingish better between shared and private data (particularly on linux)
Changed Reorganized data folders (particularly, the D2 textures will now reside in a subfolder of the the texture folder named 'D2')
Changed Command line parameter '-userdir' will now specify the private data folder (player profile, savegames, screenshots, game config, etc.)
Changed Command line parameter '-hogdir' has been removed
Changed Command line parameter '-datadir' can be used to specify the shared data folder of D2X-XL (where it will look for textures, sounds, missions, etc.).
Regard that -datadir now has the function -userdir used to have.
Changed Descent 2 hires sounds now reside in 'textures/D2'. You need to move all files as well as any of the folders '64', '128' and '256' from 'textures' to 'textures/D2'.

v1.17.27

Fixed Glow didn't work in camera generated textures
Fixed Glow didn't work in side by side rendering modes
Fixed Low resolution camera outputs were rendered at a quarter of the destination face's side
Fixed Folder names specified with the -userdir command line switch were resulting in malformed folder names (Linux only)
Fixed If the parameter '-multithreaded' wasn't given in the multithreaded version, multithreading didn't get disabled as it should have, and some multithreading related variables weren't properly initialized
Changed D2X-XL won't change the main window caption on Linux anymore when the player profile changes or a new level is started
Changed Most of the calculated D2X-XL data that is now stored in D2X-XL's cache folder (lightmaps, light data, meshes, mission states) will now be stored in appropriately named subfolders of the cache folder
Improved Glow looks nicer
New D2X-XL now supports flac

v1.17.26

Changed Version prefixes in the mission list now consist of two letters ('D1', 'D2', 'XL') and are enclosed in round brackets

v1.17.25

Fixed There were more instances where D2X-XL could consume excessive amounts of memory
Fixed The high score list management could cause memory corruption
Fixed Removed a few source code problems inhibiting a successful compilation on Linux

v1.17.24

Fixed Not all textures loaded for a level were properly released when leaving the level, causing occasional program crashes when loading or playing the next level

v1.17.23

Fixed The program could hang when starting a level after having played another level before

v1.17.22

Fixed The program could hang when loading or leaving a level
Improved Flash effects fade smoother now

v1.17.21

Fixed D2X-XL crashed when encountering corrupted level data

v1.17.20

Fixed Soft shadow rendering didn't work anymore

v1.17.19

Fixed Lightning effects could have invalid waypoint info which could crash the program's waypoint manager
Fixed Glow didn't always work when set to 'full'
Fixed The glow renderer didn't want to cooperate with the cockpit views and with side by side rendering
Changed The glow effect can now only be turned on or off (previously, it had three settings)

v1.17.18

Fixed In the multi-threaded program versions, lighting effects could cause the program to hang

v1.17.17

Improved The light of effect created by flares decays smoother now and flickers slighty

v1.17.16

Fixed When downloading a mission from a multiplayer session's game host, D2X-XL kept looping the mission download forever
Fixed D2X-XL failed to load multiplayer missions it had downloaded

v1.17.15

Fixed Sound effects in levels with an outdated format weren't played Fixed: Briefing text was printed with an extra space after each letter, making it hard to read?
Fixed The lock indicator was hardly visible in fullscreen cockpits when HUD icons were rendered at the bottom of the screen?

v1.17.14

Fixed Graphical energy gauges weren't rendered in fullscreen cockpits
Fixed Yellow cockpit window frames were occasionally rendered around the scene instead of the cockpit window
Fixed You could toggle away from the cinematic view during the player death sequence
Fixed The lock indicator was hardly visible in fullscreen cockpits when HUD icons were rendered at the bottom of the screen

v1.17.13

Fixed Due to bugs in the font handling, the program could crash arbitrarily when playing a mission
Fixed The rear view wasn't rendered properly
Fixed Side-by-side rendering for 3D TVs didn't work properly
Fixed Menus weren't shown in the left eye's view in side-by-side rendering mode
Fixed Glow rendering didn't work properly anymore
Fixed You couldn't select data in list boxes (e.g. the mission list) with the mouse anymore
Fixed Some text gauges were rendered too large in the status bar cockpit
Fixed The transparency renderer used glow effects for cockpit windows
Fixed Glow effects were only rendered partially when using a cockpit
Fixed Some HUD text gauges were garbled

v1.17.12

Fixed Missile view didn't work anymore

v1.17.11

Fixed The program crashed when rendering briefing robots
Fixed Cockpits weren't displayed anymore

v1.17.10

Fixed Loading hires animation textures caused excessive temporary memory consumption

v1.17.9

Fixed The sound system could overrun
Fixed Excessive memory consumption of the texture management could lead to program crashes
Fixed A renderer bug could cause program crashes

v1.17.8

Fixed Removed a few bugs in texture management occasionally causing distorted textures

v1.17.7

New Added a command line/settings file option to disable/enable Oculus Rift support (-oculus_rift 0|1)

v1.17.6

Fixed A bug in the string handling tab processing could cause crashes in the menu system (this affected e.g. the multiplayer game browser)

v1.17.5

Fixed Reticle elements didn't get hilighted for armed weapons
Fixed Robots were rendered too big in the Descent 2 briefings

v1.17.4

Improved When rendering to an Oculus Rift device, D2X-XL will automatically use the Rift's native resolution
Changed Oculus Rift and NVidia shutter glass based stereo rendering will only be offered in the render options menu if the required hardware is available
Fixed The program crashed during startup
Fixed New save games were broken
Fixed The game could crash when starting a new mission
Fixed Soft particle blending didn't work with side by side rendering

v1.17.3

New Enabled a FOV control for the Oculus Rift render path in the render options menu (enable expert mode to see it)
Fixed The program crashed when computing lightmaps
Fixed The glow renderer didn't work with the Oculus Rift render path

v1.17.2

Improved Stereo mode menu display works much better now
Improved Side by side rendering memory requirements were halved
Improved The HUD contains more information in Oculus Rift mode
Improved Head tracking feedback via the HUD has been improved in Oculus Rift mode
Fixed Credits, highscores and similar screens weren't properly displayed in stereo mode

v1.17.1

Improved Currently armed weapons and bombs are displayed as icons in the Rift HUD
Improved Energy, shield and afterburner levels are now displayed as colored numbers in the Rift HUD. The colors correspond to the type of energy
Improved Flags onboard the ship are now visible in the Rift HUD
Improved The missile lock indicator is now visible in the Rift HUD
Fixed The frames around the cockpit windows could be displayed in stereo TV side by side mode.
Changed The Rift deadzones are bigger now
Changed The Rift head tracking can be recalibrated by pressing CTRL+F12

v1.17.0 — Added support for Oculus Rift 3D headsets

New D2X-XL now supports Oculus Rift 3D headsets
New The controls configuration now comprises a dialog for Oculus Rift settings
New The Oculus Rift head tracking position can be re-calibrated by pressing CTRL+F10 in-game
Changed The cockpit renderer now has three settings: 'off' (hide all), 'minimum' (only reticle), 'full' (display all)
Changed The 3D device selection doesn't offer a choice for every anaglyph glasses color combination anymore (select these in an additional menu entry)
Fixed Menus won't get wider anymore when pressing the Enter key while inside them

v1.16 28 releases

v1.16.27

Fixed D2X-XL couldn't load levels that did not have at least one static light source (out of memory error)

v1.16.26

Fixed Auto leveling didn't work right

v1.16.25

Fixed Player ships couldn't move at all or got instantly destroyed when starting to move after loading a savegame made with a game version > v1.16.16

v1.16.24

Fixed When loading older savegames, robots often were passive

v1.16.23

Fixed Robots spawned during a mission (e.g. by robot generators or boss robots) often started in disarmed mode, rendering them passive

v1.16.22

Fixed Loading savegames created with the most recent versions of the program crashed the program
Fixed Seismic activities caused by triggers weren't properly saved in savegames and restored when loading such a savegame

v1.16.21

Fixed Robots with physical attacks (i.e. Diamond Claws didn't attack other robots after having been reprogrammed)

v1.16.20

Fixed Homing weapons didn't follow their targets anymore
Fixed When reprogramming a robot, other robots that should still attack the player became passive

v1.16.19

Fixed Reactors didn't attack players anymore

v1.16.18

Fixed Reprogrammed robots often just idled instead of attacking other nearby robots

v1.16.17

New Robots can now be disarmed and reprogrammed to attack other robots via triggers
New Seismic activity can now be initiated via a trigger

v1.16.16

Fixed When colored segment rendering was turned off, colored walls were rendered between adjacent water and adjacent lava segments
Fixed With standard lighting, faces bearing rotated overlay textures had their base textures erroneously rotated, too

v1.16.15

Fixed Static particle effects didn't work anymore

v1.16.14

Fixed This time, D2X-XL simply removed all robot makers from a level when loading it ... ;-)

v1.16.13

Fixed D2X-XL still didn't always process robot makers properly (because the amateurs from Parallax have stored improper robot maker data in their levels and have implemented an overly complicated and inconsistently handled robot maker to segment relation ship)

v1.16.12

Fixed Players, guidebot and robots could get stuck in a narrow passage in D2:CS level 12 (actually a problem with broken level geometry in that place)
Fixed The thief stole builtin equipment and weapons
Changed Made the thief messages brighter
Changed The 'built in headlight' switch has been removed from the gameplay options menu; use the player loadout menu instead to add a headlight to player ships
Improved D2X-XL will now generally seed the random generator with 32 bit random values (using the elapsed time [ms] since program start)
Improved In D2X-XL levels thieves will also steal ammo racks (excess weapons and ammo will be dropped into the level)

v1.16.11

Fixed Weapon information wasn't always reliably transmitted in multiplayer games

v1.16.10

Fixed The program crashed when robots fired at the player in Pumo's Kartsal demo level 3 (and probably in other levels, too)
Fixed Powerup and robot drop probabilities were (a bit) too low
Fixed Huge custom models popped in and out of sight when the standard collision model was enabled
Fixed Robot maker info still wasn't always processed properly
Changed The 'spaniard' cheat will not destroy static, undestructable objects anymore

v1.16.9

Improved The wireframe of special segment will always be fully rendered in the wireframe automap
Improved Geometry collision detection should work better now

v1.16.8

Fixed Robot maker info wasn't always processed correctly
Fixed Descent 1 rendered exit sequences went out of sync
Fixed Bump forces in player - robot collisions were too low
Fixed Bump force calculation for the advanced collision model was only half correct

v1.16.7

Fixed D2X-XL didn't always find and use all robot makers present in a level

v1.16.6

Fixed Theft messages often were incomplete
Fixed The screen flickered when returning from a secret level
Fixed The reactor countdown didn't stop when entering a level teleporter after having destroyed the reactor
Fixed The program crashed when the player died while a menu was open
Fixed Bumping into robots didn't inflict any damage to the player ship

v1.16.5

Fixed Basic lighting information wasn't properly processed
Fixed Post-level briefings were affected by the mine flashing effect of the countdown sequence
Fixed When the player died in a secret level, instead of showing the 'return to level ...' message the screen started to flicker

v1.16.4

Fixed Credits that were rendered after finishing a mission weren't visible on the screen

v1.16.3

Fixed Lightmap calculation didn't always work right and could produce dark triangles where there should have been light

v1.16.2

Fixed Wireframe automap could show unnecessary lines when displaying segments with triangular faces

v1.16.1

Fixed Triangular segment sides in a level messed up the lightmaps

v1.16.0 — Support for triangular segment sides introduced.

New D2X-XL now supports segments with triangular sides (down to tetrahedrons)

v1.15 348 releases

v1.15.350

Fixed Removed white screen flashing during light data calculation
Fixed Removed nasty bright flashes when mine brightness was pulsating during the reactor countdown sequence

v1.15.349

Fixed Explosion lightning effects weren't always rendered
Fixed Removed a bug causing occasional crashes in the transparency renderer

v1.15.348

Improved When another player becomes the game host during a multiplayer game, the original game host's game settings will now persist

v1.15.347

Fixed Lightmap calculation occasionally created dark outlines around faces

v1.15.346

Fixed Light data calculation was still broken (in a different way though ...)
Fixed Player shields and energy were reset when entering a new level even if they were above 100%

v1.15.345

Fixed Multi-threaded light data calculation was broken
Fixed Sounds were audible when they shouldn't

v1.15.344

Fixed With standard lighting levels tended to be too bright
Improved Light data memory footprint is a bit smaller now

v1.15.343

Fixed The program could crash during mesh calculation

v1.15.342

Fixed Mesh improvement works more reliable for high mesh quality levels
Improved D2X-XL needs less memory for huge levels

v1.15.341

Fixed More than 127 fuel centers made D2X-XL crash
Fixed No transparency and effects were rendered in the textured automap view anymore
Fixed The 'show reticle' check box in the cockpit options menu didn't work
Changed Under MS Windows the 64 bit executable and DLLs will now reside in the subfolder 'x64' of a standard D2X-XL installation
Improved Light data will now consume less memory for large levels

v1.15.340

Fixed Removed a bug in the transparency renderer that could cause program crashes
Improved Light data precalculation is parallelized better now, resulting increased calculation speed on multi-core systems

v1.15.339

Changed When a robot has an individual specification of what to drop when it dies, the robot's type based drop specification will be disregarded for non D2X-XL levels

v1.15.338

Fixed D2X-XL stripped the player of all keys upon entering a secret Descent 2 level
Improved D2X-XL now supports levels with up to 20,000 segments

v1.15.337

Fixed At the highest lightning quality setting, no explosion clouds and sparks of shots hitting obstacles were rendered
Fixed The PSALM often created excess laser powerups in multiplayer games
Changed Smart weapon switch will be turned off by default

v1.15.336

Fixed When rendering post process effects while anaglyphic stereoscopy was enabled, the image stood still and just flickered
Improved At the highest lightning quality setting, real lightning effects replace the sprite based lightning effects for spawning players and robots and disappearing powerups

v1.15.335

Fixed The PSALM still didn't work right (powerups were erroneously removed or added to the mine)
Improved Lightmaps will be turned into gray scale images when colored lighting is turned off (in the render options menu)

v1.15.334

Fixed Player weapons were respawned by the PSALM (Powerup Spam And Loss Minimizer) instead of the exploding ship
Fixed Reactors sometimes were rendered as small hulks

v1.15.333

Fixed Missiles didn't always respawn in multiplayer games
Fixed Exploding player ships didn't drop the guns they had picked up
Fixed D2X-XL sometimes failed to find the mission belonging to a savegame despite it being present

v1.15.332

Fixed When downloading a mission that was already present, but outdated, the program crashed (often after reporting an invalid HXM file)

v1.15.331

Fixed The program occasionally crashed when writing to the log file
Fixed The program occasionally crashed when rebuilding its OpenGL context
Fixed The program spammed missiles and keys in multiplayer matches
Fixed Spreadfire shots were invisible when hires textures were disabled
Changed Players that are unreachable for three minutes will be dropped from the game and will have to quit and rejoin

v1.15.330

Fixed Energy powerups that were placed in the mine by the level author and got picked up respawned endlessly in multiplayer games
Fixed Flags that were pickup in CTF games respawned endlessly
Fixed Keys placed in a mine were converted to a robot instead of a shield boost in non-coop multiplayer games
Fixed A successful mission download looped back to the mission download forever
Fixed Players couldn't join multiplayer games using maps without a reactor or boss ('you are missing packets')
Fixed When destroying a destructible overlay texture, all visible faces of the affected segment were rendered with the destroyed overlay (and not just the one bearing it)

v1.15.329

Fixed Vulcan ammo disappeared in multiplayer games
Fixed Missiles disappeared in multiplayer games
Fixed You couldn't allow mercury missiles in multiplayer games in the 'objects to allow' multiplayer setup dialog
Improved Mine powerups will only respawn in multiplayer games when mines previously dropped from them have exploded
Improved Missiles will only respawn in multiplayer games after they have exploded

v1.15.328

Fixed Players could pick up regular lasers even when they had superlasers until they had reached the standard laser level 4
Fixed The 'Died in mine' message didn't appear when the player died in the mine during the countdown sequence

v1.15.327

New D2X-XL now supports long level filenames in hog files

v1.15.326

Fixed The program crashed when toggling fullscreen mode twice while a menu was active
Fixed When picking up a laser or super laser, the new laser level shown in the HUD message was one too low
Improved When run in fullscreen mode, the game will switch to windowed output in order to avoid leaving the desktop at the game's screen/window resolution

v1.15.325

Fixed Sound from explosion objects was only played once
Fixed Proximity mines weren't moved by nearby explosions
Fixed 2D oroximity mine sprites were rendered transparent
Fixed The game crashed in anaglyph rendering mode when displaying transparent stuff (like e.g. smoke particles)
Fixed With standard collision handling you could fly straight through reactors

v1.15.324

Fixed D2X-XL now can drastically reduce the file sizes of precomputed level data (meshes, light data, lightmaps) by using compression. Enable with command line or d2x.ini switch '-compress_data {0|1}'

v1.15.323

Fixed Players never dropped super lasers in multiplayer games
Fixed The download manager locked itself when a download was cancelled
Fixed Depending on aspect rate, the program could crash when a robot was hit by a missile and the missile view was displayed in a cockpit window
Changed D2X-XL will now search for missions in its mission downloads folder first (to avoid overriding downloaded maps with different versions of the same map found in folders with lexically smaller names)
Improved D2X-XL will now properly keep track about lasers and super lasers picked up (standard Descent assumes full standard laser loadout as soon as a player picks up super lasers)

v1.15.322

Fixed The stuff a destroyed player ship dropped in multiplayer only appeared on that player's computer
New The game host can now exclude any ship type from being used in multiplayer games (if all are excluded, only the standard Pyro is allowed)

v1.15.321

Fixed A player dropped a shield and an energy powerup in multiplayer games everytime he changed his ship (exploit for gaining shield and energy)

v1.15.320

Fixed Binary format savegames couldn't be loaded anymore
Fixed The endlevel score screen didn't have a frame anymore
Fixed Every multiplayer participant changing D2X-XL specific settings locally (like e.g. collision handling), replicated his entire D2X-XL settings to all other players, whether he was the game host or not

v1.15.319

Fixed The program crashed when loading a level if particle effects were enabled and the program had been launched with the -lowmem switch set to '1'
Fixed When killing the final boss in D2:Counterstrike and not reaching the exit in time, the final level was restarted
Fixed The player name in the high scores screen was blinking too fast
Changed Unless in nostalgia or multiplayer competition mode, distant Earth Shaker impacts will rock the mine less (depending on distance)
Improved Joystick deadzone handling is a numerically more precise
New Added the command line switches -movies (inverse to -nomovies) and -briefings (inverse to -noscreens)
New Colored segment rendering can now be suppressed via the mission configuration (-colored_segments 0|1)

v1.15.318

Improved Speeded up transparency rendering by about 10% on multi core cpus

v1.15.317

Fixed When glow was enabled, 3D shield powerups looked pale or even bright white

v1.15.316

Changed Critical network data version will now be supervised. Players with different network data versions than the game host will not be able to join that D2X-XL game
New Game speed can now be scaled to up to three times the standard speed (in increments of 0.5)

v1.15.315

Fixed The program could crash in multiplayer games when a player joined the game or respawned after having died

v1.15.314

Fixed A forgotten debug switch caused all kinds of problems

v1.15.313

Fixed The program could crash when loading addon bitmaps from locations with a long folder name

v1.15.312

Fixed Player files were reported as being damaged after having been killed and/or having scored kills in a multiplayer game

v1.15.311

Fixed With advanced collision handling, flying through powerups briefly accelerated the player ship
Changed No multithreading will be available in the standard D2X-XL application (d2x-xl.exe)
Improved Made the networking code more robust

v1.15.310

Fixed You couldn't pass through powerups you couldn't collect
Fixed When disabling 3D powerup rendering in-game and hires textures were enabled, no powerup sprites were rendered for those powerups hires sprites were available for
Fixed When not in a game, changing the player ship type in the gameplay menu had no effect

v1.15.309

Fixed Robots didn't fire and could hardly be hit anymore
Fixed Players could pick up powerups behind impassable walls (e.g. gratings) if the powerups were sticking out of the segment a bit

v1.15.308

Fixed A player could collect powerups he shouldn't be able to reach (like the full map powerup in Descent 2, level 2)

v1.15.307

Fixed Secret level entries in mission files with multiple references to regular levels weren't properly processed, causing such a mission to be rejected by d2x-xl

v1.15.306

Fixed Bosses occasionally teleported to areas they shouldn't be able to access

v1.15.305

Fixed The program could crash when processing explosion sound effects

v1.15.304

Fixed The particle renderer could occasionally crash the program
Fixed The program could crash when loading levels containing effect objects
Improved Sound will decay more smoothly

v1.15.303

Fixed Now the program crashed when starting it in full XL mode ...

v1.15.302

Fixed The program crashed when loading a level in pureD2 or nostalgia mode
Fixed Processing lightning effects with invalid parameters (more branches than nodes specified) could crash the program

v1.15.301

Fixed Sounds located in the same segment as the player often weren't audible

v1.15.300

Fixed Sounds from behind closed doors were audible
Fixed Marker weren't rendered with their number in the automap
Fixed Instead of moving the existing one to the current drop position, dropping a spawn marker when a spawn marker wasn't already present in the level created another spawn marker
Fixed When the player ship was changed inside the mission, the player spawned in the previously chosen ship when respawning after having been destroyed
Improved Players cannot pick up energy boosts used for marking a path
Improved Path finding used for sound handling is much, much faster now (this had shown to be a major performance hog before)
Improved Sound from a segment with more than one sound source will not be overly loud anymore
Improved The range of the Guidebot has been increased from 200 to 1000 segments from its current position, making it more likely that it will find stuff for you in huge missions like e.g. Anthology
New Players can have a path to an arbitrary path marked with the new 'minotaur' cheat

v1.15.299

Changed During lightmap calculation lights will also contribute to faces hidden behind walls that may disappear or become transparent when playing the level

v1.15.298

Fixed OOF based hires models weren't always rendered properly
Fixed Message triggers with non-existant messages could crash the program

v1.15.297

Fixed D2X-XL will not crash anymore when a robot drops non-existant robot types (caused by errors in the level) when dying

v1.15.296

Fixed The program will not terminate itself after encountering invalid powerups that are dropped from exploding robots anymore

v1.15.295

Fixed Cloaked walls weren't always rendered properly
Fixed With basic lighting, colored walls and segments weren't rendered
Fixed The program crashed when trying to launch a multiplayer game with the German localization enabled
Improved Added a German localization for the updater

v1.15.294

Fixed Robots that died with a death roll kept rolling (instead of exploding) as long as they were hit
Fixed When particle effects were turned off, the amount of debris couldn't be changed anymore because the corresponding effects menu entry got hidden
Fixed Even if effects were disabled, extra debris was created during explosions
Improved Explosions from destroyed robots will now move towards the player while they are visible, giving a more realistic explosion effect

v1.15.293

Fixed The program crashed when invoking certain menus (e.g. the keyboard configuration) when using localized messages (hint: Install the latest d2x-xl data package)

v1.15.292

Improved Loading screens shuffling is now more random

v1.15.291

Fixed Colored segments still weren't always rendered right
Improved Descent 2 custom background images will now be shuffled for missions that have no custom background images

v1.15.290

Fixed D2X-XL crashed when a destroyed robot dropped items not available in D2X-XL (due to errors in the mission)

v1.15.289

Fixed Rendering colored segments (water, lava) didn't work right anymore
Fixed Re-enabled some code to unstick objects, so player ships (hopefully) won't get stuck in robots anymore when colliding with them

v1.15.288

Fixed When enabling custom weapons and playing a level that has some, then leaving the level, disabling custom weapons, and playing the same level again, custom weapons were still enabled
Changed The option that makes gatling guns start to fire with a delay has been moved from the sound to the gameplay options menu. When this option is enabled, gatling gun fire will be delayed even if the gatling rotation sound is turned off or not available; in that case you will just not have an audio feedback for that like you have when the spinning sound is there.
New The new game menu now also has an option to disable custom weapons

v1.15.287

Fixed Some areas in rendered movies were rendered black instead of white

v1.15.286

Fixed The credit screen's background image wasn't rendered properly
Fixed You couldn't enable mods in the new game menu anymore
Fixed The last custom background used while playing a mission was kept for the main menu after playing

v1.15.285

Fixed When particle collision handling was enabled, the program could hang or crash

v1.15.284

New You can now disable custom weapon mods via the gameplay options and more multiplayer options menus

v1.15.283

Fixed Players frequently couldn't fire shots and/or couldn't be hit in multiplayer games (usually this went away when closing the multiplayer session and starting a new one without terminating the program)
Changed D2X-XL will not override custom weapon info (from custom HAM files) for multiplayer games by resetting weapon info to the Descent 1/2 default values anymore

v1.15.282

Fixed With lightmap based lighting levels were completely bright

v1.15.281

Fixed Levels containing pre-computed colored light (from DLE-XP) were rendered pitch black when the lighting method was set to 'basic'

v1.15.280

Fixed When shadows were enabled, firing flares or transparent shots (lasers etc.) led to all kinds of rendering flaws

v1.15.279

Fixed When moving diagonally into a wall, the ship often briefly hung or stopped instead of smoothly sliding along the wall

v1.15.278

Fixed When firing Gatling shots into a skybox while effects were enabled (and thus light tracers were rendered), the mine walls disappeared due to being overlapped by the skybox and (semi-) transparent faces (e.g. gratings)

v1.15.277

Fixed Sometimes objects were rendered that weren't visible to the viewer
Fixed 'repair center' segments from standard levels will be converted to regular (non-functional) segments when reading them. This fixes a flaw in standard level format where segments could be marked as 'repair center' although repair centers weren't supported by standard Descent and prevents this flaw from being exploited by using D2X-XL in multiplayer games where some participants are using other Descent versions

v1.15.276

Fixed When taking a lot of screenshots, the program encountered a severe error due to a memory leak, throwing the player back to the main menu

v1.15.275

Changed At highest render quality, glow will be applied to the textured automap, too
Improved When the HUD is turned off, automap screen shots will not show keyboard control information

v1.15.274

Changed Screenshots will now show the D2X-XL label and Descent web site URL in their lower right corner

v1.15.273

Fixed The rear view stayed black when shadows were enabled

v1.15.272

Fixed When finishing the Descent 1 campaign, the start instead of the end briefing was displayed
Fixed The program could crash when the level was changed after the player had died
Fixed When dieing in a Descent 1 secret level after having destroyed the reactor, the program tried to put the player in a wrong level or even crashed

v1.15.271

Fixed The game could crash when loading a level with mesh improvement quality set to high
Fixed The pathfinding wasn't properly reconfigured when entering or leaving secret levels, which could cause program crashes

v1.15.270

Fixed The game could crash when the joystick configuration menu was opened or closed

v1.15.269

Fixed The game crashed when loading a game via the quit/config/load/save menu after the player ship had been destroyed and before it had exploded

v1.15.268

Fixed The program reported a missing background image file and halted in -pureD2 mode
New Added cockpit menu option allowing to hide target indicators behind obstacles

v1.15.267

Fixed Hitting triggers still didn't work quite right

v1.15.266

Fixed Triggers weren't always hit by shots (shooting through gaps in gratings and forcefields was probably also affected by this bug)

v1.15.265

Fixed The program could crash when loading savegames or transferring the player to a new level
Changed Target and damage indicators will now shine through walls to some extent

v1.15.264

Fixed Collision detection didn't always work right
Fixed Player ship shield and energy were set to the standard values when the player entered a new level even when the player had gathered more than the standard amounts of them
Improved Robots stuck in walls will be moved out of the walls
Improved Target, damage and missile lock indicator transparency now increases with growing distance of the target to the viewer

v1.15.263

Fixed A few menu options didn't stick
Fixed A few menu help messages were wrong

v1.15.262

Fixed Loading a savegame containing both bosses that did and bosses that did not ended a level when being destroyed could crash the program
Changed Energy draining robots will not have a constant lightning effect, but lightning arcs reaching to their target when actually draining it
Improved Sound handling is more precise and more efficient

v1.15.261

Fixed The render options menu didn't always work right
New Added a simple way point system for moving lightning effects

v1.15.260

Fixed Sound effects tied to objects (e.g. lighting effect objects) weren't played
Fixed Repair center lightning effect was yellow instead of light blue
Improved Perlin based lightning generation now works as it should
New Added a thickness property for lightning bolts and expanded the level and demo formats accordingly
New At highest render quality, the Omega lightning effect will now have a slow moving, massive lightning bolt surrounded by faster electric discharges

v1.15.259

Fixed A log message contained a formatting error
Fixed The menu for reordering secondary weapons couldn't be invoked anymore
Fixed Demos couldn't be viewed anymore
Fixed Player ship size could occasionally get messed up with the consequence of the player not being able to move through narrow level areas
Improved D2X-XL game information is sent less frequently during multiplayer games

v1.15.258

Fixed The end level score screen wasn't always displayed

v1.15.257

Fixed The program occasionally crashed right after starting
Fixed The program crashed when trying to send XML game info while a tracker game was being hosted
Fixed The program occasionally crashed when disconnecting players

v1.15.256

Fixed The player ship occasionally kept exploding upon entering a multiplayer game
Fixed When saving a multiplayer game in the first save slot, the other players wouldn't save the game
Fixed When loading a multiplayer game from the first save slot, the other players wouldn't load their corresponding multiplayer save game
Fixed When a player loaded a multiplayer save games, loading the other players' save games failed and the players had to quit and rejoin
Fixed When loading a multiplayer game while a menu was active, the program crashed
Fixed Players did not always properly reconnect after having loaded a multiplayer save game

v1.15.255

Fixed The game could crash in the multiplayer options menu when trying to host a multiplayer game
Improved Internal menu handling is safer now, making the menu system more robust

v1.15.254

Fixed The program crashed when the screenshot path + filename was longer than about 90 characters and a screenshot was to be made

v1.15.253

Fixed The program crashed when playing back a demo after having entered and left a level

v1.15.252

Fixed The update downloader didn't find updates on Sourceforge.net
Improved Added a progress bar for program update downloads (Windows and Linux)

v1.15.251

Fixed The program crashed while trying to join a multiplayer game when the old style menus were enabled

v1.15.250

Fixed The mission download failed (due to a general bug in timeout handling)

v1.15.249

Fixed A syntax flaw in a shader program made the shader unusable

v1.15.248

Fixed Explosion effects on objects weren't rendered
Fixed Splash damage of huge explosions (e.g. from Mega missiles) wasn't computed correctly

v1.15.247

Fixed Transparent stuff was rendered incomplete (e.g. only one triangle of a transparent face was shown)

v1.15.246

Fixed Missiles and gun shots couldn't move into skybox segments anymore
Fixed Missiles and gun shots in skybox segments were invisible
Improved Reintroduced an optimization for stereoscopic rendering to the transparency renderer

v1.15.245

Improved Decreased the light data memory footprint by about 40%

v1.15.244

Fixed The transparency renderer consumed a whopping 290 MB of memory which could cause program crashes when it couldn't allocate its buffers
(its memory consumption has now been decreased to around 10 MB)

v1.15.243

Fixed A bug in secret level handling could cause program crashes

v1.15.242

Fixed Removed a few bugs that under rare circumstances could cause program crashes

v1.15.241

Fixed Joystick deadzones weren't properly set after loading a player profile
Fixed Fire wasn't rendered properly when soft particle blending was disabled
Changed Reverted a collision handling related change that apparently prevented proper sliding of the player ship along walls and around corners
Improved HUD messages won't show on screenshots
Improved HUD and RADAR will not be rendered during the player ship explosion sequence anymore
New Robots firing fusion guns will have a 3D shockwave effect
New Mods can now have level specific loading screen background images
New Mods can now have level specific loading screen background images

v1.15.240

Fixed The heavy fighter's shield could be charged to 200% with an energy -> shield converter
Improved Player ships will not endlessly bounce off walls when being driven against them while having thrust

v1.15.239

Fixed The program could hang and/or crash when the player collected powerups

v1.15.238

Fixed Objects got stuck in powerups

v1.15.237

Fixed On rare occasions, D2X-XL crashed when the player fired a gun
Fixed Segment and side centers could be wrong (due to integer overflows)

v1.15.236

Fixed Various bugs and flaws in hitbox based collision detection and handling were removed

v1.15.235

Improved Static objects cannot be penetrated during collisions anymore
Improved The 'spaniard' cheat will not destroy geometry objects (i.e. objects with AI 'static' and strength 0)
Improved Geometry objects do not count towards the robot tally

v1.15.234

Improved Static objects will now have somewhat better collision handling
Improved Static objects will not fire back when being shot at
Improved Static objects will be treated like geometry when being shot at
Improved Static objects will not cast shadows

v1.15.233

Fixed The program could hang or crash when trying to read broken mission info
Fixed No lightmaps were computed by the non-OpenMP program version when multi threading was enabled (via d2x.ini)
Fixed Objects with a strength of 0 caused program crashes; such objects are now handled as indestructible

v1.15.232

Fixed Glow effects were clipped improperly at any except the fullscreen cockpit mode

v1.15.231

Fixed The shockwave effect wasn't rendered at the proper position for all cockpit modes except the fullscreen view
Improved The shockwave effect looks better (hard to see due to its speed, but trust me, it does ;-)

v1.15.230

Fixed The program could crash when moving from a level containing destructible lights to the next level

v1.15.229

Fixed Transparent faces frequently were opaque at the hightest lighting setting

v1.15.228

Fixed At the highest lighting setting, there was no light at all
Fixed Game folder detection could fail on Linux and OS X

v1.15.227

Fixed Ambient light in front of instead of behind light sources was dimmed

v1.15.226

Fixed Transparent walls often were rendered opaque

v1.15.225

Fixed The change in v1.15.223 broke light calculation for ambient light contribution to faces behind light sources

v1.15.224

Fixed The program could crash when computing lighting information
Fixed Colored transparent walls were fully transparent and white when lightmap based lighting was used
Fixed Energy sparks weren't displayed properly on monitors (camera outputs)
Fixed Waterfall smoke wasn't rendered properly

v1.15.223

Improved There will be no abrupt brightness decrease between light emitting faces and their adjacent faces anymore

v1.15.222

Fixed Some forgotten test code randomly caused weird light effects, getting worse when playing for a while

v1.15.221

Fixed Lightmaps caused black seams at face edges
Fixed Dynamic light sources caused hard light transitions between faces
Fixed Faces adjacent to light emitting faces often were too dark
Improved Lightmaps will now be blurred which takes care of the jaggies in lightmaps quite nicely, and produces a softer shadowing effect

v1.15.220

Fixed Some lightmap calculation flaws were removed
Fixed Dynamic lights caused flickering when multi threading was used
Fixed D2X-XL ignored the max threads settings from d2x.ini if the hardware supported more threads than D2X-XL was allowed there to use

v1.15.218

Fixed The new lighting code didn't work right for dynamic lights
Fixed Objects weren't lit by player ship headlights anymore

v1.15.217

Fixed Depending on player position and view direction, the main view could occasionally be pitch black
Changed Lightmap quality has been bumped up one notch, e.g. each setting now produces lightmaps which are four times as detailled as before
Changed Bullet time and slow motion will now be turned off when the reactor has been destroyed and will not be available during the mine destruction phase
Improved Lightmap calculation is more precise (the price of which is that it is also quite a bit slower)

v1.15.216

Fixed Glow effects often were badly clipped at standard glow setting

v1.15.215

Fixed The program hung on Linux after loading the game data and before displaying the main menu

v1.15.213

Fixed Objects weren't lit by geometry lights
Fixed 3D points weren't always properly projected to the 2D window (due to integer overflow problems)

v1.15.212

Fixed Visibility precalculation and subsequently lightmap generation didn't always work properly

v1.15.211

Fixed Earth shaker bomblets bounced around until their lifetime had expired

v1.15.210

Fixed Palettes with different than the standard transparency color keys weren't rendered right
Fixed The planetary surface and sun occasionally were miscolored during the Descent 1 mine exit sequence
Fixed The minimap in the cockpit displays wasn't always shown
Fixed The cockpit window position description sometimes was '(NULL)'
Improved When deleting a pilot, D2X-XL will ask whether to delete that pilot's savegames, too (and not just do it)
Improved You can now override the Descent 1 exit textures by placing appropriately named textures in the main or mod texture folders ('moon02.tga' for terrain and 'sun.tga' for the sun)

v1.15.209

Fixed The single threaded program rendered doorways opaque

v1.15.208

Fixed Robot generators oocasionally ceased to work (particularly when playing long multi-level missions)
Improved The shield, energy and afterburner gauges look better and are more meaningful now

v1.15.207

Fixed The framecap didn't work right on very fast machines
Fixed The glow renderer didn't work right, leading to all kinds of problems when rendering transparent stuff
Fixed 3D thruster flames were flickering when standard glow was enabled
Changed The glow renderer will only be available on hardware and with OpenGL drivers supporting multiple render targets
Changed Glow will appear a little softer

v1.15.206

Fixed When using the intra-level teleport cheat ('subspace') and leaving the menu by pressing the Escape key, instead of remaining where he was the player was teleported somewhere
Fixed Stuff glow was applied to occasionally wasn't rendered
Fixed 3D missile thruster flames weren't rendered properly
Fixed Player ship 3D thrusters occasionally had the missile thruster color

v1.15.205

Fixed Materialization centers were randomly exchanged
Fixed When in free camera mode, homing missiles targetted the spectator instead of the player ship

v1.15.204

Fixed Robot and equipment generator info wasn't always processed properly

v1.15.203

Fixed Equipment generator info wasn't processed properly anymore
Fixed The visibility culling didn't always work right (which among others could lead to messed up lighting)

v1.15.202

Fixed The screen aspect ratio wasn't computed correctly for all cockpit settings except the fullscreen one
Fixed As a result of that, the radar was distorted
Fixed Homing weapons turned in insane angles

v1.15.201

Fixed Homing weapons didn't lock on targets when the program was executed single threaded

v1.15.200

Changed Replaced command line switch '-nobotai' with '-disable_robots'
Improved D2X-XL will handle faulty materialization center information better
New Added command line switch '-disable_powerups', disabling all powerups in the game completely (including keys!)

v1.15.199

Fixed Removed a potential source of side by side configuration errors being reported when launching D2X-XL and/or D2X-XL not launching properly (MS Windows only)

v1.15.198

Fixed Depending on OS and compiler used to build D2X-XL (e.g. g++ on Linux), debris didn't move away from its origin's explosion center

v1.15.197

Fixed The pause message box wasn't shown when pausing the game
Fixed The smoke transparency settings made in the smoke details menu had no effect on the appearance of smoke in the game

v1.15.196

Improved Reduced shader changes when rendering particles

v1.15.195

Fixed The new multi threaded target tracking code crashed

v1.15.194

Improved When multi threading is enabled in the game, target tracking of homing weapons is now handled by multiple threads

v1.15.193

Fixed A few shaders wouldn't compile on certain ATI graphics hardware

v1.15.192

Fixed The program crashed when encountering invalid robot or equipment generator information in a level

v1.15.191

Fixed The program could crash when using multi-threading while rendering shadows
Fixed No splash damage from big explosions was applied anymore
Fixed Some effects that should weren't rendered additively at basic and standard lighting settings
Fixed Encountering robots that had no guns (e.g. the Class 2 Supervisor) could crash the program
Fixed D2X-XL could crash when the player tried to pick up certain powerups
Improved Target tracking is now faster

v1.15.190

Improved Big missile, boss and player explosions now have a beefier explosion sound

v1.15.189

Fixed Robot Vulcan and Gauss didn't fire light tracers
Fixed Sounds often were too low in wide open areas (particularly if these were built out of huge segments)
Fixed The score screen wasn't displayed anymore after finishing a level
Changed BPer shots and smart mine blobs now emit light (which they didn't before)
Improved Chose a better sound for huge (e.g. boss) explosions

v1.15.188

Fixed Shadows often had holes
Changed Energy sparks will rotate at high render quality
Improved Particle rendering is faster for huge numbers of particles

v1.15.187

Fixed D2X-XL now always correctly determines the orientation of TGA textures

v1.15.186

Fixed When loading a level, instead of showing progress bars the screen flickered rapidly
Fixed When starting a game, some custom sounds (e.g. the missile sound) were inaudible
Fixed Glow didn't always work
Changed Tweaked the amount of debris coming from destroyed robots and players
Changed The standard brightness setting is now at the middle of the render option menu's brightness slider, allowing to make a level darker too and not just brighter
Improved The particle system now needs significantly less state switches and buffer flushes at high quality settings

v1.15.185

Fixed Instead of custom models from the mission file, D2X-XL displayed its default hires ships
Changed Robot gatling smoke trails are now solely controlled via the gatling smoke trail check box in the effect options menu
Changed Blurring of shadows now depends on shadow quality (higher quality -> stronger blur)
Improved Shadow volume calculation is now faster on most hardware

v1.15.184

Fixed Explosions will not create several object fuselages as debris anymore
Fixed Non light emissive gun fire (e.g. Gatling rounds) will not create shadows anymore
Fixed Depending on the render quality setting, the 'basic' shadow setting was changed to 'full' by the program
Changed Missile explosions do not create a blue shockwave effect by themselves

v1.15.183

Fixed Objects were shadowing themselves where they were illuminated
Fixed Lighting didn't always work right anymore when multi threading was enabled

v1.15.182

Fixed The scene was occasionally rendered in monochrome
Fixed Objects (still) weren't properly lit
Improved Shadows will now be blurred when glow is enabled
Improved Shadows will now only be cast by bright dynamic light effects (weapon fire, explosions, headlights), which is creating a very dynamic shadowing effect

v1.15.181

Fixed D2X-XL wasn't using the Descent 2 mod for Vertigo

v1.15.180

Fixed The reticle lit up red when targetting the guidebot (i.e. a friendly)
Fixed You couldn't launch cooperative games anymore with missions marked as 'coop' in the mission file

v1.15.179

Fixed The program crashed on various occasions (frequently while or after loading or starting a new game after having played a level)
Fixed The program didn't display anything; instead the output window rapidly flickered

v1.15.178

New At the highest particle effect quality setting, smoke trails have bright fire clouds at their origin (beware: frame rate killer with many smoke trails)

v1.15.177

Improved RADAR will leave room for HUD icons and message texts
New You can now chose from different radar colors (see the cockpit options menu)

v1.15.176

Fixed The RADAR was partially off-screen for cockpit views other than the fullscreen view
Changed The RADAR has been made a bit smaller
Improved The RADAR's visibility has been enhanced with a dark background
Changed ALT+R will only toggle RADAR range and not position any more
New The size of the radar can now be adjusted
New Added RADAR settings (position, size, range) to cockpit options menu

v1.15.174

Fixed Objects weren't lit by headlights anymore
Fixed Snow didn't look right anymore (as it used a wrong particle texture)
Changed The game didn't allow for more than 15 debris fragments total; for debris amount settings other than 'standard' this limit has been removed
Improved The RADAR looks much better and more 3D

v1.15.173

Fixed Objects weren't lit by headlights anymore
Changed Explosion shrapnel has been replaced by the possibility to increase the amount of debris created by exploding objects
New Added a new explosion shockwave effect courtesy of the guys from the Freespace Open Project

v1.15.172

Improved Missile smoke trail length isn't depending on missile speed anymore
Improved Shrapnel stresses the system less

v1.15.171

Fixed Robot Gauss and Vulcan shots didn't create a smoke trail
Fixed Missile smoke trails didn't have a red glow where they were emitted anymore
Improved Optimized smoke creation
Improved Rocket smoke trail shines reddish near the thrusters
New Added smoke details menu (only available in expert mode)

v1.15.170

New Added parameter '-collision_model {0|1}' to per mission configuration, allowing level authors to control collision model usage (0: hit sphere, 1: hit boxes)

v1.15.169

Improved Added player info to XML game info

v1.15.168

Fixed Configuration parameters weren't properly evaluated
Fixed Under certain circumstances shield spheres flashed brightly white when glow was enabled
Fixed Parts of the level were occasionally rendered transparent when glow was enabled and lightning was visible

v1.15.167

Fixed Not all available missions were shown in the mission list anymore
Fixed Some levels still couldn't be loaded

v1.15.166

Fixed D2X-XL couldn't load levels anymore

v1.15.165

New D2X-XL now supports XML game status requests, returning ping, score, kills, deaths and country information of all participants of a match in progress

v1.15.164

Fixed The shockwave effect lasted way too long

v1.15.163

Fixed With per pixel lighting textures often were distorted
Fixed Instead of returning to the main menu when quitting from playing a level, the program was immediately terminated
Improved It is sufficient to specify a game host's IP address and port number to have D2X-XL automatically join that host's game after launch

v1.15.162

Fixed Many transparent 2D effects (explosions etc.) weren't rendered anymore

v1.15.161

Fixed D2X-XL didn't correctly enter netgames when begin executed with direct netgame launch parameters
Fixed D2X-XL could hang after leaving a level
Fixed Shockwave effect wasn't render at the proper location in cockpit and widescreen views
Fixed Lightning glow was too dark when general glow effect rendering was disabled
Fixed The program wasn't automatically closed after the player had left a game that had been automatically started

v1.15.160

Fixed The screen wasn't updated when shockwave effects were present, but invisible to the player
Fixed Many weapons that shouldn't created shockwaves

v1.15.159

Fixed The HUD wasn't properly displayed when the shockwave effect was rendered

v1.15.158

Fixed Depth testing in the shockwave shader often failed

v1.15.157

Fixed The effect menu's explosion shockwave option lacked the qualifiers (none/basic/full)
Improved The shockwave shader now does depth testing to avoid distorting geometry or objects in front of an explosion
Improved Soft blending should be significantly faster now due to removal of duplicate depth buffer reads

v1.15.156

Fixed Helix energy consumption wasn't doubled in multiplayer games
Fixed D2X-XL game clients added themselves to trackers as server and replied to XML game info queries with partially corrupt responses
Fixed Player ships and robots couldn't rotate around any axis when colliding with 3D powerups
Fixed 3D powerups stopped rotating when colliding with player ships or robots
Improved Lightning effect looks better
New Added frame post processing
New Added shockwave effect for explosions etc.

