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Improvements to the Debug Overlay Feature * Scenes can insert custom key/value labels to the debug overlay and track string variables in real time * Added ability to unthrottle FPS in main loop
2019-04-10 01:28:08 +00:00
# Developer Console
## Cheats
Add Switches, Fire/Water Collision and Play Menu * New doodads: Switches. * They come in four varieties: wall switch (background element, with "ON/OFF" text) and three side-profile switches for the floor, left or right walls. * On collision with the player, they flip their state from "OFF" to "ON" or vice versa. If the player walks away and then collides again, the switch flips again. * Can be used to open/close Electric Doors when turned on/off. Their default state is "off" * If a switch receives a power signal from another linked switch, it sets its own state to match. So, two "on/off" switches that are connected to a door AND to each other will both flip on/off when one of them flips. * Update the Level Collision logic to support Decoration, Fire and Water pixel collisions. * Previously, ALL pixels in the level were acting as though solid. * Non-solid pixels don't count for collision detection, but their attributes (fire and water) are collected and returned. * Updated the MenuScene to support loading a map file in Play Mode instead of Edit Mode. Updated the title screen menu to add a button for playing levels instead of editing them. * Wrote some documentation.
2019-07-07 01:30:03 +00:00
* `unleash the beast` - disable frame rate throttling.
* `don't edit and drive` - enable editing while playing a level.
* `scroll scroll scroll your boat` - enable scrolling the level with arrow keys
while playing a level.
Doodads: Crumbly Floor, Start Flag & State Blocks Add new doodads: * Start Flag: place this in a level to set the spawn point of the player character. If no flag is found, the player spawns at 0,0 in the top corner of the map. Only use one Start Flag per level, otherwise the player will randomly spawn at one of them. * Crumbly Floor: a solid floor that begins to shake and then fall apart after a moment when a mobile character steps on it. The floor respawns after 5 seconds. * State Blocks: blue and orange blocks that toggle between solid and pass-thru whenever a State Button is activated. * State Button: a solid "ON/OFF" block that toggles State Blocks back and forth when touched. Only activates if touched on the side or bottom; acts as a solid floor when walked on from the top. New features for doodad scripts: * Actor scripts: call SetMobile(true) to mark an actor as a mobile mob (i.e. player character or enemy). Other doodads can check if the actor colliding with them IsMobile so they don't activate if placed too close to other (non-mobile) doodads in a level. The Blue and Red Azulians are the only mobile characters so far. * Message.Broadcast allows sending a pub/sub message out to ALL doodads in the level, instead of only to linked doodads as Message.Publish does. This is used for the State Blocks to globally communicate on/off status without needing to link them all together manually.
2019-12-31 02:13:28 +00:00
* `import antigravity` - during Play Mode, disables gravity for the player
character and allows free movement in all directions with the arrow keys.
Enter the cheat again to restore gravity to normal.
Fix Actor Collision Checks Again * Recent collision update caused a regression where the player would get "stuck" while standing on top of a solid doodad, unable to walk left or right. * When deciding if the actor is on top of a doodad, use the doodad's Hitbox (if available) instead of the bounding box. This fixes the upside-down trapdoor acting solid when landed on from the top, since its Hitbox Y coordinate is not the same as the top of its sprite. * Cheats: when using the noclip cheat in Play Mode, you can hold down the Shift key while moving to only move one pixel at a time.
2020-01-03 06:05:49 +00:00
* Note: under antigravity, hold down the Shift key to lower the player
speed to only one pixel per tick.
Level Collision and Scrolling Fixes * Fix the level collision bug that allowed clipping thru a ceiling while climbing up a wall. * Fix the scrolling behavior to keep the character on-screen no matter how fast the character is moving, especially downwards. * Increase player speed and gravity. * New cheat: "ghost mode" disables clipping for the player character. * Mark an actor as "grounded" if they fall and are stopped by the lower level border, so they may jump again.
2020-01-03 04:23:27 +00:00
* `ghost mode` - during Play Mode, toggles noclip for the player character.
Add Switches, Fire/Water Collision and Play Menu * New doodads: Switches. * They come in four varieties: wall switch (background element, with "ON/OFF" text) and three side-profile switches for the floor, left or right walls. * On collision with the player, they flip their state from "OFF" to "ON" or vice versa. If the player walks away and then collides again, the switch flips again. * Can be used to open/close Electric Doors when turned on/off. Their default state is "off" * If a switch receives a power signal from another linked switch, it sets its own state to match. So, two "on/off" switches that are connected to a door AND to each other will both flip on/off when one of them flips. * Update the Level Collision logic to support Decoration, Fire and Water pixel collisions. * Previously, ALL pixels in the level were acting as though solid. * Non-solid pixels don't count for collision detection, but their attributes (fire and water) are collected and returned. * Updated the MenuScene to support loading a map file in Play Mode instead of Edit Mode. Updated the title screen menu to add a button for playing levels instead of editing them. * Wrote some documentation.
2019-07-07 01:30:03 +00:00
## Bool Props
Some boolean switches can be toggled in the command shell.
Usage: `boolProp <name> <value>`
The value is truthy if its first character is the letter T or the number 1.
All other values are false. Examples: True, true, T, t, 1.
* `Debug` or `D`: toggle debug mode within the app.
* `DebugOverlay` or `DO`: toggle the debug text overlay.
* `DebugCollision` or `DC`: toggle collision hitbox lines.
## Interesting Tricks
### Editable Map While Playing
In Play Mode run the command:
| Command | Effect |
|--------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
| `$ d.Scene.Drawing().Editable = true` | Can click and drag new pixels onto the level while playing it. |
| `$ d.Scene.Drawing().Scrollable = true` | Arrow keys scroll the map, like in editor mode. |
| `$ d.Scene.Drawing().NoLimitScroll = true` | Allow map to scroll beyond bounded limits. |
The equivalent Canvas in the Edit Mode is at `d.Scene.UI.Canvas`
### Edit Out-of-Bounds in Editor Mode
In Edit Mode run the command:
`$ d.Scene.UI.Canvas.NoLimitScroll = true`
and you can scroll the map freely outside of the normal scroll boundaries. For
example, to see/edit pixels outside the top-left edges of bounded levels.
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