Fe3darcade/Emulaxian 0.84 released!
This release includes several enhancements to hopefully contribute to both the experience and userfriendliness of the frontend. I consider it pretty much finished now...
0.84:
-Thanks to Laurent Cozic's free joystick xtra the fe now has native joystick support. Select the joystick in the general cfg menu.
-Added the videonopause option to the general cfg. Set it to true to not pause the video on the selected model while moving the camera.
-Added the fpsarcanimtxtnopause and cylarcanimtxtnopause options to the arcade cfg files to not pause the animated (background) texture while moving the camera.
-Added the glvideovolume option to the general cfg to set the default volume of the video on the models.
-Added the fpsfollowterrainstanding method to check terrain distance while not moving. Useful if an environment contains elevators.
-Falling down is now smoothly interpolated with terrainfollowing.
-Added by request especially for rotatable monitors the skinsautorot option to the general cfg. When enabled the fe will show returning from a horitzontal game the first skin frm the current skinset and when returning from a vertical the second skin from the current skinset.
-Zooming in on the models in cylarcade and listbox will now also increase the volume of the video on the selected model when using mpeg's.
-Added a number of properties to the arcade cfg files to limit the views in the 3d sprite so users can't put themselves in akward positions even if they try ;-)
-Emulators of type arcmovies and arcmusic will start video's from the beginning and not randomly.
-Added additional text display methods to the scrolling version of the listbox menu type and most other text sprites.
-Added a new movierandomstartpoint option to the arcade cfg files. Set to true to start the selected movie at a random point and not from the beginning.
-The fe will warn you if you have pointed defcab or gencabs to unavailable models and it will also warn you when you point to non existing skins and arcade cfg files.
-New commandline options: -cylarcade, -fpsarcade, -listbox to startup the fe in one of those menu types overriding all settings in the cfg files. (reminder -cfg is used to go directly to the configuration menu)