Hammer of Thyrion is a cross-platform port of Raven`s Hexen II source. It is based on an older linux port, Anvil of Thyrion.
HoT includes many bug fixes, opengl improvements, improved sound and video modes, and documentation among many others.
NOTE: Hexen II source, and the Hammer of Thyrion source port, are free
but the game itself is not: you must have an original copy of the
game released by Raven Software and Activision.
Here are some key features of "Hammer of Thyrion":
· Support for Hexen II, Hexen II demo, Portal of Praevus mission pack and HexenWorld.
· Cross-platform code: Tested on Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows. The software renderer version is tested on QNX. Other unices should also work. There are seperate ports to MorphOS and PalmOS.
· Tested on 32 bit and 64 bit platforms.
· In-game resolution changing for both opengl and software renderers. Instant fullscreen/windowed toggling on X11 (unix).
· OpenGL enhancements including multitexturing, glow effects, working brightness control, text and hud size changing on the fly, translucent console background, console background stretching, colored lights and support for external lit files, fixes for texture cache and model mesh cache mismatches.
· Fully network-compatible with Raven`s 1.11 windows version as well as with other Hexen II ports. Can load and play games saved with Raven`s 1.11 windows version.
· The same binary handles both original hexen2 and the mission pack.
· The same hexen2 binary transparently handles both v1.11 (hexen2) and v1.12 (mission pack) style progs.dat files.
· Fullscreen intermissions and help dialogs.
· MouseWheel support.
· Improvements and fixes to the HexenC game code.
· Improved sound support: A selection of three different sound drivers (ALSA, OSS and SDL) for Linux. FreeBSD is supported with OSS and SDL, OpenBSD and NetBSD are experimentally supported with sunaudio and SDL.
· Working music volume controls and on the fly selection of CD or MIDI music.
· Full user directories support under unix: all users have their own configuration files and game saves.
· Improved console functionality (inline editing and tab completion), and a maplist command.
· Ability to delete saved games from within the game.
· Several hexen2 utilities (hcc: the hexenc compiler, and other mapping tools) are maintained and are being kept up to date.
· Several hexenworld utilities (hwmaster: hexenworld master server, hwmquery: tool for querying hw master servers, hwrcon and hwterm: rcon tools) are maintained and are being kept up to date.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· bumped the hexen2 engine version to 1.22, and hexenworld engine version to 0.22.
· bumped the gamecode version to 1.19b to indicate the newly added mapfixes section.
· fixed the broken software renderer binaries from C++ compilers with x86 assembly enabled (do not use the bool keyword of C++).
· compilations using the new gcc-4.4 versions are tested and supported.
· added support for 64 bit windows versions (x64).
· added support for mingw-w64 compilers.
· added support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008.
· filesystem: fixed an oversight with builds without user directories, where the "-basedir" command line argument failed to change the internal userdir variables.
· net: made the socket api usage compatible with windows especially with relation to 64 bit windows.
· opengl: fixed an issue that changing resolution from within the game might crash on Windows Vista.
· software renderer: fixed a long standing stack corruption bug which used to cause alias models not to be drawn at all.
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