Changelog

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11.03.2020 - RELEASE 1.13

New / Modification:

• in the creator, you were still able to open a few drop down options even without any adventure loaded
• added drop down option Other > Create a VisJs graph that lets you generate VisJs graphs that show connections between objects

Bugfixes:

• popup objects would not be saved corretly (saved as type color) when creating a savestate while playing an adventure
• the logger would sometimes appear even with debugging disabled. this should be fixed now, but might still persist

23.02.2020 - RELEASE 1.12

New / Modification:

• the battleMap will now show a popop when an enemy was defeated
• the battleMap will now automatically open a minimized object frame of all npcs on the battleMap
• the small button popup will now no longer be placed outside of the visible screen space
• you can now tab through all available autocomplete options by tapping tab multiple times
• the player will now ask before opening a file object's file
• you can now write pr instaed of print and prw instaed of printwait
• the credits hover label random saturated color picking now picks more interesing colors thanks to the change to the HSV color model
• in the find frame in the creator you can now use the shortcuts crtl+e, crtl+w and crtl+q to directly open the result that is currently selected
• added a tips frame that shows tips about creating adventures with the engine when opening the creator. you can disable them under Other > Toggle show tips on startup

Bugfixes:

• the inventory on the player stats frame would only display the first 10 items in the inventory even if scrolled down

16.02.2020 - RELEASE 1.11.7 (creator)

New / Modification:

• you can now search for strings inside of the adventure using ctrl+f or Adventure > Find

16.02.2020 - RELEASE 1.11.6 (creator)

New / Modification:

• added drop down option Adventure > Auto-rename UIDs that will automatically rename all uids in your project according to their name and type

16.02.2020 - RELEASE 1.11.6 (player)

New / Modification:

• globalTalentModifier - new player setting that modifies the DC of every talent roll by the given value
• added variable {inventory|[VALUE(inventory]} that returns the contents (uids) of an inventory
• added modifier .size() that returns the amount of entries in the variable
• added new parameter dropDownList to the {input} variable: takes a variable (without {}) and opens a popup based on the list entries ({input|dropDownList|choose one:|tmp})
• the console icon on the main player frame now grays out a bit if player input is set to false (is still usable, only to show that input is disabled)
• the small button input popup now supports formatted text
• added new command exit that will stop the current thread
• added invert modifier that reverses the entries in a variable

15.02.2020 - RELEASE 1.11.5 (player)

New / Modification:

• equipping items that you can't hold any more will now lead to unequipping other items
• the engine will now ask if the player wants to save if player input is set to false to prevent the creation of invalid savestates
• if you leave the savestate name field empty, the engine will now cancle the savestate creation

13.02.2020

Bugfixes:

• the ifnot command would not be skipped correctly by a previous if that would take the else branch

09.02.2020 - RELEASE 1.11.5 (creator)

New / Modification:

• you can now use ctrl+w in the object editor text area to keep the frame in foregound while editing / opening the selected line. this is primarily useful when opening multiple events in a text editor

09.02.2020 - RELEASE 1.11.4

Bugfixes:

• the top labels of the creator were too short for the object type eventCollections (the s was always cut off), width has been increased (120 > 140 pixels)
• a user closing a customPopup using mouse wheel click was not registered as closing the popup and when using the variable {popup|[uids;names]} it would still be listed as opened
• getting objects from type popup in player was not possible since they were interpreted as fileObjects
• fixed an issue where saving events would not work due to an error in the regex parser

• the automatically added customCommand UseItemWithUID would use the old if syntax and therefore not work. You will need to replace the code in the event commandExecuted in UseItemWithUID with this:

  if {amount|#uid:{itemUID}#|#uid:{player|inventory}#} > 0 (
      execute event {event|#uid:{itemUID}#|use} as #uid:{itemUID}# {}
  )
  

• the customCommand Talk also contains an error: it has to be execute event {event|#location:{player|location}#|talkTo} as self {name:{personName}}

• the command printwait would miscalculate the wait duration by not removing the formatting characters from the print string
• invetory operations would not support variables in the amount parameter

New / Modification:

• new command alert small [VALUE] that opens a small hover menu with the given text
• you can now fullscreen the creator by using the shortcut F11
• the printwait command will now ignore any [text] for the calculation of the duration. ([player] hello! == hello!)

