Home World Forum
Stars! AutoHost web forums

 Jump to Stars! AutoHost

 
 
Home » Stars! Clones, Extensions, Modding » Stars! Nova - Open Discussion and Help » Stars! Nova 0.4.0 (developmental) Release
Stars! Nova 0.4.0 (developmental) Release Sat, 29 May 2010 05:49 Go to previous message
Daniel is currently offline Daniel

 
Chief Warrant Officer 3
Stars! Nova developer
Stars! Nova developer

Messages: 179
Registered: April 2006
Location: Nowra, Australia
 Stars! Nova version 0.4.0 has been released.

Disclaimer: This is a developmental release and should not be expected to be a playable game.

For those interested in checking out the progress this project has made since our last release in 2009, you can download a windows installer from sourceforge. You can also download the source package - if you are so inclined. A package suitable for linux (under mono) will be added shortly.

A guide to get you started is available here.

For a summary of what has changed since our last release, read on:

General:

- Improved automatic locating of installed components to reduce
the required user setup.

- Update all licensing notices.

- Improved support for mono/linux installations (including
multiple cross platform issues).

- Fixed a variety of issues causing the game to crash
unexpectedly.

- Added various command line options for launching the game in
different ways:
Start Launcher
Nova --launch
Start New Game wizard
Nova --new
Start Race Designer
Nova --race
Start Component Editor
Nova --components
Start Console
Nova --console
Start GUI
Nova --gui -r <race> -t <turn> -i <intel file> -s <state file>
Run AI
Nova --ai -r <race> -t <turn> -i <intel file>
Display the help screen
Nova --help

- Changed registry root to from Ken Reed's name to Stars-Nova.

- Merged WinForms projects into one project (Nova) to generate
a single exe.

- Changed remaining .NET 2.0 projects to .NET 3.5.

- Various typographical fixes.

- Files created by Stars! Nova now have more meaningful
extension. Some of the files have been converted from binary
serialisations to gzipped xml to improve accessibility by 3rd
party applications.

- Added keyboard accelerators and shortcuts.



Installer:

- Added a new windows installer.



Launcher:

- Created a NovaLauncher application to act as the
entry/starting point for players



New Game wizard:

- Games can be given a name.

- Can now select number of players, player races and AI/Human
control.

- Added a new map generator with options to control map
generation parameters from the new game wizard.

- Added a .settings file to capture game information determined
from the New Game wizard.

- Added a Tutorial button to the New Game Wizard. (However
there is no tutorial yet.)



Race Designer:

- Set initial focus on password text box in Race Designer.

- Allowed the race files to be stored in a separate directory
to the Game Files.

- Fixes to the Race Designer such that the advantage point
total is correctly updated on loading a race, and all controls
in the race wizard are updated.

- Fixed problem with Race Designer advantage points not
updating when changing PRT and LRT.



GUI:
- Enabled the transfer cargo dialog by default as it was
sometimes disabled when it should not be.

- Improve map zoom, scroll and scaling the background image
for non-default maps.

- Radius of a minefield is now calculated properly.

- Fleets update which planet they are orbiting when they move.

- The production dialogue no longer lists the current star
base design as a production option.

- Corrected the planetary resource calculations.

- Planet Detail modified to display dock capacity.

- Added starting tech appropriate to PRT & LRTs.

- Modified resource calculation implementation for production
units and order.

- Implemented multi-phase battle movement and fractional battle
movement

- Fixed ISB discount bug.

- Fixed the cheap factory bug so that the 1 kT benefit is only
applied once.



Console:

- Improved automation of turn generation.

- Updated layout.

- Double clicking a race now launches the GUI.

- Intel split up per race (still contains 'everything': needs
to be filtered per race).



AI:

- Added an AI stub (AI submits turns but takes no actions).



Documentation:

- Added "Getting Started" guide to installation and a shortcut
to the start menu. Guide is also available on the project wiki
from: https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/stars-nova/index.php? title=Main_Page



Component Editor:

- Added a progress dialog for when loading the component
definition file.

Have fun.

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]
 
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Previous Topic: Stars! Nova - May Update
Next Topic: Stars! Nova 0.4.1 Developmental Release
Goto Forum:
  


Current Time: Thu Apr 25 15:31:48 EDT 2024
.:: Contact :: Home ::.

Powered by: FUDforum 3.0.3.
Copyright ©2001-2011 FUDforum Bulletin Board Software