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'C&C mode really combines the best type of online games and then puts them all together with a C&C spin.' - PC Game Central
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26 February 2013 :: Tiberian Technologies releases TT scripts 4.0 final!
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Tiberian Technologies releases community patch for C&C Renegade
Today, at the 11th anniversary of C&C Renegade, we've got a present for ya! Today, we release the first final release of the Tiberian Technologies patch. This patch fixes countless bugs in the original game and offers numerous improvements.
Let's start at the beginning. In 2002, C&C Renegade was released: the only FPS based on the C&C Tiberian-universe, created by Westwood Studios. The game was (and still is) unique as it combines aspects of typical RTS games such as the economy system and buildings in a FPS game. With skilled teams this leads to intense and complex games.
Unfortunately, at the time of release, Renegade contained significant bugs that had serious impact on the game mechanics. This, together with the static and poorly scripted single player, caused Renegade to get low ratings in reviews. After the 1.037 patch, the game received no more updates, and the community had to survive by itself.
Over the years, several initiatives popped up to improve Renegade by providing unofficial patches that added functionality, fixed bugs, and guarded against cheaters. Notable examples are RenGuard, SSAOW, BIATCH and RR. These projects were mostly written by different developers, sometimes incompatible, and were often only used by part of the community. This especially hampered client-side modifications, because they required players to install them manually, and deal with updates, incompatibilities, and so on.
In December 2007 an initiative was started to merge our efforts, for the benefits of Renegade. Six months later the first public announcement was made about the new group, called Tiberian Technologies. Development was complicated and therefore did not progress as fast as we hoped, but in November 2010 we were doing the first public tests of the overhauled renegade engine, and released the first beta in September 2011. This was a big milestone and was celebrated by the community, but also showed that there was plenty of bug hunting to do. Today, finally, the patch is ready. Renegade is now more stable, faster, and has more features than ever!
In the future we hope to get EA to release this community patch through the official patch mechanism, so that everyone can enjoy the improvements made for Renegade.
Now, onto the fresh and new goodies. What did we fix? Listing all changes would result in a cumbersomely long and boring list, as we have made 5276 changes since we started counting in 2008. Below are a few highlights.
- Built-in anti-cheat
- Automatic downloading of maps and other content
- Better compatibility with programs which use overlays
- Countless engine bugfixes and performance enhancements
- Easy installation (install TT on any version of Renegade, regardless of whether it was just installed or heavily modified)
- Automatic updates
Most prominent bugfixes:
- "Blue hell" fix
- Purchase Terminals no longer broken after rejoin
- The pistol now starts out loaded when you spawn
- You will no longer be killed on some maps if you are standing right next to the weapons factory and someone buys a vehicle
- Taking a screenshot no longer causes hiccups
- Fixed various types of lag; e.g. when snipers were in scope, players hugging walls, slowly rotating turrets, etc.
Enhancements:
- Support for using the left and right side buttons on mice with more than 3 buttons
- The weapon back and forward keys will now skip weapons that are out of ammo. You can still access those weapons by pressing the number keys to select the specific weapon
- New feature on empty vehicles that calculates damage points based on last occupant
- Points fix - fixes an error in the way points are calculated when attacking vehicles with green health. Against all other targets, points are directly proportionate to damage, but not green-health vehicles due to a coding mistake. This is why, for example, snipers could get illogically high points for attacking heavy vehicles they did very little damage to.
- Renegade now properly supports wide-screen displays
Resource manager
Tiberian Technologies' patch has the ability to download new maps from a server's remote file repository. The idea is that when a player is missing the map the server is running it will be automatically downloaded and installed on the client, after which the client can immediately play the map. The game does not require a restart as it previously did. This makes playing fan maps much easier, as one does not have to manually download the map and restart the game to play on a particular server. The resource manager will make sure you will have the required maps and possibly other packages with skins, models, or soundpacks at the server owner's discretion.
Downloads and mod tools
You can download the patch at http://www.tiberiantechnologies.org/downloads or, if you have a previous version of the patch installed, just start the game and let the auto-updater do its job. The download page also contains the server files, scripts.dll source code, and some mod-tools.
More information can be found at the following websites. We appreciate any questions, issues, or remarks on our official forums!
Official website: http://www.tiberiantechnologies.org
Official wiki: http://www.tiberiantechnologies.org/wiki
Official forums: index.php?t=thread&frm_id=52
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14 January 2013 :: New RenHelp & TCW Dev Night
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Mauler has been working on the new RenHelp tutorials the last few weeks. The domain http://www.renhelp.net is now pointing to them.
You can find various video's and written tutorials for a wide range of categories there.
Most of the old (more important) tutorials have been ported over for all to access and learn from.
YouTube Video Channel
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWkfyW9KcOMleci-G7GMfgNX2sQMpRCTb
The above link will show you all the video's that have been recently added to help people with renegade mapping.
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The makers of C&C Tiberium Crystal War are having a Developer's Night ont he 19th of January 2013.
It has been a while and they hope to see more than 20 players this time, like in the past events.
For time-zones and other general information please see -=[THIS]=- link.
Tiberium Crystal War is a Renegade conversion with C&C 3 Tiberium Wars units, structures, sounds and assets.
It is standalone (like A Path Beyond) and can be installed next to Renegade. See their website for download links.
A cool video trailer can be watched on the site -=[HERE]=-
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21 October 2012 :: Tiberian Technologies releases TT scripts 4.0 RC1
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Today the moment is there. A final release of the Tiberian Technologies patch is in sight! After hours and hours of adding new features, fixing old bugs and hunting down new bugs, we believe that the final version is almost done. However, before we can release a final version, we are releasing release candidate 1.
