View a summary of what's new in 2.55.

Features

Editor

• 'Notes' per-screen for editor use 4ed3e71bc
• ffc editor now previews large ffcs 20ba0bc09

Bug Fixes

• Improve dropdown numerical search e9e127f73
• update 'default.qst' aa948b117  

  Several default subscreen fixes (some by P-Tux7, some by myself)

• reduce sfx buffer to decrease lag caused by e7c214e ef8ce36a9
• removed flag that was breaking mod playback b7ac0c6a8

Player

• hardcode 120 for zscript alpha register 80b70b43f  

  This fixes some quests that only look at the alpha version and, seeing it was now 0 presented an error message to the user.

• 'delete' within a destructor being buggy 3c86a76b8
• 'Spotlight' combos on changer/ethereal ffcs still shooting light c04ea1ba6
• fix buggy color flickering on big player sprites bb644e0c8
• some variables being improperly reset on 'Continue' 489e32212

Editor

• 'View Map' favorite command skipping menu 0a21ba8ff
• avoid overwriting screen bookmarks on quest load d1386ba10
• 'Gen Flags' being missing from combo advanced paste a50934b68
• Crash in ZInfo menu if descriptions are long cef01b5c1
• crash on reducing map count ba8f2dfd5
• warp dialog selector mishandling negative dmap offsets 19917e9f7
• upgrade tile+combo 'move' code, more things now update on moving tiles/combos 6aae56ece  

  Also fixes some issues with 'undo'ing moves, and adds Combo Protection for in-use combos.

ZScript Standard Library (std.zh)

• update to remove use of 'deprecated' functions/vars 61cccce71
• 'TRIGFLAG_' constants were off-by-one at a certain point in the list f2fc4df01

ZScript

• some array-related functions breaking for arrays >65535 in size 9c5d9aed4
• class variables not shadowing global vars properly 8d7658367
• some wrong error messages related to mapdata FFC access 9909f5c1b
• disallow casting custom objects to unrelated types 8a48221a9  

  A bug in type conversion allowed this code to compile:

  Object obj = new Object();
  int number = obj;
  int numbers[] = {obj};

  The above code now produces a compiler error.

• handful of zasm commands using wrong name 960da1145
• handful of zasm commands using wrong name 40537d3ab
• Trace(string) using wrong register d845df6a8
• wrong names for zasm npc InitD and item WeaponHitWidth 324d86cac
• various symbols with broken compiler output 982ec4d75  

  • npc->Attack()
  • npc->CanSlide()
  • npc->ConstantWalk(int[])
  • npc->ConstantWalk8(int[])
  • npc->FloatingWalk(int[])
  • npc->HaltingWalk(int[])
  • npc->HaltingWalk8(int[])
  • npc->isDead()
  • npc->NewDir8(int[])
  • npc->Remove()
  • npc->Slide()
  • npc->StopBGSFX()
  • npc->VariableWalk(int[])
  • npc->VariableWalk8(int[])
  • Trace(char32[])

• remove some unimplemented symbols and correct some types fd4e4b434

Documentation

ZScript

• add documentation regarding 'Hero->Warp()' and its return square b90683ccb

Refactors

ZScript

• better 'read-only' compile warnings a58cf4f05
• deprecate many getters/setters, replace with variables 7a20dab49  

  ~40 built-in methods exist in this style:

  int Max(); // Returns the max.
  void Max(int value); // Sets the max.
  int GetCurDMapScreen();

  These have been deprecated and replaced with a variable, like so:

  int Max; // The max number.
  int CurDMapScreen;
  

Tests

• add tests for read-only vars and deprecation d8d56745e

Misc.

• update themes 702396d7f