- 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
Can't Enter node renamed to Prevent Action, as it's a more accurate description of what it does. It has been expanded to cover the following cases, all of which are documented:
- When the special node was called during an attack action (which involves a weapon whose ability is to call a special node when attacking, or an item or monster ability that calls a special node when hit), then Prevent Action reverses the action point cost.
- When called as the result of a purchase (a shop item that calls a special), then Prevent Action prevents gold from being deducted (which is also new in this commit, as before it never deducted gold)
- When called as the result of using a normal item (not a special item), then Prevent Action prevents a charge from being deducted
- When called as the result of a monster using its ability, then Prevent Action prevents the action points from being deducted
- Cases it already covered (cancelling initiation of talk mode, searching of containers, outdoor wandering encounters) have been documented
- The fact that it will break things during talk mode is also documented now
Start Spell Targeting node has been tweaked and gained some new options:
- You can allow the player to target opaque or antimagic spaces. In town mode, you can prohibit them from targeting antimagic spaces.
- You can specify a special node to be called if targeting fails because they selected an invalid space, or because an special node keyed to spellcasting context cancelled it
- You no longer get a "Hit 'p' to cancel" message. Even better, hitting 'p' does not cancel it. (Well, more precisely, it triggers the failure node, with the party's or pc's location as the target space.)
Misc:
- Fix crash outdoors due to trying to check for force barriers
- Add instant help message
- Prevent from ending town combat if one member is in a forcecage or if everyone's in a different forcecage (you can still end it if everyone's in the same cage)
- If entering town combat while caged, everyone remains in the cage
- Penalties to melee combat if the target or attacker is in a forcecage (higher penalties if the attacker is caged, unless they're using a pole weapon)
- Instead of placing a forcecage at every location where someone gains forcecage status, the game now syncs forcecages (placing them on locations where someone has forcecage status) at the end of the move.
- The Flash Step and Word of Recall spells and any specials that move the party also clear their forcecage status, so that a new forcecage won't appear on their new location. If they're moved into a forcecage, the syncing process will give them the status at the end of the move.
- Forcecage status now supported for the Occasional Status item ability
- Forcecages now eventually expire on their own even if you can't break out. Unoccupied ones also have a slight (0.1%) chance each turn to expire.
- Affect Status node now allows forcecage status. (It also works as documented, using Extra 1c rather than 2a as the status type.)
- Preset monsters placed in preset force cages gain the status at town initialization; it's a lot more than they'd gain through the syncing process, so unless they break free, it'll last a very long time.
- Monsters/PCs with spells (and PCs with Mage Lore) now have an increased chance of resisting entrapment in a forcecage
- If the full party is subject to a forcecage, the PC with the best chance of breaking free (assuming they don't resist) is chosen to determine whether they resist. Note that this may not be the PC with the best chance of resisting in the first place.
- Protection from Forcecage now implemented as an item ability
Other stuff (though related):
- Reset party's combat pos to the null location (-1,-1) after a cutscene ends; to not do so would mess up get_loc() calls
- Add Windows icon for scenario files (using the old Mac icon)
- Fix OpenAL not being deleted, causing the program directory to remain
- Fix association for old scenarios (.exs) not being removed
Also:
- Fix build broken in previous commit (due to header renames)
- 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
- Monster radiate abilities can now specify a spell pattern to use
- Fix some abilities being incorrectly shown in the editor's ability details dialog (for example, radiate abilities were shown as "Summon aid")
- Add the recently-added monster missile types to the options offered in the editor
- Fix chance of activating not being editable for the martyr's shield ability
- Show the monster summoned for summoning abilities (finally!)
- Show the subcategory for unusual abilities (one of active, passive death)
- Fix the displayed percentage chance for summon abilities (the permille was shown instead)
- Fix incorrect action point display in the editor for the two recently-added monster missiles
- Fix crash when editing a missile ability
- Fix abilities page not showing the newly-added or recently-edited ability after exiting the detail/option dialog
- Fix pick monster button for summoning abilities being off by one
- Fix documentation of how to format map graphics, to match the logic in the code
- Fix display of map graphics both on the automap and in dialogs
- Add Choose button to select the map graphic
- Fix the vanishing text bug again (this time it only triggered for fields with a single character in them)
- New buttons: "place forcecage", "place stone block", and (currently non-functional) "erase town entrance"
- Forcecages with no creature inside them are now permanent
- Fix forcecages leaving the top half behind when they disappear
Bugs:
- Arrow keys activated the arrow buttons in the list-mode edit string dialog
- Graphics classification was not saved correctly in some cases
- Contact info was not correctly saved/loaded
- Place Monster node didn't have a choose button for the monster type
- Alt-Backspace and Alt-Delete did not work correctly in dialog text fields
- When clicking Edit Terrain Types, sometimes the list of items or monsters would appear instead
- Fix monster 0 being selectable in the choose monster dialog
- Fix the hotspots of all the cursors to be more intuitive
New:
- When interrupting a special node sequence with Cmd-. / Ctrl-C, the dialog that appears is more relevant.
- In the choose sound dialog, the sound now plays when you select a choice, so you can hear what it will sound like
- Added a tiny icon so you can distinguish fire and force barriers in the editor
- 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
- Missing special node opcodes
- Pass the party's (or in combat, the active character's) current location to special nodes triggered by timers
- Fix the set pointer node
- Fix terrain palette not correctly registering clicks while scrolled down
- Fix sheets not correctly being copied from the temporary files folder
- Fix monster abilities not being loaded from new scenarios
- Fix custom sheets not being reloaded if they have changed
- Documentation tweaks
- Fix some uninitialized fields getting populated with random data
- Fix identity of last edited town and outdoor section not being saved
- Fix editor sometimes saving to application directory instead of overwriting the loaded scenario
- Fix town specials being saved to outdoors list and vice versa
- Fix right-most column of map not being loaded properly
- Fix town entry node for start town being called after the first turn of the scenario
- Add option to call a special node at startup (right after the intro dialog)
- Vahnatai race implemented
- Pacifist trait implemented
- New trait: Anama - classified as a disadvantage but also has some perks
- PCs with bug race now immune to web fields
- PCs with undead/demon races now do that type of damage on unarmed attacks
The new races and traits probably still need some work/balancing.
- Fix escape not ending shop mode
- Fix outdoor special spots not being drawn
- Fix special spots sometimes appearing off the edge of the sector in the scenario editor
- The job board is loosely based on Exile III's job board; the dialog is converted from the one contained as a relic of E3 in BoE
- Quest system is loosely based on a mix of Exile III jobs and Blades of Avernum quests
- Talking to a monster (even a hostile one) can now trigger an arbitrary special node
Dialog engine:
- LED's now support wrapped labels
- Augmentation - gives one PC bonus hit points
- Nirvana - gives one PC negative dumbfounding and bonus spell points
- Icy Rain - like Firestorm, but cold damage
- Flame Aura - Damages spaces adjacent to caster
- Summon Aid - Like Summoning, but only summons one
- Major Summon Aid - Like Major Summoning, but only summons one
- Flash Step - Short-range teleport
- Fix Blade Aura spell not having refer and timing information; it also had the wrong ID (82 instead of 72