In this version various improvements have been made both from beta 5 and since we started the private testing of RC1 about 8 weeks ago. We believe that the current version fixes a lot of bugs when compared to stock Renegade, but even since Beta 5 we have fixed and improved a lot of things. Most notable are the changes to the anti-cheat system and the amount of bugfixes in this release. Additionally some issues regarding EA's Ultimate Collection have been fixed.
We have been working on this for quite a while and we're really excited about coming this far. Yes, it has taken us quite some time since the first announcements, but look at the progress made since then. Look at the small amount of people that have dedicated so much of their spare time to improve your game and your gameplay experience!
Even though we have tried to eradicate all bugs from the game, we cannot guarantee it is perfect just yet. Therefore, we need your input if you discover bugs. If you happen to crash, please upload a crashdump. If you happen to spot something weird ingame, use the ingame bug report feature with screenshot capabilities, or post a detailed description of your problem here on renforums! Without your continuous support and feedback, we would not have been able to improve Renegade and the patch as much as we have done.
The RC1 client installer, server files, modding tools, and source code are now available from the Tiberian Technologies downloads page. If you already have a previous version of TT installed, then you can use the auto-update feature. The update should be ready shortly.
Release notes for TT package repository maintainers
Please run "packageeditor export" on your repository to regenerate the .tpi files. This is absolutely necessary for your repository to work with RC1 clients, since the .tpi format has changed. The .tpi files for RC1 and pre-RC1 clients can coexist (and need to coexist to support both client versions). The changes were made to allow for multiple packages with the same name but different contents to be handled correctly. Note that the syntax of some of the other packageeditor commands has also changed.
Release notes for bot authors
The "version" command output has changed. It now includes the revision number. Your may have to update your regular expressions and may want to provide commands to log or display the revision number.
Console commands can now be passed directly though the gamelog TCP connection rather than via renrem. You can use it instead of renrem although renrem still works too.
List of changes since beta 5
- Improvements to anti-cheat.
- New script Xpert_Teleport_Zone_Random.
- Fix various glitches/typos with the SSGM log output.
- Fix BIATCH log output.
- If a non-stealth character is in a stealth vehicle and radar mode is 2, the character will now be hidden from the radar for the enemy.
- Netcode changes to allow for different revisions of TT to be compatible. RC1 and future servers now accept clients using beta 5 or later.
- Make sure radar markers are cleared between levels. Avoids dummy blue stars appearing on the radar.
- Remove bandwidth throttling from client, because it was most likely causing more harm than it solved. SBBO now defaults to 2 Mbit regardless of settings; can be overridden temporarily using the sbbo command.
- Better error reporting if the level files cant be properly read (i.e. cant load .ldd or .lsd file).
- Improvements to crashdumps so that information such as map name is always included in the dumps.
- Fix issues when a gameover is done while the client is loading the map.
- Improvements to the map downloader so it can handle multiple packages with the same name and different contents.
- Fix crash when the resource manager downloaded an invalid file.
- Destroying a building invalidates meshes belonging to that building only (and not the whole level). Should deliver a slight performance boost.
- Make ddbedit output the ID of presets in a dump along with the names.
- Fix a couple of SSGM log strings.
- Remove some code that was causing issues with the target box of weapons with really short ranges appearing when it should not be.
- Changes to fix a audio related memory leaks and possible crashes.
- New "LoadWaitTimeout" setting in server.ini, which controls the minimum time clients get to load before the game starts. Set to 0 to disable. Disabled by default.
- Fix for SSGM to ensure vehicles remain bound when changing characters.
- Fix a crash that could occur if more than 255 unique players join during the course of a match (in marathon games).
- Disable code on the FDS that handles weapon continuous effects and firing effects (these dont need to run on the FDS as they are purely visual/sound and have no impact on the game otherwise, also we have been seeing some strange FDS crashes in this code, hopefully disabling it makes those go away).
- Disable particle emitters, ring/sphere primitives and sound render objects on the FDS (none of these need to run on the FDS and not running them will give a small speedup).
- Fix a crash involving particle emitters that use line groups (this crash happens anytime a particle emitter with line group settings is rendered).
- Fix console command parsing in SSGM 4.0 (i.e. where you send console commands to the logging port and the FDS runs them).
- Fix the LE "export lighting" feature that creates .wlt files based on all the lights in the current level.
- Fix soldier facing when using ladders in multiplayer.
- Add the string "Prelit=true" (without the quotes) to the "user defined properties" of a mesh and it will cause that mesh to not have user lighting (i.e. vertex solve) applied to it.
- Add tool to let you create proper .wlt files so you can set up different lights for normal and dead/low power (details follow later).
- New tool to let you make use of the "alternate materials" logic and have different materials for normal and dead/low power states of buildings.
- Add API calls for accessing waypoints.
- Fix for spectate plugin so it wont crash on players that are not active.
- Fix so that bump-mapped meshes wont screw up when vertex solve is applied to them.
- Fix vertex solve for meshes that have no vertex colors and an opacity of less than 1.
- Fix crash when joining during intermission.
- Fixes to make the Ultimate Collection edition of Renegade work properly.
- Fix for beacons doing no damage when placed on some parts of the airstrip. (Beacons placed next to the airstrip can still do too little damage, but this was left unfixed to avoid changing the gameplay.)
- Fix random vehicle crate player teleport location.
- Fix compatability issue with Steam.
- Fix compatability issue with NVIDIA Optimus.
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