08.02.2020

Bugfixes:

• the log command was not included in the documentation
• setting a variable to {empty} did not work

New / Modification:

• the action editor will now add a comment with the object name and the envent name to the first line when editing an event and remove it when saving it
• the new default string for events is log add event: [UID] - [NAME] - [EVENT NAME]
• you can now click on a line in the object editor and use ctrl+e to edit the selected line
• using ctrl+q will dothe same but close the object editor after performing the edit operation
• log add will now no longer print the command execution into the log but only what the log add parameter says
• the variable {value|[VALUE 1];[VALUE 2]; ...} now accepts multiple parameters and builds a list
• added new parameter buttonlist to the {input} variable: takes a variable (without {}) and opens a popup based on the list entries ({input|buttonlist|tmp})

07.02.2020 - RELEASE 1.11.3

Bugfixes:

• math expressions are now calculated correctly again
• enemies would not attack player when they had no item in their inventory / no inventory
• in the creator, you could not select an object from a dorp down when the object name contained a -

New / Modification:

• you can now compare strings that contain whitespaces by using ""; for example: if {text} equals "Hello there" (
• removed old math expression solver (js) and replaced it with a solution by https://stackoverflow.com/users/964243/boann

06.02.2020 - RELEASE 1.11.2

Bugfixes:

• editor would not open file when trying to edit event
• battlemap would freeze when opening without player icon defined
• added images notnull.png and null.png to the player
• battlemap would freeze if enemy had no inventory

31.01.2020

Bugfixes:

• thread would crash if configuration value was empty

New / Modification:

• created a profile system that allows you to create a profile and upload and search adventures! (via the launcher)

30.01.2020

New / Modification:

• started working on a new profile system that will allow you to upload adventures

27.01.2020 - RELEASE 1.11.1

Bugfixes:

• when opening more than one popup of the same type at the same time, the result clicked on one of them was also set to be the one on the other

New / Modification:

• added the option to open adventures directly from the creator (Other > Open current adventure in player)
• there are now launcher settings that allow you to toggle fast/slow startup mode and close launcher stay open/close after launching (minimizes frame)
• redirected bug report and feature request in the launcher to https://github.com/Skyball2000/rpgengine/issues
• added a new type of popup smallButtons that can be used via the variable {input|button|[BUTTONS]}
• when clicking on an item in the inventory, the new popup smallButtons is used. the popup disappears if the mouse is moved too far away
• optimized text size calculation to be faster (doubled speed by reducing calculator frame size)

26.01.2020 - RELEASE 1.11

New / Modification:

• added popup object type that allows for the creation of custom frames

Removed:

• the reload command is no longer available since it was never used

Other:

• accidentially deleted source code of version 1.10.1 which meant that i had to reprogram all of the features lol

21.01.2020 - RELEASE 1.10.1

Bugfixes:

• editor would not open newly created objects instantly but only after confirming a popup
• certain actions in editor would even be usable when no adventure was opened
• events would not open when set to edit in text editor
• new adventure frame would close after changing the value of one of the drop downs

Other:

• had to delete 1.10 of create since it contained a bug that would make it impossible to edit adventures correctly

23.01.2020 - RELEASE 1.10

Bugfixes:

• player name would be stuck at string Yan when not changed via the player settings or set to name: in player settings
• intro frame would still wait for project icon to appear when skipped
• player max health would be set wrong (to 80) when editing adventure after removing maxHealth value
• launcher will now no longer install a corrupt version if install is clicked multiple times
• fixed a bug in the intro adventure (you will need to reinstall the engine to get the new adventure file)

New / Modification:

• made editing/deleting/cloning objects easier: you don't need to mark the uid any more, placing the curser inside it is enough. also, if you select a string that contains a uid, it will filter out the uid.
• your clipboard will now no longer be flooded with uids when using shortcuts to edit/delete/clone objects
• optimized creator main frame setup code
• updated consoleIcon1.png (save icon) to be black & white
• player stats frame will now appear 10 pixels away from taskbar and not at fixed location (150, 10) which is something i wanted to do a long time ago
• loading animation is now not contained inside of creator or player, they now use the gif from the launcher; this drastically reduces the file size again
• in the character creation, you can now simply hover over rolled values to slect them
• you can now escape [ and ] in formatted strings by using \[ and \]
• changed action editor string Detected event modification: [EVENT] to Event saved: [EVENT]

