This fixes one of two desyncs in my Nova TAS.
The problem is that by adding two frames of edge-flipping to vertically
moving platforms, Viridian's framedelay is updated for one extra frame
after they step off of a vertically-moving platform. This then messes up
Viridian's drawframe for the rest of the TAS until they die in a
drawframe-sensitive trick.
The solution here is to only set the visual onroof/onground to 1
instead. The logical onroof/onground is still 2, so players still have
two frames of edge-flipping off of vertically-moving platforms - it just
won't really look like it (not that you could easily tell anyway).
- use fseeko and ftello like FreeBSD in tinyxml2
- use current directory as basePath if NULL (OpenBSD doesn't actually support this feature it is disabled via a patch in their ports)
In order to help players spot the difference between outlined text and
non-outlined text, we now outline the text outline text itself (if text
outline is enabled, of course). But drawing the outline alone doesn't
stand out enough, so we have to draw a solid backing against the text as
well, in order to properly show the contrast.
This fixes a regression where you're able to start flipped by restarting
and then holding ACTION.
This happens because when the game resets all variables, it turns
hascontrol back on (because of hardreset()). However, this is handled in
the input function, and it's handled before player input is handled, so
the player is able to get 1 frame of being able to flip after a time
trial resets.
Why didn't this happen in 2.2? Because resetplayer() in 2.2 would set
lifeseq to 10, as if the player had died. However, this is inconsistent,
because loading in to the game for the first time would not result in a
lifeseq of 10. So, in 2.2, restarting the time trial would remove that 1
frame of being able to flip because of lifeseq, while 2.3 doesn't set
lifeseq because the player hasn't died.
I could have fixed this by setting lifeseq in the time trial restart
code, but I decided to just set hascontrol to false instead.
Fixes#770.
In earlier 2.3, if the roomname was empty, Dimension VVVVVV was used
instead. However, instead of doing that, it's better to just use the
hiddenname instead. Both because it's less hardcoded, and some rooms
have hidden names that aren't Dimension VVVVVV.
This makes the text much more readable against certain backgrounds (if
you have text outline enabled), especially against the Warp Zone
background (when you start in "This is how it is").
If you enter the Secret Lab from the title screen, all rooms will be
explored. However, if you enter the Secret Lab via the Secret Lab
entrance cutscene (epilogue), not all rooms will be explored, which is
inconsistent.
To do this, just do an SDL_memset() for the entersecretlab script
command.
SDL_memset() conveys intent better and is snappier than using a
for-loop. Also, using SDL_memset() to explore all rooms is more
future-proof, in case the size of map.explored were to change in the
future, and it's more conducive to optimization.
However, the `i` variable has to be explicitly set because it was
previously used here, but it's much better that it's explicitly set here
rather than being subtlely hidden in the inner for-loop initialization.
This is more future-proofing than anything else. The position of the
indicators is just the x-position of the gravitron square divided by 10,
but the gravitron squares will always only ever move at 7 pixels per
frame - so the distance an indicator travels on each frame will only
ever be at most 1 pixel. But just in case in the future gravitron
squares become faster than 10 pixels per frame, their indicators will be
interpolated as well.
When rollcredits is ran during in-editor playtesting, all unsaved data
is lost. To prevent this, just return to the editor if rollcredits is
ran, with a note saying "Rolled credits".
The text box drawn at the bottom of the map screen isn't wide enough, so
it's possible to see the corners on the right side of the text box if
you have custom graphics like I do.
The solution is to increase the width of the text box by one tile.
The game automatically writes settings to disk after any other setting
is changed, so it should do the same whenever the user changes
controller keybinds.
For consistency, the Viridian squeak will now play whenever you start
editing a level description field, or finish editing it (either by
pressing Esc or Enter).
If a level zip is named LEVELNAME.zip, the level file inside it must
also be named LEVELNAME.vvvvvv, else custom assets won't work.
