227 release notes

Oldunreal Patch Version 227

This patch was made to offer all Unreal players a new, completely overworked and fixed version for our old "love". Although the main target was bugfixing, many improvements have been made and a lot of additions found their way into this new version. The general gameplay and the game itself was not touched and it should remain 100% compatible to old mods and maps. Also it is still possible to join older servers with this version (as long these servers are not using some kind of anticheat system which doesn't know 227 yet). 227 can be still used as Server for older Clients like 224, 225 and UnrealGold (more details can be found in the WIKI-FAQ: Oldunreal_227_FAQ).

New renderers like D3D8, D3D9 and a heavily improved OpenGL (all based on UTGLR with permission) and new sounddevices like OpenAL and FMod have been added but the "old" versions like D3D and Glide for graphics and Galaxy for sound have been kept.

Many security fixes have been implemented for both client and server. A new check was built in to detect hacks,bots and other cheats. Details about that can be found here: Integrity_(Anticheat).

A Linux port has been created supporting software rendering with SDLSoftDrv and hardware accelerated rendering with OpenGL for graphics output. It offers OpenAL and FMOD for sound and music. This version is completely native and supports to run Unreal as client and as server. Although advanced options are not available every setting can be made within the UnrealLinux.ini and Unreal is fully functional. There is no UED port for Linux and there is no UED port planned at the moment, but included UED2 is working with wine. Currently Linux users have to install the basic version and the patch with wine but once installed the game can be started and used completely native. A native Linux installer is maybe available soon but it needs permission from Epic first.

All other additions are optional, don't interfere with the older versions and may or may not be used in future maps and mods. Thats up to the community. All this should ensure that the game stays like we all know it and love it- just "fixed" and for those who want- enhanced.

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This package was created with knowledge and permission of Epic MegaGames, Inc. This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. These updates are made by Oldunreal, and are completely free. The package may be redistributed without the author's prior permission, and must remain unmodified, but if you offer them for download somewhere please refer to my page.

This package can be offered for download everywhere as long it is of no charge. This means especially those filesharing pages in which you have to register (and maybe pay) to get it. If you can't offer it for free don't put it on your page. The license for OpenAL (www.openal.org, made by Creative Labs, Inc, www.creativelabs.com) and the license for Fmod (FMOD Sound System, copyright © Firelight Technologies Pty, Ltd., 1994-2005, www.fmod.org) which are used and shipped with these patches forbid a commercial use in any way too.

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New features implemented in Oldunreal 227 patch - not complete yet, more features in the release notes below.

OpenAL

Feature details and settings in OpenAL Sound

FMOD

Feature details and settings in FMOD Sound

OpenGL / D3D8 / D3D9

Feature details and settings in the included renderer

[26.12.2007 / 10.02.2008] Initial 227a and 227b release information

A native Linux port is now availible, which runs with OpenGL and SDLSoftDriver for grafix and FMOD for sound. Built in SuSE, works on LFS as well, but needs glibc2.3.

• New renderers have been added:

OpenGL, D3D8 and D3D9 are completely reworked and heavily improved with the files from UTGLR: http://www.cwdohnal.com/utglr/ These renderers support S3TC Textures and make Unreal compatible with most recent grafix cards.

• New Sounddrivers OpenAL and FMOD:

OpenAL: Provides hardware support for recent soundcards (best for creative cards), EFX (EAX) reverb soundeffects and full support for multispeaker setups.

FMOD: Provides hardware support for recent soundcards, original Unreal reverb soundeffects and full support full support for multispeaker setups.

• For ban and kickban there are the following commands:

uhelp: Prints the explanations below uplayers: shows for all players the name, ID, IP-Address, IdentNr and Identity ukickid: kicks a player with a given ID ubanid: kicks and bans a player with a given ID (full ban by IP and Name, even after a restart of the game/server) ubanlist: shows a list with all banned players uunban: unbans a player with the number X (see in banlist for the ban-number) utempbanid: kicks and bans a player until server is restarted utempbanlist: current list of temp-banned players utempunban: unbans a tempbanned player with the number X (see in tempbanlist for the ban-number) utempunbanall: unbans all tempbanned players

• Supports footstepsounds and footprints

but to use these new features, the texture properties need to be changed, there are now 4 slots for different sounds (FootStepSound) the texture produces when walking on, and one variable (Footprint) which defines if, or if not, the texture shows a footprint when walking on.

• UI-FX added:

Particle Emitters, Weather Simulator, Vegetation Generator and many things more. Details can be found in the forums.

• Supports skeletal meshes like in UT

• Supports HTTP-redirect for downloading maps (like in UT)

• Widescreen adjustment added:

Widescreen users can now adjust the FOV to adjust Unreal better for their screens (Maybe some mods will override this setting).

• Added a new setting in NetDrv:

AllowOlderClients True/False If set to True, 224,225 and UGold Clients can join the server, if False, they will get the Upgrade Message. But either way, there is a problem. Since the upgrade URL is defined in UpgradeMenu.uc, old clients will be redirected to the old dead upgrade page, and there is nothing I can do about that.