v1.15.155

Fixed Players trying to join a server after having been a server themselves responded to XML game info requests for a short while

v1.15.154

Fixed Collision detection and visibility testing for objects didn't work right

v1.15.153

Fixed The program didn't start unless the program folder was explicitly specified using the -userdir parameter

v1.15.152

Fixed Some weird code issue located in a global overloaded operator caused the program to crash
Improved Decreased the CPU load caused by the game menus

v1.15.151

Fixed XML game info queries weren't handled right
New D2X-XL can now be launched externally and will immediately connect to a game host specified by command line parameters

v1.15.150

Changed Made some adjustments of the XML game info format

v1.15.149

Fixed The program crashed when the Guidebot was very close to player at level start
Fixed The program crashed when opening a door that had a non-animated texture at its backside (like in Plutonian Outbreak 2)
Fixed The program crashed when loading polygon models that had submodels without any faces (like in Plutonian Outbreak 2)

v1.15.148

Changed Added and changed a few XML game info fields

v1.15.147

New Added support for external game info queries; XML formatted game information is provided for these

v1.15.146

Fixed The in-game help screen listed CTRL+P instead of PAUSE as pause key
Fixed Per level sounds of Descent 1 mods weren't used
Fixed Suppressing certain ship types via mission or level config files didn't work in all cases
Fixed The gameplay options menu crashed when only one ship type was allowed
Fixed The ship selection in the gameplay options menu didn't work right when a ship was unavailable
Improved D2X-XL will make sure that the player always gets an available ship assigned when entering a new level

v1.15.145

New Added support for per mission and per level configuration files

v1.15.144

Fixed Objects the center of which were in invisible segments, but that extended into visible segments weren't rendered
Fixed D2X-XL will not create binary model files from custom model files contained in hog files (and hence not put the binary files in D2X-XL's main folder)
Fixed Energy and shield values still weren't right in the status bar and full cockpits
Improved Unified the blur shader for less shader state changes

v1.15.143

Fixed With full or status bar cockpits, glow wasn't rendered at the right place, but at an offset to the glowing object

v1.15.142

Fixed Destroyed reactors disappeared after a short while

v1.15.141

Fixed You weren't always awarded the full rescue bonus even if you had rescued all hostages from a level
Fixed Energy centers in Descent 1 levels were often rendered both with the old animated spark texture and the new spark effect

v1.15.140

Fixed Transparent walls were invisible with basic and standard lighting

v1.15.139

Fixed At basic and standard lighting, door animations weren't visible

v1.15.138

Fixed Scrolling in the netgame browser garbled the browser display
Fixed Graphical shield gauges were under/overflowing for the light and heavy ships

v1.15.137

Fixed Players frequently couldn't connect to multiplayer games in progress

v1.15.136

Changed When the game host disconnects, only a player using the server port as local port can become the new game host

v1.15.135

Fixed The game host didn't always properly open its UDP connection, causing other players to be unable to connect to him

v1.15.134

Fixed Download still wasn't always working (blame the wrong documentation of SDLNet_TCP_Recv for it)
Fixed When the game host disconnected from a multiplayer game, he couldn't reliably reconnect
Fixed On Linux, folders using Windows delimiters (backslash) weren't properly removed from ASE models' texture file names, causing hires models not to be loaded
Improved The transparency renderer will avoid unnecessary depth buffer reads

v1.15.133

Fixed The renderer was extremely slow when rendering transparency on low-end graphics hardware (like Intel IGPs) even when using pureD2 mode or turning off shader usage
Improved Depth buffer reads will now be profiled and automatically disabled if they take too long
Improved D2X-XL will fall back to alsa if pulse audio cannot be initialized

v1.15.132

Fixed The mission download didn't work reliably and could even hang

v1.15.131

Fixed Server address information got mixed up when the program queried several servers from a tracker
Improved Mission download is now done via TCP which is much more reliable than UDP

v1.15.130

Fixed The game host was flooding the other players with ping requests while waiting for them to join during level transition
Fixed In multiplayer games, players often took a long time to connect or to enter the next level during level transition

v1.15.129

Fixed Mines weren't lit in nostalgia/pureD2 mode
Fixed The textured automap was available in pureD2 mode
Fixed Level songs from mods weren't played when a global playlist was present
Fixed No secret level songs from mods were played (these should have the name 'slevel##.ogg', where '##' is a two digit, zero padded level number)
Fixed Light data precalculation could loop forever
Fixed The distance calculation (via DACS segment path finding) for lightmaps didn't work correctly, often causing lights to cast ambient light where they shouldn't have
Improved Lightmap calculation will be (potentially) faster and more precise
New Added a render menu option for adjusting lightmap calculation precision (only available in expert mode)

v1.15.128

Fixed A few menu help messages were off, and others were too long w/o line breaks
Fixed The HUD equipment icons were miscolored in levels that were using another than the default palette
Fixed When changing the player profile, you could gain access to all the levels the previous player had reached even if you hadn't reached them yourself
Fixed Demo recordings taken in levels containing effect objects were broken (effects will intentionally not be displayed during demo playback though)
Fixed Directed exits didn't work in a mission's last level
Fixed Players were sent to the next level in the level sequence when dieing after destroying the reactor or last boss regardless of any directed exits in the level
Fixed When a level couldn't be entered while trying to enter a multiplayer game, the program could crash
Changed Moved the mission download controls to the miscellaneous options menu

v1.15.127

Fixed Due to a typo, the '-enable_freecam' switch didn't work
Fixed The advanced collision detection didn't work reliably
Improved You cannot drive parts of the player ship into objects by rotating it around an axis

v1.15.126

Fixed Errors in robot info data (submodel joint and angle info) could cause program crashes (e.g. in 'Descent: The Enemy Within')

v1.15.125

Fixed The update function used an outdated URL to access and download program updates
Fixed The built-in multiplayer tracker URL was outdated

v1.15.124

Fixed Level areas not explored by the player, but seen by the Guidebot were shown in the automap when the cockpit's Guidebot view was turned on

v1.15.123

Fixed Video sound was distorted
Changed Re-introduced the "-enable_freecam" command line switch allowing to turn off the free cam

v1.15.122

Fixed Energy centers didn't refuel player ships to their capacity depending on ship type, but always to 100

v1.15.121

Fixed The fullmap powerup was removed from players when entering a new level even if it was specified as built-in equipment

v1.15.120

Fixed When a player with a local port different from the server port became the game host, other players couldn't reconnect to his game after having disconnected
Fixed Damage lightning wasn't deleted from the system in all cases causing lightning handling to process more and more lightning, causing laggy gameplay
Changed The amount of damage lightning on an object has been decreased to avoid overburdening the game with their management on weaker systems

v1.15.119

Fixed The program could crash when operating an exit trigger via a master trigger

v1.15.118

Fixed When the game host disconnected in a UDP tracker game and another player subsequently became game host, the game became invisible on the tracker
Fixed When the game host disconnected in a UDP tracker game and another player subsequently became game host, players that disconnected couldn't reconnect
Fixed Player shield status wasn't always properly reported to other players in multiplayer games
Fixed Thruster flames of other players often weren't properly rendered in multiplayer games

v1.15.117

Fixed Players could pick up weapons in multiplayer games they were already carrying

v1.15.116

Fixed Cameras weren't always properly rendered on older NVidia hardware
Fixed In non-expert mode, stereoscopic rendering didn't always work

v1.15.115

Fixed Complex polygon models of energy weapons weren't completely rendered (e.g. fusion blobs from Pumo's Descent weapon mod)
Improved Multiplayer level transition handling has been improved to avoid players having to wait in the score screen forever

v1.15.114

Fixed Data packets containing information about powerups dropped by destroyed robots weren't properly processed in UDP based games
Fixed Not all players could enter the next level in coop games after a level had been destroyed and the players had gathered in the score display

v1.15.113

Fixed Players sometimes couldn't move in multiplayer games

v1.15.112

Fixed Stuck robots exploded right away instead of trying to free themselves

v1.15.111

Fixed Bossed in Descent 1 levels often self-destructed for no apparent reason when trying to find or destroy the player

v1.15.110

Fixed Transparent objects (like e.g. the modded laser bolts in Pumo Mines) weren't always rendered anymore

v1.15.109

Fixed Some network data wasn't properly processed by a new client connecting to a game host which could cause inconsistencies between host and player game states
Fixed Headlights didn't always work right in multiplayer
Fixed Player name and 'typing' message weren't centered on player ships in multiplayer games
Fixed The game host only sent information about its current ship state (ship type, weapons, damage) when the hosting player first fired a weapon, equipped a another weapon or selected a different ship

v1.15.108

Fixed Player ship data was corrupted after loading a multiplayer save game
Fixed Fixed: You couldn't separately set soft blending for smoke, sprites and sparks as expert user and with highest render quality set
Changed Previously, for gun shots coming in groups (like lasers), only one shot produced an impact sound. Now, each separate shot will produce on (can cause sound to build up)

v1.15.107

Fixed At highest render quality, no particle fx, light trails, coronas or 2D gun shots (sprites) were visible

v1.15.106

Fixed Transparent parts of hires models will now be rendered properly
Fixed The automap wasn't rendered properly anymore
Improved Hires ship headlight beams will now be blurred when glow is enabled

v1.15.105

Fixed The program crashed when trying to load MetalBeast's Wolf Beta 1

v1.15.104

Fixed Object triggers that were to be operated when their object was destroyed weren't operated

v1.15.103

Fixed Triggers often didn't work

v1.15.102

Improved Added code to make sure the game doesn't try to spawn non-existent robots or powerups in materialization centers (and crash when trying to)

v1.15.101

Improved D2X-XL does some plausibility checking on trigger data when reading a level or save game to avoid program crashes caused by faulty level data

v1.15.100

Fixed Particles weren't always rendered properly (stuttering/disappearing particle effects)

v1.15.99

Fixed Shrapnel wasn't rendered any more
Fixed Fire effect wasn't rendered properly

v1.15.98

Fixed Thruster flames often were rendered at a wrong angle or not at all
Improved Displaying a lot of different particle effects will not slow down the game as much as it did before

v1.15.97

Fixed When changing the ship type in-game, the ship subsequently exploded again and again until the game was over

v1.15.96

Fixed The renderer was messed up and the program could crash when hires textures were disabled
Changed Particles emitted in a skybox segment will now disappear when leaving the segment their originating from (this allows better control of where effects and snow are visible)

v1.15.95

Fixed Debris sometimes blocked the player's sight
Improved Debris is handled better

v1.15.94

Fixed Thrusters weren't rendered when glow was set to standard
Fixed Rendering damage lighting with glow resulted in a messed up image

v1.15.93

Fixed The program could crash or hang when loading a level that only contained robot and no geometry triggers
New Added support for rain and snow particles effects
New Added new textures and sounds for rain and snow particle effects (find them in d2x-xl-data-1.15.93.7z)

v1.15.92

Fixed Real-time glow didn't work with camera views
Fixed Changing the camera quality from low to high could result in distorted camera output

v1.15.91

New D2X-XL can now render glow effects (e.g. for lighting, shields and explosions). Enable in the effect options menu (only available at render quality 'high' or better)
Fixed OpenMP versions of the game could hang when rendering lightning
Improved You can now chose two glow quality settings (standard will clip the output area, high will render over the entire screen)

v1.15.90

Fixed Lightning branches weren't properly rendered

v1.15.89

Fixed Faces containing see-through areas became completely transparent when lit with the headlight
New Added a 'readonly' mode where D2X-XL will not try to write any data to disk (will slow down model and level loading). Enable by placing '-readonly' in d2x.ini

v1.15.88

Fixed Exiting a Descent 1 level that had been entered coming from a secret level bumped the players back to the level they just exited

v1.15.87

Improved 3D shield boost powerup is better visible
New Hoard orb can now be rendered as 3D model (sphere)

v1.15.86

Fixed Due to a recent addition, multiplayer was broken
Changed Camera outputs will now only be displayed across their entire face regardless of any resulting distortion
Changed Replaced messages 'Prepare for Descent' with 'Loading...' and 'Setting up Renderer' with 'Prepare for Descent'

v1.15.85

Fixed There was a small bug in ship physics
Fixed The program didn't reliably switch to the screen resolution stored in the active player profile at program start

v1.15.84

Changed When changing the ship in-game, the player will not lose a life, but respawn with the energy and shield the abandoned ship had (up to the maximum allowed for the new ship)
Changed The light fighter will only have a maximum energy capacity of 90/180 units
Changed The light fighter will not be able to carry Fusion guns
Changed The standard ship will not be able to carry triple Fusion guns
Changed Other than in nostalgia mode, the ammo rack will only increase the standard ship's transport capacity by 50% (was 100% before)
New Added support for variable player ship energy capacity
New Added support for third ship type ('heavy fighter' with max. 150/300 shield, max. 120/240 energy, 90% of standard ship speed, built-in ammo rack)
New You can now specify ase model file names for standard, light and heavy fighters in d2x.ini (-medium_ship, -light_ship, -heavy_ship)

v1.15.83

Fixed The program crashed when trying to display the exit door animation during the initial Descent 1 briefing

v1.15.82

Fixed Auxiliary cockpit views were transparent when using unenhanced stereoscopic rendering
Fixed Effects weren't properly rendered when using stereoscopic rendering
Fixed Players who had triple fusions could only drop one fusion gun
Fixed Players who had triple fusions would only drop one fusion when their ship was destroyed
Fixed Savegames weren't properly restored anymore
Fixed Damage lightning wasn't shown all over hires models

v1.15.81

Fixed Auxiliary thrusters didn't fire as they should during certain flight maneuvers
Changed Switching to another ship in-game will cost the player a life

v1.15.80

Fixed Auxiliary views didn't show gun fire, missiles and effects (effects will only be shown at highest render quality)
Changed The inventory can be turned off (meaning invuls and cloaks collected by the player aren't stored but used immediately)
Improved Pressing F4 will now drop markers that do not rotate. CTRL+F4 will drop rotating markers. ALT+CTRL+F4 will drop a spawn marker. CTRL+R in the automap will toggle the highlighted marker's rotation
New Support for Joffa's and MetalBeast's 'Phantom XL' Pyro model (ship can be chosen when creating a new game or in the gameplay options menu)

v1.15.79

Fixed Joystick axes weren't processed properly anymore

v1.15.78

Fixed The program crashed when rendering thrusters
Fixed Laser bolts weren't rendered additively anymore

v1.15.77

Fixed D2X-XL didn't determine correctly whether a compiled model file (modelXXX.bin) was older than the corresponding ASE file
Fixed Missiles were launched too far in front of their mounting points
Fixed Objects weren't always properly lit
Fixed Lightning effects belonging to the last object in the game's object list weren't removed when they should
Fixed When playing a multi-level mission and starting at level X, exiting level X+1 would always bounce you back to level X+1 instead of advancing you to level X+2
Fixed Leaving a D1 secret level could get you to any level (not just the proper next one)
Fixed Reactor countdown didn't work reliably
Changed Removed the fixed physics frame time due to various problems with it

v1.15.76

Fixed Missile smoke was emitted in 'chunks'

v1.15.75

Fixed Objects kept travelling when the game was paused
Fixed Explosion lightning effects didn't disappear and randomly got attached to objects in the mine
Fixed Triggers that were operated by master triggers and that should only affect the player who had operated the master trigger affected all players in multiplayer games
Fixed Using a screen size override different from the screen size stored in the player profile could lead to render faults (missing textures, missing models, etc)
Changed A screen size override from the command line or d2x.ini will now supersede settings from player profiles that are loaded via the menu and remain active until the user explicitly changes the screen resolution
New Added support for directed exits allowing to target any level in a mission and not just the following one
New Added support for segments damaging the shield and decreasing the energy of a player ship

v1.15.74

Improved D2X-XL will now start in fullscreen mode at the highest possible screen resolution (unless told otherwise in d2x.ini)

v1.15.73

Fixed Monitors were misaligned when changing camera quality in-game
Fixed Joystick deadzones weren't properly set after reading a player profile
Fixed Joystick deadzones weren't properly sync'd in the joystick options menu
Fixed Custom screen resolutions will not be messed up anymore
Changed Physics calculations will now be done at at a fixed rate of 40 fps
Improved D2X-XL will now properly offer all available fullscreen resolutions

v1.15.72

Fixed In anaglyph 3D mode controls configuration menus weren't displayed in-game
Changed You can now turn the cockpit's object tally display off in the cockpit options menu

v1.15.71

Fixed D2X-XL will not demand the Vertigo high resolution movie file (d2x-h.mvl) to be present

v1.15.70

Fixed Menu hotkeys for alternative languages didn't work
Fixed English and German language files weren't up to date anymore
Changed Brightness increase for 3D rendering can now be explicitly enabled or disabled in expert mode

v1.15.69

Fixed Occasionally a visible face wasn't rendered (particular if the related side consisted of two rather convex triangles)

v1.15.68

Fixed The program could crash while proceeding to the next level of a Descent 1 mission when using the exit movies and having to compute lightmaps for the new level

v1.15.67

Fixed The program could crash when rendering excessive amounts of smoke while multi-threading was active

v1.15.66

Fixed A bug in robot AI processing could cause program crashes in coop games
Fixed A networking bug that caused objects present in the mine to differ between the participants of coop games
Fixed 'scoregoal' network message processing didn't take increased player count for UDP/IP games into account

v1.15.65

Changed In-level teleports will not use the same destination segment twice in direct succession

v1.15.64

Fixed In anaglyph 3D rendering mode, menus could be partially hidden behind the full cockpit or status bar

v1.15.63

Fixed Small rendering flaws in mouse and joystick config menus
Fixed No transparent and overlay faces were rendered in the fully bright textured automap

v1.15.62

Fixed The program frequently crashed when using a lot of lightning (for Omega cannon or explosions)
Fixed The program occasionally crashed due to a bug in robot AI (when trying to make non-sniping robots snipe)

v1.15.61

Improved Moving lightning bolts around works better now (needed e.g. for Omega lightning and damage lightning)

v1.15.60

Fixed Objects were always rendered fully bright

v1.15.59

Fixed A bug in the renderer could cause segments and objects inside of them to be rendered twice
Fixed Objects were frequently rendered twice when multi-threading was used to render them

v1.15.58

Fixed With anaglyph 3D rendering, ship cockpit and status bar weren't rendered while a menu was opened in-game

v1.15.57

Improved Enhanced brightness adjustment is available for basic lighting now

v1.15.56

Fixed 3D objects sometimes were rendered 'inside out'

v1.15.55

Improved Brightness handling has been improved (screen will look less 'foggy' at high brightness levels)
Improved Brightness will be automatically adjusted for anaglyph 3D rendering to compensate for the brightness loss caused by the glasses

v1.15.54

Fixed Lightning bolts were too fat

v1.15.53

Fixed Every visible object was rendered twice when coronas were enabled
Fixed Shield effect wasn't rendered properly
Fixed Omega lightning impact point will now move around as the ship moves and turns when it isn't locked on a target

v1.15.52

Fixed The high pitched shield warning wasn't played when the shield dropped below 10%
Fixed Path finding erroneously used multi-threading, resulting in choppy rendering
Fixed The program occasionally crashed when a boss spawned robots and the level had object triggers
Fixed The program could crash when hitting the vulnerable spot of the alien boss 2 and the Vertigo end boss

v1.15.51

Fixed Too few sparks were rendered in energy and repair centers
Fixed Shield warning sound will stop to be played after pausing and pausing the game
Changed Removed multithreading toggle ALT+M since it didn't work right anymore due to changes in multithreading

v1.15.50

Fixed 120 fps framecap was reset to 60 when leaving the render options menu

v1.15.49

Fixed Additive textures were rendered several times on top of themselves, causing excessive glow
Fixed The Gatling bullet drop effect could cause program crashes
Changed Explosion lightning doesn't fork
Changed Added 120 fps setting to the render options menu's framecap control

v1.15.48

Fixed Air bubbles were too big
Fixed Basic lighting was broken
Improved Model rendering is significantly faster when three or more threads are available
Improved Sound and robot path finding speed has been doubled

v1.15.47

Fixed D2X-XL was constantly rebuilding lightmaps for level w/o skyboxes

v1.15.46

Fixed Sometimes thruster flames were extremely long and/or big in the automap
Fixed Turning off lightning in-game could crash the OpenMP versions of the program
Improved Position tracking has been accelerated, speeding up particle processing

v1.15.45

Changed Shortened Gatling gun light tracers a bit

v1.15.44

Fixed Monitors didn't show smoke when anaglyph 3D rendering was enabled

v1.15.43

Fixed Bubble particle effects crashed the program
Changed Player thrusters are now purplish (part of the 3D thruster effect made by pokeman7452)
Improved D2X-XL now only uses one thruster texture
Improved Thanks to pokeman7452, the hires Pyro's thruster fan blades rotation looks smoother now (re-download the Pyro)

v1.15.42

Fixed Lightning didn't always properly light its environment
Fixed Some invisible walls that were made visible via a trigger weren't displayed after having been turned visible
Changed Only the smoke particles of fire effects will rotate

v1.15.41

Fixed Overlays on transparent faces weren't always rendered
Fixed Forked lightning rendering was broken

v1.15.40

Fixed The OpenMP versions of the program crashed when Perlin function based lightning was rendered
Fixed The OpenMP versions of the program didn't render Perlin function based lightning properly
Improved Forked lightning looks better

v1.15.39

Fixed Depth blending didn't work right, causing edges where coronas hit walls
Fixed Fire particles were rendered with black or white squares around them at smoke setting 'basic'
Fixed Lightning with style 'jaggy' didn't scale with amplitude
Changed The reticle will now be rendered at screen distance in 3D mode
Changed Player names will not be shown on the ships in Coop games if that option not selected by the game host
Improved Perlin function based lighting looks better

v1.15.38

Fixed With basic lighting only half (one triangle) of each geometry face got rendered
Fixed The headlight could render untextured transparent faces opaque
Fixed Overlay textures sometimes weren' rendered
Fixed The standard D2X-XL version (not the OpenMP ones) swapped the red and blue channels of hires and custom textures
Fixed Light emitting hires textures (e.g. for weapons) didn't emit light (only with the standard D2X-XL version, not the OpenMP ones)
Fixed Perlin function lightning creation (type 'smoothe') didn't work
Fixed Forked lightning rendering didn't work
Improved OpenMP versions will render a bit faster (achieved by reducing max. threads to 4 - hyperthreading just doesn't cut it :P)

v1.15.37

Fixed Non-animated smoke particles didn't rotate
Improved Tweaked missile smoke

v1.15.36

Fixed Dynamic light effects often didn't work
Fixed Flares were miscolored
Fixed File selectors and list boxes caused massive load on the graphics hardware
Fixed The headlight rendered faces transparent and/or white
Changed Powerup coronas are smaller
Changed Toned down headlight glare effect
Improved Missiles use a new, somewhat less obtrusive particle image
New Smoke setting 'full' now properly lights smoke particles, 'standard' renders the smoke always bright (as before)

v1.15.35

Fixed Robot generators never stopped to work (regardless of level type and difficulty level)
Fixed Lightning with plasma didn't have distinct bolts

v1.15.34

Fixed If anaglyph 3D deghosting was set to 'high', neither the mine nor in-game menus were rendered

v1.15.33

Fixed Morphing robots were invisible
Fixed On insane difficulty, robot generators worked forever in Descent 1 missions (they only should in Descent 2 missions)
Improved Lightning rendering is more efficient now
Improved Shrapnel rendering needs less resources
Improved Rocket and robot smoke trails are appearing smoother

v1.15.32

Fixed 2D thruster flames weren't rendered properly
Fixed The program was freezing frequently when turning anaglyph 3D rendering on
Fixed The countdown sequence was initiated when the Guidebot moved through the mine exit
Fixed The cockpit energy bar wasn't always growing shorter as energy got used up
Changed The amount of shrapnel created for an exploding robot will be better balanced

v1.15.31

Fixed Distant transparent stuff wasn't rendered in the automap
Fixed Animated faces weren't animated in the automap
Fixed When the Guidebot shot a (non-permanent) trigger, the trigger was destroyed but not activated
Fixed Omega lightning wasnn't rendered properly
Improved Fire effect looks better

v1.15.30

Fixed Smoke particles close to the player weren't rendered
Fixed Ship engine sound was constantly stuttering
Fixed Ship engine sound wasn't linked to effects sound volume
Fixed Sound volume generally was too low (half of what was set in the sound options menu)
Fixed Setting the sound volume to zero resulted in the sound output volume being maxed out
Improved Added a better jet engine sound

v1.15.29

Fixed When 3D thruster flames were enabled, the screen got cluttered with big white faces
Changed Undamaged player ships will not have a smoke trail anymore when moving
Changed Changing stereo separation (only available in expert mode) in the render options menu will now immediately change the renderer output
New Pyro RL thruster fan blades are rotating now (you need to download and install the updated hires Pyro to see this feature)

v1.15.28

Fixed In free camera mode, splash damage of explosions close to the camera position was applied to the player ship
Fixed The primary weapon wasn't properly displayed in the fullscreen cockpit when graphical cockpit gauges were enabled
Fixed The game often crashed when entering a secret level
Fixed 3D shield orbs weren't rendered
Changed Energy and repair center lightning effect will only be shown when the player ship in them actually gets recharged

v1.15.27

Fixed Player explosion packets when a player was leaving the game weren't properly formed
Fixed Overlays weren't always rendered properly
Fixed Fusion damage wasn't handled properly in multiplayer games
Fixed Fusion lightning effects weren't properly displayed in UDP/IP multiplayer games
Fixed Shield spheres were too dark
Fixed The program occasionally crashed (usually during combat)
Fixed Some HUD texts weren't drawn
Fixed No geometry was rendered during demo playback
Fixed Particle effects that should be visible weren't rendered on rare occasions
Fixed You couldn't should proximity bombs and smart mines when they were rendered as 2D sprites
Fixed Hitbox collision was used in nostalgia/pureD2 mode if it had been selected in a game session using standard mode before
Fixed The advanced damage model was used in nostalgia/pureD2 mode if it had been selected in a game session using standard mode before
Fixed Radar sometimes was incompletely rendered
Improved Static effects will now be rendered during demo playback
Improved The particle system will utilize multicore CPUs better and hence render particle effects (particularly smoke) faster
Improved Smoke effects fade out smoother
Improved Lightning looks better
Improved Lightning is rendered faster

v1.15.26

Fixed D2X-XL didn't always find the Descent 1 briefing movies
Fixed Briefing robots weren't rendered properly (had no textures)

v1.15.25

Changed No data will be read from the binary player profile (*.plr) except the info about the highest level a player has reached in each mission he has played

v1.15.24

Fixed Rendering 3D shield spheres could freeze the program

v1.15.23

Fixed Non-polygonal energy weapon shots weren't rendered
Fixed Smoke was flickering

v1.15.22

Fixed Smoke was still rendered with black squares around it in the 64 bit program version
Improved Effects are rendered somewhat faster in anaglyph 3D

v1.15.21

Fixed A flaw in the shader manager led to shader effects not always working properly (e.g. causing black squares around smoke particles)

v1.15.20

Fixed No transparent stuff was rendered when enabling and then disabling anaglyph 3D rendering
Fixed The game crashed when spawning robots in a materialization center

v1.15.19

Fixed Player ship orientation wasn't properly rendered in the automap when the wireframe was shown
Fixed Robot and powerup positions weren't rendered in the automap when the wireframe was shown
Fixed Powerup coronas often weren't rendered at all or had the wrong color
Fixed Sound wasn't controlled via an extra thread any more, causing stuttering when entering or leaving slow motion

v1.15.18

Fixed The program could crash when loading a level if basic lighting was selected

v1.15.17

Fixed Anaglyph rendering didn't work anymore
Fixed 2D powerups weren't rendered anymore
Fixed Shield spheres weren't rendered anymore
Improved Non-enhanced anaglyph rendering is faster now
New Command line switch '-quad_buffering' to enable quad buffered stereo rendering on graphics hardware supporting it

v1.15.16

Fixed With standard lighting many faces weren't rendered
Fixed Disabling all effects in-game didn't turn off energy sparks, but enabled the old style energy sparks
Improved The renderer keeps track of all relevant OpenGL states
Improved The renderer only uses client side render buffers now
Improved The automap wireframe is rendered about 50% faster now

v1.15.15

Improved The automap will be rendered faster when many faces are visible

v1.15.14

Fixed Thrusters shone through objects when render quality was set to highest and smoke was rendered
Changed Removed support for red/blue and red/green anaglyph 3D glasses
Changed Removed the command line option '-expertmode'
New Added an expert mode control to the misc options menu giving access to additional menu options
New Added support for green/magenta anaglyph 3D glasses
New Implemented quad buffered rendering for shutter glasses (not available on all hardware)
New Implemented Dubois optimization for red/cyan anaglyph rendering

v1.15.13

Changed If expert mode is not enabled, only the 3D glasses type can be changed (all other settings default to reasonable values)

v1.15.12

Fixed Stereo separation and screen distance will not be reset anymore when turning off anaglyph 3D rendering
Fixed Robot appearance effect wasn't rendered properly (alpha instead of additively blended)

v1.15.11

Fixed No spheres for player ships, powerups and other objects were rendered in the wireframe automap
Fixed Light and smoke trails weren't properly blended

v1.15.10

Improved Shader management has been optimized, resulting in fewer shader switches
Improved Renderer draws faces with and without overlays in two separate passes to minimizes shader switches
Improved Depth blended rendering of smoke and energy sparks creates significantly less shader switches

v1.15.9

Fixed Particles were distorted (twice as wide as high)

v1.15.8

Fixed The program could crash when the player encountered robots w/o weapons
Fixed The program could crash when trying to render a powerup that uses D2X-XL addon bitmaps
Changed Homing missiles will turn a bit less aggressively
Improved Reticle distance looks better in anaglyph 3D rendering

v1.15.7

Fixed Frequent crashes during multiplayer games
Fixed Multiplayer messages weren't displayed while being typed
Fixed Framerate, marker messages and cruise state weren't displayed

v1.15.6

Improved Asymmetric frustum will now be properly set for anaglyph 3D rendering
New Added toe in projection for anaglyph 3D rendering (may provide better stereo separation for distant structures at the cost of a negligible distortion of the view)
New Added options to chose anaglyph 3D rendering projection and screen distance

v1.15.5

Fixed Game crashed in pureD2 mode (apparently nobody uses this mode ...)
Fixed You couldn't turn off missile lock indicators

v1.15.4

Fixed No cockpit was rendered in blue/red and green/red anaglyph 3D modes
Fixed The game crashed when trying to select 3D glasses if no glasses had been chosen before
Fixed The program could freeze when a lot of smoke effects were visible

v1.15.3

Fixed No cockpit was shown when menus were opened in-game
Fixed Cockpit window background wasn't properly cleared in anaglyph 3D rendering mode
Fixed The HUD overlaid the automap
Changed The reticle will not be displayed while menus are open in-game
Improved Stereo separation can now be set in smaller steps (a smaller stereo separation creates less ghosting)

v1.15.2

Fixed Rendering cockpit windows messed up the anaglyph 3D view

v1.15.1

Fixed Vulcan ammo was getting less and less during multiplayer games.
Changed Vulcam ammo can only be picked up if the player can take the entire clip
Improved Added support for more anaglyph 3D glasses
Improved Added enhanced anaglyph rendering mode and anaglyph rendering brightness adjustment

v1.15.0 — Anaglyph 3D Rendering introduced.

Improved Mine walls will not disappear any more when using the chase cam view (except when the view point is out of the mine)
New Added support for anaglyph based 3D rendering (experimental; control it via the render options menu)

v1.14 202 releases

v1.14.204

Fixed The OpenMP versions of the program could hang when trying to display the automap

v1.14.203

Fixed The program crashed when opening the cockpit options menu after having played a game
Fixed When using the enter key as a ship control, no text was printed in that control's field in the input configuration dialog

v1.14.202

Fixed With standard lighting, levels were only partially lit by the OpenMP versions of D2X-XL
Fixed Camera outputs were sometimes displayed rotated sideways

v1.14.201

Fixed The program could hang when a level contained equipment generators
Fixed The afterburner sound wasn't played reliably in multiplayer games

v1.14.200

Fixed D2X-XL will not place powerups half in walls any more

v1.14.199

Fixed When the game host had turned on radar in multiplayer games, it was always displayed at the radar position on the game host's cockpit
Changed Fixed spawn points and powerup respawn delays can now be set in the multiplayer D2X options menu
New Cockpit window types can now be set in the cockpit settings menu

v1.14.197

Fixed The program could freeze when a player ship was destroyed

v1.14.196

Fixed D2X-XL could crash when loading levels containing invalid triggers
Fixed Vulcan/Gauss ammo was set to 5000 when loading a savegame while Vulcan/Gauss were set as built-in equipment
Improved Savegames now contain information whether mod usage was enabled for the saved mission

v1.14.195

Fixed You cannot change the built-in equipment settings in-game during non-coop multiplayer sessions anymore

v1.14.194

Fixed The program could freeze when a player ship was destroyed

v1.14.193

Fixed Powerups will not be able to float into blocked segments anymore
Improved Savegames will not be written each time a player dies anymore during UDP/IP multiplayer games, thus reducing potential temporary program freezes

v1.14.192

Fixed Textures sometimes were partially messed up (had gray stripes)
Fixed OGG music wasn't played by the 64 bit versions of D2X-XL

v1.14.191

Fixed A bug in the sound channel management could cause sound problems and program crashes

v1.14.190

Fixed OpenMP version of D2X-XL crashed on Linux
Changed Disabling setup test (with '-check_setup 0') will now completely disable message boxes on Linux, this avoiding any OpenMotif related problems

v1.14.189

Fixed Kills in multiplayer games crashed the game
Fixed D2X-XL could crash when OpenMP multithreading was enabled and more than two cores were available

v1.14.188

Fixed Mines dropped randomly by destroyed player ships in multiplayer games sometimes moved extremely fast for the other participants

v1.14.187

Improved Stuff dropped by an exploding player ship will now behave more similar (e.g. drift to the same directions) for all participants of a multiplayer game

v1.14.186

Fixed Sometimes powerups that should have been dropped weren't in multiplayer games
Fixed Player profile occasionally got damaged after multiplayer games
Fixed If cheats had been enabled for multiplayer games, they even worked in competition mode
Improved In UDP/IP multiplayer games, stuff dropped by an exploding player will not be created randomly by each participant, but will be replicated and behave exactly as it does for the exploding player (Descent 2 handled this differently to reduce network load)

v1.14.185

Changed Decreased UDP/IP packet size

v1.14.184

Improved Joining netgames has been accelerated
New Packet loss is displaye on the HUD in multiplayer games

v1.14.183

Fixed The program crashed when trying to connect to a game host

v1.14.182

Fixed Powerups etc. disappearing too soon in multiplayer games
Fixed Multiplayer games getting out of sync and players being unable to join and/or sync properly with a running game
Fixed Game crashing on Linux when displaying OpenMotif message boxes
Changed Multiplayer game sync'ing packets will now be sent faster (depending on the host's packets per second setting)
Changed Plasma blobs will fly straight again

v1.14.181

Fixed The game crashed when connection errors occured while starting or joining a multiplayer game

v1.14.180

Changed Plasma projectiles will follow a spiraling trajectory (only singleplayer and if the Plasma gun hasn't been modded)
Improved Objects will be removed from multiplayer games more reliably

v1.14.179

Fixed Missions with long names could crash the program in the new game menu
Fixed Player names were cut off in the HUD

v1.14.178

Fixed Sorting players by score didn't work
Fixed Sometimes ships of disconnected players remained visible
Fixed The netgame info dialogs didn't work

v1.14.177

Fixed Teams didn't get balanced when new players joined

v1.14.176

Fixed The score goal was too low
Fixed Presence of demo data wasn't properly checked
Fixed Presence of addon texture data wasn't properly checked
Fixed A few Linux related issues

v1.14.175

Fixed Players were always put on the blue team in team games

v1.14.174

Fixed The multiplayer game host's maximum play time setting didn't stick and D2X-XL always assumed 5 minutes

v1.14.173

Fixed Multiplayer games could only be joined by one player less than allowed by the game host even if the level allowed for more
Fixed Player colors weren't shown on low resolution ships in multiplayer games

v1.14.172

Fixed Player ship colors and cockpit elements weren't rendered properly in multiplayer games for players 9 and up

v1.14.171

Fixed Players who joined a multiplayer game after another player had been disconnected could have the wrong ship colors

v1.14.170

Fixed The game crashed when the ninth player entered a multiplayer game

v1.14.169

Fixed D2X-XL always used only 8 player start positions even if there were more in a level
Improved D2X-XL will now disconnect any players in excess of a level's start positions that had been admitted to the game by the host before launching the game
Improved D2X-XL will not admit players in excess of a level's start positions to a game in progress

v1.14.168

Fixed When trying to join a multiplayer game, players always got an error message about a level version mismatch

v1.14.167

Improved D2X-XL will now use max. 8 players in standard level and max. 16 players in D2X-XL levels, thus staying compatible with other Descent 2 versions

v1.14.166

Changed D2X-XL will now support up to 16 players in multiplayer games

v1.14.165

Fixed When thief bots were suppressed, vital items carried by thief bots in a mine (like e.g. keys) weren't dropped

v1.14.164

Improved Score goal will be checked even if the reactor has been destroyed

v1.14.163

Improved D2X-XL will now check the kill goal in multiplayer games more reliably

v1.14.162

Improved D2X-XL will try to check TGA image integrity and only read valid image files

v1.14.160

Fixed Transparency wasn't rendered properly in single threaded mode
(Delete the contents of the subfolders 256, 128 and 64 of the textures folder if you are experiencing this problem)

v1.14.159

Fixed Object triggers could get messed up when being loaded from savegames

v1.14.158

Changed Increased max. segment count to 8000
Improved Waterfall effect rendering

v1.14.157

Fixed Object trigger actions depending on the object being damaged to a certain amount weren't executed
Improved Savegame loader is more stable when encountering messed up boss data

v1.14.156

Improved Object trigger handling is more robust now

v1.14.155

Fixed Bosses that didn't end the level didn't die
Fixed Bosses that didn't end the level when destroyed and were spawned in robot generators didn't fire
Fixed The program could crash when bosses were spawned in robot generators

v1.14.154

Fixed Master trigger semaphores didn't work
Fixed Recently gained score wasn't displayed properly
Changed Teleporting to a marker now costs 50.5 energy and 25.5 shield
Changed Robot triggers cannot be delayed

v1.14.153

Fixed D2X-XL will now take proper care of semaphores for master triggers from older level and savegame versions

v1.14.152

Fixed Master trigger semaphores didn't work right, causing master triggers to be erroneously activated

v1.14.151

New Added a semaphore value to master triggers (the trigger will only be enabled when the semaphore is zero)

v1.14.150

Fixed Fixed: Robot master triggers now work

v1.14.149

Fixed The ship could be driven halfway into huge faces
Fixed Boss robots had no explosion sounds during their death roll and when detonating

v1.14.148

Fixed Shots and flares often didn't pass through gaps in textures (e.g. grates or fans)

v1.14.147

Improved Static smoke will not pop up when emerging anymore, but fade in softly

v1.14.146

New Added waterfall particle effect
Note Updated: New OS X version available

v1.14.145

New Added support for robots with boss behaviour that do not end a level

v1.14.144

New Added two D2X-XL addon sounds ('computer.wav' and 'energy.wav')

v1.14.143

Fixed Effects didn't work any more

v1.14.142

Fixed One-shot flythrough sound triggers still didn't work

v1.14.141

Fixed '-check_setup 0' had no effect (important: This option only has an effect when used from the command line, not from d2x.ini!)
Fixed Gatling smoke trails were rendered even if smoke effects were completely disabled

v1.14.140

Fixed 2D hostages weren't always properly lit
Fixed One-shot fly through sound triggers didn't work
New Autoplay teleport object triggers will be executed at level start, causing the object to appear in one of the teleport trigger's target segments
New Normal triggers can now point to objects (currently only working for enable and disable triggers pointing to effect objects, allowing to toggle their effects)

v1.14.139

New Added command line option '-check_setup {0|1}', disabling (0) or enabling (1) D2X-XL's check for required files and copying them to their proper subfolders

v1.14.138

Fixed Collisions with powerups could cause critical damage

v1.14.137

Fixed A spurious crash when leaving the game with the resolution set to 1920x1200
Fixed A crash in the netgame options menu when the hoard data wasn' available
Fixed Collisions with powerups could cause critical damage
Fixed Afterburner charge wasn't set to maximum when having the afterburner (as built-in equipment) and respawning or entering a new level
Changed Increased the maximum number of missions in the mission list from 300 to 500

v1.14.136

Fixed Permanent sounds that had been started via a sound trigger weren't played anymore when loading a save game that had been taken with the sounds playing

v1.14.135

New Added fire particle effect (feel free to make a better one ;)
New Added fire sound to D2X-XL sound files ('sounds2/d2x-xl/fire.wav'), allowing to add a fitting sound to fire particle effects

v1.14.134

Fixed The framerate display always was enabled when starting or loading a game
New D2X-XL will now print the message 'Press F1 for help in menus' in menu screens

v1.14.133

Improved In standard Descent, Vulcan ammo packs collected in multiplayer games weren't respawned when the ammo contained in them was used up by a player; D2X-XL will now keep track of Vulcan ammo collected and used up and respawn Vulcan ammo packs just like missiles

v1.14.132

Fixed Hires sounds were loaded if present even if hires sound was disabled via d2x.ini
Fixed Capturing a flag scored only one instead of five points

v1.14.131

Fixed A bug in the sound system causing choppy sound after extended periods of intense fighting

v1.14.130

Changed Moved d2x-xl specific sounds to sounds2d2x-xl
Improved Sound handling
New Added a bunch of d2x-xl addon sounds
New Added volume control for ambient sound to sound & music options menu

v1.14.129

New Sound creation for triggered events can now be suppressed

v1.14.128

Improved Homing missile turn speed will be constant even at less than 40 fps

v1.14.127

Fixed Triggered sounds that should have only been played once were replayed everytime a savegame containing such triggers was loaded
Fixed Trigger sounds weren't played anymore
Fixed Sound from ambient sound sources was crackling and building up

v1.14.125

Fixed When a save game was restored that had been saved with the player having acquired a super laser while lasers were set as built-in weapons, the player lost the super laser
Fixed The program crashed in multiplayer when a player picked up a missile four pack, giving him more missiles than he could carry and the program tried to leave the excess missiles in the mine
Fixed Faces were flickering at highest render quality when viewed close up
New Added support for sound effect objects

v1.14.124

Fixed In the physics options menu, auto-Levelling mode 'to mine' didn't stick
Fixed Corrected the auto-levelling menu help texts

v1.14.123

Fixed Ogg music wasn't always played on Windows Vista and Windows 7 (d2x.ini:-midifix 1 required)
Fixed Unless effects volume was explicitly changed in the sound options menu, there was no sound in movies, briefings and levels when the game was run with midifix and music was turned off

v1.14.122

Fixed The HUD stayed turned off after Descent 1 exit sequences
Fixed The self extracting D2X-XL installation archive couldn't be launched on Windows 7

v1.14.121

Changed Addon textures will not be considered vital for program operation anymore
Improved Added graphical message boxes for Linux

v1.14.120

Fixed The program hung when a plr file was found in its main folder
Fixed The setup check will now detect the Descent 2 demo files
Fixed Downloading program updates didn't work anymore

v1.14.119

Fixed Flash effects were sometimes taken into the menus
Fixed Damage icons were visible after the player's death
Fixed The sound system didn't always properly update permanent sounds
Changed Only the player ship will have blue thruster flames now, all other objects have orange ones

v1.14.118

New Added update checking for Linux (newer source packages will only be downloaded, unpacking it and building the program is up to the user)

v1.14.117

Fixed With basic lighting D2X-XL kept rendering coronas for lights that had been turned off via a trigger
Fixed The new game menu's 'enable mod' checkbox had not always been properly displayed or hidden
Changed The file descent.cfg will not be considered vital for a D2X-XL installation anymore as it will be created by D2X-XL when it is missing

v1.14.116

New Added a check for program updates and a function to download and install program updates (Windows only)
New Added a file setup check for Linux

v1.14.115

Fixed D2X-XL was considering descent2.p11 and descent2.p22 vital and was terminated when it couldn't find them, but actually they aren't
Fixed The new game menu offered an invalid level range when being opened after a network game had been played
Fixed In Descent 1 missions robots that were at some distance fired huge salvos at the player

v1.14.114

Fixed When the minemine cheat was active, no powerups were dropped by robots. That included keys and other important stuff, which now will be dropped regardless of the minemine cheat
New D2X-XL will now check whether all required files are available and create any required folders and copy those files there if necessary. Depending on what files are missing, a list of those files will be displayed and D2X-XL will terminate if vital files aren't available. Please note that this feature currently is only available for the MS Windows version and also works with the -userdir parameter.

v1.14.113

Fixed Multicast networking didn't work properly
Fixed Multiplayer game data formats were incompatible across hardware platforms and operating systems

v1.14.112

Fixed The number of available threads with OpenMP wasn't properly determined
Fixed The 32 bit and 64 bit D2X-XL version's mesh files were different
Fixed Multicast netgames didn't work properly
Fixed Under certain circumstances the game host's multiplayer options menu would be rapidly redrawn and the program would hang
New On Windows Vista and Windows 7 you can make D2X-XL control the general sound and midi volumes separately by setting the command line switch -midifix ([0|1})

v1.14.111

Fixed In Descent 1 missions sometimes shots were fired at the player from out of nowhere
Fixed The shadows setting was reset from 'full' to 'basic' when D2X-XL was restarted
Fixed UDP networking didn't work in the 64 bit program versions

v1.14.110

Fixed The new game menu didn't always offer the option to start a new game at any level up to the highest level the player had explored in that mission

v1.14.109

Fixed The OpenMP and Intel versions crashed when robots were destroyed while explosion shrapnel was enabled

v1.14.108

Fixed Non-permanent sounds started via a trigger were re-started everytime the game was paused, the player respawned or a savegame was loaded

v1.14.107

Fixed D2X-XL now properly processes the -userdir parameter, allowing it to be run from an arbitrary location and not just the D2X-XL installation root folder
Fixed D2X-XL crashed when using more than two threads
Fixed The program froze when multi-threading was used and a robot was destroyed with full lightning effects being enabled

v1.14.106

Fixed Permanent sound triggers didn't work at all anymore
Fixed The in-menu help text for the framecap/V-Sync control is now correct
New Added a D2X-XL version for 64 bit Windows

v1.14.105

Fixed Faces with transparency controlled by an alpha channel were opaque
Fixed OMP and Intel versions were freezing when lightning was visible or at least casting light on the scene
Fixed Permanent sound triggers wouldn't start a sound when being shot again after having played their sound

v1.14.104

Fixed Modded D1 robots that should do a death roll didn't disappear after having been killed
Fixed When launching the same D1 missions several times from the new game menu, a Descent 1 mod wasn't loaded during any but the first launch even if specified in the new game menu

v1.14.103

Fixed No sound was audible when loading a Descent 1 savegame from the main menu
Improved Made sure that hires textures with small flaws in their alpha channels were not erroneously considered transparent (which could cause robots behind closed doors to see the player)

v1.14.102

Fixed OpenMP versions crashed when executing parallel code
Improved You can now set the number of cores available to D2X-XL with the -multithreaded switch

v1.14.101

Fixed The 'show reticle' option got enabled each time the cockpit options menu was left

v1.14.100

Fixed Transparent polygonal models (e.g. laser shots) were opaque when rendered against smoke
Fixed Cockpit bitmaps weren't filtered and hence looked very 'low res'
Changed You can disable the reticle again in the cockpit options menu

v1.14.99

Fixed Unchecking the 'enable effects' checkbox in the effect options menu didn't turn coronas off
Fixed Powerups were rendered as low res models when effects had been globally turned off in the effect options menu
New d2x-xl-w32-omp.exe offers multithreading that will scale better with available CPUs/CPU cores (don't use on systems with more than 4 cores total)

v1.14.98

Fixed Transparent faces were visible through walls at highest render quality when smoke was rendered

v1.14.97

Fixed Transparent faces were too dark or not rendered at all with per pixel lighting when smoke was visible

v1.14.96

Fixed Invoking the render options menu in-game could crash the program

v1.14.95

Fixed The warning sound on low shields option didn't stick when entering the new game menu and leaving it without starting a game
Improved Tweaked the explosion blast effect (d2x-xl data update required)
New Added a checkbox to the effect options menu allowing to completely turn all effects off (smoke, lightning, coronas, energy shields, light trails, gatling tracers, energy sparks, etc.)

