Goal is to convert all use of SOLDIERTYPE->ubID and any other ID fields that reference the same ID to a safer type than UINT16. Same with any function that's supposed to take ubID
As per the old comment, even though the field value is updated partially according to whether there are known enemies present or not, it's not used for anything.
Pressing Shift and right or left arrow buttons, 'a' or 'd' buttons, or previous or next ingame buttons now advance one whole page. Without shift pressed down, all three function as original and move one merc at a time.
- face protection had a misleading text, stating item should be worn at face
- that's no longer true, so adjusted text to avoid player confusion
- adjusted text to distinguish between both disease protections variations
- face protection had a misleading text, stating item should be worn at face
- that's no longer true, so adjusted text to avoid player confusion
- adjusted text to distinguish between both disease protections variations
Requires accompanying gameDir change.
MercOpinions.xml now only contains opinions that are not 0. A new tag with fields "id" and "modifier" are used instead of old ones that had 255 <Opinion%d> $value$ </Opinion%d> tags for all profiles.
Loading time of MercOpinions.xml went down from ~4.047 s to 0.011 s due to this change with default 1.13 VFS config.
A small cmd utility tool for converting existing MercOpinions.xml data into the new format is available at https://github.com/Asdow/JA2-ConvertXMLData/tree/master
Fix illegal array access when creating an IMP and the help texts are referenced.
With the missing comma, the array length was 5 and it's supposed to be 6.
reworking r9343
- the part about Food System is obsolete, already was happening in code prior to r9343
- the flags got removed and a boolean is used instead, allowing a simpler function for the remaining disease
- wether an item is considered exclusive to disease feature or not is decided by usage of tag in items.xml
reworking r9343
- part about food system was obsolete, that was already a thing prior to r9343 (see IsItemLegal)
- disease changed because instead of flag now boolean is used
reworking r9343
- no need for Foodsystem flag, restricting food items to food system was already part of the code prior to r9343 (in IsItemLegal by silversurfer)
- for disease system changed flag to boolean
reworking r9343
- this resulted in player being forced to choose features to allways see all possible merc gear sets
- loosing whole gearsets to avoid a few items is too much
- in some item-mods that even could result in some mercs not having any
- therefore deleted
Fix Attachable Launchers Slot Tooltips
fix:
launchables made valid by attached launchers are now again shown as tooltip and can be attached to slot with click
fixes issue #298
- two new options in ja2options.ini
ALTERNATIVE IMP CREATION
- adds new additional backgrounds, exclusive to this option
- which IMP backgrounds will be available at selection is determined by previously made choices for skills, character traits and disablities
- if a tag in background is contradicting to content of skill/character/disability, it won't be shown at selection
- what's considered contradicting is based on what's been found in code for conntent of skill/character/disability
- i.e. HeatIntolerant adds a penalty for desert and tropical sectors, so don't show backgrounds that add bonus for those sectortypes instead
- a new tag <alt_impcreation, has been added to backgrounds for this as well
- if that tag is found, it will be considered as additional IMP background exclusive to the option
REDUCED IMP CREATION
- same as above, but this time only the new additional backgrounds will be avaialable at selection
- same rules for possible restrictions to be shown
ALTERNATIVE IMP CREATION is required for REDUCED IMP CREATION to work
For ja2options.ini, a new category, "Backgrounds" was created.
This will contain the two new options and the general option to enable backgrounds
Accompanying changes in gamedir:
INIEditorJA2Options.xml
ja2options.ini
backgrounds.xml
Asdow
KittyandGitHub
Marco Costaandmajcosta
Andrzej Fałkowski