This is because when we mount the zip file, we simply add
LEVELNAME.vvvvvv to the levels directory. Then whenever we load
LEVELNAME.vvvvvv, we look at the filename, remove the extension, and
look for the assets inside the zip of the same name, LEVELNAME.zip.
As a result, if someone were to make a level zip with assets but
mismatch the filename, the assets wouldn't load. Furthermore, if someone
were to add extra levels in the same zip, they wouldn't have any assets
load for them as well, which could be confusing.
To make things crystal-clear to the user, we now filter out any zips
that have incorrect structures like that, and print a message to the
terminal. Unfortunately nothing gets shown for non-terminal users, but
at least doing this and filtering out the zips is less confusing than
letting them through but with the issues mentioned above.
FILESYSTEM_mountAssets() has a big comment describing the magic numbers
needed to grab FILENAME from a string that looks like
"levels/FILENAME.vvvvvv".
Instead of doing that (and having to write a comment every time the
similar happens), I've written a macro (and helper function) instead
that does the same thing, but clearly conveys the intent.
I mean, just look at the diff. Using VVV_between() is much better than
having to read that comment, and the corresponding SDL_strlcpy().
This is so it can be reused without having to copy-paste.
generateBase36() is guaranateed to completely initialize and
null-terminate the buffer that is passed in.
This fixes a bug where the player's y-position would be incorrect if
they loaded a save that was on a conveyor and it was their first time
loading in since the game was opened.
This is because on the first load, the game creates a new player entity,
but on subsequent loads, the game re-uses the player entity. Subsequent
loads use mapclass::resetplayer(), which already has the newxp/newyp
fix, but as for the first time, the game does not set newxp/newyp.
So just set newxp/newyp, like in mapclass::resetplayer().
Upon further discussion it was decided to keep the soundtrack as originally
shipped, instead of changing it after the fact.
This reverts commit cf51379097.
There is a pattern in the Super Gravitron that is meant to "staircase",
similar to the Gravitron in Intermission 2. Something like:
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Unfortunately, due to an oversight, this pattern can only ever produce 1
square or 4 squares, which look out of place.
Both gravitrons are state machines (of course). States 20 and 21 in the
Super Gravitron are this staircase pattern (state 20 spawns the squares
on the left, state 21 spawns the squares on the right).
The only way states 20 and 21 can be reached is through state 1, and the
only way state 1 can be reached is through state 3. The only way state 3
can be reached is through states 28, 29, 30, and 31.
In states 20 and 21, the variable used to keep track of the amount of
squares spawned is swnstate4. However, states 28, 29, 30, and 31 all end
up using swnstate4, and at the end of states 28 and 29, swnstate4 will
be 7, and at the end of states 30 and 31, swnstate4 will be 3. This
means if we go to states 20 and 21 after coming from states 28 and 29,
we will only get 1 square, and if we go to states 20 and 21 after coming
from states 30 and 31, we will only get 4 squares.
This can be clearly filed under a failure to reset appropriate state.
What's the solution here? Just reset swnstate4 in state 3, so there will
be 7 squares, as intended. This also fixes the bug for state 22 as well,
which is affected in the same manner.
This fixes an oversight that could lead to confusion by the player.
showtargets is the variable that shows all unexplored teleporters on the
map as a question mark, so players know where to head to to make
progress. However, it previously was not directly saved to the main game
file. Instead, it would be set to true if flag 12 was turned on in the
save file.
How well does flag 12 correlate with showtargets?
Well, the script that turns on showtargets (bigopenworld and
bigopenworldskip) doesn't turn it on. Neither does completing Space
Station 1.
This flag is only turned on when the player activates Violet's activity
zone for the first time.
Therefore, it's entirely possible that a new player could complete Space
Station 1, then save their game, and come back to resume playing later.
When they do come back, the question marks that Violet told them about
won't show up on the minimap, and they'll be confused. They may not know
where to go.
