Version 1.4

Client & Server Changes:

• Server admins can no longer kick themselves, this was causing a server crash.
• Team skinning will now test all bitmaps with the team prefix, as opposed to only skinning bitmaps that start with "base.".
• There is now a "generic" OpenGL driver option.
• The server now verifies the client terrain every 30 secs.
• You now recieve "Your team's flag was captured" messages.
• The player is now killed on disconnect (lost connection, or kicked). This fixes several cleanup issues.
• The server "reset on last client" now resets to the next mission instead of always reloading the first mission.
• ELF gun cost reduced from 500 to 125.
• Players can no longer access an inventory station or drop a weapon while they are fireing or reloading.
• A new player console function was added Player::getItemState(imageSlot);
• Client side crash bug related to players going out of scope after dropping items.
• In 1.3, the out of memory dialog box was no longer setting TRIBES into window mode.
• Rendering performance was inproved on the Join Server screen (could get some bad refresh lags)
• Performance improvements for nVidia TNT cards.
• OpenGL & 32 bit desktops. If your graphics card supports 32 bit rendering, then the TRIBES will now run 32 bit accelerated, otherwise the software OpenGL driver is run, which is extremely slow.
• A crash bug related to having shadows turned on while using the Glide drivers has been fixed. This was a bug introdiced in version 1.3.
• Staying connected to IRC while playing the game could cause the client to crash.
• Banning problems introduced in version 1.3 have been fixed.
• A server side crash related to players dropping items then quitting has been fixed.
• The remoteBuyItem() function now properly checks for team item limits.
• OpenGL is now enabled by default, you no longer have to set the $OpenGL::Enabled variable.
• When clients are missing files loaded by the server, an error
• If a client is missing custom files (or missions) loaded by the server, a "missing file" error message now appears during the loading process.
• Clients now get a "connecting to modified server" notice when connecting to servers which have mods loaded. Mod or server operators may set an optional string ($MODInfo) that is appended to the notice.

Mission Editor Changes:

• New mission wizard for creating new missions
• Ability to scene light the current mission from within the editor
• Ability to move and edit mission static lights
• Random terrain generation from within the editor
• User configurable terrain, mission and world types for use in the mission wizard
• Script based landscape generation
• Ability to choose and place terrain textures
• Auto regeneration of command map after leaving editor
• Hotkey support for terrain editor
• Ability to add custom volumes from within the editor
• Ability to create new terrain types through scripts
• Can create a mission or enter the mission editor from the command line