Releases · mwpenny/portal64-still-alive

Game:

Collision system improvements
- Support for raycasting spheres and capsules
- Fixed some raycasting false negatives
- Added tetrahedron collider
- Support for compound collision objects (multiple convex shapes as one object)
- Support for collision start/end callbacks - based on contribution by @HaydnTrigg
- Better collision manifold management to stay below limit
- Improved performance on save file load in scenes with many collision objects
Particle system improvements
- Support for billboarded particles
- Support for particles without gravity
- Ability to attach particles to objects
Level object touchups
- Allow pressing switches during countdown to restart timer
- Added progress bar to test chamber signage
- Added elevator door seam and tweaked open/close/transition timing
- Fixed jittery movement on vertically moving platforms
- Keep buttons pressed on save file load
- Increased cube mass
Test chamber touchups
- Chamber 06: wall light cutouts
- Chamber 13: security cameras and music
- Chamber 14: music
- Chamber 15: window glass, signage warnings
Added player health
Added chamber 16
Added turrets - model by @Pyr0xene
Smoother level transitions
In-game debug improvements
- Added more on-screen metrics (toggle with d-pad left on controller 3)
- Show sleeping collisions in contact visualization (toggle with d-pad right on controller 3)
- Added option to hide current room (toggle with R on controller 3)
Miscellaneous improvements
- New game menu scroll wrapping - @hackgrid
- Removed some double precision calculations - @HaydnTrigg
- Added missing font characters for Polish and Romanian translations
General fixes
- Bugs
- Crashes
- Incorrect sounds
- Animation, texture, and UV mapping issues

Development:

Switched to CMake-based build
- Easier to add custom build logic, and to switch SDK and toolchain
- Automatic build tool discovery and version validation
- Proper dependency tracking for incremental builds
- Cleaned up build scripts
- Rewrote build documentation
Updated Docker image to use Ubuntu 24.04 (current LTS)
- Fixed Docker build warnings - @pvalkone
Configurable audio and text languages at build time
- With support for single-language builds besides English - based on contribution by @hackgrid
Support building from source code archive (no .git directory)
Switched to UNFLoader for hardware debugging
Documented asset pipeline
Documented debugging setup
Skeletool improvements
- Support for multiple palettes for one material
- Properly support 4-bit color indexed textures
- Avoid unnecessary texture and palette reloads in generated display lists
General cleanup
- Refactoring
- Removed some unused code and assets

Game:

Redid Chell texture mapping
Improved sound attenuation - @Bobbar
Added some more materials
Finished chamber 14 (moving stairs, triggers, decals, decor, and lighting)
Added chamber 15 - with contributions from @Deconimus
Improved object grabbing - @Deconimus
Added more anti-softlock "escape hatches" - @Deconimus
Save detached security cameras in save file - @Deconimus
Overhauled player movement physics to fix some bugs and better match the original game
Quality of life improvements
- Prevent some invalid/unintended portal placements
- Added missing test chamber ambience - @hackgrid
- Confirm when leaving level via menu
- Added more autosave points
Performance improvements
Many bug fixes
- Crashes
- Graphical issues
- Cut off animations
- Incorrect object behavior
- Out of bounds

Development:

Documented level format
Easier compilation with different platforms / configurations
- Configurable library/tool locations
- Do not assume UTF-8
- Support Mac-specific intro video format - @GiacomoGarbin
First steps toward free libraries
- Replaced libnustd functionality with newlib - @GiacomoGarbin
- Abstracted controller and time code - @GiacomoGarbin
Added some sanity checks when building to avoid potentially confusing mistakes during development
Added tooling for more control over portal surfaces, culling, and collision generation
Fixed some level export bugs