Release r19 is not yet scheduled

The Current release is 2010_12_31 r18

Advise for Windows users:

The newest release including Windows-Binaries is 20091108. Newer releases are source only. Search the web for "openal downloads" to find Windows-DLLs at creativelabs.

Advise for Linux users:

You don't need NetBeans IDE (6.9) in order compile the soure - "make clean all" is enough. And it is recommended to recompile. If you encounter random segmentation faults at startup then your distribution may still use the old OpenAL-Standard-Implementation (SI). This can be solved this by using OpenAL-Soft instead. You may need to tune OpenAL-Soft to get usable performance.

Advise for GIT users:

There's a repository on Gihub, too. You can get a clone after you have installed GIT via:
git clone git://github.com/hackcraft-de/linwarrior.git
This will already create a new linwarrior directory in your current directory and download the source-tree.

As for now this git-repository contains *all* datafiles - expect this to change. But it will always contain all *necessary* datafiles for basic operation.

Dependencies & Requirements:

+ OpenGL (GL,GLU)
+ GLEW
+ Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL)
+ OpenAL
+ freealut (ALUT)
+ GamePad heavily recommended.

LinWarrior 3D 2010_12_31 (3.7MB)

  
Hazy Blur release:

Enhanced Landscape Rendering
- crude geoclipmapping
- improved performance/quality
- more vegetation variation
- added normals for lighting

Enhanced Sky Model
- added morning and evening coloration
- overhauled cloud textures
- cold ambient and warm direct daylight

Enhanced Town
- procedural road textures
- procedural skyscraper textures

Enhanced Immersion
- added jump-jet-thruster vibrations
- added jump-jet lighting
- added simple message display

Enhanced World
- added location markers
- press P_ause to see zones
- one small step for editing
- added messages for introductory mission

Enhanced Internals
- changed message groups to dispatching objects
- refactored/cleaned a lot of previous work (esp. PCG code)

Enhanced Usability
- added simple loading screen with key-hints


This release introduces GLEW as an additional dependency. GLEW the Open GL Extension Wrangler makes using OpenGL-Extensions painless and portable. The previous release added some procedural content and development at that frontier is going on with this release. This release turns out to be a lot about graphics but there are some important steps towards a game. Notably there is some beginning of a story, a mission and finally a loadscreen. Behind the scenes there where changes for handling game events and towards an integrated editor. And yet there is a long way to go.

Release of LinWarrior 3D 2010_08_28 r17:

LinWarrior 3D 2010_08_28 (4.5MB)

  
Silent Noise release:

Added Procedural Landscape
- Procedural dunes.
- Decal objects.

Enhanced Sky Model
- Awesome Night-Sky - don't miss.
- Procedural Clouds.
- Procedural Galaxy.
- Solar bodies.

Enhanced Textures
- Explosion FX.
- Camoflage.

Input Enhancement
- Mapping of mouse to virtual gamepad for targeting.

General Graphic Enhancement
- Antialiasing/Multisample through option "--samples n" or short "-s n" with n 0 2 4.

This release features some preliminary heightmap terrain along with some graphical improvements and mouse aiming. The new terrain does not only add more visual detail but enhances gameplay a lot: More possibilities to duck and cover. Height differences can be used to your advantage.

Release of LinWarrior 3D 2010_03_20 r16:

LinWarrior 3D 2010_03_20 (4.3MB)

  
Hadron Collider release:

Enhanced Sky Model
- textured sun and moon.
- dramatic cloud layers.
- mystic textured mountains on the horizon.

Gimped Urban Textures
- Textures are unter CC-BY-license.

Pimped Proecdural Textures
- Simplex-Noise camoflage texture.

Cool Verlet-Integration of Constrained Particles
- Pure Physics - no fake (maybe some minor).
- Collision Detection + Correction faster and easier.
- No more sticking on walls - ai can walk "around" obstacles.
- No more bouncing.
- There is no spoon - just particles.

Weapons now using particles instead of rays
- Rays emulated through particle-trails.
- No more shooting through buildings.

Scalable Weapons
- Will allow customization.

Complex Loadable Models through text-based MD5Mesh-Format
- Finer models possible.
- More vehicle types to come.
- Easy moddability and community support (Blender and now MisfitModel 3D).
- CC-BY-license models.
- MD5Format-Exporter for MisfitModel 3D included.

Fixed a font-rendering bug on 64bit systems.

Timed message passing to groups of objects - in preparation for
- wingman orders.
- timed events.
- event passing.
- ai group coordination.
- mission scripting.

