Latest News

Switched from CVS to SVN

Posted by Matt L on 2008-06-04 20:04

After some careful thought and planning we have migrated from CVS to SVN. Everyone using the CVS repository should switch to the SVN repository as the CVS one is now locked. For read access the following should work:

In other news there has been progress on the physics simulation and uboats now act more realistically. Dive control is now possible with both rudders and ballast tanks. Other recent hi-lights include a new hi-res model for the type IIA bridge (Using an experimental shader).

There is still no news on the next release, it will come when it is ready.

Development continues

Posted by Matt L on 2008-03-20 17:36

Development is continuing at a steady pace, Matthias (ad-530) has recently joined the coding team and is working on the ship recognition manual and generally getting used to code, so from all of us here a warm welcome :). Tjordi is continuing his work on the new physics code, ships now sink in a realistic fashion and you can (tentatively) ram ships with the latest CVS. Other changes in no particular order:

• New buoyancy code
• Empire class of (merchant) ship added
• Under the hood, each object in the graphics engine can have it's own shader assigned
• The Soldbuch screen has been added
• New mission start screen
• Support for flotilla's and accompanying graphics
• Some interesting cloud experiments
• The usual bug fixes and plenty more that I've forgotten

No release date has been set for the next version (0.4.0), so if you want to get your hands dirty and try out the CVS version instructions can be found at the bottom of the download page.

CVS and future releases

Posted by Matt L on 2008-01-10 15:14

We have decided to change the minimum OpenGL requirements from OpenGL-1.5 to OpenGL-2.0. This should only effect CVS builds and the future 0.4.0 release. There are many reasons for this but the foremost is to make the code and shaders easier to manage as we don't have the resources to work around BUGX found in card FOO.

Version 0.3.0 Released

Posted by Matt L on 2007-06-12 21:44

The Danger from the Deep team are proud to announce that version 0.3.0 (ALPHA) is now available for download. New features include:

• Updated to OpenGL2.0/GLSL1.1 for lots of eye-candy
• New user-manual
• All the old shaders have now been replaced (Need a GLSL1.1 compliant card to enabled the shaders)
• 4 new uboat types, the type IIA, IIB, IIC, IID
• New skins for all the above uboats
• The "Captain's cabin" screen featuring the log book and several other new screens
• A new Tribal class destroyer with 5 new skins
• Fixed texture mappings on all models
• Water now reflects per-pixel thanks to the new shaders
• Fixed translations and rendering
• New font for all in-game text
• Improved night sky
• Periscope now blurs when wet
• All models are now capable of having moving parts (rotating turrets, elevating guns, etc...)
• Hall of fame now works
• Code is now multithreaded
• A new sound system has been added
• Improved torpedo management screen
• New basic "torpedo-cam" added
• Distance haze was improved for daylight rendering
• Water now uses geo clipmaps
• New water splashes on impact
• VBO and FBOs are now used
• Tons of bugfixes

Binaries, installers and the source is available on the download page.

New installers

New installers for Windows and Linux are available. They contain all data needed to play the game. Just download and execute them. Note, that all data is contained, so the packages are big (60mb). But on the other hand, you can play the game by just downloading one file. Have fun!

Version 0.2.0

Posted by Thorsten Jordan on 2006-12-10 21:30

Danger from the Deep 0.2.0 is out! Many more features have been added in the last months. A short list of the changes:

• Many new high quality models: Corvettes, Liberty Ships, North Sands class CAM-Ship and many more
• Improved sky rendering
• Skin support added for models, giving great variety of models and looks
• Improved ocean rendering with foam, spray and splashes
• Ingame menues for easier input handling (press right mouse button to show them)
• Advanced sonar (listening device) simulation.
• New music tracks with game theme and atmospheric ingame sounds
• New vessel preview in main menu
• Improved torpedo simulation featuring all historically available types
• More platforms are supported

Version 0.1.1

Posted by Thorsten Jordan on 2006-04-14 13:23

Danger from the Deep 0.1.1 is out. Many more features have been added in the last months. A short list of the changes:

• new SSE intrinsic code for x86/64 and x86/32
• new sky rendering
• MSVC compile fixes
• new font and some gui changes
• display per torpedo info
• sensor detection code once per second, not once per frame, improves performance
• convoy fixes (position simulation)
• added mission editor
• added Kennebac class tanker
• fixed widget bugs
• more data per model (country etc.)
• fixed some models
• new panel (smaller), new message display (nicer)
• fixes for popups
• new popup: rangefinder card
• shader fixes
• new vessel preview
• added doxygen documentation
• improved model format (with relations)
• fixes for compatibility with newer drivers and OpenGL2.0
• improved water rendering (mirror distorsion effect)
• TDC improvements
• Parallax angle computation and display
• new faulthandler for debugging segfaults
• load/save format changed to xml based data
• better perlin noise generation
• new sounds and music
• new background images for menues

Version 0.1.0

Posted by Thorsten Jordan on 2005-10-16 18:05

Danger from the Deep 0.1.0 is out. It is finally there! A huge amount of work was done in the last ten months. It was time to make a release anyway. The list of changes is countless, especially the visual part of the game has improved dramatically. Please check the screenshots in the gallery to see some examples for what has changed.

