jedijosh920/SWROTS-PC v0.6.0

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Missions of your own: scripted missions with cutscenes, dialogue and voices.

Added

• Missions and modes of your own (mods\missions\<id>\): a mission is a folder with a short Lua script, played on
  the developer map or a custom map with the game's characters or custom ones. Every installed mission is in the main
  menu under Single Player > Custom Missions, on the game's own mission select screen with its pictures,
  character, location and description; also in the debug menu's Missions tab and the debug console (mission <id>). Scripts get the game's own pieces where they can:

  • Cutscenes with the game's letterbox and camera shots (fixed, moving, orbiting, tracking, any lens), skippable
    by the player (A or Start twice, or mission next / F8 while testing). Cutscenes can be played by stand-ins
    (hide), so a scene plays the same every time whatever the fight left the fighters in.
  • Dialogue through the game's own dialogue system and subtitles, with voices from WAV files; the characters'
    own battle cries stay out of cutscenes, and a line being said when a cutscene starts or is skipped stops.
  • Animations from any character (play_anim, borrowed in [Animations]): ranges, loops, held poses, and the
    game's paired kill moves with slow motion; slow motion of its own (slow_motion).
  • Objectives, tips, the boss health bar, timers and counters, force fields ([Fields], any colour), named
    places to walk to ([Markers]), spawning, sides, AI targets, Force powers and sabers (lit or put away, any
    colour), music and sounds.
  • The end: "Mission Complete" or "Mission Failed" over the last shot in the game's message style, then a fade
    (a failed mission starts again).

  See missions and modes.

• Custom characters: a Versus mirror gives player 2 a body and voice of its own (Mesh2=, [Voice2]); any number
  of voice lines, a pack's own dialogue archive, related lines for events a character has none for, and Vader's
  breathing off for his class (Breathing=0). Up to nineteen custom characters on the Versus select screen.

• Debug console: kill makes your character fall at once, to see what a defeat does.

• Custom maps: collision of their own (Brushes=), a sky (Sky=), deadly falls (KillHeight=), point lights and
  the player's own light ([PointLights], PlayerAmbient=), draw distance (FarClip=), and Modes= to offer a map
  only to some modes.

Fixed

• Heroes vs Villains on a custom map crashed now and then (a character set up late).
• Battlefront on custom maps: troopers come back at clear places near their post, and command posts on raised floors
  (bridges, pads) work.
• An ally on your side no longer turns on you when your saber catches it.
• Live character swaps to a mod's character with a missing animation, and loose weapons' attachment points.

Thanks to @firestar300 for the custom character and map fixes
(#60, #61,
#66).

Known issues

• The Custom Missions screen shows a mission's description on one line (about 55 characters), with no briefing
  screen.
• On custom maps the computer's characters have no paths: a mission's fighters can stand still against a wall or a
  doorway, so start them in the open.

All releases: changelog