ZQuest Classic The Classic Adventure Game Engine
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Features

  • Add 'Game->OverrideItems[]' to allow forcing an item id to be "highest level owned" of its' class. bc232375d

Bug Fixes

  • Allow exiting zc when test mode gets stuck in error f18c48097
  • some bad dialog 'default's resulting in windows closing 2a4fd7097
  • event crash due to bad weapon access 82b9954f3
  • checkbox odd alignment issues 0a39e13ea
  • test quest dlg wrong button focus eae4f8082

Editor

Documentation

  • specify that linux builds should use clang e742d5a4d
  • changelog overrides for subscreen rework 237156aa8

Refactors

  • update dmap editor to new GUI 833660a15
  • Fix hardcoded icons, no longer using custom codepoint strings. 2193c4671
  • Merge New Subscreens (#879) 7441956cd

Tests

  • add (crude) RNG debugging option 97acebb06
  • run_replay_tests now forwards more args when collecting local baseline results a3513f63d
  • move zquest save classic_1st.qst test to python 7c8a5625c
  • move zquest save classic_1st.qst test to python 593beae65
  • make copy of playground.qst for quick assign test d200356d7
  • move recording test to python 770a6fe39
  • move File->New test to python 4440846b2
  • disable save test 931b20261

CI

  • run python unittest module instead of calling each test file individually bee03b3bf

Misc.

  • add '-no_console' switch to prevent debug console opening 020fb0382
  • Merge branch 'main' into newsubscr2 7aac40d6b
  • support dropping commits in changelog 1078cec21
  • allow for squash commit subjects to be changed too 23529bfc7

Full Subscreen Rewrite

The entire code behind how the subscreen functions has been entirely reworked to be less janky and more manageable. This makes editing the subscreen further a LOT easier of a task for us, and makes everything just a lot nicer in general.

General mechanics tweaks

Several mechanics have been generally tweaked, including basic things like how the selector behaves and how items are equipped. These changes are mostly spread across a variety of quest rules, but for easy swapping, there are now "New Subscreen" and "Old Subscreen" Rule Templates available [see Quest->Options->Pick Rule Templates]. These change almost every new rule related to the subscreen - the only important one that they leave alone is Old Gauge Tile Layout, which changes the tile layout used by Gauge Piece widgets.

These new QRs, as well as many existing QRs that relate to the subscreen, have been moved to the new "Subscreen" tab. These are searchable as usual via the QR Search feature.

TL;DR New QRs, check the new Rule Templates or the Subscreen tab.

Button Equipment Stuff

  • QR 'No Button Verification'- if enabled, the engine will no longer auto-equip things to buttons for you.
  • Also allows UNEQUIPPING items (try to equip it to the slot it's already equipped to)
  • Problem: With this enabled, even if you start with items, now the engine won't equip any of them for you!
  • Solution: Now you can set "Default Equipment" for each button slot! Just check the box in the ItemSlot widget, for the Active Subscreen that is set on the Starting DMap, and these items will begin pre-equipped to the buttons you set them to.

Brand New Features

Overlay Subscreens

These subscreens draw over the screen at all times, both during play and the active subscreen. As usual, widgets can have the 'Display' settings on widgets to change their visibility while the active subscreen is up, down, and scrolling. This can be used for various things, such as:

  • Displaying your current keys over the corner of the game screen, either using a 'Counter' for a number of keys or a 'Gauge Piece: Counter' to actually physically display each key.
  • Displaying button items or other similar widgets transparently over the game screen, similar to LTTP

Active Subscreen: Pages

You can now add multiple PAGES to Active Subscreens! You can either set buttons (like L and R) to cycle pages, or trigger page transitions by pressing a button on an appropriately configured widget. Changing between pages will use one of currently 3 animation styles:

  • Instant (It just jumps right to the other page)
  • Slide (Both pages slide in the same direction, the current page going offscreen as the new page comes onscreen)
    • Direction and Speed (in px/frame, with 4 decimal places) are configurable for this transition type.
  • Pixellate (Seemingly-but-not-actually random pixels from across the screen change bit by bit from the old page to the new page)
    • Duration is configurable for this type, in frames, as well as the "Invert", "XOffset", and "YOffset" parameters. These parameters only change the pattern of pixellation by altering the formula used to create the pixellation pattern.

By default, the Selector is not drawn during transitions- but this can be toggled as a checkbox on each transition.

Select Any Widget

Instead of only being able to move the cursor to "Current Item" objects (now renamed to "Item Slot"), the cursor can now be set to move to ANY widget you want it to! This has some nice interactions with other new features....

New Selector Features

The selected widget can now be set to:

  • Have overridden selection text, which will be displayed in the "Selected Text" widget (formerly "Selected Item Name")
  • Start a page transition animation on button press
  • Run a generic frozen script on button press

Yes, you heard right, there is now SOME level of scripting on the engine subscreen, even if not much.

