Aconita Release Notes

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Nemesis – Release Notes v0.4 - 02/11/2017

World Creation:

• several improvements to island creation algorithm
• realistic terrain distribution
• realistic rivers from spring to estuary
• pangea worlds got an option to choose the dominating climate
• islands got a deploy time limit, so young players can not be deployed to older ones (doesn't count on pangeas)
• basic world creation for the types 'pangea', 'eressea' and 'nemesis' implemented
• pangea worlds do not have any more growth limits
• some additional free islands will be generated where no players will be deployed to
• glaciers are more likely to cluster in high mountain ranges
• islands will be closed as soon as a defined maximum of factions are deployed to, which limits the size of islands (doesn't count on pangeas)
• players will not be deployed to desert and ice islands in nemesis mode
• sea and ocean regions will get plausible climate values according to their position on the map
• islands with players are guaranteed to be connected with sea regions
• basic name generator (namegen) added which generates initial names for all new land regions
• namegen got support for different namestyles (basic generic and german style for moderate climate added)

Viewer:

• river regions are rendered in four different sizes on the mainmap
• river regions got new, unique images for graphic panel
• new unique mountain textures for each terrain (optional)
• zooming redesigned: two lower zoom level added, but decreased the total number of zoom level
• alternate rendering engine for lower zoom level, which is very much faster
• pre-rendering takes an eye on memory usage and will limit itself on big world maps
• shows a loading screen with progress bar while loading (pre-rendering) the world map
• basic actionbar introduced with keyboard support for hotkeys
• viewer border is not transparent anymore, but drawn black to close the gap to its panels

Launcher:

• several new options for world creation added to the GUI
• the grid menu now shows preview images for each game (once loaded)
• removed the option to choose a custom data directory (all directories are fixed)
• the grid menu got a delete button next to the gamelist

GUI-Components:

• basic checkbox introduced
• basic tabulator bar introduced
• slider-bar is not stepless anymore (same behaviour as scrollbar now)
• slider: right-clicking on arrows-buttons will push the bar to min/max value

Client:

• more detailed error messages for missing files on startup

Bugfixes:

• fixed a bug which have slowed down reading of big world files