ChapterMaster dev-0.10-2024-12-24-2254

What's Changed in this Nightly

New/Changed

• feat: Improve missing ships return from warp by @OH296 in #239
• fix: Research progression and add research complete popup by @EttyKitty in #244

Fixes

• fix: "Unstretch" the main menu background by @EttyKitty in #236
• fix: Uncommon crash from squad temporary variable by @OH296 in #230
• fix: Unloading not possible directly after loading marines by @OH296 in #229
• fix: Array error with image caching by @OH296 in #240
• fix: Ruins one last time by @OH296 in #237
• fix: Modernise and remove redundant code scr_random_event by @OH296 in #242
• fix: Several bugs with fleet combat by @OH296 in #231
• fix: Terminator bionic arms errors by @EttyKitty in #234
• fix: Mobility gear on Terminators by @EttyKitty in #235
• fix: Array error in ship self-healing crash by @OH296 in #243
• fix : tech heretic conversion logic by @OH296 in #241
• refactor: Move experience reward logic to a script by @EttyKitty in #245
• fix : repair loading forge queue by @OH296 in #246

Full Changelog: dev-old/release/0.10.0.0...dev/release/0.10.0.0

What's Changed on the Nightly Branch

Possibly Breaking Changes

• refactor!: Overhaul chapter data handling by @VanWeapon in #48
• player ship arrays are now fully dynamic by @OH296 in #116
• feat: Overhaul Techmarine and Apothecary systems by @OH296 in #77

New/Changed

• Adv 5.5 PR by @KRdaMystic in #30
• A bunch of weapon and hands drawing stuff, with some other minor things by @EttyKitty in #31
• More complex sprite by @OH296 in #50
• feat: "Generate random name" button on some creation slides by @VanWeapon in #150
• feat: A bunch of changes to sprites by @EttyKitty in #147
• feat(flavour): Update lore for soul drinkers by @VanWeapon in #164
• feat: Rework battle EXP reward system by @EttyKitty in #41
• feat: Chapter selection multirow grid & dbg overlay by @VanWeapon in #165
• feat: Overhaul of attack/raid and purging frontend and backend by @OH296 in #179
• feat: Angry marines by @VanWeapon in #174
• feat: Copy version number by clicking on it by @EttyKitty in #184
• feat: Basic ship return from lost in warp logic by @OH296 in #193
• feat: Exclude squad from bulk equip by @OH296 in #194
• feat: More complex sprite work by @OH296 in #182
• feat: Deselect dreadnoughts on attack screen and ship load fix by @OH296 in #222
• feat: Add Terminator bionics sprites by @OH296 in #226
• feat: Improve missing ships return from warp by @OH296 in #239
• fix: Research progression and add research complete popup by @EttyKitty in #244

Fixes

• Fix: complex sprite stuff fixes by @OH296 in #51
• fix: crash when switching bombardment targets by @VanWeapon in #123
• fix: typo in splintered fleet distribution by @VanWeapon in #124
• fix: Fleet combat with new fleet arrays by @OH296 in #128
• refactor: More error logging edits for 0.10 and minor fixes by @EttyKitty in #137
• general cleanup on gene slaves by @OH296 in #181
• fix: Missing homeworld name on new game by @VanWeapon in #190
• fix: Inconsistent use of "warp" and "Warp" causing crashes by @OH296 in #191
• fix: Garbage error with p_fortification by @OH296 in #189
• fix: Set lid defualt to -1 in scr_manage_unit by @OH296 in #195
• fix: Recruitment and trait distribution by @OH296 in #197
• fix: Crash with custom chap icon by @VanWeapon in #196
• fix: Player fleet merge move to modern methods by @OH296 in #198
• fix: Restore final save part by @OH296 in #199
• fix: Chainsword start gear bug by @VanWeapon in #202
• fix: Deprecated experience() causing crash by @OH296 in #205
• fix: Custom icon load by @VanWeapon in #207
• fix: Complex set crash by @OH296 in #210
• fix: Clean ships script by @OH296 in #211
• fix: Add checks to stop empty strings in item logic by @OH296 in #213
• fix: Fix a bunch of ship errors caused by location by @OH296 in #214
• fix: Unset global variable crashing artificer armour by @OH296 in #215
• fix: Crash at the end of scr_purge_world from unset variable by @OH296 in #223
• fix: Crash that could occur when saving the chapter icon path by @OH296 in #224
• fix: Align warp lanes with stars after game restart by @OH296 in #225
• fix: "Unstretch" the main menu background by @EttyKitty in #236
• fix: Uncommon crash from squad temporary variable by @OH296 in #230
• fix: Unloading not possible directly after loading marines by @OH296 in #229
• fix: Array error with image caching by @OH296 in #240
• fix: Ruins one last time by @OH296 in #237
• fix: Modernise and remove redundant code scr_random_event by @OH296 in #242
• fix: Several bugs with fleet combat by @OH296 in #231
• fix: Terminator bionic arms errors by @EttyKitty in #234
• fix: Mobility gear on Terminators by @EttyKitty in #235
• fix: Array error in ship self-healing crash by @OH296 in #243
• fix : tech heretic conversion logic by @OH296 in #241
• refactor: Move experience reward logic to a script by @EttyKitty in #245
• fix : repair loading forge queue by @OH296 in #246

