- Card Primitives system. Check Royal Assassin in RV, 10E, M10
- Please review, is sets/primitives a good directory? Should we rename MTGCard into "CardPrint"?
- Unfortunately for now it is not possible to "override" a Primitive. A card that links to a primitive but also defines new "values" will create its own data and ignore the data in the "linked" primitive for the time being. I hope to solve that at some point...
- some performance improvements
- "daily build". The daily build was compiled in "profile" mode. If you have problems running the exe, or problems with Visual Studio please let me know
* 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.
- no more 5 decks limitation for Player
- Player decks can be given a name/description the same way we do for the AI. No PSP Gui for that yet though, has to be done outside of Wagic (PSPWrite ?)
- Magic 2010: Combat Damages don't go on the stack anymore
- Comp rules: "goes to graveyard" effects don't go on the stack anymore
- Regenerate "fixed" (untested)
- Basic "ReplacementEffect" mechanism for damage prevention. Can be extended to other replacement effects with some limits.
- TODO: Damages don't go on the stack, the abilities that create them do.
- fixed card id collisions in Legends, Ravnica, Portal
- Changed Deck and Database structures with better design (a bit faster, hopefully a lot cleaner)
- updated Windows project file
- Added a few "stats" to the main menu. This might slow down loading times on the PSP (needs testing). In that case I'll move it to the options, or optimize it if needed
- Added WEvent class, allows to send events to abilities
- Cards that change zones now becomes new objects (as specified in the Comprehensive rules). This should allow to fix lots of stupid bugs in the near future, but probably brings loads of new issues :(
- Added Dr Solomat's TEMPEST expansion
- Added Sacrifice as part of the cost of activated abilities. Making it work as an extra cost for "put in play" still requires some work though. "Render" methods need to be written correctly
- Added cards with sacrifice in the existing sets. Most of them need testing...
- Prevent TestSuite from crashing, by not showing big cards during the test suite
- Updated font size in game, to be readable
- WARNING!!! One test (brass man) not working anymore !!! High priority
- It is now possible to have avatars associated to each Deck
- Added SFX
- Added Music files
- Possibility to choose your opponent
- Opponents' difficulty is measured according to their number of victories against a given deck
- Added the possibility to narrow a spell/ability target according to color,tapped status, attacker/blocker, abilities...
- Changed the games phase system to become a phaseRing. This allows to add cards that have an impact on the phases, such as stasis
- Added a few cards
- Fixed a (windows) bug in gatherer tool
- Adding stdint.h for VC++ (see wikipedia->stdint.h)
- deleting the compiled PSP lib to avoid confusion. People who work from the sourcehave to compile the lib by themselves.
