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
- 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
- You now specify your name instead of the scenario filename in the first dialog
- A file dialog pops up after the second dialog, to let you choose the filename and location
- Fixed using Warrior's Grove even if you chose not to
- Fixed not recognizing .EXS as a valid legacy-scenario extension and appending .boes, resulting in .EXS.boes
- Adjust Difficulty scenario flag set on by default
- Fix attempt at accessing invalid placed town locations
- Fix attempt at accessing invalid terrain in editor when checking whether to apply transformations
- 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
- 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
- Fix scroll wheel in terrain area going beyond section boundaries
- Fix text not being drawn in dialog text fields when first activated
- Fix terrain being painted while scrolling the map to the east (especially with the keypad)
- Fix item or monster palette remaining active while editing outdoors
- When using a large brush, hilite all affected spaces
- 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
- All areas with scroll wheels can be scrolled using the scroll wheel if the mouse is in the area
- In addition, the terrain view is scrollable with the scroll wheel (hold Control for horizontal scrolling)
- The above applies in the game too, whenever the scroll arrows are visible
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
- 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
- Removed the item/monster menus in the scenario editor (they weren't function anyway)
- Scrollbars can now have a maximum value of 0; if this is the case, they do not draw a thumb