Release of LinWarrior 3D 2009_11_08 r15:

LinWarrior 3D 2009_11_08 (5.0MB)

  
Liberation release:
+ Added zone-damage.
+ Overhauled HUD.
+ Navigation-Computer.
+ Now log/linear hybrid radar.
+ Enhanced sample world.
+ Bound animation to velocity.
+ Tweaked physics.
+ Reintroduced sun and moon.
+ Now simple textured buildings and roads with streetlamps.
+ Added switchable view distance (1-9, 0 unlimited).
+ Adjusted controlls.
+ Reintroduced enemies targeting upwards.
+ Includes linux- and win-binary.
+ Preparations for further changes.

Release of LinWarrior 3D 0.6.5[beta 9] 2009_05_29 r14:

LinWarrior 3D 2009_05_29 (3.6MB)

  
Spatial-Space release:
+ Spatial clustering of units => faster object filtering.
+ Initial PVS, faster collisions => larger/detailed landscapes possible.
+ Logarithmic distance radar.
+ Improved frame locking.
+ Text and messages.
+ Base- & turret-compass-number.
+ Unit move- & aim-targets.
+ Weaker jumpjets.
+ Can run w/o sound when device busy.

Release of LinWarrior 3D 0.6.3[beta 8] 2009_02_08 r13:

LinWarrior 3D 2009_02_08 (3.5MB)

  
Birthday party release:
+ OpenAL positional audio.
+ Weapons sounds, vocal power-up sequence.
+ Ambient background drone.
+ Makefile with autodependencies.
+ Includes Windows-Binary.

Release of LinWarrior 3D 0.6.1[beta 7] 2008_12_24 r12:

LinWarrior 3D 2008_12_24 (2.0MB)

  
Hohoho...release:
+ Visual weapon modells (animated).
+ Ammo and clips reloading.
+ Ammo and clips in Weapon-HUD.
+ Homing-Missile aquires target.
+ Try all weapons in --mission 2.
+ Preliminary Doxygen comments and config-file.

Release of LinWarrior 3D 0.6.1[beta 6] 2008_10_20 r11:

LinWarrior 3D 2008_10_20 (1.7MB)

  
Ground and Mountain release:
+ Blooming mountains.
+ Groundplane-Texture.
+ WAIT-Opcode with timeout for AI-Stack-Engine.
+ First campaign mission underway (--mission 2).

Release of LinWarrior 3D 0.6.1[beta 5] r10 (2008_09_21):

LinWarrior 3D 0.61 beta 5

  
Down-Town release:
+ Added Simple 3D-Texturing (no 2D-Texturing).
+ Citybuilder.
+ Pimped-Explosions.
+ Jump-Jet-Effect.
+ Single-Damage-Indicator.
+ GoTo and Repeat-Opcode for AI-Stack-Engine.

Release of LinWarrior 3D 0.6.1[beta 4] r9 (2008_08_08):

LinWarrior 3D 0.61 beta 4

  
Lucky Number Release:
+ Inter-Object-Collisions & Physics

Release of LinWarrior 3D 0.6.1[beta 3] r8 (2008_07_13):

LinWarrior 3D 0.61 beta 3

  
+ Improved Head Up Display.
+ Improved Projectile-Collissions.

Release of LinWarrior 3D 0.6.1[beta 2] r7 (2008_06_08):

LinWarrior 3D 0.61 beta 2
Gamepad release:
+ SDL and Gamepad support.
+ Contains (Linux) NetBeans C++ Project. + Hand compiled Windows binary.

Release of LinWarrior 3D 0.6.1[beta 1] r6 (2008_05_17):

LinWarrior 3D 0.61 beta 1
On the way release:
+ Further refactoring and work towards SDL support but still GLUT.

Release of LinWarrior 3D 0.6.1[beta 0] r5 (2008_03_09):

LinWarrior 3D 0.61 beta 0
Modern-Line release:
+ New look.
+ Major source clean up and refactoring.
+ Now using NetBeans C++ for Project-Workspace.

Release of LinWarrior 3D 0.6.0 r4 (2004_01_11):

LinWarrior 3D 0.60
Finishes the LinWarrior Classic Line after a long idle time.

Release of LinWarrior 3D 0.52 r3 (experimental):

LinWarrior 3D 0.52

Release of LinWarrior 3D 0.51 r2 (classic version):

LinWarrior 3D 0.51

Release of LinWarrior 3D 0.50 r1 (2000 very classic version):

LinWarrior 3D 0.50
First release version, mainly programmed over winter holydays 1999.