v1.14.94

Fixed The framerate setting in the render options menu didn't stick when expertmode had been set in d2x.ini
Changed Particle light trails are a bit shorter
New Added a light color control to the render options menu allowing to turn off colored light or turn off colored light for wreapons only or overall

v1.14.93

Fixed Lightmap calculation did not properly handle custom textures containing transparency -> textures will now be loaded before computing lightmaps
New Added support for 'autoplay' triggers (i.e. triggers that are automatically operated by D2X-XL - feature is intended to be used in conjunction with timed triggers)

v1.14.92

Fixed Coronas of dim lights were too dark

v1.14.91

Fixed The framecap slider didn't work properly in notebook-friendly mode

v1.14.90

Fixed Flat shaded (untextured) faces of polymodels were plain white (e.g. laser shots)

v1.14.89

Fixed D2X-XL didn't properly compute lighting for objects, often displaying them too dark
Fixed Camera outputs sometimes were rendered all over the mine
Changed Demo recording will now be stopped when the player leaves the current level
Improved D2X-XL will now detect more reliably when to recompute a level's light data, lightmaps and meshes

v1.14.88

Fixed The game could crash at higher AI aggressivity settings when the player attacked a reactor

v1.14.87

Fixed Close door triggers could cause program crashes
Changed In D2X-XL levels, close door triggers will now immediately start closing the doors they target

v1.14.86

Fixed Delayed triggers only worked if the delay was more (instead of less) than 15 minutes

v1.14.85

Improved Upscaled demo data fonts now are better readable
Changed Trigger delays will only be recognized in D2X-XL levels
Changed Limited max. trigger delay to 15 minutes

v1.14.84

Fixed The standard game sounds weren't played right
Fixed When using the demo data, there was no sound at all

v1.14.83

Fixed D2X-XL didn't work with the demo data anymore
Improved Fonts are scaled up when using the demo data

v1.14.82

Fixed Ambient sounds weren't played anymore
Fixed Descent 1 levels often didn't load

v1.14.81

New Provided a Descent 1 or 2 mod is available it can be selected for use with unmodded missions
New Added blue and red thruster flames to d2x-xl.hog (blue is default)
New Added INSTALL file with installation instructions for Linux to the source archive

v1.14.80

Fixed The game froze when using the rear view
Fixed Doors that were set to open in DLE-XP were rendered as closed
Fixed Automatic doors that were set to open in DLE-XP didn't automatically close after a while

v1.14.79

Fixed The headlight didn't work right with transparent faces
Fixed Loading savegames often resulted in crashes
Fixed D2X-XL occasionally hung when trying to quit from a level

v1.14.78

Fixed Guns and missiles often didn't respawn properly in multiplayer games
Fixed Illusionary lava walls damaged the player even when disabled
Fixed Shield damage and energy drain triggers affected every player in multiplayer games and not just the one activating them
Fixed Lightning that was set to be mute started to emit sound after the player had died
Fixed Players didn't die when shield damage triggers reduced their shields below zero
Fixed Blinking lights worked reversed from what was set with DLE-XP
Fixed If the width/height ratio of the render window was very big, faces at the periphery of vision often weren't rendered
Changed Shield damage triggers now add/subtract the given percentage of a player ship's default shields (100) to/from the ship activating the trigger

v1.14.77

Fixed The new delayed trigger code could cause crashes when countdown, message or sound triggers were operated
Changed Triggers with a delay time of less than 100 ms will not be delayed
Changed Added the loadout options submenu back into the gameplay menu

v1.14.76

Fixed Delayed triggers with a delay of less than 750 ms weren't operated
Fixed The demo file format now properly handles the additional 'multiplayer' wall flag

v1.14.75

Fixed If there were more than one marker in the mine, only the first rotated
New Added support for doors that ignore markers sitting in them when closing
New Added support for timed triggers
New Added support for multiplayer-only objects
New Added support for triggers that enable and disable other triggers

v1.14.74

Fixed Sometimes a displaced shield glow effect was rendered
Improved At other than standard AI aggressivity, robots will notice the player when his headlight is on
Improved At other than standard AI aggressivity, robots will notice the player from behind when he is very close to them

v1.14.73

Fixed Master triggers weren't permanent even if having been marked as such in DLE-XP
Fixed Faces bearing energy sparks as secondary texture weren't rendered when the energy spark effect was enabled

v1.14.72

Fixed The program could crash when a robot was destroyed

v1.14.71

Changed The reticle will not highlight anymore when pointing at cloaked targets
Improved Boss robots won't cloak during their death roll anymore

v1.14.70

Improved Mods will now be generally enabled for custom missions and can be enabled for built-in missions in the new game menu

v1.14.69

Fixed Lightmap calculation was broken

v1.14.68

Fixed Advanced coronas sometimes had sharp edges
Fixed Soft particle rendering didn't always work as intended

v1.14.67

Fixed Scaled up HUD texts were spilling over in adjacent HUD areas when another than the highest corona quality was used

v1.14.66

Fixed No reticle was displayed when the new additional reticle bitmaps weren't present
Fixed Shields weren't properly rendered when no shader support was available
Fixed Guns weren't firing properly anymore (projectiles were missing)
Fixed Smoke wasn't rendered properly when shader support was unavailable
Changed Decreased the time a shield is visible after a hit when no shader support is available

v1.14.65

New D2X-XL can highlight the reticle in red when a target is in the player's line of fire (single player and coop only; install the new hires reticle textures to enable this feature)

v1.14.64

Fixed The renderer goofed up when moving to the next level or loading a savegame in-game

v1.14.63

Fixed D2X-XL potentially didn't properly connect to other Descent 2 versions in multiplayer games due to a small incompatibility
Changed Simplified the transparency renderer to avoid rendering flaws

v1.14.62

Fixed The program could crash in pureD2 mode or on hardware not offering sufficient shader support
Fixed Scaled up HUD texts were too wide in pureD2 mode, clobbering the cockpit display

v1.14.61

Fixed Incompatibilities to other Descent 2 versions in the vector math prohibiting playing multiplayer games with users of other Descent 2 versions
Fixed Transparency still wasn't rendered properly in single threaded mode
Fixed Picking up powerups or killing robots could crash the game

v1.14.60

Fixed D2X-XL could produce rendering flaws with standard lighting and on hardware not supporting shader programs

v1.14.59

Fixed Robots didn't fire through grates in Descent 2 levels

v1.14.58

Fixed The program could crash when rendering cloaked objects with damage lightning
Fixed Not all visible faces were rendered in huge levels when multithreading was enabled and standard lighting was chosen

v1.14.57

Fixed The program could crash when rendering shield effects while a skybox is visible

v1.14.56

Changed You now have better fine control over the frame rate in notebook-friendly mode

v1.14.55

Fixed Critical damage wasn't reset when a player ship respawned after it had been destroyed

v1.14.54

Improved Increased stability due to rewritten OpenGL interface (should fix crashes on NVidia hardware when firing missiles)

v1.14.53

Fixed Memory constantly decreasing due to a (probably graphics driver related) flaw in object rendering
Fixed Moved the critical damage icon a little down to avoid overlapping with the reticle's single missile indicator
Fixed A few text position and alignment issues in the cockpits occuring when scaling up texts

v1.14.52

Fixed Removed some lag occurring after entering or loading a new level by preloading all addon sounds

v1.14.51

Fixed Some guns still didn't consume ammo
Fixed Built-in equipped guns weren't properly handled when removing excess powerups in multiplayer games

v1.14.50

Fixed Gauss and Vulcan as well as a few energy weapons did not consume ammo
Fixed Shield and energy drain triggers were handled the wrong way round for both D1 and D2 (values were added instead of subtracted)
Fixed The critical damage repair delay wasn't properly saved and restored from savegames
Improved D2X-XL will now process all properties of Descent 1 triggers that have multiple flags set

v1.14.49

Changed Critical damage now gets repaired faster (1.5 secs delay between each repair)
Improved Tweaked critical the damage system
Improved Texts in full and statusbar cockpits are now scaled according to game window resolution
New When graphical gauges are disabled, numerical critical damage values are displayed below the reticle

v1.14.48

Fixed Once charged, the Fusion cannon stayed charged
Changed The critical damage icon will now be shown right below the reticle
Changed Critical damage repair time has been decreased to two seconds per health increase
Changed Green damage icon now denotes full health, yellow means minor, red significant and purple severe damage
Improved The damage icon now looks way better
New Added Fusion overcharge lightning effect (only with full lightning effect setting)

v1.14.47

Changed Robots are less likely to target other robots due to critical aim damage
Improved The zoom reticle now will only light up when targeting robots, reactors and opponents
New Critical damage will be repaired at a rate of 1 step every 3 seconds (repair amount per step equal to damage amount per hit)
New Added a critical damage display to the HUD
New Added alignment to mine option back in and reorganized alignment settings
New Added '-nomusic' ini switch to completely disable MIDI music

v1.14.46

Improved Light calculation has been significantly improved

v1.14.45

Fixed The light visibility handling caused light sources to light areas invisible to them
Fixed Light emitting faces cast speculars on themselves which could cause lighting flaws
Improved Robots attacking other robots should now work better
New Added an enhanced damage model (enable in physics options menu)

v1.14.44

Fixed Advanced collision handling didn't work properly
Fixed Shield effect didn't work properly with advanced collision detection
Fixed Cockpit windows will not be displayed for full screen HUDs in zoom mode
Improved Tweaked new lightmap calculation method

v1.14.43

Fixed Rounding error induced flaws in lightmaps caused dark spots where there should have been light
Changed Lightmaps now will shine through doors - that seems to be the better compromise
Improved Prettified the zoom scope

v1.14.42

Improved Standard (non-particle based) light trail appearance

v1.14.41

Fixed Faces adjacent to light emitting faces were too dark when using lightmaps
Changed Added a scope to the zoomed view

v1.14.40

Fixed Program crashed when last digit of 'DetailLevels' in descent.cfg (sound channel code) was less than 4
Fixed Check box changes did not stick in the sound and music settings menu when a slider was changed after the change
Changed Low shields warning sound option (sound and music settings) will now only be displayed in the when graphical gauges are enabled (cockpit settings)
Changed Tweaked missile smoke
Changed Faces with a light emitting texture as base texture and no light emitting overlay texture will be considered 'ambiently lit' and not light other such faces (that way you can create some background light without ugly artifacts)
Improved Shields now only light up around the point where they were hit
Improved Lightmap generation now takes the actual shape of light emitting faces into account
New Zoom crosshairs now light up red when a target is in the line of fire

v1.14.39

Fixed Some weapons didn't fire properly anymore

v1.14.38

Fixed Zooming out when switching to a weapon that doesn't support zoom now works properly
Changed Made missile smoke particles somewhat smaller
Improved Made the 3D thruster shorter
New Added a special reticle for zoom mode

v1.14.37

Fixed Missiles, lasers and fusion shots could go through walls if the muzzle or launch pod they came from were close enough to that wall
Improved 3D thruster flame now is textured and looks better

v1.14.36

Fixed The program crashed when destroying a blastable wall that had no wall at its opposite side

v1.14.35

Fixed Enhanced collision handling caused objects to have difficulties separating after a collision
Fixed Enhanced collision handling caused the player to be slowed down when hit from behind
Fixed The sound system could saturate, keeping to play sounds that should have been stopped
Fixed 3D shield powerups didn't move when dropped by a robot (most apparent when all shields dropped by the thief stayed in the same place, overlapping each other)
Changed The 'minemine' cheat will not turn invisibility on anymore
New Added zoom and headlight switch sounds

v1.14.34

Fixed Monitors were rendered even if they were invisible for the player
Fixed The missile lock indicator (rotating triangles) wasn't reliably rendered if monitors were visible
Changed The player ship won't shake under water if no thrust is applied
Changed To prevent the mine being spammed with powerups, no powerups are created or dropped while the player uses the 'minemine' cheat

v1.14.33

Fixed Monsterball didn't respawn in its initial location after a team has scored
Changed Re-simplified hit detection and collision handling (standard hit detection includes standard collision handling, advanced hit detection means advanced collision handling)

v1.14.32

Fixed Improved hit detection occasionally bounced the player around like mad
Improved Separated collision handling from hit detection in the physics menu
Improved Collision handling
Improved Homing weapons will now track monsterballs

v1.14.31

Fixed Cockpit windows were visible when the dead player camera view was used
Fixed Player ship lightnings weren't shown when spectating in free camera mode
Fixed Omega lightnings weren't rendered when mod data was available for the mission being played
Improved If cockpit window position is set to center and two windows are to be displayed, D2X-XL will move them apart to make them both visible

v1.14.30

Fixed The player ship could still be driven into some walls (e.g. the big pipes in Boiling Point's first level)

v1.14.29

Fixed The player ship and robots could be driven half into walls and the player couldn't fire his weapons

v1.14.28

Fixed (Hires) missile size values were too large, resulting in missiles not being able to pass through narrow passages like in the original game
Fixed Smooth zoom setting again didn't stick

v1.14.27

Fixed The program crashed while loading levels

v1.14.26

Fixed D2X-XL could crash when trying to operate triggers changing non-existant walls
Fixed D2X-XL didn't always play the proper level song, particularly for secret levels
Fixed You couldn't disable SDL_mixer usage via d2x.ini
Fixed Player names in HUD weren't always rendered on top of the player ships
Fixed New and rejoyning players were added to teams using auto balancing when auto balancing was off
Fixed When a player rejoined a multiplayer game, the time he had spent in the mine was reset, not allowing him to destroy the reactor even if he should be able to
Fixed Fixed: Homing missiles turned to well
Fixed The ship thruster sound suddenly got very loud when the ship wasn't moving

v1.14.25

Fixed Smooth zoom setting didn't stick
Changed Reenabled music fading option

v1.14.24

Fixed Per mod music playlists didn't work and even crashed the program

v1.14.23

Changed Added smooth zoom option to gameplay options menu
New Added music playlists for mods (playlist must be named 'playlist.txt' and reside in mod folder, songs have to reside in the subfolder 'music' of the mod folder)

v1.14.22

Improved Per pixel lighting

v1.14.21

Fixed Robots didn't always drop the stuff they contained in coop games
Fixed The program crashed when loading a multiplayer game several times

v1.14.20

Fixed When D2X-XL created a new descent.cfg file, it crashed on every subsequent launch due to an invalid sound channels value in the detail levels entry (32, allowed are 2 - 4).

v1.14.19

Fixed Rendering 2D powerup sprites could crash the program
Fixed Rendering the 2D slow motion or bullet time powerup sprites crashed the program

v1.14.18

Fixed Replacements for Vertigo robots weren't properly loaded from mod hxm files

v1.14.17

Fixed Robot and weapon models from mod HAM files weren't properly displayed
Fixed Mod txb files weren't found
Changed In notebook-friendly mode (misc. options), the number of sound channels can be set (music & sound options)

v1.14.16

Fixed Ambient sounds didn't always start to play after loading a savegame
Fixed Vulcan and Gauss ammo was always restored to 5000 when loading a savegame and Vulcan or Gauss gun were set as built-in equipment
Fixed Light from forcefields wasn't properly turned on and off when the forcefields were toggled
Fixed The program crashed when the credits were viewed a second time
Fixed Smart blobs from Diamond Claws could destroy triggers, but didn't operate them
Fixed Robots randonly got passive when a minimap display was enabled
Improved D2X-XL will now only suppress Omega lightnings for mods when the Omega blobs have actually been modded

v1.14.15

Fixed Rendered Descent 1 exit sequence wasn't played anymore

v1.14.14

Fixed Program crashing due to weapon fire hitting cambots or gun muzzles sticking out of the level
Fixed Distorted sound due to Phoenix blobs getting stuck
Fixed Sound wasn't properly restored after playing a mod, causing sound distortion
Fixed Player ship drag (inertia) control didn't work

v1.14.13

Fixed The robots' player detection didn't always work well with advanced hit detection
Fixed Robot briefings were repeat and played w/o audio when using the Descent 1 briefing movies

v1.14.12

Fixed Program frequently crashing during death roll of final Descent 1 boss
Fixed Faces becoming transparent with per pixel lighting when lit by dynamic light sources (e.g. flares)
Fixed Transparent faces turning dark at certain view angles
Fixed Sound volume always got set to 100% when starting a new game
Fixed Program crashing when rendering OOF robot models (would happen in Sirius' mission 'Anthology' when displaying the full, textured automap)
Fixed Program crashing when rendering the full, textured automap with basic lighting
Fixed Program crashing when leaving a level that contains OOF robot models
Fixed When you selected a mission from an arbitrary missions folder, then return to the main menu and chose 'singleplayer mission', you could start the previously selected mission, which could cause a program crash
Fixed Light trails got reset from 'advanced' to 'basic' when leaving the program

v1.14.11

Fixed Monsterball appearing in non-Monsterball multiplayer games
Changed '-multithreaded 1' now keeps effects being handled sequentially; use 'multithreaded 2' for full multithreading (may cause the program to briefly freeze from time to time)

v1.14.10

Fixed The Program occasionally crashed when rendering lightning while multithreading was enabled

v1.14.9

Fixed Dropping a weapon didn't not remove the weapon from the player ship (so you could drop an infinite number)
Changed Max. Omega firing duration now is 5 seconds in singleplayer and coop games

v1.14.8

Fixed More shader quirks
Fixed Program crashing when displaying certain custom animations from POG files
Changed Ship will not shake under water when standing still

v1.14.7

Fixed The renderer didn't work any more

v1.14.6

Fixed A shader program quirk that could lighting problems and program crashes

v1.14.5

Fixed Hires animations of exploding lights and monitors weren't played
Fixed When D2X-XL was compiled on a 64 bit operating system using a 64 bit compiler, Descent 1 robots didn't properly target the player

v1.14.4

Changed Menu background images will now be read from textures/wallpapers on Windows and OS X and from ~/.d2x-xl/wallpapers on Linux

v1.14.3

Fixed It could happen that instead of proximity mines, smoke grenades were used in singleplayer
Fixed The guidebot could be accessed in Descent 1 missions

v1.14.2

Fixed D2X-XL closed doors that were supposed to stay (partially) open
Fixed Textures on faces with overlay textures weren't rendered properly on rare occasions
Fixed Game frequently crashing when rendering lightnings while multithreading is enabled
Changed Player ships will now show short wing tips if the player has no quad lasers, standard lasers if the player has no superlasers, superlasers otherwise

v1.14.1

Changed Removed the April fool code
Fixed Robots weren't properly lit by static light sources
Fixed Custom robot data from mods wasn't properly unloaded when playing an unmodded mission after a modded one

v1.14.0 — Better Memory Management - Full Modding Support - Simplified UI - Greater Stability.

New D2X-XL's memory management has been vastly improved, with drastically reduced memory requirements and load times
New D2X-XL fully supports modding all aspects of Descent 1 and 2, from textures over models to sound and music
New The UI has been massively simplified and is much more accessible
New Stability has been much improved due to a massive amount of code having been refactored to C++
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v1.13 128 releases

v1.13.127

Fixed Briefings weren't displayed in nostalgia mode
Fixed The mine wasn't rendered in nostalgia mode

v1.13.126

Fixed Explosion shrapnel effect didn't work anymore
Fixed The mission last played wasn't always remembered correctly
Fixed The program froze when sprite smoothing was enabled and both energy sparks and lightnings were visible
Fixed A bug that could cause program crashes during Descent 1 exit sequences
Fixed The mine exit wasn't rendered during Descent 1 exit sequences
Fixed Gatling shots often went through targets without damaging them if improved hit detection was enabled
Changed Halved bubble size
New Added a sound for air bubble effects

v1.13.125

Improved You can now select very high lightmap quality
Improved Tweaked the bubble behaviour a little
New Bubble wiggling and wobbling can now be controlled via the smoke render options menu

v1.13.124

Fixed Objects sometimes were rendered multiple times
Improved Gatling light tracers look better now
Improved Particles leaving a level will be immediately discarded
New D2X-XL now supports various particle emitter types (currently smoke, water spray and air bubbles)

v1.13.123

Fixed Powerups that were behind transparent walls sometimes appeared to be in front of them

v1.13.122

Fixed When Descent 1 robot AI was enabled, robots often were rather passive instead of turning towards the player, chasing and firing at him
Fixed Missile cockpit views didn't work

v1.13.121

Improved Tweaked the transparency renderer
Improved Smoke rising from faces bearing water textures is now significantly thicker making it look more like water spray

v1.13.120

Fixed Camera objects didn't deliver an image anymore

v1.13.119

Fixed Robots sometimes ceased to fire at players
Fixed Smart mine and smart missile bomblets had (almost) no corona

v1.13.118

Fixed Reactors didn't fire at players any more
Fixed In-game messages were too wide

v1.13.117

Fixed Removed another bug from object book keeping
Fixed Smart mines didn't work right anymore
Fixed Energy shots didn't bounce off boss robots with that 'sweet spot'
Fixed Smart mine bomblet corona was too small

v1.13.116

Fixed Removed some test code that had messed up the networking
Improved Object book keeping is more efficient now
New Added quick save/quick restore
New Added shortcut keys to savegame selection menu

v1.13.115

Changed Smoke will be rendered fully bright again as it just looks better
Changed Tweaked missile smoke drift

v1.13.114

Fixed Smoke always was rendered fully bright regardless of the actual brightness around it

v1.13.113

Fixed The 'show skybox' option in the automap render menu had no hotkey
Fixed Static smoke transparency set in DLE-XP was ignored by D2X-XL
Improved Very small faces now emit more smoke now than they used to

v1.13.112

Fixed After turning smoke off and on again, soft smoke rendering got enabled upon entering the effect options menu
Fixed Descent 1 robot briefings could be messed up if the briefing was rendered after a level had been played with real-time shadowing enabled

v1.13.111

Fixed Lightmaps weren't properly computed when multi-threading was enabled

v1.13.110

Fixed Overlay textures occasionally had the wrong orientation
Fixed When multi-threading was enabled, visible faces got processed twice and corona rendering could freeze the program
Fixed Camera output wasn't properly rendered in the pure vertex lighting render path
Improved Far away soft-blended particles will not shine through geometry in front of them anymore
New Added an option to allow for full resolution camera views again

v1.13.109

Fixed Transparent faces sometimes weren't rendered

v1.13.108

Fixed The game could crash when the automap was displayed and per vertex lighting was enabled

v1.13.107

Fixed Due to some forgotten debug code, no high resolution models and coronas were rendered and strange HUD messages were occasionally displayed

v1.13.106

Fixed When a different screen size was specified in d2x.ini than in the player profile, D2X-XL messed up the graphics or crashed in-game
Fixed The texture manager didn't keep track of all textures

v1.13.105

Fixed A bug in the texture management could cause program crashes when switching resolutions, toggling fullscreen or starting a game
Improved Made the texture management more robust

v1.13.104

Fixed Players dropped lasers on death when they had built-in superlasers
Fixed Players will now drop 4 concussion missiles less than they carry with them to compensate for the concussion missiles they receive when spawning
Improved The midi volume will not be set to 0 when stopping music playback or starting a video
New You can now toggle music fade out in the sound and music options menu

v1.13.103

Improved Robots will not move into each other anymore when chasing the player

v1.13.102

Fixed The Gauss cannon only damaged boss robots on difficulty setting 'trainee'

v1.13.101

Fixed The number of sound channels set in the sound and music options menu didn't get saved

v1.13.100

Fixed Medium quality corona rendering didn't work (coronas shone through walls)

v1.13.99

Fixed A few faulty OpenGL calls that could result in high corona quality rendering not functioning properly
Fixed Gun shot light trails could cause walls to become transparent if high corona quality and soft sprite rendering were enabled

v1.13.98

Improved The countdown sequence will be started if a singleplayer or coop savegame is loaded that has exits, but no living bosses or reactors
Improved D2X-XL will not load savegames anymore that have been saved with a different maximum segment count than currently set in d2x.ini (This will however only work with savegames made with v1.13.98 and up)

v1.13.97

Improved D2X-XL recovers better from errors in savegames

v1.13.96

Fixed Thruster smoke wasn't moving away from idling player ships
Fixed Robots targeted the camera position instead of the player ship in free camera mode
Fixed The camera instead of the player ship was wiggling in free camera mode
New You can now toggle the HUD clock display by pressing ALT+T

v1.13.95

Fixed Visible objects occasionally weren't rendered

v1.13.94

Improved Found a better solution for the stutter problem with high corona quality

v1.13.93

Fixed The game could stutter when high corona quality was enabled

v1.13.92

Fixed Static smoke was way too thick

v1.13.91

Fixed 2D objects (e.g. shield powerups) behind transparent walls weren't rendered

v1.13.90

Improved You can now jump to secret levels with the freespace cheat by entering negative level numbers

v1.13.89

Fixed D2X-XL crashed when the player re-entered a secret level

v1.13.88

Fixed D2X-XL crashed when trying to load Descent 1 levels that had no segment side flagged as 'end of exit tunnel'

v1.13.87

Fixed Faces containing transparency occasionally weren't rendered

v1.13.86

Fixed Standard AI aggressivity turned robots into sitting ducks
Improved Multi threading is now used for lightmap calculation if available

v1.13.85

Fixed The new AI aggressivity code still didn't work as intended (robots could freeze in standard mode)

v1.13.84

Fixed A bunch of errors and warnings appearing in OS X compiles
Fixed All changes made for v.83 had been gone and had to be redone
Fixed Player ships didn't wiggle in nostalgia mode if wiggling had been turned off in non-nostalgia mode
Fixed Descent 1 briefings weren't properly displayed in nostalgia mode
Fixed Displaying robots in Descent 1 briefings crashed the program
Fixed If a level contained several boss robots and multiple boss robots were disabled or the level was a standard level, only one of the bosses behaved like one (i.e. cloaked, teleported and created robots); also, killing one boss didn't kill the others

v1.13.83

Fixed Most shader programs had gotten messed up in the previous release, leading to dysfunctional hardware headlight and per pixel lighting
Fixed Parts of objects behind semi-transparent faces weren't rendered

v1.13.82

Fixed Menus weren't displayed in nostalgia and pureD2 mode
Fixed The Toggles menu looped infinitely in nostalgia mode when the user tried to check an option there
Fixed If the HUD had been turned off in standard mode, it wasn't rendered in nostalgia mode either
Fixed The radar was rendered in nostalgia mode
Fixed All flawed textures of the shadow proof robot models (thanks to Yokelassence) - install the latest d2x-xl.hog
New AI aggressivity can now be increased via a slider in the gameplay options menu

v1.13.81

Fixed Removed the recent AI fix as it made the AI insanely hard

v1.13.80

Improved Robots (particularly charging ones) will not get stuck behind ledges when trying to attack and be easy prey anymore

v1.13.79

Fixed Built in guns and equipment checked to be available in-game weren't added to the player ship
Fixed The program crashed when trying to enable energy spark rendering in the effect options menu
Fixed The player only received one mercury missile when picking up a pack of four mercury missiles
Fixed Addon sounds (like the Gatling spin sound) were distorted after entering or leaving slow motion or bullet time

v1.13.78

Fixed When rendering transparent faces with a decal, other transparent items could get miscolored or not be rendered at all
Fixed Faces that had a transparent base and opaque overlay texture were erroneously considered transparent

v1.13.77

Fixed Disabled some (flight path smoothing) code that could cause robots to get stuck when trying to approach the player

v1.13.76

Fixed A bug causing a dead lock occuring when rendering damage lightnings for cloaking objects with multi threading enabled

v1.13.75

Fixed Transparent faces sometimes weren't properly rendered when mesh optimization was enabled and cloaked objects were visible
Improved Added some code to avoid divisions by zero in the slow motion sound handling

v1.13.74

Fixed Do to too rigid error checking, D2X-XL wasn't always reading all custom textures from POG files
Fixed Powerups could be seen through walls

v1.13.73

Fixed On Linux and Mac OS X the wrong folder was used as texture cache root folder
Fixed If built-in equipment had been added after saving a game, it wasn't given to the player when restoring save games
Changed If -nobotai is set in d2x.ini, the player will not be awarded points for destroying robots or reactors

v1.13.72

Fixed Depending on mine geometry and view angle, visible parts of a level weren't rendered (often resulting in a brief black flickering when moving around)

v1.13.71

Fixed Some 3D hires powerups (guns, equipment) spun wildly when powerup shadows were enabled

v1.13.70

Fixed When picking up proximity or smart mine packs, the player only received one instead of four mines
New Added an option to get rid of any thieves in a level to the gameplay menu (only single player and coop)

v1.13.69

Improved Edge softening can now be enabled separately for sprites (e.g. explosions, gun shots), energy sparks and smoke
Improved D2X-XL will now prefer custom models over hires models

v1.13.68

Fixed The sound system wasn't properly reconfigured when entering slow motion or bullet time
Fixed The audio thread wasn't started at program start if audio multi threading was enabled

v1.13.67

Fixed Transparent faces weren't rendered anymore
Fixed Gun shot light trails were white instead of properly colored when smoke was rendered
New Energy sparks can now slowly move around (enable in the effect render options menu)

v1.13.66

Changed The spark rendering method (resulting in a 5 to 10 percent speed up). You will need to update to the latest d2x-xl.hog

v1.13.65

Fixed Solid light trails were a solid white when smooth particle rendering was enabled
Changed Light trail particles and Gatling gun bullet cases won't be smoothed any more

v1.13.64

Fixed D2X-XL created folders named '64', '128' and '256' in the game's drive's root folder instead of the model folder

v1.13.63

Fixed Smoke was regularly briefly turning black for a few frames if per vertex lighting with lightmaps was used
Improved Particle life time is now also taken into account when computing static smoke's maximum particle count (before, instead of being constant smoke density dropped with increasing particle life time)

v1.13.62

Fixed Smoke effects got messed up when loading save games of levels containing static smoke
Improved Tweaked smoke density/speed balance further
New Added soft particle rendering for smoke, explosion effects and other sprites like e.g. 2D gun shots

v1.13.61

Fixed The program could crash when using multithreading due to an internal cache being overwritten by concurrent threads

v1.13.60

Fixed Static smoke density wasn't properly balanced against its speed

v1.13.59

Improved When a player ship isn't moving, the thruster smoke trail drifts a little away from it
New The gatling guns now have a smoke cloud at their muzzles when firing

v1.13.58

Fixed Transparent faces frequently weren't properly rendered when transparent decals were rendered, too

v1.13.57

Fixed The transparency renderer now finally handles transparent open doors (masks) and textures with decals properly
Changed The 'temp' folder has been renamed to 'cache'
Changed Compressed textures will now be stored in subfolders named '256', '128' and '64' of the texture base folders ('textures', 'textures/d1' and 'models')

v1.13.56

Fixed Transparent walls with a decal still weren't rendered transparent in the per pixel and pure per vertex lighting paths

v1.13.55

Fixed Transparent walls became opaque when lit with the hardware headlight
Fixed The hardware headlight doesn't affect particle light and gatling smoke trails anymore
Improved Until now, transparent walls that had an overlay were rendered opaque. Instead, only the overlay texture will now be rendered transparently

v1.13.54

Fixed Custom models using more than 12 different textures could crash the program (hard coded limit from the original Descent 2)
Fixed Loading high resolution models could cause program crashes due to buffer overflows occurring if the requested model wasn't actually available

v1.13.53

Fixed D2X-XL sometimes removed the transparency information (alpha channels) from hires textures it scaled down
Fixed The Monsterball sometimes drifted away from its spawn position
Changed Disabled the old render path
Changed Damage lightnings won't light the environment anymore more
Changed You now have to push the Monsterball in the opposing team's goal to score
Improved The Monsterball is now placed at the exact location where the level author placed it (and not in its segment's center anymore)
Improved Sound multithreading can now be controlled via the multithreading options menu
Improved Forcefields can now have a key property and be team specific

v1.13.52

Fixed Descent 1 robot briefings didn't work anymore

v1.13.51

Fixed Hostage scores wasn't always handled properly when returning from a destroyed secret level

v1.13.50

Fixed Some sounds played at level start could be muted because audio system configuration which is running in a parallel thread took too long

v1.13.49

Fixed Custom robot boss AI settings were reset to default values when loading a level

v1.13.48

Fixed Indestructible ghost ships could appear during multiplayer matches (not sure whether it's really fixed, but I hope so)
Fixed The game could freeze during multiplayer games
Fixed Transparent faces sometimes weren't rendered if per pixel lighting was enabled

v1.13.47

Changed Framerate gets capped at 30 fps during demo recording

v1.13.46

Fixed The left cockpit window wasn't displayed properly with the full cockpit
Improved Briefings should now be played back smoother with the new menu style
New D2X-XL now allows to play Descent 1 missions using the Descent 1 robot AI

v1.13.45

Fixed Gatling smoke trails always were on regardless of the setting in the render effects menu
Changed Halved the number of packets sent per second to connecting players in UDP multiplayer games to avoid packet loss on the receiver's end

v1.13.44

Fixed UPD default port still was wrong
Fixed Some wrong arithmetic (multiplication instead of addition) applied to a timeout value lead to severe connection problems
Note Inproved: Now supporting up to 7 simultaneous join requests

v1.13.43

Fixed UPD connections didn't work anymore

v1.13.42

Fixed Players joining a running multiplayer game could spawn inside other players
Improved UPD connection speed now depends on packets/second setting and should therefore usually be faster
Improved Added code to prevent connection flooding by the same player

v1.13.41

Fixed Opening and damaged doors looked transparent when lit by the hardware headlight with per vertex lighting
Fixed Turning on the hardware headlight with per vertex lighting temporarily switched to the per pixel lighting render path which could cause rendering flaws and crashes
Fixed The transparency renderer could freeze the program with per pixel lighting enabled

v1.13.40

Fixed Particle light trails were black
Improved The gatling tracers look a little better

v1.13.39

Fixed Player ships produced too much smoke when sitting still
Fixed A crash in the OS X version occurring when trying to connect to a multiplayer game

v1.13.38

Fixed A crash occuring when looking through transparent faces or grates, or when destroying them
Fixed A spurious crash occuring when precomputed mesh files were used
Improved Gatling tracer appearance
New Added gatling shot smoke trails (configuration - render options - effect options)

v1.13.37

Fixed Rendering transparent faces could freeze the program if per vertex lighting with lightmaps was enabled

v1.13.36

Fixed Removed lag caused by initializing per pixel lighting and lightmap shaders in-game (will be initialized during level loading or render context rebuilding)
Fixed Per pixel lighting shaders were used for rendering transparency even if per vertex lighting had been chosen

v1.13.35

Fixed Joining or rejoining a multiplayer game in progress that already had two or more players playing frequently failed

v1.13.34

Fixed When leaving a game while slowmotion is active and starting or loading another one, the sound stayed slowed down

v1.13.33

Fixed The program could freeze while synchronizing with a multiplayer game in progress
Fixed If several players simultaneously tried to join a running multiplayer game, none of them would succeed
Fixed Players with high ping times to a game host could have the problem of never successfully joining a running game
Fixed The netgame info dialog (invoked when pressing PAUSE in multiplayer games) was messed up
Fixed A failed attempt to join a running multiplayer game could inhibit further join attempts by the same or other players

v1.13.32

Changed No warnings or error messages will be displayed any more when clicking on an area in the game browser not displaying a valid network game

v1.13.31

Improved Made sure to decouple multi threading code from single threaded code execution as much as possible

v1.13.30

Fixed Static smoke sometimes was extremely thick if effects were computed multi threaded
Fixed A few smoke handling multi threading issues

v1.13.29

Fixed Bright automaps were messed up for per vertex lighting with lightmaps
Fixed Bright automaps weren't bright for full per vertex lighting (w/o lightmaps)

v1.13.28

Fixed The program hung with multi threading enabled if smoke induced lag was to be decreased and the player saw his or her own smoke trail
Changed Earth shaker bomblet smoke trail is thinner now

v1.13.27

Fixed The program crashed when a player tried to pick up an access key

v1.13.26

Fixed When starting or joining a multiplayer game after first having played a singleplayer or coop game and having collected cloaks or invuls there, it could happen that the cloaks and invuls got dropped in the multiplayer game from the player ship
Improved Multi-threading now works better
Changed Due to performance reasons, missiles may again not have smoke trails while travelling through skyboxes

v1.13.25

Fixed Missiles often had no smoke trail while moving through skyboxes
Fixed Smoke often was too dark or too bright

v1.13.24

Fixed Sometimes robots that should be visible weren't

v1.13.23

Fixed When having idling robots move around, they could move half their size into walls

v1.13.22

Improved High quality corona rendering (coronas shine through faces in front of them less)

v1.13.21

Fixed The program crashed when a controls customization menu was invoked

v1.13.20

Fixed Lightmap calculation for per vertex lighting was slightly flawed
Fixed Skyboxes weren't rendered if hardware headlights were enabled and a headlight was switched on
New Added code to measure memory consumption (peak memory consumption will be written to the log file at end of program run)

v1.13.19

Fixed Improved the function moving out-of-level objects to a proper location: Objects will now be moved just into their segment and not be placed right in the center
Fixed Camera and effect objects will not be moved at all because these may be out of level
Fixed Camera triggers having the face they sit on as projection target will be treated as mirrors and their image will be properly flipped
Fixed Fixed a bug in lightmap calculation
Improved Shield spheres are brighter now when hit

v1.13.18

Fixed The Omega cannon didn't hit reactors

v1.13.17

Fixed Lightmaps were too bright

v1.13.16

Fixed Tweaked dynamic lighting some more

v1.13.15

Fixed Missiles launched from the player ship were too large
Fixed Fixed another small bug in lightmap calculation
Fixed Smoke always had the color of the last light source passing it

v1.13.14

Fixed Lightmap calculation contained a small bug
New Lightmaps can now be combined with per vertex lighting

v1.13.13

Fixed The game could crash when loading a level with a precompiled mesh that contained sliding faces (e.g. lava or water falls)
Fixed Some 3D models were rendered with weird spikes poking out of them
Fixed Shield spheres weren't rendered additively any more
Fixed Displaying the mine in the automap could crash the program if mesh optimization or per pixel lighting were enabled

v1.13.12

Fixed The automap showed areas behind closed doors although these areas hadn't yet been explored

v1.13.11

Fixed Medium corona quality caused rendering flaws

v1.13.10

Fixed The render was pretty messed up, rendering robot fragments all over the place, leaving out faces ...

v1.13.9

Fixed Robots weren't shown in Descent 1 briefings
Fixed Dynamic lighting didn't work if mesh improvement was applied
Fixed Robots and powerups weren't shown in the wireframe automap although displaying them there was enabled

v1.13.8

Fixed Transparent faces often were ill colored or not rendered at all
Fixed Walls of type "close" that had transparency were rendered opaque
Fixed Transparent wall coloring was slightly off
Changed In widescreen (letterbox) cockpit mode, no frame will be drawn around the automap

v1.13.7

Fixed The player shield sphere was moving with the camera in free camera mode

v1.13.6

Fixed You couldn't switch secondary weapons anymore if smart mines were auto-selectable and selected
Fixed Down arrows were missing in the 'never auto-select' text of the weapon ordering menus

v1.13.5

Fixed The program crashed when trying to display Descent 1 robot briefings
Fixed The rear view zoom didn't work
Fixed Shield spheres were everywhere except around their model in the rear view
Fixed Opaque faces often weren't rendered with per pixel lighting
Fixed Transparent faces sometimes were invisible or not lit correctly
Fixed Sometimes the wrong number of light sources was processed with per pixel lighting enabled
Fixed Weapon carrier's (e.g. player ships') side- and upwards acceleration will be ignored when firing missiles with decreased launch speed (or dumb missiles would drift heavily off their target).

v1.13.4

Fixed Sound triggers still didn't work
Fixed Lamps sometimes weren't casting light
Improved Model spheres are now more precise and get computed faster
New Computed model data (e.g. model spheres) can now be cached on hard disk (enable with the d2x.ini switch '-cache_models 1')

v1.13.3

Fixed Headlights weren't always lighting objects in their cone
Fixed Low resolution 3D powerups were too small
Fixed The program frequently crashed when rendering smoke while shadows were enabled
Fixed Robot sizes and shields still hadn't always been properly computed
Fixed Debris wasn't rendered anymore
Fixed Debris smoke didn't get rendered, too
Fixed With improved hit detection, players kept colliding with other 3D objects when moving away from them after a collision even if there was quite a distance between the player and the other object (e.g. a robot)

v1.13.2

Fixed Panels and colored lights in general were too dark
Improved Accelerated per pixel lighting by about 5 to 10 percent

v1.13.1

Fixed Walls were popping when being dynamically lit
Fixed Walls were suddenly (instead of gradually) turning brighter when approaching them
Fixed Sometimes transparent faces weren't rendered when lit by a hardware headlight
Changed Made the panels somewhat brighter

v1.13.0 — Per Pixel Lighting!

New D2X-XL now supports full per pixel lighting combined with light maps for static lights
New Level lighting now is controlled by global brightness and color tables for Descent 1 and Descent 2 light sources and has been tweaked
New Setting light colors is now supported for all level types
Fixed Descent 1 levels were way too bright
Fixed Sound triggers didn't work anymore
Fixed The light options menu could freeze the program
Fixed Max. lights per face and per object got messed up when enabling standard lighting
Fixed Hardware headlights didn't work in multiplayer if two or more player had turned them on simultaneously

v1.12 111 releases

v1.12.110

Fixed Most faces were black/transparent with standard lighting in the new render path

v1.12.109

Fixed The renderer froze when multi threading was enabled
Fixed Morphing robots with more than 200 polygons crashed the program or at least caused the robots to not get rendered

v1.12.108

Fixed Skyboxes weren't properly rendered with per pixel lighting
Fixed The game could crash when viewing huge mines in the automap
Fixed Transparent faces were frequently missing in the automap

v1.12.107

Fixed Light trails looked weird when travelling through smoke
New Added a new marker model
New Markers can now rotate, giving a 360 degree view of their environment (enable in the gameplay options menu)

v1.12.106

Fixed Lightmaps looked weird
Fixed Sometimes light trails used another transparent texture
Fixed The headlight could make lit faces turn dark with per pixel lighting

v1.12.105

Fixed The game could hang when rendering transparent faces
Fixed Cached light data wasn't read any more
Fixed ASE models were rendered way too slow
Fixed The headlight didn't properly light 3D models with per vertex lighting
Improved Powerup lights will be distinguished depending on emitter ('naturally' glowing powerup or not)
Improved Increased rendering speed by up to 20 percent
Improved Increased rendering speed with per pixel lighting by up to 10 percent
Improved Depending on amount of visible variable light sources, rendering speed has been increased by up to another 50 percent
Improved Max. number of light sources per object can now be controlled separately in the light options menu

v1.12.104

Fixed Vulcan and Gauss barrels didn't rotate exactly around their longitudinal axis

v1.12.103

Fixed Levels had no light with vertex lighting in the old render path
Fixed Particle light trails were almost black
Fixed Transparent and additive walls were opaque
Fixed If hires sounds are enabled, D2 sounds will be used in Descent 1 levels even if D1 sounds were requested in d2x.ini
Fixed Shots sometimes were displaced from the gun's muzzle they were fired from
Fixed Robot joints sometimes were disconnected

v1.12.102

Fixed Light casting variable walls weren't properly handled
Fixed The mesh optimization slider was not available for per vertex lighting
Fixed Transparent faces sometimes were too dark
Improved Increased the rendering speed by about 40 percent depending on the number of faces rendered (the more faces the higher the increase)

v1.12.101

Fixed The max. lights/face slider got messed up when switching lighting methods

v1.12.100

Fixed Demo playback didn't work anymore
Fixed The game frequently froze while rendering robots

v1.12.99

Fixed Another bug in the light manager leading to too many lights being used

v1.12.98

Fixed Faces were illuminating by lights behind them
Fixed Mesh optimization will be disabled if standard lighting is chosen
Fixed The light options menu's lights per pass and per faces sliders should now work properly

v1.12.97

Fixed Dynamic light handling was slightly flawed
Fixed Static lights still weren't always properly categorized
Fixed A few help texts were messed up
Improved Revamped the lighting method handling
Changed Adjusted the light options menu accordingly

v1.12.96

Fixed Rendering bullet casings for Vulcan and Gauss guns crashed the program
New Added a multi threading control menu for test purposes

v1.12.95

Fixed Playlists still didn't work
Fixed When firing a missile and having missile view enabled while Gauss or Vulcan gun were equipped, the zoom could be changed
Fixed No 3D objects were visible in auxiliary views (like the rear or missile view)

v1.12.94

Fixed The software headlight didn't work
Fixed The program crashed when loading huge levels (e.g. Sirius' Anthology) with mesh optimization enabled
Improved If a level is too huge for mesh optimization, the level's mesh will not be optimized

v1.12.93

Fixed A bug in variable dynamic light detection
Fixed A bug in dynamic light handling that could cause light to be brighter than it ought to be
Fixed The lighting system crashed the program when multi threading was enabled
Improved Static dynamic light detection works better now (walls bearing lights will now be examined more closely to determine whether they are volatile or not)

v1.12.92

Fixed The program could crash due to memory corruption when firing missiles while powerup respawning was active (either during a multiplayer game or if it was enabled for single player games in the gameplay options menu with the "always respawn powerups" option)
Improved Pressing Alt+R now toggles through fps, transp. polys, faces and lights per face displays

v1.12.91

Fixed The hardware headlight didn't always work properly
Fixed Level songs from playlists weren't played
Improved The light visibility calculation works better

v1.12.90

Fixed The Monsterball wasn't rendered
Fixed The hardware headlight didn't properly light untextured transparent faces
New Improved mesh data can now be preserved. Add '-cache_meshes 1' to d2x.ini for this

v1.12.89

Fixed Turning on auxiliary cockpit windows (e.g. rear view or mini map) messed the main view up
Improved Tweaked the OpenGL style lighting formulas

v1.12.88

Fixed Destroying lights messed the entire lighting up

v1.12.87

Fixed A bug in the lighting system caused the program to crash
Fixed Removed excessive shield sphere creation logging

v1.12.86

Fixed Levels were distorted for all cockpit settings except full screen mode

v1.12.85

Fixed The mesh optimizer wasn't working in the release code, so the program crashed when enabling mesh improvement

v1.12.84

Fixed A bug in lighting bullet casings that could crash the program
Fixed Some areas that should have been lit stayed dark when mesh improvement was enabled
Fixed Sometimes walls containing transparency were incompletely rendered when mesh improvement was enabled
Fixed Camera outputs weren't always properly projected when mesh improvement was enabled
Fixed Light source clustering didn't work
Fixed The monsterball wasn't rendered at it's actual position, but moved around depending on player position and facing
Improved Robot shots are combined in light clusters now too, further decreasing the number of dynamic light sources

v1.12.83

Fixed a bug causing doors to flicker when first opened and that could even crash the program
Fixed the light calculation by moving the scaling from the model view to the projection matrix
Fixed a bug in POF model conversion causing low res models to have missing faces
Improved Netgame information dialog has more info, better coloring and a better layout
New Related light sources (e.g. laser bolts or plasma blobs) will now be bundled into one light source
New Added a mesh optimizer splitting huge faces into smaller ones (depending on mesh quality setting from the render options menu). Be very careful with settings higher than "medium" ;)

v1.12.82

Fixed Objects sometimes weren't placed at their proper location and segment and hence weren't rendered and couldn't be picked up although they were in the mine
Fixed Depending on available RAM, texture quality will be decreased automatically on Windows systems if required
Improved The menu help for the texture quality option is now more informative

v1.12.81

Fixed The game crashed when trying to render the exterior terrain in D1 missions' end level sequence
Fixed The exit tunnel was very dark in D1 exit sequences
Fixed Parts of the exterior terrain of D1 exit sequences was missing
Fixed The D1 exit sequences' exterior terrains' moons and planets were rendered as two halves
Fixed The player ship could be given D2 weapons as built-in equipment in D1. If one of these was the superlaser, the ship didn't have any lasers at all
Changed The program version info will not be printed into background images of score displays and the like anymore

v1.12.80

Fixed On Windows, d2x-xl could be terminated with an error message 'the application failed to initialize properly' even if the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package and the .NET 2.0 framework were properly installed

v1.12.79

Fixed The program crashed when trying to display Descent 1 robot briefings if the new render path was enabled
Fixed The exit terrain info for Descent 1 missions sometimes wasn't properly loaded

v1.12.78

Fixed D2X-XL couldn't find descent.tex or descent.txb any more

v1.12.77

Fixed Changed some code in kconfig.cpp to avoid crashes due to invalid data from player profiles
Note Hint: To avoid crashes on Linux when using SDL_mixer, the SDL_mixer source code from www.descent2.de should be used to install SDL_mixer on Linux (extract source code, sh autogen.sh, ./configure, cd to SDL_mixer source folder, make, sudo make install)

v1.12.76

Fixed The program could still crash when trying to display weapon info in the HUD
Fixed Opening the configuration menu could crash the program

v1.12.75

Fixed The program could crash when displaying the automap render options menu

v1.12.74

Fixed The program was crashing on Linux when trying to display weapon info in the HUD
Fixed The program could crash when rendering bullet casings while firing the Vulcan or Gauss gun
Fixed If the program was compiled and linked using the automake created makefiles, the link step failed

v1.12.73

Fixed Powerups occasionally were bouncing around when loading a new level or a save game

v1.12.72

Changed No coronas will be rendered in auxiliary views (like rear view or small missile view)

v1.12.71

Fixed Omega lightnings weren't rendered anymore
Fixed Reactor countdown wasn't triggered by destruction of the reactor anymore

v1.12.70

Fixed Sometimes custom polymodels weren't rendered properly in the new render path
Fixed Robots now properly fire Omega cannons, and do so with proper lightning effects
Fixed Omega lightnings are now being properly handled in multiplayer games
Improved Addon sounds will now be cached (were loaded from file everytime they got played before)

v1.12.69

Fixed If light coronas were enabled and medium corona quality was chosen, the inner part of laser shots wasn't visible

v1.12.68

Fixed The program crashed right at start when progress bars were disabled
Fixed Message box texts were too small

v1.12.67

Fixed Only objects, but no geometry were rendered in the main rear view if shadows were enabled
Fixed Additively blended textures weren't grayed out in the automap
New Added a progress bar for the initialization at program start
New Added an option whether to gray out unexplored mine areas in the automap or not

v1.12.66

Fixed Level checksums weren't computed properly, leading to players using other Descent 2 versions not being able to join D2X-XL hosted multiplayer games and vice versa

