It's here! Hedgewars 0.9.13 Released!
Sat, 2010-04-03 17:23 — Uriah
It's been a long time in the making, but it's finally here (if a few days late). We'd like to thank everyone who's contributed to make this the most polished, the most exciting and the most fun Hedgewars release ever.
There's a lot to see, so either read the changelog below or simply head to the download page now and grab it!
Below is a summary of the new features, this is not a complete changelog
We hope you enjoy this release, as always we look forwards to your feedback, we hope you have lots of fun and we'll see you all on the server.
Expect a new tournament soon!
P.S. Mac version is still uploading, and will be available very soon :) .. mac build availble, see download page :D
There's a lot to see, so either read the changelog below or simply head to the download page now and grab it!
Below is a summary of the new features, this is not a complete changelog
- many bug fixes
- speed optimisations
- many new hats, hats visible while using rope and blowtorch
- Exploding barrels
- AI uses new weapons, aware of fire, can fight in artillery mode
- New options in ammo editing - crate probability, delays
- option of semi-opaque hog name tags to avoid fail when land is hidden by name
- new British voicepack
- notification sound when people join your room
- translation updates
- contextual help when using weapons menu
- 3d effect for waves
- fade effect when starting/stopping game
- new game modes - place hedgehog, king mode, randomise starts, allies share ammo, disable girders
- shift + direction to turn without moving
- view ammo menu when not your turn
- new font for CJK text and better CJK detection
- dud mines
- hat reservation for donators (hats should be released to public in 6 months or so)
- team flags
- visual effects: dust on fall impact, smoke, shotgun shells, blink team name on start of turn, hogs pulling weapons out, falling flakes kicked by explosion and more
- hogs react to throwing grenades / dynamite and when near them
- graphic of crate contents when picking up weapon/utility
- walk sound for hedgehogs
- UFO changed to homing bee
- splashes/droplets when things fall in the water
- 45 degree bounce when throwing grenades
- new bounce sounds
- information on game rules when starting game
- knockball map (scripted map)
- Birdy weapon and poisoning effect
- maze generator for new random maps
- new crazy map template
- new Olympics, Desert themes, visual updates to many other themes
- Background texture for land for a 3d effect on explosions
- frontend able to delete teams
- ignore/friends lists in frontend
- alt weapon preview on rope, parachute
- updated options in frontend: independent toggles for frontend/game sound/music, select locale
- More
- lua scripting
Lua scripting allows the easy creation of missions and special maps. Examples of this can be seen in the Knockball and Basketball maps, that are now scripted
We hope you enjoy this release, as always we look forwards to your feedback, we hope you have lots of fun and we'll see you all on the server.
Expect a new tournament soon!
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N8theGr8
ZOMG FINALLY!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! (and to all of you, I COMMENTED FIRST!!!! HA!!!!!) :P
harmless911
Misc:
* Added Piano Strike (ultimate weapon)
* Added Limburger Cheese Bomb (grenade)
* Even more day-1-goodness
Is that not included?
BarthVader
i commented third, so what?
AT LAST!
bzt
It's finally there, Christmas came early this year! (rhyme unintended)
charlieg
Didn't see "new explosion effect" in the feature list.
This is a great release!
Star and Moon
Fantastic!
I've been waiting for this for a long time! Thank you.
Gallaecio
I can't read all those changes. I have to play it!
sheepluva
It's in the changelog though: http://fireforge.net/scm/viewvc.php/*checkout*/trunk/ChangeLog.txt?revision=3268&root=hedgewars :P
spacebison
TheCycoONE
"45 degree bounce for grenades" - What does this mean? Shouldn't the bounce angle be the angle of incidence?
nemo
TheCycoOne, sheepluva can talk to you more about this, but detecting arbitrary angles w/ pixel based system is rather tricky and something he's still fiddling with.
The 45 degree check is reasonably reliable though and didn't break player expectations too much, while still allowing fun stuff to be done with girders and angles close-ish to 45 degrees.
Apart from that, should work as a true bounce.
rbaleksandar
Thank you so much. This is one amazing release (as always).
PS: I'm starting to play around in the area of physics (simulations mostly) so hopefully soon I'll be able to give a hand in the physics-part in Hedgewars (bouncing angle for example
).
N8theGr8
The glory of commenting first is, uh...not much at all...
BarthVader
You're welcome.
bananaoomarang
Hmmm I suppose not as they don't apear to be there. Maybe they just weren't stable as of yet and therefore taken from the release.
slash
Wow!
Still a few days to finish my thesis and I'll be on the server all day long to play with this new amazing release!
Can't wait for it...
Thank you, guys
Slayer
This is amazing!
But... what with announcer on balloon?
Ikonz101
Amazing Release!!!! Great job on version .13. The hedgewars dev team needs a well deserved break
Ikonz101
m4rcus
hi, first off, gread job on the new versions, i wanted walking sounds since i installed the game. :o
but did i see right that you cant turn down the music of the menu? dont get me wrong i like the song, its just a little to loud.
francogp
exelent job!!! (you miss the "dragon ball" hats ( and saint seiya
))
imnotsonic
loved it! my family and i sat around the computer and played it all day after downloading the source and compiling it (karmic 64-bit). great job. my wife actually told me i can donate money to the cause now;) amazing.
nemo
Heh, shame she didn't let you do it sooner, we could have included a custom imnotsonic hat.
oh well.
nemo
m4rcus, you can turn off frontend music separately if you're tired of it, in options.
phyro
Some bugs that I found it:
* When I use mine air attack, has no associated sound.
