#X rebirth 4.0 save editor Patch#
#X rebirth 4.0 save editor code#

#X rebirth 4.0 save editor Patch#

* Maximum number of joysticks is unchanged at 8, but is now settable via SConf parameter `max_joysticks` previously, a source patch was required to change this limit.

* Fixed a startup crash when more than 8 joysticks are present. * Fixed bug which caused players to disagree about boss location after teleportation. * Fixed bug which allowed boss robots to teleport to a disallowed segment. Given three available weapons, with priorities #1, #2, and #3, if the player exhausted #2, the old behaviour was to select #3. Now, it starts its search at the top of the auto-select preference list. * When a player exhausts an available weapon, auto-select previously acted as if the player had pressed the key to cycle to the next weapon. This allows players using push-to-talk to speak without respawning, and allows all players to iconify the game while dead. * Players can now choose whether respawning is triggered by any input or only by pressing a weapon firing input. Players cannot drop Super Laser powerups at all. * Players can now drop the Quad Laser powerup and Laser powerups 2-4. * Optional timers displaying countdowns for cloak and invulnerability. * Improved collision detection, fixing player damage being way too low in some ocassions. * Original base input sensitivity for all devices and mouse overrun option for mouse. * In addition to quicksave, there is now a quickload key! * Flashing effects properly scale to ingame brightness setting. * Homing projectiles now behave like in the original game running at 30 FPS! * Screenshot filenames are now date-stamped. This reduces size, sometimes very substantially, and simplifies posting screenshots online. * Screenshots are now saved as PNG by default.

#X rebirth 4.0 save editor code#

* Merged code bases and massive code refactorization. Saves created in an old release, and loaded in a new one, should work correctly. * A change to how objects are tracked causes savegames that are created in new builds, then loaded in a previous release, such as 0.58.1, to behave incorrectly (issue #449). Autosaves are given a description that shows the time at which they were created. Autosaves are loaded through the usual menu interface, and use the same file format as regular saves, so they can be renamed to a regular save if desired. Automatic saves are stored in the previously inaccessible 11th slot, so only one autosave of each type can exist per pilot. Automatic saves of single player and multiplayer are given distinct names. For multiplayer, only the host can save, so only the host's auto-save interval is relevant. If the interval is set to 0, then no automatic save is made. The interval between saves can be configured separately, through the Gameplay Options and Netgame->Advanced Options dialogs, respectively. * Added experimental support for automatic game saves in single player and in cooperative multiplayer. * Fixed original game bug that meant to reset camera flag, but did not. The orientation cannot be saved without altering the savegame format, but it is now reset when appropriate. Weapon orientation was neither saved nor loaded, which caused illogical results when saving, firing, loading, and firing again. * Partially fixed a bug relating to the orientation of spreadfire/helix cannons. The 0.60.x limit of 4 per-player is retained when there are at most 4 players permitted in the game. Due to savegame limitations, at most 16 markers can be in use.

* When more than 4 players are permitted, the per-player marker limit is reduced to 2, regardless of whether more than 4 players are actually in the game. The limit cannot be raised further without changes to the savegame format. * Raised limit on cooperative players from 4 to 8. Reports, both of success and of failure, are welcome.

Additionally, users are cautioned that the engine has never before permitted more than 4 players in cooperative games, so any cooperative-specific code paths may not handle large games correctly. Users are strongly cautioned to save before entering a new level, in case the start position synthesis causes problems. If the number of starts requested exceeds the number provided, the game will attempt to generate extra starts near the original ones. * Added experimental support for generating extra start positions in cooperative games.