OW Community News

Changelog:

• Added: Equalize Hex Height Tool (Issue #398)
• Added: Wall Building Type
• Added: COLOR parameter to grass (R G B)
• Added: CLASS_OVERRIDE to people
• Added: ICON to People and Buildings
• Added: HEIGHT to people (For laser end point)
• Added: SPAWNONDEATH to buldings (ClassID Count)
• Added: WEAPON to buildings (WeaponID)
• Added: EnterVehicle event to SAIL
• Added: EnterVehicleFromBuilding event to SAIL
• Added: LeaveVehicle event to SAIL
• Added: CrateSpawn event to SAIL
• Added: Identify and Note area to SAIL Editor main window
• Added: IsSleeping, GetBuildingCost, PlaySoundXYLoop and StopSound to SAIL
• Added: top_right, right, bottom_right, bottom_left, left and top_left SAIL constants
• Added: CommunityMaps folder allowing community maps in Vanilla OW Multiplayer
• Added: Arabian Interface to SGUI
• Added: SGUI version of Editor
• Added: ToLua Sail Command (SGUI only, no effect in normal OW)
• Added: solar_recharge_percent variable to SAIL
• Added: changing the colour of crate/artifact in a map
• Added: texts.wri can now be used for Skirmish and Multiplayer maps
• Added: PakView can now extract all WAV files
• Added: Multiplayer Host can now change game speed in game
• Added: sound.owp can now be used by mods
• Added: Ident Descriptions for Editor - McBenn
• Added: Wood Tool to Editor
• Added: GroundAnims now support 16bit BMPs (24bit is converted to 16Bit)
• Added: GBIs now support an imbedded PNG image
• Added: Vehicles and Buildings can now force an attack Ground button (Issue #370)
• Added: CacheColorsTXT SAIL command added
• Added: profile_name SAIL variable (read only)
• Added: simple editions of all multiplayer maps
• Added: Small graphics included in Ow_editorOGL_Small.exe and owarOGL_Small.exe
• Added: CUSTOMSOUND added to people.txt allowing custom sounds
• Added: HEAD added to people.txt with 0 being no head (Defaults to 1)
• Added: SGUI New Command OW_CUSTOM_COMMAND
• Added: CustomCommand SAIL event
• Added: GetEnvironmentType and IsEnvironmentDestroyable SAIL Commands
• Added: GM Factory now included (Successor to GM Editor)
• Added: SINGLEDIRECTION added to buildings.txt removing the need for a building to have graphics for each direction
• Added: SIGHT added to buildings.txt allowing the default to be changed (Defaults to 0)
• Added: Buildings can now have a charge animation
• Changed: Multiplayer Lobby will now show all games
• Changed: Counters.wri, BNames.wri and CharName.wri will load from maps folder if they exist
• Changed: Increased Scroll Speed
• Changed: Increased MaxRegBackRects from 1000 to 2000
• Changed: Increased max Building Phases to 70
• Changed: Window Scroll Speed Increased
• Changed: Increased Multiplayer Protocol Version
• Changed: crc.bin is now redundent
• Changed: only editor will compile SAIL if code.bin exists
• Changed: Maps can now have up to 20000 units (10x more)
• Changed: Texts.txt will only be loaded from mod folder (Unless wri is missing) (Issue #258)
• Changed: Multiple Core Mode is now default. Use singlecore parameter to force singlecore
• Fixed: various MC errors
• Fixed: Invincible but dead russian apeman armed with machinegun (Issue #392)
• Fixed: PlaySoundXY now works correctly
• Fixed: Minimap Window in Editor
• Fixed: Rare Crash relating to placing or destroying a unit
• Fixed: Sound Systems StopAll could prevent future sounds playing (Issue #387)
• Fixed: StoneEd now works from the Original War Directory (Its not mod compatible)
• Fixed: OW's Bin format can't handle strings larger than 255 (Issue 180)
• Fixed: WaterZBuffer is calculated when using the Water Editor
• Fixed: Saves with -1 as a unit id reference crash OW (Issue #366)
• Fixed: SetCargo - 100 resources limit (Issue #368)
• Fixed: AM12 - Russian attack script (Issue 321) - Nefarem
• Fixed: Multiplayer maps, Polish corrections needed (Issue 109) - Nefarem
• Fixed: Multiplayer map Siberia - Fixed Czech translations - Gravitr
• Fixed: Ru03 - Missing Russian translation of dialogue D10a-Bur-1 - McBenn
• Fixed: counter in Am06 (Polish). Showed digits when it should show time. - McBenn
• Fixed: Editor not showing Weapon colour updates(On Buildings) when palettes are changed
• Fixed: AM15 - Legion secondary objective (Issue 326) - Nefarem
• Fixed: AM06 - An event spawning Joan Fergusson doesn't trigger (Issue 378) - Nefarem
• Fixed: Ru03 - The player would always get the medal for destroying many American reinforcements - McBenn
• Fixed: Am13 - The final objective was given a few seconds after mission start (Issue #369) - McBenn
• Fixed: ComBuild fixed (RU05)
• Fixed: RU02, RU06, RU07, RU11 fixes (Issue #446) - Nefarem
• Fixed: AM09, AM10, RU03, RU11 Fixes (Issue #452) - Nefarem
• Fixed: AM15 - Wrong condition for appearance of arabians (Issue #324) - Nefarem
• Fixed: RU14 - Arabian attacks not commencing (Issue #214) - Nefarem
• Fixed: OW can now do games with more than 8 players
• Fixed: OW Editor no longer extracts texts.bin when you make a new mod
• Fixed: Diplomacy window will now always display correctly
• Improved: OW Editor interface
• Improved: Multiplayer Stability
• Improved: Error Logging
• Improved: Reduced CPU usage
• Improved: Editor tool speed increased (ALOT)
• Improved: Most tools now work when click and dragged
• Improved: OW_EditorOGL now uses FastMM for the memory manager
• Improved: OW_EditorOGL now uses LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE allowing up to 4GB of memory in 64Bit systems
• Improved: Czech translation of multiplayer map names - Sali
• Improved: Czech translation to multiplayer map Siberia - Sali
• Improved: Translated the technology option to Czech - Sali
• Improved: You can now add new People (99 total)
• Improved: exclamations will now search through the different nations for a sound (Meaning you only need them in one nation)

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