Alpha 15

🎉 This is probably the last alpha release before the first beta release! 🎉

Saves from previous releases are incompatible.

Fixes

• default weapon now visible in holsters after initial level load (EE-305)
• enemies retain their collision radius after level load (EE-301)
• lava particles are now visible (EE-309)
• certain saves with mutant eggs could not be loaded

New features

• game can be played from start to finish
• end credits (EE-311)

Alpha 14

Savegames became incompatible again. AI can crash the engine in rare cases.

Fixes

• no more visible lines with "film grain" enabled (EE-291)
• ring with one item now keeps animating when pressing left/right (EE-258)

New Features

• FXAA render setting toggle (EE-220)
• input remapping ui (EE-94)
• support for gamepad sticks controlling movement

Improvements

• ui colors now respecting srgb color profile
• "draw weapon" now draws the default weapon even if never equipped before (EE-304)

Alpha 13

This release will break configuration and saves from previous versions. Before the fix EE-294, all saves involving room swapping were broken without any chance of recovery.

Changes

• "move slow" renamed to "walk"
• controls menu layout changed after user feedback
• weapon accuracy increased to better match the original game

Fixes

• sword of damocles collision test fixed
• using a small medipack doesn't use a large medipack instead anymore
• lara no longer drops to the ground at the start of "palace midas" (EE-290)
• no more immediate QWOP when pressing "forward" right before the level is loaded (EE-245)
• cistern room swapping fixed (EE-294)
• can pick up items after load again (EE-295)
• lara no more moves left/right when colliding with certain objects (EE-280)

Improvements

• more progress updates when loading a glidos texture pack
• the savegame list now shows the timestamp of when the save was saved

New Features

• support for multiple input schemes
• initial untested support for centaur statue, which allows loading/saving "palace midas" now (EE-176)

Alpha 12

Changes

Not many, unfortunately. This release's major focus was refactoring code and getting feedback about the new early HID controls widgets.

Alpha 11

New Features

• anisotropic filtering rendering option
• velvia rendering setting
• completely new internal ui layout engine

Fixes

• mummy has no more lara's hips (EE-283)
• title screen music repeats endlessly now (EE-197)
• ambient sound effects now are affected by room swaps (EE-282)

Improvements

• trx path moved to config.yaml (EE-239)
• ui drawing performance increased
• reorganized render settings interface (EE-184)
• better support for modern gamepad layout display

Alpha 10

New Features

• shadow quality render option
• anisotropic filtering render option
• required but missing files are now dumped on the console when attempting to open them (EE-285)

Improvements

• shader optimizations
• render pipeline modernization & optimizations (EE-279)
• video playback now uses gpu scaling to improve performance (EE-273)
• slightly changed menu lists layout

Fixes

• depth-of-field (again)
• no more crashing when attempting to quickload without a quicksave being present

Alpha 9

Fixes

• avoid crash when disabling depth-of-field effect
• last frame of cinematic animations doesn't reset models' pose anymore (EE-269)
• shotgun on lara is no more missing if present in inventory (EE-256)
• film grain works again

Improvements

• better performance in certain situations
• input mappings are now stored in config.yml to avoid copying with every release (EE-270)

New features

• render option to toggle additional lights
• weapons are now holstered when equipped and same weapon is selected again (EE-260)

Alpha 8

Fixes

• aiming at invisible enemies EE-142
• CSM rendering EE-257
• animation looping EE-261
• crocodile EE-250
• sword of damocles EE-113
• blocks can now be stacked atop each other EE-267
• mesh collision shifts EE-263

Improvements

• menu animation EE-246
• shader optimizations
• static meshes are now dynamically lit

New features

• midas gold statue transformation scene EE-173
• HBAO EE-219
• performance meter (check the render settings)

Changes

• input mapping config structure cleaned up

Alpha 7

IMPORTANT: This release has a known bug regarding shadowing on AMD cards. If you happen to encounter shadow artifacts, please report a bug including the type of your graphics card and a screenshot of the problem.

Improvements

• water performance (EE-133)

New Features

• title screen backdrop (EE-204)
• correct rendering of quadrilateral surfaces (EE-237)

Fixes

• no more "catching up" after delays (EE-186, EE-244)
• correctly position camera in certain cases (EE-156)
• hopefully no more crashing with raycasting (EE-152)

Internal Changes

• huge refactorings to clean up a few technical debts (EE-217, EE-249)

Alpha 6

Fixes

• room rendering bug affecting sky rooms resolved EE-202
• water surface of swapped rooms renders properly now EE-154

Improvements

• better fov EE-203
• i18n now using gettext EE-216
• general render system improvements and refactorings
• inventory ring transitions changed EE-183
• immediate fullscreen booting EE-161

New Features

• quickloading in title menu EE-147
• custom truetype font face for loading screens EE-179
• dartguns emit smoke now EE-175
• level statistics now fade in EE-181