View a summary of what's new in 2.55.

Features

• add 'Note' item wizard, notes can play relative strings now b55a47b39
• add enemy flag to control if affected by "Kill All Enemies" b102f3fb0
• add option to use the native OS dialog to select/create files 5953252f5  

  A new button allows using the OS dialog to select/create a file. This can be used directly by setting the Native File Dialog option in the launcher.

Editor

• show CSet in combo pages b6b0f0365
• hex entry for string control code dialog 6d5b46655

ZScript

• allow function return and parameter types to use [] 9a797f67c  

  This doesn't enforce array types, but allows 3.0 scripts to be backwards-compatabile with 2.55

Bug Fixes

Player

• npc scripts for many enemies ending after one frame 5c44cb6ba  

  Enemies larger than one tile use a different code path than other enemies, and that path was mistakenly only allowing scripts to run for a single frame.

Editor

• prevent invalid string access resulting in crash a29a80185

ZLauncher

• hide update tab on linux 843167862

Build

• add cmake install commands for linux 139839098
• update GME, which should resolve the final gcc build issue 154ac73e7
• set default install folder on linux to ~/zquestclassic b982a1f5a
• generate changelog when doing linux install 592236643

Refactors

• remove expensive busy loop in render throttler 218b38ec0  

  Replaces a busy loop with a much cheaper mutex condition variable to control FPS.

  The maxfps option now works for values less than 60 fps.

Player

• add cache to generation of translucency tables 10d8b84c0  

  This took up a lot of CPU time during the titlescreen and during animations such as screen wipes / triforce pickup / etc.

ZScript Standard Library (std.zh)

• delete unused and unwanted stuff 5291c4cd2  

  These files have been deleted from the std library:

  • std_zh/assert.zh
  • std_zh/astar.zh
  • std_zh/infostring.zh
  • std_zh/math.zh
  • std_zh/std_legacy.zh
  • std_zh/std_meta.zh
  • std_zh/std_update.zh
  • std_zh/std_user_defs.zh
  • std_zh/std_vars.zh
  • std_zh/weapon.zh

   

  These files either do not belong in a standard library (too specific), are not finished, or otherwise provide little to no value so are just a maintenance burden.

ZScript

• reduce the scripts included by default 0891e663c  

  This removes some scripts that aren't useful, or aren't a good fit for default inclusion.

  • delete gameover_menus.zh
  • delete LISP.zh
  • delete Music.zh
  • delete sprites.zh
  • delete styles.zh
  • delete theRandomHeader_v2.zh
  • delete ZVersion.zh
  • delete tango/1.0 and tango/1.2 (keeping just 1.3)
  • move sram.zh to deprecated/sram.zh
  • move theRandomHeader_v3.zh to deprecated/theRandomHeader.zh
  • move time.zh to deprecated/time.zh
  • move example scripts to headers/examples
  • remove std including EmilyMisc.zh - include yourself as needed

Tests

• add newbie_boss.zplay and recompile test 094702d13

Misc.

ZLauncher

• remove tounge-in-cheek tooltip from Fullscreen checkbox d672593ca