v1.12.65

Fixed If missile start speed was decreased, instead of flying off, earthshaker bomblets frequently detonated immediately when their parent missile hit a wall
Changed Earthshaker bomblets will now always start at full speed

v1.12.64

Fixed Boss robots didn't work any more

v1.12.63

Changed Version info will now be printed in all menus
New Added a hint to www.descent2.de to the menu screens

v1.12.62

Fixed Reactors were removed from standard levels even if there was no boss robot

v1.12.61

Fixed Reactors weren't removed from standard levels that also contained a boss robot
Fixed Clients were disconnected in coop games when trying to rejoin the game and enter the next level after a reactor or boss had been destroyed

v1.12.60

Fixed When turning cameras off in-game, monitor faces kept showing the camera view instead of their regular texture

v1.12.59

Fixed The countdown sequence sometimes didn't work
Fixed Destroying reactors that had their level destruction flag cleared still started the level destruction countdown
Fixed The text "typing..." appearing over a player ship when the player was typing or in a menu didn't blink
Changed Converted the project to a c++ project and fixed a few code flaws the c++ compiler revealed (Linux users should read the related worklog entry)

v1.12.58

Fixed Robots didn't properly cloak, particularly if shadow rendering was turned on

v1.12.57

Fixed A few nore automap issues
New You can now chose your ship color for singleplayer games

v1.12.56

Fixed Unexplored visible parts of the textured automap are now rendered black and white (provided shader programs are available)
Fixed When viewing the automap while having the full map powerup or entered the full map cheat code, unexplored parts of the automap weren't rendered blue (wireframe) or b/w (textured)
Fixed The medium quality corona rendering didn't work properly, causing coronas to be visible through solid faces
Improved The high quality corona rendering

v1.12.55

Fixed Gatling speed up setting will now be exchanged between participants of a multiplayer game
Fixed Player names are better visible now in multiplayer games
Fixed The "player wants to join" message is better visible now for the game host
Fixed You couldn't turn the textured automap off if the radar was disabled
Changed Robots don't use the custom Gauss and Vulcan sounds anymore

v1.12.54

Fixed Thruster flames were too far behind missiles at launch
Fixed The gatling mechanics sound was played when arming the Gauss or Vulcan directly after having stopped to fire
Fixed The Gauss and Vulcan barrels stopped to soon after the player had ceased to fire

v1.12.53

Fixed The credits weren't fully displayed
Fixed Gauss/Vulcan barrels weren't properly animated in multiplayer games if barrel speedup was enabled
Fixed You couldn't always connect to multiplayer games with a restricted number of participants even if there were player slots left
Fixed The Gauss/Vulcan barrel speedup sound wasn't played at the position of the player causing it
Fixed If two guns were bound to the same key, you could rapid fire them by toggling those two weapons using that key

v1.12.52

Fixed The program crashed when the credits screen was invoked
Fixed Weapon states are now properly transferred between multiplayer clients
Improved Custom Gauss and Vulcan sound handling
New Added D2X-XL credits to the credits screen

v1.12.51

Fixed No Gauss or Vulcan firing sound was played if custom gatling sounds were enabled even if 44 khz hires sound wasn't

v1.12.50

Fixed Coronas were colored even if colored lighting was disabled
Fixed Sometimes environment sounds were replaced by some addon sound (you heard e.g. a Gauss gun or lightning buzzing instead of hissing lava)
Fixed Gauss and Vulcan ammo wasn't updated properly when firing the Gauss or Vulcan gun
Fixed Addon player sounds (ship engines, Gauss/Vulcan firing sound) were stopped when flying through a fuel center and having lightning effects enabled
Changed Gatling speedup is now host controlled (that means if the host wants it, everybody will have it, and the other way round)

v1.12.49

Fixed Light color and brightness of static lights occasionally weren't properly computed, so mines were too bright and all lights were white
Fixed Gauss and Vulcan consumed ammo during spinup
Fixed The program often crashed when using the sound and music menu
Fixed When dropping the Gauss cannon while also having a Vulcan gun, no ammo was left for the Vulcan gun
New You can now turn off the spinup sound for Vulcan and Gauss

v1.12.48

Fixed The reticle didn't show the status of super lasers
Fixed Additive wall blending didn't work
Fixed The wall transparency slider in the render options menu worked the wrong way round
Changed The player will not collide with other objects any more (and hence cannot pickup powerups) while in spectator mode
Changed Gauss and Vulcan will start to fire with a small delay (0.6s) in single player mode and in multiplayer games hosted by a player using D2X-XL
Improved Made the Vulcan/Gauss barrels speed up before and slow down after firing
Improved The Vulcan barrel will now spin twice as fast as the Gauss barrel when the Vulcan is fired
New Added support for improved Vulcan and Gauss firing and barrel mechanics sounds

v1.12.47

Fixed Missiles fired from low resolution ships were too small
Fixed The hardware headlight often only worked for the server player in multiplayer games
Changed Increased packet size for UDP connections (older D2X-XL versions will not be compatible any more!)
Improved Fiddled around with the networking code, trying to improve handling of packet loss occuring while trying to join a network game

v1.12.46

Fixed The spark effect didn't work properly when the rear view window was visible
Fixed When the last missile of a kind was fired and automatic weapon switching was enabled, a missile of the next kind was fired immediately after the previous one

v1.12.45

Fixed The team colors on the new ASE Pyro were off by one

v1.12.44

Improved Missiles will now start with their launch platform's speed if realistic missile launch is enabled (so you cannot overtake them anymore when launching them while flying forward)

v1.12.43

Fixed Missiles were launched from the ASE Pyro in front of their mounts (re-download the hires pyro)
Fixed Missile thruster flames are now rendered properly during missile launch from the ASE Pyro
Improved Robot and player shields now will blink on and off while the object is cloaking or decloaking

v1.12.42

Fixed Some powerup coronas were constantly flashing white
Improved Tweaked OpenGL lighting a little more
Improved Shrapnel now has more different directions

v1.12.41

Fixed Message boxes sometimes weren't displayed, particularly after multiplayer connection failures
Fixed Faces with a great difference in width and height weren't lit even if they had light sources sitting right on them
Changed Spawn markers now can only be set in singleplayer or coop games and when the player is alive
Improved Multiplayer connection handling

v1.12.40

Fixed A bug in the AI could cause the program to crash
Fixed Sniper robots did not always act properly
Fixed Not all weapon states were reported to other players in multiplayer games
Fixed Disconnecting players dropped built-in lasers and super lasers
Changed Made lava falls less transparent
Changed Increased the maximum number of missions per hog file to 100 and the maximum number of secret levels to 20
Improved The custom level music handling now uses a text file named <mission name>.sng - one song per line, empty line if midi level song should be played
Improved Removed lag that occurred when seeing a shield sphere or weapon for the first time after a level had been loaded, screen resolution had been changed or fullscreen had been toggled

v1.12.39

Fixed The program crashed when the player encountered a certain kind of robot (snipers)

v1.12.38

Fixed Robots with charge attacks (like e.g. the Diamond Claws) didn't charge the player
Fixed After using the performance settings menu, mines occasionally were completely dark or foggy
Fixed No bullet casings were ejected from the player's ship unless external view was enabled
Improved Added an option to have standard or super lasers at the wing tips depending on what the player has

v1.12.37

Fixed Robots with kamikaze or melee attacks and no guns or missiles didn't start to chase the player after they had lost and regained sight of him

v1.12.36

Improved When a missile is launched and weapon display is enabled, the missile's mounting point will stay empty for a short while
Note Updated: The new ASE format Pyro has been updated to support the latest features

v1.12.35

Fixed The Omega cannon wasn't recognized as fuselage mounted, hence the inner lasers weren't rendered if the Omega cannon was equipped and lasers were selected for the wing tips
Fixed High resolution muzzle flashes weren't rendered properly
Improved Additive explosion and fireball rendering

v1.12.34

Fixed The player ship had blue instead of white stripes in singleplayer games
Fixed If the player didn't have quad lasers, no lasers were rendered at the wing tips even if they were selected as wingtip models
Fixed Increased Vulcan and Gauss barrel rotation speed
Fixed No inner wing guns were shown if laser wingtips were selected and the spread or helix gun were equipped
Fixed When saving a game while in spectator mode, the spectator's instead of the player ship's position was written into savegames
Improved Vulcan/Gauss bullet casing's spatial orientation varies more

v1.12.33

Fixed Instead of super lasers, standard lasers were shown on the ASE pyro
Fixed Models consisting of only one submodel didn't have hitspheres and hitboxes (which made them rather hard to hit :P)
Fixed The player ship was always rendered at the viewer position in spectator mode when it was cloaked
Fixed The ASE hostage model was far offset from the coordinate origin and hence had a huge hitbox and floated in the air
New Added support for switchable gun models on the new ASE pyro
New You can now specify a launch speed for missiles, making them launch slower and not at full speed
New Vulcan and Gauss gun now have an optional dropping bullet shell effect
New Vulcan and Gauss now have rotating barrels when using the new ASE pyro
New A new submenu (config - render - ship) has been added

v1.12.32

Fixed Diameters of models with submodels (i.e. many robots) still weren't properly computed
Fixed The program crashed when hires models were enabled and non-ASE models were used
Fixed '2.00' was shown in the the HUD when a robot fired its guns

v1.12.31

Fixed Model diameters are properly computed when using 3D powerups, hires or custom models
Improved Tweaked particle light trails
Improved Tweaked Omega lightning source position
New Added support for switchable gun models on MetalBeast's new hires pyro
New Added support for team-specific coloring of MetalBeast's new hires pyro

v1.12.30

Fixed Proximity and smart mines exploded almost immediately after having been dropped

v1.12.29

Fixed Robot AI was messed up a little (robots didn't evade shots well, the thief didn't flee when being shot at, ...)

v1.12.28

Fixed Players could hit their ships right away when firing the Phoenix or guided missiles in slow motion or bullet time modes
Improved D2X-XL now utilizes thruster submodels from ASE missile models for thruster flame positioning
Improved Tweaked shot coronas and light trails some more

v1.12.27

Fixed The program constantly crashed w/o apparent reason

v1.12.26

Fixed Low resolution doors disappeared when not completely closed while the hardware headlight was turned on; ditto coronas

v1.12.25

Fixed Picking up slow motion or bullet time devices still wasn't accompanied by a pickup sound
Fixed Laser light trails didn't have the right colors

v1.12.24

Fixed Depending on explosion type, explosion objects were converted to some 3D object if 3D powerups were enabled
Fixed Depending on explosion type, some regular texture was rendered for an explosion object instead of the proper explosion animation

v1.12.23

Fixed Light trails weren't colored anymore
Improved Tweaked light trails a little

v1.12.22

Fixed No thruster flames were rendered for ASE models
Fixed When entering the same secret level from two different levels, the player was dropped in level one when leaving the secret level after having entered it from the second level

v1.12.21

Fixed Thruster flames were too far behind missiles
Improved Gun shot models (lasers, fusion) will now be pre-loaded too, further reducing in-game lag when first seeing these

v1.12.20

Fixed Model preloading could crash the program when loading a level after having played another level
Fixed Turning off light trails turned off gun shot coronas

v1.12.19

Fixed If the 3D energy spark effect was turned on in-game, the spark textures still were rendered together with the 3D sparks

v1.12.18

Fixed Addon bitmaps weren't properly restored after changing the screen resolution or toggling fullscreen
Fixed Particle light trails were rendered even if light trails had been turned off
Changed Increased the brightness of gun hit explosions

v1.12.17

Fixed The hires robot model #82 (Omega Defense Spawn) wasn't loaded by D2X-XL
Fixed Trigger messages were shown in auxiliary windows and not just in the main view
Fixed Boss robots with spawn bot triggers pointing to properly setup robot generators still spawned their standard robots
Fixed Turning the textured automap on in the automap menu crashed the program

v1.12.16

Fixed The object model pre-build step could crash the program
Fixed The automap didn't always show all explored areas
Fixed Energy sparks were rendered outside of their segments

v1.12.15

Fixed Spark effects were rendered for level areas not visible for the viewer
Fixed Object lightnings were rendered for objects areas not visible for the viewer
Fixed No spark effects were rendered in the textured automap even if requested

v1.12.14

Fixed Demos containing static objects weren't played back
Fixed Demos weren't played back because the frame timer wasn't properly reset when starting demo playback
New Added a three dimensional spark effect for energy and repair centers (toggle in effect render options menu; texture by -Joffa-).

v1.12.13

Fixed The automap wasn't always displayed correctly in very huge levels
Fixed Marker numbers hadn't been displayed anymore in the automap
Fixed The alternating missile launch points of the new ASE pyro were exchanged
Improved Changing the automap view width now works faster (10 percent steps)
Improved The rear view window is now properly flipped, offering the point symmetry of a rear view mirror (meaning you will see in the left of the mirror what is to the left behind you)
Improved Model preloading now is more complete, thus decreasing in-game lag when seeing new robots, weapons or powerups
New The automap now shows how many percent of the mine have been explored by the player
New You can now teleport your ship to a marker (select the marker in the automap and press Ctrl+T; 25 energy consumed per jump)

v1.12.12

Fixed Removed a few code flaws causing the program to crash after playing a long time and loading savegames often

v1.12.11

Fixed Program occasionally crashed when firing missiles in levels with skyboxes
Improved Cameras now have significantly smaller memory requirements at the cost of decreased resolution

v1.12.10

Fixed Exit door was opened when the first boss or reactor was destroyed in multi-boss levels even if multiple bosses were enabled

v1.12.9

Fixed Removed a bug in the lightning code that could cause program crashes
Fixed Changing automap view range didn't work
Improved Automap view range can now be changed using the keypad minus and plus keys, too

v1.12.8

Fixed The target indicator calculation for Mega missiles didn't work

v1.12.7

Fixed Custom ship sound disappeared when turning off music
Fixed Custom level music was replaced by midi level song when turning music off and on again while having custom ship sound on
Fixed Hires sound channels are reversed and will be reversed back by D2X-XL
Fixed Game occasionally crashed during multiplayer games (it may still do so, but not because of this particular bug anymore ;)

v1.12.6

Fixed Spawn markers weren't removed when starting a new game

v1.12.5

Fixed The ASE format pyro thruster flames didn't point to the right direction
Fixed ASE format models weren't lit properly
Fixed You didn't see other players' armed missiles in multiplayer games
Fixed You can now set built-in guns and devices for singleplayer games, too

v1.12.4

New Added support for the new ASE format Pyro with different missile submodels (download the latest version from the model download area)

v1.12.3

Fixed OGG custom level music playback was stopped when turning music off and on again, or when entering or leaving slow motion/bullet time
Fixed Eagle's high resolution Pyro is too large as well and will be scaled down appropriately
Fixed The program crashed when loading a level containing custom hires models after having played such a level
Fixed ASE thruster submodels weren't recognized

v1.12.2

Fixed Hires model textures weren't properly restored across level loads and screen mode and screen resolution changes
Fixed Low resolution model hit spheres, hitboxes and shield spheres were off
Fixed The new ASE high resolution Pyro is too large and will be scaled down by the program until we have a properly sized model
Fixed A bug in SDL_mixer 1.2.8 causing crashes (particularly if entering or leaving slow motion/bullet time while game sounds were being played)

v1.12.1

Fixed A bug in SDL_mixer 1.2.8 causing crashes during exit sequences
Fixed Turning on music could crash the program or start a level song instead of the menu music even if not in a game

v1.12.0 — Added ASE Support.

New D2X-XL now supports the ASE model and scene format for custom high resolution models
Fixed Addon powerup sprites could cause program crashes

v1.11 126 releases

v1.11.125

Fixed Program could crash when starting a game or loading a savegame
Changed Rotating spawn marker indicator now is orange rather than yellow to make it easier to distinguish from targets

v1.11.124

Fixed Robot gun muzzle and missile port positions were off
Fixed The hardware headlight screwed up auxiliary views (e.g. the rear view)
Changed The optimized model format is now created before a game starts to avoid in-game lag
Changed D2X-XL now uses SDL 1.2.13 and SDL_mixer 1.2.8
Improved Energy sparks are now rendered additively

v1.11.123

Fixed D2X-XL did not always detect all light sources in a level
Changed Temporary music files now are stored in d2x-xl's temp folder if it is available
Improved Gun point calculation for hires robot models now works better

v1.11.122

Fixed The program froze when a robot tried to fire a gun or missile
Fixed Powerups weren't shown on the automap in coop games even if that option was enabled
Improved The appearance of muzzle flashes by making them a little more transparent

v1.11.121

Fixed Objects occasionally were invisible when using hardware object lighting
Fixed Hitboxes and object sizes weren't always computed properly in the new render path
Fixed Reactor countdown didn't always work for all players in a multiplayer game
Fixed Muzzle flashes are now rendered on the player ship in spectator mode
Improved Eagle's hires pyro now has proper gun and missile port positions
Improved D2X-XL will now synchronize all multiplayer game participants' reactor countdown with the game host

v1.11.120

Fixed Custom level song was replaced by Descent level music when turning midi volume on while in game
Fixed No sound was played when picking up a slow motion or bullet time device
Improved Removed the short break occuring when entering or leaving slow motion or bullet time that was caused by reconfiguring the audio system (hooray for multi threading!)

v1.11.119

Fixed Music will now fade in and out
Fixed Music will be handled better during slow motion

v1.11.118

Fixed The game froze as soon as some 3D object came in sight
Fixed Additive wall rendering still wasn't handled correctly
Fixed Program occasionally crashed when rendering untextured faces

v1.11.117

Fixed The hardware headlight didn't work anymore
Fixed Custom spawn points didn't work anymore
Fixed Robots occasionally flickered rapidly (particularly in textured automap view)

v1.11.116

Fixed Setting built-in guns and devices in multiplayer games didn't work right
Fixed The program frequently crashed after players had died and should respawn during multiplayer games

v1.11.115

Fixed Level areas behind closed transparent doors weren't rendered
Fixed D2X-XL did not always correctly detect whether a level contained colored light sources
Fixed Custom level intro and extro movies weren't played in the correct order

v1.11.114

Fixed Lasers and missiles still behaved weird

v1.11.113

Fixed You couldn't fire guns or missiles normally any more

v1.11.112

Fixed The automap wasn't rendered if the hardware headlight was enabled and switched on
Fixed The Omega cannon wasn't properly recharged when entering a new level
Fixed Robots noticed the player through solid walls if it had an opaque overlay texture and a transparent base texture
Fixed Multiplayer savegame restoration problems at least partially solved (make sure all players have joined before restoring)
Fixed If a savegame was made with 3D powerups enabled and present, and that savegame was loaded with 3D powerups disabled or missing, the related objects weren't visible in the game anymore
Fixed Loading multiplayer savegames now properly restores weapons and scores for all players (players need to have joined before loading the savegame)
Fixed If a custom level intro movie was played, the level briefing wasn't shown
Fixed Custom level extro movies were only shown for the last level of a mission
Fixed Shield and energy bonuses occasionally erroneously weren't awarded
Fixed Object radii and hitboxes are properly computed for custom robots now
Improved Hit detection just got better, once again

v1.11.111

Fixed Using the 2D slow motion and bullet time powerups frequently crashed the program
Improved Optimized the headlight code
New Added support for additively rendered walls

v1.11.110

Fixed 2D powerups were all transparent after restoring a multiplayer save game
Changed Force fields and lava overriden by custom textures will not be rendered additively to avoid problems
New Pressing Ctrl+F4 will now drop a spawn marker

v1.11.109

Fixed Objects with AI "still" weren't sitting still at all
New Added object AI type "static" making objects completely passive
New Added support for new slow motion and bullet time powerups

v1.11.108

New Markers with label "SPAWN" now serve as custom spawn points in single player and coop games

v1.11.107

Note The sound and music options menu was messed up a little
Fixed Headlight shaders didn't work in multiplayer
Note Improved headlight shader code now gets adjusted to number of players on the fly
Improved Force fields and lava curtains are now rendered additively in the new render path

v1.11.106

Fixed You couldn't see through grates, once again
New Custom sound volume can now be adjusted in the sound and music configuration menu
New Added support for different player and robot missile sounds

v1.11.105

Fixed When entering a new level, the Omega cannon gets fully recharged
Fixed When using the full weapon or equipment cheats, afterburner and Omega cannon get fully charged

v1.11.104

Fixed If the Omega was allowed to destroy incoming missiles, missiles didn't properly home in on targets any more

v1.11.103

Fixed The physics options menu's missile destruction and hit detection radio buttons were connected

v1.11.102

Changed Moved the sound channel number selector to the sound configuration menu in non-legacy mode
Changed The sound channel number selector is not available anymore while playing a game
Changed Moved the computer performance adjustment stuff from the Miscellaneous menu to the newly created Performance Settings menu
Changed The Detail Levels menu will now be unavailable in non-legacy mode
New Added another engine sound for the big missiles (Smart missile and better; toggle in the sound configuration menu)
New Added an engine sound for the player ship (toggle in the sound configuration menu)

v1.11.101

Fixed Objects behind doors and grates were invisible

v1.11.100

Fixed Missile flight sound will now be played for missiles fired by robots too
Fixed After playing a Descent 1 mission, the Descent 2 menu music wasn't played anymore
Fixed Descent 1 and 2 music were mixed up
Fixed If music playback is enabled, the humming briefing background sound will not be played

v1.11.99

Fixed Instead of coronas, large uniformly colored rectangles were drawn in automap, and occasionally even in the normal mine view

v1.11.98

Improved Certain custom sounds (e.g. missile flight) will now decay logarithmically

v1.11.97

Fixed Transparent faces at the limits of the visible area frequently weren't rendered in the new render path (was most obvious when moving backwards)
Fixed Opaque custom textures that were loaded over transparent textures were treated as transparent
Fixed The monsterball wasn't textured any more

v1.11.96

New The Omega cannon can now home in on incoming missiles and destroy them. The physics options menu has been expanded by this option

v1.11.95

New Omega cannon firing duration can now be varied between 1 and 15 seconds (regard that it will drain about 11 energy per second, so 15 secs ~ 165 energy)

v1.11.94

Fixed Smoke that should have been colored was gray

v1.11.93

Fixed Removed a bug causing crashes when objects hit walls (usually when being bumped around by explosions)
Fixed The program crashed on some systems when computing segment visibility for OpenGL style lighting
Fixed The program crashed when loading a level after having played another level containing custom hires robots
Fixed The hardware headlight created ugly black artefacts

v1.11.92

Fixed Only the first slave of a master trigger was activated
Fixed Sounds started by sound triggers looped forever regardless of the trigger setting

v1.11.91

Fixed Sky boxes weren't rendered
Fixed Ship was moving extremely slow in water and lava segments if fluid physics were enabled
New Added message, sound and master triggers
New Added controls for setting cockpit window position and alignment to the cockpit options menu

v1.11.90

Fixed The plx file wasn't deleted when a player profile was deleted in the pilot selection dialog

v1.11.89

Fixed Custom textures from pog files containing super transparency weren't transparent anymore

v1.11.88

Fixed Big faces containing transparency sometimes weren't rendered if the player was very close to them

v1.11.87

Fixed Ships, robots and powerups occasionally bounced around like mad after hitting an obstacle
Fixed Headlights were spewn from destroyed player ships if built-in headlights were enabled
Fixed Descent 2 robot sounds were played instead of Descent 1 sounds after dieing in a Descent 1 mission although Descent 1 sounds were requested (via the use_d1sounds command line switch)

v1.11.86

Fixed Tracker IP addresses weren't properly parsed from the command line or d2x.ini
Fixed Removed a few code flaws; some of them potentially causing crashes (particularly on OS X)

v1.11.85

Improved Hires models now have hires debris in the new render path

v1.11.84

Fixed The program didn't always properly detect whether the player had a headlight
Fixed Possession and activation of a headlight wasn't always propery shown in the equipment icons

v1.11.83

Fixed You couldn't shoot through gaps in force fields and grates anymore
Fixed Removed a bug in transparency handling that could cause memory corruption and crashes
Improved Decreased memory fragmentation

v1.11.82

New Entering the cheat codes 'flash' (D1) or 'jinglebells' (D2) will cause the program to mark a path from the player to the exit with energy powerups

v1.11.81

Fixed The ship could penetrate walls at certain geometry (sharp angles with several small segments involved where the ship was in a different segment than the penetrated wall)

v1.11.80

Fixed Variable light handling for standard lighting was messed up for ages and could cause program crashes
Fixed Removed various potential crash causes from the code

v1.11.79

Changed Re-enabled the -render_indirect option to help with hardware headlight rendering on NVidia hardware. Real time shadowing will however be unavailable with indirect rendering
Improved Significantly sped up high quality corona rendering
Improved Decreased memory consumption during light data calculation for OpenGL style lighting

v1.11.78

Fixed The headlight didn't work anymore in the old render path if OpenGL style lighting was enabled
Fixed The Guidebot could be hit by direct fire and thus too easily be destroyed
Fixed Robots destroyed each other even if that behaviour was disabled in the gameplay options menu
Fixed Removed a bunch of memory leaks

v1.11.77

Fixed Certain Descent 1 triggers (found e.g. in mission Orion Nebula, level 4, in front of the yellow key) could crash D2X-XL

v1.11.76

Fixed Transparency wasn't always handled correctly anymore after a recent code change in this area

v1.11.75

Improved D2X-XL will now automatically detect and update outdated cached textures

v1.11.74

Fixed The hardware headlight didn't always light all transparent faces, you could see dark faces instead of the headlight's shine
Fixed Syntax flaws in the lighting shader codes could lead to the shaders not being available in the program
New Custom OOF models can now be read from hog files

v1.11.73

Fixed Program could hang for several minutes any more when closing down while running multi threaded
Changed You can now toggle usage of colored light with the OpenGL style lighting in the light options menu
Improved Rockets and missiles fired into the sky (i.e. into the skybox through a transparent face) will not explode at that face anymore, but indeed travel into the sky and disappear

v1.11.72

New Added trigger type 'set spawn point'

v1.11.71

Fixed Mines were completely dark when rendered with static lighting enabled and colored light disabled
Fixed Single homing and guided missiles and mercury pack weren't casting proper shadows (install the latest d2x-xl.hog from the Windows D2X-XL distro)

v1.11.70

Fixed D2X-XL failed to load mines with more than 5461 (32767 / 6) segments
Changed Removed the old skool Pyro GX because it was so flawed that I cannot be bothered to fix it

v1.11.69

Changed Expanded precompiled lighting data file format to avoid inconsistencies when switching between standard and OpenGL style lighting

v1.11.68

Fixed Shield spheres and smoke were rendered at the spectator's position in free camera mode
Fixed No shadows were rendered in the new render path
Fixed Colored static lighting was too pale in the new render path
New Added support for a neat low resolution Pyro modeled after Eagle's high resolution Pyro by AegisRuneStone (it's contained in d2x-xl.hog - get it from the Windows distro)

v1.11.67

Fixed Colored lighting didn't work if static lighting was enabled

v1.11.66

Fixed The texture cache manager mixed mask and regular bitmaps when tracking memory consumption, leading to wrong assumptions of available memory
Fixed The ship got stuck when trying to pass through huge numbers of powerups it wasn't able to pick up because it was full already
Fixed 3D hostage models were rotating
Fixed When turning off 3D powerups, 3D hostage models kept being displayed instead of the 2D hostage sprites
Fixed If standard lighting was enabled and colored lighting was turned off, levels were always fully bright and gun fire didn't light its vicinity in the new render path

v1.11.65

Fixed If bright automap was enabled, colored and transparent walls were white and opaque in the textured automap
Fixed Shutting down the program could take several minutes if multi threading was enabled
Fixed Some hires model textures still were distorted

v1.11.64

Fixed No hires models except the Pyro were used by D2X-XL
Fixed Low res 3D objects containing transparency (e.g. the marker) weren't displayed anymore in the new render path
Fixed Hires 3D powerup model textures were messed up

v1.11.63

Fixed Transparency in hires models wasn't always handled properly, leading to e.g. the hires player ship being rendered partially transparent
Fixed Stripes on hires pyro wings were distorted (re-download the hires pyro or hires models archive to get the fix)

v1.11.62

Fixed Savegame level screenshots sometimes were distorted

v1.11.61

Fixed Old style menus weren't displayed any more when returning from a game - the screen stayed black

v1.11.60

New Added support for OOF robots (no animations yet)

v1.11.59

Fixed Connecting to multiplayer games didn't always work

v1.11.58

Fixed The game crashed when computing segment visibility and running multi-threaded
Fixed No light coronas were shown if standard lighting was enabled

v1.11.57

Fixed The game frequently and predictably crashed when using the old render path

v1.11.56

Changed Removed indirect rendering due to hard to overcome hardware limitations

v1.11.55

Fixed The screen was garbled after calling a menu while in game
Fixed Shadowing didn't work if indirect rendering was enabled

v1.11.54

Fixed The radar wasn't visible if high corona quality was enabled

v1.11.53

Fixed Cameras weren't rendered with the new indirect rendering
Fixed After calling the menu from in-game, occasionally only garbage was rendered to the screen
New Added switch '-render_indirect 0|1' to d2x.ini, allowing to disable the indirect rendering

v1.11.52

Improved Rendering speed at high corona quality has about doubled

v1.11.51

Fixed Corona depth blending wasn't enabled
Changed High quality corona setting isn't accessible if the hardware doesn't support it

v1.11.50

Improved Occluded corona areas can now softly fade through use a shader program
Changed The corona options menu now has a corona quality slider instead of 'hard' and 'soft coronas' radio buttons

v1.11.49

Fixed Lightnings didn't cast light if cameras were present and enabled

v1.11.48

Fixed High resolution sounds were played with a significant delay due to the sound buffer size being too big

v1.11.47

Fixed Crash that could occur if multithreading was enabled and only a small part of the mine was visible
Fixed Levels weren't properly lit if OpenGL style or colored lighting were enabled when first playing a Descent 1 level after program launches, or when switching from playing a Descent 1 to a Descent 2 level or vice versa
Fixed Camera outputs didn't get rendered anymore
Fixed Another bug causing door background textures to appear in door openings
Improved Light data precalculation is now faster and more precise
Changed Smoke will now be less transparent and smoke particles will decay less at first and more when they reach the end of their life span
New Added options to enable built-in headlights and suppress energy consumption by headlights

v1.11.46

Fixed Cloaked robots were visible against transparent stuff (e.g. smoke behind them)
Fixed Thruster flames weren't always at the proper place

v1.11.45

Fixed The download function didn't work anymore
Changed Player and robot shields will now always flash orange when hit

v1.11.44

Fixed Objects weren't displayed properly but moved around with the player
Fixed Occasional crash during multiplayer games

v1.11.43

Fixed Hardware object lighting didn't always work right (particularly if object coronas were visible)
Fixed Monitor images will now be rotated according to a monitor faces texture coordinates
Fixed Hardware headlight cone was too wide when lighting objects
Fixed Hardware lighting for hires objects didn't work properly (due to a flaw in hires object surface normal calculation and handling)
New Shield spheres can now optionally be rendered only when hit and will nicely fade (set in effect options menu)

v1.11.42

Fixed Open doors occasionally showed their background texture

v1.11.41

Fixed The hardware headlight dimmed bright areas at its periphery
Fixed Rock, metal and water textures won't have coronas anymore even if they emit light
Fixed The program could crash in multiplayer games hosted by a non-D2X-XL user

v1.11.40

Fixed The game occasionally locked up when displaying debris of destroyed robots

v1.11.39

Fixed The program crashed if shader usage was disabled and a game was started or loaded
Fixed Particle light trails often used the wrong particle image if smoke was visible
Fixed Object lightnings often remained after their object had been destroyed
Changed Light trail particles will not get lit by the hardware headlight (which just turned them into fat white blobs)

v1.11.38

Changed D2X-XL will now primarily look in the config subfolder for d2x.ini
Changed D2X-XL will now primarily look in the data subfolder for the Descent 1 and 2 game data (*.hog, *.pig, etc.)

v1.11.37

Fixed 3D objects weren't properly lit by hardware headlights
Fixed Smoke wasn't properly lit by hardware headlights
Fixed There could still be headlight light remains if weapons were fired while the headlight was on
Fixed Loading Descent 1 levels' exit terrain data occasionally crashed the program
Fixed Program crashed on systems not supporting graphics shader programs or if they were disabled

v1.11.36

Fixed Hires models didn't get loaded anymore
Fixed With OpenGL style lighting, headlight left light remains when it was turned off and on again while there were lightning effects in the mine
Fixed The hardware headlight didn't work for doors or grates that were laid over a base texture
Changed The hardware headlight cone now is significantly narrower and round instead of elliptic
Changed The hardware headlight now has a specular effect at its center, making it appear brighter
New Double click now directly selects an existing savegame to be used for saving

v1.11.35

Fixed Inline quick help stated Alt+P instead of Ctrl+P for toggling pause mode

v1.11.34

Fixed Some missiles (e.g. homing and guided missiles) didn't fit through gaps in grates
Fixed The mine was completely black in the new render path if the legacy menu style was used or progress bars were disabled
Fixed Score wasn't shown in cockpit-less game views
Fixed With OpenGL style lighting, headlight left light remains when it was turned off and on again
New Added a nice round headlight, using a shader program for per pixel lighting

v1.11.33

Fixed Objects were invisible when viewed from certain angles

v1.11.32

Fixed Original Descent 2 and D2X 0.2.6 savegames couldn't be loaded anymore
Fixed Boss teleport areas weren't restored properly from original Descent 2 and D2X 0.2.6 savegames

v1.11.31

Fixed Particle driven energy trails often left stationary particle blobs

v1.11.30

Fixed Skyboxes were black if shadowing was turned on

v1.11.29

Fixed Respawning the thief bot (happens e.g. in D2:CS secret level 3 'Mephisto Hardcore' when killing the thief) could crash the game
Fixed Shadows caused black artifacts and semi-transparent faces to disappear around the player ship in levels with skyboxes
Fixed Guidebot and Thief messages weren't printed anymore
Changed Robots will target the player ship and not the spectator position in free camera mode anymore
Changed If the player is in free camera mode he won't get bumped around by hits his ship takes anymore
Improved Smoke particles can now rotate, making smoke look more realistically moving (see the smoke options menu)

v1.11.28

Fixed You couldn't move the ship's nose up or down anymore

v1.11.27

Fixed Multiplayer games could crash if fast pitch was turned off due to a division by zero
Fixed Colored lighting was enforced in the new render path even if standard lighting was chosen

v1.11.26

Fixed Transparent walls had their texture being shown in the new render path and with transparency depth sorting enabled

v1.11.25

Fixed Shield spheres weren't visible against a skybox background
Fixed Robot part animation still was flawed (and apparently remains to be for shadow proof models due to a problem with pivot point definition)
Fixed The shadow proof TRN Racer model was flawed (find it in d2x-xl.hog)
Fixed The hires folders weren't handled properly and hence hires sounds couldn't be found by D2X-XL

v1.11.24

Fixed Shadows were cast on skybox faces
Fixed Transparent textures, or textures containing holes could be seen on the back side of their face, leading to such textures be visible in the wrong places
Fixed Physics options menu showed a double 'D' for 'debris life'
Fixed Moving robot parts weren't animated properly in the new render path
Fixed Monitors showed last camera image if cameras were enabled and got disabled

v1.11.23

Fixed Really huge levels could be imcompletely lith with OpenGL style lighting
Fixed Game crashed when rendering Descent 1 end level sequences in the new rende path
Fixed Some textures that didn't emit light had a very bright corona (e.g. switches)
Fixed Corona brightness is now scaled with the corona's light's brightness
Fixed Star background frequently wasn't displayed in the scores display shown after finishing a level
Fixed RenderSegmentFaces was declared both in render.c and fastrender.c, causing compilation on Linux to fail
Fixed Fireballs and explosions didn't cast light with OpenGL style lighting enabled
Fixed If a multitextured face had a texture containing transparency as its base texture, the base texture often overlaid the decal texture
Fixed The level checksum used for multiplayer game consistency checking wasn't computed properly anymore, so you couldn't join multiplayer games hosted by other or older Descent program version
Fixed Camera outputs had light coronas on them, obscuring the image
Fixed There was a duplicate shortcut key 'c' in the screen resolutions menu
Improved Added smoke and lightning visibility culling

v1.11.22

Fixed Grates or faces with a partially transparent overlay texture often weren't rendered properly in the new render path
Fixed Monitors often weren't displayed properly
Fixed The game crashed if the new render path was used and the screen resolution was changed or fullscreen was toggled in-game
Fixed There were two 1280x768 entries in the screen sizes menu, where one should have been 720x480
Fixed Custom display modes didn't get restored when restarting the program
Improved In the new render path, monitors are aligned better to their face

v1.11.21

Fixed In the new render path the player was occasionally placed in a skybox if the level contained one.

v1.11.20

Fixed Multiplayer didn't work any more
Fixed Some energy weapon shots were too dark
Fixed Energy weapon shot coronas were too dark
Fixed 3D powerups appeared too big
Fixed Shots sometimes were invisible
Fixed The animated parts of some robot models were too close to the robot's body
Fixed Damage lightnings went across the air, not across the robots
Fixed Levels were too bright with OpenGL style lighting
Fixed Light was slightly flickering if multi threading was enabled
Changed Shield spheres will now be additively blended, giving them more glow
Changed Removed specular highlight for hardware lit powerups
Improved Increased sphere rendering speed
Improved Improved the consistency checking of the pre-computed light data files (*.pre)
New Added an explosion lightning effect for robots, reactors and player ships

v1.11.19

Improved 3D powerups now have a soft specular highlight with hardware accelerated object lighting

v1.11.18

Fixed Hardware object lighting could crash the program
Fixed Objects disappeared or were too bright or dark when switching from hardware to software object lighting and back
Fixed Many light sources weren't regarded as such with OpenGL style lighting turned on

v1.11.17

Fixed Cloaked objects still didn't cloak properly
New Added hardware supported lighting for 3D objects (enable in lighting options menu)

v1.11.16

Fixed Certain level areas or the entire mine were completely black with standard lighting
Fixed Ship was jumping around, mine was partially black and other weird effects due to faulty face normal computation (probably even caused CTDs).
Fixed Light and object corona intensities can now be set separetely
Fixed Fixed a bug in thruster position calculation causing CTDs
Fixed Robots didn't properly cloak in the new render path
Changed Removed obsolete functions (effect options: shockwaves and smoke options: collision detection)

v1.11.15

Fixed Hires objects weren't converted to fast model format
Fixed Sometimes objects became invisible at certain view angles
Fixed Doors sometimes didn't close although they should
Fixed More bugs in lighting handling that could cause CTDs or program freezes

v1.11.14

Fixed Program was freezing when using damage lightnings
Fixed Walls (doors) sometimes disappeared when they should have been visible or stayed visible (closed) when they should disappear (open)

v1.11.13

Fixed Certain grates couldn't be shot through anymore
Fixed Custom menu background became white when turning fullscreen mode on
Fixed Savegame picture was messed up again
Fixed Transparent walls were too transparent in old render path
Fixed Occasionally (non-planar) scrolling faces scrolled the wrong way
New Soft coronas (courtesy of Jaz from the D2X-XL forum)
New Added a separate option for OpenGL style powerup lighting

v1.11.12

Improved Rendering speed when displaying explosion shrapnel has been increased

v1.11.11

Fixed Game crashed when loading big levels
Fixed Faces containing transparency weren't properly rendered in the automap
Fixed The menu option setting weapon powerup coronas had no effect
Fixed Transparent HUD elements and menu boxes occasionally were too bright
Fixed Colored segments still weren't rendered properly, leading to flickering faces

v1.11.10

Fixed Program was hanging or extremely slow with multi threading enabled
Fixed OpenGL style lighting didn't work properly anymore

v1.11.9

Fixed '-gl_alttexmerge 0' did not work in the new render path
Fixed Doors were still semi-transparent while open or opening/closing
Fixed Improved hit detection didn't work properly any more due to a bug in low resolution model handling
Fixed Savegame format was messed up just enough to make savegames using the new object trigger file format unreadable
Fixed Colored segments weren't rendered properly, leading to flickering faces
Changed Disabled SSE instruction usage for non-Windows systems (too many compile time problems)

v1.11.8

Fixed Removed bug in the lightning code causing CTDs
Fixed Levels with old format object triggers weren't read properly any more
Changed Decreased amount of dynamic lights created by lightnings
New Separated weapon and energetic powerup coronas and added a weapon coronas option to the effect options menu
New Improved object trigger file format is used in savegames now too

v1.11.7

Fixed Camera outputs weren't rendered properly anymore
Improved Explosion blasts look better now due to a different blend mode and an improved blast texture
New Added new file format for more flexible support of object triggers

v1.11.6

Fixed Software culling in the legacy render path didn't work properly, leading to disappearing faces
Improved Lasers are now rendered using full additive blending

v1.11.5

Fixed Skybox faces were erroneously used as light sources with OpenGL style lighting
Fixed Skybox wasn't always visible through completely or partially transparent faces
Fixed Improved transparency handling in the new render path

v1.11.4

Fixed Depending on view angle, open doors showed their background texture instead of the level area behind them
Fixed Opening/opened low resolution doors were semi-transparent
Fixed Walls with transparency weren't detected as such, leading to objects behind them being invisible
Fixed The full cockpit and bar hud were messed up
Fixed Wall coronas weren't visible any more in the new render path
Fixed 3D Powerups were rendered 'inside out' and changed their orienentation depending on the view point
Fixed Automap turned itself off right after having been launched
Fixed Player ship was too bright with OpenGL style lighting

v1.11.3

Fixed Removed crash happening after finishing Descent 1 levels
Fixed Descent 1 exit sequences were very dark
Fixed Bug in door handling lead to everything being rendered very dark
Fixed Doors looked closed, or revealed their background texture although open(ing)
Fixed 3D objects were pitch black with OpenGL style rendering
Fixed Textures didn't scroll in the new render path
Fixed Transparent faces with a transparent overlay were erroneously considered opaque
Fixed Automap wasn't properly rendered in the new render path if a skybox was present
Fixed Skybox wasn't rendered in the new render path
Fixed Lightnings messed the dynamic lighting system up, making it slower if lots of transient lighting emitting objects (e.g. weapon shots) were handled
Fixed Animations of doors that were intended to be overlays to a base texture, but used as base texture, got messed up
Fixed Robots weren't shown in cockpit windows
New Added options to display smoke and lightnings in cockpit windows

v1.11.2

Fixed Removed some more rendering bugs
Fixed Light from lightnings remained after the lightnings had disappeared or moved away
Fixed Custom (POG) 2D powerups were rendered pitch black
Improved Multi threading will now be employed for lightning calculations if available

v1.11.1

Fixed Faces were frequently rendered with wrong textures in the new render path
Fixed Miscolored faces and unhandled color key transparency in the new render path
Fixed Fading cloaking walls didn't work with dynamic lighting or the new render code
Fixed Improper lighting with standard lighting
Fixed Monitors (camera output) wasn't rendered properly in the new render path
Fixed Source code incompatibility with gcc (Linux)
Fixed The number '30' was permanently printed at the screen top
Improved Doors look better now (particularly grated doors)
Changed Particle trails and thruster flames will now be rendered using additive blending

v1.11.0 — Major Renderer Rewrite!

New The mine and object renderers have been rewritten, using efficient OpenGL render calls and multi-tasking, bringing 50% and more speed increase (enable with '-renderpath 1' in d2x.ini)
New Added powerup shadowing toggle to shadow options menu
Improved Better coronas (glare) (courtesy of Jaz)
Changed Many light emitting objects will now be additively blended, giving a more realistic effect
Fixed Brightness of some faces changed depending on player position with OpenGL style lighting
Fixed The texture shrinking function had a bad bug messing up textures w/o alpha channel
Fixed Descent 1 end level sequence didn't have explosions anymore
Fixed Descent 1 end level song was played out of sync
Fixed Shield symbol in cockpit and bar huds didn't flash when player's invulnerability timed out
Fixed Ship symbol in cockpit and bar huds didn't flash when player cloaked or the cloak timed out
Fixed Missile lock indicator wasn't displayed anymore
Fixed Crash caused by OpenGL style lighting
Fixed Lightnings didn't emit light

v1.10 27 releases

v1.10.26

Fixed Program crashed when computing lighting information for very large levels
Fixed No smoke effects for objects were visible anymore
Fixed Objects briefly disappeared when passing certain locations
Fixed Cloaked objects weren't properly cloaked anymore
Improved Menus will load faster

v1.10.25

Fixed Player stats will not overlay robot tally display anymore
Fixed Custom light textures weren't recognized
Fixed Dynamic lighting didn't not use all available light information
Improved Increased object renderer speed
Improved Corona blending is now softer
New Added optional additive blending for coronas
New Weapon coronas will now generally be additively blended

v1.10.24

Changed Powerup corona intensity now also controlled by corona intensity slider in effect options menu
New Added 'very low' and 'low' OpenGL style light ranges

v1.10.23

Fixed Removed lag caused by 3D powerup and shield textures being loaded on the fly in-game
Improved Changing OpenGL light range in-game will now properly re-light the level

v1.10.22

Fixed Removed a minor flaw in shrapnel rendering

v1.10.21

Fixed The transparency renderer didn't recognize all transparent walls

v1.10.20

New Added corona intensity setting 'very low' to the effect options menu

v1.10.19

Fixed Light data computation for OpenGL-style lighting or static colored light could freeze the program. You need to delete all precomputed D2X-XL light data from your system.

v1.10.18

Fixed Multi-thread light detection didn't work properly for small levels (< 16 segments)
Improved Doors will not be rendered by the fully depth sorting transparency renderer

v1.10.17

Fixed The transparency renderer did not properly reset OpenGL client array states, causing light trails to be opaque and discolored when turning it off
Fixed Hostages couldn't be picked up if their high resolution 3D model was used and improved collision detection was enabled (same for all objects with high resolution models that were by default rendered as 2D sprites)
Fixed High resolution hostage sprites didn't animate

v1.10.16

Fixed A bug that caused D2X-XL to hang on 64 bit systems when trying to render lightings (actually on any system where RAND_MAX > 32768)
Fixed High resolution objects were too dark with standard lighting
Changed On Linux, custom menu background images will now be read from D2X-XL's temp folder (/.d2x-xl/temp)

v1.10.15

Fixed OpenGL lighting was messed up, leading to colored lighting not working among others

v1.10.14

Fixed Hires objects were transparent if OpenGL-style object lighting was enabled
Changed You can now change OpenGL-style light range and object lighting in-game (singleplayer games only)

v1.10.13

Fixed Smoke was flickering worse than ever with OpenGL style lighting
Improved Moving skybox faces will now move much slower to make e.g. moving clouds look more realistic

v1.10.12

Fixed Objects weren't properly lit and generally too dark with OpenGL style lighting
Fixed Objects or effects (e.g. smoke) could flicker with OpenGL style lighting

v1.10.11

Fixed Optimized OpenGL style rendering
Fixed Maximum number of object lights for OpenGL style rendering had been ignored
New Added support for smoke emitting faces

v1.10.10

Fixed Removed a crash bug from the depth sorted transparency renderer
Fixed Smoke from destroyed robots could still turn bright
Fixed Shrapnel wasn't created anymore if full transparency depth sorting was enabled
Improved Fully depth sorted transparency rendering works a little better

v1.10.9

Fixed Smoke from damaged robots turned bright after the robot had been destroyed

v1.10.8

Fixed Polygon splitting didn't work properly for triangles
Fixed The transparency renderer did not always properly set all states
Improved Sound of lightning emitters with no visible lightning bolts will now be disabled until some lightnings are sparked again

v1.10.7

Fixed Multi-threaded OpenGL light precalculation could occasionally hang
Fixed Removed a bug causing rare CTDs
Improved Smoke looks a little better again through giving the particles a random orientation and making darker smoke less transparent

v1.10.6

Fixed With OpenGL style lighting, light emitted by lightnings remained after lightings had disappeared
Fixed Dynamic lights did not affect average segment light (which was e.g. used for computing smoke particle color)
Fixed Hires models were always loaded if progress bars were off
Fixed Light trails were opaque if lightning effects were rendered while full transparency depth sorting was enabled
Fixed Lightning rendering can now be turned on for the textured automap
Fixed Omega lightnings didn't properly follow moving targets
New Added OpenGL lighting data caching
New OpenGL lighting data computation can now be sped up by using multiple threads

v1.10.5

Fixed In-hog file custom movies weren't played
New Changed in-hog file custom movie filename extensions to 'mvi' (intro) and 'mvx' (extro)
New Added corona effect for powerups

v1.10.4

Fixed Animated sprites (e.g. explosions) weren't always rendered properly if fully transparency depth sorting was enabled

v1.10.3

Fixed Occasionally polygons weren't rendered if transparency depth sorting was enabled
Fixed Polygons that should have been rendered transparent (e.g. water or lava falls) weren't transparency depth sorting was enabled
Fixed CTD occuring when trying to turn on headlight without having energy while transparency depth sorting was enabled
Fixed Respawn delay was ignored for non-random lightings
Fixed Polygons occasionally were highly transparent or invisible, or almost completely dark if transparency depth sorting was enabled
Fixed Thruster flames weren't always visible if full transparency depth sorting was turned on
New If transparency depth sorting is enabled, Alt+P turns on a display showing the transparent polygons rendered each frame
New Added support for level-specific intro (.mvl) and extro (.mve) movies
New Added support for hires (TGA) briefing background images

v1.10.2

Fixed Frame rate could drop extremely if full transparency depth sorting was enabled
Fixed Light trail help text was too long
Fixed If shadows were enabled, the radar was only visible inside shadows
Fixed The smoke texture was missing from d2x-xl.hog, hence smoke effects weren't available
Fixed Some powerups that shouldn't were rendered transparent
Changed Lightning forks are brighter now
New Added Descent 1 cheat code 'guile'

v1.10.1

Fixed Standard levels were almost completely dark (only overlay textures were visible)

v1.10.0 — Lightning Effects!

