September
12
2014
New Delay Time settings for abilities and items, new status requirement Templates, updates to HUDs and the event system and other small features and fixes.
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New
- Abilities
‘Delay Time’ settings available for active abilities.
Abilities can set a delay time on the user.
A combatant can’t perform actions (e.g. attack, use an ability or item) during the delay time. - Inventory Settings
‘Default Delay Time’ settings available.
Items can set a delay time on the user.
A combatant can’t perform actions (e.g. attack, use an ability or item) during the delay time. - Items
‘Delay Time’ settings available.
Items can override the default delay time defined in the inventory settings. - HUDs: Combatant, Turn Order
‘Delay Time’ element type available.
Displays a combatant’s delay time as a text or bar. Only displayed while the time is running. - HUDs: Combatant, Turn Order
‘Time Format’ setting available for ‘Cast Time’ and ‘Timebar’ text time displays. - HUDs: Combatant, Turn Order
‘Reverse Value’ setting available for ‘Cast Time’.
The cast time will be displayed reversed, i.e. the time will count down instead of up. - Status Requirement Templates
The status requirement templates allow you to set up status requirements that can be reused in other status requirements.
Status requirement templates can be created in ‘Base/Control > Status Requiremenet Templates’. - Status Requirements
‘Requirement Type’ setting available.
Select if a requirement either checks a single ‘Status’, other ‘Requirements’ or a status requirement ‘Template’.
When checking other requirements, you can create multiple status requirements in a single condition, allowing you to set up checks like ‘(requirement1 && requirement2) || requirement3’. - Event System: Dialogue Steps
You can now use actor text codes in choices added to a ‘Dialogue Step’. - Event System: Dialogue Steps
Choices can now use global, local and object variables in variable conditions. - Event System: Active Group Steps
‘Check Group Size’ step available.
Checks the size of the active player group. - Event System: Variable Steps
‘Variable to Variable’ step available.
Stores the value of a game variable into another game variable.
You can use this step to transfer variables between variable origins (local, global and object). - Combatants: Battle Animations
‘Join Look At’ setting available.
Optionally looks at enemy combatants when joining a running battle.
By default disabled. - Game Settings, Interactions
Setting ‘Max. Click Distance’ to -1 will allow starting ‘Interact’ type interactions without distance limitations. - Status Development, Ability Trees
‘Experience’ type learn costs can now use a defined value, formula, game variable, etc. for the required/consumed experience.
Fixes
- Status Values
‘Experience’ type status values that level ub the base/class level will now correctly receive experience exceeding the current maximum value. - Status Requirements
Passive abilities can now also be checked without enabling ‘Learned’. - Abilities
Passive abilities wont be added to the list multiple times. - Abilities
Passive abilities will now correctly add their status effects outside of battles. - Event System
The ‘Found Objects’ list was updated when using a child object, resulting in the child object being in the list instead of the original object. - GUI Boxes
Cut off text issues are solved. - Global Events
Wait times are now working correctly in ‘Scene’ type global events. - Equipment Viewers
Using the ‘Add Combatant’ component with ‘Equipment Viewers’ could still lead to not displaying equipment. - Music
If no music is played when storing music, now also no music will play when playing the stored music (also applies to shop/menu music).