Reorganized layout and appearance of rooms list page.
Creating a new room uses a dialog prompt for the room name, which is preset to whatever your last room name was.
Removed dotted rectangle around selected cell in rooms list.
Removed bug where gamecfgwidget would be in master mode when joining a game as a slave.
Can now join selected room when return is pressed. Can also move room selection while room search box has focus.
+ features
* bugfixes
0.9.17 -> 0.9.18:
+ 'A Classic Fairytale' Campaign
+ Video recorder (requires ffmpeg)
+ Cleaver weapon
+ AI is now aware of drowning and fall damage
+ AI learned how to use Sniper Rifle and Cake
+ Variable pen width and eraser for drawn maps
+ Several trainings and missions
+ Allow setting custom local palette of teams colors
+ Hide eliminated teams from teams healths widget
+ Server doesn't delete room till last player quits it
+ PNG screenshots
+ Show bot level on CPU flag
+ Objects now have density value assigned which impacts their behavior on explosions, throwing from rope and drowning
+ Improve AI skills at Desert Eagel, Whip, Firepunch, Baseball Bat, Hammer, Cluster Bomb, Watermelon and walking
+ Individual hedgehogs healths in team health bar
+ Drill rocket wouldn't explode in your face if you stand close to wall
+ Ability to rope into a portal, allow RC plane to go through portals
+ Many small frontend improvements: get rid of "save" buttons, descriptions, allow to use network proxy, etc
+ Reduce amount of memory needed for engine to store land data
+ Countless other small fixes and improvements
+ Detect desyncs early
* Fix cake getting stuck in barrels, crates and hedgehogs
* Fix all knowns bugs which caused network game hang when players close engine or quit
* Fix drill strike bug when drill's timer gets ridiculously high value instead of explosion
* Fix some crashes, freezes and memory leaks in frontend and engine
0.9.16 -> 0.9.17:
+ New theme, Cave
+ New voicepack, Hillbilly
+ More attractive mission screen with previews
+ Chat timestamping, links, input history, tab completion
+ AI smarter, now uses switch. Also tweaks to mine/crate/barrel rules
+ Customisable chat by dragging a .css file, see file generated by the /saveStyleSheet command
+ Errors/warnings in chat instead of popup boxes
+ Mousewheel to change hog/weapon counts in game creation
+ Refresh DLC page on access, display notice if DLC page is not accessible
+ Team colours changed, again
+ Land texture on maps using mask of black
+ Spread clouds/flakes over near/far layers for more 3D
+ Team coloured RC/airstrike
+ Icy girders/bridges on Snow/Christmas themes, support for ice land type (blue in mask)
+ Sticky mines, mines activate 1s after use in infinite attack mode
+ Grenades/bazooka/melon pieces/ballgun now kicked by explosions
+ Minor theme optimisation, Optional SkyR
+ Camera follows melon, clusterbomb, gas cloud
* More fixes to fullscreen/window resize on non-Linux systems
* Vertical movement should be restricted for small displays, camera will try less hard to keep hog in centre
* Keep mouse from jumping around when ammo menu is active
* Hogs can now move after trapping another hog in a portal loop
* ctrl-w no longer closes engine window
* Fix bugs in blowtorch angle/direction
* Fix playing notes on the piano
* Fix some colours in greyscale 3D
* Fix Lua overrides of map config
* Girders no longer make windows in tunnels
* Prevent some more escaping through border, firepunch, pickhammer
* Many frontend bugfixes, code cleanup. Crash in game abort, flake clipping, invalid state on room close
* Many other engine bugfixes. SDL event crasher, timebox crasher, birdy hang, desync on quits, crash in birdy eggshell, hammer + vamp + invuln, clouds on Deep Space theme, etc
0.9.15 -> 0.9.16:
+ In-game chat now supports backspace-repeat and Escape to close the text input area
+ Team status bars shrunk/made translucent if they take up a significant portion of the screen
+ Background music change on sudden death mode
+ Stereoscopic rendering
+ Installing content (anything under Data/ - maps, sounds, and any such stuff) to user profile allows custom adding/overriding of any Data/ content
+ Screen for downloadable content
+ Allow up to 8 teams in a game
+ New gameplay modes/styles: Racer, The Specialists, Tumbler, Space Invasion, Balanced Random Weapon
+ New single player missions: Bamboo Thicket, That Sinking Feeling, Newton and the Tree
+ New Weapon/Utility: Land Spray Gun
+ New Utility: Time Box
+ New Game mode: Tag team
+ New Game option for map bottom border
+ New Theme: Golf
+ Many new hats
+ Sudden Death art
+ Get away time modifier (in %)
+ Shoppa scheme by default resets ammo
+ Shots are on a tenth of a second delay instead of a 1 and a quarter second delay (fast deagle/portal fire)
+ Defective mines explode if they take enough damage
+ Rope head can attach to hogs/crates/barrels again (rope still passes through them)
+ Control of grenade bounce
+ Drill Strike bombs don't explode when leaving ground, but after a (customizable!) timer
+ Hammer impacts mines/barrels
+ Seduction is an Area-of-Effect attack now
+ Significantly altered flame behavior and damage.
