22jan18

ver 6.2.6 -- 22jan18

• Improvement of the virtual camera system, which remains a relatively smart "tracking" type. It now allows better views of the sokoban puzzle areas and the stargate Dial-Home-Device. It has better backward movement and reduced jitter.
• Added mousewheel adjustability of camera zoom.
• Corrected third-person optics in ocean.
• Improved island movement over sand hills and around trees & rocks.
• Corrected vertical angle for third-person shooting within portal.

16jan18

ver 6.2.5 -- 16jan18

• improved avatar control;
• much improved camera handling;
• corrected geometry for third-person shooting within portal;

11jan18

ver 6.2.4 -- 11jan18

• improved dungeon fog shader coding and realism.
• improved green mamba, lava turtle & avatar;
• improved lighting in magma room; magma ball now emits diffuse light;

19dec17

• Updated to SDL v2.0.7 on Linux, Windows.
• Updated to SDL v2.0.7x on OSX.
• Added low hanging FOG to 2 of 5 beach prologs:
  a)skyboxes; b)ocean; c)trees; d)sand; e)rocks.

9nov17

ver 6.2.0 -- 9nov17

• Added prebuilt executables for msWindows !! Note that this Windows executable should be considered a pre-release version since testing was minimal.

• Added working build scripts for msWindows !!

• Corrected wrong linux SDL libraries in previous release!

• Updated OSX to use SFML v2.4.2;

• Added startup messages giving OGL version/profile;

• Improved compile scripts; removed unused libraries;

15apr17

ver 6.1.3 -- 15apr17

• Improved avatar movement in water; added treadwater motion;
• Corrected errors in portal drawing geometry when in third person mode;

31mar17

ver 6.1.2 -- 31mar17

• Simplified the portal discard technique used to draw only what is within each portal's field of view.
• Added avatar that can use most any MineCraft skin. Current one is set to DukeNukem or PrincessJasmine. Others included under ./data/avatars/. Simple copy desired image to "./data/skin.png". To toggle 3rd person, use (m)-key.

12mar17

ver 6.1.1 -- 12mar17

• Added an awesome rolling fireball in the brick dungeon. Shaders project vertices from a cubical shell onto a spherical shell to avoid singularities. Then a coherent 3D noise function is used to define perturbations whose magnitudes index into a 1D colormap with black, red, orange, yellow, and white.

3mar17

ver 6.1.0 -- 3mar17

• Removed OpenGL-deprecated functions and enums that may have caused aborts.
• Improved GL error handling.

7feb17

ver 6.0.9 -- 7feb17

• Improved reflective water motion, magma pool motion & color; added window frames.
• Added magma-glow effects. This required new utilities, new objects with defined normals, and new shaders.
• Fixed bad multi colored fish texture.
• Improved the coding and readability of several object packages.
• Added lava turtle to help prepare for my next project (guesses?).