Arx Libertatis 1.1

This folder contains source code and binaries for version 1.1 of Arx Libertatis, a cross-platform, open source port of Arx Fatalis.

See the main downloads page for alternate download locations and Linux packages.

MD5 Checksums

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Changelog

New Features:

• Added support for multiple simultaneous data directories
• The --data-dir (-d) command-line option can now be repeated to add multiple data directories
• Added a --no-data-dir (-n) command-line option to disable system data directories
• Improved error messages for missing data files
• Added an error dialog if the user directory could not be created
• Enabled up to 8xMSAA (if supported) with the SDL/OpenGL backend (was: 4xMSAA)
• Ensured that we never request a window size or fullscreen resolution below 640x480
• Linux: Merged the data install script and set it to be installed it with the arx binary
• Linux: Added a GUI to the data install script and launch it automatically if needed - you no longer need to use the terminal to install the game data under Linux!
• Linux: Added support for bundled Arx Fatalis versions to the data install script (bug #348)
• Linux: Translated the .desktop file to French, German and Russian
• Restored some unused spell sounds
• Tweaked color of the Protection from fire aura to make it visually different from the aura of the Armor spell
• Windows: Changed default input/windowing/render backends to SDL+OpenGL - DirectX backends may be removed in a future version

Fixed Bugs:

• Fixed Am Shaegar accelerating too much during slow frames (bug #185)
• Increased jump distance to fix some jumps that have become frustratingly hard (bug #413)
• Replaced DevIL with stb_image for image loading (task #352)
• Fixed a script evaluation bug when looking up Entity-dependent special variables
• Fixed a crash when evaluating script variables
• Fixed a crash caused by entities without an attached 3D object (bug #434)
• Fixed a crash in the playanim script command (bug #383)
• Fixed a crash when rendering text ending with two newlines
• Fixed a crash caused by bad window sizes or font loading / texture creation problems (bug #444)
• Windows: Fixed crashes and missing sounds due to bad OpenAL implementations by bundling OpenAL Soft (task #435)
• Linux: Fixed improper handling of set-but-empty $XDG_* variables
• Merged remaining fixes from Nuky's arx-fatalis-fixed: (task #276)
• Tweaked portrait render zone in the new game screen
• Fade out rune symbol flares when switching away from the spell page (Issue 13)
• Fixed detected NPCs from the current level showing up on all level maps in the book (Issue 12)
• Fixed missing page turn sound when switching between book pages via hotkeys (F1-F4)
• Fixed being able to switch to the spell page via prev/next hotkeys before getting any runes
• Fixed minimap showing a smaller area on higher resolutions (bug #64)
• Adjusted the RAF cheat to no longer limit the player's caster level to 1
• Fixed Protection from fire spell not respecting the durations supplied by scripts
• Changed the default duration for Protection from fire and Protection from cold spells cast by NPCs from over 30 minutes to 20 seconds
• Fixed handling of bogus targets in the spellcast script command
• Turning off the Detect trap spell no longer turns off Night vision

Technical Changes:

• A lot of code cleanup
• Removed dependency on Boost.Program_options - Boost is now only needed at build-time. We tried to keep the same command-line argument syntax but there might be slight changes in corner cases. (task #353)
• Changed to always create a user/config directory in the user's in home directory unless explicitly changed with the --user-dir and/or --config-dir options or registry keys. Previously, if no data and user directories were found, the current working directory was used as the user directory.
• Linux: Added /opt as a system data directory prefix (besides $XDG_DATA_DIRS)
• Linux: Added arx as a system data directory suffix (besides games/arx)
• Added the executable directory as a system data directory (bug #242)
• Improved handling of bad UTF-8 sequences
• Made the text handling code architecture-independent
• Enabled C++11 mode for GNU-compatible compilers, if supported
• Added CMake options to control the custom compiler flags used
• Mac OS X: Fixed some build issues (YMMV)
• Fixed build with the Intel C++ compiler
• Fixed build with some MinGW32 distributions
• Fixed debug build with libc++
• Fixed build with CMake 2.8.10
• Fixed build with MS Visual Studio 2012
• Added support for building the crash reporter with Qt 5
• Aligned and tweaked log output

See the full changelog for changes in other versions.