20.01.2020 - RELEASE 1.9.1

Bugfixes:

• creadits text in creator would not set position scaled correctly if it bounced up and down automatically every 30 - 120 seconds

New / Modification:

• new general eventCollection event: showAvailableCommands: gets executed when player clicks on new Show commands button in player
• you can now save the game via a 'drop up' (?) menu at the bootom right of the main player frame
• in the launcher, you can now click on the title RPG Engine to toggle between fast and slow setup mode
• moved actionEditorOpenDirectlyInExternalEditor from Project settings to menu bar > Other > Toggle open actions directly in editor

19.01.2021 - RELEASE 1.8.1 & 1.9

Bugfixes:

• the launcher did not extract files from new downloaded versions correctly making them unuseable
• creator would crash if certain directories were missing

New / Modification:

• finished automatic uploader, i can now create all files and upload them with one button press (which is really cool)
• text input popup now automatically requests focus upon opening so that the user doesn't have to click into the text field
• new command savegame: you can now create a savestate that you can later reload by opening that adventure and selecting the savestate

Other:

• this update is again mainly to check if the new uploader still works
• version 1.8 is no longer publically available since it contained a bug causing the creator and player not to install correctly
• drastically reduced version file size (over 50% less)

18.01.2021

Bugfixes:

• the launcher could not install new versions if certain directories where missing (these will now be generated if needed)

New / Modification:

• cleaned up files and sorted them into categories
• object frames now flash gray for 200 ms if double clicked to indicate the stay in foreground toggle

Other:

• created program that automatically:
  • generates documentation & uploads it
  • generates base rpg engine download (launcher) and uploads it
  • generates creator & player download and uploads them
  • generates version lists and uploads them

17.01.2021

Bugfixes:

• fixed a crash on setup for the player
• talent roll visible and autoRoll parameter were not used in the code

New / Modification:

• moved project to intellij IDE
• added a git repo
• cleaned up code and made processes more efficient thanks to intellij (did i mention that i love intellij?)
• you can now copy a string that matches either #?[\da-f]{6} (hex color) or \d{1,3}[, ]{1,2}\d{1,3}[, ]{1,2}\d{1,3} (rgb color) and hover over credits label in creator to get that exact color (example: 50, 168, 82 or #6036f7)
• talent roll now shows current player value

Other:

• this release is mainly to test if everything still works as with bluej or if there are things that need to be fixed (and yes, there were a lot of things that needed to be fixed)
• had to remove release 1.8 due to a bug that might have corrupted adventure files

16.01.2021 - RELEASE 1.7

Bugfixes:

• custom variables would not be displayed with their propper name in the object frames
• version string was stuck at 1.4 since that version

New / Modification:

• modified dark mode in editor not to be completely black, new text_background:10,10,10
• added option to add custom stylesheets in res/stylesheets
• added the option to select what stylesheet to use

11.01.2021

New / Modification:

• launcher now has a small text hover animation
• launcher now reacts more intuitively to user hover events when starting

07.01.2021 - RELEASE 1.6

Bugfixes:

• elf would be printed Elf in the player even if contained inside of a word
• since evaluateRoll can now return negative values, battleMap objects would heal if dealt a negative amount of damage
• image popup frame would miscalculate required frame width
• on some systems the editor would only scale on the first user caused resize event

New / Modification:

• you can now double click object frames to make them stay in the foreground
• you can now triple click object frames to minimize them
• on the minimized object frames you can click to rotate through the available variables
• if the adventure creator now sets a name, the player will not be asked for a name any more
• object frames now update their variables if they get updated (for battleMap health ...)
• evaluateRoll now supports strings where there is no space between parameters (such as 1D6+3 or 4-7)
• new command close object that allows creator to close object frames
• because of the new object frame management there can now only be one frame of every type. calling it a second time will result in it popping to the front
• new project variable objectFrameVariables that defines what variables will be displayed on the object frame
• new player variable maxHealth: the maximum amount of health the player can have. Setting the variable health to a greater value will result in it snapping back to maxHealth

