Engine 2555 Ready for Testing

A new engine version is available on the test servers, please give it a try and let us know if it is okay.

Please read through the list of changes below and test as many of these changes

You can test the latest release candidate by selecting “Engine Test”, under Config, on the Launcher, click Update, then click Start.

Note: please do remember to !stop the server once you are done testing on it, as it sometimes doesnt exit headless.

Updates since 2511

For Players

• Fixed: larger units sometimes didn’t push smaller units are much as they should. (as part of https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1358)

• Fixed: HAPFS paths could lead water-surface travelling units to get stuck on underwater structures when in shallow water. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1402/

• Fixed: Units that can move directly to a building (to repair/reclaim etc) will move straight there. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/issues/1470

• Fixed: Mouse warping issue in Wayland on Linux. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1509

• Other: Improved CPU performance of terraforming activities.https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1360/

• Other: Improved CPU performance of unit movement. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1382 and https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1370

• Other: Improved CPU performance of QTPFS by rebuilding only damaged parts of paths. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1550

For Game Devs

• Added: Spring.GetUnitPhysicalState(number unitID) to get the unit’s PhysicalState bitmask. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1528

• Added: system.smoothMeshResDivider and system.smoothMeshSmoothRadius to control the behaviour of the Air Smooth Mesh. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1341

• Added: Spring.RebuildSmoothMesh() to force an immediate build of the complete Air Smooth Mesh. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1342

• Added: exit-only and no-build yardmap square types. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/issues/453

• Added: float separationDistance to unitDef, so that units try to keep separationDistance elmos away from each other. This avoids having to increase the unit’s movedef size, which has other additional consequences. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1358

• Added: bool overrideUnitWaterline to move defs. When set to false, the waterline of unitDefs will be used instead of the move defs’ version. This should allow units such as raptor models to float at the the intended height in the water; however, having overrideUnitWaterline set to false forces the unit to use a simplier and less accurate form of collision in the water. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1414

• Added: New Lua functions GetUnitArrayCentroid and GetUnitMapCentroid. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1507

• Added: Support for directional pathing in HAPFS. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1402/

• Added: Support for shortest route pathing in QTPFS. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1402/

• Fixed: Spring.UnitArrivedAtGoal stack issue with warning spam. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/pull/1546

• Fixed: Prevent factories having canAssist set. https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/issues/1065