Version 0.0.19

Posted by Viktor Radnai on 2004-12-25 21:52

Danger from the Deep 0.0.19 is out. The main purpose of this release is to fix some of the the problems people reported when compiling the game from source. Also this time there's an up-to-date Debian package ;)

Version 0.0.18

Posted by Thorsten Jordan on 2004-12-12 11:06

Version 0.0.18 of Danger from the Deep is out for Linux (source) and Windows (binary). Linux packages for Debian or RPM are yet missing.

The main features of this release are the improved graphics and physics, especially new superb interface graphics made by Luis Barrancos! Further we have smoke, explosions, fire and spray.

As usual, get the files from the Download section of the site or the SourceForge project page. Please report problems to the dangerdeep-devel mailing list.

Version 0.0.17

Posted by Viktor Radnai on 2004-04-29 10:48

Version 0.0.17 of Danger from the Deep is out for Linux (source) and Windows (binary). New to this release, a Debian package is also available.

The main features of this release are the improved water simulation, improved coastline and a hall of fame.

As usual, get the files from the Download section of the site or the SourceForge project page. Please report problems to the dangerdeep-devel mailing list.

Version 0.0.15

Posted by Viktor Radnai on 2004-01-21 08:39

Thorsten was busy working on the game through the holidays and has released two new versions, 0.0.14 and 0.0.15. Some of the new features include:

• Saving and loading games
• More realistic looking water using bump-mapping

As usual, get the files from the Download section of the site or the SourceForge project page.

Version 0.0.13

Posted by Viktor Radnai on 2003-12-02 01:28

Version 0.0.13 of Danger from the Deep is out. This release adds the following features:

• New model format (3ds)
• New water appearance
• New clouds
• Terrain drawing on map and 3d (no interaction with terrain yet)
• Some fixes
• Drawing speedups
• Some new internal features
• Simple model viewer
• Sun and moon simulation and rendering
• Vessel movement influenced by waves
• Free turning of view in bridge mode (right mouse button)

Get the files from the Download section of the site or the SourceForge project page.

Version 0.0.12

Posted by Thorsten Jordan on 2003-08-05 05:07

a new release that fixes missing images in the data package. 0.0.11 was not playable because of this bug. additionally many new features are available.

problems with the windows version: some keys are not working (unzooming of map etc.) reason is yet unknown. anyone interested in windows maintainership should mail us.

Version 0.0.11

Posted by Thorsten Jordan on 2003-07-10 05:33

NOTE: 0.0.11 data package was missing some important files! So the game did not work! We hid the release. Please try 0.0.12 instead.

The first release with both, linux and win32, binaries. As always you'll need the data package and the source or linux-bin or win32-bin package with an equal version number to run the game. Note that the Win32 version also needs runtime libraries (dlls for sdl, sdl_image) available from libsdl.org.

The most annoying bugs for win32 are fixed, both versions are functionally equal and compile from the same sources. VC6 project files are available at the CVS repository.

Win32 Port

Posted by Thorsten Jordan on 2003-07-07 04:44

We have begun working on the port to Win32 (VC++6 minimum). It compiles, links and runs but there are still bugs. The mouse pointer is missing on some computers, some keys don't work right. BUT it is playable yet ;-)

File structure:

copy directory data in the same directory as dangerdeep.exe.

To run it, you'll need several DLLs: sdl.dll, sdl_image.dll and its related dll's (jpeg.dll, png.dll, zlib.dll, ...) placed in the same directory as the .exe, . see http://www.libsdl.org for download.

Further you'll need msvcrt.dll and several other vc6 dlls, just search google to quickly find and download them. Maybe this will be fixed in future releases. Maybe we'll make a ready to run win32 release.

How to create custom missions

Posted by Thorsten Jordan on 2003-02-28 05:59

Just add a line in file data/missions/list containing the file name without extension (e.g. "testship") and create a new name in the language files (data/texts/*.text), this is not absolutely neccessary, but without that, you can't read the mission's name in the menu.

Package versions

Posted by Thorsten Jordan on 2003-02-24 00:53

Just to avoid any confusion according the different packages and their versions: you'll need exactly the same version of data and binary package or data and source package. The CVS tree contains source and data, you'll need both when checking out files from cvs.

Sourcecode available on CVS

Posted by Thorsten Jordan on 2003-02-18 00:22

code and data of version 0.0.5 (and newer) is now available at the CVS repository. CVS code may be much newer than releases, e.g. 0.0.10 was months after 0.0.9 with MANY changes.