+ 'Throwing' weapons into hogs (e.g. grenade) no longer does max damage.
+ Ukranian localization of Default voice. support for localized voices
+ Theme cleanup, including the new theme config file change
+ Improvements in scoring and tracking damage
+ Camera tracking now toggleable
+ Mudball does not end turn
+ Indicator for height of plane when using napalm
+ Land smoothing (looks less pixelated on generation and damage)
+ Improved lua script support (e.g. set per-hog ammo, place girders, spawn fake crates, switch hogs, change hats)
+ The names of the ShoppaKingTournament winners are now written on the Trophies in the ShoppaKing and TrophyRace maps!
+ Allow window resizes during game
+ Improved fullscreen capabilities
+ Additional/new sounds (mine impact, sine gun, etc)
+ Victory/flawless victory sounds
* Voices don't overlap (was needed more due to faster game actions due to shortened delays)
* Prevent portaling to impossible locations better
* Snow accumulates more smoothly
* Rope should be less sticky now
* Rope shouldn't be able to get Hogs stuck on walls anymore
* Fix for last portal shot always being yellow
* More accurate napalm strike drop location
* AI fixes (heh, yeah right)
* Fixed locales, such as korean
* Code refactoring
* Various bug/leak fixes
Frontend/Menu and Netgame:
+ Drawing straight lines in drawn map mode (hold down the control key when clicking, then move mouse to end point and release).
+ Undo clear in drawn map mode
+ Autokick ignored players joining your room
+ Improved nick sorting in lobby and rooms. (not case-sensitive, letters first, friend @ top, ignored @ bottom)
+ Display player count in lobby
+ Lobby: Player names of online players can be clicked in chat directly so that you don't have to find them in the player list
+ Room names can be changed by the room admin without recreating the room
* Fix invisible icons in popup menus
* Various fixes and adjustments
0.9.14 -> 0.9.15:
+ Ability to create, save and load hand drawn maps
+ New maps: Capture the Flag (Blizzard) Map
+ New themes: Christmas
+ Snowflakes on Christmas/Snow themes accumulates on the ground
+ New game modifiers: No wind, More wind
+ New missions: Dangerous ducklings, Diver, Spooky tree, Teamwork
+ New weapons: Mudball, Drill strike
+ Many more Lua hooks
+ Readytimer
+ Ability to edit seed
+ Ability to select gameplay scripts
+ New gameplay scripts: Capture the Flag, No jumping, Random weapon
+ New Lua unified translation framework
+ Code refactoring
+ Max teams upped to 8
+ Cosmetic enhancements to Napalm strike
+ Selecting a game scheme selects the corresponding weapon set
+ Dust when drills dig
+ New hats: beaver, porkey, sheep
+ Add density property to Gears
+ Reworked management of schemes and weapon sets
+ Will ask before deleting teams, schemes and weapon sets
+ Explosions detach rope from land
+ Variable rope length in scheme
+ Allow hog speech when not your turn
0.9.13 -> 0.9.14:
+ New audio tracks
+ New forts: EvilChicken, Tank
+ New game modes: AI Survival Mode, Per Hedgehog Ammo, Reset Health, Reset Weapons, Unlimited Attacks
+ New grave: ring
+ Over 30 new hats
+ New themes: Art, Brick, Jungle, Stage
+ New maps: ShoppaKing, Sticks, TrophyRace (Mission)
+ New utilities: Portal Gun, Resurrector
+ New weapons: Flamethrower, Hammer, Old Limburger, Piano Strike, Sticky Mines
+ Weapons' projectiles will now be launched from their barrels instead of the hog's center
+ Flying Saucers may be used for moving below the water surface
+ New default game schemes: Clean Slate, Fort Mode, Timeless, Thinking with Portals, King Mode
+ New default weapon set: Clean Slate, Thinking with Portals