05.01.2021 - RELEASE 1.5

Bugfixes:

• evaluateRoll would sometimes only return 0 as value
• popups text and buttons would sometimes cover the whole screen with white for a split second due to the new size calculation

New / Modification:

• all frames of the creator can be resized
• all frames of the creator now automatically adjust their size to the screen size when opening
• added option to skip intro
• added option to roll all attributes in the character creation at once

Known issues:

• image frame does not open with correct size to display entire image

03.01.2021 - RELEASE 1.4

Bugfixes:

• launcher would always open version selected in play drop down even for creator
• fixed the popup window size for good this time (used awt's information about the size of the panel which returns a reliable size of the labels)
• fixed minor bugs regarding main frame from editor
• parameters in launcher would not be saved
• execute code {} as self {} would not execute code when executed from command line since no object was given

New / Modification:

• launcher now updates itself if a new version is available (redownload is necessary one last time)
• added permission fileopen that allows the usage of the command open file
• added command open file that allows the creator to open files from the advfiles folder
• creator can now be resized to fit any screen
• creator can now have up to 6 panels
• added fileObject type
• added printwait command that prints a text and waits for a while before continuing. This duration depends on the text length and can be scaled using the textSpeed argument in the launcher
• added textSpeed argument that controls how long the printwait command waits after printing. Default is 100, 50 is half duration, 200 is double duration

31.12.2020 - RELEASE 1.3 play

Bugfixes:

• character creation would not let player roll attributes

New / Modification:

• you can now click on images on object frames to open them in a large window

29.12.2020 - RELEASE 1.2

Bugfixes:

• inventory operations would try to add / remove items to inventories even though the item or the inventory didn't exist
• fixed two cases where the character creation would not detect that the player cannot create a character with the rolled values
• engine would hang itself up while introOver event gets executed
• fixed intro adventure

New / Modification:

• you can now no longer scroll past the inventory boundaries and it will snap back to the available items if items were removed and you would be out of bounds
• adjusted size calculation of the popups (hopefully for the last time...)
• removed lang setting from main config in the creator (unused)
• renamed Help in adventure generator menu bar to Other
• added a dark mode for the adventure creator (Other > Toggle dark mode)
• position of text popup is now slightly randomized (+-40 pixels)
• hover text now has a different background color (30,30,30) to make it different from the black background color
• hover text now also has rounded white border around it
• if player types in command that does not exist a hover message will appear
• removed all remaining debug logs
• added text how to close the object frames

Other:

• this is a really exiting day for me, since i can officially say that the engine has reached the first stable version. with this, an almost one year long journey comes to an end. thank you so much to everyone who supported me on this long way!

28.12.2020

Bugfixes:

• truely encrypting the file would require user to enter password twice in editor
• setting a variable that begins with value would not work
• editing two events from the same entity would result in overwriting the event first opened with the code from the second event
• if would still not work correctly, skipping over too much code and stopping at wrong lines. might still be broken when using continue, break or jumppoints but it works in most cases
• npc image could not be changed because there was no button to do so

New / Modification:

• modified easter egg random color picking code to pick more saturated colors
• file watcher now deletes file on stop watching
• disabling player input now means that the player cannot submit their text until it is enabled again to prevent the text from simply disappearing
• added documentation and website link to help drop down menu in generator
• added project setting actionEditorOpenDirectlyInExternalEditor: when set to true, the events opened with the object frame will instantly open in a text editor and not in the action editor frame (recommended mode!)