Under The Hood

• refactor: progenitor enumerator by @jhillacre in #44
• refactor: declare loop variables locally in for loops by @jhillacre in #56
• refactor: remove/comment unused functions, add zoom related global. prefix by @jhillacre in #67
• refactor: item name gathering script for equipment selection UIs by @jhillacre in #68
• refactor: Move trait data and distribution into a separate file by @OH296 in #140
• refactor: A bit less hectic scr_start_allow by @EttyKitty in #203
• refactor: Recruitment strings and rates to macros by @OH296 in #204

Full Changelog: dev/release/0.9...dev/release/0.10.0.0

ChapterMaster dev-0.9-2024-12-16-2335

What's Changed

Fixes

• fix: obj_ini.icon string failsafe by @OH296 in #212
• fix: Wrong variable name in planet defence battles by @OH296 in #216
• fix: Add error handling and split crusade into own function by @OH296 in #217
• fix: Return trade ships home or delete them by @OH296 in #218

Full Changelog: v0.9.11...dev/release/0.9

ChapterMaster v0.9.11

What's Changed

New/Changed

• feat: Disable borderless window by @VanWeapon in #172

Fixes

• fix: Crashfix perils table by @VanWeapon in #177
• fix: Infrequent bug from orks arriving and generating refugees by @OH296 in #180
• fix: Array issues with scr_powers by @OH296 in #183
• fix: Array error with custom select in draw_manage_unit script by @OH296 in #187
• fix: Add extra check to stop array errror in ui_manage ship area by @OH296 in #188

Full Changelog: v0.9.10...v0.9.11

ChapterMaster v0.9.10

What's Changed

Fixes

• fix: Deprecate some old cooldown/mouse stuff by @EttyKitty in #120
• fix: Star selected indicator by @EttyKitty in #119
• fix: Fortifications in scr_shoot and scr_flavor2 by @EttyKitty in #117
• fix: try-catch for ruins surprise by @EttyKitty in #121
• fix: Typo in scr_dialogue.gml by @Frost-bit-jpg in #131
• fix: Ork fleet behaviour tweaks by @OH296 in #129
• fix: Enhance ork fleets behaviour by @OH296 in #141
• fix: Shift+RMB for direct travel by @OH296 in #142
• fix: Exterminatus crash, add check for obj_star instances by @OH296 in #143
• fix: And refactor exterminatus by @OH296 in #144
• fix: Even more ruins bits by @OH296 in #145
• fix: Crozius missing at chapter creation by @Frost-bit-jpg in #146
• fix: Beast hunt governor mission by @OH296 in #149
• fix: draw obj_p_fleet line 12 crash by @OH296 in #157
• fix: Ruins ... hope and pray by @OH296 in #158
• fix: mission_star showing up in popup text by @VanWeapon in #159
• refactor: Default max kills at 1 and minor code clarity by @EttyKitty in #154
• fix: alarm 7 code legibility and checks by @OH296 in #168
• fix: Yet another ruins fix attempt by @OH296 in #169
• fix: Advisor names (array shift) by @EttyKitty in #155
• fix: en_fleet alarm 11 modern orbiting method by @OH296 in #170
• fix: Command squad auto sorting by @OH296 in #167

Under The Hood

• perf: Garbage collector edits by @EttyKitty in #139
• refactor: Replace a bunch of global vars with macro by @EttyKitty in #151
• refactor: Add further error handling to ai_a script by @OH296 in #171

New Contributors

• @Frost-bit-jpg made their first contribution in #131

Full Changelog: v0.9.9...v0.9.10

ChapterMaster v0.9.9

What's Changed

Fixes

• Maybe obj_pnunit alarm_3 crash; try-catch by @EttyKitty in #107
• Maybe obj_fleet alarm_7 crash; try-catch by @EttyKitty in #108
• scr_shoot crash; weapon index; try-catch by @EttyKitty in #106
• min() to stop augmented hp going over max_health by @OH296 in #114
• Modern disadv check and 4 to 8 loop increase by @EttyKitty in #112
• ncombat alarm7 crash fix and try-catch by @EttyKitty in #110
• Disable reclusium events, as they don't work and crash by @EttyKitty in #113
• Refactor unitblock movement to fix related bugs by @OH296 in #115
• Remove Cataphractii from artifact list by @EttyKitty in bd87259

Under The Hood

• Wrap group_selection() into try-catch by @EttyKitty in #111
• load_json_data() try-catch by @EttyKitty in 7626ef6

Full Changelog: v0.9.8...v0.9.9

ChapterMaster v0.9.8

What's Changed

New/Changed

• Bombardment edits by @Blogaugis in #16
• Warp route screen pan on key combo; fix its tooltip by @EttyKitty in #62
• Timer to limit combat turns by @OH296 in #100