+ Bomb clusters/Melon parts inherit some of the original bomb's speed
+ Extended game statistics
+ Improved health bar updating
+ Hogs that blow themselves up will use triggers in their team color
+ Settings allow better control over the level of details/effects
+ Improved Lua support
+ On empty ammo switch to no weapon rather than the first available one (to avoid shooting by accident)
+ Display of hints in the frontend
+ Some improvements of existing Themes of Maps
+ Land destruction effects added
+ Improved fire effects
+ Improved Melon explosion effects
+ Online game lobby now features game filters
+ Other Frontend enhancements
+ Additional sounds
+ Show special game rules in Esc screen
+ Updated translation
+ Speed optimizations
+ Hedgewars will now use a sub directory of "My Documents" like other games instead of "%userprofile%/.hedgewars" under Windows
+ Added support for graphics cards/drivers that have a 512x512 pixel textures limit
+ Team colors are more distinguishable from each other now
* Fixed bug that allowed charging a weapon while on rope, leading to frozen timer
* Various bug fixes
0.9.12 -> 0.9.13:
+ Speed optimizations
+ New weapon: Birdy (carries your hog and lets you throw poisonous eggs at your foes)
+ Hats are visible while using rope and blowtorch
+ Explosive barrels
+ AI is able to handle artillery mode as well as new weapons
+ Weapon schemes now include crate probability as well as delays
+ Optional semi transparent labels for hogs to avoid hidden gaps
+ New voicepack: British
+ New frontend sounds
+ Frontend now allows you to add player names to either your friends or ignore list and join their current rooms (follow)
+ Optional tooltips explaining weapons in weapons menu
+ 3D effect for waves
+ Game now fades in/out at the start and end of a round
+ Flashlight effect when taking screenshots
+ Holding 'precise' key now allows hogs to change direction without moving
+ New game modes: place hedgehogs, king mode, randomized starting order, shared ammo, no girders
+ Improved CJK text handling and detection
+ Dud mines
+ Reserved hats for donators (reservation time is limited; they'll be useable by everyone some months later)
+ Added team flags (pick your country or your favorite 'fun' flag)
+ Active team's name blinking on round start
+ Team chat for spectators
+ New explosion graphics with screen shakes for huge explosions
+ Hogs might react to thrown grenades or explosives and panic
+ Popup effects visualizing collected weapons
+ New visual effects (dust, smoke, gun shells)
+ Replaced the UFO with the Homing Bee
+ View ammo menu even while other player's turn
+ Preview alternate weapon while using another one (e.g. parachute, rope and flying saucer)
+ Splashes and droplets once objects fall into water
+ 45 degree bounce for grenades
+ New bounce sounds for most objects
+ Several new sounds for hedgehogs including walking animation and some emotes
+ Show special game rules at round's start
+ Support for Lua scripts (used for tutorials as well as 'mission' maps)
+ Changed Basketball map to be a mission including scoreboards
+ Added Knockball mission
+ New crazy map template
+ New random map generator supporting maze type maps
+ New game schemes: Barrel Mayhem, Tunnel Hogs
+ New weapon scheme: Tunnel Hogs
+ New themes: Olympics, Desert
+ Lots of other updates to other themes
+ Background textures for destroyed land simulating depth (on random maps only)
+ New target cursors
+ Many new hats
+ Additional effects
+ Icon for hwengine under windows
+ Delete old teams using the frontend
+ Support for long localized strings (longer than 255 bytes)
