Hedgewars Changelog

What's new in Hedgewars 0.9.21

• New type of randomly generated maps: Perlin Maps.
• Old Random generated maps are more diverse now.
• Slider for adjusting land generation detail.
• Highlander gamemode can now be used with custom weapon schemes (1-8=How probable to get this weapon. 9=All hogs get it)
• New playable themes: "Hoggywood" and "Cake"
• New gameplay mode "Construction Mode"
• New gameplay mode "TechRacer"
• New game play mode "DiagonalMaze" (generates a simple diagonal maze)
• Add 7 target practice missions, now with simple scoring
• Update RC Plane Challenge: Stats screen reworked and shows now several facts, simple ranking system based on used planes, some taunts in the game
• New training/multiplayer mission: "Climb Home"
• Game scheme screen has a "Script parameter" field now. This allows to make more customizable scripts/modes.
• Network game rejoining. Note: Your team(s) will vanish after 3 turns.
• Visual and gameplay changes to "sea" - world edge, visual change to wrap world edge to allow seeing through the wrap, visual change to bounce worldedge
• The map of the Basketball Mission can be selected for regular games again ("BasketballField")
• New engine command: /togglechat will disable/enable chat display (does not affect chat history display)
• Change to Racer: first weapon/utility available will be automatically selected on start
• Added some visual feedback to failed girder placement.
• Various performance tweaks, especially for very large maps.
• Allow switching through hogs in reverse order with PRECISE+HOGSWITCH (left shifttab, by default)
• Added support for custom Sudden Death music to theme.cfg (e.g. sd-music=hell.ogg ).
• New Hats: policegirl, fr_tomato, cratehider:
• Fixed drill rockets sometimes exploding on impact.
• Fixed trainings broken due to indestructable targets/crates.
• Fixes and tweaks for low qualily rendering.
• Sinegun won't shoot through -solid- land anymore
• Many bug fixes and tweaks.
• Frontend / Netgame:
• High resolution previews!
• Preview for dynamic maps generated by game style scripts (e.g. "ShoppaMap))!
• Moved room status filter to top left of rooms list.
• Lua API:
• New library: Params, makes parsing of script parameters easier
• New library: TargetPractice, used to generate target practice missions (the newly added missions use it)
• More helpful syntax error messages.
• New hooks:
• onParameters(paramString) -- called when script parameters are configured. the parameter contains the parameter(s) as text string
• onPreviewInit() -- called during map preview initialization
• onGearWaterSkip(gearUid) -- called when a gear skims the water without drowning (when hitting it with high speed at low angle). By checking gearUid you can figure out which gear that was.
• New functions:
• DismissTeam(teamname) -- removes a team from the game (note: if you used loc() on teamnames, don't forget to the translated teamname here too)
• GetGameFlag(gameflag) -- returns true/false
• PlaceSprite(x, y, sprite, frameIdx [, landFlag, ... ]) -- sprite refers to an id from the TSprite list
• SetWaterLine(waterline) -- moves water level to the specified y. the current value is in read-only global waterline
• SetNextWeapon() -- make current hedgehog switch to next weapon. e.g. use in trainings to preselect weapon
• SetWeapon(ammoType) -- decide which weapon the current hedgehog should equip
• Map Drawing:
• -- to be used in onGameInit() -- first set MapGen to mgDrawn and then use the commands below
• AddPoint(x, y [, width [, erase] ]) -- takes x,y location, a width (means start of a new line) and erase (if line should erase, not draw)
• FlushPoints() -- makes sure that all the points/lines specified using the command above are actually applied to the map
• New global enumerations:
• Mapgens: mgRandom, mgMaze, mgPerlin, mgDrawn
• TSprite values
• LandFlags: lfIndestructible, lfIce, lfBouncy
• Changed functions:
• HogSay(gearUid, text, manner [, vgState]) -- now also allows you to make NON-Hedgehog gears speak, e.g. barrels... wait what?!
• Changed hooks:
• onHogAttack() can now be hooked with new parameter: onHogAttack(ammoType) - to conveniently find out which ammo/weapon is being used
• Fixes:
• gfResetHealth is now a available like the other GameFlags