Starsiege: Tribes/Patches/1.4

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Version 1.4

Client & Server Changes

Server admins can no longer kick themselves, this was causing a server crash.
Team skinning will now test all bitmaps with the team prefix, as opposed to only skinning bitmaps that start with "base.".
There is now a "generic" OpenGL driver option.
The server now verifies the client terrain every 30 secs.
You now recieve "Your team's flag was captured" messages.
The player is now killed on disconnect (lost connection, or kicked). This fixes several cleanup issues.
The server "reset on last client" now resets to the next mission instead of always reloading the first mission.
ELF gun cost reduced from 500 to 125.
Players can no longer access an inventory station or drop a weapon while they are fireing or reloading.
A new player console function was added Player::getItemState(imageSlot);
Client side crash bug related to players going out of scope after dropping items.
In 1.3, the out of memory dialog box was no longer setting TRIBES into window mode.
Rendering performance was inproved on the Join Server screen (could get some bad refresh lags)
Performance improvements for nVidia TNT cards.
OpenGL & 32 bit desktops. If your graphics card supports 32 bit rendering, then the TRIBES will now run 32 bit accelerated, otherwise the software OpenGL driver is run, which is extremely slow.
A crash bug related to having shadows turned on while using the Glide drivers has been fixed. This was a bug introdiced in version 1.3.
Staying connected to IRC while playing the game could cause the client to crash.
Banning problems introduced in version 1.3 have been fixed.
A server side crash related to players dropping items then quitting has been fixed.
The remoteBuyItem() function now properly checks for team item limits.
OpenGL is now enabled by default, you no longer have to set the $OpenGL::Enabled variable.
When clients are missing files loaded by the server, an error
If a client is missing custom files (or missions) loaded by the server, a "missing file" error message now appears during the loading process.
Clients now get a "connecting to modified server" notice when connecting to servers which have mods loaded. Mod or server operators may set an optional string ($MODInfo) that is appended to the notice.

Mission Editor Changes

New mission wizard for creating new missions
Ability to scene light the current mission from within the editor
Ability to move and edit mission static lights
Random terrain generation from within the editor
User configurable terrain, mission and world types for use in the mission wizard
Script based landscape generation
Ability to choose and place terrain textures
Auto regeneration of command map after leaving editor
Hotkey support for terrain editor
Ability to add custom volumes from within the editor
Ability to create new terrain types through scripts
Can create a mission or enter the mission editor from the command line