• Added Coop options for easy configuration of Weapon, Items, Flares and Seeds spawn time:

bInstantWeaponRespawn

bInstantItemRespawn

bHighFlareAndSeedRespawn

FlareAndSeedRespawnTime

• A new and fully working quadshot has been added

replaces the old unusable and unfinished quadshot

• Decals have been added to all Unreal weapons (including the monster weapons):

Decals can be added to custom mods as well, but can be turned off if wanted All weapon decals{or subclasses of Scorch} will have a configurable variable called: DecalLifeSpan. This variable effects ONLY clients. Servers need not apply.

Default is -1. -1 = default behavior, the effects will disappear upon not being rendered for some amount of time.

0 = infinite. Decals will NEVER disappear. use at your own risk.

>0 = time in seconds, 1.1 is 1.1 seconds. 30 is 30 seconds.

this is located under "Decal" then "Lifespan" in preferences

• Supports new difficulty levels (up to 6) for Coop & Singleplay:

Needs to be set with command-line parameter ?difficulty=X (X=4,5 or 6)

• Added a new parameter for commandline: -timestamplog

which will force Unreal to put a Timestamp after the logfile name. So if you would simply startup unreal with -timestamplog, the logfile will be:

UnrealYear_Month_Day_Hour_Minute_Second.log

If you start it up with -log=server.log -timestamplog, the logfile will be:

ServerYear_Month_Day_Hour_Minute_Second.log

• New Blood effects:

Gibs now have blood impact decals. If enabled on client and the server is 227, dynamic blood splatter will occur on all standard(and most mods) pawns/carcasses. If enabled on server, bleeding will occur, damage is optional. Blood pools will spawn for killed pawns.

• Added 2 new engine consolecommands:

GameInfo.ConsoleCommand "GetPreLoginAddress", can be used during Event Prelogin call for retreiving the connectioning client's IP PlayerPawn.ConsoleCommand "UGetIP", smilar to GetPing but returns instead the Client IP.

• Zoneinfos

If a new damage type and zoneDamageString is supplied in a damaging zone, players will now recieve that death message.

• Updated UBrowser Server browser:

Bigger default vertical size of that window to show full info of all servers (servername, players, ping, IP, port etc...), without having to resize it. Added server version number to appear on server list like in UT. Added a "Join with password" button option when you right click at a server from the list. "Join with password" window has an ability to save the password so next time you normally connect to that server (through UBrowser) it automatly uses that password. When connecting to an "unknown" server (one where you havent desired any password for) it will join with a randomly generated password to protect you from password stealing.

• Added a "U227GameRules" class:

can enhance serverside mutator;s, such as modifing player spawn point, modifing damage, preventing deaths, blocking/modifing chat messages etc... But note that some of these functions may *not* work with some custom game types that modifies the game. Also using this class will force your mod to be for 227 use only, so try to keep it in use only on server (a nondownloadable package) so older clients can still join the server aswell.

• Added a new JumpPad class, UJumpPad

• Added a new setting for Mousehandling to enhance precission with high-resolution mice:

Mouse smoothing can be turned off.

• Now 2 menus are availible:

Unreal classic-style and new UMenu (Unreal Gold) style.

• Naliplayer can now be played ingame

• New implementation allows to use localized chars such as "ö,ä,ü" or other language specific symbols while using

"say"

• uses UED2 for Map-Editing

[30.03.2008] 227c release

• Fixed quadshot accessed nones.
• Fixed Player "fell out of the world!" when walking over decorations.
• Fixed SoftwareRendering didnt work in fullscreen mode.
• Fixed coop server item respawn bug.
• Fixed Cant find ByteProperty'VoicePitch'.
• Fixed Vortex2 Bug (Playerstart).
• Fixed Sound pitch changes.
• Fixed ExtremeLab tubeportals (warpzones) are to slow .
• Fixed OldWeapons.u didnt make it into 227b although promised - (sorry for that one).
• Fixed The widescreen support is not being applied online.
• Fixed UMenu HUD no preview .
• Fixed Error handler not working.
• Fixed UMenu - Playersetup - Teamcolor wasn't read out of user settings.
• Fixed error not being able to see PreLogin error on Mid-Screen (just as server is at capacity).
• Fixed player spidering movement issues.
• Fixed player spidering animations to better one.
• Fixed NaliPlayer to use UT'99 NaliPlayer model (one which has weapon triangle).
• Fixed "shift" key not working by default in linux (ini setting).
• Fixed possible coopgame server crash when monster is attacking a player while leaving.
• Fixed bug with skaarj not behaving correctly in vortex2.
• Fixed SDLGLDrv for Linux. Although maybe a bad idea to use it for playing (it lacks many features and is really not very

far advanced), it may be useful for debugging or for some low-end systems. To use it, you need to start it with "./UnrealLinux.bin -noforcesdldrv".

