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Eldiron v0.8.60 Released

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Markus Moenig
Markus Moenig
Eldiron maintainer

This release features some important new mechanics like the new vendor / multiple choice system, a new text formatting and localization system for messages and new inventory screen widgets. Also a major refactoring of the server code to increase performance and make it Web compliant.

As well as many other new features and fixes. As always you can try all new features in the updated Hideout2D example.

I will update the documentation on the Website in the next days and create a new video.

New Features​

Creator​

  • The Data Tool now supports direct sector selections in the map. Making it easier to select and edit widgets who are mostly data driven.
  • Button widgets have new capabilities
    • active - Boolean, switch if the widget is active by default
    • show - String array of widgets to show when clicked
    • hide - String array of widgets to hide when clicked
    • deactivate - String array of button widgets to deactivate when clicked
  • New inventory_index attribute for button widgets to display the inventory item at the given index.
  • Intent based actions now also work on items in the inventory (when an intent is active and an inventory button is clicked).
  • Material node graphs can now be created for screen widgets, allowing procedural borders and content for screen widgets.

Client​

  • Messages widgets now support some new config strings: multiple_choice the color for multiple choice items (like inventory sales) and column_width to define the maximum size of item columns for multiple choice items.
  • New localisation and text formatting system, the server may now generate strings like {you_bought} {I:{}.name, article=indef, case=lower} which gets automatically resolved by the client. Characters and items also can send strings like this now, allowing for powerful in-game text formatting and localization.

Server​

  • New drop function to drop a specific item with the given id.
  • Refactored some code to make sure all actions / intent are executed correctly on items on the map and on items in inventories.
  • Major refactoring of the server instancing code. Removes the ref_thread_local dependency and enables rayon parallelism, which in turn finally enables web deployment.
  • New wealth attribute for entities which defines the initial characters wealth in the base currency.
  • New multiple choice system, implemented right now for inventory sales which vendors can initiate via the new offer_inventory command after receiving an intent. offer_inventory takes two arguments, the target entity id and a filter string, if empty, i.e. "", all items are offered.
  • block_events() now supports specific intents via "intent: attack", this allows for blocking specific intents for a given amount of time. Previously it was only possible to block all intents via "intent".

Bug Fixes​

  • Rect tool content was not shown in the screen editor.
  • Items in an inventory had a bug during creation which prevented them to be used with events later on.

Gameplay

The next version (probably v0.90) will entirely focus on the new node system, long awaited and much requested.

Take care, Markus