Beta 0.2.1 - Now with icons, IPv6 fix and more gravity!

Beta 2.1

General

• Gravity and jump power are now 50% stronger
• Handled servers registering using IPv6, they will now register a second time using an IPv4-only route which will allows master server to know both addresses (which will then be used by the game).
• Increased max distance of weapon_graspain
• Added icons to game and map editor executables on Windows

Fixes

• Improved visibility check of entity_tilemap_fade
• Fixed default serverconfig.lua

Beta 2.0

Highlights

• The map editor is now able to show other layers (as they would be seen in the game)
• Added bundled map scripts
• Added initial mods support
• Added server listing (with server name, description and more!)
• Added supersmashburger gamemode
• Added teamdeatchmatch gamemode
• Added teams handling
• Added new ssb_island map (with scripted events)
• Added /resetmap admin command
• The grapple will now break with too much force applied

General

• x86 arch is no longer supported
• Official fast-download and master server URLs have been added to the default configuration files
• Improved Windows and Linux builds
• Fixed hovering visuals (nickname, health bar) position when the player entity gets scaled up or down
• Added maptool (command-line software which can compile maps from json to binary format)
• The client will now try other fast download urls in case of failure
• Nicknames are now limited to 32 characters
• Switched from static to dynamic linking for common code to decrease binary size
• Updated beta_map
• entity_powerup and entity_powerup2 have been replaced by entity_spawner
• GameSettings configuration table has been renamed to ServerSettings
• Server config GameSettings.MapFile has been replaced by ServerSettings.MapPath (which can point to a non-compiled map folder as well as a compiled .bmap file)
• Added ServerSettings.Name, ServerSettings.Description, ServerSettings.Port and ServerSettings.MaxPlayerCount configs

Map editor

• Added a button to explicitly rebuild the asset list
• Maps asset lists are now sorted by path
• Fix: the entity list is now properly cleared when closing a map
• Fixed entity selection when creating a new one (previous selection is now discarded)
• When reloading scripts, all entities are now recreated (in case their init callback changed).

Scripting

• Added InputController (a script can now override the way entities inputs are generated)
• Gamemode events are now triggered on the table they used to register the event (this is important when using gamemode inheritance)
• Added PlayerControlledEntityUpdate client gamemode event.
• Added Text renderable (which is now used for showing player nicknames)
• Added IncomingNetworkPacket:ReadBoolean() and OutgoingNetworkPacket:WriteBoolean()
• Added IncomingNetworkPacket:ReadColor() and OutgoingNetworkPacket:WriteColor()
• Added Element:GetGlobalBounds() and Element:GetLocalBounds() (client-side only for now)
• Base gamemode has now BasePlayerDeathSlot and BasePlayerJoinedSlot to allow derived gamemode to disconnect them
• The Destroyed event is no longer called client-side when a layer is disabled
• Added Constraint:GetLastForce and Constraint:GetLastImpulse
• Added Element:GetOwner() on client
• Added Element:GetInputController()
• Added Element:UpdateInputController()
• Added Player:IsLocalPlayer() on client
• Added Player:GetInputs (for every player on server but only local players on client)
• Added Rect:ExtendToPosition(pos)
• Added Rect:Scale(scale)
• Added match.GetEntityByUniqueId(id)
• Added match.GetLayerCount()
• Added match.GetPlayerByIndex(id)
• Added match.ResetTerrain()
• Added math.approach(current, target, incr)
• Added table.join(...)
• Added Scoreboard:UpdatePlayerTeam()
• Added base gamemode event PlayerTeamUpdate
• Added base gamemode callback GetPlayerColor
• Added match.BroadcastChatMessage(message)
• Element:AddSprite now accepts a repeatTexture boolean
• Scoreboard:RegisterPlayer now takes a table parameter
• match.BroadcastPacket now has a second optional parameter to disable ready check
• match.GetPlayers now longer returns connecting players
• Replaced Entity:Kill() by Element:Kill()
• Elements and gamemode events can now be disconnected using the Disconnect method
• Player entities are now detected using a IsPlayerEntity boolean on their table
• Fixed gamemode overriding of the Musics table
• Fixed entity_burger_ai only targeting entity_burger (will now target any entity having .IsPlayerEntity = true)
• Fixed weapon_graspain grapple force (is now based on entity mass)
• Fixed static entities movement not being sent to clients
• Fixed a lot of small issues

Beta 0.2 - Now with new gamemodes, mod support and server listing!

