Slime Salad

Ah, of course, you're building from rel\fufluns instead of from wip\, but the dlls were placed in wip\support\.

The BUG messages are expected: they are what the "Ignore two errors: " on the previous line refers to. The "filetest_helper: Couldn't open _testfile4.tmp" error at the end happens randomly quite a lot. A robust solution would be to somehow wait for the helper to have opened the f...

Then we'll have a race! I've got another bugfix.

Dungeons?
Hmm, I'll have to try allowing effects on map layers too, since that would be pretty nice (apply to a water layer!). Unfortunately it's going to be a lot more complex, and inefficient.

Yes, I'm pretty sure scaling should be done before rotation (actually, rotation, scaling and flipping at all done as a single transformation for efficiency, but it's equivalent to doing them in a certain order), because otherwise the unequal x and y scaling results in a strange rotated skew, which i...

Yes, I certainly want to allow use of dissolves/effects in sprite animations. So you could even use them in the idle animation.

What I'm wondering is in which order rotation/scaling/flips and dissolves/effects should be applied when drawing a sprite. Is there any strong reason to prefer one order?

After reading this thread a few days ago I woke up at the next dawn consumed with this idea for an absurdist Alice in Wonderland-meets-Neuromancer. Reality and cyberspace mixed without boundary. Bears cutting through the data streams of the northern wilderness with their claws, bounding after packet...

OK, I worked out that the clipboard paste crash only happens with gfx_directx (which isn't the default for Custom) on Win 7+, so I don't need any more testing. I don't think it'll be fixed for Fufluns. I've fixed the default palette problem Sword reported. Take note: If you changed the default palet...

In the long term, I think I can speed up loading times in the spritese browser another 2x. That will be after a rewrite of how slices types work (which should speed up creating/cloning slices). And the textbox browser could become much faster just by caching the textbox previews. As well as working ...

Oh, sorry, I'd forgotten about that textbox search crash on Win 95, although I did write it down. There's actually quite a large list of unfixed bugs, but we couldn't let that hold up release any longer. I won't get to that bug before the release, but I'll try to take a look soon. Thanks for the fur...

When you said "within" do you mean copying-pasting from one text field inside Custom to another? What about pasting in Custom after copying from another program? Sword (of course) already found that there is a bug in changing default palettes in the spriteset browser or editor. I'm not sur...

Stable release? We still do those?? Some particular areas of interest: Mac builds are now 64-bit rather than 32-bit (32-bit ones are still available). I'd like someone to confirm importing music and scripts work. Does anyone get a crash when copy-pasting text between Custom and other programs on Win...

Fixed bug #1 *. I've been doing a loooot of optimisation of the thingbrowsers and spriteset browsers (top-level menus) and managed to get speedups of up to 35 times -- make that 50 times when I merge in some more changes soon! (See link above.) Unless your game is called Adventures of Powerstick Man...

Yes, that prompt doesn't seem to matter much. I also noticed that quickloading problem when I tested it after making that recent change. for the last few days I've been working on optimisations, especially to our most low-level I/O code (it's so low-level, it even inserts itself underneath FreeBasic...

Yes, how you shift sprites has changed. I think you used to hold capslock! The new way is to select the Scroll tool (S) and press arrows/drag the mouse.

In nightlies since a few days ago you can also scroll all frames at once with the resize spriteset menu.