This is AGS 4.0 Alpha 13.
Contains fixes from 3.6.1 Patches 5 and 6 (except ones related to backwards compatibility).
Other changes:
Common:
- Support true 32-bit colors in GUI, text messages and drawing commands in script. Color number properties now correspond to the encoded 32-bit RGB (R8G8B8 format). Older projects will have all Color properties upgraded by the Editor (but not colors in script!).
- Removed support for 16-bit games. Any older 16-bit project will be converted to 32-bit on import by the Editor.
SPECIAL NOTE: 8-bit games are still supported.
Editor:
- Editor will now remember certain window states: "Sprite selector" window and splitter position, splitter position in "Sprite manager".
- Copy, paste and delete commands now apply to all the selected GUI controls in GUI editor.
- Support editing group properties for selected GUI controls.
- When importing room backgrounds of a different size Editor will now let user decide whether to reset, keep or rescale room masks.
- Ensure that Editor exports room backgrounds in their actual color depth.
- Removed obsolete "Copy walkable area mask to regions" command from the Room editor.
- Merged all "***Color" and "***ColorNumber" paired properties into a single "***Color" property. This property is internally saved as a number, but is viewed and edited as RGB combination for 32-bit games, and as a palette index for 8-bit games.
- Added Custom Properties for: Audio Clips, Dialogs, GUI, GUI Controls, Regions, Walkable Areas.
- Textual GUI controls can now select "Null Font" as their font: this will prevent any text to be drawn even if one is assigned, and make it have zero size (when it matters).
- Added "/maketemplate" command-line option that tells Editor to run, make template out of the said game, and quit.
- Fixed "Flood Fill" operation on mask in the room editor for masks of sizes which are not multiples of 4.
- Fixed "Recent games" menu could throw a error if a saved Editor's config contained empty paths for any reason.
- Fixed "Make template" operation was not adding Rooms subfolder to a template.
Compiler:
- Compiler no longer requires explicit pointer declaration for imported global variables of managed types. Now they are always assumed to be pointers by default, and non-pointer imports of builtin managed types are not permitted, unless a backwards compatibility option is set.
- Fixed compiler could cause memory corruption while compiling certain expressions.
- Fixed parsing of bracketed expressions inside ternary operation ( ? : ).
- Fixed a error message reported in case of undefined symbol, now it correctly states that the symbol is undefined, instead of making a vague statement of "unexpected expression".
Script API:
- All ***Color properties and function arguments now require a 32-bit RGB number. Where Game.GetColorFromRGB() is used to create a color number, there the script should continue to work as before, but if a literal number was used in script, these must be updated by hand or wrong colors will be displayed at runtime.
- Added eNullFont constant that lets assign or pass a "null font" to any property or function parameter which expects a font's ID. This "null font" will simply make any text not drawn and have no actual measurements (size, spacing, etc).
- Added global events: eEventDialogStart, eEventDialogStop, eEventDialogRun, eEventDialogOptionsOpen, eEventDialogOptionsClose (these are handled in "on_event").
- Added Custom Properties interface to types: AudioClip, Dialog, GUI, GUIControl, Region, WalkableArea. This includes functions: GetProperty(), GetTextProperty(), SetProperty() and SetTextProperty().
- Added static Dialog.CurrentDialog property and non-static ExecutedOption and AreOptionsDisplayed properties.
- Added RenderLayer enum, and optional "layers" parameter to DynamicSprite.CreateFromScreenShot(), that tells which of the game's render layers to capture when making a screenshot.
- Added Overlay.SetPosition() and SetSize() functions for convenience.
- Added Overlay.Tint(), SetLightLevel() and RemoveTint() functions, Overlay.HasTint, HasLightLevel, LightLevel, TintBlue, TintGreen, TintRed, TintSaturation, TintLuminance properties, matching Character and Object tinting functionality.
- Expanded String.IndexOf() with new parameters: "StringCompareStyle", "index" and "count".
- Added optional "sprite" parameter to SaveGameSlot(), that lets to pass a number of an arbitrary sprite to write into this save instead of a standard "screenshot".
- Added new game-wide option OPT_SAVEGAMESCREENSHOTLAYER that lets to define which of the game's render layers will be captured when making a standard screenshot for the save game.
Engine:
- Do not alter or clamp palette for 8-bit sprites loaded into a 16/32-bit game at runtime.
- Assigning InventoryItem.Graphic will no longer reassign CursorGraphic too even if they were identical previously.
- Added new accessibility config settings in "access" section: "speechskip" and "textskip". These let player to override game's skipping style for character speech and text messages respectively.
- Fix transformed (scaled or rotated) overlays could look wrong in Software renderer.
WinSetup:
- Redesigned winsetup into a tabbed dialog.
- Added "Accessibility" settings for skipping speech and text messages.