Gauge Piece Rework

Life and Magic gauge pieces received a MASSIVE overhaul, and the "Gauge Piece: Counter" has been added to allow gauges for ANY counter! All of these behave identically to each other, except for these differences:

  • Magic gauge still has the "Show Drain" property, which is used to make a gauge piece display conditionally based on your magic drain rate (ex. show the half magic symbol when you have half magic)
  • Counter gauge lets you configure which counter to use, and how many per container to use for that gauge. Aside from these differences, they ALL can:
  • Specify a Gauge Wid/Hei, making a single widget draw more than one gauge piece, instead drawing an entire GRID of gauge pieces for you!
    • Specify an XOffset/YOffset to be applied to each row/column to create an offset-grid
    • Specify an HSpace/VSpace to space out the grid
    • Flags to specify which direction the grid "moves" in (Right to Left? Top to Bottom? Move in columns first, then rows? Snake back and forth?)
  • Hide the gauge (Or only show the gauge) when you have the Infinite Item for this gauge (works the same way as counter infinite items)
  • Specify a "Units per Frame" to reduce tile page usage. For instance, if "Units per Frame" is "2", then it uses half as many tiles for the gauge, as it uses the same tile for "1" as it would for "0", and the same for "2" as it would for "3", etc.
  • Specify frames/speed/delay for an animated gauge
  • Specify an animation CONDITION, wherein the gauge will only animate if it is above or below a certain value (either as a hard value, or as a percentage of being full). Additionally, you can specify it so that it skips the first frame of the animation when the condition is true.
    • A good example of how you can use this, is to have your life gauge only animate when your health is critically low, and use the skip first frame feature. This way, normally, your life gauge uses a single still tile- but when you reach critical life, it starts using the second tile in the animation instead (as well as any more if you supply more of an animation). This would allow for, say, cracked heart containers, blood dripping from heart containers, etc, as low-health visual effects.
  • Specify "Full Tile" mode, which causes the gauge to use full tiles instead of mini-tiles, becoming twice as wide and twice as tall in the process.

Counter Addition

Counters can now have a "Max Digits" specified, and if the counter has too large a value to fit in that many digits, it will instead display that many digits as all 9s.

GUI Work

The Subscreen Lister

The dialog where you select which subscreen to edit is now upgraded to the new dialog system. This dialog now shows you 3 separate lists for the 3 different types of subscreen!

The Subscreen Editor

  • Now somewhat auto-resizes itself situationally. This means it will be smaller for passive subscreens, larger for overlay subscreens, and will adjust to font changes.
  • Now has text displaying information about the currently copied widget
  • When editing an Active Subscreen, a whole new set of buttons for adding/removing/changing Pages is present.
  • R-Click menu has been entirely revamped, with many new options added.
  • R-Click menu now also exists if r-clicking in a spot that has no widget, which previously would give no r-click menu at all.
  • Slight tweaks to the existing menus
  • New Menu: Options.
    • Options->Mouse Settings allows you to change how the mouse behaves in the subscreen editor. You can choose between "Classic" (for the old behavior), or "Modern" (the new default, reworked behavior). Notably, in the Modern behavior, you are able to click-and-drag widgets around the subscreen editor.
    • Subscreen Settings dialog, allows you to specify settings specific to the subscreen. Currently only has settings for Active Subscreens, where some settings related to swapping pages are housed.
  • Several new "View" menu options, such as previewing what it would look like if every counter were full, or if every max counter was 65535, or if you had the "Infinite Item" for every counter, etc. Also includes an option to toggle "Show Unowned Items". If off, the editor display will show only the items as you have in Init Data.

The Widget Properties Dialog

Slight spacing tweaks, every widget now has an additional tab for selection-related settings. More widgets will use tabs for formatting now, giving the dialog a bit more breathing room overall.

  Relevant changes:

  • refactor: Rewrite the entire engine subscreen backend (WIP) 872925132
  • feat: some subscreen GUI work, new buttons for page editing 7e155ec83
  • feat: major subscreen editor gui additions f8a673431
  • feat: More subscreen work, generic scripts on buttonpress and custom selectiontext ac5f25f18
  • feat: ton more subscreen work e935320e4
  • feat: new life gauge settings 99462bf6b
  • feat: new subscreen features relating to counters, gauge pieces, and the 'View' menu 7d54ca59b
  • feat: subscreen settings dialog, buttons to change pages 9b60dc98b
  • feat: allow selectable subscreen widgets to go to another page on btnpress 82aee4b29
  • feat: subscreen page transition animations d8b22db8a
  • feat: Add 'Overlay Subscreens' 82a7b0000
  • feat: Overlay Subscreen settable in dmap editor e7b77dab0
  • feat: Copy/Paste/Save/Load rclick menu for subscreens c3a23dbdb
  • fix: subscreen rng offset dfbcaa3ff
  • fix: null dereference f9d950fe6
  • fix: cursor selector offset 536748569
  • fix: subscreen save/load errors e806cae7f
  • fix: some oddities with item slots 47e634138
  • fix: more oddities with item slots 064395320
  • fix: magic meter x offset 06e578791
  • fix: itemcache/override related fixes 9ca4eb0ec
  • fix: button item misalignment bc9f8abf7
  • fix: some more subscreen related replay errors b25433e8f
  • fix: subscreen related button item stuff ad997e2b9
  • fix: more subscreen related replay errors f13ef43ca
  • fix: compat qr item 0 being visible on buttons 47c7a6d3a
  • fix: typo in previous commit 7a8ae5e27
  • fix: more subscreen fixes e646db354
  • fix: itemcache bullshit errors 23d96075f
  • fix: selector stuff 0ea092e6d
  • fix: some item animation offsets aee731bd8
  • fix: selector offset errors 20f343644
  • fix: minor counter fixes 2db1741ed
  • chore: clean up some subscreen item animation code/replay errors 97be172fa
  • refactor: convert subscreen widgets to new constant system 2a7bc9778
  • refactor: more subscreen replay/type fixes fd5a735b0
  • refactor: work on subscreen cursor selection 1283ce09d
  • refactor: split subscrwidget flags into two vars, trim gridflags a3db000a2
  • refactor: improve subscr_props dialog arrangements 2162adf82
  • test: update 'nes-remastered.zplay', item flash animation offset 93c563aa2
  • test: Update/Rerecord 3 playground replays to fix quick-assign tests 2c8906b5d