- For monster attacks, 'd4' now means '1d4' instead of '0d4', and simple numbers without a 'd' are not accepted
- Pop string path after pushing it in the shop test cases
- New space-filling forcecage (possibly not finalized)
- New appearance for pushable stone block
- New red slime monster graphic by ADoS
- Six new item graphics by ADoS
- New bookshelf terrain by ADoS
- Rename unblockable damage to "weird" and special damage to "unblockable"
- Monsters now support immunity to any damage type
- Fix using wrong damage type for bonus damage in PC-on-PC attacks
- Forbid use of unblockable (formerly special) damage by the scenario designer, except in special nodes; if hacked in, it's replaced with weird (formerly unblockable) damage.
- Fix damage amount text in animations (both single-frame booms and fully animated booms)
Changed the following things from weird (formerly unblockable) damage to unblockable (formerly special) damage:
- Starvation
- Debug 'K' command
- Damage from items forcibly ending flight
- Damage from bashing doors
- Fix some issues with Hostile B monsters (their presence didn't prevent taking nearby items, and they became Hostile A after a mindduel)
- Fix the town a saved creature was in not being saved in the saved game file
- Fix town not going hostile when you damage a friendly monster
- In the game, text placement is better-aligned on the main-menu buttons, in the PC stat area (both PC info and food/gold/day), in the PC items area, and in the text info bar.
- Fix leaving artifacts of previous titles in the PC stats area
- Title of PC items area is now in yellow, to match the PC stats area
- Bold text now actually looks bold (affects all programs)
- In the scenario editor, the location of the info strings above and below the toolbar are fixed
- Text in the PC editor has received numerous tweaks too numerous to list. In particular, text on the right buttons is better centred, and gold and food aren't stuck together.
- PC editor now shows race even if it's a monster race
- PC editor now recognizes the presence of the forcecage status
- PC editor now shows all traits and status effects, even if the PC has every trait or every status effect in the game.
- Fix variable town entry and saved item rects not being saved if they referenced an invalid town
- Fix "blank" scenario timers being saved
- Fix junk data appearing in timers
- Output operators for location and rectangle types
- Set timer node_type to 2 when loading from town record
- First of all, the program no longer crashes after an error.
- A lot more constraints are now checked for, such as required elements; even some constraints not expressed in the schema
- Special node parsing now has actually useful error messages
- Map data parsing now has error messages for the few invalid cases
- Fix the XML utility exception classes originally used only by the dialog engine; they're now correctly caught and properly report the error
- Fix loading of special shop entries
- Fix accepting any character as the separator in dice constants
- Verify that the monster ability type is on the right ability tag, that the extra element is present only if needed for general abilities, and that the missile and range elements are present for non-touch general abilities
- Use "infinite" for quantity in special shop items, instead of 0
- Tweak ticpp to fill out file/line/col information for _all_ exceptions, not just parse errors
- Raise error (ie, set stream failbit) when failing to convert an enumerator, instead of silently returning a default value (they do still return a default value though, if you don't bother to check stream state)
- Fix status effect enumerator not being correctly saved/loaded
This includes the following changes (mostly related to the above):
- Move loc_compare functor to location.hpp
- Add reattach() function to rebind a town or outdoor section to a different scenario object. (I don't think this is strictly necessary, as the scenario reference is only used in limited situations in the game itself, not in the editor, but it's better not to keep a reference to freed memory around when importing a town or sector from another scenario, even if the reference is never accessed.)
- Fix imported towns not being officially "loaded" until you explicitly use Load a New Town to reload them
- Fix Choose button in Load New Sector dialog
- More functions in the vector2d implementation
- On load, the game now detects graphic sheets and sounds whose IDs are "discontinuous", as well as graphics intended to directly replace preset graphic sheets.
- Edit sheets dialog can now handle "discontinuous" graphics. (The edit sounds dialog already could.)
- Edit sheets dialog prompts user to create a new sheet if there are none already, and also if there are some but not ID 0 (in the latter case they can cancel and still edit the sheets).
- Edit sheets dialog prompts user to convert sheets if the scenario is legacy, rather than doing it silently
- Edit sheets dialog now has "new" and "delete" buttons
- Edit sounds dialog now has functioning "delete" button
- You can copy/paste images into the sheet, or import/export to/from png files
Also:
- Picture controls in the dialog engine have a new "scaled" flag; if set, the picture will be scaled into the provided bounds rather than overflowing. Currently, only full sheets honour the setting.
- Nearly every enum that gets written to a file now uses a symbolic form rather than a numeric form. Input supports both forms.
