01/11/2025 - JSquare Edition

01/11/2025 📌

• Map .cfg generator

  For a mapper, the most tedious step is probably setting up the .cfg file, all those unused default textures, all those manual replaces... not anymore.

  SauerWUI now have edit commands to make it easy to remove unused assets and generate a custom cfg:

  • removeunusedtextures

  • removeunusedmmodels

    As the name suggests, they remove all unused content from the map, giving you a clean texture browser and a clean mapmodel browser.

  • writemapcfg <name>

    A clean list of textures and models requires an appropriate cfg file; this command will take care of that for you, including not only textures and mapmodels, but also mapvars and mapsounds. The file is created in the packages/base folder using the map name by default if not provided.

• Emoji Support 💪

  If words aren’t enough, now you can add an emoji to any text input using the <e:> marker with a Unicode value, like:
  <e:1F438>.
  

• radaroverlay <1/0>

  Option to display a copy of the radar in the center of the screen; you can adjust the size and transparency with radaroverlaysize and radaroverlayopacity.

• Frag Announcer sounds

  Now you can feel more hyped while fragging! If you score the first blood or pull off a combo of 2 to 5 kills, you'll hear encouraging messages.
  There’s also an Intermission announcement.

• Scoreboard Flag

  Players carrying the flag are visible on the scoreboard accompanied by a flag icon, just to satisfy your curiosity.

• Controller Support

  If you're tired of blaming your keyboard or mouse, now you can blame your controller too; just plug it in and you should be ready to suffer go.

  You can adjust the sensitivity and binds in your autoexec.cfg file (see data/wui/joystickbinds.cfg, note: changes to this file will only take effect if you run it manually with /exec).

• Keep command history

  You can use maxhistorykeep to control how many commands will be retained across different sessions in your command history.

Check readme for full list of modifications

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27/07/2025

A new cutscene system with a bunch of commands for all your filmmaker needs:

show cutscene commands

• playcutsceneat <file> <start> <end>
• cutsceneplaybackstart <file> <start> <end>
• cutscenerecordstart <file>
• cutscenerecordover <file>
• cutscenerecordcontinue
• cutscenerecordpause
• cutscenerecordend
• cutscenerecordload <file>
• cutscenerecordrestart
• cutscenerecordsettime <minute:second>
• cutscenerecordsetframe <frame>
• cutscenecamdebug <1/0>
• cutscenecamdebugsize <0.25/4.0>
• cutscenecamdebugpath <1/0>
• cutscenecamdebugpathstep <1/100>
• cutscenecamlerpfrom
• cutscenecamlerpto <ms>
• cutscenecamclear <direction>
• cutsceneactorclear <id>
• cutscenecurrentframe
• cutsceneframeslen
• cutscenecurrentfile
• cutscenestate <state> <time>

Not only that, cutscenes also allow dynamic display of subtitles, audio, images, and mapmodels!

All part of a custom format supported by SauerWUI: .ctscn. See more about cutscenes in the readme.

There is also a new .obpy format for exporting maps to Blender, including textures, vcommands, lightmaps, mapvars, and skybox:

• writeobpy <name> (map)
• writemmobpy <name> (mapmodels)

Since it’s a custom format based on .obj, it requires an add-on to be imported into Blender:
Blender .obpy Importer.

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07/07/2025

• dumpmmodels <name> <optional texture path>

• dumpmaterials <name>

  commands to export all materials and mapmodels (with textures) of the current map as a single .obj and .mtl file;

• particletex_ID new mapvar-based particle that allows displaying dynamic texts with CubeScript. (/newent particle 14 <id> <size> <color> <orientation>).

  

Check readme for full list of modifications

Known Issues

Currently it won't work if you install it side by side with a P1xbraten installation (reasons I still don't know), so I recommend installing it alongside the vanilla installation.

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The installation is meant to go alongside the vanilla client, that's why essential folders like packages are not included.

When running the installer, select the folder where your Sauerbraten is (make sure you are not accidentally creating a directory inside it).

02/07/2025 - JSquare Edition

02/07/2025 📌

• importobj <file> <size> now supports material colors (not all colors may be displayed depending on the size parameter you set);
• to make things easier, the binary can now be downloaded with the updater; just restart the client as soon as an update finishes;
• new writeobjuvmap <name> <dump lightmap texture 1/0> to export a map as a .obj file containing lightmap coordinates;
• new importlms to replace the current map's lightmap with an external image (the image must be "indexed colors" type; see below for how to convert it using GIMP).

how to process lightmaps using GIMP

28/06/2025

• the updater can now ignore specific files;
• new experimental level_monsterai for custom ai scripting;
• new loadmonster command to load custom monsters from .cfg files;
• safedo can no longer assign aliases;
• new safemmodel command to load model cfgs with whitelisted commands.

Check readme for full list of modifications

Known Issues

Currently it won't work if you install it side by side with a P1xbraten installation (reasons I still don't know), so I recommend installing it alongside the vanilla installation.

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The installation is meant to go alongside the vanilla client, that's why essential folders like packages are not included.

When running the installer, select the folder where your Sauerbraten is (make sure you are not accidentally creating a directory inside it).