VERSION 0.23
============

- Fixed animMap shader bug on brush models

- Fixed shader parsing bugs

- Fixed some shader warnings

- Rewrote some rendering code

- Minor renderer optimizations

- Removed GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc in favour of GL_ARB_texture_compression

- Added GL_ARB_texture_env_add and GL_ARB_texture_env_combine support

- Added GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp support

- Added GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap support

- Surface subdivision now works for any kind of surface with the tessSize shader command set (not limited to SURF_WARP only)

- Lightmaps are now generated for any kind of surface with a $lightmap shader stage. However, certain surfaces (the ones flagged with SURF_WARP) will have a fullbright lightmap that will only change its color when a dynamic light lits the surface (this is because QRAD3 doesn't generate lighting information for them).

- Minor changes and fixes in console code

- Fixed some file system bugs

- File system is now restarted during server initialization to make sure that the game DLL will be loaded from the appropriate directory

- Fixed some minor HUD bugs

- Optimized alias model rendering code

- Added MD3 alias model support

- Added LOD support for MD3 models

- Added model testing facilities

- Fixed and enhanced dynamic model lighting

- Added sprite entities

- Added shader sorting code

- Cleaned up some code

- Fixed lagometer drawing wrong in resolutions lower than 1024x768 due to scaling

- Updated menus with new options

- Tweaked some functions in the menu framework

- Fixed stencil shadows not working

- Fixed texture scaling in water caustics shader

- Allowed the view weapon to be shown at a FOV higher than 90

- Fixed a depth bug in sky-box rendering

- Fixed MD3 surface loading code

- Fixed some rendering problems with certain configurations

- Fixed glClear bug

- Fixed 3Dfx fallback code in OpenGL subsystem initialization

- Fixed rotating brushes disappearing

- Fixed dynamic lighting on brush models

- Fixed shell shaders

- Fixed "cull disable" not working

- Fixed "tcMod rotate" not working

- New shader commands:

- surfaceParm: lightmap, warp, trans33, trans66, flowing
- sort: portal, sky, decal, seeThrough, banner, underwater, nearest
- noShadows
- deformVertexes: autoSprite, autoSprite2
- animClampMap
- videoMap
- tcMod: translate, warp
- alphaGen: dot, oneMinusDot

Refer to the Shader Manual for information.

- Added RoQ video support to both the client ("cinematic" command) and the renderer ("videoMap" shaders)

- Tweaked 2D drawing functions

- Fixed invisible view weapon bug

- Fixed shader loading for world surfaces that reference the same texture but use different drawing parameters

- Reworked some text parsing routines

- Made sure cheating cvars are forced off before loading a map, so the subsystems initialize with the proper settings

- Attempted to reduce map loading times and fixed some loading problems

- Fixed and optimized background track playback code

- Fixed window position bug when switching between fullscreen and windowed modes with ALT+ENTER

- Fixed sounds/graphics not being properly reloaded after a snd_restart/vid_restart while in game

- Fixed some problems displaying the main menu when a cinematic is finished

- Fixed function keys (F1 to F12) disconnecting from a demo playback

- Fixed laser beams not drawing

- Laser beams get their texture coordinates scaled so that scrolling and other effects work properly

- Fixed various rendering bugs

- Rewrote memory manager to be more like Quake and Quake 3 (com_zoneMegs and com_hunkMegs cvars specify how much memory to use)

- Moved sounds to hunk memory allocation

- Moved collision map to hunk memory allocation

- Added support for MD3 tags

- Added AVI demo frame dumping (com_aviDemo cvar)

- Fixed a bug where mouse input was delayed a frame (DirectInput only)

- Added screen blends (blood, underwater, IR goggles, etc...)

- Completely reworked client effects (lights, entities, explosions, sprites, etc...)

- Completely remade particle system with new effects

- Added ejecting brass for bullet/pellet based weapons

- Added polygon clipping code from QFusion

- Added decals

- Removed glowing on items

- Fixed a client timing bug

- Fixed a slowdown when bringing up the in-game menu

- Fixed bad packets writing to demo files (thanks to Vic)

- Reduced maps and models memory usage (thanks to Vic for suggestion)

- Fixed autoSprite not working on models (thanks to Vic)

- Fixed autoSprite2 not working on rotating models

- Fixed shadows messing up multi-surface models

- Fixed dedicated servers not executing game commands

- Config file is now saved every time a CVAR_ARCHIVE variable is changed

- Fixed a potential "tcMod scroll" precision problem for some drivers

VERSION 0.17g (BETA)
====================

- Fixed crash when entering "DM Options" menu

- Fixed bug where Q2E loaded pack files with invalid extensions

- Fixed HOM effect after initialization when an invalid command is executed from the Q2E command line

- Fixed "Save Game" menu not saving games

- Fixed bug where invalid skins and icons were used if you don't have the custom skins referenced by the server. Now reverts back to male/grunt like Q2 did

- Fixed wrong text in loading screen when downloading files from servers

- Fixed missing spectator and chasing strings in the HUD

- Fixed missing frags counter in HUD

- Fixed APPLY button not showing up when changing Texture Overbrights

- Made "set" console command backwards compatible. This fixes "Usage: set <variable> <value>" messages for some users

- Fixed "Address Book" menu not saving servers unless hitting ESCAPE

- Fixed some rendering bugs when using left-handed weapon

- Fixed dedicated servers not working

- Made Q2E config file save on game change, not only on exit

- Fixed some "Z_Malloc: could not allocate 0 bytes" errors. Now, in most cases, invalid allocations are avoided (usually giving a warning)

- Fixed some culling bugs (was setting the wrong GL state)

- Made TAB key cycle through available commands in the console (if more than one match is found). Hitting another key will stop the cycling.

- Made new HUD scriptable. This allows us to have multiple HUD layouts that you can choose using cl_newHUD, as well as allowing users to create their own customized HUD layouts.

- Fixed animated textures on brush models

- Minor renderer optimizations

VERSION 0.17f (BETA)
====================

Initial release

Credits

QUAKE II EVOLVED BY TEAM BLUR
www.planetquake.com/blur

PROGRAMMING
Nicolas "BERSERK" Flekenstein

ART
Gavin "o'dium" Stevens
Main menu background by "snak9"
Various glow skins by KMan

MODELS
Gavin "o'dium" Stevens
Karmacop

BETA TESTING
BLooDMaN, Federelli, Karmacop, Quaked Out

SPECIAL THANKS
id Software for making Quake II and
releasing its source code

Thanks to the id Legends area of the
Quake 3 World forums for their support
during the production of Quake II Evolved
www.quake3world.com

The "Team Blur forums" moderators
Bitterman, Federelli, Karmacop, Quaked Out

All the people contributing to the
retexturing and remodeling projects

CODE
Vic, Tr3B, mSparks, MrG, Psychospaz, Jitspoe,
Knightmare, LordHavoc, Heffo, Discoloda,
Stephen Taylor, Martin Kraus, Tim Ferguson

Portions of Quake II Evolved based in part
on the work of the Independent JPEG Group

Contains ZLib software

OggVorbis software by the Xiph.org Foundation

Quake II Evolved is a Team Blur
production. Distributed under the terms
of the GNU General Public License.
Quake II (C)1997-2004 Id Software, Inc.

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