And it is completely unintuitive for them to know that in order to get
the question marks to show up again, they have to not only talk to
Violet, but then save the game again, and reload the save. Especially
since the question marks only show up after you reload the save, and not
when you talk to Violet (because flag 12 is only a proxy for
showtargets, not the actual variable itself).
So what's the solution? Just save showtargets to the save file directly.
If you have invincibility enabled, the tower camera behavior is
inconsistent.
In ascending towers, you can "push" the camera upwards; however you
cannot push it downwards; at least it stays still when it comes up to
you if you stay still. In descending towers, the camera moves quicker
when you're at the bottom of the screen, but it's slower than your
falling speed and quickly loses sight of you; the camera can be pushed
upwards; unfortunately it also does a "bumping" motion if you're
standing still when the camera reaches you, which gets real annoying and
isn't particularly pleasant to look at.
There are two problems, so this does two fixes:
1. Pushing the camera now applies the appropriate counter-offset
depending on the direction of the tower. You can now push the camera
downwards in ascending towers.
2. To fix the "bumping" when the camera reaches you if you stand still,
there are now a 8-pixel-high "gray areas" at the top and bottom of
the screen where the camera simply won't move if you're in them.
Doing these camera offsets instead of simply canceling the movement if
the player is offscreen is a bit ugly... but it works for now.
This is a lot of copy-pasted code, but a little bit of copy-pasting
never hurt anyone...
The keybind to interact with activity zones and teleporters is now
separate from the keybind to open the map, or return to the editor from
in-editor playtesting, or restart a time trial. The keybind is now E,
and the default controller bind is X. No controller button prompts, but
the game didn't have controller button prompts anyways, so whatever.
Doing this now because if people's muscle memory are going to be broken
by not being able to spam the map keybind anymore, at least we can help
a bit by changing the keybind so they can keep spamming it - their
muscle memory is going to be broken anyways.
This option has to be enabled by going to the speedrunner menu options
and selecting "interact button". It is disabled by default.
All prompt text needs to be string-interpolated every time they are
drawn, because it is possible for people to change which interact button
they use in the middle of gameplay, via the in-game options.
Closes#736.
Colors in over-30-FPS mode shouldn't be updating every deltaframe;
mostly to ensure determinism between switching 30-mode and over-30 mode.
I'm going to overhaul RNG in 2.4 anyway, but right now I'm going to fix
this because I missed it.
The RNG of each special text box is stored in a temporary variable on
the text box itself, and only updated if the color uses it (hence the
big if-statement). Lots of code duplication, but this is acceptable for
now.
After the dimension destabilizes, the song that plays is Positive Force.
Which has already been played twice in the game at that point (first in
Tower, then in the Gravitron). Since Piercing the Sky is unused, why not
play a song that the player hasn't heard before? It would also be
musically fitting for the scenario.
The song gets played in two places - one for if you have cutscenes
enabled, and one for if you don't - so we just need to change both of
them.
I asked Terry in Discord DMs if he wanted this change and he approved of
it.
If you have completed No Death Mode, and entered the Master of the
Universe trophy room in the Secret Lab in over-30-FPS mode, it would
appear to start at one position before quickly zipping to another during
the deltaframes.
This is because it updates its position after the initial assignments of
lerpoldxp/lerpoldyp in entityclass::createentity().
Other entities do this too, and what's been done for them is to
copy-paste the lerpoldxp/lerpoldyp updates alongside the xp/yp updates.
However, instead of single-case patching this deltaframe glitch, I've
opted to fix ALL cases by simply moving the lerpoldxp/lerpoldyp
assignments to the end of the function, guaranteeing that all entities
that update their position after the initial assignment in the function
will not have any deltaframe glitches.
Of course, there's still the duplicate lerpoldxp/lerpoldyp updates in
entityclass::updateentities()... I'm not sure what to do about those.
If you had Flip Mode enabled when exiting from in-game options, the game
would flash the in-game options menu as flipped for 1 frame before
returning to the pause menu.
To fix this, just defer the Flip Mode variable assignment to be done at
the end of the frame.