27.12.2020

Bugfixes:

• many popup frames would use WHITE as color for the line borders, now they correctly use the color defined in the adventure
• dice popup frame would not scale correctly
• due to the rewrite of the main frame console labels code (26.12.2020) the main frame was not draggable any more; added according listeners
• player would not attack with item from offhand if mainhand item was empty
• file watcher for action editor would not start watching since code around it was modified
• some popups would still be way too large
• uid detection would sometimes detect any 16 characters long string as uid

New / Modification:

• added project setting debugModeForceable which when set to false can disable the forceDebug argument
• added project setting requirePasswordToPlay : you can now truely encrypt an adventure so that you need to enter the password, even when trying to play adventure, by setting it to true. You will not be able to recover any of the data if you forget your password in this case (if set to false the data does not get truely encrypted and can therefore be recovered)
• changed launcher clickable colors
• added a few more messages to the list of messages to the battle map editor
• added a few more filenames
• modified a few strings in the lang files
• created a website using nicepage which really is an awesome free website generator
• main frame text now supports overflow wrapping (also rewrote display code again)
• you can now use or (||) with conditions

26.12.2020

Bugfixes:

• main frame text: html formatting would not be completely cleared on newline

New / Modification:

• rewrote main frame text distribution so that it now scales correctly when scaling gui (larger/smaller frames)
• added option to pass arguments over to play part by holding down shift while clicking on Start version on the launcher
• added launching argument lang with possible values: english, german
• added launching argument scale that lets the user scale the frame by a percentage (100 is default scale)
• added launching argument forceDebug (true/false) that forces debug mode if set to true even if adventure is not set to debug mode

23.12.2020

Bugfixes:

• on the create a new adventure frame, you could use enter to instantly create a new adventure, but not if you had the author field selected
• log indentation sometimes did not remove indents correctly (evaluating selectors and for each)

New / Modification:

• log will now indent when entering a for each
• you can now execute as self: execute event {event|#9c211ede7e9d4642#|main} as self {}
• added button to close battle maps
• added dialoge to warn user before closing adventure

22.12.2020

Bugfixes:

• old engine name would be displayed on intro frame

New / Modification:

• removed configuration file from play part since it only stored unused data
• deriving the pixel font will now store the font object with the according size and return it if the same size is scaled again to reduce computing time
• added abillity to scale every frame (including text and images) up or down: first, frames are scaled to screen size and then by a factor the user can decide (user can't decide yet what scale they want to pick)

21.12.2020 - RELEASE 1.1

Bugfixes:

• using a variable in a selector as only parameter would not work (for example: #{player|inventory}#)

New / Modification:

• added dnd talents
• added pathfinder talents
• talents can now have 1 to 3 attributes instaed of forcing 3
• updated talent roll mechanic to make it more similar to dnd
• added new create new adventure interface
• added dummy variables tmp foo bar that you can use for debugging
• if player inventory is overloaded, the weight is displayed red and speed on battle maps is reduced by 50%
• added overloaded variable to player values ({player|overloaded})
• you can now clone objects by selecting their uid and hitting ctrl+k

20.12.2020

Bugfixes:

• fixed the talent roll which did not work with new condition system

New / Modification:

• continue writing the documentation

19.12.2020 - RELEASE 1

Bugfixes:

• battle freewalk would control canend variable on battle map instaed of freewalk
• fixed some minor bugs regarding the launcher
• battle map editor would say NPC UID instaed of image UID in some cases

New / Modification:

• made attack animation faster
• cleaned up directories
• removed unused classes
• removed unused import statements
• started working on new version of launcher
• added new type of version management
• added rightClick event in battle map
• cleaned up try catch-statements to make error messages in the log more helpful
• reduced file size by compressing loading gif
• you can now use the shortcut ctrl+[0-9] on the battle map and the inventory editor
• removed requirement checker since it is now redundant to the new version manager
• launcher: added managing adventures, documentation, bug report, feature request, contact, buy me a coffee

Other:

• got a new monitor in real life :)

13.12.2020

Bugfixes:

• npc image in battle maps would not be grabbed from the battle map image but from the npc image
• npc would not attack if the coordinates of the player were not the ones where they wanted to walk to
• battlemap start event would not trigger

New / Modification:

• continue writing the documentation
• added battle freewalk command that lets player walk around freely when battle map is inactive

13.12.2020

Bugfixes:

• objects selected via the battle action command would try to perform the action even if they were not on the battlemap
• enemy attacking with hands would let player roll damage
• small optimization of the attack animation
• log would say that the result of a selector is every object if selector only contained a uid: #68ea85a4d077420d#
• image and audio objects would have the wrong text formatting in the editor: name uid instead of name --- uid