• Fixed UBrowser select input keys not working in linux.
• Fixed and added SDLSoftDrv for Linux - Now there are OpenGL and Software rendering for Linux version.
• Fixed UWindow Win95 LookAndFeel some rendering errors (with menu backgrounds and buttons).
• Fixed some problems with older clients and mods.
• Fixed "Never switch on pickup" option, so client can chose whatever they automatly switch to best weapon on pickup.
• Fixed TraverseForm crash (on some maps).
• Fixed OpenAL: some sounds not playing correctly.
• Fixed some weird warpzones crashing Unreal when playing online.

• Added EngineSubVer variable to LevelInfo to define version number (1=a, 2=b, 3=c).
• Changed ServerQuery to add EngineSubVer for GameVersion number (227 + a/b/c/d etc..).
• Added that older 227 clients (227a, 227b) can't join newer 227 version servers (227c).
• Removed "SpawnPlayActor" and "Incoming travelling actor" logging.
• Console set to ";" key in linux
• UMenu player class selection mesh scale - adjusted to work for naliplayer as well.
• another few server fixes for reported crashes (details of these wouldn't help anyone here :) )
• Enhanced the UWindow EditBox to make it possible to select text with mouse and Copy/Paste text in it.
• Added a Music Player Menu (now default key to open it on F8), which lets you listen to custom musics while playing. Be

aware that many anti-cheat mods may not like the custom musics!

• On UMenu.UnrealConsole, you can enable UWindow debug mode (Tools > Debug mode) to debug your own menus

while making them.

• UMenu: Added Win 95 "LookAndFeel" as selectable GUI interface option now.

[05.04.2008] 227d release

• Fixed Slithprojectile not vanishing on dedicated servers.
• Fixed Spawning many Skaarj Player Bots may crash Unreal.
• Fixed Server wandering port - essential fix for server admin
• Fixed DmRetrospective not showing gibs
• Fixed Inventory HUD bug, charge being drawn from one side to another
• Fixed Quadshot: Pickup sound and switch to other weapon if 0 ammo. Not being able to select/deselect when 0 ammo but still ammo loaded in the barrels, size adjusted.
• Fixed Black screen bug caused by division by 0, an obscure bug, will help a few mods.
• Fixed Client not directly connecting after downloading a map
• Changed console behavior to display messages without calling it once first
• Added Translator message for hints

[19.07.2008] 227e release

• Fixed OpenAL in Linux version
• Fixed loading savegames in Linux version crashed game
• Fixed UBrowser Menu (classic) for Linux
• Fixed Galaxy reverb crashes.
• Fixed bleeding damage ignoring settings
• Fixed slow download speed for server without redirect. Added a new option: AllowFastDownload:

True = Speed like older servers False = Reduced speed like pre 227e servers for low bandwidth connection Servers

• Built-in ban manager has been changed to save all bans in a new file called "Security.ini"
• Fixed so last jump dosent cause an "ghost" jump in online games.
• Fixed support with multiple jumpboots (custom mods).
• Fixed broken shield effect on online games.
• Fixed UED2 crashed when using MyLevel
• Fixed UED2 crashed when closing it
• Fixed UED2 group browser checkbox was inverted
• Fixed UED2 after you load script with longer name, with first letter of script with name you are trying to load you CANT

load it (for example, you cant loading Male after loading MaleOne)

• Added support for playing special Nali/Male 1/Female 2 skins.
• Added support for importing and playing Ogg Vorbis music files (in editor on Music Browser or in game as map music).

(For OpenAL and FMod use only!) FMod: Added in ALAudio alike "AStat Audio" and "AStat Detail" commands. Fixed the reveb issue with maps like QueenEnd. Added in a new option to enable Sound Attenuate (sounds that are played behind walls are heard in lower volume).

• Added IP/Name/ID playerlogger for Servers and messaging it for server admins/server log which will stored in

Security.ini too if GameInfo bMessageAdminsAliases/bLogNewPlayerAliases are true. Like the banning system, this feature is only available for 227 clients.

• Added Web-Administration support

A WebServer administration page. Features: -Restart map - Restart currently playing map. -Switch map - Switch map to selected map/game/mutators (note that maplists configure must be enabled to access maplist). -Current game - You see list of players (ID/Name/Ping/Score/IP) and controls to Kick/Ban them. -Server console - See a list of chat messages in server aswell a command line where you can chat with the players to execute a command on server. -Banlist - See a full list of all banned clients, also lets you unban them. -Defaults - Server configure page:

• Main Game config - Lets you configure basic game rules (such as max players/server packages/server actors/redirecting

etc).

• ServerInfo config - Lets you configure public server rules (such as server name/admin name/MOTD).
• Maplists - lets you configure maplists (for DeathMatch based games, NOT for Coop).
• Mod Configures - Custom mods configures page (by default it contains configures for DeathMatch, TeamGame,

Cooperative). -Changed to little better interface and added a config option for the new 227e "AllowFastDownload" flag. Read the included UWebReadme.txt for more info.

• Added in an "OverridePrelogin" function for GameRules to modify prelogin allowance or something (its called directly

after GameInfo Prelogin).

• Added in a new class 'PlayerClassManager' which allows custom mods to temporarly adding in to player settings some

new player classes/skins for that game only.

