AVALANCHE
AVALANCHE is a third-person action game, set in the Final Fantasy VII universe,
and featuring music from Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream.

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11:30 pm (CST): The new version of AVALANCHE is up on the download page, version 0.4. Here's what's new in this version:
  • Added Endless Battle. The Endless Battle is only accessable once you have defeated Sephiroth and finished the game. In Endless Battle, Tifa is pitted against an endless stream of ever-strengthening enemies, providing a challenge even for players with maxed out stats. If you can get past 1000 kills, you get a special reward.
  • New font creation and manipulation capabilities for modders.
  • Fixed several problems with the unsupported vertex lighting path (thanks to TifaTalk user lparcshinoda for the bug report).
  • Fixed a bug where returning from the battle arena could cause Tifa to clip into the chocobo and get stuck forever in the battle arena.
  • Fixed a string pool bug in the server logic module, which could cause unintended behavior after prolonged periods.
  • Fixed a problem where Tifa could potentially get herself stuck inside of forcefields (thanks to TifaTalk user Mreow for the bug report).
  • Modified SDK code so that debug builds do not cause problems when used with a release-build rcube.exe.

Endless Battle

There is still a small 1MB patch file that will upgrade you to v0.4, from v0.1, v0.2, or v0.3, as well. A new SDK version is also out. Check the SDK's included readme for a list of files modified from the last version. It also includes an Arial sample font with the full range of characters, which can optionally be used by mods. On that note, there is also a new mod on the download page, called "Arial". It simply replaces the game font with the Arial font.

12:30 pm (CST): The next AVALANCHE version is currently in development. Mostly bug fixes. I've also added a routine to export out any truetype font to the R-Cube font format, which will allow modders to create new fonts easily. This was done largely with the Italian translation mod in mind, this will allow them to export a new font with all of the proper extended ascii characters including the accented vowels. Examples of impact and comic sans being used in the game:

new fonts

I will probably be doing a release sometime in the next few days here. So, if you have any requests for features or fixes, go post them on the forum before it's too late.

5:00 pm (CST): There is a new version of AVALANCHE up on the download page, version 0.3. Here's what's new in this version:
  • Fixed the "time wrapped, restarting" issue. Thanks to Midboss for testing this fix.
  • Fixed a bug which would cause the player's stats and game state to be reset when dying in the battle arena immediately after loading a savegame. Thanks to MatrixKyubi777 for pointing this bug out.
  • Added an engine.cfg option called "joyRightSwap", which can be set if your joystick's axises appear to be swapped (up/down is left/right, and vice versa).
  • Added a -skipintro command line option, which bypasses the intro dialog.
There is still a small 1MB patch file that will upgrade you to v0.3, from either v0.1 or v0.2, as well.

11:30 am (CST): A lot of people have been reporting joystick calibration issues, and I managed to reproduce this with my PS2 USB pad. AVALANCHE v0.2 is now available on the download page. There is also a small 1MB v0.1 to v0.2 upgrade file for those of you who have v0.1 and don't want to download 300MB again. This new version should resolve issues with other non-360 analog controllers, and it also has an engine config option to bind joystick buttons to emulate an analog slider (for cycling inventory items).

Oh, and there is a little tech demo mod on the download page as well. A little known fact by most people on the user end these days is that given most modern hardware, whether a model has 1,000 triangles or 50,000 triangles, it will still render at nearly the same speed because everything is bound by fillrate and draw calls, not vertex/triangle counts. Performance numbers and bottlenecks are quite a bit different now than they were 10 years ago. So, since I can't have anyone thinking my technology isn't the fastest and most amazing thing in the world, I made a test mod that pushes draw counts and triangle counts to ridiculous limits, with around 1,000,000 fully animating and vertex-blended primitives, primarily for benchmarking. And for strange and disturbing music with floating heads that fly by flapping their ears.

11:00 pm (CST): News of AVALANCHE seems to be spreading very slowly through word of mouth. I hope those of you who have tried it so far have enjoyed it. I thought you might enjoy this beautiful experiment with gravity balls and tonberries:


It's my new desktop wallpaper.

9:00 pm (CST): The site is live, and the first release of AVALANCHE is finally available. Get it here, and while you're waiting for the download, check out some screenshots and videos here, or read the online AVALANCHE Instruction Manual here.

10:00 pm (CST): I had to engage in some last-minute multiplayer bug fixing. Tomorrow is probably going to be the day.

5:00 am (CST): Final AVALANCHE testing and feedback adjustment is underway. The site will be completed and going live shortly.








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