Platformer Game Engine Project v0.4.3

Happy holidays everyone!

Following the beta release in February, this is a more stable snapshot release.

This release can be thought of as an edge between the past and the future: Following this release I plan to place full focus on Moondust/PGE's Engine development. I'm sure that the experience we've gained while developing the X-Tech project will come in handy a lot from here on.

Note: To get the full buildable source code please use the "pge-project-linux-0.4.3-full-src.tar.bz2" archive in this list, it will include all necessary submodules. Regular zip and tar.gz downloads will not include them and therefore they are unbuildable (this is an unfortunate limitation of GitHub).

Common 0.4.3

• Native support for the MSYS2 build environment via build.sh script
• Added config pack ID key for managing the compatibility between different runtime engines and universes
• New icons by Tails608
• Added a new component called "PaletteFilter"!

Engine 0.3.3-dev

• Fixed crash on missing player animation sequence
• Added support for Android
• Added protection from an excessively high frame speed which may appear due to incorrect v-sync settings in video driver settings
• Fixed incorrect animation setup after height change via user's NPC.txt configs
• Added Data() class into Lua API to store any custom data in-game save
• Fixed incorrect utf8 processing of translation data
• Fixed unstable glyph length value in the message box with mixed TTF and raster fonts
• Added French translation by NathanBnm
• New icons by Tails608
• Added ability for the proper detection of custom resources on case sensitive file systems

Editor 0.3.2

• Added support for an element (Block, BGO, NPC), section, and level-wide Extra Settings
• The config pack can now specify the default file format
• When SMBX64 formats are default, the strict mode is turned on in untitled files
• Added Chinese translation by 快乐爱的小精灵
• Added a safer file saving strategy
• Fixed the imperfection that allows using level file selector in the untitled world map file
• Added an ability to hide or disable certain field or feature from the config pack
• Added Dutch translation by Gameinsky
• LunaTester now is cross-platform and no more needs a 32-bit Editor on Windows for work (LunaLoader-exec.exe module is required)
• Fixed unneeded special values reset for NPCs
• Fixed incorrect animation setup after height change via user's NPC.txt configs
• Fixed a clumping of elements inside the Tileset Editor
• Added separated music boxes toolbox for world map
• On Linux and macOS is no more need to try restart Editor twice after the crash: a single try should start Editor normally
• Added NPC config pack option to disable "Auto-Increment" support for custom values of spin-box type
• Fixed inability to change the special value by level/episode custom NPC INI config file
• Added hotkeys for "Create New": Ctrl+N for levels; Alt+N, M for world maps; and Alt+N, N for NPC configs; Ctrl+Shift+N will spawn a menu to select a type of file to create
• Fixed an incorrect NPC frame shown as the new-placing cursor phantom
• Improved UI of Tileset Editor
• Added scroll area into Tileset Editor's scene to allow use it on smaller monitors
• Added a grid drawing in the Tileset Editor's scene
• Fixed confusion of world map scenery order while going through editing history or copy-pasting
• Fixed unnecessary music enabling bug on a world map
• Added "is-meta-object" element option in a config pack to hide elements from exported images or the game entirely
• Added French translation by NathanBnm
• Reworked a testing sub-system to make it more modular
• Added a level testing integration with the TheXTech engine
• The LunaTester has been reworked: now it's fully asynchronous and much more stable. It works with full backward compatibility with a bunch of LunaLua versions: tested with next toolchains: LunaLua-SMBX 1.3.0.2 (LunaLua 0.7.3.1), SMBX2 Beta3, SMBX2 MAGLX3/PAL, and SMBX2 Beta4. For Beta3 and older it needs to put a "LunaLoader-exec.exe" module to make a testing work.
• Fixed an incorrect logic of a theme loading and switching mechanism
• Fixed an ignore of locks for item types by an eraser
• Extended a context menu of level and world map surface
• Appearance improvements for the crash handler dialog
• Added a level testing integration with the SMBX-38A engine
• Added ability to change the font size
• Added support for alternative Editor images and animations (config pack entry settings with "editor-" prefix)
• Added the support for item icons (alternative pictures shown in tilesets and item lists)
• Added camera grid for a preset grid for visualizing screens worth of a level
• Added the "select all" item search option
• Added the "Current section only" and the "Search in selection group" item search criteria
• Improved the work of an unused resources clean-up tool
• Fixed the logic of a resource importer that was broken a long time ago
• New icons by Tails608
• The background image selection menu has been reworked
• Added the dark color theme which can be switched to in application settings (thanks to Enjl for partially helping out here)
• Fixed the wrong alignment of items after redoing a paste
• Fixed a bug caused by the middle mouse button bring pressed while placing mode in the process
• Changed the logic of the eraser tool: it will not show a selection rectangle and will act more friendly and simpler
• Added the missing layer visibility changing history tracking action
• Fixed an inability to override the grid offset by custom INI file
• Fixed an incorrect displaying of warp point direction arrows for two-way warps
• Replaced arrow pictures used for a warp point direction arrows with triangles to prevent overlapping by arrow tails
• Added ability for the proper detection of custom resources on case sensitive file systems
• Added the Music Setup dialog for easier configure of MIDI and chiptune music
• Notify when a 32-bit Editor is running on a 64-bit Windows operating system

Known bugs:

• Changing the palette in some cases will not be updated properly. A restart of the Editor will be needed to properly apply changes.
• Changing the palette into default will not restore the default UI style and Fusion will be used. A restart of the Editor will be needed to properly apply changes.

Playable characters Calibrator v2.3

• Begin the changelog
• Behavior now is more user-friendly: automation, question boxes, menus, etc.
• Added the full inheritance support for calibrations: custom calibration INI files since now can have the partial set that can be auto-filled from the default settings
• Added the support for SMBX-38A calibrations format, embedded into level files

Music Player v1.4.2

• Added tempo change slider (will work for some formats only)
• Added tooltip to display current volume value while sliding volume by mouse
• On Linux and macOS, it's no longer required to attempt to restart MusPlay twice after a crash: a single attempt should now start MusPlay again normally
• File association now works on Linux
• Music looping control: added ability to set loop to 1, 2, 3 times or keep loop forever
• Added position and panning effects controlling for SFX testing
• Added Audio Settings to change sample rate, format, and count of channels
• Added an ability to change Timidity config path on the fly
• Added an ability to change FluidSynth SF2 path on the fly
• Added an ability to change the audio output on Windows