+ Xfire support (shows nickname, server and room name in player info)
* Fixed showing two cursors in some situations
* Drill rocket's sound will now stop even after drilling right into water
* Properly unload SDL_mixer's support libraries on engine shutdown
* Fixed several memory leaks
+ Lots of other bug fixes and additions we already forgot during this huge release
+ Updated translation
+ PowerPC architecture supported
* Reduced memory footprint and leakage
0.9.11 -> 0.9.12:
+ Zoom
+ New weapons: flying saucer, molotov cocktail
+ More sounds
+ New visual effects
+ Updated graphics
+ Chat within team only
+ Remember net password
+ More trainings
+ Implement room control delegation when host's connection fails
+ Colorize chat events in engine
+ [mac only] Add Sparkle framework to automatically update the program when a new version comes out
+ [mac only] Add M3InstallController for easy installation
* Fix crash in replay caused by speechbubbles
* Fix some desync causes
* Fix rope bugs
* Fix bugs in weapon selection code
0.9.10 -> 0.9.11:
+ Speech bubbles
+ Many new hats, new graves
+ New taunts
+ New voice pack, new default voice
+ Animated stars in frontend's background
+ New music
+ Vampirism weapon and game mode, karma mode
+ Artillery mode
+ Sniper rifle
+ Options for mine delay/quantity
* Fix disconnection from server not been performed correctly
* Don't crash engine after round in reduced quality mode
* Fix game desync when oneof players quits
* Hedgehogs don't take hat off when jumping
* Fix initial room map config desync
* Fix team name in training
* Fix crash in parachute/rope if drowning with active girder/teleport
* Fix rope disappearing bug
0.9.9 -> 0.9.10:
+ Many new hats, maps, themes, updates on existing ones
+ Remove small pixels left by fire
+ Double possible land dimensions, allow up to 48 hedgehogs in game
+ Brand new net server
+ Cave mode
+ Initial sound volume option
+ Increase rendering speed and overall graphics performance
+ New game options
+ Game schemes
+ New voicepack
+ Reduced quality mode for better performance on old computers
+ Random teams generator
+ Many utilities
+ Templates filter
+ Water bouncing
* Fix underwater theme soundtrack
* Fix blowtorch delete condition
* Fix crash when attackbar wasn't deleted, but hedgehog gear was
* Fix spectating when one of players left the game
* Fix accidental rope removing from ammo in some cases
* Prevent engine crash when not enough place for all hedgehogs
* Fix bug with not working toggles 'rectrict joins' and 'restrict team adding'
+ Fix engine slowdown when trying to switch ammo while firing bazooka
0.9.8 -> 0.9.9:
+ Voicepacks
+ Teams health graphic on statistics page
+ Colorize join/quit messages in chat
+ Precise aiming
+ RC Plane weapon
* Fix ballgun breaking net game on 64bit systems
* Fix bug when hedgehog was unable to drop some weapons from rope in certain conditions
* Fix page switching issues when disconnected
* Fix rope bug which allowed hedgehog to go into land
* Fix cake stucking up in air on some maps
* Fix three cursor bugs
* Fix autogenerated demos/saves filenames problems
* Fix engine freeze when switching hedgehog in certain conditions
0.9.7 -> 0.9.8:
+ Many net server fixes
+ Lobby on net server
+ Napalm weapon
+ Drill rocket and Ballgun weapons
+ Show quit reason message
+ Solid Land option
+ New maps
+ Many new forts
+ Improve Hellish hand grenade
+ Spectating for those who joined after game start
* Fix silent crash when cannot place all hedgehogs
* Fix small damage tag issues
* Fix a bug leading to engine silent crash when using whip, bat or firepunch (and probably flame)