New Added lightning effects in various flavors and colors
New Added fully depth sorted rendering of transparent render objects
New Added a switch to brighten hires models (configuration -> render options -> lighting)
Improved Light trails look better again
Fixed Under certain circumstances, not all smoke particles in view were rendered
Fixed Smoke transparency settings weren't saved across program launches

v1.9 290 releases

v1.9.290

Improved Tweaked shrapnel count settings
Improved Tweaked smoke rendering
Improved Tweaked the low resolution homing and guided missile and missile pack models

v1.9.289

Fixed Smoke options menu did not hide/display options depending on object type specific smoke toggles
New Added smoke controls for debris smoke
New Added separate smoke transparency control for player ships, robots, missiles and debris
New Added an explosion shrapnel count control to the effect options menu

v1.9.288

New Added a smoke transparency control to the smoke render options menu

v1.9.287

Improved Significantly improved smoke render quality particularly if several smoke emitters are active by introducing a fast method of depth sorting all visible smoke particles
New Added smoke quality control to smoke options menu

v1.9.286

Fixed The low resolution flash missile and flash missile packs had a few coloring faults
Improved Smoke looks better now (that 'tunnel' effect caused by rendering further away smoke particles after closer ones has been very much diminished)

v1.9.285

Fixed Shields were rendered for cloaked robots
Fixed Animated hires textures frequently weren't rendered properly after changing the screen resolution or toggling full screen mode
Fixed Gauss/Vulcan often didn't afflict damage although hitting an object with improved hit detection enabled
Fixed Custom level songs supplied via a playlist weren't played
Improved Tweaked shrapnel smoke rendering
New Enhanced hires sound switch ('-hires_sound 1' will now play 16K, 22 KHz sound, '-hires_sound 2' will play 16K, 44 KHz sound);
that means that you can now e.g. use Descent 3 sounds with D2X-XL if you want to

v1.9.284

Fixed Removed gaps in smoke streams (particularly visible with static smoke)
Fixed Removed bug causing smoke particles of fast smoke streams to move backwards
Fixed Checking/unchecking static smoke in the effect render menu didn't turn static smoke on/off
Fixed Light trails and coronas of unanimated weapon sprites (e.g. the spreadfire blobs) could be miscolored
Improved Smoke speed now has way greater range
Improved Static smoke rendering
New Added new trigger type allowing to adjust smoke brightness
Fixed Alpha channel got flattened (only 0 or 1) when shrinking TGA textures
Fixed Custom weapon projectile textures could cause black coronas and light trails
Improved Missile smoke trails (missile speed and trail length are now taken into account when rendering missile smoke)

v1.9.283

Fixed High resolution weapon sprites weren't properly rendered and animated
Fixed Custom weapon sprites' coronas and light trails didn't always have the proper color
Fixed Missiles didn't cause splash damage anymore
Fixed Average color computation of high resolution textures yielded too dark values for textures containing transparency
Improved Smoke is better distributed at the generation point, making its appearing look more natural
Improved 2D Thruster flame looks better now

v1.9.282

Fixed Added shadow proof reactor models to d2x-xl.hog (they had somehow gone awol)
Fixed Shield corona intensity didn't change according to shield strength
Improved Corona rendering for 3D weapon models (lasers, fusion blobs) looks better now
Improved Tweaked the low resolution missile models

v1.9.281

Fixed Hires explosions and weapon energy blobs didn't cast light
Changed D2X-XL will now place temporary files in a subfolder of the home or program folder named 'temp'
New You can now place level songs in hog files (need to bear their level's name; only ogg supported)

v1.9.280

Fixed Hires explosions weren't animated
Changed Smoke particles look different now (and a bit better, I think)
Improved Smoke from thrusters has a more distinct orange color near the thruster

v1.9.279

Fixed Player shields weren't rendered if shadows were enabled
New Added coronas to shield spheres

v1.9.278

Fixed The low resolution homing and guided missile models didn't cast proper shadows
Fixed Older savegames couldn't be loaded anymore due to a recent bug fix
Fixed Added a few Linux related bug fixes
Changed On Linux, the texture cache is placed in the home folder
Changed Improved the explosion shrapnel appearance (changed the particle deceleration and added frame rate limitation)
Improved Tweaked the low resolution powerup and missile models
New Added low resolution 3D models of proximity and smart mines and their powerup packs to d2x-xl.hog

v1.9.277

Fixed The hitbox based hit detection didn't always work for very fast missiles and projectiles
Fixed Removed a small flaw from the hires texture shrinking code
Fixed The door22 hires texture's alpha channel was reversed, leading to that hires door not being properly rendered. Find it in the hires doors rar file in the downloads area
Improved Tweaked the missile turn speed settings

v1.9.276

Fixed Homing missile turn rate wasn't frame rate independent after all
New Added an improved earth shaker bomblet mode (configuration -> gameplay options)

v1.9.275

New Added shadow proof reactor models to d2x-xl.hog

v1.9.274

Fixed Save games of missions that had a name with 8 or more characters couldn't be loaded
Fixed Rendering lores 3D powerups didn't work properly
Fixed Changing the object corona setting in the effect render options menu exited that menu
Improved Made a small improvement to explosion shrapnel rendering
New Added 3D models of all missile packs to d2x-xl.hog
New Added an improved earth shaker bomblet model to d2x-xl.hog

v1.9.273

Fixed The shrapnel effect was still slowing down the game increasingly the more robots had been destroyed
Fixed If there were a great lot of light emitting objects, the player ship was spinning out of control or the program crashed
Changed To avoid massive slowdowns, no shrapnel effects will be created during application of the 'spaniard' cheat
Improved Smoke will have a little more different shades of gray to make it look more natural

v1.9.272

Fixed If hires models were turned off and 3D powerups were turned on, many powerups weren't rendered
Fixed Light coronas were rendered in darkness games
Fixed Explosion shrapnel caused a second detonation sound when destroying robots

v1.9.271

Fixed Removed a very small memory leak
Fixed The shadow proof fire boss robot model had a few flaws (contained in d2x-xl.hog)
Fixed If hires models were disabled and 3D powerups were turned on, missile powerups dropped by players were shown as 2D sprites instead of 3D models
New Added improved shadow proof smart missile, mercury missile, mega missile and earth shaker models to d2x-xl.hog

v1.9.270

Fixed Shrapnel effect wasn't affected by slow motion/bullet time
Improved 2D thruster flame rendering
Improved Added thrusters to a few robot models (contained in d2x-xl.hog)

v1.9.269

New Added explosion shrapnel effect (configuration -> render options -> effects)

v1.9.268

Fixed Ship smoke was rendered at the viewer position and not behind the player ship in spectator mode
Improved Thruster flames look better and are better aligned to robot thrusters now

v1.9.267

Changed Energy consumption of slow motion and bullet time have been doubled
New Robots will now have thruster flames

v1.9.266

Fixed When using hires models or textures and doing a lot of savegame reloading, the program was erroneously terminated with an error message about lack of texture memory

v1.9.265

Changed The look of the thruster flames
Changed The look of the explosion blast

v1.9.264

Fixed You couldn't set another than the standard lighting method if lightmaps were permitted (via setting '-enable_lightmaps 1' in d2x.ini)

v1.9.263

Fixed Program crash occurring when the savegame data doesn't match the related level
Improved Error message appearing if the savegame data doesn't match the related level
Changed 'Trying to cheat' message to 'Player file has been damaged'

v1.9.262

Fixed The separate language files (descent.tex.ger and descent.tex.eng) were out of sync with the built-in game texts
Fixed The menu help messages were partially out of sync with the menu entries

v1.9.261

Fixed Light brightness computation for suppression of color saturation didn't work as intended
Fixed You couldn't chose the 'no color saturation' option in the lighting options menu

v1.9.260

New Added light saturation control options for OpenGL style light rendering

v1.9.259

Fixed Robots that charged the player sometimes just idled even if the player was close enough to be noticed by them, and didn't even react if being fired at

v1.9.258

Fixed Robot shadows weren't properly rendered if robot shield rendering was enabled

v1.9.257

Fixed Missiles didn't create a blast flash when hitting an object (only created one if hitting a wall)
Changed I didn't like the blast flash, so I put another one in d2x-xl.hog (you can override it by putting a texture named 'blast.tga' in the data folder)

v1.9.256

Fixed The game was occasionally crashing when OpenGL style rendering was enabled
Fixed d2x-xl.hog was messed up, causing missing blasts and coronas
Fixed Weapons will now be fired from the player ship position in spectator mode
Fixed Level song will be restarted when leaving slow motion or bullet time

v1.9.255

Fixed You couldn't move the ship in free camera mode (enable free camera mode by adding '-enable_freecam 1' to d2x.ini, toggle by pressing Ctrl+Alt+S in-game)
Fixed The shadow proof ITSC didn't have 'eyes' or gun ports (contained in d2x-xl.hog)
Improved Inner part of super laser and fusion shots stand out more (contained in d2x-xl.hog)

v1.9.254

Fixed Game crashed when shooting blastable textures that had been overloaded with custom textures
Fixed Blastable doors that had been overloaded with a single frame hires texture were shown as intact although they had been destroyed
Fixed Permanent sounds (e.g. forcefield hum) disappeared when the player had died and respawned

v1.9.253

Fixed Cockpit views didn't work properly with demo data
Improved Player shield looks much better now
New Added robot shield rendering (enable in configuration -> render options -> effects)

v1.9.252

Fixed Missiles left a permanent light source after detonating if explosion flash was turned off
Fixed Player ship was turned into debris when destroying a robot while debris life time was increased (but player didn't die)
Improved The explosion flash effect looks a little better (new texture)

v1.9.251

Fixed Robots didn't show any attack animations (particularly noteable for those with melee attacks)
Fixed Energy particle trails were invisible if master slider usage in smoke options was disabled
Fixed d2x.ini didn't get read anymore
Improved Explosion blast looks better (I think)

v1.9.250

Fixed Explosion flash effect could kill the player
Fixed A debug HUD message was appearing while explosion blasts were rendered

v1.9.249

Changed '-nobotai' will now also disable robot generators and inhibit boss robots from spawning other robots when being attacked
New Added explosion flash effect (configuration -> render options -> effects)

v1.9.248

Fixed Object lighting didn't work properly anymore

v1.9.247

New Added command line switch -use_swapfile allowing D2X-XL to use more than just the physical memory available at program start

v1.9.246

Fixed Descent 1 textures weren't properly converted to Descent 2 textures, resulting in unavailable color information for light emitting Descent 1 textures
Fixed External terrain in rendered Descent 1 exit sequences was very dark if colored or OpenGL style lighting were enabled
Fixed External terrain in rendered Descent 1 exit sequences occasionally wasn't rendered
Fixed Parts of the HUD and the Radar were visible during rendered Descent 1 exit sequences
Fixed The planet visible in the background of rendered Descent 1 exit sequences was split in two halves
Fixed Smart mines dropped by robots were always rendered low res even if hires models were enabled and available

v1.9.245

Fixed The guidebot could trigger switches that were intended to be only triggered by the player

v1.9.244

Fixed Custom (pog) hires doors replacing lores doors with fewer frames hadn't all their frames rendered when animating

v1.9.243

Fixed Demos taken in multiplayer games couldn't be played back anymore

v1.9.242

Fixed The monsterball was placed randomly in monsterball levels even if a monsterball object was present in the level

v1.9.241

Fixed OpenGL style lighting didn't work any more
Fixed Smart missile plasma blobs didn't have a corona when these were enabled

v1.9.240

Fixed Crash occurring when freeing the monsterball data if no monsterball textures had been found
Fixed Animated hires textures weren't animated anymore
Improved Optimized the renderer a little
Improved Screenshots will now be saved using the level name they're taken from
New Energy trails can now alternatively be rendered using the particle system

v1.9.239

Improved Screenshots will now be saved using the level name they're taken from

v1.9.238

Fixed Selecting an auto leveling mode also affected hit detection mode selection and vice versa
Fixed The 'Gauges...' text in the cockpit options menu was messed up
Fixed You couldn't increase the screen resolution when in a menu by pressing Ctrl+F2 anymore

v1.9.237

Changed Added 5 and 10 secs to debris life choices
New Added support for static explosion objects
New Added drag modifier to decrease player ship drag up to inertia flight

v1.9.236

New Added support for DTX patch files

v1.9.235

Fixed Descent 2 shield damage and energy drain triggers didn't work as intended
Fixed Removed a small flaw in slow motion sound handling
Changed Increased slow motion and speed energy consumption

v1.9.234

Fixed Auto-leveling didn't work correctly
New Added support for hires sounds

v1.9.233

Fixed Medium hulks were rendered in the place of static smoke generators if smoke or static smoke were turned off

v1.9.231

Fixed Mines were slightly transparent
Fixed Mines didn't receive a missile lock indicator
Fixed Potential targets of guided missiles steered by the player in the main view didn't receive a missile lock indicator
Fixed Destroyed hires prison doors were rendered as intact when saving them in a savegame and reloading that savegame
Fixed The radar got rendered into camera and guided missile views
Fixed Energy trails and coronas of some weapons were miscolored
Fixed In missions with several levels that were not stored in a hog file you could only play the first level; D2X-XL did not find the others
New Added more auto levelling methods
New You can now change the transparency of the new style menus by pressing Ctrl+T (Command+T). Repeatedly pressing it will decrease transparency until the menus are opaque and then make them fully transparent again

v1.9.230

Improved Texture pre-caching again

v1.9.229

Improved Decreased in-game lag when textures get loaded on the fly by improving texture pre-caching

v1.9.228

Fixed Program execution was terminated due to lack of texture memory when loading hires models
Fixed Program execution was terminated due to lack of texture memory during frequent loading of missions or savegames
Fixed Descent 1 robot briefings showed partially invisible robots if OpenGL style rendering was enabled

v1.9.227

Fixed Mines were rendered transparent

v1.9.226

Fixed Descent 1 missions comprising several levels not stored in a hog file didn't get loaded
Changed The difficulty setting from the new game and the gameplay menus are now sync'd
Changed The difficulty setting stored in a savegame will now override the one from the gameplay menu if that savegame gets loaded

v1.9.225

Improved Handling of TrackIR head tracking gear

v1.9.224

Fixed Black parts of low resolution powerups were transparent
Fixed Plasma, Phoenix, Spreadfire, Helix and Omega blobs weren't slightly transparent any more

v1.9.223

Fixed Sounds, doors, powerups, the Omega cannon and other animated stuff did not slow down when speed was enabled
Fixed Auto leveling setting wasn't preserved across program launches
New Added aim and look modes to TrackIR handling
New Added more possibilities to tweak head tracking

v1.9.222

Fixed The red robot lasers didn't have a corona or light trail
Fixed Reactor shots and slow fireballs fired e.g. by the P.E.S.T. now have a corona
Fixed The minemine cheat did not turn invulnerability and cloak permanently on

v1.9.221

Fixed Once set, auto levelling couldn't be turned off any more
Fixed D1:First Strike and D2:Counterstrike briefings weren't shown any more
Fixed Entering an energy center while the Guidebot had been assigned a task (e.g. finding a key) could crash the game

v1.9.220

Fixed Auto levelling got turned on when entering the physics options menu and couldn't be turned off anymore

v1.9.219

Fixed Briefings in custom Descent 1 missions weren't played
Fixed Some weapons were rendered with a white box around them
Fixed The bomb selection key (default: '8') did not properly toggle bombs
Fixed When automap texturing was turned on, no robots or powerups were shown on the minimap
Improved Sensitivity handling of the mouse in joystick emulation
Improved Completely revamped the controls configuration menu, splitting it up in several menus, one for each controller type
New Added support for NaturalPoint TrackIR head tracking systems (MS Windows only)

v1.9.218

Fixed The deadzone radius of the joystick emulation by mouse wasn't the same for all mouse positions
Improved The deadzone indicator of the joystick emulation by mouse is now rendered using a nice texture
New You can now adjust the deadzone size of the joystick emulation by mouse in the input configuration menu

v1.9.217

Fixed The shadow proof replacement models of the Fusion Hulk (a.k.a. Mini Boss) and the Cloaked Lifter had flaws
Fixed Small mines still got a corona
Fixed When saving a level with some open hires door (e.g. blocked by a marker), the door was rendered as close after reloading that savegame (you could still fly through it though)
Fixed When a given hires door was opened, you could shoot through all other doors of the same type in the entire level
Fixed Briefing bitmaps will not be rendered with transparency any more
Fixed Robots and exit doors weren't rendered in Descent 1 briefings anymore
Changed Increased slow motion and speed power consumption
Improved Robots will now try to avoid hitting other robots if robot to robot damage is enabled
New You can now adjust the corona intensity (configuration -> render options -> effects)

v1.9.216

Fixed A few lava textures in the first level of my singleplayer mission Warp Shockwave did not cast the proper light color
Fixed Mines were rendered with coronas
Fixed When D2X-XL tried to render a corona for the hires 3D model of the smart mine pack, the renderer got all mixed up
Fixed The mine was rendered completely black if shadows were turned on
Improved Markers now have a neat green corona
Improved Moved a lot of options from gameplay and some from miscellaneous to the newly created physics options menu
Improved Moved 'headlight on when picked up' from miscellaneous to gameplay options menu

v1.9.215

Fixed Player ship and other objects suddenly were at a different location or even out of level
Fixed Objects were penetrating each other if hitbox based collision detection was enabled
Fixed Savegame preview images contained transparency
Fixed HUD messages were 'thrashing' if two messages were repeatedly and alternatingly printed
Fixed Descent 2 instead of Descent 1 weapon strengths were used in Descent 1 levels

v1.9.214

Fixed A few small and one pretty massive memory leak that could quickly consume available memory particularly on smaller machines
Fixed The Guidebot's 'mission accomplished' sound when finding a goal the player had specified hadn't been played for all instances
Fixed The Guidebot's mission state had not been reset after completion of a mission the player had assigned to it, which was occasionally leading to the Guidebot not completing new objectives
Fixed The program occasionally crashed when entering 'gowingnut' twice

v1.9.213

Fixed There were a few minor issues with corona rendering
Improved Added early collision detection for objects that are very close together (and probably stuck in each other)

v1.9.212

Fixed The horizontal size of mouse indicator wasn't properly calculated for the 'handle mouse like a joystick' mode
Improved The dead zone for 'joystick mouse' will no be displayed as a transparent yellow circle if the mouse indicator is enabled

v1.9.211

Fixed Speedboosts did not work in multiplayer games if competition mode was off (should have been if competition mode is on)
Fixed Boss robots stayed inactive in multiplayer coop games
Fixed Missile target lock indicator always targetted other players instead of robots in multiplayer coop games
Fixed Some robots' shots didn't have coronas or light trails
Fixed Shield and energy gauges weren't drawn filled when respawning after having died with low energy or shields
Fixed Sounds were distorted if SDL_mixer was disabled or wasn't available
Fixed Minemine cheat would toggle invulnerability and invisibility and will now always turn or leave them on
Improved Minemine cheat will now enable triple fusion, slow motion and speed

v1.9.210

Fixed The ship could be driven slightly into walls, immobilizing it
Fixed D2X-XL wrote a file named 'd2x-temp.mid' in the root folder
Fixed Language files weren't processed correctly and lead to d2x-xl being terminated with an error message about an invalid number of game texts

v1.9.209

Fixed Coronas were too bright
Fixed Lighting options menu displayed 'lightmap range' instead of 'light range' if OpenGL style lighting was chosen
Changed Decreased energy consumption of slow motion and speed

v1.9.208

Fixed Slow motion and speed energy consumption were not processed correctly
Fixed Slow motion and speed were not properly turned off if any of their prerequisites were missing
Changed Slow motion and speed consumption now scale with the difficulty level (trainee: 1/sec, insane: 2/sec)

v1.9.207

Fixed Key bindings for slow motion and speed weren't correctly remembered
Fixed 'Slowing down' and 'speeding up' messages not always correct
Fixed A few default controls were bogus and could cause strange effects like having no smoke even if enabled
Fixed Slow motion and speed were consuming way too much energy
Fixed Slow motion and speed were consuming energy even if turned off
Fixed Homing missile turn rate was not affected by slow motion
Changed The energy->shield converter is now required for using slow motion and the afterburner for speed
Changed Slow motion and speed now need just more than 10 energy to work
Changed Doubled energy consumption of slow motion and speed
Changed Slow motion and speed will now get turned off when invoking the automap
Changed Updated the configuration used for a new player profile to reflect the latest changes
Changed The player ship will not move position or orientation any more if hit while the player is viewing the automap
Improved Interaction of slow motion and speed controls (see the worklog)
Improved Way better low shield warning sounds - courtesy of Mike Neumann (only available if SDL_mixer is available and enabled)
Improved Low shield warning sounds now are also available if the text gauges are enabled
New Slow down and speed up sounds for the slow motion and speed modes (only available if SDL_mixer is available and enabled)
New Triple fusion mode! If enabled, picking up a second Fusion Gun makes the Fusion fire three instead of two blobs. In multiplayer games, this feature is host controlled.
New Added Speed ('hestheone') and triple fusion ('scottmeup') cheat codes

v1.9.206

Fixed Lasers, flares and missiles could still be fired at full speed by both player and robots if slow motion was enabled
Fixed Windows distro seemed to contain debug SDL and SDL_mixer dlls requiring msvcr71d.dll instead of msvcr71.dll
Improved Windows distro now also contains SDL and SDL_mixer dlls that should not require msvcr71.dll for 16 bit Windows OS-s
New You can now set the strength of the slow motion effect (configure - gameplay options)

v1.9.205

Improved Object coronas can now be enabled separately
Improved Skybox rendering can now be turned off in the automap
New Slow motion and speed modes allowing to slow everything down, and to exclude the player from the slow down (single player only)

v1.9.204

Fixed Low resolution prison door was turning transparent when shot in Descent 1 levels
Fixed 3D powerups hidden in unlit secret areas were completely dark if OpenGL style object lighting was enabled
Fixed Level version filter always cleared when exiting the new game menu
Fixed Menu music restarted periodically if no demos were present and the intro movie couldn't be played
Fixed Lightmap option was displayed in the lighting options menu when '-enable_lightmaps 0' was set
Improved You cannot disable both Descent 1 and Descent 2 mission selection anymore
New Command line switch '-auto_demos 0|1' to control automatic playback of demos and intro movie when the program is idling in the main menu

v1.9.203

Fixed Program was crashing after having chosen a mission in the new game menu
Fixed Joystick settings were not preserved across program starts and player changes
Improved Entire program configuration are now set to useful values when creating a new player

v1.9.202

Fixed Program failed to load savegames if playing the savegame's level type (Descent 1 or 2) hadn't been enabled in the new game menu
Fixed Message 'trying to cheat, eh?' was displayed after creating a new player

v1.9.201

Fixed Coronas were rendered on invisible walls
Changed Level version filter options have been moved to the new game menu
Changed In coop games, players can now use all D2X-XL features regardless of the game host's settings
Improved Demos will now run even if the required level type (Descent 1 or 2) has been disabled
Improved Coronas are now rendered slightly behind lasers so that they don't drown the laser's colors
Improved New player file format that is much more tolerant towards changes or addition of new data

v1.9.200

Fixed Game was prone to crashing or locking up when returning from secret levels
Improved Automap labelling now has transparent background
Improved Debris will now react correctly to collisions with players and robots
New Frame rate will be displayed in automap too if turned on
New Limited automap framerate to 40 fps to make sure it can be properly maneuvered
New Missile lock indicators showing potential targets for homing missiles (toggle in configuration -> render -> cockpit -> target indicator options)

v1.9.199

Fixed Switching from a missile to another one and back sometimes didn't switch to the initially selected missile
Fixed Robot lasers weren't transparent anymore
Fixed Mini automap in HUD windows was textured when automap texturing was turned on
Improved Powerup display can now be toggled separately for automap and radar
New Increased debris life (can be adjusted in render effects menu), complete with debris afterglow

v1.9.198

New D2X-XL can now render smoke effects in the textured automap

v1.9.197

Fixed Objects with hires models couldn't be hit if hitbox based collision detection was turned on
Fixed If hitbox based collision detection was turned on, collisions were frequently registered although there was none
Fixed Radar was rendered into the automap

v1.9.196

Fixed Hitbox based collision method did not work for players in multiplayer
Fixed Mines couldn't be shot or detonated by ramming when hitbox based collision detection was turned on
Fixed Cameras did not work anymore
Improved Finish level cheat (delshiftb) will now orient the player ship towards the level exit after placing it in front of it
New Corona rendering can now be turned on in the textured automap
New Added a radar display that deserves the name

v1.9.195

Fixed Dynamic object lighting didn't work
Improved Textured automap view now shows the player's ship instead of an arrow

v1.9.194

New Automap can now also be rendered fully textured

v1.9.193

Fixed Explosions weren't as transparent as they should have been
Fixed Energy weapon shots weren't transparent
Fixed If hires models were enabled, Vulcan ammo clips were rendered instead of Medium Hulks in Descent 1 levels
Fixed Shot coronas sometimes visible through walls
Changed Flare now slightly transparent
Changed Flares now have coronas and light trails

v1.9.192

Fixed Robot guns weren't always alternating properly

v1.9.191

Changed Made the shot coronas more transparent
New Fusion shots will not rotate around their longitudinal axis

v1.9.190

New Energy weapon shots will now also be rendered with a corona if light coronas are enabled

v1.9.189

Fixed If -fix_models 1 was specified, D2X-XL was using some robot models for lasers and missiles when using the demo data
Changed Weapon icons will not be available with the demo data as some icon bitmaps are not available there

v1.9.188

Improved Massive code cleanup removing most GCC warnings, some potential problems and a few minor bugs

v1.9.187

Fixed Since the Vertigo robot generator fix, savegames from other Descent versions couldn't be read by D2X-XL anymore

v1.9.186

Fixed Objects didn't cast light with OpenGL style lighting enabled if dynamic object lighting was turned off
Fixed Base textures of faces with two combined textures always rendered fully bright with -gl_alttexmerge 1

v1.9.185

Fixed Robot generators that were meant to exclusively produce Vertigo robots didn't produce anything due to a flaw in the level file format. D2X-XL will now randomly produce any of the Vertigo robot types used in such a level.
Fixed Couldn't shoot through see-through areas of hires textures (e.g. through gaps of grates) anymore
Fixed Player ships could be half driven into walls (once again - sigh)

v1.9.184

Fixed A few bugs in corona rendering, making it look more natural and less obtrusive particularly for large light casting areas

v1.9.183

Fixed Occasionally geometry behind explosions wasn't visible in the explosion's transparent areas, causing black areas in or around explosions
Fixed Program crashed if a level was launched with coronas enabled and the corona texture wasn't found
Improved Explosion color will now depend on the explosion fireball's average bitmap color and not be red regardless of weapon fired
Improved Tweaked corona rendering to make coronas less obtrusive

v1.9.182

Improved Light corona rendering

v1.9.181

Fixed Game launching immediately if pressing 'D' in the new game menu while having a mission selected
Fixed Program crashing when trying to enable lightmaps in the lighting options menu
Fixed Program crashing when loading certain missions (e.g. Boiling Point)
Improved Tidied the lighting options menu
New Added light coronas

v1.9.180

Fixed Weapon efficiency display setting wasn't saved to disk
Fixed Occasionally, one of the two smoke clouds from the player ship thrusters disappeared when firing a missile

v1.9.179

Fixed Non-light textures in non-D2X-XL levels that had been given a brightness with DLE-XP weren't regarded by the OpenGL style lighting or light colorization function
Fixed Shooting tightly packed groups of robots with the Fusion damaged some of the robots several times with the same shot
Fixed Sometimes shots didn't damage targets they should have (if the target didn't move and it's center point was in a different segment than the shot's center point)
Improved Smoke of objects that are standing still will disperse slower now which looks better
New Optional, improved object hit detection using hit boxes instead of hit spheres
New Weapon hit/miss/efficiency display

v1.9.178

Changed -gl_alttexmerge automatically disabled on graphics card that do not support it (e.g. Geforce 2 MX series)

v1.9.177

Fixed Some opaque hires textures were erroneously flagged as containing transparency
Fixed Boss robot info wasn't always properly restored from save games
Fixed When caching textures of a face with an overlay texture, instead of the overlay texture, the base texture was loaded twice, resulting in a performance loss (the overlay still got loaded at a later point of time)
Fixed Demo format conversion still didn't work
Fixed Demo controls didn't reliably work (fast forward/reverse, etc.)

v1.9.176

Fixed Demo conversion did not always work

v1.9.175

New Added command line switch '-revert_demos 0|1' allowing to convert demo from the new D2X-XL format to the Descent 2 legacy format

v1.9.174

Fixed Rear view and auxiliary were displays messed up since last update

v1.9.173

Fixed Weapon displays will not overwrite the rounded corners of the cockpit's display bezels anymore

v1.9.172

Fixed Program was crashing when robots were damaged due to some robot generator effect (like hitting another robot that is just being spawned)

v1.9.171

Fixed Smart mines shown in cockpit weapon display when proximity mines were armed and vice versa. (This fix may have also cured the mine swapping occurring when loading a save game)
New Added cheat code 'lemontree' giving the player an afterburner and unlimited afterburner charge

v1.9.170

Fixed Aspect ratio of letterbox (widescreen) cockpit mode for screen resolutions/game window sizes with an aspect ratio other than 3:4

v1.9.169

Fixed Cockpit elements were not at their proper places at screen resolutions/game window sizes with an aspect ratio other than 3:4

v1.9.168

Fixed Some HUD elements were stretched when using widescreen resolutions
Improved Made auxiliary HUD windows with fullscreen cockpit view a little smaller for widescreen resolutions
Changed Missiles cannot be shot down in competition mode anymore
New Added 'shoot msls' text to extended netgame information

v1.9.167

Fixed When loading a savegame of a level containing boss robots, the bosses got dysfunctional
Fixed D2X-XL type levels were occasionally crashing D2X-XL
Fixed Game was crashing when the player ship was destroyed and was dropping powerups
New Option allowing players to shoot down incoming missiles

v1.9.166

Fixed Some animated textures (e.g. lava) not working properly
Fixed Shader usage (-gl_alttexmerge) not working properly
New Added an alternative executable (d2x-xl-win16.exe) that might work on Windows 9x/ME

v1.9.165

Changed Inventory capacity now depends on difficulty level
Improved Decreased memory consumption of textures by over 25%
New You can now specify the max. number of supported segments (i.e. max. level size) at program start, allowing you to decrease memory consumption of static program data
New Command line switch '-model_quality [0..3]' allows to decrease memory consumption and load time of hires models at the cost of render quality

v1.9.164

Fixed Player ship wasn't properly cloaked when using the cloak or minemine cheats
Fixed Thrusters of cloaked objects weren't cloaked
New Command line switch '-cache_textures 0|1' allowing to make D2X-XL create texture files containing the shrunk hires textures for each texture quality level, speeding up subsequent hires texture load operations

v1.9.163

Fixed Boss robot didn't die if multiple bosses were disabled

v1.9.162

Fixed In cockpit and landscape views, occasionally faces weren't rendered at the borders of the field of vision
Fixed Dynamic object lighting was used even if it had been disabled
Fixed Average segment color wasn't used for object lighting if colored lighting was enabled and dynamic object lighting was disabled
Fixed Missile smoke disappeared immediately when the missile exploded
Changed Primary fire control buffers are now flushed if the player runs of out ammo for the equipped primary weapon

v1.9.161

Fixed Under certain circumstances, UDP/IP networking code was sending data to other game participants besides the intended receiver, e.g. resulting in players receiving several points per kill
Fixed Occasionally smoke puffs of objects that had been destroyed remained stationary in the mine
Fixed Headlight was not working in darkness games

v1.9.160

Fixed If texture merging via shaders (-gl_alttexmerge 1) was disabled or dysfunctional, overloaded animated textures where the replacement animation had less frames than the original one wasn't rendered properly
Changed Repair centers are now displayed with a bluish outline in the automap
New (Optional) death penalty system for coop games

v1.9.159

Fixed Restoring a savegame of a level containing multiple bosses some of which had been destroyed could result in some bosses being indestructable
Fixed Object triggers that should have been activated on destruction of the object weren't working if the object also had triggers that were to be activated if the object got damaged (but not destroyed)

v1.9.158

Fixed If playing several singleplayer levels containing reactors in a row, reactors could get inactive

v1.9.157

Changed Program will now be terminated if a critical error is encountered

v1.9.156

Fixed Automap and mine rendered too far (the latter leading to slowdowns when rendering complex mines)

v1.9.155

Fixed Guidebot was frequently firing at the player although it shouldn't
Fixed Guidebot couldn't be damaged by the player
Fixed Reactors from older savegames could cease to work

v1.9.154

Fixed Guidebot messages miscolored/too dark
Fixed Program occasionally crashing when a robot generator spawns a robot (e.g. in Descent 2:Counterstrike Level 21)

v1.9.153

Fixed Program crashed when splash damage from explosions was applied to the player

v1.9.152

Fixed Removed erroneously given error messages about missing robots (e.g. cambot.hxm)

v1.9.151

Fixed If setting '-enable_shadows 0' in d2x.ini while having had smoke enabled in the smoke render options menu, certain effects (weapon light trails, damage indicators) weren't shown
Fixed The state of equipment generator controlled by triggers wasn't always properly set if the switch or object owning the switch had been destroyed
Fixed Occasionally custom textures weren't displayed properly (e.g. from Kruel's Kryllidian Krusade or Encounter At Far Point 2)
Changed Flares fired by the guidebot do not damage the player ship even if they hit it

v1.9.150

Fixed The missions from Descent 2:Counterstrike containing a boss robot also had a reactor

v1.9.149

New You can now assign alternative joystick controls to game functions (in other words: Two different joystick controls per function)

v1.9.148

Fixed Program occasionally crashing when switching to 'radar' view in one of the cockpit windows

v1.9.147

Fixed Standard Descent 2 and Vertigo bosses whos properties were modified with DMB2 or DLE-XP did not show any of the special behaviour their unmodified counterparts did (like immunity to certain weapon types, or that special vulnerable spot)

v1.9.146

Fixed Error messages about invalid segments in GetSegMasks()

v1.9.145

Fixed Blurred textures when moving/turning while having more than 60 fps
Fixed Robots could see the player through closed doors
Fixed Increased robot awareness couldn't be turned off

v1.9.144

Fixed Multiplayer did not work on 64 bit Linux

v1.9.143

Fixed Main Descent 2 mission was not shown in the menu if the descent2.hog file didn't have the size of one of the official descent2.hog version
Fixed Ammo count shown for the type of missile with the same priority as superlasers if no missiles of that type available and the player had superlasers

v1.9.142

Fixed Sound got completely muted shortly after the reactor countdown had started if using SDL_mixer
Fixed Ship getting stuck and not being able to pass through narrow passages or certain doorways
Fixed Ship not wiggling in multiplayer games
Fixed Reactor disappearing when loading a savegame that was made after the reactor had been destroyed
Fixed Static smoke particles were too large if smoke wasn't set to disperse (but to shrink away)

v1.9.141

Fixed Minemine cheat remained active when starting a new game or loading a savegame
Fixed No proper message was displayed when a switch affecting equipment generators was operated
Improved Wall collision handling

v1.9.140

Fixed Robots (particularly apparent with Bosses) firing missiles too often
Fixed Objects that had an individual item to spawn assigned to them did not spawn any items that were tied to their generic type (i.e. if all Diamond Claws should spawn a Class 1 Drone on destruction, and one of them should spawn a cloaking device, the one spawning the cloaking device would not spawn Class 1 Drones)
Fixed A few segments in levels 2 and 7 of Boiling Point had the wrong type which could lead to the player being destroyed where it shouldn't have been possible to happen

v1.9.139

Fixed Player ships could be driven halfway into walls and obstacles (oh my, I had been hunting this bug for months, and it was driving me crazy!)
Fixed Player ship jumping around when colliding with robots or gun shots
Fixed Equipment generators generally didn't work
Changed Improved a few things in my mission 'Boiling Point'

v1.9.138

Fixed Reloading saved multiplayer coop games didn't work
Changed Entering 'minemine' a second times turns the cheat off again

v1.9.137

Fixed Robot triggers that should have been activated when the robot got destroyed didn't get activated
Changed Allowed countdown triggers to be attached to regular walls, not just to objects

v1.9.136

Fixed If picking up a superlaser with regular lasers equipped, another weapon was auto-selected if that weapon had higher priority than super lasers
Changed Using the 'minemine' cheat will now constantly replenish all weapons, shields and energy

v1.9.135

Fixed Occasional crash caused by bug in physics simulation code
Fixed Player occasionally freezing with 0 shields and not dieing
Fixed If more than one reactor was present in the mine, only one of them would fire
Fixed Player being bumped around violently due to collisions, occasionally penetrating walls
Changed Limited max. number of cloaking and invulnerability devices in inventory to 5 without and 10 with ammo rack each
Improved Robots hit by gun fire from the player will now always fire back and approach player regardless of distance, and will only stop if losing the player out of sight for a certain amount of time
New Added countdown object trigger to allow for individual reactors to start the mine destruction countdown when destroyed
New Added robot spawn trigger type for objects (object will spawn robots if damaged)
New Added robot teleport trigger type for objects (object will teleport away if damaged)
New Added damage threshold for robot spawn and teleport triggers (action will be taken if object damage exceeds given percentage)
New Cheat code 'minemine' giving you all inventory items, all weapons, making you invulnerable and cloaked all at once for convenience

v1.9.134

Improved Static smoke visuals

v1.9.133

Fixed Robots penetrated half through walls

v1.9.132

Fixed Equipment generators got shuffled around
Fixed When changing the value of the respawn delay slider in the gameplay options menu, it's label was replaced with 'max. smoke grenades'
New Added smoke objects allowing to have smoke appear at arbitrary places in a mine
Fixed Pressing Shift+F4 in a mine w/o a guidebot caused the program to crash
Fixed Config items with duplicate ids didn't get restored (e.g. those where you assign two controls to a game function)

v1.9.131

Fixed Added proper keys for taking screenshots and pausing the game to the quick help window you get when pressing F1 in-game

v1.9.130

Fixed Occasional crashes caused by overloading animations with TGA animations that have less frames than the original animations
Fixed If a robot spawned a boss robot, the boss robot was not acting properly
Changed Moved object tally one line down and fps display one line up

v1.9.129

Fixed Multiplayer score sync'ing code didn't work

v1.9.128

Fixed Debris smoke setting wasn't accepted, robot smoke setting was used for it instead
Fixed Difficulty setting from gameplay options menu overrides setting from new game menu when starting a new game
Fixed HUD gauges flashed on low values even if flashing was disabled in the cockpit options menu
Fixed Guidebots summoned in Descent 1 missions (using Shift+F4) were created damaged
New Added command line switch '-enable_freecam 0|1' to allow free camera movement independant of ship position (toggle with Alt+Ctrl+S; only works in singleplayer or coop games)

v1.9.127

Fixed Homing missiles didn't track their targets anymore

v1.9.126

Fixed Inventory wasn't available in cooperative multiplayer games

v1.9.125

Fixed If more than one homing missile were underway, only one of them actually tracked its target
Fixed Occasional crash caused by robot triggers
Fixed Robot triggers occasionally not working
New Added missile turn speed adjustment control to gameplay options menu (will not affect non-coop multiplayer games)

v1.9.124

Fixed D2X-XL did not properly keep track of more than one reactor in a mine in d2x-xl levels and with multiple bosses enabled

v1.9.123

Fixed Player shield and energy reset to 100 when entering a secret Descent 1 level even if the values were higher than 100
Fixed Occasional crash caused by repeatedly loading different levels containing animated custom textures
Improved Robots spawned by exploding robots will not be destroyed by that explosion any more
New Object triggers can now be attached to reactors, too

v1.9.122

Fixed You could carry more than the max. permissible amount of mines
Fixed Opening the light render options dialog in-game could lead to initially enabled OpenGL style lighting being turned off

v1.9.121

Fixed Equipment generators weren't automatically started if not targetted by a robot maker trigger
Fixed Equipment generators weren't properly saved in savegames and hence not properly restored

v1.9.120

Fixed No missions except the default ones were found on OS X and Linux
Fixed Invalid polygon model error on some Mac OS X Descent installations
Fixed Level checksum error on PPC Macs during multiplayer games
Fixed Multiplayer clients freezing in certain levels (e.g. Descent 1 level 1)

v1.9.119

Fixed Powerups were rendered too large

v1.9.118

New Object size of custom models will be automatically computed in-game

v1.9.117

New Added switches that change wall textures

v1.9.116

Fixed You couldn't control banking with joystick buttons anymore

v1.9.115

Fixed Boss robots that were spawned by other robots weren't properly handled if multiple bosses were enabled

v1.9.114

Fixed Equipment generators stopped to work when loading or starting another game w/o leaving the program
Fixed Robot generators didn't work anymore
Fixed Repair centers didn't always work
Changed Increased max. segment count to 6000

v1.9.113

Fixed Crash when changing screen resolution or toggling full screen if smoke rendering was enabled

v1.9.112

Fixed Rapid fire on and off messages were exchanged
Improved Wall collision handling (in rare circumstances, objects could penetrate walls)

v1.9.111

Fixed You couldn't shoot your own mines any more

v1.9.110

Fixed Crash due to optimizations (cough) in smoke rendering

v1.9.109

Improved Smoke rendering
New Added configurable smoke grenade drop limit

v1.9.108

Fixed Depending on view angle, smoke was slightly displaced in regard to the object it belonged to

v1.9.107

New Added smoke grenades. If this feature is enabled, proximity mines will be turned into smoke grenades. To avoid smoke spamming, you cannot carry more than four of them, and can only drop up to two simultaenously

v1.9.106

Fixed Game crashed when turning off mouselook or entering a level in multiplayer
Fixed Couldn't configure joystick axes anymore
Fixed If mouselook was on, there was no turn speed limitation for the joystick as well

v1.9.105

Fixed Level didn't end if multiple boss option was active and last boss was killed (only D2X-XL levels were affected)

v1.9.104

Fixed Crash when disabling mouse or changing mouse settings if D2X-XL couldn't find any joysticks
Improved Made sure ship turn rates are identical to D2X-Rebirth
New Added configuration menu to multiplayer options menu

v1.9.103

Fixed game crashes when reloading a save game since introduction of equipment generators
Fixed Program scrolling through weapon priority ordering menus forever

v1.9.102

Fixed If you didn't have a joystick, or had disabled it in D2X-XL unchecking fast pitch had no effect
Fixed Hires vulcan ammo model wasn't recognized

v1.9.101

Fixed You couldn't destroy boss robots in standard levels if a reactor was present in the mine as well
New Added powerup generators (similar to robot generators)

v1.9.100

Fixed Boss robots weren't working properly any more
Fixed Laser bolts weren't semitransparent any more

v1.9.99

New You can now force flickering lights to always stay bright. This is particularly useful for people suffering from epilepsy

v1.9.98

Fixed You couldn't turn on smoke in competition mode

v1.9.97

Fixed Flaws in handling of multiple bosses
Fixed kill boss cheat ('dodgethis') ended the level
Fixed Ship and robot thrusters were rendered too dark

v1.9.96

Fixed Robots were always brightly lit regardless of their vicinity's brightness
Improved Smoke appearance, again

v1.9.95

Fixed If multiple bosses were in the level, all bosses stopped firing at the player once the first boss was down
Fixed Robots damaged other robots even if it was turned off
Fixed Creation of smoke on robots due to damage

v1.9.94

Improved Enabled scrolling through file and item selection boxes with the mouse wheel
Improved Tweaked smoke appearance a little more (for the 'disperse smoke' setting)

v1.9.93

Fixed When saving a game with smart mines equipped and reloading that game, prox mines were equipped instead
Fixed When playing back an demo in compatible format, empty damage indicators were displayed if damage indicators were enabled. Damage indicators are now disabled for compatible format demo playback

v1.9.92

Fixed Static colored lighting wasn't computed for variable lights
Fixed When finishing a level of a multi-level mission in coop mode, you weren't advanced to the next level
Improved Enabled scrolling through menus with the mouse wheel

v1.9.91

Fixed After long level loading times (e.g. due to enabled OpenGL lighting), multiplayer participants got disconnected
Fixed You couldn't turn on smoke in multiplayer games if it had been off at game launch

v1.9.90

Fixed Instead of enforcing ship wiggling in multiplayer games, it got turned off

v1.9.89

Fixed Dynamic light sources didn't cast light any more if colored lighting was turned on
New Added D2X-XL specific game info to the game browsers netgame info dialog (press 'I' to review)

v1.9.88

Improved Players have now more control over game settings during multiplayer games (i.e. you can now turn many features locally off even if the game host has turned them on). This affects mostly graphical enhancements of D2X-XL like smoke, shadows, weapon effects and the like

v1.9.87

Fixed D2X-XL specific options were still present in the more multiplayer options menu

v1.9.86

Fixed Multiplayer option for towing flags wasn't recognized
Fixed Potential crash in D2X multiplayer options menu
New Multiplayer competition parameter disabling certain D2X-XL extensions for multiplayer games

v1.9.85

Fixed Light source influence calculation wasn't called if progress bars weren't enabled
Fixed after loading a save game, weapon icons didn't show which mine type was armed
Fixed Calculation of maximum robot strength was wrong, leading to damage indicators not reflecting the actual amount of damage a robot had taken (particularly boss robots were affected)
Changed Ship wiggling cannot be turned off in multiplayer games any more (not that it would make a difference ...)
New Added progress bar for loading hires models

v1.9.84

Fixed It could happen that demos recorded in nostalgia mode were written using the enhanced D2X-XL demo format
Fixed No target indicators and smoke visible if '-enable_shadows 0' set while shadowing had been left enabled in the shadow options menu
Fixed Shadows were disabled by default (like when specifying '-enable_shadows 0') - they are enabled by default now
New Displaying message box 'loading hires models...' during program startup

v1.9.83

Fixed 3D plasma gun model was not displayed

v1.9.82

Fixed Mercury missiles had no red exhaust puffs any more in nostalgia mode or if smoke and thruster flames were turned off
Fixed Lots of issues with nostalgia mode (like hud icons, smoke or weapon effects still visible, menu hotkeys not working, etc)
Note Restored: Old style new game launching procedure for nostalgia mode

v1.9.81

New Added command line switch '-pureD2', which is equivalent to 'nostalgia 3', reverting D2X-XL to legacy Descent 2
Changed Made sure no D2X-XL specific multiplayer messages are sent if -nostalgia set to 2 or greater or -pureD2 set
Changed UDP/IP specific D2X-XL multiplayer messages not sent during IPX (KALI) games

v1.9.80

Fixed Other Descent 2 versions could not connect to D2X-XL hosted IPX (KALI) games
Fixed Inconsistencies between D2X-XL and other Descent 2 versions in IPX (KALI) multiplayer games (like picked up powerups remained in the mine, etc. Things looking like packet loss)

