Transcendence Changelog

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I made a Transcendence Changelog.
It's not complete, but it contains every changelog I could get my hands on and every announcement of new version made by George.
(to achieve that I used the forums announcements posts, archive.org, old text files I had from the old bugtracker, lists of bugs from the Ministry, other text copy/paste from Kronosaur website and documentation from the wiki)

It's 4000 lines of text, from version 0.7 to 1.6.1

Besides the fact that is a changelog for the game, it contains informations of features for modders and in which version they have been implemented. I made it primarly for me. Sometimes I need to check when a newish feature was added and how to use it for my mods. Now I just have to CTRL+F and search it instead of going through a plethora or informations scattered in various places.

I hope it might be useful to you too.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wepa2mfs19k8d ... t.zip?dl=0

PS: It's a TXT file but I keep it in XML extension so that my syntax highlighter can pick up the game functions :)
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the problem comes from him calling it an xml file when it isn't a xml file.
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On my computer, it opens up fine in Notepad++ because I've set that application to open XML files. On other machines, it might try to open up in Internet Explorer, with unhappy results.
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A big thanks for this! it is hugely helpful!

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pixelfck wrote:A big thanks for this! it is hugely helpful!
I agree!
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JohnBWatson wrote:

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This page contains the following errors:

error on line 1 at column 1: Document is empty
error on line 1 at column 1: Encoding error
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
just do right click and "Save As..." instead of clicking on it.
As it's not a XML file, browsers get confused.
pixelfck wrote:
A big thanks for this! it is hugely helpful!
Glad to be helpful :D
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digdug wrote:just do right click and "Save As..." instead of clicking on it.
This is impossible in Windows 10/Microsoft Edge browser.

I would like to download the file, but I cannot.
Download and Play in 1.9 beta 1...
Drake Technologies (Alpha): More hardware for combat in parts 1 and 2!
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Other playable mods from 1.8 and 1.7, waiting to be updated...
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sorry about that.
What about a zipped version ?
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/720 ... og.txt.zip
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digdug wrote:sorry about that.
What about a zipped version ?
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/720 ... og.txt.zip
That works. Oddly enough, my Notepad was set to open XMLs. Must be something with my browser.
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I might have forgot to say that I'm keeping this file updated at each release.
Link is the same
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I updated the changelog.
- Updated to latest 1.6.3
- Added some missing release dates.
- Added more informations on API versions for most releases.
- Added a couple of hard to find infos that required github source dive to recover.
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updated the changelog to 1.7alpha1a

redownload if you want from the same link.
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updated the changedlog

-fixed a few links that were truncated.
-added more informations for several apiVersion

the changelog is now 5300 lines of informations of all the versions of Transcendence ! Some parts (about very old versions) are not available anywhere else !
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- updated to 1.7a2b

If you read this document, you might have found some functions that are not in the functionlist that we maintain:
These functions were deprecated long time ago. In addition to that, there are a few functions that I believe are typos in the original changelogs.
I don't really know where to put this kind of information, so I paste it here since it's changelog relevant only:

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VINTAGE DEPRECATED FUNCTIONS (really old stuff)

(plyIncreaseDominaRel player change) DEPRECATED: Use domGainXP
(plyIncreaseOracusRel player change) DEPRECATED game mechanics
(shpAddArmorSpecialAbility ship armorSegment ability) -> True/Nil DEPRECATED: Use (objAddItemEnhancement obj item enhancementType [lifetime]) -> enhancementID
(shpGetCargoSpaceLeft ship) -> space left in Kg DEPRECATED: Use (objGetCargoSpaceLeft obj) -> space left in Kg
(shpGetEngineCore ship) -> EngineCoreTypes: DEPRECATED game mechanics
(shpSetEngineCore ship EngineCoreTypes): DEPRECATED game mechanics


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ODDITIES ?

shpSetWingman: Use instead shpsetPlayerWingman
staGetMaxStructuralHitPoints: Use instead staGetMaxStructuralHP
sysGetVectorSpeed: Use instead sysVectorSpeed
plyComposeMessage: Use instead plyMessage
(objIncVelocity obj vector) to increase the velocity of an object: Use instead objIncVel
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