18 January, 2002

• Added new shader features. It is now possible to get almost any parameter in a shader script to be supplied by the game code. This adds a whole new level of dynamic programmability to the shader system.
• Wrote a couple of shaders to test out the new features and ended up creating a really cool beam in effect.
• Updated the drop console command that is used to drop players from a multiplayer game. Now accepts the argument all to kick all players out of a game cleanly.
• When the server quits, it now makes sure that all clients are disconnected cleanly.
• Fixed dedicated server bug. If starting a dedicated game server directly, subsequent runs of Cipher would also be in dedicated server mode. Fixed.
• The game code can now request that the server aborts the game if there is a problem loading a map (or any other requirement a game might have).
• Started work on new animation system.

Not Cipher related, but I have also been making good progress with Daily Build and Task Tracker.