v1.9.79

Fixed Removed bug in player detection code for IPX (KALI) games
Fixed Player shield and energy not reset to 100 when entering a secret Descent 1 level
Fixed Object tally icons disappeared when loading a new level, changing screen resolution or toggling full screen
Improved OpenGL object lighting can now be toggled in-game
New Added light range slider for OpenGL lighting
New Added command line switch '-enable_shadows [0|1]'. If set to 0, no shadowing is available. Additionally turning off colored lighting will significantly increase level loading speed

v1.9.78

Changed Moved all D2X-XL related multiplayer options to a separate submenu of the multiplayer setup menu

v1.9.77

Fixed Powerups disappearing permanently during IPX (KALI) games

v1.9.76

Fixed Capslock and Numlock didn't work in D2X-XL (SDL related - source code fix is contained in SDL 1.2.11 source archive on my Descent 2 site)

v1.9.75

Fixed You couldn't always see through holes of grated doors if the door was closed

v1.9.74

Fixed Mixing colored ambient and gun light didn't work right (affected level areas got darker)
Fixed Light source influence calculation still was buggy, leading to objects not being lit properly with OpenGL lighting for objects turned on
Fixed 2D projection of 3D points didn't work correctly any more after my moving aspect scaling to OpenGL. This affected e.g. position of player names in multiplayer games and visibility culling in the mine

v1.9.73

Fixed Pilot name in multiplayer games not always displayed right over the players' ships
Fixed Hires pyro didn't get rendered any more
Improved Excess powerup checking for UDP/IP games
New Function to replace powerups that have vanished from the game due to connection problems (UDP/IP games only)

v1.9.72

Fixed Saving demos with compatible format didn't work
Fixed You couldn't take screenshots during demo playback
Fixed Damage indicators were always empty during demo playback (no fix for compatible format demos)
Fixed Demo playback hung when trying to display powerups that had been recorded with 3D powerups enabled
Fixed Demo playback crashed when the demo had been recorded with 3D powerups enabled and was showing such powerups
Fixed Static lighting wasn't recomputed when loading a level for a demo
Fixed Object tallies only were displayed if graphical HUD gauges were turned on
Fixed Deleting player profiles and demos via the respective selection menus didn't work

v1.9.71

Fixed If the game host changed gameplay settings during multiplayer games, the clients weren't updated accordingly. With the exception of coop games, the game host now cannot change gameplay settings during multiplayer games any more. In coop games, all participants will be updated accordingly

v1.9.70

Improved Level loading speed after recent correction of light source influence calculation
Fixed Bug in light source influence calculation leading to levels being improperly lit after loading a savegame and the headlight not working properly with OpenGL style lighting enabled

v1.9.69

Fixed Object tally icons turned into white rectangles when loading a new level or changing screen resolution

v1.9.68

Changed Windows executable doesn't contain SSE instructions any more
New Added cheat code 'PITAPITA' to kill all Guidebots present in the mine

v1.9.67

Fixed With OpenGL style lighting light sources could affect areas that were geometrically close, but actually hidden from the light source
Fixed Automap blips of 3D powerups way too small

v1.9.66

Fixed Recomputing static lighting erroneously added light from variable light sources

v1.9.65

Fixed With OpenGL style lighting enabled, powerups kept emanating light even if light from powerups was turned off
Fixed 3D gun powerup models not displayed although present and hires model display was enabled
Fixed Occasional crash caused by a bug in the texture management
New Added robot and powerup tally display to the cockpit

v1.9.64

Fixed Player ship not visible in guided missile view

v1.9.63

Fixed 3D smart mines were very hard to hit
Fixed 3D mines moved to fast and too far after having been dropped
Fixed Colored lighting didn't work right
New Added support for 3D models of all powerups (now all we need is 3D models ... )

v1.9.62

Fixed No shadows if shadow clipping was turned off
Fixed Fast shadow clipping was flawed

v1.9.61

Fixed Exploding hires models had duplicates of the entire model instead of debris reeling off in different directions
New Added support for hires smartmines and smartmine packs

v1.9.60

Fixed Light colors in D2X-XL levels that got their face colors directly assigned (and not via assigning colors to light textures) could get messed up
New Added option to turn off light from powerups to light render options menu

v1.9.59

Fixed In standard levels, static lights didn't cast light if OpenGL style lighting was turned on
Improved OpenGL style lighting a tad brighter and a little faster

v1.9.58

Fixed Bug in initial screen mode detection leading to crashes on OS X (heaven knows why this works on MS Windows)

v1.9.57

Fixed 3D powerups occasionally zipping around like crazy, never slowing down
Fixed Turning off 3D powerups didn't display the 2D powerup sprites anymore for powerups already in the mine
Fixed 3D powerup spin rate reset when turning off 3D powerups
Fixed Blending of colored ambient and weapon light still flawed

v1.9.56

New Added option to enable old format for demo recordings

v1.9.55

Fixed Icon dimming value wasn't preserved across program starts

v1.9.54

Improved Guidebot shouldn't hit the player with flares anymore

v1.9.53

Fixed Gun fire didn't light its environment if colored ambient light was turned off
Fixed Gun fire was always white if colored ambient light was turned on

v1.9.52

Fixed Colored lighting didn't work in D2X-XL levels (no shadows of OpenGL style lighting off, no/pale colors if on)
Fixed Crash when opening cockpit options menu
New Split gauge options menu from cockpit options menu
New Non-colored D2X-XL levels will now be colorized by OpenGL style lighting if colored lighting is turned on
New Difficulty level setting now gets saved in the player profile

v1.9.51

New Added launch game option to new game menu

v1.9.50

Fixed Headlight didn't work
Fixed With colored lighting enabled, shooting out lights didn't darken the area around them

v1.9.49

Fixed Trigger states weren't correctly processed in UDP/IP multiplayer games (i.e. if one player shot a trigger opening e.g. a force field, the force field didn't open for the other players)
Fixed Light from invisible objects affecting areas visible to the player wasn't processed, leading to affected level areas changing brightness and/or color depending on player heading
Fixed Colored ambient light wasn't correctly mixed with gun light for non D2X-XL levels resulting in areas lit with some color turning white if powerups or weapon light was nearby
Fixed Markers weren't rendered
Fixed Level music not looping if SDL_mixer enabled
Fixed Weapon light was too dim
Fixed Players were always offered to select any level from a mission set regardless how far they had actually proceeded through that mission

v1.9.48

Fixed If restoring a savegame taken during the death roll of a boss robot, the boss robot was gone, the mine destruction countdown didn't start and the exit door wasn't opened
Fixed Objects were too bright with OpenGL style lighting

v1.9.47

Fixed Program crash when playing sounds and either sdl_mixer disabled or no mp3 playback requested

v1.9.46

Fixed Dynamic lighting code considered segment faces to emit light that didn't
Fixed Another flaw in shadow clipping

v1.9.45

Fixed Mines were completely dark - no light whatever got rendered

v1.9.44

Fixed Shadow clipping was flawed
New Split off target indicator and weapon icon menus from the cockpit menu

v1.9.43

Fixed Descent 1 secret levels terminated on player death
Fixed Crash when entering a level after having viewed a level briefing if user music is enabled
New Added more shadow clipping options (only for fast computers)
New Added '-creditssong' and '-briefingsong' switches to d2x.ini for specifying user supplied credits and briefing music

v1.9.42

Fixed When turning on shadows, smoke turned into white puffs, the screen could be largely black and framerates dropped to a crawl

v1.9.41

New Added support for user supplied menu and level songs in MP3 and OGG/Vorbis formats (currently only Windows)

v1.9.40

Fixed Game crashed if player died in last or only level of a mission after destroying the reactor/boss robot(s)

v1.9.39

Fixed If powerups were rendered as 3D models, homing missile powerups dropped by destroyed robots attacked the player if he got in their field of view
New Added shadow proof models of all remaining Vertigo robots to d2x-xl.hog

v1.9.38

New Added support for hires missiles

v1.9.37

Fixed Vertigo robot videos weren't found
New Added shadow proof models of Vertigo robots (Compact Lifter, Heavy Driller, Smelter II, Fiddler, Sniper NG, S.P.I.K.E.) to d2x-xl.hog

v1.9.36

Fixed Colored weapon light did not always work properly in Descent 1 missions

v1.9.35

Fixed Midi music occasionally didn't work

v1.9.34

Fixed The main view frequently started to flash badly, or parts of it weren't rendered when cameras were active

v1.9.33

Fixed Automap was not properly rendered if shadows were enabled
New Added idle animations for robots (if they've got nothing better to do, they will move around a little, pretending they're watching or working). That's something especially for the singleplayer fans.

v1.9.32

Fixed Crash in Descent 1 level exit sequence when trying to render moon/planet surface
Fixed Save game bug causing 'corrupted save game data' messages
Fixed Level midi music not looping if SDL_mixer is disabled (via d2x.ini)
Fixed Cycling through levels in multiplayer didn't work

v1.9.31

New Added code to render powerups as 3D models
New Added menu to control 3D powerup model rendering
New Added cheat code 'itsarock' to toggle cloak

v1.9.30

Fixed Replacement models for Vertigo robots weren't loaded from d2x-xl.hxm
New Added shadow proof models of both Vertigo bosses to d2x-xl.hog

v1.9.29

Fixed Wrong sound played when picking up a hoard orb or entropy virus
Fixed If room texture replacement on capture was enabled for entropy games, faces w/o an overlay texture erroneously received a flash, wrench or bio hazard overlay if the room changed ownership

v1.9.28

Fixed On some systems, if shadows were enabled the entire mine was darkened, and no shadows were rendered

v1.9.27

Fixed Mouse cursor not visible in menus
New Added shadow proof models of all Descent 1 robots to d2x-xl.hog

v1.9.26

Improved Multiplayer score syncronization between the different players
Changed Removed joystick calibration info from quick help window, added chase cam info instead
Changed Relaxed test for excess powerups for non UDP/IP multiplayer games to keep spew from destroyed ships from disappearing

v1.9.25

Fixed Hang up on Linux and OS X caused by memory detection code
Improved Object rendering code

v1.9.24

Fixed Crash when playing LOR and then loading a LOR savegame
Fixed Crash when playing entropy games with hires textures enabled
Fixed Crash when picking up a hoard orb or entropy virus

v1.9.23

Fixed Smoke didn't appear if shadows were enabled

v1.9.22

Fixed Lit areas showed 'jaggies', i.e. adjacent triangles with completely different brightness/color values
Improved Increased shadow rendering speed

v1.9.21

Fixed Lasers weren't transparent anymore
New Added fantastic new models for Concussion, Homing and Mega Missiles built by Razor from the German descentforum.de

v1.9.20

Fixed When playing any other level or savegame after having played the first game after program start with OpenGL style lighting enabled, the levels were very dark
Fixed Bug in coordinate transformation code potentially causing all kinds of problems; most noticeably wildly spinning around debris
Fixed Error message 'Unknown Option 5' when trying to invoke the multiplayer menu

v1.9.19

Fixed Colored lights did not work in D2X-XL levels anymore
New Added shadow proof models for all Descent 1 levels up to and including level 7 to d2x-xl.hog

v1.9.18

Fixed Another crash bug when using both real time shadows and OpenGL style lighting
Fixed Flashing lights didn't work with OpenGL style lighting enabled
Fixed Door frames disappeared during door animations with '-gl_alttexmerge 1' set

v1.9.17

Fixed Vertex array and point sprite functionality for smoke effects didn't work
New Added shadow proof models of all Descent 2 bots to d2x-xl.hog

v1.9.16

Fixed Player ship invisible during Descent 1 exit sequence
New Shadow proof models of all bots except the Green Spider and the final boss added to d2x-xl.hog

v1.9.15

Fixed Crash when enabling shadow proof models
New Shadow proof models of TRN Racer, Bulk Destroyer, Ice Spider, Omega, Spawn, and Fire and Ice Boss added to d2x-xl.hog (all bots up to and including Descent 2 Level 12 are covered now)

v1.9.14

Fixed Crash when using shadowing and OpenGL style lighting simultaneously

v1.9.13

Fixed Automap could not be controlled any more
Fixed Shadow clipping was reset when leaving the shadow render options menu
Changed With new menu style enabled, single player games will continue to run in the background while the automap is up (pause/unpause game with Ctrl+P)

v1.9.12

Improved Shadows will now only penetrate walls in rather rare cases - yay!
New Added shadow clipping option to shadow options menu

v1.9.11

Fixed Lasers were casting shadows
Fixed Shadow proof pyro model had a flaw
Fixed Screenshot path was invalid
New Added shadow reach option to shadow options menu

v1.9.10

Fixed Crash bug in shadow rendering code
Fixed Objects behind the player weren't always casting shadows even if the player would see these
Fixed No low res models used for hires missile shadow rendering if '-lores_shadows 1' specified
Fixed In multiplayer games proximity and smart mines were respawned as soon as a player dropped one mine, allowing players to multiply the mine supply
Fixed Crash when enabling both OpenGL style lighting and shadows
Changed Screenshot message not printed while automatic screenshots are enabled
Changed Revamped the render options menus
Improved Shadow rendering code

v1.9.9

Fixed Cloaked objects were casting shadows
Fixed Smoke was affected by shadows even if in front of them (no shadows at all on smoke now for technical reasons)
Fixed Player ship invisible for owner during death animation
Fixed Made sure reactors get only turned into shield orbs if a boss robot is present in the mine
New Added shadow proof models of Diamond Claw, Sidearm Modula and the Descent 2 level boss (that means that the Descent 2 levels 1 - 4 are now covered)

v1.9.8

Changed Shadow proof model management (apart from the player ship, the fixed models will only be used for shadow rendering, not for rendering the actual object)
New Added shadow proof models of Smelter and Sidearm to d2x-xl.hog

v1.9.7

Fixed Shadowing was broken ...

v1.9.6

Fixed Self-shadowing did not work
New Added option to toggle player ship shadowing
New Added shadow proof models of Thief bot to d2x-xl.hog

v1.9.5

Fixed Crash when destroying a robot with a the replacement models
New Added shadow proof models of Guidebot, IT Droid, P.E.S.T. and P.I.G. to d2x-xl.hog
New Switches to enable shadowing for missiles and reactors

v1.9.4

Fixed Robot shadowing setting wasn't saved in player file
New Added options to toggle missile and reactor shadowing
New Added an option to have shadows for hires models created from their lores counterparts; control with '-lores_shadows 0|1' in d2x.ini

v1.9.3

Fixed Robots and powerups not visible in automap anymore
Fixed Control configuration screens black when called from in-game (F2) with old style menus enabled
Improved Light source selection if number of light sources per object for shadow rendering greater than one

v1.9.2

Fixed Light trails, shock waves, thruster flames and Gauss/Vulcan tracers weren't visible when real time shadowing was enabled
Changed Removed shadow rendering debug options from advanced render options menu

v1.9.1

Fixed Shield spheres and target and damage indicators weren't always visible when real time shadowing was enabled
Fixed Powerups moving around depending on player position
New Added support for replacement polygon models (D2X-XL will look for them in a file named 'd2x-xl.hxm' which is contained in d2x-xl.hog). Usage can be toggled with '-fix_models 0|1'

v1.9.0 — Real time shadowing!

New Added volumetric real time shadowing. (This is not as good as it sounds, because due to flaws in virtually all Descent 2 models it doesn't work for these)
Fixed No screen message was printed when a screenshot was taken
Fixed No screen messages were printed when a energy->shield converter or a headlight were picked up
Fixed When deleting one of several markers, you could not switch to the camera view of any markers following the deleted one

v1.8 59 releases

v1.8.58

Changed Alternative brightness handling wasn't so good, so I removed it again

v1.8.57

Fixed Program crash at startup or when loading a level with hires texture usage enabled

v1.8.56

Fixed 'PrtScrn' instead of 'Alt+F9' listed in in-game quick help screen
Fixed Removed 'Player should be dead' debug message
Fixed Guidebot could trigger level exit sequence
Improved Handling of brightness setting with OpenGL style lighting enabled

v1.8.55

Fixed Scores weren't displayed between levels

v1.8.54

Fixed Automatic transparency did not work in all cases

v1.8.53

Fixed Crash when unchecking 'use master sliders' in smoke render options menu

v1.8.52

Fixed Window/screen size from d2x.ini was overridden by player file
Fixed No subtitles were displayed for movies started via the main menu
Fixed Open doors and grates showing background texture instead of transparent areas on certain systems
New Added smoke trail length setting for missiles

v1.8.51

Fixed Menus didn't show check boxes, sliders, etc.
Fixed Missiles leaving explosion trail if missile view enabled
Fixed Program occasionally crashing when activating triggers
Changed Removed SSE code as it caused more problems than it cured

v1.8.50

Fixed Crash when launching a device configuration menu and subsequently leaving it after having done all desired adjustments
Fixed Crash on 64 bit Linux when exiting the game
Fixed Random crashes caused by objects moving around

v1.8.49

New Added command line switch '-enable_sse 0|1' to control SSE instruction usage

v1.8.48

Fixed Program crashes due to invalid triggers (i.e. bugs in missions)
Improved Accelerated a few math functions by using SSE SIMD code (currently Windows only)

v1.8.47

Fixed Cloak and invulnerability states not properly restored from savegames
Fixed Using the invulnerability cheat turned invulnerability off if it was previously turned on using an invulnerability powerup
Fixed Invulnerability enabled by a cheat expired after some (long) time

v1.8.46

Fixed Errors during camera creation not handled properly (tried to use camera anyway)
Fixed Supervisor robot acting as shield powerup in levels with a boss robot (should have been a regular shield powerup)
Fixed Reactor damage indicator not working properly

v1.8.45

Fixed Program crashes caused by morphing flawed custom robot models
Improved Vulcan/Gauss ammo now displayed red in weapon icons if below 1000

v1.8.44

Fixed Recomputing static lighting including color didn't work

v1.8.43

Fixed particle handling bug fix could cause crashes
Fixed Object lighting ceased to work after playing the first mission (i.e. when playing a mission and then starting another mission or loading a savegame)

v1.8.42

Fixed Bug in particle handling that can mess up OpenGL and cause program crashes (particularly on Linux)

v1.8.41

Fixed Energy sparks didn't cast light in Descent 1 levels
Fixed When using the new game menu to restart a mission that had been played previously and not explicitly reloading it because it was still listed there, the mission couldn't be found

v1.8.40

Fixed Hires powerups not properly displayed in Descent 1 missions
Fixed OpenGL style lighting not working properly in Descent 1 missions
Fixed 'Honestbob' cheat will now give double ammo if ammo rack present
Fixed Difficulty level setting from new game menu wasn't preserved

v1.8.39

New Added option to only display target and damage indicators for objects that have been hit
New Added command line switch '-sound44k' to enable 44.1 KHz internal sound sampling

v1.8.38

Fixed Random crashes

v1.8.37

Fixed Assertions and random crashes caused by a newly introduced bug in the pathfinding code

v1.8.36

Fixed Jumping to top of menu when changing darkness setting in more multiplayer options menu
Fixed Damage indicators could not be enabled separately from target indicators in more multiplayer options menu
Fixed Guidebot didn't work anymore
New Added alternative smoke dissipation behaviour

v1.8.35

Fixed Descent 1 secret level save game/level advancement bug
Fixed '-gl_alttexmerge 1' did not work anymore
Improved New game menus (select mission, select level, select difficulty) all put into one tidy dialog
Improved Energy trails
Changed What had been energy trails are now 'shock waves'
New Tracers for Vulcan/Gauss fire

v1.8.34

Fixed No light with OpenGL style lighting enabled

v1.8.33

Fixed Ambient sounds could be heard from extremely far away and were very loud
Fixed Player ship was affected by nearby speed boost areas when firing lasers through them
Fixed Headlight with OpenGL style lighting
Fixed Object triggers didn't work ...
Improved Loading speed of D2X-XL levels and save games with OpenGL style lighting disabled
Improved Much better smoke distribution for missile smoke trails, better scaling with density and size

v1.8.32

Fixed Light got brighter every time a level was reloaded or a new mission was started
Fixed Many robot lasers didn't have light trails, and some robot missiles didn't have smoke
Fixed For some smoke density settings, the text overlapped with the slider in the smoke options menu

v1.8.31

Fixed OpenGL light data wasn't properly reset when loading another level
Fixed Some lasers didn't have light trails
Improved Light trail appearance

v1.8.30

Fixed Smoke options menu occasionally messed up
Fixed Monsterball appearing in all multiplayer games at random positions
New Robots and monsterballs are now affected by teleports and speed boosts!

v1.8.29

Fixed Program crashing with no apparent reason
Fixed Objects could fly through each other
Fixed Couldn't play using demo data anymore
Fixed No lasers or missiles visible when using the demo data
Fixed Missiles didn't have thruster flames even if these were enabled
Fixed Level loading progress bar had a minor flaw
New Light trails for energy weapons
New Smoke density and particle size can now be adjusted separately for ships, robots and missiles

v1.8.28

Fixed Extreme bounciness with new hit angle calculcation
Fixed Monsterball texture lost when changing screen resolution, toggling fullscreen or loading a new level
Improved Monsterball will now rotate and change orientation when moving around
Improved Handling of objects that are penetrating walls
New Option to turn hit angle calculation on and off

v1.8.27

New Monsterball is a true 3D sphere now
Changed Decreased weapon influence on Monsterball
Improved Monsterball now moves in the proper direction if hit laterally

v1.8.26

Fixed Various bugs in OpenGL style lighting leading too lights being too dark
Improved OpenGL style lighting faster in areas with few breakable or flickering lights
New D2X-XL can now recompute the lighting of standard levels, adding color, w/o the user having the enable OpenGL style lighting
New Smoke trails from debris
New Damaged reactors are smoking
New Target and damage indicators for reactors (purple)

v1.8.25

Fixed Ship could only rotate, but not move any more
Fixed Object positions not properly updated when loading a save game from a running game
Fixed A bunch of memory leaks
Fixed Thruster flames of cloaked players were shown
New Added switch '-check_ports' to include ports in network address comparisons for UDP/IP network games

v1.8.24

Fixed Sometimes it was hard or close to impossible to shoot out a light or shoot through a grate
Fixed Couldn't use headlight if OpenGL style lighting enabled
Fixed Headlight too dark with OpenGL style lighting
Fixed Thruster flames didn't change proportional to speed
Fixed Some missile types fired by robots didn't have a smoke trail
New Temporarily added some HUD messages to aid in tracking down the ship freezing bug
New Smoke can now be displayed during demo playback

v1.8.23

Fixed Guidebot damage indicator still overflowing
Fixed Game exit menu not always having the exit option highlighted

v1.8.22

Fixed Lights weren't always properly placed
Improved OpenGL style lighting (many lights were too dark)

v1.8.21

Fixed OpenGL style lighting view angle dependant
Fixed Progress bar overflowing when using OpenGL style lighting
Fixed Additional smoke render options not displayed when entering the smoke render options menu with smoke turned off and then turning it on
Fixed Damage indicators overflowing if player shields > 100%
Improved Thruster flames
Improved Smoke - again
New Missiles will have new thruster flame, too
New Added options to load and save games to exit query menu

v1.8.20

Fixed Internal restrictions occasionally causing crashes when destroying robots
Fixed Guidebot target indicator way to long
Fixed Screen resolution menu bug (Disraptor)
Fixed 'd2x-xl' not allowed in game folder name (Disraptor)
Changed Moved smoke options to a separate menu
New Option to decrease smoke induced lag when moving backwards

v1.8.19

Fixed Transparency of custom textures wasn't properly detected and handled
Improved Thruster flames

v1.8.18

Improved Ship thruster flames
Changed menu option 'render entire mine' renamed to 'render transparency correctly'

v1.8.17

Fixed Crash when shooting destructible or see-thru hires textures
Fixed Shield spere will not hide smoke and thruster flames anymore
Improved Shield sphere appearance
Improved Smoke ... again
Improved OpenGL style lighting
Changed Handling of smoke density setting

v1.8.16

Fixed Flare light did not decay slowly with new style lighting
Fixed Lightmap rendering did not work properly anymore
Fixed Some weapons had no impact on the Monsterball
Fixed When loading a savegame where the superlaser is the currently selected weapon, firing the laser will switch to the next gun once
Fixed Weapons got stuck in powerups
Fixed Object triggers weren't properly read
Fixed If enough proximity or smart mine packs were available, you could endlessly create new prox or smart mine packs by first maxing out your mine load and then dropping one mine and flying through the 2nd pack
Fixed Headlights could still be turned on and drain energy in darkness games even if disabled
Fixed Teams did not score when the opposing team pushed the Monsterball into their goal area
Fixed ship getting stuck or even half penetrating walls, e.g. at corners, but also at flat walls
Fixed If saving while cloaked/invulnerable and reloading that savegame, the cloak/invulnerability effect immediately expires
Fixed Appearance of energy weapon shots (are now fully bright again)
Improved You can now play darkness games with old-style lighting
Improved OpenGL style lighting and lightmap options are now mutually exclusive in the render options menu
Improved Smoke performance and appearance
Changed Increased max. number of fuel centers to 350 and of robot generators to 100 for D2X-XL levels
New Function to automatically create a screenshot every X seconds (adjustable)

v1.8.15

Fixed Bug in player file handling
Improved You can now change headlight cone size in darkness games
Improved You can now turn off light emitted by powerups in darkness games
Improved Target and damage indicators can now be turned off for cloaked objects
Improved Target and damage indicators can now be turned off for the opposing team in multiplayer team games
Improved Equipment icons will now get lit if equipment is being used
New Flags can now be towed behind player ships in CTF games

v1.8.14

Fixed Target indicator setting was assigned to damage indicator setting every time the cockpit or more multiplayer options menus were opened
Fixed Enabling cheat codes in multiplayer didn't work

v1.8.13

Fixed D2X-XL tried to build shader programs even if the gfx hardware did not support the required extensions, which could cause program crashes
New Added triangular target indicators with integrated damage display if damage indicators are enabled

v1.8.12

Improved Smoke appearance

v1.8.11

New Added target and damage indicators

v1.8.10

Fixed Crash if new lighting and progress bars enabled and light sources set to 32 when loading a mission, exiting it, loading a mission again

v1.8.9

Improved Smoke appearance

v1.8.8

New Added team doors to multiplayer team games. These are simply doors requiring a red or blue key to open
New Added option to enable cheat codes in multiplayer games

v1.8.7

Improved In darkness games, player ships don't emit light and are always equipped with a headlight

v1.8.6

Fixed When the player died in a D1 mission, D2X-XL tried to forward him to the next level, resulting in attemps to load level 0 or loading just some arbitrary level

v1.8.5

Fixed Wrong scoring scheme in Monsterball games (teams now score in the goal area with their team color)
Fixed When a player picked up a flag in CTF games, he subsequently carried the flag, yet the flag remained in the level
Fixed Cloaks and Invuls collected in a secret level were lost when returning from the level
Fixed Player ship thruster flames were casting light, which they shouldn't (compatibility issue)
Fixed Potential cause for crash bugs or program freezes if new lighting method is enabled

v1.8.4

Fixed Levels containing colored lights rendered dark if both new lighting method and progress bars were enabled
Fixed Automap not rendered
Fixed Newly created/updated D2X-XL levels couldn't be loaded
Improved Loading speed of big levels and levels with lots of lights if new lighting method enabled

v1.8.3

Fixed Levels containing colored lights rendered dark if enabling new lighting method
Fixed No colored light in levels containing colored lights if disabling new lighting method
Fixed Color information not properly read from older levels containing colored lights
Fixed Flaw in handling player profiles causing some information to get lost
Improved Fireballs of any kind (explosions, muzzle flashes, etc.) now are properly colored
New Multiplayer game property 'darkness' completely disables all static lights, so players have to rely entirely on headlights, flares, weapon lights and sound

v1.8.2

Improved You can now disable colored ambient and weapons lights for the new lighting method, too

v1.8.1

Fixed Mine could be pitch black if new real-time lighting enabled
Fixed Smoke flickering
Fixed Max. real-time lights reset to 4 if disabling and re-enalbing real-time lighting

v1.8.0 — New real-time lighting method

New Added OpenGL style real-time lighting, offering full colored lighting and increased realism for all Descent missions. Please regard that this feature is heavily CPU dependant, so may not work satisfactorily on slower machines.

v1.7 11 releases

v1.7.10

New Added thruster flames to all missiles
Improved Smoke appeareance

v1.7.9

Fixed Ships getting stuck in open space
Fixed Program hanging when reading corrupted object trigger data
Fixed Recently introduced transparency flaws
Fixed '-altLanguage' not recognized

v1.7.8

Fixed Ship getting stuck all the time
Fixed Weapon shots hardly visible

v1.7.7

Fixed Crash when playing intro movie with subtitles enabled

v1.7.6

Fixed Various Monsterball bugs. When starting a Monsterball game, the server player should open the Monsterball options menu and reset everything to default values to remove the effects of the fixed bugs!
Fixed Wrong weapon light colors determined

v1.7.5

Fixed Object triggers weren't properly read, causing them not to work
Fixed Crash when entering tunnel to reactor room in D2:Counterstrike Level 10

v1.7.4

Changed Increased default monsterball size slightly again
Fixed Pyro impact force default was off
Fixed Leaving a secret Descent 1 level did not forward you to the next level
Fixed Replaced CRLF line endings in Linux make and config files by LF line endings

v1.7.3

Improved Made the monsterball a tad smaller
Improved Made monsterball size adjustable

v1.7.2

Improved Collision handling, avoiding constantly bumping hardly moving objects, or objects moving away from each other

v1.7.1

Improved Monsterballs will now be removed from level for non-Monsterball games

v1.7.0 — New Monsterball game mode

New Added Monsterball game mode similar to the one found in Descent 3
Fixed Players didn't see any missiles fired from other players except concussion missiles
Fixed Crash when leaving entropy options menu
Fixed Players leaving stationary smoke puffs when firing missiles in multiplayer games
Fixed Crash when calling the netgame browser after first having selected a multiplayer mission as game host

v1.6 197 releases

v1.6.196

Fixed Powerups disappearing during UDP/IP multiplayer games

v1.6.195

Fixed When dieing in a secret Descent 1 level, you weren't forwarded to the next level, but bumped to the level you came from like in Descent 2

v1.6.194

Improved Added workaround for flawed custom (pog) textures
Improved Laser/Superlaser weapon icons are now mutually exclusive
Improved If smart weapon switch is enabled and the Gauss/Helix cannon are available, the Vulcan/Spreadfire weapon icons are not displayed
New Added a 5th joystick axis for flight control users
New Added joystick controls for using cloaks and invuls (this may mess up the player files - d'oh)

v1.6.193

Fixed Hoard HUD icon not displayed properly when switching screen resolution or toggling fullscreen
Fixed Powerups going awol in UDP/IP multiplayer games
Fixed Excess missiles from 4packs disappearing if the player cannot pick them all up

v1.6.192

Fixed Weapon being switched when picking up a weapon with higher priority than the selected one even if automatic switching disabled
Fixed Player not being able to rejoin a UDP/IP game

v1.6.191

Improved Minimized packet loss induced powerup multiplication for UDP/IP games
Fixed Doors not animated during demo playback
Fixed No hires missiles shown during demo playback
Fixed HUD icons turning white when changing render quality in-game
Fixed Crash when opening a door that has a regular texture at its opposite side

v1.6.190

Improved Decreased packet loss induced powerup multiplication

v1.6.189

Fixed Old style menus not rendered properly since palette code changes
Improved Demo files now hardware independant

v1.6.188

Fixed Crash on OS X and Linux at program start

v1.6.187

Fixed Cloaks and invuls in inventory disappeared upon entering a new level

v1.6.186

Fixed Exit sequence not played when exiting a secret Descent 1 level after having destroyed its reactor
Fixed Player was not returned to the level he came from, but to level one after destroying a secret Descent 1 level
Fixed Descent 1 sounds not used in secret Descent 1 levels even if corresponding switch demanded it

v1.6.185

Fixed Frames of TGA animations from pog files were displayed upside down

v1.6.184

Fixed Brightness effects from game affected main menu (if you e.g. quit the game while there was a flash missile effect on screen, the main menu was overly bright)

v1.6.183

Changed Save function now automatically enabled for secret Descent 1 levels
Improved Color of menu items can now be set individually

v1.6.182

Fixed Miscolored multiplayer score screens
Fixed Text with white background in the status bar HUD
Fixed Client couldn't turn dual missile launch off locally if server had turned it on
Fixed D2X-XL expected pig file names to be uppercase on Linux systems

v1.6.181

Fixed Terrain not rendered in outside view of Descent 1 exit sequence
Fixed Playing briefing music instead of level music when entering a secret Descent 1 level after having viewed its briefing
Fixed When entering a secret Descent 1 level, 'Alternate exit found!' is now displayed instead of the Descent 2 message
Fixed Energy and shields had not been restored upon entering a secret Descent 1 level

v1.6.180

Fixed Level and mission name not displayed in automap
Fixed D2X-XL didn't use the proper pig file for a level if it wasn't based on 'groupa.pig'
Fixed No mine rendered if cockpit enabled on Mac OS X when using Mac Descent data
Fixed Transparent areas of overlay textures rendered black on Mac OS X when using Mac Descent data

v1.6.179

Fixed Program crashes when loading Descent 1 missions

v1.6.178

Improved Palette and color handling. All palette related problems, like miscolored menu texts or Descent 1 exit terrains should now be a thing of the past. Above that, D2X-XL is now using the original Descent 1 palette for Descent 1 missions.

v1.6.177

Fixed Descent 1 briefings not displayed if briefing audios installed, but Descent 1 briefing movies missing
Improved Changed menu color handling to using RGB instead of palettized color values

v1.6.176

Improved Colon handling in multiplayer messages

v1.6.175

Fixed Texture handling bugs

v1.6.174

Fixed Crash when loading a Descent 1 level after having played another Descent 1 level

v1.6.173

Improved Removed white edges around hires missiles and from transparent areas of other textures

v1.6.172

Fixed Decreasing texture quality didn't decrease texture memory consumption
Fixed Couldn't send more than four spawned items to remote players when destroying a robot containing stuff in coop games

v1.6.171

Fixed Occasionally playing extra life pickup sound when picking up Gauss/Vulcan ammo
Fixed D2X-XL game info not properly transmitted/processed on big endian machines
Fixed Occasionally dropping hoard orbs instead of powerups in multiplayer games
Fixed Bug in robot handling network code for big endian machines
Fixed Invalid polymodel bug occuring during morphing animations on big endian machines
Changed Removed 'UDP/IP connection quality improvement' as it caused more problems than it cured

v1.6.170

Fixed Crash if using hires Mega missile and firing a missile of another type

v1.6.169

New Added support for hires Mega missile model

v1.6.168

Fixed Program crashing when loading levels using custom reticles
Fixed Program quitting with an out of texture memory error when loading a level after having played a level containing custom (pog) textures

v1.6.167

Changed Switched to SDL 1.2.11

v1.6.166

Fixed If using hires textures and opening a door, all other doors in the level with the same texture opened as well
Fixed When returning from a secret level, all equipment (like headlight, ammo rack, etc.) gathered there got lost

v1.6.165

Fixed Custom TGA textures (from pog files) had the red and blue color information flipped
Fixed If first turning rendering teleports' target areas on the teleports on and then off, the teleports' target images remained on the teleports

v1.6.164

Fixed Program crashes when displaying the single hires homing missile powerup made by Aus-RED-5

v1.6.163

Fixed Flaws in texture memory management leading to program crashes
New You can now use hires textures in Descent 1 missions. The Descent 1 textures have to reside in a subfolder of the textures folder namend 'd1'

v1.6.162

Fixed Bug in memory management preventing Descent 1 missions to be loaded
Fixed Memory leaks
Fixed Input dialog for client port of UDP/IP games via tracker had wrong caption
New Logging of networking data for diagnosing problems occuring during multiplayer games

v1.6.161

Improved UDP communication quality improvement code
Fixed Flaws in split hud messaging mode

v1.6.160

New Regular game and player messages can now be displayed in separate hud areas
Improved Coloring of player messages

v1.6.159

Fixed OS X executable crashed on Intel Macs
Improved Program launch speed increased

v1.6.158

Fixed The shield orbs replacing prohibited weapons in multiplayer games had different sizes depending on the replaced object's size instead of the original shield orb size

v1.6.157

Fixed You could see parts of the front view in auxiliary windows (like the rear view)
Fixed You saw the base texture through see-thrus areas of hires textures used as overlays
Improved Texture memory management

v1.6.156

Fixed Program exiting when trying to load any level after issuing a warning about an invalid texture format if '-gl_alttexmerge 1' is set

v1.6.155

Fixed UDP/IP communication quality improvement not working properly; particularly if mixed with players not using the improvement function
Fixed Warning messages not displayed properly
Fixed Multitexturing shader syntax bug preventing '-gl_alttexmerge 1' to take effect
Fixed Animated scrolling hires textures with several scroll speeds not animated if '-gl_alttexmerge 0' used or shaders failed to be loaded

v1.6.154

Fixed White square instead of virus orb displayed in entropy games after screen size changes, fullscreen toggle, or start of a new match
Fixed Crash when guidebot tries to say that it cannot find a path to the exit (e.g. if the reactor is destroyed in D2:CS level 21 without having cleared the path to the exit)

v1.6.153

Fixed No hoard orbs were dropped by destroyed player ships in hoard games
Fixed No netgame info and player list were displayed when pressing 'I' and 'U' respectively in the netgame browser
Fixed Destroyed player ships left two smoke puffs behind in multiplayer games
Fixed Pressing F8 in multiplayer games brought the ship to an abrupt halt

v1.6.152

Fixed Discolored edges of opening doors, grates, etc. if '-gl_alttexmerge 1' is set
Improved Texture resizing function now handles transparency better

v1.6.151

Fixed Crucial networking bug preventing Mac users to host multiplayer games
Fixed wrong text 'use inventory' instead of 'use invul' in keyboard configuration menu
Fixed Text labels 'use cloak' and 'use invul' in keyboard config menu were exchanged

v1.6.150

Improved UDP/IP network code
Changed D2X-XL now tries to allocate 80% of the available memory for textures (before 50% on Win32 and 128 MB on all other OS's)

v1.6.149

Fixed Program crashes if fast pitch is turned off

v1.6.148

Fixed -gl_reticle switch had no effect any more
Fixed Various multiplayer game problems related to transmission of D2X-XL specific netgame data (like permissions to use D2X-XL features)

v1.6.147

Fixed Reactor countdown not stopped when entering a teleporter
Fixed Game time not stopped when game paused
Fixed Game time not displayed in HUD
Fixed Quadlaser icon still not visible in D1 missions (make sure to install the most recent d2x-xl.hog)
Changed On Linux, the game data folder is now '/usr/local/games/d2x-xl', and not '/usr/local/share/d2x-xl' anymore

v1.6.146

Fixed Massive bug in Linux networking causing all kinds of problems with UDP/IP games
Fixed Menu display glitches when scrolling menus with old menu style enabled
Fixed Old style menus not restored if the game window was covered by other application windows

v1.6.145

Fixed If calling up the savegame function, the game was saved even if the user tried to abort it by pressing Escape
Fixed All robots in a mine visible on automap
Fixed Games in netgame browser constantly briefly disappearing
Fixed Game occasionally crashing when rendering robots with another than the highest detail level set
Fixed No quadlaser inventory icon in Descent 1 missions

v1.6.144

Fixed Savegame bug allowing to enter a destroyed secret level
Fixed Savegame bug preventing to properly load a saved multiplayer (coop) game

v1.6.143

Fixed Crash when using lightmaps and hires textures and '-gl_alttexmerge 1'
New diagnostic log file output added to netgame browser and client connection stuff
New D2X-XL will now display error messages in case of connection and level download failures

v1.6.142

Fixed Teleporter camera output

v1.6.141

Fixed For flowing textures where several speeds exists, only the first frame is hires, the others are lores (only if -gl_alttexmerge 1 enabled)
Fixed CR/LF instead of LF linebreaks in Linux make files
Fixed conf.h missing in Linux make file archive
Fixed Guidebot saying he cannot reach marker 1 when actually he cannot reach the boss/reactor
New Teleporters can now show live images from their jump destination

v1.6.140

Fixed Flowing/scrolling animations got faster every time a savegame was loaded or a new game was started
Improved Laser level shown in weapon icons

v1.6.139

Fixed Only first frame of hires animations displayed, others were lores

v1.6.138

Fixed Game crashing when using hires object animations (e.g. for powerups)

v1.6.137

Fixed No objects (players, weapons, powerups, etc.) displayed during demo playback
Improved Widescreen support (kudos to Cranky Hermit for supplying this fix)

v1.6.136

Fixed Problems with screen resolution menu, like resolution reset to 320x200 or immediately dropping out of it when invoking it

v1.6.135

Fixed Couldn't load saved multiplayer games
Fixed Memory leaks ...

v1.6.134

Fixed Another memory leak
Fixed Guidebot did not always find a path to its goal even if one existed

v1.6.133

Fixed A few more memory leaks
Fixed Bugs in new savegame format causing savegames to not being restored properly on PPC Macs

v1.6.132

Fixed Hoard orbs were purple instead of green

v1.6.131

Fixed Memory leak when using hires animations with '-gl_alttexmerge 0'
Fixed Memory leak when invoking a control configuration menu
Fixed Losing cloaks and invuls gathered in secret levels
Fixed Regaining equipment stolen in secret level when returning from secret level
Fixed Losing cloaks instead of invuls when being killed while having invuls in the inventory
New Save game format now hardware independant

v1.6.130

Fixed Hoard orbs being occasionally displayed in non-Hoard/Entropy multiplayers games, showing up as purplish orbs or white blocks
Fixed Network play on Mac OS X works now!

v1.6.129

Fixed Occasional game crashes caused by hires animations if '-gl_alttexmerge 0' is used (occurred frequently when launching D2X-XL from DLE-XP)

v1.6.128

Fixed D2X-XL registering as a server with all available trackers even if only trying to join a UDP/IP game

v1.6.127

Fixed Guidebot name getting messed up due to changes in player file format (D2X-XL will fix such guidebot names)
Fixed Program crashing when entering the 'gowingnut' or 'helpvishnu' cheats
Fixed Guidebot name lacking in guidebot messages
Fixed Embedded color codes in HUD messages not interpreted correctly

v1.6.126

Fixed Program crashing if it doesn't find the message files
Fixed Program exiting w/o message when encountering a critical condition (like not finding the game data) very early after start: On Windows, a standard message box will be opened, on Linux and MAC OS X an error message will be printed to stderr

v1.6.125

Fixed Program freezing when entering a level

v1.6.124

Fixed Robot triggers didn't work (again)

v1.6.123

Fixed Built-in tracker address of Koolbear's D2X-XL tracker service was slightly off

v1.6.122

Fixed Hires pyro not rendered properly by the MAC OS X version
Improved Endian handling code

v1.6.121

Fixed If the player had invuls or cloaks in his inventory quit the level and started a new game, he still had them in the new game
Fixed Crash on MAC OS X when loading D2X-XL levels containing camera bots
Fixed Couldn't read custom textures from POG files on MAC OS X
Fixed Descent 1 textures weren't displayed properly
Fixed Animated doors in Descent 1 missions caused D2X-XL to crash
Fixed OS X binary now a universal binary again
Improved MAC Descent 1 will now be automatically detected (no need for '-macdata' switch)

v1.6.120

Changed The first frame of a hires door will now always be treated as being opaque (unless the entire wall has been applied transparency to)

v1.6.119

Fixed Closed doors erroneously marked as transparent
Improved Dynamic lighting support for large D2X-XL levels with lots of dynamic (breakable or flickering) lights

v1.6.118

Fixed Transparent doors were opaque if closed
Fixed Robots couldn't see through transparent doors
Fixed Object triggers didn't work any more

v1.6.117

Fixed Program crashing when loading a level if using hires textures with -gl_alttexmerge 1 set

v1.6.116

Fixed Hires animations not working properly if -gl_alttexmerge 0 set or shader programs couldn't be loaded

v1.6.115

Fixed Screen resolution menu again
Fixed Camera rendering once more
Fixed Object textures overloading wall textures

v1.6.114

Fixed Screen resolution menu sometimes cycling through all options, then reporting an invalid screen mode
Fixed Animations not rendered any more
Fixed Animations from pog files not loaded anymore
Fixed Some door frames not rendered with transparent see-through areas
Fixed Custom hires animations (from pog files) not rendered with transparent see-through areas (if the super transparent areas did not have alpha 0)

v1.6.113

Fixed Couldn't see through holes in grated door if door was closed

v1.6.112

Fixed Camera not rendered properly, appearing offset from its position and/or distorted depending on view angle of player
Fixed Hires triggers hard to hit or destroyed if just hitting the wall they sit on, but not the trigger itself

v1.6.111

Fixed Game freezing when (lots of) mercury missiles are fired

v1.6.110

Fixed Mine not displayed in automap anymore

v1.6.109

Fixed Crash when entering Project Mandrill:Level 1
Fixed Problems with displaying briefing of Project Mandrill

v1.6.108

Fixed Hires ship untextured after transition from a level to the next
Fixed Occasional program crash if replacing an animated texture with a single frame hires texture

v1.6.107

Fixed Hires animations not always fully displayed if using '-gl_alttexmerge 0' (e.g. doors not fully opening)
Fixed See-through parts of hires textures opaque if using '-gl_alttexmerge 0'
Fixed Robots seeing through hires textures (e.g. closed hires doors)
Fixed Program crashing when opening a door or forcefield if -gl_alttexmerge 1 set and using hires textures

v1.6.106

Fixed If a door had different textures on each side, the texture of one side was used for the other one, too
Note Really fixed: Shots passed hires doors, program occasionally crashing when shooting hires animations

v1.6.105

Fixed Crash when trying to display automap in Lunar Outpost Reloaded if a lot of the level was visible
Fixed Couldn't shoot through hires grates etc.
New Repeatedly typing 'rockrgrl' first draws the entire automap white, then successively increases the automap view distance

v1.6.104

New Support for speed boosts that set the ship's orientation

v1.6.103

Changed Max. segment count increased to 5000

v1.6.102

Fixed Shots sometimes penetrating solid parts of hires textures
Fixed Program crashing when shooting hires doors
Fixed Hires animations not working properly if using '-gl_alttexmerge 0'
Fixed Program oocasionally crashing if using '-gl_alttexmerge 0' and overloading animations with a single frame hires texture
Fixed Overloading animations with a single frame hires texture did not work properly if using '-gl_alttexmerge 0'
Changed Max. segment count increased to 4500

v1.6.101

Fixed Walls using super transparency (e.g. grates or grated doors) weren't rendered any more or turned invisible when animated (opening)

v1.6.100

Fixed Transparent walls rendered opaque if '-gl_alttexmerge 1' specified

v1.6.99

Fixed Hires doors not animating if '-gl_alttexmerge 0' specified
Fixed Program crash when replacing animations with non animated hires custom textures via the pog file
Fixed Animations too slow

v1.6.98

Fixed Hires animations not playing if '-gl_alttmerge 1' specified

v1.6.97

Fixed Descent 1 end movie not listed in movie list, instead Descent 2 intro movie listed twice
Fixed Mouse cursor visible during movie playback

v1.6.96

Fixed Some sounds being mutilated if a lot of sound is being played back

v1.6.95

Fixed Animation playback speed
Fixed Mouse indicator position
Improved Joystick emulation sensitivity

v1.6.94

Fixed Potential cause for program crash during program start

v1.6.93

Fixed Program crashing when automatically launching a demo if progress bars enabled
Changed Progress bars not available for old menu style anymore

v1.6.92

Fixed Problems with filename case when using D2X-XL's automatic level download on Linux
Fixed Problems if using UDP connection improvement function, like e.g. inability to connect if server and client are using different settings for this

v1.6.91

Fixed Mouse indicator always visible if mouse in joystick simulation mode regardless of show mouse indicator setting in cockpit options menu

v1.6.90

Fixed Linux configuration files now create a target named d2x-xl instead of d2x-gl
Fixed Show mouse indicator option in cockpit options menu always checked
Changed Show mouse indicator option only displayed if joystick simulation by mouse enabled
Changed Linux version will now try to create ~/.d2x-xl plus required subfolders for writeable files it may or will create

v1.6.89

Fixed Corrupted textures if progress bars are enabled
Improved OpenGL reticle visuals
New Mouse position indicator to aid using the mouse in joystick simulation mode

v1.6.88

Fixed Game crashing when loading a level while being in-game if progress bars are enabled

v1.6.87

Fixed Framerate dependency of Omega cannon's homing capability

v1.6.86

Fixed White spaces instead of the proper textures in Descent 1 missions
Fixed Demo files weren't found

v1.6.85

Changed Now using SDL 1.2.10 and SDL_mixer 1.2.7
Fixed Jitter when playing back demos (new demo file format not compatible with other Descent 2 versions, but D2X-XL can still playback old format demo files)

v1.6.84

Fixed Cloaks and invuls were removed from the inventory when entering a new level
Fixed Cloaks and invuls not dropped when ship destroyed
Fixed Pickup instead of cloaking/invul sound when using a cloak/invul from the inventory
Fixed Crash when loading a level or entering a new level and using hires textures

v1.6.83

Fixed Couldn't switch weapons with Super Lasers armed if next weapon was regular lasers
Fixed Accessories cheat removed Quad Lasers from the player
Fixed Problems with guided missile view if external ship view enabled

v1.6.82

Improved Processing speed when enabling progress bars
Fixed Inventory icons whited out if starting a mission, quitting it, and starting another mission
New command lines switches '-enable_lightmaps' and '-progress_bars'

v1.6.81

New Added screen resolution 720x480 (NTSC TV)
New Added possibility to specify an arbitrary custom screen resolution
Changed The root folder for writeable D2X-XL files is now made invisible on Linux ('~/.d2x-xl/*')

v1.6.80

Fixed Warning messages hardly readable
Improved Progress bar when loading a level
New Progress bar when computing lightmaps

v1.6.79

Fixed All hires doors of the same type opened simultaneously when the player opened one of them (only if door texture was overlay texture)

v1.6.78

Fixed Crashes and rendering flaws if using hires powerup images (e.g. for the shield boost)
Improved Texture quality setting will only affect standard replacement textures (not e.g. smoke particles or other smaller TGA textures)

v1.6.77

Fixed Corrupted textures

v1.6.76

Changed On Linux, the config, profiles, savegames, demos and screenshots folders (i.e. all folders where D2X-XL may write files to) are now kept in the home directory (i.e. '~/d2x-xl/profiles', etc.)
Improved Animated smoke particles made by the fabulous Aus-RED-5 from the DescentBB

v1.6.75

Fixed Descent 1 reactor countdown times
Fixed Messed up animations if using high-res textures and '-gl_alttexmerge 1' and toggling fullscreen or changing screen resolution
Fixed Wrong menu texts for joystick sensitivity if unchecking joy axis sync'ing
Fixed Reactor could be deleted from levels during multiplayer due to using older player profiles with the corresponding flag set
New Progress bar when loading level textures

v1.6.74

Fixed pressing up from 'Toggle Icons' in the keyboard configuration menu still goes left and more stuff like that
Fixed Cambots got removed from levels in multiplayer games, leading to game crashes
Fixed Screen messages for rapid fire cheat ('wildfire') swapped
New Added support for animated smoke particles (required format: 32 bit TGA w/ alpha channel, 64x64 pixels per frame)

v1.6.73

Fixed D2:CS movie subtitles played for planetary entry movie when aborting intro movie playback

v1.6.72

Changed No smoke effects during demo playback due to really hard to overcome technical limitations
Fixed pressing up from 'Toggle Icons' in the keyboard configuration menu goes left
Fixed Second afterburner keyboard control didn't work
Fixed A few messages that were printed when the player entered a cheat code were wrong
Fixed Integrated help text sometimes printed black and therefore hardly readable

v1.6.71

Fixed Several data declarations causing D2X-XL to crash on 64 bit Linux systems (fix by zelurker)
Fixed Bug preventing date being displayed when loading a savegame (fix by zelurker)
Fixed Midi music not looping on Linux even if it should (fix by zelurker)
Changed 22 KHz sound is now enabled by default (fix by zelurker)
Changed Missile view now available in Descent 1 missions
Changed Guidebot now available in all missions (including Descent 1) even if none provided by the level author
Changed Joystick configuration menu now displays 'Buttons and Hats' instead of 'Buttons' caption

v1.6.70

Fixed Despite removing the reactor disabling menu option, the reactor could still get disabled
Fixed HUD icons not available if joining a game in progress (available if joining a forming game, i.e. one where the server is waiting for players in the player list)

v1.6.69

Fixed UDP/IP networking bug causing various networking errors, like players not being able to connect to the server, players not seeing each other, players disconnecting, powerups getting duplicated, etc.
Removed Option to disable reactor in more multiplayer options menu, since it was causing connection problems

v1.6.68

Fixed Integrated help didn't work
Changed Cloak and invul inventory not available in multiplayer

v1.6.67

New Integrated help system explaining most menu options (press F1 to invoke explanation of highlighted menu option)

v1.6.66

Fixed When activating a cloak, two smoke puffs from the player ship remain at the location the cloak was activated until the ship decloaks again

v1.6.65

Fixed Version mismatch error when trying to join a multiplayer game

v1.6.64

New Mouse can now act similar to a joystick, moving the ship to the directions the (invisible) mouse pointer is moved out of the screen center. The further away the mouse pointer from the screen center, the faster the ship moves.