• Actor:

Added a new variable "bNetNotify" and a new event "PostNetReceive", can be used by mod authors for notifing whenever a replicated variable has been changed on client (whenever bNetNotify is True).

• UBrowser:

Added in a config option to set initial startup page (Advanced Options > Networking > UBrowser > InitialPage).

• Added some new native functions to enhance UScripting:
  

Object:
native final function Object FindObject( Class ObjClass, string ObjectName );
-Find an object based on object name/class.
native final function Class GetParentClass( Class ObjClass );
-Get Parent class of a desired class.
native final iterator function AllObjects( class BaseClass, out Object Obj );
-Iterate through all objects in game.
native final iterator function AllFiles( string FileExtension, string FilePrefix, out string FileName );
-Iterate through all Unreal Package files (u, umx, utx, uax...).
Actor:
native final function Actor SpawnAct( Class ActClass, vector Loc, optional rotator Rota, optional name ActName, optional Actor Own, optional Pawn Instigat, optional Actor Template, optional bool bMayColFail );
-Spawn an actor class with some additional parameters.
native(1722) final function bool CanReachPoint( vector Start, vector End, float ColRadius, float ColHeight, float JumpZ, float XYSpeed );
-A point reachability function for AI use.
static native final function NativeExec( string Cmd );
-Pretty much same as 'ConsoleCommand' except it's static function.
LevelInfo:
static native final function byte GetConState( NetConnection Other );
-Get connection state out of a net connection.
static native final function string GetConIP( NetConnection Other, out int Port );
-Get net connection IP aswell as Port.
static native final function string GetConOpts( NetConnection Other );
-Get net connection options (?Name=(Leader)-Dante?Class=UnrealShare.Male3?etc...).
native final function bool HasDownloaders();
-Fast check if current game has some downloaders.
native final iterator function AllConnections( out NetConnection Connect );
-Iterate through all connections currently on server.
native final iterator function AllDownloaders( out NetConnection Connect, out string File, out int Sent, out int TotalSz );
-Iterate through all downloaders on server.
native final function PointRegion GetLocZone( vector Pos );
-Get the zone out of a desired location.
native final function Object AllocateObj( Class ObjClass );
native final function FreeObject( Object Obj );
-For storing temporarly objects/actors that can be reused later.
NavigationPoint:
native final function int GenReachSpec( Actor Start, Actor End, int Dist, int ColR, int ColH, int RchFlgs, bool bPruned );
-Generate reachspec for current map.
native final function bool EditReach( int Idx, optional Actor Start, optional Actor End, optional int Dist, optional int
ColR, optional int ColH, optional int RchFlgs, optional bool bPruned );
-Edit an excisting reachspec in current map.
native final function bool RemoveReachSpec( int Idx );
-Remove a reachspec from the current map.
Canvas:
native final function Draw2DLine( Color Col, vector Start, vector End );
-Draw a 2D line on the screen.
native final function Draw3DLine( Color Col, vector Start, vector End );
-Draw a 3D line in world.
native final function vector WorldToScreen( vector WorldPos );
-Convert world coordinates to screen coordinates.
native final function vector ScreenToWorld( vector ScreenPos );
-Convert screen coordinates to world coordinates.
native final function DrawPathNetwork( bool bOnlyWalkable );
-Render current map's path network (with 3D lines).
native final function coords GetCameraCoords();
-Get the current camera location and rotation.

• Added a new command for server admins : admin UGetConnections it shows current connection ips, player names, and

downloading status

• Added a new emitter particle system (Emitter.u/Emitter.dll) which is handeled 99 % in C++ scripts (giving a huge speed

boost), with realtime preview support in Editor.
For full features list, check Particle Emitter page.

[14.05.2009] 227f release

• Fixed dynamic array accessing bug: Code: local array<string> SomeArr; SomeArr[0] = "Value 0";
  
• Fixed bugs in banning system and allowing IP-range banning.
  
• Fixed additional crashes from AI navigation on maps with broken path network.
  
• Fixed TeamChat messages to show sender player name aswell as show the message in yellow rather than white.
• Fixed Volumetric lighting to not mess up when being "overused" (as example with Aura weapons).
• Fixed a script warning that Fly and SinglePlayer(game) would sometimes cause.
• Changed GameRules to have different flags for different functions to be called on it (in order to save server resources).
• Upgraded banning/temp banning/client logger to be based on a dynamic array to support unlimited amount rather than some static amount (such as max 1024 log entires).
• Fixed banning so its possible to ban older clients by IP address aswell as it supports IP range banning (i.e: 1.2.0.0-1.3.255.255).
• Changed music menu musics list and favorites server list to be based on dynamic arrays as well for same reasons as above.
• Changed music menu file browser, when you double click music file it will automatly load the package and search for musics in them.
  
• Fixed a bug with player skin selection menus, when you have skeletal mesh skins and switch between 2 that have different animation sets, their animation sets could go wrong.
  
• Fixed OpenGL selection problems and S3TC support in UED2. Please note that WetTextures, IceTextures and ScriptedTextures are not supporting S3TC!
  
