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Update 4.12.185 - Font Improvement, Networking/IPv6, Performance, Bugfixes

Latest Update:

  • Font Update/Type: changed to a distance field font to allow for better look while scaled. Font hinting implemented also. Issues might arise :-/
  • Font Update/Size: slightly increased the font to make it more readable.
  • Font Issues: there might be some issues for Thai/other where markers/etc. are not placed correct. Please contact me to help me fix! Sorry for the problems & thanks for helping :)
  • GUI: did some re-alignment of texts for various panels. Please let me know if there are some that are still wrong.
  • Nation Listing: selection a nation does not close the panel below. Addresses: http://www.multiplayerhub.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5508
  • Networking: main server now supports connection via IPv6 (in addition to IPv4).
  • Re-Labeling: saying "None Joined" instead of "No Games" to reduce confusion!
  • Translations: latest translations added - Thanks :-D
  • Investigated: not being able to copy/paste messages via long-click or right-click. Not able to reproduce: works fine!?
  • Performance: texture/image storage optimized (memory usage reduced).
  • Performance: reduced texture storage while loading city views (just loading the 1. city view ground images now that will be shared amongst all the cities).
  • Maintenance: misc. internal code changes/refactoring to improve code.
  • Bugfix King Movement: updated the movement of the king to stay behind in all cases if not ordered to move in the first place. Addresses: http://www.multiplayerhub.com/board/search.php?search_id=newposts
  • Bugfix Sound/Music: sound & music is turned off when the game disappears into the background.
  • Bugfix Text Wrapping: the text would not always be properly wrapped, especially scaled text (overflows in next text).
  • Bugfix Text Length: some texts were too long. Cut the texts with "..." if too long to display.
  • Bugfix Multiplayer Events: the team event didn't work due to bad variable naming.
  • Bugfix Crashes: when opening link in email program/browser (internal platform error).
  • Bugfix Crashes: for downloadable map listing during refresh (GUI child not properly removed).
  • Bugfix Crashes: string builder (bug in JVM?)
  • Bugfix Crashes: while disposing resources.
  • Bugfix Crashes: by hogging the render-thread too long while loading images, the game could be killed by the OS (ANR problem).
  • Bugfix Crashes: showing recent single player achievements when data could not be loaded.
  • Bugfix Crashes: GUI element was instantiated with wrong look & feel producing casting exception.
  • Bugfix Crashes: while using the background music player while already disposed (logging only now).
  • Bugfix Crashes: while someone disjoined a game and player's info wasn't loaded yet.
  • Bugfix Crashes: improved image loading to prevent crashes due to sync-error while selecting a texture atlas.