* When I write in the chat (in game) if I want to delete all text, I must press delete for each letter, and I can not hold to delete everything quickly(in 0.9.12 was the same thing).
Excuse for my bad english :P .
nemo
phyro, hit esc to erase all text in chat.
both of those are feature you want, not bugs...
sheepluva
the 45° should refer to the angle of slope the grenade is colliding with (so e.g. diagonal girders are meant), not the bounce angle
azumanga
Excellent, big thank for all developers
ssande7
Great release
especially been waiting for AI to start using all the weapons, they weren't much fun in 9.12
found a bug though:
when you select a knock-ball or basketball game types, it doesn't put a weapon set in, and won't let you play until you go into the weapon editing bit, click save then go back
EDIT:
figured out this only happens if you've created a weapon set and used it before you try to play knockball
rbaleksandar
Hmm, maybe you're right. Now that I read nemo's post, I realize that he meant the angle between girders etc. At first I thought that he meant that no matter what the angle of the slope is, the grenade always bounces off at 45 degrees.
btw The 3D-feel of the water is superb. Include the distant background and it really feels 3D.
fabianjul
When I start the game, it says "Engine could not be started: 1". The menu appears, but I can't start a game. (I have the Mac OS version, running on 10.6)
EDIT:
OK, I fixed it:
1. get the latest XQuartz from here:
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.5.0
2. install it
3. open Finder, press CMD-SHIFT-G and enter /usr/
4. copy the files from /opt/X11 to /usr/X11 (overwrite)
5. log out and in again
> it works
julben
Well, I prefer the squeaking of Worms instead of this sound. But nevertheless, 0.9.13 is great!
phyro
Sorry. In 0.9.12 mine air strike have a sound associated, in 0.9.13 doesn't, so I called it as a "bug".
Thanks!
Diabolico
I have been playing this for a while and I have to say that this is the best release yet.
I never thought that you could ever add and improve so much things in one release.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
bananaoomarang
Really jelous as I can't get it working on my mum's (mucked up) ubuntu so have to wait till I get home and back to my ( suprisingly more stable) arch Linux.
jorrieboy
I want to install the game in ubuntu 10.04 (beta), but it doesn't work. when I enter cmake . in the terminal, i get this error:
-- Building Release
CMake Error at cmake_modules/FindLua.cmake:14 (MESSAGE):
Couldn't find Lua 5.1 library!
Call Stack (most recent call first):
hedgewars/CMakeLists.txt:6 (find_package)
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
Can someone please help me???!!!
spacebison
@jorrieboy:
Do you have Lua 5.1 installed? This dependency was added between releases.
sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-dev
MoD
how much days take getdeb before updating version?
it's still 0.9.12 >.<
m4rcus
if i remember right the rope had a sound too, but its missing in .13 8[
nemo
There's never been a roping sound, nor an airstrike *sound*
however the hedgehog "Incoming" speech has vanished.
I'll look into that to see who removed it and why.
rbaleksandar
Adding an airstrike sound would be nice.
Something like the hooter before air-raid. 
OldNESJunkie
hehehe, he said hooter.....
Anyways, AWESOME release as usual...do see a few things that could be improved, but I'll post those on suggestions board.
Great work guys (and gals ??)
Lans
Is there any list or guide of writing scripts for hedgewars?
sheepluva
I don't think there is one.
Also: I started scripting (I wrote the SniperRifle training mission) right before release and discovered that some of the scripting functions are bugged or just missing resulting in many limits for what you can do.
And as the scripting implementation wasn't my code and release was about to happen I only dared to fix that hats work so that the sniper hog has a sniper hat xD
So if you are really into scripting I'd recommend waiting for 0.9.14 or to stick to the commands and how they are used in the existing scripts.
EDIT: made it more fair and true after Smaxx confronted me and made me remember better XD
bananaoomarang
Is it just me who can't edit or create teams. The buttons are greyed out?
szczur
Here's the solution:
http://hedgewars.org/node/2038#comment-13225
bananaoomarang
Ahhhhhh thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Erkit
I found one bug.
I'm using 1680*1050 resolution on my computer and when i put hedgewars to full screen mode and hedgewars resolution to 1024*768 everything is OK until i quit the game.
my screen looks like this after quitting the game in lobby:
http://personal.inet.fi/private/private_stuff/bughedgewars.jpg
and i cant see the whole hedgewars screen.
Comments?
I didn't have that problem in previous version.
I have Vista business SP2 and Dual Core E5300 / 4GB RAM / Radeon HD 4650
Smaxx
That's a known bug with Qt/SDL fullscreen interaction.
Simple solution for now: Don't run the frontend in fullscreen (see options) and this shouldn't happen.
Lua scripts:
I've started some documentation some days ago but it isn't finished. Look in the training missions for some commented example code.
BarthVader
Suggestion for next version: easy-to use hat maker.
szczur
@BarthVader: It's not the problem of tool, but your abilities to create something good. you can use Inkscape which is a great tool.