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https://zquestclassi...leases/2.55.14/

To help reduce the number of bugs in official releases, here is an unofficial prerelease build to give people a chance to find and report any obvious new bugs. The official release will come in a few days.

 

The Windows and Mac prerelease of 2.55.14 can be downloaded here. Keep this separate from your main ZC install. Once the version has been officially released, replace this prerelease build with one from official channels (the updater, GitHub, or zquestclassic.com). This link will expire at that point.

 

Use this thread to discuss or ask questions about the new changes.

 

Changelog:

 

# Features

 

zc: Press B to backspace in name entry grid mode

 

zc: Improve grid name entry mode

  * Show on-screen controls for insert, backspace, confirm

  * Press 'Tab' to use keyboard to type name

 

zc: Gzip compress uploaded replays

zc: Update replay versions on save load

  Previously, save files associated with replay file were permanently

  pinned to their initial replay version. This prevented older saves from

  benefiting from subsequent engine bug fixes. The replay version now

  dynamically updates when a save file is continued, seamlessly bringing

  new fixes to ongoing playthroughs without breaking existing replays.

 

zq: Add 'Open Tile Page' to Combo Pages right-click menu

zq: Add 'Select' to combo page right-click menu

  On using "Select":

  

  - Your current Combo + CSet you are drawing with are changed to the

    right-clicked combo.

  - Your current Drawing Mode is changed to Normal.

  - The active Combo Column will scroll to the selected combo.

  - The combo page dialog closes itself (so you can go use the selected

    combo quickly). Useful to quickly start using a combo / section of

    combos via the pages interface.

 

zq: "DMap Levels" quest report, lists which DMaps are tied to each level

zq: Show screen state carryovers in 'What Links Here' tool

zq: Improve quest auto-backup and timed auto-saves

  * Enable auto-backup by default.

  * Save all backups and auto-saves to a `YourQuest.qst.backups/` folder.

  * Include timestamps and ZC version numbers in backup filenames for

    easier identification and recovery.

  * Implement read-only protection to prevent accidentally saving over

    files loaded from a backup folder.

 

zq: Typable searchbar in some old lister dialogs (ex. level palettes)

 

# Bug Fixes

 

Prevent crash from listers using too much memory

Prevent crash when loading music with non-ASCII filenames

[mac] prevent crash from deeply nested dialogs

Prevent rare crash by checking if time mutex exists

Compat issues with quests before 2.53 related to owning mcguffin items

 

zc: Check water correctly when scrolling down

  When scrolling down while swimming, the player could sometimes

  incorrectly use a walking animation rather than swimming.

  

  This regressed in 2.55.12.

 

zc: Minor index logic error related to subscreens

zc: 'Show Hitbox' cheat hitboxes being slightly misaligned

zc: Show cheat hitboxes for invisible enemies

zc: Prevent crash when combos trigger

  Regressed in 2.55.13.

 

zc: Melee weapon hitboxes lingering forever based on 'Live One Extra Frame' rule

zc: Graphical errors in older quests

  Many older quests were incorrectly drawing the player, held items, or

  some enemies and weapons over the subscreen.

  

  Regressed in 2.55 alpha 120 (93f25b690).

 

zc: 'slashable' combos (tall grass, etc) wrongly 'cutting' via triggers tab

  Due to some old half-finished code, slashables were responding to all weapons set in their

  combo triggers tab, even with `->ComboType Effects` not checked. This behavior has been

  fixed, now requiring `->ComboType Effects` to trigger.

  

  Old quests loaded will automatically update any affected combos to behave as they did previously.

 

zc: Hero sometimes drowning when drown QR is off

zc: Newer Hero Movement buggy collision re: damage combos along the top of the screen

  Hitting the corner of any solid horizontally was wrongly checking the TOP of the screen for damage combos.

 

zc: 0-damage brang/hshot items not obeying script-changed damage values

  If a script changed the damage of the weapon but not the item, enemies

  who don't have "Damaged by Power 0 Weapons" checked would take the

  ITEM's damage amount rather than the WEAPON's. This also affected

  generic scripts changing the damage in an enemy hit event.