• Fixed select surfaces by group in UED2
• Fixed for UED2 red selection brush and movers can't be seen through walls in OpenGL
  
• Fixed UED2 Tooltips not working
• Fixed if ghosting out of a mover (such as nali boat) you were still "bound" to it
  
• Fixed Linux bug: new resolution setting was not saved in ini when using ubrowser console or setres command
  
• Fixed some MasterServer issue with "Unknown Error Processing Port"
  
• Fixed old console causing "out of memory error".
  
• Fixed squid not attacking correctly
  
• Fixed D3D in UED2 does not show Zoning or BSPCuts
  
• Fixed ANIM NOTIFY for skeletal meshes
  
• Fixed Linux client crashing when disconnecting from server
  
• Fixed D3D8, D3D9 and OpenGL are not updating mover lighting (f.e. in Naliboat)
  
• Fixed OccludeBSP in-game crashes in very large maps
  
• Fixed feature: LightEffect LE_Spotlight and LE_StaticSpot lits up meshes correctly now
  
• Fixed WarpZones from generating odd errors in offline/online games when walking through them
  
• Fixed Linux lightmap bug
  
• Fixed Linux version crashing if wet/ice/scripted textures were made with S3TC textures.

• Added new options for renderers:
  

FullMeshRendering (True/False) - This solves the problem with disappearing meshes (like Trees if you are very close) - could be a heavy performance drain on low end machines, so it's optional.

• Dynamic Array support has been improved:
  

Added dynamic array length accessing functions:
native(640) static final function int GetArraySize( ArrayProperty ArProp );
native(641) static final function bool InsertArrayIdx( ArrayProperty ArProp, int Offset, optional int Count );
native(642) static final function bool RemoveArrayIdx( ArrayProperty ArProp, int Offset, optional int Count );

• Added so server downloaders info is automatically broadcasted to all admins (+ all other players if enabled).
  
• Added for GameRules modifier to desire whatever if client is allowed to download some file off server or not.
  

- Which can be used like this:
function TestFunction()
{
local array<int> TestArr;
Log(GetArraySize(ArrayProperty'MyMod.MyClass.TestFunction.TestArr'));
}

• Added 3 new commandlets:
  

Editor.StripSource - strip the text buffers from script packages.
Editor.DumpInt - generate a *.int file out of some desired package.

• Added "OpenGL" into UED2 selection menu for rendering devices
  
• Added a new menu "Admin menu" which lets server admins get an easier control over kicking/banning/listing.
  
• Added "Grab", "AdminMenu" and "Toggle Behindview" keys in "configure keys" menus.
  
• Added that Servers now reports server OS on serverinfo (Windows/Linux).
  
• Added support for ALAudio/FMod to set Ogg music looping points.
  
• Added UWindow menu kick message support (using clientmessage and message type 'Networking').
  
• Added math functions for Coords (for advanced rotation support)
  
• Added UScript preprocessor:
  

In order to use preprocessor you have to call ucc with following parameters:
ucc uengineppc.parse project=[<project_dir>/<project_file>] [-option...] [-globals...]
Details: UE1PreProcessorCommandlet

• Added distance fog support for mappers to use (you can simply define in ZoneInfo distance fog start/end distance and color).
• Added a new page to the setup wizard which allows to chose the sounddevice at first start (OpenAL/FMod/Galaxy)
  
• Added "Change audio device" button to Unreal recovery mode (for windows), just in case some audio device causes trouble.
• Added bSoundAttenuate [True/False]:Attenuate Soundsources which are behind walls etc. for OpenAL
  
• Dynamic Corona: a corona which can be spawned/moved/deleted in game aswell as has some additional properties (ideas from UT2004; such as directional corona, close/ranged distance colors, max size).
  
• Sunlight Corona: another corona but it renders as sunlight corona, the direction of actor defines sun position in sky (only renders when you have direct contact with the sky. As in addition you can add lensflares with it.
  
• ZoneInfo->ZoneTimeDilation: lets you slow down/speed up the actors locally within 1 zone only.
  
• A new query method has been implemented to speed up serverbrowsing when multiple masterservers are used.
• Added new admin command: uknownnames: prints out known and used names from players currently on server
  

since some string length limitation its not able to use it for ingame admin purposes (except directly on the server console), but for mods.

• Added a "Dynamic" ZoneInfo actor, which is basicly a zoneinfo actor which can be spawned/destroy/moved in game. It works using simple zone shapes. This will allow mod authors to make some summonable lava/water blocks or mappers to make some rising water effect easy.
  

• Added "Master of the Woods" also known as Woodruff. Small addition to have some alternative for the bandage. Its a small and fast growing plant with +5 healing.

