What's new in TDM 2.06

Version 2.06 of The Dark Mod has not been released yet.

See the roadmap on our bugtracker.

Coding

Greebo and stgatilov merged 64-bit support from the Dhewm3 branch
Cabalistic, duzenko and stgatilov added initial Multi-Core Support partly ported from Doom 3 BFG
Cabalistic moved the LightGem into it's own dedicated session for better threading support
Greebo and Stgatilov added FFMPEG video playback support
Blue_Pill, duzenko, stgatilov, and grayman further improved uncapped FPS support
stgatilov added SIMD support to Linux and x64
stgatilov optimized idClip::Translation
duzenko merged Mh Vertex Buffer Object "MapBufferRange" optimization
AnonReclaimer added support for Doom 3 BFG style culling: r_useBfgPortalCulling
duzenko replaced all legacy (pre 2.0) OpenGL with modern equivalents
duzenko optimized some of the loops in the render backend
stgatilov convert 90-bit FPU math to modern 32-bit or 64-bit optimized floats and fix precision issues
nbohr1more and Tels increased the "active contacts" physics limit to 128

Greebo, stgatilov and duzenko removed legacy library dependencies like Boost and reorganized the code so that the DLL just has external libraries like FFMPEG whereas the executable now contains the Game code exclusively

duzenko, Stgatilov and SteveL added initial support for Soft Shadows
duzenko GLSL backend based loosely on Pat Raynor's Doom 3 branch
duzenko and SteveL added initial support for Frame Buffer Objects
duzenko moved the Postprocess "HDR-Lite" shader setup to the backend
duzenko improved the GLSL AmbientCubicLight to use industry standard "Irradiance cubemap"
duznko new "makeIrradiance" material keyword to convert standard skybox to Irradiance.
grayman and duzenko improved security camera rendering
nbohr1more shadows no longer pulse and flicker when holding a light in noclip mode
duzenko GUI text now renders when using the "Simple" texture based ambient
duzenko ambient specular is now oriented towards the sky like to match the diffuse ambient shading