Changelog

Highlights

• The map editor is now able to show other layers (as they would be seen in the game)
• Added bundled map scripts
• Added initial mods support
• Added server listing (with server name, description and more!)
• Added supersmashburger gamemode
• Added teamdeatchmatch gamemode
• Added teams handling
• Added new ssb_island map (with scripted events)
• Added /resetmap admin command
• The grapple will now break with too much force applied

General

• x86 arch is no longer supported
• Official fast-download and master server URLs have been added to the default configuration files
• Improved Windows and Linux builds
• Fixed hovering visuals (nickname, health bar) position when the player entity gets scaled up or down
• Added maptool (command-line software which can compile maps from json to binary format)
• The client will now try other fast download urls in case of failure
• Nicknames are now limited to 32 characters
• Switched from static to dynamic linking for common code to decrease binary size
• Updated beta_map
• entity_powerup and entity_powerup2 have been replaced by entity_spawner
• GameSettings configuration table has been renamed to ServerSettings
• Server config GameSettings.MapFile has been replaced by ServerSettings.MapPath (which can point to a non-compiled map folder as well as a compiled .bmap file)
• Added ServerSettings.Name, ServerSettings.Description, ServerSettings.Port and ServerSettings.MaxPlayerCount configs

Map editor

• Added a button to explicitly rebuild the asset list
• Maps asset lists are now sorted by path
• Fix: the entity list is now properly cleared when closing a map
• Fixed entity selection when creating a new one (previous selection is now discarded)
• When reloading scripts, all entities are now recreated (in case their init callback changed).

Scripting

• Added InputController (a script can now override the way entities inputs are generated)
• Gamemode events are now triggered on the table they used to register the event (this is important when using gamemode inheritance)
• Added PlayerControlledEntityUpdate client gamemode event.
• Added Text renderable (which is now used for showing player nicknames)
• Added IncomingNetworkPacket:ReadBoolean() and OutgoingNetworkPacket:WriteBoolean()
• Added IncomingNetworkPacket:ReadColor() and OutgoingNetworkPacket:WriteColor()
• Added Element:GetGlobalBounds() and Element:GetLocalBounds() (client-side only for now)
• Base gamemode has now BasePlayerDeathSlot and BasePlayerJoinedSlot to allow derived gamemode to disconnect them
• The Destroyed event is no longer called client-side when a layer is disabled
• Added Constraint:GetLastForce and Constraint:GetLastImpulse
• Added Element:GetOwner() on client
• Added Element:GetInputController()
• Added Element:UpdateInputController()
• Added Player:IsLocalPlayer() on client
• Added Player:GetInputs (for every player on server but only local players on client)
• Added Rect:ExtendToPosition(pos)
• Added Rect:Scale(scale)
• Added match.GetEntityByUniqueId(id)
• Added match.GetLayerCount()
• Added match.GetPlayerByIndex(id)
• Added match.ResetTerrain()
• Added math.approach(current, target, incr)
• Added table.join(...)
• Added Scoreboard:UpdatePlayerTeam()
• Added base gamemode event PlayerTeamUpdate
• Added base gamemode callback GetPlayerColor
• Added match.BroadcastChatMessage(message)
• Element:AddSprite now accepts a repeatTexture boolean
• Scoreboard:RegisterPlayer now takes a table parameter
• match.BroadcastPacket now has a second optional parameter to disable ready check
• match.GetPlayers now longer returns connecting players
• Replaced Entity:Kill() by Element:Kill()
• Elements and gamemode events can now be disconnected using the Disconnect method
• Player entities are now detected using a IsPlayerEntity boolean on their table
• Fixed gamemode overriding of the Musics table
• Fixed entity_burger_ai only targeting entity_burger (will now target any entity having .IsPlayerEntity = true)
• Fixed weapon_graspain grapple force (is now based on entity mass)
• Fixed static entities movement not being sent to clients
• Fixed a lot of small issues

Beta 0.1.1

Changelog

Beta 1.1

General

• Reworked assets and scripts downloading (assets can now be downloaded directly from server).
• Console colors are now supported on Linux
• The game is now able to load pre-beta maps
• Fixed crash on exit

Config

• Added Debug.ShowVersion (true by default) which shows the game version in a corner
• Added GameSettings.FastDownloadURLs config
• Renamed Assets.ResourceFolder to Resources.AssetDirectory
• Renamed Assets.ScriptFolder to Resources.ScriptDirectory

Build

• Enabled /w44062 on MSVC (switch case not handled warning)
• x86 builds are now supported

Beta 0.1

Changelog:

• Added CI and nightlies for Windows and Linux

• Burgers now explode in parts when dying

• Cloves mines no longer explodes on layer update

• Added powerups

• Entities can now be scaled

• Lowered weapon_sword_emmentalibur cooldown

• Improved network synchronization:

  • All entities are now predicted and reconciliated client-side
  • Improved bandwidth using a priority queue server-side
  • Improved client-side reconciliation performance

• Added callstack dump on crash (Windows)

• Crash fixes

• Fixed client-side entities inheritance

• Added /teleport command for admins

• Local players are now admins by default

• Grapple will now release when switching to another weapon.

