Before my response, please allow me to state something that may not be obvious to many of you:
I appreciate user suggestions, be they simple, complex, obtuse, obscene, or anything in-between. I take each request seriously, and I give each consideration. That does not mean that they will make it into the next version or two, but it does not preclude adding them, either.
Some of these are common requests, but that does not mean that they are not worth repeating. Ideally, I would prefer a 'Feature Requests' thread that is pinned, so that we can have all of this in a central location. If any of you want to see some of the present plans, please visit the Feature Requests board on AGN, under the ZC Development board.
While I would love to see a similar board here on Pure for the majority of the userbase to have, and in which they could participate, the decision was already made that ruled this out. If you are truly interested in making suggestions for future ZC/ZQuest versions, I invite you to participate on the AGN forums. THey are not the same place that they were in 2009, and most of the nonsense that happened eight years ago is long dead, and the users who made it an uncomfortable, or unwelcoming place, are all long-gone.
My status in the 2.60 project looms somewhere between a contributor, and a full-time developer. I'm not overly concerned about this status, but I want to clarify that I do not make the final-cut decisions for features. I merely try to implement them, and if they work, and the project leads do not raise objections, then they are pulled into mainstream ZC.
At present, I am effectively in charge of the planned 2.53 release, which is a final cut for 2.50.x, and I routinely contribute to 2.60.
So this is mostly a "What new things do they hope they add" Kinda thing, I want people to give out ideas I have a few mostly stuff I could see helping people in making quests,
Smooth scrolling : I know im beating a dead horse as this is ZC's #1 most-requested feature but It really should be added. Ive even ideas of making d-map screens connected (like how you make a map on the Dmap Screen) So you set Screens to use Smooth Scrolling rather then block .(Like in ALTTP)[/background]
D-Map/Map Size : While the 16x8 maps are nice Id like to make them bigger rather then making multiple maps just have one big one. Maybe have a maximum of 100x100 or something like that.
Better Item/Enemy Editors: Pretty much want to be able to make bosses and be able to have more customabilty for items maybe add more items like the Ice Rod
(Emphasis, mine.)
This one is partly done. The new weapon editor, and the updates to the enemy editor, should satisfy most, but perhaps we will manage to get weapon and npc scripts working in 2.60. That would be the ideal solution.
I will be working on ice lweapons in the near future. Ice weapons, are in fact, at the top of my agenda, following the weapons class refactoring. I am uncertain how I would make enemy ice weapons function; meaning that I do not know what the effects of these would, or should be, but I do have a plan for Link's ice weapons that should work rather well.
The new weapon editor controls allow changing the weapon and base defence properties for most items that create weapons, and I plan to add in a Generic Projectile class item type, so that making items such as the fire rod, ice rod, and similar, are easy to accomplish solely from the editor. Adding in secret combos for all of Link's weapons would follow these improvements.
I would ultimately like to create a 'Flag Editor', and I did the preliminary work on ZScript ComboData->, that, should things works as I anticipate, would substantially improve the viability of a flag editor in the future.
More items per Screen/Screen 80's: I would love to able to more more then one chest on a Screen and I want to able to set text items and guys on Warps rather then Screen.
Better mp3 support: Its just using Midis is Kinda outdated while I still think we should Support Midis Id like to be able to add Mp3s or OOGS into projects without having to add them in the folder.
This is just a Start I know there might be a thread like this but I wanted to bring this up to see what people think? Do you like my ideas or think they wouldn't work?
(Emphasis, mine.)
I am not certain that the people who host quest databases would want embedded enhanced music in quests. As useful as it might be, it would probably preclude hosting quests on Pure, or ZC.com if the enhanced music files were embedded in the quest file.
These two aside, I have already considered adding multiple screen items, and I have given some thought to how to change screen dimensions, but the latter of these two would be to create smaller (GB) screens, not larger screens. Rewriting how maps work is a far more arduous task than most of you want to imagine. Adding additional '0x80' screens is out of the question. Those are nearly a dead commodity, and largely exist for 1.90 through 2.10 quest compatibility. .
Edited by ZoriaRPG, 08 July 2017 - 08:29 PM.