[Mnemonic]

Hi muties,

here is a new (maintenance) release of WME. The main change is rewritten saving which should be much faster than before, plus some improvements and fixes. Since the saving is a rather big change I'm marking this release as beta, although I tested many WME games without any problems.

WME 1.10.1 beta installer download (19MB)


(Note: Saved games are NOT compatible with previous WME versions)


Version 1.10.1 (July 19, 2012)

• Significantly faster saving; idle scripts are not stored in saved game so they can be easily patched.
• Game.SaveGame() method now has an optional QuickSave parameter which allows saving without displaying the progress indicator.
• New script attribute Game.MostRecentSaveSlot which returns the number of the most recently used saved game slot (to allow implementing a "Continue" button in the main menu).
• Talking caption cannot be skipped for a short period of time after it's displayed to prevent accidental skipping of dialog lines.
• FIX: Framerate drop after certain use of TrueType fonts.
• FIX: Crash after unloading an actor which is set as Game.InventoryObject.
• FIX: Crash after using actor3D.SetTexture().
• FIX: Images ending with capital G were treated as grayscale thumbnails.
• FIX: Changing scene main layer dimensions at runtime didn't affect scrolling.

[HelLRaiseR]

Thanks for your work

[Spellbreaker]

"idle scripts are not stored in saved game so they can be easily patched."

So, what scripts exactly are now saved and cannot be patched?

[Mnemonic]

Scripts that are actively doing something (such as game_loop.script running in an infinite loop) or scripts waiting for something (waiting for Sleep() to finish or actor.GoTo() to finish etc.).

[2.0]

Hi Mnemonic!

Good work, file saving really works immediately. Will you publish sources of this build?

Scripts that are actively doing something (such as game_loop.script running in an infinite loop) or scripts waiting for something (waiting for Sleep() to finish or actor.GoTo() to finish etc.).

[Byte]

Thank you!   

 

[piere]

What is the status of Wintermute 2 ?

[odnorf]

What is the status of Wintermute 2 ?

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[Byte]

After the release of version 2, this version of WME will still be supported?

I apologize for my English

 

[piere]

Once WME 2 is released I am going to donate some more money, and I think everyone else should as well. Mnemonic deserves it !

[skuttleman]

I recently tried using this beta with a project I was working on with WME 1.9.1. My game seemed to run fine, but then I saved a game and then loaded it. After loading the saved game, I clicked on the screen (to make my actor walk) and my game shutdown. It did this 3 times in a row. When I went back to WME 1.9.1, my game ran fine.

[lacosaweb]

FIX: Crash after unloading an actor which is set as Game.InventoryObject.

I had been fighting with this!!!

Thanks a lot for these updates!

[Mnemonic]

I found a crash bug related to TrueType fonts which I believe is what skuttleman was experiencing (could you please confirm your game uses TrueType fonts?).
I will be releasing a new version later.

As for source code, yes I will release it. The truth is I have the entire WME 1.x source tree on BitBucket now but I have a problem with the UI library used by SceneEdit/SpriteEdit. The sources used to be available, now they are not and the license forbids me to redistribute them.
The solution would be to create a separate source code repository that would contain everything BUT the UI library. That would mean you'd be able to compile everything except SceneEdit/SpriteEdit.

[skuttleman]

I found a crash bug related to TrueType fonts which I believe is what skuttleman was experiencing (could you please confirm your game uses TrueType fonts?).

All of my fonts are bitmap fonts.

[Mnemonic]

Ok, that's bad news:) Any change I could test your game?