New / Modification:

• continue writing the documentation
• added battle action parameter: approach
• added battle canend command
• added modifier isUID()
• everything until the first parameter of a custom command is now highlighted if the player types it in the console
• everything until the first parameter of a custom command can automatically now be autocompleted

14.12.2020

Bugfixes:

• using sleep or other delaying functions via debugger would hang up program for that duration

New / Modification:

• continue writing the documentation
• added support for npcs attacking npcs
• added battle action command
  • walk
  • attack

13.12.2020

Bugfixes:

• main frame did not always display the user input when scrolling back down

New / Modification:

• continue writing the documentation
• moved changelog to documentation website
• added inventory set command
• you can now set the amount variable
• made scrolling up and down the debugger faster
• you can now escape {} like this: \{\} (will still be used for all matches and replaceAll) ‏‏‎ ‎
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12.12.2020

Bugfixes:

• the {input|line} variable would still execute the text the player typed

New / Modification:

• continue writing the documentation
• added a logger / debugging frame ‏‏‎ ‎
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11.12.2020

New / Modification:

• started creating (this) documentation using MkDocs ‏‏‎ ‎
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10.12.2020

Bugfixes:

• if the battle was over and then restarted, the engine would softlock
• changing the location of an obstacle or extragroundtile or removing one of these would not remove them visually
• image and button popups are now not that oversized
• battle set parameters were sometimes misunderstood

New / Modification:

• added battle add command: you can now add new objects onto the battlemap
• added battle refresh command: you can now force the battlemap gui to be updated
• added battle remove command: you can now remove objects from the battlemap with either the location or a selector
• battle set command now has the xy parameter so that both x and y of an object can be set at the same time ‏‏‎ ‎
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09.12.2020

New / Modification:

• new command battle stop with the outcome as parameter
• added player and groundtiles parameters to battleInfo modifier
• added battle set command: can control location, image and uid of the objects on the active battlemap
• added battle active command: disables starting a new turn if set to false ‏‏‎ ‎
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08.12.2020

Bugfixes:

• in the CC, when all values were distributed, the available classes would no longer update their color for a second or two
• trying to close file watcher in editor even when none was open which led to the frame being unable to close
• mini player stats frame would not disappear if maximized by battle frame
• loading an adventure with an empty variable would result in the adventure being unable to load
• setting and getting variable objects when there is more than one now actually works; it treated all of them as one

New / Modification:

• when creating a new adventure, the project icon uid is now automatically put into the project setting image
• set new gold color to #f5ca0a
• selectors can now also only contain a UID without any other parameters
• player stats frame now minimizes into a square containing the project icon that maximizes again when mouse wheel clicked
• in the editor, the textareas now fill the panels to the bottom
• changed icons (iconblue,iconyellow,icongreen,playerStartingPos)
• you can now drag and drop files onto the battle map
• using the new variable {currentbattle} and the modifier battleInfo() you can now get information on the current battle
• removed several debug-println's
• battle start command syntax has changed ‏‏‎ ‎
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07.12.2020

Bugfixes:

• creating a new adventure didn't reset images
• parameters label in CC editor was too small
• if inside of for each did not skip body if condition was false
• onw-word-commands were not displayed yellow in console
• execute command would execute even without command parameters

New / Modification:

• added changelog file
• you can now acess the button in the entity editor via shortcuts ctrl+[0-9]
• you can now edit events in a text file, which automatically updates editor when saved
• added clear console / chat command
• added clear inventory command
• you can now leave away expression from the if expression command
• you can now leave away selector from the if selector command
• added new command-keywords (yellow): clear,if,expression,return,break,continue
• player input in console now begins with -
• pressing up arrow in console now only fetches player inputs
• added return, break and continue commands
• autocomplete feature, define terms in project settings (split with ,) that can be autocompleted. Use tab to autocomplete as a player
• permissions are now required before creating your character, since the creator now has the ability to execute code at launch & at the beginning of the intro
• intro frame now has a drag listener
• you can now choose as an adventure creator wether the intro should be displayed (showIntro)
• the project image image is now displayed under the adventure name in the intro frame