STK 1.5
Note: As of right now STK 1.5 is currently on the beta stage, so changes will be made on this page until 1.5 has been fully released. More information here
STK 1.5 will the fifth release of SuperTuxKart 1.x and will be the last version on the 1.x version series. Most of the code changes have been done by a new core contributor of SuperTuxKart, CodingJellyfish
Contents
Changes
Networking
- Improve track-voting logic when no majority is achieved
- Prevent selectable addons to be removed by spectators
- Make bot indices start from one
- Various bugfixes and code-qualiy improvements
General
- A benchmark mode has been added, to test your computer if it can handle the specified graphics settings
- In addition, command line options related to benchmark mode are added
- Implement blog announcement system in Online screen
- Make the progression of audio levels geometrical and increase default steps, allowing to set lower audio levels and better accuracy for low audio levels (especially useful for headphone users)
- Fix drive-on sound from materials being played when the game is paused
- Enable smooth scrolling for Irrlicht
- Various tweaks, bugfixes and code-quality improvements
Graphics
- Improve the accuracy of the framerate limiter
- Add more maximum framerate options to the built-in framerate limiter
- Add some graphical effects for legacy video drivers
- Improve Cascaded Shadow Mapping
- Various bugfixes and improvements
UI
- Make the game window resizable in all UI screens, which means you can now resize the window in any screen
- Add some skin variants for Classic and Cartoon base theme
- Add a new Display tab in the Settings
- Add help information for Lap Trial mode, which was previously missing in 1.4
- Allow to rate addons with a keyboard or a controller
- New favorites system for karts, tracks, and arenas
- Added the ability to search for karts and arenas, which was previously not a thing
- Allow users to group karts by kart classes
- Various UI layout improvements and enhancements
- Show score with color on the center of speedometer in battles
Tracks and Modeling
- Fix start positions for negative sidewards distance
- Make the rescue bird place the kart towards the ball in soccer mode
- New music for Las Dunas Arena/Las Dunas Soccer
- Update Godette face texture
- Fix Northern Resort skybox
- Various cut/checkline fixes
- Don't keep the rescue button active after it stops being touched, when the finger keeps touching the screen (e. g. to handle the steering wheel). A very welcoming change for mobile players.
Changes outside of the game code
TODO
