with this change please try playing a few matchs against vanguards chosen and wraith feast, my 2 most favorate decks to fight now. youre in for a treat :)
keep in mind that even tho ive taught Ai Foreach in a somewhat crude manner it still does not understand how much mana it can gain from a foreach manaproducer, and this does not make it suddenly use dark ritual correctly. however this change was dramatic enough that i wanted it in for 14.1
this is also still under massive play testing, however no issues were found so far with it as it is presented here.
- had some problems compiling for the PSP. I assume I was the only one, please let me know if the "include JLogger" lines are not needed (they were needed for me)
- Fix a memory leak when playing in "random deck" mode
- Prevent the AI from playing cards with a cost it cannot understand (ExtraCosts with a target).
- Added a possibility to put a file "Res.txt" instead of the folder "Res". The file Res.txt is a simple 1 line text file, telling where to find the Res folder, terminated by "/". For example: "../../wagic_res".
This addresses issue 428 . This could also help us in the future, to develop mods.
new ability lord...teach(whatever[whatever]) ability.
teach is a targeted lord, it takes the cards current target and lords it the ability. im aware of a tiny memleak it contains, but the leak is happening on parser lvl, so i need more eyes to look at it. teach is ideally used for equipment, and was designed to fix issue 244 taught abilities are not given to the source cards.
forced Ai to pay for sunburst correctly. it was choosing to pay with all of one type of mana. now it pays either max or 1 from max sunburst.
added a tiny double check for Ai to try and find something to use if it suddenly has mana in its pool. it is only a single check in a turn, but i notice it actually does slightly improve the usages of dark ritual and foreach mana producers. ideally i wanted it to check EVERYTIME. but i could not achieve it without putting the game in danger of looping. so once is better then none :/
fixed a bug with affinity where it was not counting duel lands, this is becuase of not setting it up correctly for lands with multiple types SORRY!
this fixes a bug(?) that had high priority and maintains same effect as before. removed all traces of the "bugged(?) hint" from CardPrimitive.
Issue: 498
Also fixed the project includes so that we don't need to always use the indirect include path, ie:
#include "../include/foo.h" -> #include "foo.h"
I'm don't know much about make files - if I busted the linux build, mea culpa, but I think we're okay on that front too. For future reference, here's the most straightforward link on the topic of adding pch support to make files:
http://www.mercs-eng.com/~hulud/index.php?2008/06/13/6-writing-a-good-makefile-for-a-c-project
this is by no means absolutely perfect, i like it tho, and makes for some real good times with level up deck built with equips.
you will notice i added a level=number...to the level up creatures, this has no effect on players, this is just a small hint to the Ai as to when it should stop investing mana in that creature. the chances are a little over half that ai will want to level a creature, increased ever so slightly with each level up.
for equipment, the Ai will now want to equip its best Creature(determined by power+toughness+convertedcost+how many abilities it has) and will want to equip these "better" cards atleast 2 times before it is reduced. same system for prevent damage, it will want to save its "better creature" more then a 1/1 token.
for both tho i added slight bonuses...
to equip, there is a higher chance that the ai will want to target a white creature, with an extra bonus if the creature is a 1/1 and nontoken. this is to encourage Ai to equip in white weenie decks
in prevent, there is a slight bonus if the creature is a 1/1 and the blocker/blockee has a power of 1.
currently prevent damage treated this way is not coded for direct damage spell, sorry ! but for combat you will notice ai taking a stand and fighting back hard.
modified player status to recognize that test suite has been activated. This is to allow deactivation of "phase skip automation" game setting during test suite.
TODO: fix "Phase Skip Automation" such that if turned on the test suite does not break. This fix should be considered temporary
- fix for issue 348
- Fix a bug when going out of the deck editor then back to it again would show an incorrect color icon instead of nothing
- Fix a bug where the AI tries to play a spell with a target instead of just checking if it can play it. (visually, this showed as the AI tapping mana, then "freezing" for a few seconds with some cards grayed out on the battlefield)
* Fixes for compilation on 64-bit architectures :
string position-returning functions return size_t, not uint.
Fix that.
* Fixes warnings with new gcc about non-fixed string AND no arguments.
NOTE : 64-bit architectures still do not compile. There are 2 different places
where printf is used with a specifier that is not large enough on 64-bit because
size_t is now a ulong and not a uint. The solution on GNU systems is the %zu
specifier, but as I'm not sure it is supported on windows I don't want to
introduce a huge hard-to-notice bug, so I'll do it at a time when I got a
windowser to back me up.
