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
- If you do this, it adds the graphics to all relevant select graphic dialogs, at the end, allowing you to choose custom graphics without having to remember the number schemes
- A set of nodes for building complex strings in a string buffer; to reference the string buffer anywhere a string is expected, you can use -8 as the string number
- A node to pause the action for a specified period of time
- Nodes to alter traits, action points (only in combat), and PC/monster names
- Node to create a new level 1 PC with a specified race, name, graphic, hp, sp, basic stats; custom graphics supported too
- Nodes to test for deadness, spells, alchemy, and status effects
- Node to centre the view on an arbitrary space
- Node to lift the "fog of war", which currently means the unseen and light masks (which can actually be disabled in preferences anyway)
- Node to edit maps (ie, specify which areas are explored)
Changes to existing nodes:
- All the rectangle nodes that affect terrain now work outdoors.
- Play sound node now has an asynchronous option
- Fix min and max modes being swapped in the check statistic node
- Select PC now allows restricting to dead PCs or to PCs with free inventory space
- Select PC now calls the "on cancel" node if a non-interactive selection fails
- Affect deadness node now allows: setting/clearing the "fled outdoor combat" flag; setting/clearing the "absent" flag used for splitting the party; (un)deleting a PC
- If context node can now check if the party is in a specific boat/horse as opposed to any boat/horse
- It's now possible to affect weapon poison, martyr's shield, acid, and life detection from a special node
- Affect nodes now always take resistances into account when harming, but never when helping
- 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
- Monsters now properly decide whether they can enter damaging terrains
- The possibility of being unusually vulnerable to a damage type is introduce - such monsters would take double damage from that type
- Merge most of the spell usable abilities into a single "cast spell" ability which can take any spell as an additional parameter
- Merge the affect status usable abilities into a single "affect status" ability which can take any status as an additional parameter
- Merge acidic and poisoned weapon into a single "status weapon" ability which can take any status as an additional parameter (though the handling for other statuses isn't yet implemented)
- Fix mass charm spell getting worse as you intelligence bonus increases
- Mass charm item spell is now easier to resist (an unintended side-effect)
- PC versions of Wrack and Unholy Ravaging implemented (for use as item spells)
- 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)
- As a side-effect, weapons with key skills other than the conventional three (edged, bashing, pole) are now fully supported (though the scenario editor UI doesn't yet support them)
Also:
- Print "Target Spell" before the explanatory prompts, instead of after (when fancy targeting)
- Fix sell costs being drawn on top of the button
- String-insensitive comparing for dialogue keys
- 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.
