- 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
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....
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...)
this update requires you to update your rules folder files!!!
2nd
added 2 new vanguard game modes.
Stone Hewer Basic - when ever a creature enters play, a random equipment with a converted mana cost less than or equal to that creature is put into play and attached to it.
this mode is unlockable, requirement = win a match where 10 or more equipment were in the battlefeild at the moment you won.
Hermit Druid basic- in this game mode, during each of the players upkeeps, a random land card from their deck is placed into the battlefield, these do not count against your 1 land per turn limit.
to unlock this, win any match with less then 10 lands.
-- I removed the string comparison, which was expensive (the test is not necessary anymore, since it was "shielding" us from fake types (names), which are not creature subtypes, and therefore do not go through). I also moved one function call outside of the loop, just in case that wasn't optimized by the compiler.
- Removed unused Subtypes.cpp function (I don't really want people to use it, it can be quite expensive if used incorrectly)
- moved a test for issue 501 that has been fixed a while ago (we forgot to add the test to the test suite)
i also changed the logic behind wololo "ueot " instant ability creator...instead of sending it directly to genericinstantability i created a new class called AGenericInstantWrapper...which handles the adding, cloning, removel ect, exactly how we have always handled "instant abilities"...this should correct any further "odd edge case" issues with the new "ueot " code...
later i will varify if it works with every single ability we current build with a wrapper class...and see if i cant remove them all and convert "ueot " into the NEW until end of turn handling method....lets cross our fingers as it would remove ALOT of extra code if successful....
added
"offerinterruptonphase=blah"
to the parsing of the rules.txt files...the reason i want to handle it inside the rules.txt....
originally i was going to use the options variable for this, then i realized that if i use that variable, it would apply it to every game mode and peoples custom games...so instead i added the parsing in the actual rules.txt files, this way, if we want to offer interrupt on phase blah to MTG, but NOT have this interrupt offered in a mod or different mode, or if the different mod or mode should offer you a chance to interrupt ai in a different phase ...you can set each rule to interrupt in the phase you want...
now for the reason i added it in the first place...previously we were allowed an interrupt when the opponent drew a card in the draw step, this gave us a chance to do stuff on opponents turn....
recently wololo i beleave made draw actions not use the stack anymore(which was a good change, since as per MTG rules the actions of drawing is not a stack action)...but as a side-effect, we lose our chance to interrupt ai and do stuff on ais turn....
also, changed the ingame bonus thing, to start recording stuff towards bonuses on turn 2+...this solves reported issues with story mode "setting up" causing massive bonuses to be gained for doing nothing.....
