Mcheli Overdrive

Changelog

Vehicle Physics & Suspension

• Reworked civilian vehicle suspension for smoother terrain traversal, more accurate wheel contact, and improved chassis stability.
• Improved pitch and roll calculations across uneven terrain, slopes, and diagonal obstacles.
• Fixed excessive suspension compression, incorrect wheel positioning, and inconsistent damping.
• Improved client/server synchronization of vehicle tilt and suspension movement.

Distant Vehicle Rendering & LODs

• Added independent long-range vehicle synchronization, allowing aircraft, helicopters, tanks, ships, and turrets to remain visible beyond normal entity tracking distances.
• Added distance-based synchronization, movement interpolation, and optimized network updates.
• Integrated vehicle LOD rendering with Distant Horizons terrain and depth information.
• Improved transitions between fully rendered vehicles and distant models.
• Fixed distant vehicle disappearance caused by chunk unloading and render ownership conflicts.
• Added configurable server-side visibility, synchronization, and chunk-retention limits.

Weapons, Ballistics & Targeting

• Fixed laser rangefinder accuracy, sensor positioning, and long-distance block/entity intersection calculations.
• Added vehicle-mounted laser range and elevation controls.
• Added optional Distant Horizons terrain-based range estimates for unloaded terrain.
• Reworked long-range projectile chunk loading with bounded budgets, improved persistence, and reliable cleanup.
• Extended server-authoritative missile acquisition and guidance beyond normal entity tracking distances.
• Improved AA/AT missile locking, target persistence, top-attack behavior, and fire-and-forget guidance.
• Corrected handheld weapon origins and seeker launch validation to use authoritative server positions.
• Preserved manual TOW guidance and existing radar, infrared, and laser targeting restrictions.

Sensors & HUD

• Unified terrain ranging across rangefinders and targeting pods.
• Improved terrain point marking, including distant terrain support and estimated-distance labels.
• Fixed point-marker projection crashes and visibility issues.
• Fixed scoped targeting camera zoom calculations.
• Temporarily disabled entity spotting through rangefinders, targeting pods, and sonar pending a gameplay rework. Terrain marking, friendly indicators, sonar damage, and missile targeting remain functional.

Shader & Rendering Compatibility

• Fixed #703, restoring MCHeli vehicle geometry rendering with Angelica and supported shader pipelines.
• Reworked model vertex submission to correctly handle positions, textures, and normals while reusing existing mesh buffers.
• Fixed shader shadow