- rewrote some code dealing with text formatting for a card when rendering in text mode. I could swear my code has been reverted. If somebody has good reason to believe we should re-process the string formatting on every frame, please let me now. I believe my change can help rendering speed of text mode a lot.
- counters change to vector instead of array
this fixes an issue with infect creatures not triggering "bloodthirst" ...all other cases this was working correctly, bloodthirst however checks the damageCount.....
the ability checks against any of the current cast restriction checks and is written in the following syntax
example phaige the untouchable is
auto=ifnot casted(this) then wingame opponent
if|ifnot condiation then ability
this can also be used in && abilities such as this card
pulse of the grid
auto=draw:2 && target(*|myhand) reject && if type(*|opponenthand)~morethan~type(*|myhand) then moveto(myhand) all(this)
this adds a few cards in its current state, though the aim for this ability was removing the use of "kicker" workaround for cards like the divinity creatures.
i plan to extend this to support such effects as "if spentmana({b}{u}) then effect....and other conditional checks currently not possible even with workarounds.
I'm committing these now since im working on abilities for kiaos mod and don't want to have a 20 page changelog.
also added missing text to binding grasp, it was thought that it was bugged becuase it simply "ended" its effect....however this is a confusion since the effect was ending due to upcost not being paid, however the card text did not reflect that it had a upcost....
i seriously think we devs should consider making all ability coding required lowercase. not card names and text, but coding such as targetchoosers "thisForEach(creature[Black;White]|myBattlefield) moveto(myGraveYard) ...<---this is not uniform...and leads to people using such coding in the source ....i think i suggested this once and was instantly shot down...however, this is the 2nd instance where a bug has arose from the comparing of capitalized vs lower case..becuase we all assume that every line is going to be dropped to lower case as the game reads them.....
This helps a lot in the deck selection menus (duel and deck editor).
That, added to my previous fix, fixes issue 693 for me.
In general, we should try to avoid 512x512 32bits textures on the PSP. That happens with a 480x272 png image. One solution is to convert the file to a jpeg, and load it in 551 mode whenever possible. Another solution is what I did: use a 450x255 image instead. The best is of course to cumulate both, which divides the size in Ram by 4 on the PSP.
I'm ok with distributing lower res graphics on the psp, and higher res on other platforms, if that helps. Main culprits are 480x272 images (when there's too many of them)
-- Res is the default folder in Res.txt, in case it exists, to avoid confusion when debugging
-- added sign_prx in the makefile, harmless if you have the default build.mak, but signs the app for you if you have the correct files
-- uninitialized variable warning fixed in Rules.cpp
http://code.google.com/p/wagic/issues/detail?id=706
these types were converted into part of the "types" enum and are no longer considered a subtype in the engine.
as they appear before Subtypes::LAST_TYPE they are to return "" as their subtype search result.
i figured there was no harm in including them in the types list filtering as they were moved from subtypes becuase they were some of the most frequently used subtypes.
otherrestriction=type(creature|mybattlefield)~lessthan~type(creature|opponentbattlefield)-3
which means, if the statement above is true you can play the card....if you subtract 3 from the amount the opponent has in creatures, and you are still less then the opponent...then that means he has atleast 4 more creatures than you do.
so right after the type(blah) you can add +number or -number...and it will modify the amount to compare.
so i converted it from string comparisons and counting the battlefield..into targetchoosers with declarable operator.
simplified the code from the mess it was before into something alot easier to card code with.
example before:
mytypemin:less type(land),opponenttypemin:* type(land)
becomes
type(land|mybattlefield)~lessthan~type(land|opponentbattlefield)
the new syntax is:
type(targetchooser)~operator~number
type(targetchooser)~operator~type(targetchooser)
the operator are:
morethan
lessthan
equalto
1) prevent the textureQuad map from containing references to cards when we're returning a temp (card backdrop) image in the threaded version.
2) we had two copies of the pspicon image in the cache (ie the regular & managed). Changed the reference in the DeckMenu code to use the managed instance.
3) Fixed a problem with a default constructor param that would set RESOURCE_LOCKED on certain images. I noticed that the 'NEW' image was locking itself in the cache because no resource modes was being passed in, so the default constructor param was setting it to locked. This seems like a bad idea - if you're not explicitly locking a resource in the call, that shouldn't be the default behaviour.
Also added an assert safeguard to catch the possibility of 'overlocking' an image resource, as this probably means the image fetching routine is being abused somehow.
this is basically one activation for the existence of the trigger, meaning if it is used on a card, and the trigger exist for inplay, it will only activate one time while that card is inplay, it will activate again if the card leaves play and is put back in play again by another effect,
this was originally added for cards such as the hidden enchantment cycle.
-- Tutorial Messages are an ability like any other, except it can only be displayed once. Subsequent calls are ignored, the ability is removed from the game as soon as it is added
-- This allows to add event triggered messages ingame. Messages are either text, or images (I don't have an image sample, but rules/classic.txt has a few examples that might help)
-- only tested on Windows, although I made sure the PSP version compiles. Hopefully I also made the necessary for it to work in the touch version (touching the screen should be enough to close the tuto message)
-- Room for improvement: possibility to choose a title in text mode, possibility to have some messages depending on others (e.g.: don't show message X until message Y has been shown), improve some of the abilities and triggers to give more flexibility, add events outside of game, to allow tuto messages in deck creator, etc...
ie:
Card Name:
Quick Sliver
Mana Cost:
Converted Mana Cost:2
Types:Creature — Sliver
Card Text:Flash
Any player may cast Sliver cards as though they had flash.
without an over-ride testdestroy removes the observer before it can be any use to us.
i only enabled this for the lords/this'es....
(One could argue that this ID is completely meaningless and could be entirely ripped out, as the IDs obviously never made it to their intended target...)
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