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The following are the changes since 3.0.0-prerelease.32+2024-01-24:

Features

Editor

• various updates to default.qst (File->New) e166b7a88
   

  • Add sideview swimming tiles
  • Add charge-swimming sprites
  • Add Bunny Link - this required expanding the pages per LTM from 1 to 2
  • Add BS/Z3 swimming tiles
  • Add the missing enemy tiles from Outlands
  • Magic Pols Voice now uses CSet 10, to make room for ...
  • Add Whistle Pols Voice: blocks arrows like a Magic Pols Voice, but is
    a One-Hit Kill via the whistle. Uses CSet 7
  • Improve the lifting and holding sprites
  • Improve Z3 Octorok tiles (Slow Fire and Bomb Octorok)
  • Update credits on page 109
  • Convert Bug Net to use 4-bit colour
  • Fix enemy bombs using CSet 6
  • Delete unused scripts in the tiles
  • Delete unimplemented Sprite 088 (Firework)

Bug Fixes

• zscript docs were not being generated for release package a5a9bc81d

Player

• tall grass on layers not applying its sfx/sprite 70d9abedf
• fix snapshot with NOSUBSCR not supplying a palette and not accounting for NOSUBSCROFFSET a9b90ffea
• prevent grid aligning while jumping, which broke jumping for some old quests 53db0b855
• for replay mode, whistle sfx pauses game for number of frames proportional to sfx length instead of 0 frames ed5921c9c
• hero action "swimhit" incorrectly unset due to broken isSwimming() check 192a9fa64
• combo cycling reset too early for animations with frame skips 61fc1edcf
   

  Turns out this never worked properly!

Editor

• transparent tiles not drawing correctly in map preview b9ebc75d9
• error message on failure to load enhanced music in the dmap editor 26e448194
• skipy broken in combo preview animation 43b2058e2

Misc.

ZScript

• add Region in anticipation of z3 scrolling f87c20d08
   

  To enable scripts to work in 2.55 and in a future release with z3 scrolling, we are adding a non-functional Region:

  • Region->Width: width in pixels (today, always 256)
  • Region->Height: height in pixels (176)
  • Region->ScreenWidth: width in screens (1)
  • Region->ScreenHeight: height in screens (1)
  • Region->NumCombos: number of combo positions (176)
  • Region->ID: region id (0 - meaning just a normal 1x1 area)
  • Region->OriginScreen: top-left screen in the region
  • Region->GetScreenForComboPos(int pos): given a combo position, returns the screen index associated with it
  • Region->TriggerSecrets(int screen_index): trigger secrets for given screen. The screen must be in the region

   

  For example, if a script uses Region->NumCombos instead of 176 to iterate all the combos in the current area, it will work in both regions and non-regions. Additionally you should use ComboAt(x, y) rather than anything else to translate between pixel coordinates and a combo position.

• mark combo->CSet deprecated, in favor for the better named ->CSet2 691450338