Tennis Elbow 4 News

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Camera : the back of the stadium isn't rendered anymore if the camera is very low (but it still can cast shadows)

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Player : the CRC was calculated without the online-forbidden talents
- World Tour : loading a match from the v0.74 or earlier was possibly leading to a crash

After a long pause, here's an update bringing the commentaries to Alpha state ; they are still not done, but I hope you'll enjoy them already ! :-)

Here is the full changelog :

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Commentator : now the commentaries should be pertinent to the content most of the time (I tested a good bunch of the comments, but it might still have some bugs though ːsteammockingː )
- Modding : you can now tweak the lights in the indoor stadiums (HowTo, point 6 here => https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic60-34047.php )

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Tiredness : greatly lowered the loss of Short Term Form during the match
- Player : now the talents are used to calculate the CRC
- Settings : tuned the Video settings auto-detection so it should now work better for powerful IGPs

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- AI : in doubles, the CPU could avoid hitting the ball, even if it was blatantly for him to play it
- World Tour : the topspin could be widely incorrect when picking a player for the Season mode in the World Tour, quickly leading to a levitating ball when playing a match :sweat:
- Modding : fixed a couple of crashes when having wrongly configured tournament bases (which was the case with the last version of the XKT mod, especially on the woman side :fear: )

[h2]Notes :[/h2]
- Sorry for the long delay since the previous update ; I'll try to post soon in the mini-blog to explain what's going on => https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic15-31541.php ... :fear:

ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===

Here is an update focused on fixing the dynamic animation system (so the racket is correctly positioned on the ball) : there was 1 big bad bug from a fix last August, and I took the occasion to fix a bunch of small weirdness here & there.

I tested more than usual, and I think overall now it works well in all common cases. It may still have a few hiccups in some uncommon cases, though.

And after 3 years, I also finally removed the "What would you like to see here ?" in the Character Sheet and replaced it with the player's strengths & weaknesses. It should be quite helpful to newcomers to notice when a skill is relative to another one and thus adapt it accordingly..! ːsteamhappyː

And here is the full changelog.

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Player : now the strengths & weaknesses of the human-controller players are shown in the Character Sheet

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Animation : tuned a bit how the dynamic animation system interpolates the base anim to reach the ball

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Animation : fixed a weird anim occurring when hitting the ball just a bit after ending to move (bug introduced with the fix of the SubBuild 2022.8.10)
- Animation : fixed several other little weird things in the dynamic animation system, especially for the CPU
- Player : the players could get slightly metallic reflections in some extreme cases
- Modding : the "Images.ini" file couldn't be modded

ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Rendering : can change the brightness, both in the Video & Camera settings
- Rendering : different rendering tones can now be selected in Settings -> Video -> Advanced

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Stadium : moved a bit the Australian Slam roof, so its shadow isn't too close to the baseline, and fixed a few holes under the roof

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Players : fixed a few holes in the legs when the male player is very thin (and likely in other cases, as well as for the female player)
- Rendering : the sun elevation was incorrect when playing most World Tour tournaments
- Rendering : when the stadium hid the sun, the court could get too grey (I'm not 100% sure it's fixed in all cases, especially as Unity seems to be bugging when calculating the lighting in some special cases)
- Stadium : Shanghai walls had little holes
- Modding : couldn't see the socks whose names didn't begin by a number

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Rendering : tuned a lot of stuff so everything should be more visible when playing in the dark, late in the day, and on the side opposite the sun on mid-day
- Stadium : can now play at 19.00 & 20.00

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Rendering : Camera's Force Sun in the Back wasn't working with the new Time of Day option
- Stadium : fixed a few micro-tiny holes in several stadiums' walls that were making rays of light around the court when playing late in the day
- Match : the number of games to trigger the tie-break was still also used as the number of games in the last set
- Modding : the line judges were always getting the default position on Modded stadiums, instead of the stadium's specific position
- Modding : now all NPCs have a unique name, so they can be moved around if wanted