This is a small quality-of-life fix in the same vein as allowing the
player to press Esc in the teleporter menu (which they weren't able to
do in 2.2, either).
This fixes the finalstretch tile shifting persisting if you return to
the main dimension and final_colormode isn't reset properly.
It's possible to do so in the main game by using a teleporter in
finalmode while having the Intermission 1 or 2 companion active.
For custom levels, level makers can make a setup that automatically
turns on finalstretch, goes to finalmode, and then returns to the main
dimension. The only thing being... as a level maker myself, this tile
shifting REALLY doesn't seem useful (and no one has ever used it because
the setup to do so hadn't really been found or documented until this
year). For one, the exact shift is randomized every time (there's an
fRandom() call to cycle the colors). For two, it goes away after the
player saves and reloads the level. And for three, it doesn't animate
like it does in finalmode (this is the biggest reason IMO).
Nevertheless, I've decided to keep support for this in custom levels, in
case someone in the future does want to use it and is okay with the
limitations.
There's a bit of inconsistency with how long each color lasts for during
final stretch. Initially, each color lasts for 40 frames, but when you
enter either of the minitowers, the color switches to lasting for 15
frames only. This is because a final_colorframe of 1 makes it go for 40
frames, but a final_colorframe of 2 makes it go for 15 frames - and
final_colorframe gets set to 2 whenever you enter a minitower.
This seems like an oversight because (1) final_colorframe doesn't affect
anything inside the minitower, (2) final_colorframe doesn't get saved to
the save file and always gets set to 1 if your save file has
finalstretch set to true, so saving and reloading will set the colors
back to 40 frames each, and (3) final_colorframe doesn't get set back to
1 when leaving the minitowers.
When you enter the Super Gravitron, you have to wait until the Super
Gravitron actually starts before being able to press Enter to return to
the Secret Lab. This is annoying if you just want to get back to the
Secret Lab. So, I've made it so the press-Enter-to-return functionality
is enabled from the moment that the Super Gravitron starts.
It turns out, despite the game attempting to prevent you from using
invincibility or slowdown in the Super Gravitron by simply preventing
you from entering the Secret Lab from the menu, it's still possible to
enter the Super Gravitron with it anyways. Just have invincibility or
slowdown (or both!) enabled, enter the game normally, and talk to
Victoria when you have 20 trinkets, to start the epilogue cutscene.
Yeah, that's a pretty big gaping hole right there...
It's also possible to do a trick that speedrunners use called
telejumping to the Secret Lab to bypass the invincibility/slowdown
check, too.
So rather than single-case patch both of these, I'm going to fix it as
generally as possible, by moving the invincibility/slowdown check to the
gamestate that starts the Super Gravitron, gamestate 9. If you have
invincibility/slowdown enabled, you immediately get sent back to the
Secret Lab. However, this check is ignored in custom levels, because
custom levels may want to use the Super Gravitron and let players have
invincibility/slowdown while doing so (and there are in fact custom
levels out in the wild that use the Super Gravitron; it was like one of
the first things done when people discovered internal scripting).
No message pops up when the game sends you back to the Secret Lab, but
no message popped up when the Secret Lab menu option was disabled
previously in the first place, so I haven't made anything WORSE, per se.
A nice effect of this is that you can have invincibility/slowdown
enabled and still be able to go to the Secret Lab from the menu. This is
useful if you just want to check your trophies and leave, without having
to go out of your way to disable invincibility/slowdown just to go
inside.
This factors out the slowdown and invincibility conditionals to a
function. This means less copy-pasted code, and it also conveys intent
(that we don't want to allow competitive options if we have either of
these cheats enabled).
This function isn't implemented in the header because then we would have
to include Map.h for map.invincibility, and transitive includes are
evil. Although, map.invincibility ought to be on Game instead (it was
only mapclass due to 2.2-and-previous argument passing), but that's a
bunch of variable reshuffling that can be done later.
