Unvanquished Alpha 30 Has Vertex Data Optimizations, In-Game Improvements

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 5 August 2014 at 08:26 AM EDT. 3 Comments
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The 30th monthly alpha release to the promising Unvanquished open-source first person shooter is now available.

In-game improvements with Unvanquished Alpha 30 includes new armory model, a new hive model, a new beacon system, and weapon intertia is more realistic. For its "Daemon" game engine are also vertex data optimizations and numerous bug-fixes. The vertex data optimizations should lead to more efficient vertex attributes and thus less GPU memory usage per model and potentially performance increases.

Learn more about the Unvanquished Alpha 30 improvements at Unvanquished.net.
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