MegaGlest 3.5.0 Release

[tomreyn]

MegaGlest 3.5.0 release - come and get it while its hot (svn revision 2145)
Downloads here: http://megaglest.org/download.html or below

Changelog:
v3.5.0

- Menu changes to better group similar items
- Added Blender related tools in blender sub folder
- Modified binary and script names for Linux builds to avoid conflicts with original glest
- Added preview info in mod menu, scenario menu and tutorials
- End game stats have more info now
- Added more validations for modders for techtrees and scenarios (commandline options)
- Bugfix for OpenAL (now works in v 1.13)
- Updates to Romans faction
- Network messages generated by the game are now displayed in the local users selected language
- Support for custom credits (add the file data/core/menu/credits.txt)
- More AI player improvements
- Default screenshot format is now jpg (configurable in options menu)
- Fixed some performance problems with 'stuck' units
- improved resource selection
- performance improvements, now make it possible to play with more units and slower hardware than before.
- new maps with cliffs and higher terrain
- support for sending 7z tilesets and techtrees over network
- new game mod management console to download new game content or remove existing mod content
- multi-threaded pathfinding for better performance when many units are moving
- CPU AI player improvements (units get unstuck more often and stationary air units attack more efficiently)
- new tileset and resource particle support.
- added jpg screenshot support
- optional compressed GPU texture support
- improved harvesting and resource selection
- better support for multiple platform compiling
- Modifiable keyboard hotkeys
- bugfixes for map editor and g3d viewer to work more stable on multiple platforms
- LSB conform ".megaglest" usage


Please check the hard- and software requirements and recommendations.


Linux users need to install 7-zip (package p7zip-full on Debian + Ubuntu) to be able to install mods in the game (and to support various file transfer types).



Full installers:

Linux 64 bit:
Download Here (222.8 MB)
sha1sum 5f5ebe1ed4a1001defeda2b1c6d31343f3ddca72

Linux 32 bit:
Download Here (226.5 MB)
sha1sum a66a630617bb8118e4ed7152210d0b34750d26ee

Windows:
Download Here (183.6 MB)
sha1sum f8cf3157a4eac28154ca881ed71bc8d916d07ff3


Advanced options:

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Manual data installations (for advanced users only):

Full Data package (for both Linux and Windows):
glest.ini and glestkeys.ini are not included. They are platform specific and distributed with the binary.
Download Here (180.9 MB)
sha1sum d6d52b3b2b80ddd4962828fb71ac1d93e82f20a4

All Downloads here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/files/current_release/

Please remember to report any issues and bugs in a separate thread, not here.

[ultifd]

Have fun guys. Maybe there'll be a video later, not sure.

[Omega]

Quick, random question if I may ask. Why is the Linux versions so much bigger than the Windows versions (the 32 bit linux version is almost 30% larger, nearly 50MB)? Admittingly, I have not downloaded it, for obvious reasons, so this is just a curiosity. I would expect the data to be the same, after all, and that would make up the majority of the filesize... Is the compression formats different?

[JohnP4]

It's before than I expected.
I just recently downloaded MegaGlest 3.5.0 beta 2.
The new version is always good.

[Omega]

Hmm...I know my internet is slow, but this is ridiculous. Does SF always download at single digit speeds? At this rate, it'll take 5-6 hours, provided it doesn't stop before it finishes.

In fact, this is my 3rd attempt so far, though I suppose disabling the antivirus shields to see if it downloads faster may have been the cause of one of the failures (it doesn't, by the way).

[ultifd]

Took me 10 minutes I think. It's a bit slow today, compared to 15 hours ago...

[tomreyn]

There is not (one) "sourceforge" when it comes to downloads. Sourceforge.net cooperates with several institutions and companies across the globe which provide the download mirrors. If your download is slow, you may have caught a mirror which is currently slow. Just select another download mirror in this case.

For an example, here's all the mirror servers for the Windows installer. Obviously it does make sense to pick one which is geographically near you (but this also happens on automatic mirror selection).

[softcoder]

The file size differences relate to a few things:

a) Windows installer uses nsis and I think it lzma compression is very high and does a very good job
b) The Linux installers uses mojosetup, using xz compression (lzma2 also) but bundle some .so dependencies to try to make for greater success on the many Linux variants that users have out there.

[larryhaja]

I've taken a quick look at the forum posts in a couple of threads but I can't seem to find the megaglest-data 3.5.0 tarball.  Is it being re-uploaded to sourceforge.net?

Edit: Never mind.  I see it now.

[Bonobo]

Thanks, folks, great work, but I want a Maaaaaaaaac version sooo badly, it’s a PITA to have to fire up the virtual machine ;I

[tomreyn]

Yes an OS X build would be nice. But this is really a different topic.

[ultifd]

Once 3.5.1 is released, I'll "submit" MG to CNET!  (They somehow accepted my bogus account)
What's a good description of the MG Team though? First I have to create that too.