Change Log and History

Version 1.26

Misc.

• A small, but significant change has been implemented in the room format. Previously, there was a bug that made it impossible to store the value 127 in the integer stream.

Library

• Improved floating-point precision for large rooms (6+ screens).
• Corrected a bug in the room loader, which caused colored tiles to be displayed with the wrong blend mode.
• Corrected a bug in ObjIterator, which caused incorrect behaviour when dealing with multiple-inheritance objects.
• New method in platformer object: qaf::PlatformerObj::isFloatingOnWaterSurface()

Version 1.2

Misc.

• The Room Editor has been rewritten from scratch. It sports a more streamlined interface, a toolbar, and native GUI widgets.
• Added support for tinted/blended tiles. Check out the Color Brush and Color Fill tools in the Room Editor.
• The Room Editor launcher has been replaced with an executable file: qaf\editor\RoomEditor.exe
• Added a black border around the console font for improved readability; update qafCFont.fnt and qafCFont.png in your projects.

Library

• Render free-form geometry with qaf::BigTexture::renderTriple() and qaf::BigTexture::renderQuad().
• New collision structure: qaf::CollisionStruct::Composite
• New method to test for moving point intersection: qaf::CollisionStruct::pointIntersection().
• Separate X/Y scale factors in qaf::SpriteParticleObj and qaf::AnimParticleObj. The two classes also have several new methods to get their properties (current position, color, size, etc.).
• Improved camera tracking for qaf::PlatformerObj.
• Corrected a bug that could cause objects to "vanish" after a room was loaded.
• qaf::Environment::DebugVector has become qaf::DebugVector.
• Fixed bug in qaf::Joystick::setAxesParameters(): deadzone and saturation were not being configured properly.

Upgrading from 1.1

• Warning: qaf::SpriteParticleObj and qaf::AnimParticleObj's constructors now have different argument lists. Your old code might compile without errors, but it will behave differently!
• qaf::PlatformerObj's position and velocity have been made private. Use getPos()/setPos() and getVel()/setVel() to access them.
• qaf::PlatformerObj::CAMERA_ACCELERATION and qaf::PlatformerObj::CAMERA_INV_DRAG have been eliminated. Use qaf::PlatformerObj::CAMERA_STICKINESS instead.
• If you used the DebugVector class, remove Environment:: from their names. They are now part of the main qaf namespace.

Version 1.1

Room Editor

• Fixed classpath issue with the Room Editor batch file.
• Select multiple tiles by Shift + clicking on the tile panel.
• Fixed bug that would let you drag objects when the obstacle layer is hidden.

Library

• qaf::GameObj::render(int, int, int) has been changed to qaf::GameObj::render(int, float, float).
• Removed IndexOutOfBoundsExceptions. qaf::Container and qaf::Matrix now throw std::out_of_range instead.
• Framerate-independent movement for all objects.
• New helper class: qaf::AnimParticleObj
• New collision structure: qaf::CollisionStruct::Circle
• Added optional parameter onTop to qaf::Environment::addGameObj().
• The enumeration qaf::ObstacleBlockTypes has been renamed to qaf::ObstacleBlock, and its members now have QAFBLK_ prepended to their names. This is to avoid naming conflicts with other variables.

Misc.

• Separate parallax factors for X and Y.
• Tiles can be flipped horizontally and vertically.
• Three new tutorials:
  • Tutorial 3 - Game Objects, Sprites and Scrolling
  • Tutorial 4 - Spawn Points and Factories
  • Tutorial 5 - Iterators and Collision Handlers

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