New UnrealScript native functions
- Native(643) Final Function AppSeconds(Out Float OutTime);
Returns how long the application has been running in seconds, ie 1.1 = 1.1 seconds. This can be useful for server uptime, I could see that being used in a gametype. Usage is as follows: AppSeconds
- native(197) static final function float Acos ( float A );
The missing Acos function, also known as "ArcCos".
- native(126) static final function int InStr ( coerce string S, coerce string t , optional int Start );
If Start is not defined, less or equal 0 or greater then number of characters in S, then standard InStr is performed (if the string T is found inside S, the number of characters in S before the first occurance of T is returned). If Start is greater then 0 and less then number of characters in S then function will try to find T in S after first Start characters. If function fails to find T in S, then -1 is returned. It will not break backward compatibility.
- native(1718) final function bool AddToPackagesMap( optional string PackageName, optional bool bSkipSecurityCheck );
Adds some package to sandbox (server packages) temporarly for current map only (very much alike UT2004' one).
- native(1719) final function bool IsInPackageMap( optional string PackageName );
Check if some package is current available in sandbox (server packages).
- native(1720) final function vector GetVertexPos( int iVert, bool bAnimatedFrame );
Return world position of a single vertex on meshed actor.
- native(1721) final function int GetVertexCount();
Return the amount of vertexes in single mesh actor.
- native(1722) final iterator function AllFrameVerts( out vector iVertex, bool bAnimatedFrame );
Iterate through whole frame of vertexes in a mesh actor.
- native(1723) final function int GetClosestVertex( vector CheckPos, bool bAnimatedFrame, out vector ResultVert );
Get the closest vertex to some point in world position.
- native(1724) final function int GetBestTraceLineVertex( float MinDot, vector CheckPos, vector CheckDir, bool bAnimatedFrame, out vector ResultVert );
Check for best vertex result in line check.
- native(1725) final function bool MeshTrace( vector Start, vector End, out vector HitNormal, out vector HitLocation );
Perform a 3D mesh line check, returns False if did not hit.
- native(636) static final iterator function AllLinkers( out name PackageName, out string FileName, out string GUID, out int NmCount, out int ImpCount, out int ExpCount, out int FileSize );
Iterate through all linkers and get some general information about the packages (very much alike 'Obj Linkers' but in a faster method).
- native(637) static final function Object GetDefaultObject( Class<Object> ObjClass );
Get the default object of some object/actor.
- native(635) static final function int Ceil( float f );
Returns f rounded off to the next higher whole number.
- native static final function bool Divide( coerce string Src, string Divider, out string LeftPart, out string RightPart );
Divides a string and returns the two parts.
- native static final function bool ExtractString(string Src, string LeftDivider, string RightDivider, out string MidString, optional bool bAdvanced);
Returns a string from between Left and Right Divider:
if bAdvanced is false:
Src = string1(string2)string3
LeftDivide = (
RightDivider = )
result MidString = string2

if bAdvanced is true it takes occurance of LeftDivider into account:
Src = string1(string2(string3)string4)string5
LeftDivide = (
RightDivider = )
result MidString = string2(string3)string4
- native(257) static final function bool LoadPackageContents( string PackageName, Class<Object> ListType, out array<Object> PckContents );
Load an enitre package and give out the contents of it (returns false if package failed to load).

[not_yet_released.but_in.2010] 227g release

Added "Change audio device" button to unreal recovery mode (for windows), just in case some audio device causes trouble.

Added Coords maths functions (for advanced rotations): Code: native(330) static final operator(16) Coords * ( Coords A, Coords B ); // Rotate coords A by B native(331) static final operator(34) Coords *= ( out Coords A, Coords B ); native(332) static final operator(34) Coords *= ( out Coords A, rotator B ); // Rotate coords by rotator native(333) static final operator(34) Coords /= ( out Coords A, rotator B ); // Inverted rotate coords by rotator native(334) static final operator(34) Coords *= ( out vector A, Coords B ); // Rotate vector by coords native(335) static final function Coords GetUnitCoords(); // Get default forward direction coords.

Added Woodruff (with the help of DerRattenmann and dots), also called "Master of the Woods" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodruff) to have some nice plant to use instead of Bandage +5 Please forgive me this personal addition of mine, but I really never liked these ugly bloody bandages.

Added a flag for Actor to enable multiple "Enviroment mapped" textures on 1 mesh actor.

Added enhanced SkeletalMesh support; caching skeletal pose, set/get custom bone rotation/offset scale, play multiple animations at once.

Added better support for "Drop Detail FPS" to reduce FX count with specific effects.

Added for all standard Unreal weapons third person recoil animation support. Changed package loader so that it does not give "Package 'ABC' version missmatched" in online games that much anymore.

UED2: Added a new option into Editor section of Unreal ini: "FreeMeshView" when enabled you can fly around in mesh viewer the same way like in 3D view (no fixed positioning anymore)

Added to new menu items in context menu (Right Mouse Button): "Align to wall around X axis" and "Align to wall around Y axis" to fix alignment problems.

Added a search function so that Unreal can use Cache.ini to find in cache some specific files that are missing (like when trying to open some maps and ur missing some textures or whatever). This way files don't need to be anymore moved out of cache, renamed etc etc. if you want to load a for example a specific map which needs textures or sounds you have downloaded from a server.

Added a new function to Actor: function bool TraceSurfHitInfo( vector Start, vector End, optional out vector HitLocation, optional out vector HitNormal, optional out Texture HitTex, optional out int HitFlags ); Which can be used to get BSP surface information (was used as fix replacement for footstep textures).