v1.6.63

Fixed Potential crash cause in cockpit options menu
Fixed Crash in Descent 2 mission briefings when not using SDL_mixer

v1.6.62

Fixed -ini parameter wasn't processed properly
Fixed Joystick only worked after opening the joystick configuration dialog, even if marked as enabled
Fixed No movies played if direct multiplayer game launch using the -ng... parameters

v1.6.61

Fixed All keys gathered before entering a secret level were lost when returning from the secret level

v1.6.60

Fixed Crash when trying to load a Descent 1 mission from an rdl file and not a hog file.

v1.6.59

Fixed Bug in gameplay options menu potentially causing program crashes with expert options disabled

v1.6.58

Fixed Always playing Descent 2 end movie at the end of Descent 2 single player missions
New Added -ng_level parameter for GameNet

v1.6.57

New Support for Highoctane's GameNet online gaming service

v1.6.56

Fixed Mission files containing inline comments couldn't be read (e.g. from the Descent 1 level set 'Total Chaos')

v1.6.55

Fixed Cloaking or turning invulnerable didn't work any more if the inventory wasn't used
Fixed Game crashing when enabling the mouse in the controls configuration menu

v1.6.54

Fixed Unlimited cloaks and invulnerabilities with enabled inventory
Fixed Data from player profiles messed up
Changed If the inventory is enabled, the shield orb pickup sound will be played when picking up cloaks or invuls as audio feedback

v1.6.53

Fixed Crash when enabling mouse in control options menu
Fixed Occasional crash when entering the advanced render options menu
Fixed Messed up weapon priorities (will be set to default priorities)
New Cloak and invulnerability inventory available for Descent 1 missions too

v1.6.52

New Added inventory system for cloak and invulnerability powerups, allowing to store them and only use them when necessary

v1.6.51

Fixed Interior of open(ing) doors not transparent when using '-gl_alttextmerge 1' and enabling lightmaps

v1.6.50

Fixed Crash when entering a multiplayer game

v1.6.49

Fixed Powerups occasionally floating away (only happened when both ship wiggling and thruster flames were enabled)

v1.6.48

Fixed Areas in Descent 1 movies that should be white appearing black

v1.6.47

Fixed Mission directive for Descent 1:First Strike mission 1 not played when rendered intro movie present

v1.6.46

Fixed Couldn't enable redbook audio in the sound and music config menu

v1.6.45

Fixed Briefings for Descent 1 secret levels not played
Fixed Intro movie played if D2X-XL should directly launch a level
Improved Added even more output to log file

v1.6.44

Improved Added more output to log file

v1.6.43

Fixed Program freezes when entering the control configuration menu with expert option display disabled
Fixed Descent 1 movies and audios used when nostalgia mode enabled

v1.6.42

Fixed Distorted overlay textures with lightmaps enabled and 'gl_alttexmerge 1' setting

v1.6.41

Fixed Keyboard ramping reset to 50% when setting to a value below 50% and starting or loading a mission, or restarting the program

v1.6.40

Fixed Overlay textures not displayed with lightmaps enabled

v1.6.39

New Support for Descent 1 briefings' mission directive audios added

v1.6.38

Fixed Couldn't change joystick sensitivity and deadzone when expert mode was disabled

v1.6.37

New Support for the PSX Descent 1 movies and briefing sounds provided by deuxsonic

v1.6.36

Fixed Final Descent 1 boss didn't spawn robots (will only do so now in Descent 1 missions)
Fixed Level 7 Descent 1 boss spawned robots (will spawn robots in D2 missions)
Fixed Various problems with handling of overlay textures
Fixed Buggy handling of TGA textures on Linux

v1.6.35

Fixed Interrupted, stuttering sounds
Fixed Homing missile turn radius too big

v1.6.34

Fixed Automatic doors sometimes not closing

v1.6.33

Fixed 2D objects (e.g. hostages) not always rendered properly

v1.6.32

Fixed Occasionally automatic doors stopped working after having been opened once

v1.6.31

Fixed Taking screenshots from the automap view didn't work

v1.6.30

Fixed Mega missiles fired by boss robots didn't produce a smoke trail
Improved Rendering speed increased by up to 50% by optimizing CPU dependant computational bottlenecks in the render code (enable maximal speedup by using the '-mathformat 2' switch). The speed increase depends on machine power and level structure (simple level: small increase, complicated level: big increase)

v1.6.29

Fixed Miscolored and distorted borders of camera output
Fixed Camera output wasn't mirrored
Fixed Player smoke trail, thruster flames and damage explosions were visible when player was cloaked

v1.6.28

Fixed black areas around missiles etc., missiles disappearing around open doors
Fixed Messed up lightmaps
Improved More execution log messages again

v1.6.27

Fixed Couldn't delete player profiles
Fixed Program settings got messed up when creating a new player

v1.6.26

Fixed Hires textures didn't work once again...
Fixed 'You scored' sound playing when shields changed, e.g. when respawning or hit by a robot
Fixed Crash when invoking joystick control config menu after creating a new player
Improved Even more execution log messages

v1.6.25

Fixed Smoke and thruster flames inside shield sphere weren't rendered properly
Fixed '-gl_alttexmerge 1' was rejected when hires textures were not used
Improved OpenGL state changes when using shader programs
Changed Player shield status is now sent to other players during multiplayer games, allowing for correct display of shield spheres, smoke, and damage explosions
Changed Renamed 'Toggles' menu to 'Miscellaneous' menu
New Added default settings selector and computer speed slider to miscellaneous menu, allowing to preset game settings affecting game execution speed depending on a computer's power

v1.6.24

Improved Added more stuff to log file output

v1.6.23

Fixed Texture merging with 'gl_alttexmerge 0' set
Improved Smoke appearance

v1.6.22

Improved Smoke performance and appearance

v1.6.21

Improved Shader program usage
Changed Split an advanced render options menu off the render options menu
Changed Increased max. frame rate to 250

v1.6.20

Fixed Black borders around powerups and along door edges, blocky black render artifacts
Fixed Duplicate text 'smart missiles' in set allowed weapons multiplayer menu
Improved Guidebot should not fire flares at player any more

v1.6.19

Fixed Hires texture animation didn't work anymore

v1.6.18

Fixed Weapons couldn't occasionally be fired
Fixed Hires animations sometimes corrupted
Fixed Hires textures loaded for D1 missions (only available for D2 missions now)
Fixed Skybox not visible through transparent textures (black instead)

v1.6.17

Fixed Mines always rendered fully bright
Fixed Last set shield sphere properties were applied to all visible players' shield spheres
Fixed Flash effect when taking damage or receiving a flash missile hit didn't work anymore
Fixed Adjusting the brightness in the render options menu did not work properly
Improved Sphere tesselator
New Sphere quality derived from texture quality (higher texture quality -> more sphere faces -> less edgy sphere)

v1.6.16

New D2X-XL can now render a shield sphere around the ship (normally blue, flashes orange when taking damage, golden when invulnerable)

v1.6.15

Fixed Invert control settings not stored
Fixed Thruster flames lit up a large area around player ships
Fixed Miscolored levels with colored lighting
Fixed Disconnecting in multiplayer games while configuring controls or viewing the automap
Improved Thruster flames and smoke not rendered in rear view window anymore
Improved Menu stability

v1.6.14

Fixed Crash in render options menu
Fixed Problems with multiplayer games due to uninitialized data
Fixed Distorted sounds with many active sound sources when using SDL_mixer
Changed External ship view now possible in coop games

v1.6.13

Fixed Contrast always maxed out when opening the render options menu in non-expert mode
Fixed Couldn't change brightness when opening the render options menu in non-expert mode
Fixed Contrast always set to default while in automap

v1.6.12

Fixed Transparency not working anymore
Fixed Transparency not always rendered correctly, blotting out farther away transparent areas
Fixed Mine rendered too dark
Fixed Automap not rendered properly
Fixed Movement in automap too fast when close up
Changed Effect of changing brightness in-game now immediately visible
Changed Brightness slider moved to render options
New Contrast slider in render options, allowing to change the contrast of the mine

v1.6.11

Fixed Crash when starting or loading a mission while using SDL_mixer
Improved Rendering speed with enabled lightmaps (depending on area)

v1.6.10

Fixed morphing robots sometimes distorted
Fixed Overlay textures always rendered fully bright

v1.6.9

Fixed Occasional crash or animations using the wrong textures after changing screen size or fullscreen mode in-game

v1.6.8

Improved Increased rendering performance with hires textures
Fixed Hires doors not animating

v1.6.7

Fixed No midi music on Linux due to using an invalid temporary midi music file folder
Fixed Ships occasionally freezing
Fixed Ships sometimes cannot fire
Fixed Hires Pyro neither had a cloaking animation nor a cloaked appearance
Fixed Game crashing in Obsidian level 4
Fixed Running out of sound channels when using SDL_mixer
Changed Multiple bosses setting only effective in D2X-XL levels
Changed No fire segments only effective in D2X-XL levels

v1.6.6

Fixed Vertex shaders didn't work on all systems, causing hires textures not to be used
Fixed Briefings of Descent 1 custom missions not played
Changed Guidebots now displayed as blue blips on the automap

v1.6.5

Fixed Keyboard ramping settings only available when expert mode disabled, but didn't take effect then
Fixed Program crashes caused by invalid triggers in Descent 1 levels

v1.6.4

Fixed Sound channels were reused while still in use when SDL_mixer was enabled
Fixed Crash when operating single sided doors
Fixed Lightmap range slider displayed in render options menu even if lightmaps were disabled
Fixed Particle size slider label showing the text 'large' instead of 'very large'
Fixed Hostages weren't drawn any more
Fixed Turning off player ship smoke in-game had no effect
Fixed Turning off low shield warning sound when sound was being played had no effect
Fixed Low shield warning sound wasn't played when it was enabled only after the shields had been sufficiently damaged

v1.6.3

Fixed rank '(unpatched)' displayed in multiplayer game browser
Fixed Thruster flame did not wiggle with stopped ship
Fixed Crashes and stuttering sound when using SDL_mixer
Improved Hires model rendering speed

v1.6.2

Fixed Hires Pyro texturing partially messed up
Fixed Pyro model rendered in 1st person view, messing up the HUD

v1.6.1

Changed Damage explosions now independent from smoke creation
Fixed Not all joystick buttons properly reset
Fixed A few (non-critical) memory leaks on program exit
Improved Memory utilization by hires models

v1.6.0

New Support for hires models in oof format
New Expert mode toggle. If unchecked many menu settings will be hidden and reasonable defaults used for them
Fixed Smoke didn't disappear when turned off while there was smoke in the level

v1.5 178 releases

v1.5.178

Fixed A few menu issues
Fixed Transparency didn't work when lightmaps were enabled
New More execution log messages when calling D2X-XL with switch '-debug-printlog'

v1.5.177

Fixed You couldn't launch a game directly via the command line or DLE-XP anymore (using the -auto_hogfile and -auto_mission switches)
Fixed Skybox wasn't visible through partially or completely transparent walls
Fixed Low shield warning caused program crash when enabling SDL_mixer
Fixed Erroneous messages about overwritten memory in debug version of memory handling
New Added some more execution logging (enable with command line switch -debug-printlog; find log in <application folder>/d2x.log or ~/d2x.log)

v1.5.176

Fixed Ship uncontrollable after having been destroyed in multiplayer games

v1.5.175

New Added an optional warning sound if shields are low (graphical gauges only)

v1.5.174

Fixed Hires textures couldn't be enabled anymore

v1.5.173

Fixed Smooth zoom didn't work anymore

v1.5.172

Improved Smoke rendering speed
New Command line switches -point_sprites and -vertex_arrays for alternative, potentially faster smoke rendering

v1.5.171

Fixed Game crashing when using hires textures
Fixed Hires textures not correctly animated with decreased texture quality
Fixed Thruster flames and smoke slightly displaced
Fixed Reversed color channels on 25 bit TGA textures (i.e. those w/o alpha channel)
Fixed Thruster flames only shown when player ship smoke was activated
Changed Thruster flames made longer (wouldn't animate properly otherwise)
Improved Ship control in external view

v1.5.170

Fixed Miscolored text in briefings

v1.5.169

Improved In some menus, if a feature is disabled, all related options are hidden
Fixed Removed some forgotten test code that could cause program crashes when the player was killed
New Added damage explosion feature (small explosions on damaged ships and robots)
New Added thruster flames for player ships

v1.5.167

New Added some light gray exhaust smoke to the player ship if it's not (badly) damaged
New Made smoke come from both thrusters of player ships
New Protection against manipulation of the player ship data
Fixed Speed boost slider label in gameplay options menu not always printed
Fixed Frequently failed to load savegames
Fixed Crashes caused by particle system
Fixed Smoke clouds not disappearing though although their source has been destroyed

v1.5.166

Fixed Screen resolution 1360x768 had the wrong text in the screen res menu
Fixed Automap joystick button didn't work
Fixed Modified robot kill cheat causing killed robots to spawn other robots if they contained some
New Added seismic effect to robot kill cheat
New Particle system allowing smoke (doesn't look perfect yet, but it's a start)

v1.5.165

Fixed Wrong message texts leading to program crashes when selecting certain weapons (e.g. Flash missiles)
Fixed Some control settings weren't properly read from disk
New Added weapon icon toggle and automap control config to joystick config menu
New Added weapon icon toggle control to keyboard config menu
New Added 1360x768 to supported screen resolutions

v1.5.164

Fixed Some message texts contained extra letters (e.g. 'T').

v1.5.163

Fixed Keyboard ramping didn't work.

v1.5.162

New Library file 'd2x-xl.hog' containing all additional D2X-XL data
New Moved all additional D2X-XL data to d2x-xl.hog (like cambot model, inventory bitmap, palettes (*.256), alternate language files, highres images, etc.)
New D2X-XL can now use highres briefing images for Descent 1

v1.5.161

Changed Tidied the multiplayer start/join menu up
New Added some more texts to the English and German language files
New Added hotkey support for alternative language files ('~' followed by a capital letter)
Fixed Mouse and joystick settings weren't properly read from player files

v1.5.160

New General localization support
New German localization
Changed Multiplayer start menu
Fixed Bug in profile handling

v1.5.159

Fixed More ambient sounds not being played
Fixed Ambient sounds at the wrong places
New Translated menus to German (HUD messages will follow. Goal: Allow for full language customization)
Changed Fast pitch setting only affects keyboard controls

v1.5.158

Fixed Sound stuttering when using SDL_mixer

v1.5.157

Fixed Strange behaviour or crash when first entering the multiplayer game browser 'join game', then backing out to the main menu and loading a save game
New Added option 'Fast pitch' to gameplay and more multiplayer options menu, controlling the max. vertical pitch speed (to have the original Descent 2 pitch speed, uncheck it)
Fixed Many constant ambient sounds (e.g. from waterfalls) weren't played any more

v1.5.156

New Graphical HUD gauges can now flash on low values (slow flash if <= 20, fast flash if <= 10)
Fixed Player file format not compatible with nostalgia extension
Fixed Vertical turn speed was twice as high as in the original game

v1.5.155

New Added a cockpit options menu and moved all related options there
New You can now turn equipment HUD icons off
New You can now change the dimming of the HUD weapon icons
Fixed Cockpit windows will not overlap with HUD weapon icons any more
Fixed Scroll arrows in menus having a non-scrolling part (like the main menu)

v1.5.154

Fixed Gun fire and flares didn't cast light anymore
Changed Ammo count in weapon icons only shown for weapons the player has
New Instead of texts, afterburner, shields and energy can be displayed as graphical gauges in the fullscreen and widescreen cockpits

v1.5.153

Fixed Multiplayer options were reset although nostalgia mode was not enabled
Fixed Switches with optional numeric parameter not always correctly evaluated if the optional parameter was omitted
Fixed Mouse axes sensitivity values were reset every time the input configuration menu was invoked
Improved Netgame search feedback when starting an IPX multiplayer game

v1.5.152

Fixed Occasionally wrong level textures when toggling fullscreen or changing screen resolution
Fixed Misaligned texts in the game brower
Fixed Scroll arrows in menus didn't always work
Fixed Keyboard occasionally unavailable in nostalgia mode
Fixed Handling of additional robot info (vham) files both when Vertigo data is present and when loading savegames from missions using such a file
Improved With the exception of some multiplayer settings, nostalgia settings will not overwrite standard settings in player files anymore

v1.5.151

Fixed Ctrl+F7 also started the message input prompt
New Command line switch '-nostalgia' allowing to disable D2X-XL features step by step

v1.5.150

Fixed Automatic mission download didn't work any more
Fixed Ping stats didn't really work
Fixed Mouse and joystick were disabled when loading a save game
Fixed Toggling bombs also operated the energy to shield converter if it was present
Fixed Weapon and equipment icons miscolored in certain missions (e.g. D2:Vertigo)
Fixed Player names weren't displayed properly any more in multiplayer games
New Active bomb type weapon icon will now also be highlighted

v1.5.149

Fixed Joystick and joystick settings not working properly since allowing mouse and joystick to be used together
Fixed Program stopping to respond when trying to join UDP/IP games via tracker
New Added mouse and joystick type selection to controls menu

v1.5.148

New Introduced a timeout for buffered UDP/IP data packets
Changed You cannot toggle UDP/IP connection improvement while playing a game
Fixed Tracker test for game hosts did (still) not work

v1.5.147

Fixed Couldn't load Descent 2:Counter Strike any more
New Improved UDP/IP networking integrity (missing data packets will be re-requested); can be toggled in more netgame options or toggles menu
New New menu element 'gauge' (can be used like Windows progress bars)
Improved Tracker query for game hosts trying to create a UDP/IP game via tracker

v1.5.146

Improved Tracker availability check for game hosts
Fixed Tracker availability check only performed for game hosts when trying to start a UDP/IP game via tracker
Fixed When trying to start a network game w/o selecting a mission, you get an appropriate error message now

v1.5.145

Fixed Starting D2:Vertigo via the singleplayer mission selection list didn't work
Fixed Built-in missions didn't have Descent version numbers printed in front of them
Fixed Descent:First Strike end briefing played at end of every other Descent 1 mission

v1.5.144

New You can now use mouse and joystick together

v1.5.143

Fixed Couldn't always shoot through openings in grates
Fixed Boss robots getting too close, making them appear to charge

v1.5.142

Fixed Crash when passing too many command line arguments to D2X-XL

v1.5.141

New You can now toggle ping and connection quality display for each netgame player by pressing CTRL+F7
New You can now specify a demo filename with the -autodemo switch (-autodemo <filename>)

v1.5.140

Fixed Weapon light turning level areas in D2X-XL levels dark that aren't lit by colored light
Fixed Weapon light turning level areas dark that are lit with lightmaps

v1.5.139

Fixed Couldn't switch between concussion and guided missiles
Fixed Switching between spreadfire and helix guns also toggled the armed bomb type

v1.5.138

Fixed Joystick and mouse axes couldn't be de-sync'd
Fixed Homing and guided missile counts in weapon icons weren't correct
Fixed Crash in render options menu
Fixed Lighting not working if lightmaps enabled, but colored light disabled
Fixed Cameras tied to robots not disabled when the robot is destroyed
Fixed Dual missile launch was enabled by default

v1.5.137

Fixed Descent 2 briefing were played in Descent 1 missions if 'play Descent 2 missions' wasn't checked
Fixed Switching from a super weapon to the normal weapon of same kind using the weapon hotkeys didn't work anymore
Fixed If a game host turned mouselook on, it was enabled for all clients using D2X-XL even if they had turned it off locally
Fixed pps setting got reset to d2x.ini value every time a game host started a network game
Changed Using the 'honestbob' cheat will now double the amount of weapons and ammo given if you have the ammo rack
New You can now display the ammo count in the HUD weapon icons (see game options menu)
New D2X-XL will look for available trackers when starting a UDP/IP game via tracker

v1.5.136

Fixed The client changing the network port for UDP games in the netgame browser with PgUp/PgDn had no effect
Fixed Levels using colored lights were always fully bright
Fixed Shooting destructible lights in levels using colored lights didn't darken their environments
Fixed Descent 2 weapons shown in weapon icons when playing Descent 1 missions
Fixed Inconsistencies in secret level handling
Fixed Crash when trying to join network games
Fixed Couldn't join tracker games any more
Note Really Fixed: Loading of missions stored in rdl/rl2 files outside of hog files
New The client can now optionally specify a server port by appending it to the server ip address using a colon (e.g. 127.0.0.1:28342)

v1.5.135

Fixed Blending of weapon light with ambient light
Fixed Descent 1 end briefing again
Fixed Every tracker added to the tracker list is initially shown as available though its status is unknown yet
Fixed Super laser wasn't always selected in the order given by primary weapon ordering
Changed Turn banking in Descent 1 back
New Weapon icons can now be ordered as given by primary and secondary weapon ordering

v1.5.134

Fixed 1st person part of rendered mine exit sequence rendered partially black if a rear view cockpit window was enabled
Fixed Missions stored in rdl/rl2 instead of hog files wouldn't get loaded. Trying to load them however resulted in them being loaded when subsequently trying to load a built-in mission
Fixed Descent 1 end briefing

v1.5.133

Fixed Crash when leaving the multiplayer game browser while using a custom menu background
Fixed Crash when launching D2X-XL without having specified a player with 'player <playername>' in d2x.ini

v1.5.132

Fixed Demo recording and playback broken in last version
Fixed Custom menu background support broken in last version
Fixed Crash when loading a D2X-XL mission after having played a Descent 1 mission
Improved Weapon icons now leave space for one line of text at the screen top if placed at the screen top
Changed Unavailable weapon icons grayed a little less again

v1.5.131

Fixed Player keeping all keys when destroying a level, moving on to secret level, and returning from secret level
Fixed Files that should have been deleted (e.g. automatic save games made before entering a secret level) didn't get deleted
Fixed Descent 1 mine exit and terrain texture handling
Fixed Descent 2 briefing played for Descent 1 missions
Fixed Descent 2 demo data support

v1.5.130

Fixed Reactor timeout had no effect
Fixed Wrong wall/door textures in Descent 1 levels
Fixed Exit sequence not played when playing multiplayer using a level from Descent 1:First Strike
Fixed Screen occasionally staying black when starting a multiplayer game
Fixed Levels not stored in hog files (i.e. stored directly .rdl/.rl2) couldn't be read
Changed Grayed the unavailable weapon & equipment icons some more
New Custon menu background and some display properties for it (alpha, brightness, grayscale) can be specified in d2x.ini
New Descent version of levels can be displayed in level selection menus
New Network games using missions not installed on a client's system are now shown orange/red in the game list browser
New Automatic level download will now also download missions not stored in hog files (*.rl2, *.rdl)

v1.5.129

Fixed Playing cloak sound instead of ambient lava sound in Descent 1 missions
Fixed Wrong Descent 2 wall textures after having played a Descent 1 mission before
Fixed 'Show movie subtitles' option erroneously linked to 'high movie quality' option
Fixed Typeing 'frametime' in Descent 1 missions resulted in a cheat punishment
Fixed Menu song not playing any more after showing a movie via the show movies option
Fixed Briefing humming not played throughout the briefing
Fixed Robot sound instead of humming playing in Descent 1 briefings

v1.5.128

Fixed Missile view available in Descent 1 missions
Fixed Weapon icons displaced in letterbox (widescreen) cockpit
Fixed Crash when firing a missile
Fixed Team autobalance option wasn't remembered across program launches
Fixed Midi playback using SDL_mixer didn't work on Linux
New Weapon icons now available in all cockpit modes

v1.5.127

Fixed Crash when morphing newly spawned robots (e.g. in robot generators)
Fixed Inventory icons displayed in Descent 1 missions
Fixed Bug in hmp to midi conversion causing midi playback of Descent songs to fail on Linux
New Screen resolution 2048x1536

v1.5.126

New Inventory icons
Fixed Descent 2 weapon icons displayed in Descent 1 missions
Fixed Couldn't switch weapons with the keyboard when the radar (cockpit window automap) was enabled

v1.5.125

New Mouse grabbing will now be turned off when opening a menu while in windowed mode
Fixed Sound looping and distance dependant sound volume and panning when using SDL_mixer
Fixed Occasional wrong sounds when using Descent 1 sounds in Descent 1 missions
Fixed Level songs weren't played any more
Fixed Briefings songs weren't played
Fixed Descent version specific songs (title, briefing, endlevel, endgame, credits) weren't played properly
Fixed Descent 1 endgame briefing was not shown
Fixed Descent 1 mine exit rendered using the wrong textures
Fixed If a profiles subfolder exists, but is empty, D2X-XL put new player files in the Descent 2 folder instead of the profiles folder
Improved Status bar will not display afterburner info in Descent 1 missions anymore
New Added weapon icon display for fullscreen cockpit

v1.5.124

Fixed Headlight not lighing the illuminated areas white
Fixed Spurious crash when displaying an animated high-res texture
Improved Game list handling (more entries, longer mission name and mission title)
New Game list will show number of trackers found if playing UDP/IP via tracker

v1.5.123

New You can now provide a custom menu background image (uncompressed TGA). It has to be named 'menubg.tga' and has to reside in the Descent 2 main or data folder
Improved D2X-XL will now remove game hosts that are not available any more from the client's game list
Fixed Wrong numbering in the game list
Fixed Wrong mission name sometimes displayed in net game info

v1.5.122

Fixed Selecting markers in the automap caused weapon switches
Fixed Objects didn't animate any more (flares, markers, robot eyes)
Fixed Color blending option couldn't be turned off
New Added DescentBB tracker (hard coded)
New Added ban feature including ban list (ban list stored as text file named 'banlist.txt' in the Descent 2 main or data folder)

v1.5.121

Fixed Descent 1 Briefing problems after first having read Descent 2 briefings
New Separate sensitivities for mouse X and Y axes
New Availability of mouselook in multiplayer games controllable by game host (not available at all if game host doesn't use D2X-XL)
New You can now have colored weapon light be blended with the ambient light. This will make weapon light color less apparent but provide a more realistic lighting effect

v1.5.120

Improved D2X-XL does now use animated Descent 1 textures in Descent 1 missions
Fixed Descent 1 boss sounds. Enable by adding '-use_d1sounds 1' to d2x.ini

v1.5.119

Fixed Dual missile launch was always checked in more multiplayer options
Fixed Changes in mouse sensitivity were ignored
Fixed Reactor countdown skipped time when invoking the guidebot menu with the new menu style enabled
Fixed Ship doesn't bank when turning any more in Descent 1 missions

v1.5.118

Changed You can now use Descent 1 cheat codes in Descent 1 games; Descent 2 cheats are disabled then
Fixed You could get Descent 2 weapons by using cheat codes during Descent 1 games
Fixed Selecting the Vulcan Cannon in Descent 1 games with smart weapon switch enabled resulted in D2X-XL trying to select the (unavailable) Gauss Cannon
Fixed You couldn't play back all Descent 1 songs listed in the songs selection menu

v1.5.117

Fixed Joystick sensitivity and deadzones not linked to master sliders when joystick axes sync'ing enabled and changing the master settings
Fixed High score menu background offset to the lower right at resolutions > 640x480
Changed Throttle deadzone not doubled when joystick axes unsync'd

v1.5.116

Improved Stability of level auto-download when encountering packet loss
Fixed Descent 1 trigger handling once more

v1.5.115

Fixed Repeatedly loading save games with the cambot (cambot.hxm) present could result in error messages about robot numbers being out of range

v1.5.114

Fixed Descent 1 trigger handling

v1.5.113

New You can now set sensitivity and deadzone separately for the first four joystick axes (more axes will be mapped to the first four modulo 4). Uncheck 'Sync Joystick Axes' in the controls configure menu to access this feature.

v1.5.112

Fixed Automap didn't work any more

v1.5.111

Fixed Last used mission was not properly remembered when repeatedly starting multiplayer missions
Fixed A bug potentially affecting handling of multiple bosses, reactors and mine destruction timeout
Fixed Erroneous error message (heh) when charging shields with the energy converter
New Multiplayer option 'Disable Reactor' allows to disable the reactor in multiplayer levels containing one
(now you can do something about the jerks killing the reactor just when you're really having fun ... )
New Multiplayer option 'Cycle through levels' will resume the game with the first level of a mission after the last level has been exited
(that way you can utilize a level 'rotation' by creating a multi-level mission from all levels you want to include in the rotation)

v1.5.110

Fixed Rendering flaws with multi-layered semi-transparent walls

v1.5.109

Fixed Game could crash when using more than two joysticks, or joysticks with more than 16 buttons
Fixed Credits background white in 640x480
Fixed Issue with embedded pointers causing crashes in 64 bit version

v1.5.108

Fixed Credits screen with new menu style enabled

v1.5.107

Fixed Ship freezing when loading a saved game while playing a multiplayer coop game

v1.5.106

Fixed Game crashes when loading saved games while playing a multiplayer coop game
Fixed Mission files in subfolders not found when playing back demos or joining multiplayer games
Improved Data integrity verification when rejoining multiplayer coop games
New Another icon for the Win32 version looking like the D2X-XL logo

v1.5.105

Fixed Lightmaps weren't rendered properly anymore

v1.5.104

Fixed D2X-XL will now remember the entire path to the last mission chosen, not just the mission name
Fixed Mission download function did not work for missions not stored in the root missions folder
Changed Moving the cursor up or down past the ends of a filelist will now wrap around
Changed When starting a multiplayer game, you can now chose a level in the multiplayer options menu. That way, you don't have to select a level each time you start a multiplayer game if you want to use the same level as in the previous match
New Change screen size in-game by pressing Ctrl+F1 (decrease) or Ctrl+F2 (increase)
New D2X-XL will display a blinking 'Typing ...' label instead of the player name in multiplayer if the player has opened a menu

v1.5.103

Fixed Program crash when using old style quick search in menus
Fixed A few attempts to free null pointers
Fixed Crash when repeatedly starting multiplayer games
Fixed Loading of saved coop games failed or crashed the game
Improved Framerate display will now change two times per second to improve readability
Changed Window caption will now show the proper application name ('D2X-XL') and the version number on MS Windows

v1.5.102

Fixed Boss robots and thieves just disappeared when destroyed

v1.5.101

Fixed Text of options with sliders in more game options menu not updated with new menu style and fast menus enabled
Changed Instead of Alt+Ctrl+Backspace, D2X-XL can now be instantly terminated with Alt+Ctrl+Enter (suits Linux better )
New Added 'Alt+Ctrl+Enter' to in-game help
New D2X-XL will now store all multiplayer settings in the player file; this includes game mode, game options, entropy options and permissible weapons as well as host IP address and client port for UDP/IP games. This means you will not have to reenter these settings every time you launch D2X-XL and want to play a multiplayer game

v1.5.100

Fixed Song list of the play song menu option didn't show all Descent 1 songs

v1.5.99

New Switch '-print_version' will print the program version string to a file named 'd2x-xl-version.txt' in the data folder (application folder if no data folder present)
New Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace will immediately terminate D2X-XL ('Boss' key )

v1.5.98

Fixed Game host couldn't see names joining players when starting a game
Fixed Solid walls sometimes appeared more or less transparent or even invisible

v1.5.97

New Added bomb toggling control to joystick configuration
Fixed Couldn't load Descent 1 missions any more
Fixed Smart file selection in file menus didn't always work

v1.5.96

Fixed Sometimes invisible, indestructable or immobile robots yielding no points when destroying them could appear
Fixed R- and Z-axis texts in joystick configuration menu exchanged
Fixed Printed 'IPX' socket in network menus although UDP connection had been chosen

v1.5.95

Changed '-nomovies' switch will now suppress the Descent 1 exit sequence, too

v1.5.94

Improved Controls configuration code
Improved Joystick axis configuration sensitivity

v1.5.93

Fixed Game hanging when selecting a song in the song list
Fixed Couldn't leave song list by pressing ESC
Fixed Menu options whos text changed depending on the corresponding game settings weren't updated with both the new menu style and fast menus enabled
Fixed Couldn't take screenshots while in a menu

v1.5.92

New Enabled mouse wheel

v1.5.91

Fixed Not all Descent 2 songs from the Play Songs menu songs were properly played

v1.5.90

Fixed Descent 1 briefings not shown any more

v1.5.89

Fixed Descent 1 exit sequences weren't rendered any more
Fixed Crash when trying to show robot movies in Descent 2 briefings
Fixed Crash when entering the Descent 1 level exit sequence

v1.5.88

Fixed Couldn't start or load Descent 1 games any more

v1.5.87

Fixed Menu background images constantly reloaded from disk, slowing down menu rendering
New Added SDL_mixer support, (theoretically) allowing to playback midi on OS X and Linux (doesn't work on my Linux box yet for unknown reasons)

v1.5.86

Fixed Game crashing when invoking detail levels menu

v1.5.85

Fixed Game crashing when invoking help screen in-game

v1.5.84

Fixed No text in load game menu
Fixed Crash when displaying menus with multi-line options

v1.5.83

Fixed Calling up the guide bot menu with fast menus enabled crashed the program
Fixed Miscolored edges of see-through textures
Fixed Miscolored robots in D1 mission briefings
Fixed Miscolored level thumbnails in load game menu

v1.5.82

Fixed Firing the primary weapon using a joystick button in multiplayer caused various 'you don't have weapon X' messages to be displayed
Fixed Calling up several menus with the new menu style and fast menus enabled resulted in a program crash

v1.5.81

New Command line switch '-fastmenus {0|1}' to decrease menu lag with new menu style enabled (makes new menus about 50% faster)

v1.5.80

Fixed D2 data not found any more after v1.5.79 fix - d'uh!

v1.5.79

Fixed Folder detection, namely when using the -userdir and -hogdir switches

v1.5.78

Fixed Controls config menu option 'Customize Above' didn't work properly any more
Fixed Overlay textures always drawn fully bright

v1.5.77

Fixed 'Holes' in walls with an overlay texture where the bottom texture contained transparent areas
Fixed Screenshot format on non Windows OS's
Fixed Crashes and display faults with old style menus
Fixed Weapon hotkeys treated as input device in the control configuration menu
Fixed Warning about using a non-entropy level even if selected game mode wasn't entropy
Changed If trying to play an entropy game with a non-entropy level, the game mode is changed to team anarchy

v1.5.76

Fixed Screenshots weren't saved (but they work now, really really, I promise! :D)

v1.5.75

Fixed Brightness set to minimum after death or new level entry
Fixed Input config window size

v1.5.74

Fixed Handling of not entropy enabled levels when using them in an Entropy multiplayer game

v1.5.73

Removed Fast respawn - caused too many problems in multiplayer
Changed Memory management (disabled D2X proprietary memory handling functions)
New Parameter '-cdrom <drive name>' allowing to specify the CD ROM drive containing the Descent 2 CD (data)

v1.5.72

Fixed Menu positioning after changing screen size
Fixed Menu behaviour afting toggling full screen
Fixed -grabmouse parameter wasn't parsed properly (was enabled by default though, so could be omitted)
Fixed Couldn't select another player on Linux
Fixed More palette problems
Changed Brightness change now possible again when in a menu
New You can now toggle full screen while in a menu with Alt+Enter
New Slider in toggles menu to control mission download timeout

v1.5.71

Fixed Multiplayer scores screen not displayed properly with new menu styles enabled
Fixed Crash when exiting a mine after blowing up the reactor in multiplayer with new menu style enabled
Fixed Menu close box position
Fixed Selection wrong option when clicking an option with the mouse in certain menus
Fixed Hitting a negative speed boost ('bounce back') several times very quickly allowed you to pass through it
New 'Smart' file search in mission and player selection will not accumulate typed keys and jump to the first file name starting with the same character sequence. Use the backspace key to truncate the search pattern. Toggle in-menu with CTRL+S

v1.5.70

Fixed Save game format bug for D2X-XL levels leading to memory being overwritten, potentially causing all sorts of problems
Fixed A few minor bugs
Changed 64-bit related code cleanup

v1.5.69

Fixed Oh well ... palette problems ...
Fixed Missing menu close boxes with new menu style enabled
Fixed Printing a number instead of the name of the current network protocol in the netgame browser
Improved Menu scrolling
Changed General code cleanup to remove all warning messages (Win32)

v1.5.68

Fixed Palette problems - what did you think?

v1.5.67

Fixed Palette problem after exiting a level with new menu style enabled
Fixed Black bars above and below exit movies weren't black with new menu style enabled
Fixed Missing menu scroll indicators (arrows) with new menu style enabled
New 'Drop Quad and Super Lasers' in gameplay options menu, allowing you to drop the quad and super laser powerups

v1.5.66

Fixed Couldn't connect in multiplayer games with new menu style enabled
Fixed Discolored menus in multiplayer games
Fixed Menus didn't scroll properly anymore
Fixed No countdown in multiplayer games when the boss robot was killed and multiple bosses were enabled
Fixed Invoking an input configuration menu with the new menu style enabled crashed the program
Fixed Input config menus not working with new menu style enabled

v1.5.65

Fixed Screenshots!
Fixed Time jumps when e.g. resizing the screen or loading a game
Fixed Level screenshot thumbnails in save games
Fixed Menu lag with new style menus enabled
Fixed Garbled briefing text with old menu style enabled
Improved Palette handling (hopefully finally resolving palette errors after receiving messages in-game

v1.5.64

Fixed More palette issues
Fixed Old style menus not working properly
Improved Menu background handling

v1.5.63

Fixed Reactor countdown not stopped when saving/loading games
Fixed Palette problems when displaying messages between levels
Fixed Crash when trying to display high scores after 'game over' in a single player game

v1.5.62

Fixed Cameras not working any more
Fixed When saving and reloading a game, the savegame before the previously saved one was offered as default, not the saved one
Fixed Switching screen modes or fullscreen didn't take immediate effect
Fixed Level download function not always working
Improved Menu sizing and positioning (more menu items visible at higher screen resolutions now)

v1.5.61

Fixed Occasional program crash when destroying an object (robot, reactor, etc.)

v1.5.60

Fixed Screen flicker/blackening during briefing playbacks

v1.5.59

Fixed Screen turning black when invoking keyboard config menu in-game and then returning to the game
Fixed Crash when terminating the program after having opened the keyboard config menu in-game
Fixed Program version strings appearing not only in main menu background
Fixed Custom textures working again

v1.5.58

Fixed Briefings not rendered properly with new menu style enabled
Fixed Descent 1 end level sequences not rendered properly with new menu style enabled
Improved Guidebot menu

v1.5.57

Fixed Crash when playing Descent 1 mission briefings
Fixed Crash when playing Descent 1 level exit sequence
Fixed Crash when opening joystick config menu with new menu style enabled
Fixed Dysfunctional configuration menus with new menu style enabled
Fixed New style menus not centered when invoked while playing a game in letterbox mode
Fixed Missing version and copyright info in main menu
Fixed Menu background turning white with new menu style enabled
Fixed Old style menus not working properly anymore
Fixed Crash during D2 endlevel sequences
Fixed Menu background display with new menu style enabled
Fixed Choosing 'play singleplayer mission' did not display any missions from the 'files/missions/single' folder
Improved Proper camera view sizing regardless of target face dimensions
Improved Menu response with new menu style enabled
New Pressing the Pause key when in a menu invoked from a running game will now pause/continue the game
New You can now pause the game when in a menu
New For non-fullscreen cockpit modes, the automap now has the frame and text it had in Descent 2

v1.5.56

Fixed Texture corruption when starting multiplayer games with new menu style enabled

v1.5.55

Fixed Program crash when opening the game browser when joining a multiplayer game
Fixed Incompatible color data handling in level files
Fixed Various issues with the new menu style

v1.5.54

Fixed Enabling the old camera rendering method (either with -render2texture 0 or automatically when the drivers don't support the new one) lead to a program crash

v1.5.53

Fixed When toggling fullscreen on and off again while playing, opening a menu corrupted the screen
Fixed Credits display
Fixed Flickering time stamp display in load game dialog
Improved TGA sub image handling
New Transparent menus let you see the game scene and standard background

v1.5.52

Fixed Reactor countdown didn't start in multiplayer games if Multiple Bosses game play option was checked

v1.5.51

Fixed '-pps' switch not recognized
Improved Camera handling code better portable now through use of the framebuffer OpenGL extension

v1.5.50

Fixed Colored weapon light did not work anymore

v1.5.49

Improved Camera performance (through the use of the render to pixel buffer OpenGL extension)
Fixed Camera view orientation issues (left/right exchanged)
New Command line switch '-render2texture [0|1]'

v1.5.48

Fixed Every camera trigger loaded twice, resulting in halved performance when monitors visible
New Added camera speed setting to render options menu

v1.5.47

New Texture quality slider in render options menu (allows to scale down hires textures)

v1.5.46

Fixed Couldn't switch weapons in multiplayer

v1.5.45

Improved Data folder detection on OS X and Linux
Changed Smart weapon switch now defaults to FALSE (if TRUE, will override Vulcan/Spreadfire with Gauss/Helix if latter available)
Changed Render options menu will now display 'Framecap: none' if frame capping turned off by setting it below 10 fps
Fixed When multiple bosses was enabled, countdown after destroying the reactor in levels w/o bosses didn't start

v1.5.44

Fixed Moving cameras always rotated around world Y axis, not object Y axis (that may be at an angle to the world Y axis)
Fixed Player could move through objects (will now bounce back)
Changed Renamed 'Customize D2X Keys' to 'Weapon Hotkeys'

v1.5.43

New Support for spinning cameras
New If a monitor wall has an overlay texture,the monitor image will be projected to the primary texture, thus allowing for monitor bezels

v1.5.42

Fixed DESCENT2 environment variable not used on Linux and Mac OS X
Fixed Using arbitrary Descent 2 folder on Mac OS X not working
Fixed Couldn't select weapons with hotkey
Fixed Using the automap in a cockpit window (again) lead to constant, fast screen resolution switching

v1.5.41

Fixed Couldn't cycle primary weapon any more
Fixed Customize keyboard option gone awol

v1.5.40

Fixed Couldn't load savegame if empty save slots preceeded the selected game
Fixed CamBot was loaded everytime a new game was started or a save game loaded, but never unloaded
Fixed Issuing Guidebot commands also selected weapons
Fixed Error messages about invalid/unknown hog file sizes
Fixed Letterbox (widescreen) cockpit mode not restored from save games
Fixed Program crash after error messages and warnings
Fixed Alternate ini file not found (Linux)
Fixed Couldn't leave create new player dialog during program start if no player profiles were present

v1.5.39

Fixed Descent data not found if not stored in data subfolder of the D2 main folder
New Movie subtitles can be enabled in the render options menu
New cfg and ini files can now optionally be stored in a subfolder named 'config' of the D2 main folder
New On Linux, the ini file can optionally be placed in the D2 main or config folder and bear the name d2x.ini

v1.5.38

Fixed Cambot data not loaded when launching D2X-XL from DLE-XP

v1.5.37

Fixed If a startup screen resolution was set in the ini file, the automap would always use that resolution
Fixed Mission auto-d/l did not work for missions that were stored in subdirectories of the mission folder
Fixed Low-res font and reticle used in 640x480 screen resolution

v1.5.36

Fixed Windows version didn't find the game data if it wasn't stored in the data folder

v1.5.35

Fixed Screen mode/size related bug

v1.5.34

Fixed Data subdirectory handling didn't work properly on Linux and Mac OS X
New Support for camera objects with external poly model

v1.5.33

Fixed Not all status info was printed on the screen in letterbox mode
Fixed Joystick deadzone control gone awol
New
d2x-xl will now support organizing the game data in subdirectories of the game folder:
- data: put all game data here (*.pig, *.hog, *.256, etc.)
- movies: put all movie files here (*.mvl)
- profiles: put all player profiles here (*.plr)
- savegames: put all save games here (*.sg?)
Use of these folders is optional; if d2x-xl finds one of them, it will however only look there for the related data

v1.5.32

Fixed Replaced buggy 3D math function
Fixed Extended level format incompatible to Mac version

v1.5.31

Fixed Frequently changing render quality in the render options menu corrupted the screen

v1.5.30

Fixed Mouse look and joystick scaling options were mutually exchanged
Fixed Configuring joystick axes didn't work on Linux (and probably Mac OS X)

v1.5.29

Fixed Bug in options menu causing Mac version to crash
Fixed Bug in math routine causing bots to move erratically on Linux

v1.5.28

New More widescreen resolutions
New Mac OS X specific code changes

v1.5.27

Fixed Camera bot triggers didn't work

v1.5.26

Improved External ship view
Fixed Calling D2X-XL from DLE-XP with a hog file or level name containing spaces failed

v1.5.25

New Render quality option in render options menu
New command line switch -render_quality replacing -gl_mipmap, -gl_trilinear, and -gl_simple
Fixed Disappearing faces when very many segments are visible

v1.5.24

Note Update: Unified source code base for Win32 and Linux

v1.5.23

Fixed UDP/IP code

v1.5.22

Fixed Path finding bug (Linux)

v1.5.21

Fixed Alternating switches changing state more than one time by multiple hits (e.g. by two laser bolts)

v1.5.20

Fixed A few Linux portability issues

v1.5.19

Fixed Not all save games being loaded (e.g. when 1st save game slot was empty)

v1.5.18

Fixed Game hanging when killing a boss
Fixed Some multi-boss related bugs in coop games
Fixed Game offering the wrong save to load (the one before the current one)

v1.5.17

Improved Switching to start up screen resolution specified by command line (less flicker)

v1.5.16

Fixed Couldn't load first and last save game

v1.5.15

Fixed Couldn't return from secret levels since savegame thumbnail resolution increase
Fixed Cryptonite and pumpmeup cheats accessible in multiplayer games

v1.5.14

New Save game time display in load game list
New Highres thumbnails in load game list

v1.5.13

Fixed A few keymappings wrong since allowing a keymapping for the zoom function

v1.5.12

Fixed Guide bot didn't work properly since increase of max. wall and trigger number

v1.5.11

New Triggers not working reliably since increase of max. wall and trigger number

v1.5.10

New Weapon shortcuts and zoom key now configurable

v1.5.9

New Fluid physics in water and lava segments (slowed, shaky object movement, damage in lava, appropriate environment sound)

v1.5.8

Fixed Colored lighting not applied to walls, e.g. closed doors
Fixed Boss robots spawned by a dying boss weren't destroyed due to the boss being destroyed
Fixed No countdown when playing the first mission from a subfolder of the mission folder

v1.5.7

Fixed Specifying a player profile with the '-player' command line argument did not work when the extension was omitted

v1.5.6

New Command line arguments -auto_hogfile and -auto_mission allow for direct launching of a level
New Smart weapon switch option in gameplay options menu (skip Vulcan/Spreadfire if Gauss/Helix available)

v1.5.5

Fixed Owning a Vulcan cannon would auto switch to a Gauss cannon even if not having one

v1.5.4

Fixed Mission browser would display built-in D2 missions even if only D1 Missions was checked.
New Improved weapon autoswitch (will skip weaker weapons of same type, e.g. Vulcan if Gauss available)

v1.5.3

New Support for alternating triggers.