* Limit chat history to 250 entries to avoid DoS attack with its use
0.9.6 -> 0.9.7:
+ Completely redesign the frontend, no longer looks like an ugly program launcher
+ New art
+ Add fullscreen mode to frontend
+ New Castle map
+ All map rendering now 32bit / theme objects have alpha channels
+ Bath, Freeway, Hell, Sheep, Underwater themes
+ PirateFlag, Sheep maps
+ Seduction weapon
+ Dedicated server
+ Increase possible length of team and Hedgehog names
+ New music
+ Ability to customize your hedgehogs with a variety of hats
+ Ability to customize water colour in themes
+ Watermelon Bomb Weapon
+ Hellish Hand Grenade Weapon
+ /me now works in chat
+ Ability to divide teams on any map
* Fix rope getting stuck bug
* Make soundtrack loop better
* Fixed small glitch with placing girders
* Fixed grenade sound
* AI uses the mortar better
0.9.5 -> 0.9.6:
+ New Cake weapon
+ New maps: EarthRise, Bamboo, Bath, BambooPlinko
+ New theme EarthRise
+ Add soundtracks for each theme
+ Show picked up ammo name when playing demo
+ Make engine fonts bold
+ Small sound improvements
* Fix clouds shaking up
* Repair screenshots capturing
0.9.4 -> 0.9.5:
+ Taunts
+ Exit confirmation dialog
+ Sudden death
+ Maps added: Hydrant, Lonely Island
+ Updated mushroom map
+ Translations added: German, Slovak, Bulgarian, French
+ More impressive exposions
* Fix bad sprite when you jump and get hit
0.9.3 -> 0.9.4:
+ In game chat is now implemented, chat (and taunt!) your buddies during network play
+ Mortar, whip and Kamikaze weapon additions
+ Two new themes, desert island and city
+ New maps
+ New animations, including an idle animation!
+ Rope reworked, much greater momentum, ability to aim the rope between swings
+ AI updates
+ Teams now work in fort mode, i.e. 2v2
+ Ability to attack whilst jumping/rope swinging
+ Some weapons can only be used after a certain number of turns
+ Lots of new graphics
* Many network/gameplay bug fixes
0.9.2 -> 0.9.3:
+ Switch to OpenGL rendering
+ Massive graphics update
+ New animations, weapon sprites
+ New themes 'Snow' and 'Nature'
+ Many new sounds
+ Hedgehog backjump
+ Automated parachute
+ Hedgehog can jump even when someone is on its head
* Improve and bugfix statistics
* Fix bug allowing to make stack of hedgehogs using teleport
* Fix fall without damage trick, which could be performed with not attached rope
* Don't show enemy's picked weapon name
* Fix hedgehog moving direction after been shot by shotgun
* Fix bug with handling keys while it is enemy's turn
0.9 -> 0.9.2:
+ Add registration of net game in web
+ Introduce weapons sets support
+ Add teleportation tool
+ Add hedgehogs switching tool
+ Add tags with current damage (alt damage option on options page)
+ A couple of new land templates
+ Decrease network bandwidth usage
+ Add clans support (teams with identical colors are allies)
+ 's' key speeds up demo playing
+ Easter egg
+ Full saves support, 'Saved games' page
+ Add ability to choose which info is shown above hedgehogs
+ AI can use Air Attack weapon
+ Get possible screen resolutions from SDL library
+ Add Desert Eagle and UFO sounds
+ Add parachute sprite
+ Add training mode
+ New theme and map 'Volcano'
+ Moving hedgehog could make another hedgehog moving kicking him
+ Save and restore window size on application restart
* Fix using parachute while staying on the ground
* Fix old rope regression (attaching didn't work properly, when hedgehog is jumping)
* Fix AI jumping to wrong direction on the turn start
* Fix rare conditions causing network game to randomly fail
* Make missiles collide with attacking hedgehog