UED2: Added a "remove script" function to classes browser and changed this HIGHLY ANNOYING behavior that it shrinks the menu down to "actor" when adding a new class. It now stays where the new class was added.

Added DXT3/DXT5 support and the necessary additions to UED2. Any format can be chosen during import of bmp files (32bpp) directly in UED now.

UED2: Added "Do you really want to compile all scripts?" dialog to avoid recompiling everything (which needs a lot of time) when clicking "Compile All" in class editor by accident.

Added 'flat shading' support for mesh rendering.

Reverted so that texture Specular value defines the 'glowing' of the mesh lighting (the way lighting behaves in pre 227f).

Added 'AttachActorToBone' and 'DeatachFromBone' functions to attach specific actors to bones on skeletal meshes.

Re-implemented support for curvy meshes and made use of it in couple of default Unreal meshes (however theres still an option to disable this). For meshes to be Curvy, it no longer uses Actor.bMeshCurvy (to avoid unexpected results with mods) instead to enable it you need to set on Mesh import parms "Curvy=1".

Added a new actor called "FluidSurfaceInfo" for creating a wavy water mesh for water surface.

Added functionality for surface flag "Environment" on BSP surfaces to add an environment mapped texture overlay on the surface.

Changed render DrawActor to handle RenderIterator. This way you can use Canvas DrawActor to render entire particle emitter on HUD instead of just the icon of it.

Added couple new functions for Object: static native(238) final function string Locs( string InStr ); native(239) static final function string ReplaceStr( string Text, string FindStr, string ReplaceWith, optional bool bCaseInsensitive ); native(240) static final function bool SortArray( ArrayProperty Prop, Function SortCode ); native(241) static final function bool SortStaticArray( Property Prop, Function SortCode, optional int SortSize ); Which does convert string to lower case, replace part of some string, sort dynamic and static arrays (in a very performance effective way).

UED: Added a Texture property 'PaletteTransform' to allow change palette color range to that desired color (useful for changing FireTexture color instead of having to import some dummy palette texture).

Addition and fix: changed screenshot names to: MapName-Timestamp.bmp to have a more useful name and information. This also removes the limit of max 1024 screenshots

Added Improvement performace of "trace" code.

Added a new actor flag "bWorldGeometry" to make actor be threated as part of world geometry (block visibility sight and stop explosion radius etc...).

Added a shadow bitmap texture render, that projects some mesh actor in level (used in pawn shadow as an option).

Added decals render as wires in wireframe mode (RMode 1).

UED2: Added Select All Actors and Select Inside Actors buttons. These were buttons already available in UED1 but disappeared in UED2 for unknown reason.

Added for mappers in LevelInfo: var() bool bSupportsRealCrouching; // Support crouching f.e. through tunnels with half player height var() bool bEnhancedSightCheck; // If enabled, AI can see through transparent/masked BSP etc. Also faster.Enhanced check is enabled for new difficulty levels by default. Also for Pawns: var(AI) float SightDistanceMulti; // Multiply this AI's sight distance over the hardcoded limit with this. Useful for very big maps.

UED2: Added out of UED1 re-integrated "Small Diagonal" and Big Diagonal" to rotation.

Preprocessor commandlet updated to version 0.5.296 - complete list of changes here: http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/UE1:UE1PreProcessorCommandlet.

Added a new commandlet: Editor.CompareInt <Int file> <Misc language file> . Used for comparing 2 language files to add/remove lines/groups that's missing from the other file.

Added 4 simple texture modifiers:

Texture scaler, simply rescale some other texture render scale.
Texture panner, makes some texture panning.
Texture oscillator, makes a texture wavy stretching or panning.
Texture rotator, rotates a source texture.

You should be able to dynamically create these in-game and switch their textures or values (however editor preview may act up when switching source textures).

UED: Added an AlphaBlend option in UED when importing 32bpp bmp's as DXT3/5. Notice that during import only AlphaBlend or Masked can be used. DXT1 and 256 color indexed textures can't use this feature for obvious reasons. Also added STY_AlphaBlend for usage f.e. in sprites to make them fade in / fade out.

Fixed non western European chars and that makes it now also possible to change the fontsize for the game. So if you play with a very high resolution you may want to increase fontsize. The definition is language specific and can be found in the Engine.[localized] files.

Added new class 'VisibilityNotify'. It is used for stuff like security cameras/portals etc... to make them work online so that you see stuff behind the other side. To use it, simply add 2 of those actors (one in each side of the portal), set a collision radius/height that covers a visible area around there and make sure they have the same Tag set.

Added new functions for Actor: native final function bool TraceThisActor (

    vector                  TraceEnd,
    vector                  TraceStart,
    optional out vector      HitLocation,
    optional out vector      HitNormal,
    optional vector            Extent

); Simply returns true and gives out hit information if a single trace did hit this actor only (will now be used by projectiles for performance).

native final iterator function IntDescIterator( string ClassName, optional out string EntryName, optional out string Desc, optional bool bSingleNames ); An iterator version of "GetNextIntDesc", which works a lot faster than other function and provides some extra features (will now be used by some menus).

