Version 2.6 Final Now Available

[Eric Lengyel]

C4 Engine version 2.6 is now available to all licensed users.

[Fratercide]

Woot thanks Eric!

[Jesse Meyer]

[fairuz]

Cool. Just in time before the new semester starts.

[Arthain-Baka]

Cool. Just in time before the new semester starts.

You mean just in time to distract us all during the next semester right?

[Botagar]

Cool. Just in time before the new semester starts.

You mean just in time to distract us all during the next semester right?

agree with this!
And this is a semester i cant afford to be distracted in...

[Robert]

Downloadiiiiiing ! =)

[Niz]

Thanks Eric

[ska]

Thx Eric for the movie with alpha the terrani fix and the new verssion. Thou I still need to test these things

[yaure]

One step closer

[Robert]

Robert wrote:After changing my includes and libs to 2.6, i'm getting hundreds of conflicts between microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0a\include\winnt.h and c4-2.6-basic\include\ceprefixwindows.h : Macros have been redefined etc, non matching data types and so on.
Installed Windows SDK version is 7.1.
Is something different to watch out for in 2.6, or does it just need a newer windows sdk version ?
...just asking to make sure before downloading, 'cause on my connection the Win7 sdk download takes ages.

[Eric Lengyel]

After changing my includes and libs to 2.6, i'm getting hundreds of conflicts between microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0a\include\winnt.h and c4-2.6-basic\include\ceprefixwindows.h : Macros have been redefined etc, non matching data types and so on.
Installed Windows SDK version is 7.1.
Is something different to watch out for in 2.6, or does it just need a newer windows sdk version ?
...just asking to make sure before downloading, 'cause on my connection the Win7 sdk download takes ages.

It would seem that you have C4FASTBUILD turned on and you're also including Windows headers. You can only have one or the other. See the release notes for instructions on turning fast builds off.

[Robert]

Woops ! So that's where "problems" was referring to.
Build speed is no issue on this machine (yet). However, the windowsprefetch seems to include windows headers by itself. If only the build speed is influenced and not running speed, there shouldn't be a problem.
But, does the "undef unicode" also influence the program output ? I'm connecting to a linux server which expects unicode formatted strings which will be stuffed into mysql.
Disabling the prefetch works fine, however. Thanks !

[Seven-D.]

Nice work on the Pumpkinhead headshot effect

[Eric Lengyel]

Build speed is no issue on this machine (yet).

Yeah, the main purpose of the fast build is making the core engine build faster (and it does build a LOT faster).

But, does the "undef unicode" also influence the program output ?

No, that only affects Windows API calls, and not anything in C4 itself.

[Robert]

Mkay, then it sounds alright to deactivate it.

[CodeNewt]

New personal highscore on the demo game 990452! (cemetery leve)

[Robert]

Wooha ! Nice shooting !
I was shooting around like mad on these pretty glowing spider balls... expecting them to blow up in a slimy mess !