v0.17.0

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