Linux: Added case insensitive search for filenames during import when building with UCC. This was added to make it possible to compile mods in Linux too which were mostly written in Windows which is case insensitive. Because of that most filenames are not correct and failed during import. This addition is only for IMPORT FILE="" in classes and does NOT include a case insensitive search for folder names, these have to be fixed manually, but compared to filenames this can be done very fast. This makes it possible to fully use UCC in linux, except font import, which is unfortunately an entirely windows based routine at the moment.

Added Actor.PostNetBeginPlay event to notify client whenever actor has just been spawned and all initial variables has been replicated.

Improved performance of some UMenu menus.

Made all transient objects have transient names in game (transient names as instead of: ActorChannel0, ActorChannel1, ActorChannel2, they get ActorChannel, ActorChannel, ActorChannel etc..) to save memory usage for server and clients.

Added support for multiple redirect websites, to use that add (in Unreal.ini):

     DownloadManagers=IpDrv.HTTPDownload http://www.site1.com/redirect/
     DownloadManagers=IpDrv.HTTPDownload http://www.site2.org/redirect/
     DownloadManagers=IpDrv.HTTPDownload
     DownloadManagers=Engine.ChannelDownload

Added for Editor Mesh Browser to show mesh package name aswell.

Moved headshot detection from weapons to Pawn.IsHeadshot to allow pawns themself decide whenever they got headshotted. This doesn't affect the original gameplay.

Added a new config setting for OpenAL and FMod (mainly for Linux): "ProbeDevicesOnly" which can be used to start up Unreal and let it detect only the available sounddevices instead of trying to use them directly. Since blocked or not correctly chmod'ed devices can cause a segfault directly this can be used to determine the devices in a failsafe way. The available devices depend on the chosen Output (see below). The device list can be read in Unreal.log/UnrealLinux.bin.log then

Also added a new configuration for preferred Output, Windows user can chose between: WINMM DSOUND A3D

Linux users can chose: OSS ALSA ESD

Added FMOD device and output selection for OpenAL's music output (which is based on FMOD), this makes it more configurable and hopefully will fix some remaining problems, especially with some Linux systems.

Added for FontImport Color flags. You now can set R / G / B during import to affect the color of the imported font. new TrueTypeFontFactory PACKAGE="URedWindowFonts" Name=RedTahoma10 FontName="Tahoma" Height=10 AntiAlias=0 UseGlyphs=1 R=255 G=0 B=0 Valid values are between 0 and 255

Added to UED2 the brush manipulation buttons known from UED1: Sheer, Scale and Stretch (while the in UED2 already existing Scale button was in UED1 "SnapScale" and to explain its function correctly it is renamed now accordingly like in UED1).

UED2 added AllTexturesInUse Button for TextureBrowser which makes the Browser show only the textures of a package which are used in a map

UED2: Added Next Frame and Previous Frame buttons in MeshBrowser to browse through the mesh frame by frame.

Added Z sorting for meshes with AlphaBlend so that meshes can be used with DXT3/5 alpha blended textures However, sorting can never be perfect so that gaps can appear with many overlapping objects. So its always a trade off with smooth blending or sharp edges when using masked instead.

Special Thanks

Here is a small list with people that helped me in this project (no special order, without any single person of them It would have been much harder if not impossible). Please forgive me and gimme a notice if I missed someone, but over all the time my tortured brain is maybe failing...

• Epic for giving me this chance!
• UTPG for their work in UT which helped me very much
• Shambler - native coding, anticheat, many things more and being patient with my stupid questions :)
• .:..: Script fixes, lots of native Coding additions (such as native Particle-Emitter), bug hunting, bug fixing many other additions
• Wolf - Anticheat and help in Uscript, help in adding features, advices and being there for me and this project anytime
• Chris Dohnal aka UTGLR for his great OpenGL, D3D8 and D3D9, and advices in native coding.
• Kerilk for FMOD and helping me with OpenAL and being patient with my stupid questions also :)
• Asgard12000 for tons of script fixes
• Zombie for script-fixes, security issues
• []KAOS[]Casey Script fixes, blood Effects, testing, bug hunting
• Bozo, for tons of fixed meshes- maybe not that obvious as other things, but must have been a hell a lot of work, and can be seen if you watch all the lovely details.
• Raven for nice addons and new features like script based ParticleEmitter and UE1PreProcessorCommandlet
• Krull for his 227 map DMRetrospective
• SA-Digimes for hosting my Oldunreal-Serpentine server, which I needed badly for testing
• DieHard for his great High-Resolution Textures, which make 227 more beautiful than ever
• HyperNL for his Enhanced ServerBrowser and for his intense server testing
• Turboman for his skeletal mesh testing and UMenu background
• My ex-girl for helping me with decals and especially for being patient
• Shivaxi for bughunting, some footstepsounds
• Pitbull for a nice chat in the night
• All friends who offered me mirroring
• The community here which helps me to find and fix the bugs
• And of course all I may forgot now and all who donated to Oldunreal, helping me to pay and maintain Oldunreal

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