- The special node type enum, however, no longer has a symbolic form output operator, as the only place it's output is in the special nodes file which uses the opcode.
- Collected some enums scattered around the files into one place in simpletypes.hpp
- Nuke some uses of strcpy, sprintf, etc; current info strings in the scenario editor are now stored as std::string instead of C-strings.
- A smarter method of calculating the "erase" terrain for a given terrain type. In case of impassable spaces, trims, and walkways, instead of using the ground terrain, the trim terrain (if any) is used as the erase terrain; if there's no trim, ground 0 (cave, by default) is used. The method of determining if two terrains are essentially the same (ie, whether to paint or erase) has also been improved a little.
- Also, to reduce confusion, the erase terrain is now shown beneath the paint terrain.
Terrain changes:
- Add "archetype" flag as a better way of determining which amongst a set of terrains sharing the same ground type should be considered as the most basic terrain of that ground type. It's automatically applied to any terrains using original graphics when importing an old scenario; generally, any with no terrain special will be marked as an archetype, but if the lava graphic was used, it's instead any with a terrain special. It's a crude method that may easily break, but probably not possible to do better.
- When importing old scenarios, set the two walkways to be separate ground types while the crops should have grass as their ground, and the conveyors have cave.
- Fix fly, boat, block horse LEDs not being cleared if a terrain lacks that flag when using the arrow buttons. This could lead to terrains accidentally picking up the flags of nearby terrains in the list.
- Fix the block horse flag was not correctly saved when closing the dialog.
- Fix the block horse flag not being correctly loaded from the scenario file
- Enlightenment status now wears off over time
- Improve ghost mode - now you can pass through force barriers and forcecages too (but not escape forcecages); also locked doors or specials that block your progress... pretty much nothing can block your way now in ghost mode.
--> Part of this change was made in the previous commit as well.
- New debug command - Give Item. Since this is meant for debug use only, you have to enter the item's ID; players should instead use the character editor.
- Fixed custom spells (with Start Targeting node) not correctly honouring the range in combat mode (instead they had a range of 0)
- Fixed custom spells (with Start Targeting node) always calling a local node to determine the effect of the spell. Now they call the same type of node that initiated the targeting (so, if it was initiated in a scenario node, they call a scenario node, etc).
- Fix some unintentional switch fallthroughs
- Flash Step erroneously printed a "not implemented" error message
- Fix get num response dialog incorrectly formatting the prompt
- Fix some crashes while talking due to the game still assuming there were 60 nodes
- Fix SDFs with y >= 10 not being zero-initialized when you enter a new scenario
- Allow special nodes to aware more than 200 XP in one batch (though in most cases, you probably don't want to)
- Fix Display Small Message node trying to use the wrong string, due to applying the legacy string modifiers. This also affected Debug Print Nums, which just copy-pasted the same code.
- The Dumbfound/Enlightened and Sleep/Hyperactivity status effects no longer "wrap" into each other. Thus, if you're dumbfounded, a "Cure Dumbfounding" item never enlightens you, but if you're not dumbfounded, it will.
- Fix an issue with invalid strings when porting outdoor shops
- Fix Reset Help option in the preferences causing a crash
- Number of terrain types - as long as the last terrain in the list is unused, you can delete it
- Number of monster types - as long as the last monster in the list is unused, you can delete it
- Number of item types - as long as the last item in the list is unused, you can delete it
- Number of special items
- Number of strings (scenario, journal, outdoors, town)
- Number of signs (outdoors, town)
- Number of description rectangles (outdoors, town)
- Number of town entrances (outdoors)
- Number of dialog nodes (town); number of personalities per town is still limited, but since you can use personalities from any town and the number of towns is unlimited, you still have effectively unlimited personalities
Other related stuff:
- Fix ability to select nonexistent terrains/items/monsters from the palette
- Fix inability to find unused special strings in some cases
- Fix sometimes incorrectly selecting the current node as the next node in the chain, instead of a new node
- When cancelling from the special node dialog, it's a bit more intelligent about whether or not to drop nodes from the end of the list
- Edit string dialog now has a cancel button
- Save otherwise unused talk nodes if they contain strings, to avoid loss of data that might be important
- Fix scenario and journal strings loading incorrectly if some strings were blank
- Fix some issues with list modes activated by menu not appearing until the mouse moves over the window
- Fix incorrect instructions in list modes (it's alt-click, not command-click as the instructions indicated)
- Implement "erase town entrance" button and create a visual difference between town entrances with an assigned town and those without
- Fix inability to erase monsters after the first 60 in town
- Fix escape key accepting changes in the shop dialog, instead of cancelling
- Fix quest/shop list resetting to top after editing one