Fixes

• Old methods for marine incapacitation increasing health by @OH296 in #89
• group_selection (line 378) crash by @EttyKitty in #88
• scr_ui_advisors (line 437) crash by @EttyKitty in #86
• Wrong variable type used for doing tests hunt beasts by @OH296 in #90
• Final ruins fix, I pray by @OH296 in #91
• Advantages/Disadvantages checks ignoring past 4th slot by @EttyKitty in #93
• Try and report for company_order by @OH296 in #98
• Chapter Master and Captains missing in various places by @EttyKitty in #99
• Enemy rows phasing through by @OH296 in #100

Under The Hood

• Basic timer function by @EttyKitty in #85
• debugl rework for performance; minor logging edits by @EttyKitty in #84

Full Changelog: v0.9.7...v0.9.8

ChapterMaster 2024-11-08-0217 (v0.9.7 wannabe)

What's Changed

Other Changes

• fix: Error when navy attacks player planets by @OH296 in #78
• fix: Potential error from accessing non-array variables ui_manage by @OH296 in #79
• refactor: Scope and try-report loop wrap ancient ruins ambush by @OH296 in #80
• fix: Error in hostile_weapons flavour_2 by @OH296 in #81

Full Changelog: v0.9.6...v0.9.7

ChapterMaster v0.9.6

Full Changelog: v0.9.5...v0.9.6

Fixed:

Crashes:

• When assigning marines to forge, loading saves and probably some other weird cases (gml_Script_scr_ui_advisors (line 864)).
• On creation screen role equip (gml_Object_obj_creation_popup_Draw_0 (line 132)).

Under The Hood:

• Made the garbage collector run every minute. Doesn't seem to inflict performance loss and fixes the array corruption. Let's see if there are any caveats.
• Reduced redundancy a bit in error report functions.

ChapterMaster v0.9.5

Full Changelog: v0.9.4.0...v0.9.5

Changed:

• Build Date is displayed in the main menu.
• Error logging edits (#57):
  • Error logs now have the pre-built title for the bug report on their first most line. You can just cut and paste it into the title.
  • Errors now display a system message and not an in-game popup, as there are some unintended consequences with popup.
  • Error message itself is edited a bit, for clarity and to include new instructions.
  • Error itself is now wrapped in markdown codeblock.
  • Error logs now also display Build Date, for when there are different builds of the same version.
• Chapter fleet tab is edited (#69).
  • Carrying is now displayed in the tooltip, when hovering over a ship.
  • Ship list is edited, overlapping text fixed, headers added.
  • Ship images are now white on black.
• Welcome message is edited (#70).
  • Added units that were missed from the listing: Champions, Librarians, Sergeants, Veteran Sergeants.
  • Edited bits of text a little and changed some formatting, so it's more nice and readable (I hope).
  • Increased the amount of info on each page after the first, removing the need for the 4th page.

Fixed:

• Crashes:
  • Garrisons crashing and returning the game to star map.
  • Crash during enemy end turn with chaos fleets.
  • Crash from trying to spawn chaos warlord with poor methods.
  • Crash from bombarding due to old planet name methods.
  • Crash when entering company management screen (tooltip_text).
  • Battle crashes related to obj_pnunt (#29).
  • Unknown amount of crashes caused by garbage collector (GC).
  • Crash cause by GC on the role equipment slide of creation screen.
  • Crash when calculation fleet speed (#39).
• Inquisitor inspection target fleet getting invalid (#36).
• Most of the librarium artifact list bugs should be fixed (#32).
• Duplicate inquisition inspection (#33).
• Health values going over 100% (#43).
• Bombard target planet display name (#46).
• Fleet tab ship sprites centred, some text issues are also fixed.
• Fix and finish hunt beast governor audience (#76).
• Some weird cases where you had to click two times on stuff for the click to register may be fixed now.

Under The Hood:

• obj_ini.experience deprecated in favour of unit struct experience variable (#37).
• Game Version and Build Date are now handled through an external json file.
• Game Version is tracked through global.game_version, Build Date through global.build_date.
• scr_fleet_advisor is refactored a bit. Less hardcoding, should be easier to adjust (#69).
• All string manupulation functions are moved into scr_string_functions (#70).
• handle_exception() in all catch statements.
• scr_click_left now sets the cooldown, in addition to checking it.
• Click detection functions now accept a custom cooldown value.
• New functions:
  • array_to_string_list() - renamed format_stacktrace(), array into a string, with each element on a newline.
  • json_to_gamemaker() - accepts path to json file and outputs a struct or a dslist.
  • markdown_codeblock() - accepts a string and wraps it with markdown codeblock symbols.
  • handle_exception() - accepts an exception struct, usually from a try-catch loop, displays an error and creates an error log.
  • integer_to_letters() - converts an integer to an english word, supports ordinal forms.