- Nuke global preference variables (they're now fetched with get_xxx_pref whenever needed)
- Nuke magic SDFs that store preferences and other info
- The only preferences now stored in the saved game are those related to difficulty
- play_sound no longer takes an option repeat parameter, but instead takes a delay which will be used if sounds are disabled
- SDF array increased to 350x50
- When saving a legacy scenario, a dialog is shown to remind you to update and to allow you to clear the legacy flag
This includes an added optimization to the resource manager - it now uses unordered (hash) maps instead of ordered (tree) maps to keep track of loaded resources and paths, for the average constant lookup time.
Game:
- Roads now show on the automap again!
- Possible fix for undetected issue in displaying outdoor special spots
- Road conversion code for legacy scenarios now applied in towns too
Editor:
- New tool for placing roads, works the same as special dots
- Roads appear at all zoom levels
Other:
- Removed all terrain graphics that used the small road dot, replacing them with blank (white) space
- Make obvious out-of-bounds array accesses an error in the project settings
- Node to change a monster's location (also works on party members)
- Node to temporarily place text on the map
- Fix the "lift fog" node
- Remove the optimization of only redrawing a terrain space if it has changed
- Introduce enum for step sounds
- Remove union for treating terrain flags as either signed or unsigned
Editor:
- Add Choose button to select the "transform to" terrain.
- Implement Choose buttons as appropriate for the terrain flags, including editing the special that a terrain calls.
- Range-check the terrain flags.
- Add Custom button to choose a town as the combat arena.
- Fix/tweak/improve several of the terrain flag prompts.
- Fix placing shortcut key in field as its ASCII code instead of the letter
- Fix some of the range checks that were already in place but were incorrect or improperly static
Game:
- The wilderness terrain types now allow specifying how many d6's of food you get when hunting there.
- Crumbling terrain uses flag 2 instead of 3 to determine method (flag 2 was supposed to be strength but was never used)
- Merge two functions that did almost exactly the same thing (namely altering a terrain space and potentially updating conveyor/lights info)
- Merge switch_level into handle_lever since it was the only place it was called
- Remove global store_special_loc; the location is stored in the stuff_done array now
- Change when use/step on terrains will now update lighting if they changed to a terrain with a different light level
- Terrains that call a special no longer support mixed global/local modes - they either always call a local special or always call a global special
- Use previously unused swap_ter function (which did the exact same thing as the swap terrain special node)
Dialog Engine:
- Don't "erase" invisible icons or buttons; it's not necessary, since the entire window is filled with background before the draw() method is called, and it causes problems in case of overlapping elements.
- Negative dumbfounding increases effective magic skills; works on monsters too (though it already did)
- Martyr's Shield no longer permanent on monsters
- Invisible status effect works on monsters (same as permanent invisibility)
- Poisoned weapon status effect works on monsters (adds poison to their first melee attack)
- Restore Mind spell no longer removes negative dumbfounding
- Invulnerability status effect works on monsters (same as permanent invulnerability, and stacks with it)
- Magic resistance status effect works on monsters (halves fire/cold damage)
- Negative magic resistance doubles magic/cold damage (both on PCs and monsters)
- Fix crash while resting outdoors
- Fix screen not going dark while resting
- Fix crash when starting a new game from the death dialog
- Fix several typos that completely broke combat and special encounters
- Fix bless/curse being inverted when applied to PCs
- Fix booms not showing when stepping in damaging fields in combat
- Fix crash when attempting to save a game that has never before been saved (due to clicking cancel at the initial save dialog)
- Fix some of the flickering during animations
- Support "special" damage on PCs - pierces invulnerability much like it does for monsters
- Fix monster missiles sometimes being mistargeted in combat mode
- Fix iLiving->index conversion
- Add special damage to scenario editor list
- cCreature split into seperate file-pair from cMonster/cTownperson
- fileio.cpp split into general, party, and scenario sections
- classes.h file deleted
- Advanced town details now offers edit buttons to edit the specials immediately
Changes to dialog engine:
- Fix tiny buttons stretching to fill label area
- Fix LEDs stretching if label area is higher than LED button
- Fix LEDs ignoring font setting
Game changes:
- Remove support for playing a sound and displaying strings when a monster is first seen, since these behaviours can easily be obtained by using the special node called in the same context.
Dialog engine changes:
- Support for changing the font size of LEDs
- When setting the page, a stack now applies a default value if the map is missing the required data
- Add utility "addPage" method to stacks
- If reducing the page count means the current page is deleted, a stack now switches to the last page
- Export of monster missiles and summons
- Rendering support for custom PC graphics
- Fix display of stats on startup screen
- Fix implementation of animate attack node
- Abilities are much more generic, but also much more complex; a set of "templates" is provided to try to make it more accessible
- There is now a possibility for monsters to charm each other
- See monster strings are now fetched from the same list as the special encounter strings instead of a list of their own
- There is now a possibility for the scenario intro dialog to have a different icon than the scenario icon
- Remove unused intro_mess_len field
- Add method to the XML printer class to push a simple element with no attributes or child elements
- Automatically close any elements before writing the document to the stream
- Fix scenario editor File menu having an invisible "Close All" option that appeared when the option key was pressed
- New monster ability: radiate blade fields
- Fix permanent martyr's shield giving immunity to fire walls
- Fix paralysis ray giving immunity to ice walls
- All monsters that radiate fields are now immune to the fields they radiate
- Rename cItemRec -> cItem and cItemRec::type -> cItem::weap_type
- Clear out a lot of commented code
- Remove the flag_x members in the scenario that used to store the scenario's password hash (or something like that)
(Older saved games might still work if not in a scenario.)
- Remove items that call a special node when entering a new scenario
- Remove stone block if a monster is placed on it
- Monsters captured by Capture Soul now persist across scenarios
- Fix barrels/crates not being restored when re-entering the town
- Fix issue when saving monster status effects
- Fix version number stored in saved game file; also, it's now stored in hexadecimal
- Fix issue with saving which would have caused all but the first timer to be ignored when loading the saved game
- Fix timers being written to out-of-bounds memory when loading a saved game
- Fix use of std::skipws where std::ws was intended
- Fix issue with the fields array being shifted right by one tile on loading; also, fields array is now saved as hexadecimal
- Fields and terrain array use the town's dimension instead of dimension hard-coded (in the case of fields) or stored in the file
- Fix PC editor remove from scenario option not working properly
- Reconstruct the universe when loading a saved game to ensure there isn't leakage from the previous universe
- Fix excess padding in output tarballs when the filesize is a multiple of 512
- Add hasFile function to tarball class
- Scenario and PC editors still don't link
- Copy files stage set up in the Common project
- Scenario and PC editors now placed in Scenario Editor subfolder in the output directory
- Disabled some totally useless warnings
- "About" menuitem now considered to belong to "Help" menu (even on Mac code) as far as the handlers are concerned
- Dialog string filter is now a function instead of a custom iterator
- Modal session now requires parent window as additional parameter
- Preferences and menus work! Cursors still need some work.
- Since Visual Studio has no way of showing program output that I can find, stdout and stderr are now redirected to a file.
