It's been 85 million years, but I've finally merged the format-21 PR :)

Maybe I'll still add some new features to format 21, for instance I might pick up that "hide time of day" request from your other thread, but as long as it's just adding functions and globals, there's no need for a version bump.

Okay, there's a lot of fun stuff here!

Damage adjust hook

This is an interesting idea. You mention elemental damage and other such multipliers as a main use case for this. I wonder, would it also solve your use case if the combat system gets built-in support for elemental weaknesses? E.g. since ...

If you want to, absolutely! I'm a little unsure what the best approach would be for exposing this to the content stream interfaces; your idea of adding a WriteCompressed(U)Int32Property contract (and then kind of not look too hard at the slightly leaky abstraction :D) might be the simplest solution ...

Anyway, rendering two billion dice sounded like fun, so I just went and did that.


My poor engine, haha. Yeah, it doesn't quite handle dice rendering intelligently enough to be able to efficiently render hundreds of them; I'm almost surprised 300 works as well as it does then. I expect that ...

It could be worth at some point setting up some kind of automated testing for loading old modules (it can just make sure they parse) to quickly catch anything like this, should it ever happen.


Yep; hopefully the upcoming CLI I'm working on can help with that. However, I do not have a test ...

Okay, a lot to think about here! Thanks for taking the time to write this all out.

GZIP compression
Fair enough. You're correct that there's not really a reason to not do it, and provided that the loader remains backwards-compatible with versions 19 and 20, it should be fine.

Also, I can bump ...

The solution I ended up with was tacking an @RegisterSerializable("<C# class name>") on everything.

Fair; doing all the class discovery through reflection is certainly a lot more flexible, and I agree that attributes (or annotations, in Java lingo) are really nice for making that discovery data ...

Fair enough! In other programming languages, I guess you could get away with just having big fat mapping tables and lists of classes, to stand in for reflection. Probably annoying to maintain though.

I know ALTTP does have randomizers for a lot of stuff, like doors (any warp trigger), sounds ...

Well hello again! I, uh, wow. Once again you blow me away with how much time you've clearly put into this.

I was actually working on a command-line mode for the editor the other day, so at least some pieces of this will become a built-in tool. It'll have most of the features you listed, sans in ...

Hey, that's awesome!

First, you'll want to make sure you have Finmer version 1.0.1; the game start location system was added in a patch.

On the Scene that you would like to use as a game start location, click the Root node in the scene tree, and then tick the 'Is Game Start' check box. The player ...