Tennis Elbow 4 News

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Online : the sliding start was making the player display all corrupted
- Online : the racket could get permanently misoriented after a slide
- Gameplay : the sliding could make the player start a sliding forehand when he should be doing a normal backhand, and vice versa
- World Tour : loading an old saved game could crash

After a big stall of nearly 2 months because I got badly sick and then was left very tired, here the 1st important update in a while, with a long-awaited new feature : the sliding..! ːsteamhappyː

It'll likely be tuned and evolve a bit with future updates, but the basics are all there, and it looks quite nice to see the players finally sliding.

And here is the changelog for this new version :

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Gameplay : now the players can slide, on all surfaces but more often on clay & grass ; this provides a bit of extra reach ; the sliding is automatic if you have enough speed and stand at the correct distance and if the ball isn't too high, but if you don't press a strike button at the correct time, the sliding will start a tiny bit late and your player will be a tiny too much on the ball ; when you slide, you put less spin in the ball on the normal & slice strike
- Strike : added a 2nd double-handed forehand, very loosely inspired from Gambill ːsteammockingː
- Hall of Fame : updated all the real records to the end of 2021

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Surface : tuned a bit the color of the grass, clay & blue-green cement courts (only in the 3D courts for now, not the 2D Backgrounds)
- Animation : fixed the off-hand on the 1st double-handed forehand
- World Tour : now, in Pro difficulty and above, you'll get a bit more experience points overall, and your skills will drop a bit less fast
- World Tour : raised a bit the resting rate of your player when his ranking get very good

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Menu : the selection with a controller could get blocked in the "Exit current match" screen
- Gameplay : the service line was seen as bigger than it was by the line judges
- Gameplay : fixed a crash that could happen when pressing the acceleration buttons right before starting to serve
- Helpers : "[Network] HideOppHelper" wasn't working correctly (it's in your Tennis.ini)
- Recording : launching a recorded match without having loaded a World Tour saved game 1st was making the game crash
- World Tour : your player was sleeping (and thus wasn't resting) if you had played too much during the same day (ie: playing singles + doubles)
- World Tour : player's potentials when starting a new career with an existing player were all wrong (since the previous update)
- World Tour : most women had a one-handed backhand instead of a 2 handed one
- World Tour : the yearly stats of a Junior ending #1 that year were hidden
- World Tour : the game could crash on a new week, after adding a player in the player base & then loading a saved game ; this bug could also do some funky stuff on the past rankings of the players (visible when seeing H2H or stuff like that)
- World Tour : the OutfitTE4 codes in the player base weren't loaded correctly

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Player : the male player had his feet inside the ground since yesterday's update ːsteamfacepalmː

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Player : added 3 face shape customization, thanks to sixstringseraph ! (only available for the high LOD player male)
- Modding : you can now define the custom camera for 2D courts like this :

[Camera]
AspectRatio    =    16:9
AutoU1        =    0.3323
AutoV1        =    0.2106
AutoU2        =    0.8297
AutoV2        =    0.7810

ie: no more manual positioning of the camera, you just note down where are the top left & bottom right corners of the lines ! To get these coordinates, divide the pixel's X by the width, and the pixel's Y by the height (so the coordinates will be normalized and thus will still work in case you resize the image afterwards). U1/V1 is the top left line corner, and U2/V2 the bottom right line corner. For courts without a corridor, add this line :

AutoNoCorridor        =    1

- World Tour : you can now change the saved game date format by changing this line in your Tennis.ini, under [WT_Static], change this line : "SavDateFormat = yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm" (HowTo => topic19-32161.php )

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Skills : a few of the main player mental skills would change the 1st time the career was reloaded
- World Tour : the tournament limit for your Junior player was miscaculated when you were participating in the main draw in singles and had lost in the doubles qualies (and vice versa)

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Animation : slighlty tuned the 2H-Backhands #1 & #3 so the off-hand animation is better positioned and smoother (especially for the male player)

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Animation : all strikes requiring up/down direction (in legacy TE2013 controls) could have their animation weirdly played with some acceleration and slow down during it