• Changed the way movement vectors are added to sprites.
• Reasonable progress on collision momentum propagation.

https://youtu.be/icXph0XmOWE

• Fixed locking weapons.
• Added collision detection methods: AABB and SAT.
• Refined frame-rate auto finetuning.
• Replace starbase image.
• Swapped player ship.
• Added better sprite fragmentation on explode due to Pats grid suggestion.
• Added sprite mass.
• Removed lateral vector and replaced with a single movement vector with magnitude.
• Added velocity throttle.
• Removed velocity class - now all handled by the movement vector.
• Refined speed-based scene zooming.
• Rename: SiPoint -> SiVector.
• Added working example of collision detection.

Collisions demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_OkoavOnHM

• New sky boxes.
• New asteroids.
• All sprite meta-data is now in asset json.
• All weapon meta-data is now in asset json.

• Nebula background work.
• Added animation damage.
• Shifty parallax for nebulas.
• Fixed angle incrementing issues.

• Added asteroid sprites.
• Added interactive sprite.
• Added sprite metadata layout.
• Added more advanced and reusable collision detection.
• Started on edit mode.

• Added asteroids.
• Changed animation to FPS from delay.
• Remove all sprite locking.
• Added sprite work tick multi-threading (this gives us breathing room for more effects).
• Added more hit explosions.

• All sprites are now created in events.
• Drastically reduced sprite collection contention using optimistic semaphores
• Moved hard-coded textblock sprites.
• Moved initial player sprite creation to player sprite controller.
• Removed all access to internal sprite collection. It is now strictly handled by the sprite manager.
• Added world-tick multi-threading.
• Added epoch time to player movement vector (in addition to the previous velocity ramp-up).

• Swapped in new starbase sprite (with several new turrets).
• Remove toggle from boost.
• Fixed handling of escape key.
• swapped standard thruster and boost animations.
• fixed player sprite sizes.

• Fixed analog inputs for gamepad controllers.
• Added movement vector to sprite velocity.
• Added sprite collision detection concept functions.

• Added gamepad support (specifically Xbox controller).

• Added enemy StarBase "Garrison".
• Added lateral momentum zoom scaling.
• Added render z-order for ship attachments.
• Added weapons for sprite attachments.
• Resolved deadlock when causing lots of explosions.
• Fixed speed-based zooming on reverse and right strafe.

• Removed multiplayer until it can be better thought through.
• This release still has test player sprites that are way oversized. ??

• Added large assets for testing.

Since the project has been renamed, you should uninstall the old version.

• Removed unused angle classes.
• Reduced all double math to floating point.
• isolated rendering engine.
• Isolated audio handling.
• Isolated eventing.
• Project rename.
• Swapped some common sounds.
• Added gradient particles (currently disabled for performance).
• Centralized all explosions, explosion sounds, shield and hull hit sounds.
• Reduced particle instances on explosion.
• Clamped vectors - bug fix.
• Added screen shake.
• Added push/pop rendering transform pipeline.

This is a major release which does not include any feature changes, just a lot of optimizations, fixes and generally changing the way things are done. Cleanup of "technical debt".

You will need to delete the settings to install this version: C:\Users<USER_NAME>\AppData\Local\Strikeforce Infinity

• Changed key mappings
• Changed strafe calculations.
• Fixed leveling.
• Fixed universe centering (less crunchy than it sounds!).
• Fixed prototype formations.
• Corrected counterclockwise rotation bias.
• Fixed enemy speed.
• Converting all degrees to radians.
• Custom vector scaling.
• More vector math fixes and optimizations.
• Added vector utility functions
• Resolved issue with particle transform matrices.
• Rendering fixups.
• Particle angle centering fixes.
• Resolved triangle offset and updated normalized angle class.
• Rotated all sprite assets clockwise by 90-degrees.

• Added sprite fragmentation explosions.
• Slowed down peon enemies.

• Added strafing. (Keys: Q and E)

• Added epoch time to sprite movements for consistent sprite movement in all environments.
• Separated world-tick time from display framerate. The framerate is still user configurable but has no bearing on game world-time.
• Added automatic frame rate fine-tuning.
• vSync optimizations which are tied to the selected graphics adapter.

With this release, it would probably a good idea to delete all files from: C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\Strikeforce Infinity\. As a matter of fact, it would be hilarious to see this version of the game running without deleting these settings.

• Updated thread pooling.
• Lightened explosion particles.
• Resolved HUD text not displaying.
• Resolved issue with multiple bullet hits each causing an explosion.
• Randomized explosion particle fade - per particle.
• Resolved issue where powerups were being dropped at a rate of 100%.

• Changed installer compression due to virus false-positives.
• Added "Play Music" option.
• Resolved issue with random explosions number generation.
• Standardized random number generation.
• Standardized level events.
• Resolved shield powerup spawn error.
• Renamed Warp -> Surge
• Removed all timespan event factories.
• Made particle explosion test more appealing.
• Swapped explosion animation for particles. Reserving animation for boss.

• Swapped out Optimistic Locking of render target locking for Pessimistic Locking.
• In addition to particle explosion test (keyboard F2), we also added other primitivity particle tests (keyboard F3).

• Added native particle rendering for ellipse, filled ellipse and triangle.
• Added auto-particle cleanup methods such as fade-to-black and max travel distance.
• Removed over 1,500 bitmap assets since they are replaced by particles.
• Added debug keyboard command to test particles (F2).

• Added optional vertical sync.
• Added optional antialiasing.
• Fixed GUI scaling on double density monitors.
• Added asset cache status.
• Further reduced render locking.

• Added native sprite size assets, removing sprite resizing at initialization.
• Replaced UDP and TCP RPC with convention-based procedure matching.
• Added render target locking.

• Asset compression.
• Asset pre-caching optimizations.
• Asset and reflection cache progress reporting.
• Added startup delay for background music.

• Added global exception handling.

• Packed assets.
• Resolved high CPU cost when idle.
• Resolved high CPU when multiplayer is disconnected non-gracefully.

• Fixed munition removal distance,
• Added experimental hit test thread pooling.
• Fixed drone AI, they are suppose to be stupid.
• Added munition traversal thread pool. Yea, I said it!
• Finished taunt AI model.
• Fixed enemies disappearing.
• Resolved issues with player weapons locks.
• Resolved issue with lock sound being played in a loop.

• Finished all reorganization, packing assets.

• All locations are now universal for single and multiplayer.
• All known bugs with the change are fixed.

• Removed multiplayer position, all positions are now universal - literally.

• Changed background scroll to a render window and quit changing the position of sprites based on offset.