 

zc: Spinning Tiles not becoming the next combo

  No idea when this initially "broke", or if it *ever worked at all*,

  but the help text says it is supposed to, so fixed it with a compat rule.

 

zc: Statue shooters / spintiles / etc not working properly with triggers

  triggers changing combos wasn't calling `screen_combo_modify_preroutine()`/`postroutine()`

 

zc: Sprite light radius ignoring hit offsets

zc: Prevent soft-lock in whirlwind over water

  This regressed in 2.55.13 (b27da2ea2).

 

zq: Prevent long label from visually breaking combo editor

zq: Delete invalid command history

  When reducing the map count, the command undo/redo history were

  retaining entries for old maps. If attempting to undo/redo a command

  from a deleted map, the editor would crash.

  

  Now, those entries are deleted when the map count reduces.

 

zq: Prevent screen palette truncating to byte (0xFF)

zq: Rename `Undercombo` -> `Undercombo` in many places for consistency

zq: Don't show compat QR confirmation when creating new quest

  When creating a new quest from an older tileset, don't show a confusing

  confirmation dialog about disabling compat QRs. It won't hurt a new

  quest to disable these QRs, and this dialog is likely to confuse new

  users.

 

zq: Show correct combos from adjacent screens

  When the screen editor displays combos from adjacent screens, it was

  randomly showing the wrong combos.

  

  Regressed in 2.55 alpha 109 (be515839b).

 

std_zh: Set `MAX_DEFENSE` to correct value

  It should be 41, but it was 42.

 

zscript: Broken bitmap draws

  Some bitmap drawing methods were broken, such as masked draws used in a

  boss fight in Nayru's Odyssey. For that quest, it caused the boss to

  always be invisible.

  

  This regressed in 2.55.10.

  

  https://discord.com/...714916439593141

 

zscript: `npcdata->InitD[]` / `WeaponInitD[]` being *10000

zscript: Class destructors ending prematurely

  When a destructor calls a user function, the script engine incorrectly

  ended the destructor after that function call, skipping anything that

  came after.

 

zscript: Skip JIT compiler for larger scripts

  If the experimental JIT feature is on, now really large scripts are

  not compiled. It takes too long to compile large scripts in 2.55 so now

  we don't bother.

 

zscript: Some included headers using bad DrawCombo frame parameter

  this fixes combo draws not animating properly in ghost, tango, and EmilyMisc.zh

 

zscript: Add newlines missing in some error messages

zscript: Change `Region->OriginScreenIndex` to `int` instead of `long`

zscript: Add getters for `ffc::LastChangerX` and `ffc::LastChangerY`

  These were never implemented.

 

 

# Refactors

 

 

[mac] unify F-keys for reset/quit

  Previously on Mac, reset/quit were mapped to different keys than on

  other platforms because historically F9/10 were reserved by the OS.

  However, that is no longer the case on modern Macs.

  

  These function keys on Mac now match other platforms:

  

  * Reset is now F9 (was F7)

  * Quit is now F10 (was F8)

  * Screensaver and Palette Toggle have been moved back to F7 and F8,

    respectively

 

Speed up subscreen draws by simplifying string operations

zc: Turn off replay_debug by default

  This makes replay files significantly smaller by disabling debug mode,

  which stores a hash for every graphics frame in the replay file. This is

  no longer needed for replays recorded by players so it's time to disable

  it.

 

zq: Format map, screen locations more consistently

  * Format map + screen pairs using a common format: decimal for map, hex

    with a `0x` prefix for screen, and spaces for legibility. Example:

    `19 : 0x5A`.

  * Fix an issue in quest report tools that incorrectly used hex to format

    the map component.

 

zscript: Increase ZASM hang threshold

  Every set number of ZASM instructions, the scripting engine checks if

  the player hit F9 or F10 to allow them to quit during an infinite loop.

  The default was to check every 1000 instructions, but that is way too

  frequent. Now, the engine checks every 100k instructions. This reduces

  the amount of unnecessary overhead related to checking for key events.

 

zupdater: Disable on Mac, Linux