Kruptein/PlanarAlly 2025.1

Release 2025.1

on GitHub

For more details on what's new checkout https://www.planarally.io/blog/release-2025.1/

planarally-bin provides a prebuilt client, with a python server that you'll need to run yourself.
planarally-windows provides a compiled executable that can simply be run by double clicking the exe in the planarally-windows-2022.3 folder.

Check the documentation over at https://www.planarally.io for more info

The changelog for this release:

Added

• Draw tool:
  • Added default colours for walls, windows, doors
  • These get automatically applied when the relevant vision/logic settings are enabled in the draw tool
  • Can be disabled by unchecking the 'prefer default colours' checkbox in the draw tool vision settings
  • The specific colours used can be configured in the user options Appearance section and will update shapes retroactively
• Notes:
  • Notes can now be popped out to a separate window
• NoteManager:
  • Added a button to clear the current search
• In-Game Assets UI:
  • Option to search through assets
  • Option to add folder shortcuts per campaign
    • These allow quicker navigation to frequently used folders
    • A "All assets" shortcut is always available
• [server] Assets:
  • limits:
    • Added limits to the total size of assets a user can upload and the size of a single asset
    • These limits can be configured in the server config
    • By default there are no limits, it's up to the server admin to configure them
    • These limits will only apply to new assets, existing assets are not affected
  • Thumbnails:
    • The server will now generate thumbnails for all assets

Changed

• Dashboard:
  • Changed some border colours in the create new game menu
• MenuBar:
  • Add Notes button for players
• [tech] Select tool:
  • Delayed syncing of selection state to the global state from mouse down to mouse move/up
  • This fixes some of the entries in the Fixed section
• AssetManager:
  • Changed UI of renaming assets, allowing inline editing rather than opening a popup
  • The images shown in the asset manager will now use the thumbnail of the asset if available
    • This should reduce load times and improve general performance
    • This also applies to the preview when hovering over assets in the in-game assets sidebar
  • Remove initiated from the context menu now removes the entire selection
  • Context menu retains selection unless an item not in the current selection is clicked
• In-game assets:
  • Sidebar is removed and replaced with a new Assets dialog similar to notes
  • The new UI has almost full compatibility with the assets in the dashboard
• Notes:
  • Add filtering option 'All' to note manager to show both global and local notes
  • Note popouts for clients without edit access now show 'view source' instead of 'edit'
• Dice tool:
  • Last result is now displayed in the dice tool rather than a popup window
  • Result breakdowns are shown in the last result display and history
  • Added a reroll button to quickly redo the previous roll
  • Added a reroll button to history entries
  • Add an option to roll 3D dice inside a dice box rather than over the playfield
  • Input field now scrolls to the end after populating via the on screen buttons
• @planarally/dice:
  • (this is the standalone dice library that handles most of the dice logic and rendering)
  • Upgraded to v0.7
  • Dice will now stop sliding smoother
  • Clear state can be configured
  • D100 dice now properly work in 3D for the full range (1-100 / 0-99)
    • Currently hardcoded to 1-100 in the client, but the library can be told otherwise
• I18n:
  • Added 95% i18n for zh (except diceTool)
• [server] Assets:
  • Assets are no longer stored in a flat folder structure, but instead use a subpath based structure
    • An asset with hash 35eaef2e9a116aa152f7f161f1281411cb1e1375 is now stored as assets/35/ea/35eaef2e9a116aa152f7f161f1281411cb1e1375
• [tech] Systems: Move system-core from game/ to core/ so that it can also be used by e.g. assets

Removed

• Labels:
  • As mentioned in the last 2 releases these were going to be removed
  • I wasn't happy with the current implementation and they were causing more confusion than they were useful
  • This also removes the Filter Tool
• .paa asset handling
  • This was no longer really maintained and the current frontend doesn't offer any support for it

Fixed

• Notes:
  • It was possible to open a 'view-only' note on a tab you weren't supposed to see
  • Note manager could be empty and unusable when changing locations or losing view access to an open note
  • Search filter not resetting page to 1 potentially causing a blank page if on an other page
  • Default edit access on notes was not correctly applied
  • Fix searchbar overlapping over other modals
  • Global notes no longer have a default access level
  • Notes can no longer be locally edited by clients without edit access through the note popouts
• Shape Properties:
  • Input changes could not persist or save on the wrong shape if selection focus was changed while editing (see selection changes)
• Modals
  • Dragging modals (e.g. notes) now also brings them to the foreground as if clicked
• Composites:
  • Moving composites to a different location could sometimes lead to errors on the client even though the moves were succesful serverside
• Select Tool:
  • Snapping an existing shape point to some other point could be overriden with a snap to the grid
• Game Listing:
  • Clicking on a session that shares a name with another session would foldout both