v0.7.1 release

[Mo Morsi]

Greetings! Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

It's been a while, but don't worry Omega development is still going strong.

Am pleased to announce the v0.7.1 release with many new features and
improvements. It has been tag'd on github and deployed to omegaverse.info.

See below for the changelog, and the following for a formatted list w/
embedded screenshots and videos:

http://blog.omegaverse.info/posts/v071-release.html

-Improved GFX
- New galaxy effects
- Ship smoke effects (rendered when ship < 50% HP)
- Better ship explosion & destruction effects
- Better mining effects
- Many audio effects for various events
- Fixed planet spin

- Many more gfx and frontend optimizations, added mechanism to enforce
constant framerate in UI

- Added canvas mouse hover detection, used for various effects

- Locations following other locations can now orient themselves towards
their target as they move (nico)

- Added support for entities to follow others in the UI (nico)

- Packaging up the project and submitting it to Fedora is in process,
you can track it's process here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AobFGzrrFYAQdDM5UFZxTGU5X1hH
(Nitesh)

- Testing and improvements to the windows install process (Kendhia)

- Added cutscene/title page with intro sequence w/ music. See it here
http://omegaverse.info/title.html?autoplay=intro

- Added ability to follow planet, ships, and any other entities w/ UI camera

- Added a splash dialog to the UI containing notices, tips, and screenshots

- Hosted development docs & APIs for Omega and dependencies at
http://docs.omegaverse.info

- Setup a custom omegaverse subdomain for the promo page:
http://about.omegaverse.info

- Fix to system_with_most entities stat, now will return all systems,
even those w/ no entities

- Many other various fixes

Many thanks to all who contributed to this release, on the project and
community fronts, and to those who continue to show their support!

More things coming down the line, make sure to stay tuned for updates!

-Mo

[Mo Morsi]

On 02/22/2014 11:27 AM, Mo Morsi wrote:
>
> - Packaging up the project and submitting it to Fedora is in process,
> you can track it's process here:
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AobFGzrrFYAQdDM5UFZxTGU5X1hH
> (Nitesh)
>

Kendhia pointed out that this was an invalid URL (thanks for that!)

This is the correct one:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AobFGzrrFYAQdDM5UFZxTGU5X1hHUHlkejFENE1zeVE#gid=0

-Mo