It’s that time again! The Momentum Mod team has been hard at work on the latest update, 0.5.0-prealpha. 0.5.0 is an incremental update that overhauls many UI elements in the main menu as well as fixing some glaring issues with the previous builds. By far the largest change is the new main menu design, which is based off of NicolasDe’s GameUI2 from his mod Project-9. Huge thanks go to Nicolas for letting us use GameUI2 in Momentum Mod....
The development team has been hard at work on the biggest update yet: pre-alpha 0.4.0. This update is split into four sections: replays, comparisons, accurate timer, and map finished UI screen. By far the largest addition is replays, which automatically record for every run and allow the player to watch their run or share it with others. In a future update we will upload these files to our global leaderboards to allow easy watching of any replay, as well as downloading from the in-game leaderboards....
As many bhoppers and surfers are aware, the smallest interval of time that can be calculated by a Source Engine server is the interval between two ticks, proportional to the tickrate set by the server owner. The server tickrate is just the server’s ”framerate” for simulating movement, physics, and other game logic. Note: bhop and kz servers use 100 tickrate, and surf servers use 66 tickrate. This means every tick takes 0....
Our website has finally been updated, and the frontend is now no longer just a placeholder! We’ve switched from the Javascript-based blog template to a lightweight and modern bootstrap frontend, complete with comprehensive mobile support. This update required us to completely re-write all the HTML and CSS for the frontend, as well as make many changes to the underlying Python/Flask backend. However, the new website makes effective use of Jinja2 ′s in-HTML python interpreter, which allows us to extend the layout easily and create new pages quickly, as well as control the content inside a single HTML document....
0.3.0-prealpha is a large update to the look and feel of Momentum. Release notes: Completely overhauled UIVelocity is can now be colorized based on acceleration (togglable, on by default)Added strafe sync numerical display and visual bar (also colorized) Added keypress display with jump and strafe counter Added dialog showing statistics after you complete a run Added support to save run statistics per-stage as well as overall, which will be expanded upon in future updatesAdded time splits for stagesChanged main menu Font has changed Custom settings panel for all of the new momentum-specific settings Changed colors of all panels in the menu to align more with Momentum's color scheme and aesthetic....