We are pleased to announce a new GameGuru Classic update for May which includes many fixes and some small additions to keep you making games. Here's a detailed list of the fixes:
- Faster loading, material sound system had a change so only when needed sound buffers are created
- Load time reduced by 9 sec in Classic
- Terrain update, reduced draw calls by half, enabled distant terrain rendering
- Added convex hull to dynamic objects (so it can be used by all objects types now)
- Fix - Crash when trying "test game
- Editor Issue: Locking Entities corrected
- Fix - Gun in zoom support alt "last end" like non-zoom
- Added dynamic sun
- Fix - Firing the rocket launcher as 3rd person character freezes/stutters character movement
- Fixed - Zombies do not work since the last update
- Added - dynamic convex hull
- Fixed - gridmode be
- Fixed - Default Sword does no damage
- Fixed - Easter Pack character error
- Fixed - Custom terrain textures do not work
- Terrain split set to 16, half the DC, DC is the main speed problem in today's GPUs. (30 fps increase on a 1060)
- Reactivate hDistantTechnique for the terrain. (10 fps increase on a blank map using 1060)
- Fixed - Reflection camera doesn't restore the sky
- Fixed - Autoload level from the welcome system
- Added welcome_staticbackdrop so back buffer can resize, before we write the loading process
- Fixed - Shortcut problem on Japanese Windows
- Added - welcome_free() where needed so an autoload of the level will work from the welcome system
- Material sound now the only clone sounds when needed, decreased load time from 10 sec to 1.5
- Fixed - Importer crash when deleting the collision box
- Fixed - Importer does not set collisionmode=11 when selecting "no collision" and static
- Fixed - Importer doesn't always start if you select cancel somewhere and then try import it fails
- Fixed - Merge error latest light fixes was missing
We have also completed a merge of the various source code repositories to a single system so future fixed and functionality additions will benefit both Classic and MAX, which is great news for the GameGuru community as a whole.
You will receive the update automatically through your Steam client if you have auto-update enabled, so you should not need to do anything except restart Steam and allow GameGuru to auto-update before you launch from the client.