v1.5.2

Fixed Permanent triggers.
Fixed Wall handling.
Fixed Camera view rendering

v1.5.1

New Support for permanent switches (won't get destroyed when shot and can be operated infinitely).

v1.5.0

New Multiple robot triggers
Fixed Panning the automap didn't work when zoomed out far.

v1.4 84 releases

v1.4.87

Fixed Incompatibility with pre-v1.4.84 save games resulting in program crashes or screwed-up level display.
Fixed Clicking on '[..]' in the mission list would start D2:Counterstrike.

v1.4.86

Fixed Wall texturing bugs introduced when increasing max. wall number.

v1.4.85

Fixed Texturing and door animation bugs introduced when increasing max. wall number.

v1.4.84

New D2X-XL levels can now have up to 1022 walls.

v1.4.83

New Notebook screen resolution 1280x768.

v1.4.82

New Support for sky boxes.
Fixed Crash or strange behaviour when loading older save games.

v1.4.81

Fixed Boss robots teleported to segments they shouldn't.
Fixed Guidebot trying to find a boss when there was none.

v1.4.80

Fixed Save games weren't loaded properly.

v1.4.79

Fixed Merging of a base and an overlay texture if at least one of them was a TGA image.
Fixed Merging of a base and an overlay texture with different image dimensions.
Fixed Some midis not looping properly when playing D1 missions (fix provided by Rob).
Fixed Music looping during D1 endlevel sequence (fix provided by Rob).
New If a boss robot is placed in a segment with a group id > 0, it will only teleport to segments with the same group id. Group ids can assigned to segments in levels of type D2X-XL. This feature serves to keep each boss in its own realm in multi-boss-levels.

v1.4.78

Note D2: Vertigo wasn't listed when chosing 'New single player mission' from the main menu.

v1.4.77

Fixed You couldn't load any multiplayer missions any more after having used the main menu option 'New single player game'.

v1.4.76

Fixed Folders being added to the mission list twice.
Fixed Built-in missions now only displayed in top level mission list.
Improved Mission list size increased.
New
Cheatcodes
- 'subspace' (teleports you to another segment of the level)
- 'cryptonite' (unlocks all doors and opens all walls)
- 'pumpmeup' (charges shields and energy to 200 each)
- 'electro' (shield boost)

v1.4.75

Fixed If opening a hires door, all doors with the same texture throughout the level would open.
Fixed Couldn't shoot through hires grates.

v1.4.74

Improved D1 weapon data now hard coded to avoid problems with faulty/incomplete/whatever D1/D2 installations.
Improved D1 weapon emulation.

v1.4.73

Fixed Clients that have joined a UDP/IP match in progress getting disconnected from other clients.

v1.4.72

Fixed Vertigo support still didn't work (was disabled in the release code).
Fixed Newly introduced shader bug leading to underlying textures of partially transparent overlays (e.g. grates) not being rendered.

v1.4.71

Fixed Activating the 'start IPX game' menu item called up the join IPX game screen, while 'join IPX game' called up the start IPX game screen.
Fixed Hires texture rendering not working any more (shader syntax error).

v1.4.70

Fixed Using Vertigo robots in custom built missions did not work for whatever reason. Hopefully, my solution works for all cases ...

v1.4.69

New The mission browser can now handle sub directories of the main mission folder. This will also work when loading saved games or connecting to a multiplayer game: D2X-XL will simply search the mission folder and all its sub directories for the required mission and load the first one with the given name it finds (that means you should be careful not to store different versions of a mission in different folders).
Note This feature is pretty handy to keep a huge mission folder tidy.
New Descent 1 one shot triggers will now be properly converted (to multi operation triggers).

v1.4.68

New Support for Descent 1 shield damage and energy drain triggers.

v1.4.67

New When multiple bosses is enabled (gameplay options menu), there can also be a reactor in the level.
New D2X-XL now supports using a singleplayer missions folder. It must be a subfolder of the missions folder and bear the name 'single' (e.g. c:program filesdescent2missionssingle'). The main menu has a new option 'New single player game', displaying only missions from that folder in the mission list.
Improved When building the mission list, D2X-XL now doesn't simply read all mission files (*.msn, *.mn2), but checks if the related level files (*.hog) are present, and if not, doesn't display the mission in the mission list. That way, you will get around errors when trying to play such a mission.

v1.4.66

Fixed Friendly fire option working the wrong way round.
Improved Memory consumption.

v1.4.65

Fixed Joystick deadzone granularity slider not working properly.

v1.4.64

Fixed Crash when missions folder contained 300 or more missions.
New Option to chose whether only to play D1, D2 or both versions' missions.

v1.4.63

Fixed Automap showing too much of a level.
New Switch 'Multiple Bosses' in the gameplay options menu. If checked, you will have to kill all bosses in a level to end the level, not just one.
Note This should be interesting for level designers, because they can now put several bosses into a level and have them all show the full boss behaviour (set the 'end level' flag for each boss in DLE-XP).
Note You can still not have both a boss and a reactor in a level. You can however have mini reactors that will not end the level.

v1.4.62

Fixed D2X-XL levels using the zname tag in the mission file not loading when no custom robot file (.hxm) was present for the level.
Fixed Levels whos names contained whitespace characters (e.g. blanks) weren't loaded.

v1.4.61

New Support for custom palettes. These must be stored in a mission's hog file and bear the related level's name plus the extension '.pal'. Hence, you can have a custom palette per level.
Note For the palette format, the the DLE-XP update notification thread.

v1.4.60

Fixed Backsides of blastable doors could become impenetrable after having been blown up.

v1.4.59

Fixed For certain textures, their transparent areas were rendered pink when using high res textures.
Fixed Screenshot function should finally work reliably.

v1.4.58

Fixed Weapons doing no damage when playing a Descent 1 level and not having the Descent 1 data files present in the Descent 2 main folder.

v1.4.57

Improved D2X-XL will now use the original weapon power data from the Descent 1 data files for Descent 1 levels.
Fixed Crash when loading certain D1 levels with custom music or some music related problem.

v1.4.56

Note Version skipped.

v1.4.55

Improved Joystick deadzone slider control granularity.

v1.4.54

Fixed Graphical weapon display didn't work any more.

v1.4.53

Fixed Secondary views not available with status bar hud.

v1.4.52

Fixed Couldn't shoot through shoot-through areas of high-res textures.

v1.4.51

Fixed Distorted door back sides.
New Added a few notebook/wide screen resolutions.

v1.4.50

Fixed Bots behind doors or walls that notice and react to the player when they shouldn't.

v1.4.49

Fixed Maneuvering in speed boost areas didn't work properly.
Changed Max. render depth significantly increased.

v1.4.48

New Support for expanded wall transparency (i.e. every wall can now be more or less transparent).

v1.4.47

Improved Camera performance. Using cameras will result in a much smaller framerate hit than it used to do now. Smile
Note (Before this fix I had framerates drop below 10 fps w/ Athlon 64 3500+ s939 + GF FX 5200 @ 640x480 even if the cameras had a refresh rate of only 5 times per second. Now I am having 30 fps with full speed camera refresh, two monitors in sight, and transparent textures around. The frame rate gets about halved by the cameras (well, D2X-XL has to make a full rendering pass for each visible monitor's camera), but still stays within acceptable bounds even with my low end gfx card.)

v1.4.46

Fixed Textures sometimes not animated when having custom TGA animations.

v1.4.45

Fixed TGA textures from pog files containing transparency were handled like completely opaque textures, leading to visible faces behind them not being rendered.

v1.4.44

Fixed Couldn't move to top of menu using the keyboard in config control menu.
Improved You can now cycle through a menu using the keyboard w/o stopping at the first or last option, and the menu will wrap around properly even for scrolling menus.

v1.4.43

Fixed Doors, fans, grates etc. that have base textures (forming a frame for them) aren't rendered transparent if the hardware doesn't support the required shader program.
Changed Removed option 'use high-res textures' from render options menu and added switch '-hires_textures' to d2x.ini instead. That means use of high res textures will be determined once at program start and cannot be changed while the program is running. High res textures aren't supported if the hardware doesn't support the required shader program.
Changed No multitexturing if use of high res textures is disabled.

v1.4.42

Fixed Shots didn't pass through grates etc.
Fixed Overlay texture transparency work for all D2 palettes now (I hope Razz).

v1.4.41

Fixed Most parts of levels pitch black with lightmapping enabled.^
Fixed Object texture animation not working.
Fixed Massive performance loss with lightmapping enabled.

v1.4.40

Fixed Sides with a second texture on them too bright with multi texturing.
Fixed Buggy TGA file handling.
Note If you downloaded v1.4.40 before reading this, download it again.

v1.4.39

Fixed CTD when switching to Cockpit or bar HUD views.

v1.4.38

Fixed Level version mismatch when playing with pre 1.4.3x D2X-XL or legacy D2 versions (reason: calculation result deviations due to using faster and more precise math routines ...).
Fixed Animations not working.
Improved Transparency checking for TGA image based textures.

v1.4.37

New Support for partially transparent high-res overlay textures (like door animation frames, grates or fans). This feature requires use of a shader program. In case the hardware doesn't support shader programs, high-res texture use will be inhibited.
New New option 'use high-res textures' in the render options menu (will not be displayed if the hardware doesn't support the required shader program).

v1.4.36

Fixed Midi music sometimes not looping properly.
Fixed Midi music looping during endlevel sequence when it should not.
Note Thanks to Rob for providing these bug fixes. Smile

v1.4.35 — High res, true color replacement textures

New Support for high-res, true color replacement textures. A replacement texture must have TGA format (uncompressed, 24 bits w/o alpha channel or 32 bits w/ 8 bit alpha channel) and must be stored in a subfolder of the Descent 2 folder named 'textures' with the same name as the texture it replaces (e.g. 'c:programsdescent 2texturesmetl130.tga').
Fixed Powerups were rendered slightly transparent.
Fixed Missile and gun fire explosions weren't rendered transparent if the transparent explosion option was checked.

v1.4.34

Note D2X-XL will now understand the name tag 'd2x-name' of D2X-XL missions that has been introduced with DLE-XP v1.4.15. This should take care of non-D2X-XL program versions loading D2X-XL levels and crashing when trying to display them.

v1.4.33

Fixed Lightmap performance issue on some Radeon cards.
Improved Lightmap calculation much faster now.

v1.4.32

Fixed One or two laser bolts invisible at certain view angles when firing quad lasers.
Fixed (Some) bots (e.g. Smelter) wiggling and changing shape like they'd start to morph.

v1.4.31

Improved Framerate with several visible camera views.
Fixed Speed boost where the speed boost trigger target is the opposite side of the trigger (i.e. a speed boost 'reflecting' the ship).

v1.4.30

Improved Speed boost area movement direction calculation. The ship will now move parallel to a vector ('line') from the center of the side containing the speed boost trigger to the center of the speed boost trigger's target side.
Changed You can now call the options menu or pause/exit the game when in speed boost mode.
New If the ship gets stuck at a wall while in speed boost mode, it won't freeze any more, but drop into regular flight mode.

v1.4.29

Fixed Camera views showed the cockpit when cockpit view or status bar were enabled.
Fixed Wide screen view borders overdrawn by camera views.
Improved Made a few menu hotkeys unique in their resp. menus.
Fixed Explosions shining through walls (explosions are depth tested again, maybe making them not look as nice as they could on certain occasions, but hiding them if they appear at the rear side of walls or doors).
Fixed Parts of some powerups were rendered transparently.
Changed 'Render HUD' option now only affects the full screen view.

v1.4.28

Fixed Black outlines around non-transparent areas of see-through textures (e.g. force fields or energy sparks).
Fixed Partially missing frame around menus.
New Lightmap range slider in render options menu.

v1.4.27

Note TGA texture alpha channel support.
Changed Movie quality now defaults to low at program start to avoid having the intro movie played at high movie quality on machines that cannot handle that.

v1.4.26

Fixed Cockpit and status bar HUDs in 320x200.
Fixed Credits screen.
Fixed Show HUD toggle gone awol.

v1.4.25

Changed Lightmap range.
Fixed Slight bug in lightmap range calculation.
Fixed Some yellow light texture casting red light with lightmapping enabled.

v1.4.24

Improved Render quality with 'Render Entire Mine' checked.
Improved Brightness with lightmap rendering.

v1.4.23

Fixed Dynamic lighting not working with lightmaps (i.e. blasting or turning off lights did not darken their vicinity).
Improved Lightmap range calculation. Levels still too bright with lightmaps though. Question

v1.4.22

Fixed D1 iris door was not properly converted.
Improved Lightmap range will take base face size into account.

v1.4.21

Fixed Lightmapping didn't work anymore.

v1.4.20

Fixed Levels too dark with lightmapping enabled (I have found some levels that are still considerably darker than w/o lightmapping).
Fixed Lightmapping dysfunctional when switching screen res or toggling fullscreen in-game.

v1.4.19

Fixed Object blobs in automap were painted jaggy and distorted.

v1.4.18

New Lightmap controlled light rendering. This is still experimental. Lightmaps are computed on the fly when loading a level (actually they're computed on the crawl currently. ). Lightmaps are not available in multiplayer for the time being.
Improved Auto-Download connectivity problem tolerance.

v1.4.17

Fixed Boss robots sometimes stopping to act properly.
Fixed Robots too dark after loading a save game.

v1.4.16

Fixed Reticle visible during and after player death animation.

v1.4.15

Fixed Bogus client view in multiplayer games.
Fixed Game hanging when adding trackers via d2x.ini.
Fixed Clients didn't find the last tracker in tracker lists from d2x.ini.
Fixed Tracker ports weren't read properly from tracker lists in d2x.ini.

v1.4.14

New Shots and missiles can now traverse blocked segments.
New Toggle 'Draw HUD' will disable drawing the HUD in full screen mode when unchecked (for nicer screen shots).

v1.4.13

Improved Frame rate with 'render entire mine' enabled. No or minimal frame rate hit should be noticeable now with this option enabled.

v1.4.12

Fixed Ship could go half-way through walls.

v1.4.11

Fixed Ship doesn't stop moving after releasing thrust control keyboard keys, but slowly slides on.

v1.4.10

New Segment type 'No Damage'. Ships in such segments cannot fire weapons or drop mines, nor can they be damaged.

v1.4.9

Improved You can now maneuver in speed boost areas.
Fixed Could hang at speed boost area walls if adjacent segment had type 'blocked', or current segment had type 'speed boost' and adjacent segment had another type.
Improved D2X-XL specific, multiplayer relevant game options will be disabled in multiplayer games if the game host doesn't use D2X-XL.

v1.4.7 — - 1.4.8

Fixed Save game bug leading to game states not being properly restored (i.e. Thief spawned 10 Extra Lives when killed).
New Fusion damage adjustable from 100% to 400%.
Fixed Error message in automap in levels with more than 900 segments.
Changed Automap cannot be opened in speed boost areas any more.
Fixed Ship stopping periodically in speed boost areas when flying close to a wall.
Fixed Ship stopping due to weapon blast radius in speed boost areas.
New Repair centers are marked by green lines in the automap.

v1.4.5 — - 1.4.6: TGA image support

Changed Max. speed boost area speed doubled, in-game default speed boost modifier set to 50%.
New Support for pog files containing TGA images.

v1.4.3 — - 1.4.4

Improved Camera performance.
New Camera output speed and format settings in render options menu.

v1.4.1 — - 1.4.2

Fixed Crash when loading older save games.
Fixed Objects not moving properly.
New Toggle 'Drop All Missiles' in the gameplay options menu. If checked, D2X-XL will not only drop 10 missiles of each kind max., but all an exploding player ship had actually loaded.
New Toggle 'Always Respawn Powerups'. If checked, used up missiles will not disappear from the game in single player or coop, but respawn somewhere in the level.
New Segment types 'speed boost' and 'blocked' to aid in construction of speed boost and impassable, no-spawn areas.
Note Cameras and monitors.

v1.4.0 — Hyperspeed Tunnels

New Support for D3-like hyperspeed tunnels. Adjust the speed boost in the gameplay options menu. See my level Glass House for a construction example.
Fixed Rounding error leading to ship slowly drifting/rotating if left w/o thrust.

v1.3 72 releases

v1.3.79

Fixed 100% transparent walls still got rendered.
New Max. # of objects raised to 3500.

v1.3.78

New 100% transparent cloaked/colored walls will not be rendered (they will still be impenetrable).

v1.3.77

Improved Frame rate when 'Render Entire Mine' is enabled. Some objects behind cloaked walls might still be invisible at certain view angles, but if that happens, it will be much less apparent and annoying than disappearing mine walls.

v1.3.76

Fixed New non-linear joystick sensitivity scaling was framerate dependant and could lead to extreme sensitivity.
Fixed Rounding error when sampling joy axes movement could lead to values too small in the program, which in turn made the aforementioned behaviour worse.

v1.3.75

New Added option 'linear joystick sensitivity scaling' to controls config menu. If enabled, the old-style joystick sensitivity scaling will be enabled at the cost of not reaching full turn speed at lower sensitivity settings.
Improved Ship movement will not be stopped after teleportation any more, but the ship will continue in the new direction at the speed it had when entering the source teleporter.

v1.3.74

Fixed Render depth with 'Render Entire Mine' was very low, leading to most of the level not being displayed (this was due to some experimental code being left in the program).
New 'Colorize Transparent Walls' switch to turn off colorization of transparent walls if desired (find it in the render options menu).
Fixed Several game variables (mouse sensitivity among others) weren't saved when leaving the game.

v1.3.73

Improved Movie playback on older gfx hardware. If movies are played in slo-mo, set '-movie_quality 0' in d2x.ini or uncheck 'High Movie Quality' in the render options menu.
Note Background: Movie images are filtered to improve quality. On older gfx this seems to be done by the driver in software, which takes too long.

v1.3.72

Fixed Bug in tracker code that could lead to bandwidth saturation on network connections, disconnecting other applications (e.g. TeamSpeak or mIRC).
Improved Joystick sensitivity will now create an attenuation curve always reaching the max. possible value.

v1.3.71

Fixed Bug in tracker code that could lead to other programs' (e.g. TeamSpeak or mIRC) inet connections being terminated.

v1.3.70

Fixed Program crash when 'Render Entire Mine' is enabled.
Improved Energy display in cockpit mode.

v1.3.69

Fixed Some cockput and status bar view elements not rendered at the proper screen locations in resolutions > 640x480.

v1.3.68

Fixed Config menu not working properly (couldn't 'customize above' or 'customize keyboard')
Fixed Mouse not working after calling the controls config menu.
Fixed Movement direction after teleporting.

v1.3.66 — - 1.3.67

Fixed Mouse/Joy sensitivity always set to lowest value when leaving the controls config menu.
Fixed Objects behind cloaked walls not rendered when 'render entire mine' option enabled.
Improved Bitmap reticle (the original one) scaled according to screen res.
New Joystick and mouse sensitivity can be adjusted separately now.

v1.3.65

New Wall transparency can be changed in the D2X options menu
Fixed Cockpit mode will now be preserved across menu calls and screen resolution changes.
Fixed Cockpit window position and size for resolutions > 640x480.
New Improved menu structure: New menus 'Gameplay options' and 'Render options', moved options from D2X options and Toggles to Config, Gameplay options and Render options.

v1.3.64

New Wall type 'Transparent' creating impenetrable, colored, transparent walls.
Fixed Missing reticle, flag and orb displays in letterbox view.

v1.3.63 — Cockpit view available in all resolutions

Improved Cockpit view and status bar now available in all resolutions (minor drawing flaws due to rounding errors possible).
New Letterbox (widescreen) view enabled (F3: Fullscreen -> Cockpit -> Status Bar -> Widescreen -> Fullscreen).
Fixed Bomb count not visible in status bar display.

v1.3.62

Fixed Fuel and afterburner gauges sometimes rendered full when fuel < 100 or no AB available.
Improved D1 texture matching.

v1.3.61

Fixed Semi-transparent walls (e.g. fuel sparks) behind other transparent walls (e.g. some cloaked wall) sometimes not being rendering if full mine rendering was enabled.
Note (Hopefully) Fixed: Textures sometimes 'popping'.
Changed F3 key will now cycle through HUD modes (full screen -> cockpit -> bar hud -> full screen). If switching from cockpit view to the bar hud by pressing the minus key, pressing F3 will return to the cockpit view to stay compatible with the previous behaviour.

v1.3.60

Fixed Hidden surface removal.
Note Background: Jeff250 has created a level with a pretty sophisticated architecture that causes some faces not to be rendered at certain view angles. It has turned out that this bug is caused by D2(X)'s hidden surface removal - not by the OpenGL driver. I have added an option both to d2x.ini ('-render_all_segs 0|1'} and to the toggles menu ('render entire mine') to get around this. Rendering the entire mine means that every side of every segment of the mine is drawn - whether visible or not - and that the OpenGL driver determines visibility based on each pixel's Z (depth) coordinate. This is a little slower (about 30%) than using D2's hidden surface removal, but will work for levels like yours (insane architecture btw, really cool ). On today's gfx hardware that speed penalty shouldn't be crucial.

v1.3.59

Fixed Level destruction countdown time was too slow after making seismic effects framerate-independent.

v1.3.58

Fixed Bomb display not always shown in cockpit view.
Fixed Force field sound not turned off when disabling a force field.
Fixed When starting a new game, the chosen difficulty level wasn't used in the D2X options menu.

v1.3.57

New Robot visibility in the automap can be turned off.

v1.3.56

Fixed Wrong firing angle in multiplayer games if some players use cockpit view and others don't.

v1.3.55

Fixed D1 end level song starting too late.
Improved Some more D1 texture conversion fixes.

v1.3.54 — D1 boss behaviour activated

New D1 bosses teleport and end levels
New D1 end level song played when leaving a D1 mine.

v1.3.53 — D1 music activated

New D1 music available in Play Songs menu if D1 data installed in D2 folder.
New D1 level songs played in D1 main mission.
Fixed Incorrect view angle when starting a level or respawning with cockpit view enabled.
Fixed Improperly translated D1 grate texture.

v1.3.52

Fixed Switching between fullscreen and cockpit view will now preserve the view angle.
Fixed Colored overdraw when charging the fusion missing.
Improved Sound buffer handling (size) depending on sample rate.
Improved D1 texture conversion (more D1 textures will be used now, and some substitutes are better matches for the D1 counterparts).

v1.3.51

Fixed Miscolored textures in Descent 1 levels (some brainiac had put a function call essential for D1 texture handling into an assert macro, which are disabled in the release code, so that function was never called. You need a miracle to find bugs like that).
Note Reverted: Overcharging the fusion will turn the screen color from purple to white to yellow again.
Fixed Firing angle and missing laser or vulcan shots or flares.

v1.3.49 — - 1.3.50

Fixed Firing angle in cockpit view.
Removed Frame rate limitation for fusion charging.

v1.3.48

Fixed Crash when turning on the bar HUD (with the minus key).
Fixed Reticle position in the cockpit view.
Fixed Numerical energy and shield displays weren't updated in the cockpit view.
New Transparent effects can now be turned off in the toggles menu.
New Seismic effects (E-Shaker, Reactor/Boss destroyed, Fusion charging) limited to 40 fps.
New Fusion charging limited to 40 fps.
Fixed Flash effects will not change the color at high brightness levels (e.g. when charging the fusion for a long time).

v1.3.47

Improved Increased field of view with full cockpit enabled.
New Bittersweet 'cheat' will now have an effect again (surprise, surprise ).

v1.3.46

Fixed Player appearance effect (lightning flash) wasn't created when starting a new game or respawning.

v1.3.45

Fixed Frame around first image of D2 briefing robot movies.
Fixed Bug in bitmap animation causing not all bitmaps of the clip to be displayed.
Improved Weapon color determination.
Improved Transparent explosion visuals.
Improved Movie quality.

v1.3.44

New Transparent weapon shots (e.g. Plasma cannon shots).

v1.3.43

Fixed Explosions not clipped any more.
Improved Explosions will start pretty opaque now and then get more and more transparently while fading away.
Fixed Miscolored first frame of briefing robot movies.

v1.3.42 — Full cockpit available

New Full cockpit available! Tadaa! Smile
Improved Lehm has prettified the transparent explosion effect with some fading in/out.

v1.3.41

Fixed Guided missile reticle (now showing a cross as it should be).

v1.3.40

Fixed Robot movie position and size in D2 briefings for resolutions > 640x480.
New Transparent explosions, transparent powerups (shield, energy, invul, cloak, extra life).

v1.3.37 — - 1.3.39

Fixed Turned off new rendering code causing rendering errors e.g. in missile view window.
Fixed Keys not displayed in HUD in coop games (note that keys will remain in the level even if picked up by one player to allow all players to grab that key).
Fixed Not playing level song when turning midi sound off and on again in-game.
Improved Briefing robot movies played even if -nomovies specified (that switch should only affect intro movie playback at game start).

v1.3.36

Fixed Ship spinning wildy when respawning with fast respawn enabled.
Fixed Removed some debug code.

v1.3.35

Fixed Several bugs in the renderer that could cause rendering faults or even program crashes.

v1.3.34

Fixed A few toggles in the Toggles Menu didn't work any more.

v1.3.33

Fixed Overly restrictive player file consistency checking prevented player files created with D2/D2-W95 to be accepted by D2X-XL.

v1.3.32

Fixed Animated texture display in Descent 1 briefings.

v1.3.31

Fixed Dual missile launch always on in multiplayer/coop.
Fixed Inhibit suicide always on in multiplayer.
Fixed Robot animations in Descent 1 briefings. Very Happy
Fixed Erroneous warning about hog file size when loading a save game from inside a game.

v1.3.30

New Single player difficulty can be adjusted in the D2X Toggles menu.
Fixed Dead keys (CAPS LOCK, NUM LOCK) only worked at every second keypress.

v1.3.29 — Dual missile launch

New Due to numerous requests of a single person, I have added a dual missile launch option to both the Toggles and the More Game Options menus.

v1.3.28 — High res textures

Fixed You couldn't edit macros.
Improved D2X-XL accepts textures up to 1024x1024x8. Add them to a level with DLE-XP.

v1.3.27 — MP Client Flicker Fix

Fixed Flickering when game clients move in multiplayer games.

v1.3.26

Fixed Player efficiency wasn't computed properly (shown instead of the player scores when pressing F7)

v1.3.25 — D1 compatibility fix

Fixed Improper handling of animated D1 textures.
Fixed Crash when loading D1 missions w/o briefing.

v1.3.24 — Hoard fix

Fixed Starting a hoard game would always start a team hoard game.

v1.3.23

Fixed Kill count not incremented in multiplayer games.
Fixed Weapon auto switch setting being reset to 'switch if empty'.
Fixed Game crashes when playing D2:Vertigo.
Improved Bogus save game handling.
Improved Movement smoothing when zoomed.

v1.3.22 — Friendly fire fix

Fixed Friendly fire off was inhibiting suicide as well. This should however work separately from FF.

v1.3.21 — Custom model data fix

Fixed Crash when playing save games from levels with custom model data (e.g. D2:Vertigo)

v1.3.20 — Entropy enhancements

New Countdown timer in 1/10 secs displays remaining time until a room is conquered.
Changed Number of own and total rooms now displayed right of the team score.
Changed Kills do not count in Entropy.
Fixed Score for conquering a room is 3.
Fixed Potential lag issue because of clients flooding the game host messages when player has exploded.
Improved Handling of large amounts of network data.

v1.3.19 — Improved coloring

Fixed Flickering colors when firing weapons.

v1.3.17 — - 1.3.18: Teleport trigger fix

Fixed 'Light on' triggers were interpreted as teleport triggers.
Fixed Brightness not reset to normal when entering a level/respawning.
Fixed Weapon auto select'if empty' did not work. New: Blinking text 'TYPING...' over the ships of players typing a message or macro.

v1.3.16 — Entropy fix

Fixed You could increase your virus transport capacity by shooting team mates. Embarassed

v1.3.15

Fixed Missions using custom robot and model data crashing. This was due to my recently introduced restoring of default robot and model data after playing such a mission. Vertigo data will now also not be deleted after having played a Vertigo mission.

v1.3.14

Fixed Extreme lag due to massive network traffic caused by auto balancing bug.
Fixed Crash when loading a new level after having played a level containing custom models.

v1.3.12 — - 1.3.13

Fixed Crash caused by briefings (esp. when the briefing file had the same name as a level file)
Fixed Custom model textures weren't loaded if the original model wasn't in the level, too (e.g. Diamond Claw model used for Prox Bomb was only displayed properly if there was a real Diamond Claw in the level).
Fixed Model textures of the last object in the level weren't loaded in all cases (esp. if that object had some custom model).
Changed Moved'friendly fire' toggle to Network Games - More Game Options menu.
Changed Moved'inhibit suicide' toggle from Entropy settings to More Game Options menu.
Fixed Crash when leaving Toggles menu.
Fixed Zoom didn't work if cockpit windows were visible.

v1.3.11

Fixed Still crashed when joining non-team games.
Fixed Player ship didn't change color when changing teams.
Improved Player now dies when changing teams (no score penalty).

v1.3.10

Fixed Crash when joining non-team games.
Fixed Friendly Fire was always enabled in clients

v1.3.9 — Lotsa fixes

Fixed Friendly fire. FF is always determined by the game host. A client changing its local friendly fire toggle during a multiplayer game has no effect. Please regard that damaging yourself is also a kind of friendly fire, so if ff is turned off you will not be able to damage yourself. FF will be enabled if the game host is not a D2X-XL executable.
Fixed Program crash right when starting it.
Fixed Delayed/inhibited (re-) joining a match in progress (bugs weren't mine ... )
New You can now enter team games in progress if the game host makes them open games (this means that D2X-XL doesn't force team games to 'restricted' any more).
New Team indicator (arrow) in front of the player's team name.
New Team auto-balancing. o If enabled, D2X-XL will try to even team sizes if the difference in size is more than one player and the smaller team is also the weaker team (doesn't make much sense taking away players from the losing team, huh?) o If enabled, players joining a team game in progress are always put on the smaller, and if teams are equally sized, the weaker team. o If disabled, players can switch teams by pressing Alt+Strg+T.
Note Yeah, and what the heck is that new team stuff good for? Well, you may have noticed that you can start multiplayer games and team games even if there is only one player present, and the next step will be to provide a stand-alone D2 server ... Rolling Eyes

v1.3.8 — Tracker Communication Added

New D2X-XL now supports trackers. When starting/joining a UDP/IP multiplayer game via tracker, game hosts will register with and game clients will download the list of online available game hosts from all known trackers. Find details here.
Fixed Hoard games did not work any more due to adding the Entropy game mode.

v1.3.7

Fixed Brightness did not decay to normal level after picking up stuff.
Fixed Player file format. Unfortunately, this will require you to delete any player files and create new players in D2X-XL, but as far as I can tell the player files will now (again) be fully backward compatible, and this should be the last time D2X-XL messes them up. Smile

v1.3.6

Improved Reduced flickering when firing colored shots.

v1.3.5 — Per Vertex Colored Lighting!

New D2X-XL now uses vertex lighting for color effects. This means that color now properly blends into the level across segment boundaries.
New You can now toggle colored lights and colored gun effects separately.

v1.3.3 — Level auto download

New Level auto download feature. Works with IPX and UDP connections. To enable it, both game host and client must have enabled it in the toggles menu. If enabled, the game host will send the current mission to the client if the client doesn't have the mission, or has a version of it that is different (beware: not necessarily older!) than the game host's.

v1.3.1 — - 1.3.2

New Custom robot settings will be reset after each level.
Fixed D2X-XL will not quit after issuing an error message when it couldn't load a level.
New D2X-XL now allows up to 1800 segments and 700 objects.

v1.3.0 — Added colored lights

Note Nuff' said.
Note If you want to get an impression how it looks, download TombZ of deZtruKtion - Entropy from my web site and enable colored lights in Options - Toggles.

v1.2 10 releases

v1.2.12 — Various Fixes

Fixed Scoring on CTF games didn't work.
Fixed Couldn't start non enhanced CTF games.
Fixed Messed up game parameter menu after returning from more game params menu (option labelled'42' etc.)
Fixed Zoom and auto select radio buttons worked as a single and not two separate button groups, thus not allowing to change both settings individually.

v1.2.10 — Improved Teleports

Improved The target side of teleport trigger target segments now specifies the direction the player will face when appearing at the destination.
Fixed Objects were occasionally rendered too large on automap/radar.

v1.2.8 — - 1.2.9: Multi-texturing and more

New Multi-texturing implemented by Lehm. This is a prerequisite for adding lightmap controlled (colored) lights and vertex lighting.
Fixed Dropping prox bombs sometimes dropped smart mines instead.
Fixed Pre-1.2.0 save games couldn't be loaded any more.

v1.2.7 — New Features

New D2X-XL now supports in-level teleports. They work instantaneously; you simply appear at the destination with your current orientation and speed. If a teleport has several destination locations, D2X-XL will randomly chose a destination every time the teleport is triggered.
New Weapon auto-select can now be partially or fully turned off. That means that your weapon will not pulled away from under your behind right in the middle of a fire fight, leaving you w/o firepower for critical seconds.
Fixed Game hung occasionally when player was shot down.
Fixed Couldn't cycle 2ndary weapon with the keyboard when a joystick button was also assigned 2ndary weapon cycling.
Fixed Radar didn't work anymore.
Improved Player symbol on radar now has direction indicator.

v1.2.6 — More fixes

Fixed When playing multiplayer with non-D2X-XL versions, would always report differences in level data.
New Robots can now hit other robots. That doesn't mean they attack each other; it simply means that when a robot happens to hit another robot, that robot gets damaged. Can be toggled in the Toggles menu..

v1.2.5 — Various fixes

Fixed Couldn't return own flag any more.
Fixed Slide/bank toggling didn't work.
Fixed Game hung when player died.
Changed Enhanced CTF option move to game parameter menu and removed from toggles menu.

v1.2.4 — Rendering fixes

Fixed Entropy texture handling was always set to'Keep textures' when entering that menu.
Fixed D2X should not render colored segments any more unless these belong to a team, the game is in Entropy mode, and'Colorize rooms' is selected.

v1.2.2 — - 1.2.3 Entropy Improvements

New You can now chose to have team rooms lit in the team's color.
Improved Entropy game options menu split into several sub menus.
Fixed In fuel centers and repair bays that cannot be conquered (because the level designer marked them as permanently neutral) every player can replenish energy/shields.

v1.2.1 — Keyboard ramping improved

New You can now enable keyboard ramping for forward/backward, rotation and sliding separately in the D2X options menu.
Fixed Keyboard ramping was always reset to 100% when entering the D2X options menu.
Improved D2X will now consistently issue warning messages when it encounters problems.
Improved D2X will now return to the main menu when reading corrupted save games.

v1.2.0 — Entropy game mode added

New Entropy game mode. For a description see my Descent Site. Please note that this game mode has been tested, but not with every possible parameter setting.
New Zoom for Gauss and Vulcan cannon (can be toggled in the Toggles menu, activate with Right-Shift).
New Pursuer perspective (toggle with Alt+F12; only available in single player). Reticle intentionally missing.
Improved Colored light effects.
Improved Menu display code (reduced invisible menu effects).
Fixed Initial player spawn locations in team games when the level contains team-specific spawn locations are now correct.
Fixed Red team players did not always spawn on red team start positions.
Fixed IPX code bug.
Fixed UDP code bug.

v1.1 33 releases

v1.1.46 — Color effect and Radar improvements

Changed Color effect won't dim the environment any more. In bright surroundings they can however be barely visible now (which imo makes sense).
Changed Powerups are now drawn orange on the Radar.
Changed Robots are now drawn purple and blinking on the Radar.
Changed As the Radar can be toggled on/off with the cockpit window toggle keys, I have removed the Radar enabling option from the toggles menu. The Radar is now always available, unless the game host doesn't permit all players to be visible on the automap in multiplayer games.
New Powerup visibility on the Radar can now be toggled in the toggles menu.

v1.1.45

Fixed After my recent changes, the headlight wasn't working any more.

v1.1.44

New D2X-XL can create colored gun fire effects (i.e. the surrounding area is lit in the color of the shots). Can be turned off in the toggles menu. Hint: Some weapons do not give the color one would expect due to their light effect color being derived from the weapon's shots' average color.

v1.1.43

Note To my utter amazement, I found the brightness control being non-functional. I remember having used it successfully just recently though. Anyway, I have fixed that.

v1.1.42

Fixed Ramping debug code removed.
Fixed Max. speed was decreased due to ramping implementation.

v1.1.41

New D2X-XL now supports keyboard ramping, i.e. smooth acceleration with the keyboard controls. Adjust keyboard ramping in the D2X Options submenu of the Options menu.

v1.1.40

New Radar will show powerups (green) and robots (magenta) in single player.
Fixed Erroneously highlighted letters in many message boxes.

v1.1.39

New Instead of chosing top down or heads up view for the radar in the toggles menu, you can now toggle it with the cockpit window toggle keys (i.e. Shift+F1/F2). That means that you can have both a top down and a heads up at the same time, each in one of the cockpit windows.

v1.1.36

New You can now toggle between top down and heads up Radar view in the Toggles menu.
Fixed Robot movies too large in briefings. D2X-XL 1.1.37
Fixed In certain mission briefings, the screen wasn't cleared from old text before new text was written, resulting in garbled screens. This has been fixed. The cause for this bug is the same causing disappearing menus, so this bug is hopefully fixed, too. If anybody should still encounter it, drop me a note here. Now that I know what causes this bug, it's not too hard to apply any additonal fixes. D2X-XL 1.1.38
Fixed Ping command not working in IPX netgames. This might have also fixed the broken hoard mode in IPX netgames.

v1.1.34

Changed Cockpit window automap will now always show the level top down.
Fixed Rear view cockpit window working again.

v1.1.33

Note I have added cockpit window automap view as kind of a radar. You can enable it by toggling through the various cockpit window views. In multiplayer, it will only be accessible when'Show all players on Automap' was checked by the game host in the game parameters screen. Additionally, it has to be turned on in the toggles menu.

v1.1.32

Fixed Port offset jumped to 99 in join game menu. This afaik only happened when a udp game had been hosted prior to opening the join menu.

v1.1.29 — - 1.1.31

Fixed IPX multiplayer didn't work any more.
Fixed If the server was entering a multiplayer game and no other players were present when starting the game, he was immediately returned to the main menu.
New You can now play old-style D2 CTF games with D2X-XL by unchecking'enhanced CTF' in the Toggles menu or the game parameters, more options menu (latter server only).
Changed UDP/IP code. Might still not work properly, needs more testing. The changes I had applied were necessary though and might just need some fine tuning.

v1.1.28

Fixed Pressing the slide on key while turning wouldn't enable sliding.
Fixed Display errors in config menus.
Fixed Opening the toggles menu would always turn'fixed respawn locations' on.
Fixed Missing or garbled mission name in client's game list.
Improved Detection of own IP address.

v1.1.27

Note Yeah, with the help of the German Descent player Aga I have finally managed to make UDP/IP multiplayer fully working.

v1.1.26

Fixed Text in listboxes (e.g. level selection) wasn't displayed properly, but simply overwritten after having played a game.

v1.1.25

Fixed The'play song' menu did not work, but rather crash the whole program ... Rolling Eyes

v1.1.23 — - 1.1.24

Fixed Yet another bug in UDP/IP communication causing dropped powerups to be duplicated for the clients until D2X's object limit was reached and you couldn't shoot anymore.
Fixed Crash when leaving a game and rejoining it.
Fixed Timeout function was disabled leading to'ghost' players when someone left the game.
Fixed Clients'forgetting' socket offsets between game joins. I.e. if a client had set the network socket to -3, joined a game, left it, went to the main menu, and then to the join game menu again, -3 would still be displayed there as network socket, but wasn't applied.

v1.1.22

Fixed Friendly player returning flag only working for the player returning it. All players will see this now.
Fixed Tabs in menus weren't working. This lead to 'scrambled' screens (e.g. the help screen)
Note (Hopefully) Fixed: When chosing a network socket (offset) not equal to zero, the offset was seemingly kept across games, but indeed reset to zero after quitting a network game.
Improved CTF initial spawn code. There is no way to tell which players are on which team when the initial placement is done by the game, so the first half of players will spawn at blue and the second half on red team spawn locations. Once a player has been killed, he will always respawn at a proper team spawn location.

v1.1.21

Note Fixed a bug where entering a framecap > 127 led to problems, like very high frame rates, potential program crashes, and unresponsive or overly response controls.

v1.1.18 — - 1.1.20

Note Really fixed: Negative network socket offsets were rejected.
Fixed Other players couldn't see the 'generic' stuff a player lost when being shot down, i.e. shields, energy, concussion missiles. Powerups the player had picked up weren't affected.
Fixed Flag was only returned for the player returning it. For the others, it stayed at its place.
Fixed Levels occasionally being flooded with missiles or other powerups.

v1.1.17

Note Entering a negative socket number when being the game host lead to an error message.

v1.1.16

Fixed Client players couldn't see each other, they could only see the game host. Only the game host could see all players.

v1.1.13 — - 1.1.15

Fixed Midi-sound related crash when starting D2X-XL.
Fixed UDP/IP game host crashed upon starting a match (entering the mine).
Fixed Menu options containing line breaks weren't always displayed properly.
Fixed Midi sound was turned off when entering a new level.
New You can zoom the cockpit windows in 4 steps (Shift+Ctrl+F3). Note: This is not increasing the cockpit window size, but an actual zoom function in the cockpit windows.

v1.1.12

Note I have improved Midi sound volume control (sound will now be turned off or the volume changed right when changing the slider mark in the sound options dialog). Funny enough, while I cannot control midi volume with my Audigy 2, I can do it with plain vanilla AC97 onboard sound. Confused
Note You can now chose a movie to play, instead of having d2x cycling through the movies.

v1.1.11

Note Enabled midi music playback. Depending on midi device, volume control may however not work.

v1.1.10

Note Menu hotkeys will now be highlighted.

v1.1.9

New Pressing an option's hotkey in a menu (e.g. 'Q' for Quit) now leads to the option immediately being executed. To avoid duplicate hotkeys, I have changed some option's hotkey to not being their initial letter. I have yet to work out a way to make these visible.
Fixed You couldn't change the joystick deadzone from 90% to another value.

v1.1.8

Note During tests I found out today that while my UDP/IP implementation worked on a single computer or a LAN, it did not work when playing over the internet. To fix that, I have added an input field for the client (non game host) IP address. At least for a regular broadband connection w/o router, you can find out your IP address by right clicking on the network symbol in the system tray, selecting'Status' and looking up the client IP address in the'Details' tab (if it's not named'Details' on your computer, just browse through the tabs).

v1.1.7

Note In D2X-XL, you can now toggle through several cockpit window positions with Ctrl+F3 (top/bottom, in the corners, between corners and middle, right in the middle - the last one only makes sense if you have only one cockpit window open, which should however be the case in multiplayer games). I think a rear view right in the bottom center of the screen comes quite handy in mp games ...
Note Besides that, I have tightened authentication in the UDP/IP code, so this version of D2X-XL will not work with older ones when playing multiplayer over UDP/IP.
Note Finally, I have enabled camera views in cockpit windows in single player.

v1.1.6

Note I have managed to work around game clients needing enter their IP address to join a D2X-XL UDP/IP multiplayer game.

v1.1.5

Note You can now change the game host's UDP port under 'more options' in the game options dialog.

v1.1.4

Note Silent keys (caps lock, num lock) now work D2X-XL v1.1.4 and can be used to control the ship or the like.

v1.0 9 releases

v1.0.14

Note Mouse axis config bug fixed.

v1.0.13

Note I have improved dual joystick support, and applied a few bug fixes to it, too. Dual joystick setups fully work now, and are properly displayed in the joystick config.

v1.0.11

Note Fixed the blocked doors bug (newly introduced by me Embarassed).

v1.0.10

Note There's a new version of D2X-XL available with improved automap control. Kudos for this to Lehm, who's idea this was.

v1.0.9

Note Screenshots can now be taken during demo playback.

v1.0.8

Fixed I have fixed a few menus not being displayed properly due to my recent changes regarding menu resolution.
New I have added an option to the main menu allowing to cyclically play all available game movies.

v1.0.4

Note Fixed screen resolution bug causing screen resolution always to be set to the one below the selected one (i.e. if you chose 1024x768, you got 800x600).
Note Fixed slow keyboard turn rates with low framerates (e.g. due to frame cap set to 30 fps).
Note Generally made turn speed capping frame rate independent (previous solution was kind of a kludge).
Note Fixed not being able to change the player in-game when having specified a player with the -player command.

v1.0.2

Note Fixed slow keyboard pitch/bank, added 1600x1200 res.

v1.0.0

Note I have fixed the player ship stopping when pressing F7 to toggle the stats display.
Note I have also changed the D2X-XL version display in the main menu screen a little, adding a version number in a smaller, gray font.