• Added beta_map

• Escape now closes the chatbox (#42)

• Added cancel button when connecting (#38)

• Reworked player collider box

• Added spawn-kill protection (#43)

• Grapple will no longer collide with triggers and powerups (#39)

• Added version info

Scripting:

• Remade event and entities systems
• Reworked gamemode handling
• Gamemodes can now have properties and be inherited
• Added Sprite::SetColor
• Vec2::Normalize|GetNormalized now works
• Added [Incoming|Outgoing]NetworkPacket::[Read|Write]CompressedInteger
• Added [Incoming|Outgoing]NetworkPacket::[Read|Write]Double
• Added [Incoming|Outgoing]NetworkPacket::[Read|Write]Entity
• Added [Incoming|Outgoing]NetworkPacket::[Read|Write]Single
• Added [Incoming|Outgoing]NetworkPacket::[Read|Write]Vector2
• Added Element::GetPlayerMovementSpeed and Element::UpdatePlayerMovementSpeed
• Added Element::GetPlayerJumpHeight and Element::UpdatePlayerJumpHeight
• Added Element::Disable, Element::Enable and Element::IsEnabled
• Added Element::SetScale
• Added Rect:GetSize()
• Added Camera class
• Added debug.DrawRect
• Added weapons switch on and switch off events.
• Added Tilemap class
• Added Music class
• Added pprint (pretty print function) and tostring second parameter
• Fixed coroutines issues

Internal:

• Switched from Premake to xmake
• Reworked properties
• Players no longer own weapons, the entity they control do
• Removed *.moc files from the repository
• All standard exceptions are now catched before being thrown out, ensuring objects destructions
• Normalized line endings
• Updated sol to v3.2.1
• Maps are now part of the repository
• Every lua function is now wrapped in a try/catch block to prevent exceptions from corruption Lua internals and to convert them to Lua errors.
• Upgraded map version to 1

MapEditor:

• Added entity prefabs (WIP)
• Added multiple entities selection
• Entity info dialog now shows entities unique ids.
• Fixed map data corruption when saving

Alpha 0.6 - A lot of stuff

• Executables have been renamed
• Remade prediction
• Switch to a perspective camera (allowing 3D models)
• Add 3D models
• Add particles
• Add camera zones
• Add scoreboard
• Add escape and option menu
• Add patator
• Player nickname and volume are now saved
• Fixed black lines
• Add map editor grid
• A lot of fixes (+ some new bugs)
• Add undo/redo to the map editor
• Add cloves mines

Known bugs:

• Map editor may sometimes overwrite another entity than the one you're editing

Alpha - 0.5 release - mostly fixes

Adds:

• CrashHandler (Windows-only for now, generates a dump in case of crash)
• Chatbox colors
• Logsystem now print time and ticks
• Match is now allowed to discard ticks to catch-up realtime
• Debug connection informations (ping, bandwidth, data usage)
• Window settings options (vsync, fps limit, size, fullscreen, antialiasing level)

Fixes:

• physics constraints (grapple/physics bun) not being deleted sometimes
• collider_box client synchronization failure
• A lot of warnings
• chatbox scrollbar showing up from nowhere
• coroutines are now recycled
• Linux compilation
• visibility stuff (health bar passing to zero for some objects and some other not having their health updated)
• asset downloading
• some silent errors/crashes now trigger a log instead
• logger fixes

0.4 release - big layer update

Adds and fixes a lot of stuff, including but not limited to:

• layers
• script hot-reloading
• asset downloading
• prediction
• logger system
• entity cloning in map editor
• burger dynamic faces
• grapple!
• physics bun
• entity property type
• santa hat
• a lot of stuff

0.3 release - weapon update, now with multiples weapons

v0.3

Update Player.hpp

0.2 release - chatbox release

v0.2

Temp fix for chat

0.1 release - running and shooting

v0.1

And again