+ features

* bugfixes

0.9.20 -> 0.9.21:

 + New type of randomly generated maps: Perlin Maps.

 + Old Random generated maps are more diverse now.

 + Slider for adjusting land generation detail.

 + Highlander gamemode can now be used with custom weapon schemes (1-8=How probable to get this weapon. 9=All hogs get it)

 + New training/multiplayer mission: "Climb Home"

 + Game scheme screen has a "Script parameter" field now. This allows to make more customizable scripts/modes.

 + Network game rejoining. Note: Your team(s) will vanish after 3 turns.

 + Visual and gameplay changes to "sea" - world edges.

 + New engine command: /togglechat will disable/enable chat display (does not affect chat history display)

 + Change to Racer: first weapon/utility available will be automatically selected on start

 + Added some visual feedback to failed girder placement.

 + Various performance tweaks, especially for very large maps.

 + Allow switching through hogs in reverse order with PRECISE+HOGSWITCH (left shift + tab, by default)

 + Added support for custom Sudden Death music to theme.cfg (e.g. sd-music=hell.ogg ).

 * Fixed drill rockets sometimes exploding on impact.

 * Fixed trainings broken due to indestructable targets/crates.

 * Fixes and tweaks for low qualily rendering.

 * Sinegun won't shoot through -solid- land anymore

 * Many bug fixes and tweaks.

Frontend / Netgame:

 + High resolution previews!

 + Preview for dynamic maps generated by game style scripts (e.g. "ShoppaMap))!

 + Moved room status filter to top left of rooms list.

Lua API:

 + More helpful syntax error messages.

 + New hooks: onParameters(), onPreviewInit().

 + New functions:

      Dismissteam(teamname)

      GetGameFlag(gameflag) -- returns true/false

      PlaceSprite(x, y, sprite, frameIdx [, landFlag, ... ]) -- sprite refers to an id from the TSprite list

      SetWaterLine(waterline) -- moves water level to the specified y. the current value is in read-only global waterline

      SetNextWeapon() -- make current hedgehog switch to next weapon. e.g. use in trainings to preselect weapon

      SetWeapon(ammoType) -- decide which weapon the current hedgehog should equip

 + New global enumerations:

      Mapgens: mgRandom, mgMaze, mgPerlin, mgDrawn

      TSprite values

      LandFlags: lfIndestructible, lfIce, lfBouncy

 + Changed functions:

      HogSay(gearUid, text, manner [, vgState]) -- now also allows you to make NON-Hedgehog gears speak, e.g. barrels... wait what?!

0.9.19 -> 0.9.20:

 + New campaign, A Space Adventure!

 + Password protected rooms

 + Shapes on drawn maps (ellipses, rectangles)  - constrain dimensions with ctrl, as with straight line tool.

 + New rubber utility, lfBouncy mask (green) for maps.  lfBouncy is also anti-portal.

 + Lazy loading of many aspects of frontend to improve startup time under Windows

 + Set hog/team/health label defaults in config, toggle team health display using delete (left shift + delete for labels now)

 + Usernames next to teams when playing online.

 + Can now filter rooms by game style (such as Highlander). Filtering simplified since it is mostly unused.

 + AFK mode.  Press p when not your turn online to trigger autoskip of your turn.

 + Russian localisation of Default voice.

 + Map edges can wrap or bounce.  Also a silly "connect to the sea" mode

 + Sticky fire kicks you a bit less, fire interacts with frozen land/ice

 + Generated map stays same if the template is the same between groups (all/large for example)

 + Visual enhancements for whip and crosshair

 + Option to draw maps with a "shoppa" border - used by ShoppaMap lua at present

 + New hats

 + Translation updates

 + New lua script to control gravity.  May have unpredictable effects.  Try zero g shoppa.  Changes to allow lua to spawn poison clouds without interrupting turn.

 + Speech bubbles are now echoed to chat for logging purposes with the hog's name.

 * You should now thaw on your turn, not enemy's. AI frozen/unfrozen crate movement fix. Blowtorch can thaw frozen hogs.

 * Prevent target crosshair moving around unpredictably when doing multiple airstrikes

 * Rope should kick along surfaces more reliably, fix rope aim speed if you miss a shot, firing rope does not freeze timer, fix aiming on last rope

 * Remember bounce/timer in reset wep modes like Highlander

 * Increase precision in damage calcs; extra damage affects fire properly now

 * Fixed video recording resolution

 * Fixed context menu/cursor in text areas

 * Many bugfixes. Keypad enter in chat, hog sliding freezing game, team name flaws in Windows, localisation of tips, crasher in slots with no weapons, frontend holiday css.

0.9.18 -> 0.9.19:

 + New Freezer weapon - freezes terrain, water, hedgehogs, mines, cases, explosives

 + Saucer can aim weapons and fire underwater

 + Main graphical user interface overhaul

 + Splashscreen on Windows *_*

 + Up and down keys navigate in chat history

 + Several commands from chat available

 + Support hwplay:// scheme syntax

 + Supply full revision and hash information in version tag

 + Better set of options for driving engine

 + Downloadable content can now be stored in packages for easy uninstall

 + Lua scripts can load a sidecar overlay package of game resources

 + Math improvements for better performance/reliability

 + Smarter AI - now uses drill rocket accurately and is aware of barrels and dud mines.  More aggressive in infinite attack, lua can tell to target specific hogs, such as in Mutant

 + New fort, Steel Tower

 + New theme, Fruit

 + New hats - some national ones, Portal, harlequin, more animals...

 + New maps based on StarBound. SB_Bones, SB_Crystal, SB_Grassy, SB_Grove, SB_Haunty, SB_Oaks, SB_Shrooms, SB_Tentacles

 + Translation updates - Turkish, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, Russian - Campaign french should work correctly now

 + Theme object masks

 + Easier weapon selection in shoppa. F1 will select from F5 if there are no weps in F1-F4

 + Cleaver radius shrunk to improve usability on horizontal throws

 + Map hog limit is now just a suggestion, not enforced

 + Static map theme is now just the default, can be changed

 + Themeable static maps (provide a mask.png without a map.png)

 + Split seed with '|' to keep the land shape but change the hog placement

 * You can now move out of the way when throwing a sticky mine or cleaver straight up

 * Rope sliding should behave more like pre-0.9.18 again

 * Forbid kicking on 1v1 matches

 * Desync fixes

 * Fixed fort mode

 * Making very large maps now works properly with targeted weapons

 * ParseCommand should be safe to use in Lua now, at any time

 * Fixes to many weapons. Mudball, blowtorch, explosives, cluster bomb spread, portal.

0.9.17 -> 0.9.18:

 + 'A Classic Fairytale' Campaign

 + Video recorder (requires ffmpeg/libav)

 + 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

 + Mudball will not cause any direct damage anymore

 * 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