DXX-Rebirth

DXX-Rebirth is the Remake of the two DESCENT ports D1X and D2X.

Features:

• Provide simple and easy to handle installer packages to let the ports run on every Linux distribution out there.
• Maintain the ports as good as possible to ensure their continuity.
• Arouse the interest and orm a new community to help to improve D1X and D2X to make them better as they already are and let them live on. Everyone - especially with coder skills - is welcome to help.

What is new in this release:

• OpenGL ES Support
• Anisotropic texture filtering
• Improved transparency effects
• Coloured Lighting effects
• A wide collection of Reticles is selectable including settings for Reticle size, colour and transparency
• New optional control type for Mouse - FlightSim. Provides Mouse movement with an absolute center similar to Joystick-like control
• Find and join online games via Tracker server
• Possibility to save and restore Cooperative games
• Many Bugfixes and further improvements.

What is new in version 0.56:

• Totally rewritten UDP code for Multiplayer - including LAN Netlist, Packet-loss prevention and many improvements
• Improved Music playback compatibility. Missions can now have their own descent.sng, using HMP, MID, MP3, OGG and AIF
• Extended Jukebox-feature to play your own music
• D1X-Rebirth now supports D1 Shareware, Destination Saturn, 1.0/1.4/1.5 game content
• D2X-Rebirth fully supports D2 Demo, Destination Quartzon, 1.0/1.2 game content
• Bug in Joystick reading fixed. Game should now support more Joysticks, buttons and axes than you can ever operate in your state of evolution.
• Old homing projectiles have been restored and now are FPS-independent
• Code has been improved so it should now compile on way more *NIX-like operating systems
• The game will automatically detect supported resolutions of your system configurations and offer them in RESOLUTIONS menu
• Ability to dynamically load AddOn packs
• Tons of fixes and other improvements

What is new in version 0.55.1:

• Fixed Version mismatch error in D2X-Rebirth when joining a Netgame
• Fixed potential crash when openeing or joining UDP Netgame
• Fixed FPS-dependent collision damage when encountering claw-type robots and their specific movement behaviour
• Fixed Mouse Z-Axis (Wheel)
• Fixed Mouse reading in Automap
• Mouse Filtering is now freely selectable (was always on by default)
• Made Vectorial Reticle smaller
• Fonts will only scale pixel-accurate when Texture-Filtering is on
• Demo interpolation startup is (hopefully) more accurate (Workaround for some broken demos)
• Fixed broken BUGGIN Cheat in D1X-Rebirth

What is new in version 0.55:

• Reworked Physics acting on fixed values to ensure similar collisions on various FPS-settings including more accurate Collision detections for non-Player objects as well.
• Introducing fixed Timesteps to compensate FPS-dependent game element executions.
• Improved several AI functions and removed Hacks to make bot moving a lot smoother and less error prone (fixing bot clusters for example).
• Improved dynamic lighting - smoother and more accurate.
• Seperated Sensitivity for horizontal and vertical movements.
• Removed some error checks in demo code so it better deals with mutated demos (like certain speedruns).
• Fixed bugs in IPX sockets and UDP Handshaking.
• Support for up to 8 Joysticks at the same time.
• Pre-defined Resolutions now also select correct aspect ratio automatically.
• Fonts will now also size in all resolutions instead of only scaling by 2x, 3x, 4x, etc. To make them look nicer in such cases, they will also use smooth if Texture Filtering is enabled.
• All HUD elements and fonts will now always keep their proportions in Widescreen resolutions (except the Cockpit itself for sure).
• Fixed the UNICODE text reading.
• Improved OpenGL Sprite rendering for clipping.
• Cleaned up Help screens and added them to Controls menu as well.
• Added Multi Message-command to blow up the reactor.
• More bug fixes and code improvements.

Requirements:

• Descent 1/2 data files
• AddOn levels (optional)