Sprite relief
- Walls and entities are now lit with depth: every sprite carries a baked relief map, so lamps and the sun catch the near side of a wall run, a crate or a body and shade the far side. Wall seams stay smooth, no grooves between pieces.
- Lamps have a height, so a ceiling light shades things differently from a floor lamp, and the sun leans harder as the day moves off noon.
- It is on by default. SPRITE RELIEF in Video settings turns it off, which gives you exactly the old lighting.
- First tuning pass: the light and sun strength on relief sit at three quarters so it reads as shading, not plastic.
UH-1H
- Landing clearance: the tail boom and the fuselage sides now count. A landing is refused if a wall, roof or dense structure sits one tile ahead of the nose, four tiles behind the tail or one tile either side, so the Huey no longer parks its tail through a building. Mobs, holes and water never block a landing, and the rotor disc does not count.
- Walking into a crew seat slides you onto the chair, so you are centred on it rather than standing in the crowd knot beside it.
- Hovering a vacant Huey seat, roller bed, portable surgery bed or operating table now reads "drag a mob onto it to buckle".
- The cabin is back to 2x5. The empty nose row is gone and the flight consoles sit on the pilots' tiles.
- Cabin lights light the cabin only. A parked Huey no longer spills light out of its doorways onto the ground.
- The flight console scrolls when its sections run past the bottom of the window instead of cutting them off.
- Blood, soot and spent casings inside the cabin stay on the interior floor art instead of drawing over the fuselage edges and doorway cut-outs.
Fixes
- 40mm rounds can now be fired out of the Huey. The tripod MK19, the M92 and the underbarrel launcher all refused an outside target from inside the cabin; they now leave by the open door and land where you aimed. From a flying Huey the round flies on to its aimed tile instead of bursting one tile outside the door and blowing the blast back into the cabin.
- The mounted M2 door gun drew the wrong firing arc once the helicopter turned. The arc, the aim and the spread circle now follow the cabin heading; the shots themselves were always right.
- Inside a turned cabin the melee lunge and the plant-charge lean nudged nose-north; they now turn with the hull.
- The crew monitor, the ERT tracker, the F2 world map and the extraction distance line all read a rider aboard the Huey as thousands of tiles away or did not draw at all; they now read the map tile under the hull, including while flying.
- A parked running Huey outside a roofed room was heard bare through an open doorway. It is now muffled by the roof like rain, whatever phase of flight it is in.