- IMPORTANT: Legendary is not an ability anymore, creating cards with super types should be much more natural. You can now say "type=Snow Land", and stuff like that. No backward compatibility!!!
Gives the user the opportunity to earn some credits for performing various tasks.
Known bugs removed, tested stability-wise, not so much game-wise.
Lots of to-dos and ideas still remaining, better balance between task difficulty and their rewards needed - please comment.
Usage:
Enter shop, open menu, select 'See available tasks'.
All tasks in the list are active, until they expire ('Days left'; day passes after each duel (won, lost or quited)).
You can finish any of the tasks and get bonus. For particular task, the bonus gets a bit smaller every day (until expiration).
- Adding cycling. Check Akroma's vengeance in ONS for an example. Note that this uses autohand instead of auto, this is important! You can also use autograveyard.
- All "auto" activated abilities should work with autohand, so this is not only for cycling, but could be used for other abilities as well. For example autohand={3}:cycling can also be written autohand={3}{S}:Draw:1
- Lords are now taken into account in AI statistics. (To display information, uncomment RENDER_AI_STATS in config.h)
- fixed a potential segfault with NoFizzle
- Code cleanup
- fix issue 142 . This will lead to other issues for some cards. These issues can be fixed by using targetcontroller/controller...etc
- Added a few cards
-reduced SFX Quality. This seems to fix the Bug with samples getting silent on the PSP (issue 112), and improves loading times. If you think this is unacceptable, let's discuss it
- AI now should play fetchlands' ability, although still not "efficiently"
- Fix a bug where the game would crash if a card has a valid alias to a hardcoded card that is in no _cards.dat (starwars mod cards aliasing a MTG card)
- fix issue 65 (quads when no image load slowly in shop/deck editor)
- Possibly fix issue 92, please let me know if it reproduces
- Fix issue 97 (Deck editor: weird behavior of deck display)
- Fix issue 39 - please verify
- Issue 56 can probably be closed as well
- Fix issue 86
- Fix issue #16 (testsuite segfaults if file does not exist)
- Fix issue #37 (Normal Combat Damage is not dealt to creatures when the AI attacks)
- TestSuite now has an "AI" mode (see test/manual/p2_attacks.txt)
* Numerous cache fixes, reduced filesystem access.
* Cache fails very gracefully.
* Cache is now a templated class, with individual caches per data-type.
* Much easier to extend.
* Extensively debugged. Try compiling with -DDEBUG_CACHE.
* Caches limits can be set on a per-item basis.
* hgeParticleSystemInfo are now cached, mana particles now fall back to defaults.
* Samples are not cached, but track filesystem misses using the cache backbone.
* Avatars are cached. Default baka avatar is now baka.jpg, to prevent collision with player.
A note on the retrieval types:
RETRIEVE_MANAGE puts a resource into a seperate, managed resource list.
Managed resources are guarenteed valid for the lifetime of the program.
Retrieving a managed quad promotes the associated texture to managed. Don't do that by mistake.
Calls to Resources.Refresh() will attempt to reload managed resources in place.
RETRIVE_LOCK (and by extension, RETRIEVE_VRAM), returns a resource after locking it.
A resource may have many locks, and remains in cache until they are all released.
If the resource is managed, it returns it unmodified.
A note on quads:
Unlike all other RetrieveWhatever() functions, the default behavior for RetrieveQuad is RETRIEVE_LOCK. Worse, Release(JQuad*) is slow, and will /always/ release one lock from the associated texture.
There's a long and complicated explanation for this, involving support for live relinking of textures to existing quads, but basically what it means is that we only use RetrieveQuad for quads we intend to store and later Release(). If a temporary quad is needed, the preferred method is to use NEW JQuad* and SAFE_DELETE with RetrieveTexture(). RetrieveTempQuad is also provided, but is only guaranteed until the next call to the cache.
Note that RetrieveCard has none of these problems.
- Fixed empty ActionStack "interrupt" messages
- If no attackers are declared, go straight to Combat end phase
- Once First strike damage is declared, attacking player needs to "actively" request a next phase event to go to the next damage step
- Second Damage step is called "Combat Damage (2)"
- UserRequestNextPhase is to be used knowing that it might not succeed
- Step change for GuiCombat is now computed at GameObserver::nextGamePhase
Note: Combat damage to creatures is not assigned when AI attacks. As this seems to be a problem with the previous SVN version, I4m still committing this change
