113921-pte / 113918-pte / 113895-pte / 113890-pte / 113876-pte

Hello Commanders,

We have a new PTE build with some UI changes for modders to test with before we go live.

This build is expected to break some UI mods.

Technical Notes

Reworked start:

• Responsive layout
• New background
• New watermark logo on top right
• New build version displayed on top right
• Classic style favourite or random commander
• Improved events (from community mods)
• Improved news
• Improved videos
• Improved streams
• Improved mini leaderboard
• Improved credits

Reworked settings: (work in progress)

• Responsive layout

Reworked Galactic War card layout:

• Responsive layout for system and inventory tech cards that should display all text clearly

Reworked live game eco bar: (work in progress)

• Responsive mirrored layout highlighting the 3 key eco numbers (energy, efficiency, metal)

Reworked social bar visibility:

• Assumes always visible with individual scenes like gw play and live game controlling visibility and layout
• Live game handling via main scene has been disabled

Reworked main: (113890-pte)

• New splash handling

Reworked armoury: (113890-pte)

• Responsive layout
• Improved TITANS upgrades
• Improved handling when steam overlay not available

Reworked replays browser: (113895-pte)

• Responsive layout
• Added winner (from community mods)

Modding

Mods may break in the following scenes if they make assumptions about layout:

• start
• gw_play
• live_game_econ
• settings

Mods may also break in any scene if they make assumptions about the social bar position.

There are now two versions of Coherent UI / Chromium which can make UI testing challenging:

• Coherent UI 2.6.8.x / Chromium 40 on Windows / macOS
• Coherent UI 2.5.9.4 / Chromium 28 on Linux

https://caniuse.com/#compare=chrome 28,chrome 40

Known Issues

• Wrapping of Galactic War inventory cards with UI scaling above 100%
• Stretched Kickstarter logo in credits on Linux
• Legion Expansion start menu theme is currently broken (will be updated soon)
• Hotbuild2 settings layout broken

113890-pte

Reworked main:

• New splash handling

Reworked armoury:

• Responsive layout
• Improved TITANS upgrades
• Improved handling when steam overlay not available

113895-pte

Reworked replays browser:

• Responsive layout
• Added winner (from community mods)

Reworked Galactic War card layout:

• Responsive layout for system and inventory tech cards that should display all text clearly

113918-pte for Linux Mesa testing

Restores Linux CoherentUI to 2.6.8.x / Chromium 40 with:

• Fixed segfault due to boringssl / openssl conflicts
• Fixed no alpha transparency with mesa resulting in black screen except for social bar

You can play against stable servers using --version 113909

Known Issues / Work in Progress

• Corrupted panels
• Black screen
• UI does not respond to clicks

Toggle full screen (default keybind alt+enter), resize window or reload UI (default keybind F5) to reset.

Transparency issues on Nvidia

https://planetaryannihilation.com/guides/planetary-annihilation-public-test-environments-pte/

113921-pte for Linux testing

Enabled DRI3 and fixed transparency issues on Nvidia from 113918-pte.

You can play against stable servers using --version 113909

Known Issues / Work in Progress

• Corrupted panels
• Black screen
• UI does not respond to clicks

Toggle full screen (default keybind alt+enter), resize window or reload UI (default keybind F5) to reset.

• Videos may fail with mesa
• Network connections fail in Steam Linux Runtime pressure vessel container

https://planetaryannihilation.com/guides/planetary-annihilation-public-test-environments-pte/