- Updated `UpdateMapProperties` methods across various entities (entrances, exits, items, sprites) to include an optional context parameter for improved area size detection.
- Introduced `OverworldVersionHelper` for centralized ROM version detection and feature gating, replacing scattered inline checks.
- Refactored coordinate calculations to utilize normalized map IDs, ensuring consistency and preventing data corruption.
- Enhanced exit properties to sync player positions and calculate scroll/camera values based on the overworld context.
Benefits:
- Streamlines entity property updates and improves compatibility with different ROM versions.
- Reduces code duplication and enhances maintainability by centralizing version checks.
- Ensures accurate coordinate calculations for overworld entities, improving overall functionality.
- Changed `x_camera_` and `y_camera_` in `OverworldExit` from `uint8_t` to `uint16_t` for consistency and to accommodate larger values.
- Updated the `DrawExitEditorPopup` function to use `InputHexWord` for camera positions, reflecting the new data type.
- Added `ImGui::PushID` and `ImGui::PopID` calls in various popup functions to resolve duplicate ID warnings, enhancing the stability of the UI.
Benefits:
- Ensures proper handling of camera coordinates in the overworld editor.
- Improves UI robustness by addressing ID conflicts in popups.
- Added inclusion of `overworld_item.h` in both `overworld_map.h` and `overworld.cc` to facilitate item management within the overworld.
- Enhanced the `SaveItems` function to reset bomb door lookup tables and update item pointers, ensuring proper handling of overworld items.
- Improved data writing logic for overworld items, including adjustments for pointer reuse and metadata updates.
Benefits:
- Streamlines item management in the overworld, enhancing functionality and maintainability.
- Ensures compatibility with expanded ROM structures, improving overall game experience.
- Moved core components such as `Controller` and `Window` from `src/app/core/` to `src/app/` and `src/app/platform/`, respectively, to improve modularity and clarity.
- Updated include paths across the codebase to reflect the new locations of these components.
- Introduced a new foundational core library in `src/core/` for project management and ROM patching logic, enhancing the separation of concerns.
- Adjusted CMake configurations to ensure proper compilation of the new core library and updated dependencies in various modules.
Benefits:
- Streamlines the application structure, making it easier to navigate and maintain.
- Enhances code organization by clearly delineating core functionalities from application-specific logic.
- Improves overall architecture by promoting a clearer separation of concerns between different components.
Benefits:
- Streamlines the build process by allowing for multiple Protobuf targets, enhancing compatibility and maintainability.
- Improves session management capabilities within the editor, leading to a more organized and efficient user experience.
- Enhance Protobuf target handling in CMake configuration
- Updated CMake files to support multiple Protobuf targets, improving flexibility in linking.
- Adjusted target link libraries across various components (yaze, yaze_core_lib, yaze_editor, etc.) to utilize the new
- Updated CMake files to conditionally link against libprotobuf based on the YAZE_PROTOBUF_TARGET variable across various modules (core, net, agent, z3ed).
- Ensured consistent use of the static MSVC runtime to align with vcpkg static triplets.
- Improved clarity in build logs by adding status messages for whole-archive linking conditions.
Benefits:
- Enhances modularity and compatibility of the build system with protobuf.
- Streamlines the build process for different platforms by ensuring appropriate linking based on configuration options.
- Created a comprehensive document detailing the implementation status of the Screen Editor, including sections for Title Screen, Overworld Map, and Dungeon Map editors.
- Document outlines current statuses, functionalities, issues, and next steps for each editor, providing clarity on ongoing development efforts.
- Highlights critical issues with vanilla ROM tilemap loading and outlines priorities for future work.
Benefits:
- Enhances project documentation, aiding developers in understanding the current state and challenges of the Screen Editor.
- Serves as a reference for future development and troubleshooting efforts.
- Added a new composite bitmap to render BG1 and BG2 layers with transparency.
- Enhanced the Create method to initialize the composite bitmap and set its metadata.
- Updated the LoadTitleScreen method to include the composite bitmap in texture creation.
- Introduced RenderCompositeLayer method to manage the layering of background graphics.
Benefits:
- Improves visual fidelity of the title screen by allowing both background layers to be rendered together.
- Enhances the flexibility of rendering options for the title screen, supporting dynamic visibility of layers.
- Added checkboxes for toggling visibility of title screen background layers (BG1 and BG2).
- Implemented a new method for rendering the composite view of the title screen.
- Introduced functionality for loading and saving custom maps from external binary files, enhancing user flexibility in map management.
Benefits:
- Improves user experience by allowing dynamic control over layer visibility during title screen editing.
- Expands the capabilities of the ScreenEditor with custom map handling, facilitating easier map modifications and sharing.
- Changed the bitmap depth for message previews from 64 to 8 to support indexed palette mode.
- Updated logging to reflect the new depth in message preview creation.
- Enhanced Bitmap class with a new method to update surface pixels, ensuring proper pixel data handling in rendering.
Benefits:
- Improves compatibility with indexed palette formats in message rendering.
- Enhances the clarity of logging for bitmap creation processes.
- Added functionality for managing the overworld map, including loading, rendering, and saving map data for both Light and Dark Worlds.
- Introduced new canvas components for overworld map editing, allowing users to select and paint tiles directly onto the map.
- Enhanced the ScreenEditor with controls for tile flipping and palette selection, improving the user interface for overworld map management.
Benefits:
- Expands the capabilities of the ScreenEditor, providing users with tools to edit and manage the overworld map effectively.
- Improves user experience by enabling intuitive tile editing and visual feedback during map modifications.
- Implemented a new tilemap system for 8x8 tiles in the ScreenEditor, allowing for on-demand texture creation and caching of tiles.
- Combined multiple sheets into a single tilemap, improving memory efficiency and rendering performance.
- Updated tile drawing logic to extract and cache tiles from the atlas, ensuring textures are created only when needed.
Benefits:
- Enhances performance by reducing unnecessary texture creation.
- Improves user experience with faster tile rendering and management in the editor.
- Implemented title screen editing capabilities, including loading and rendering of title screen layers.
- Added inventory item icon management, allowing for the display and selection of item icons within the inventory menu.
- Updated the inventory creation process to ensure proper ROM loading and error handling.
- Introduced new canvas components for title screen and inventory item icons, improving the user interface for editing.
Benefits:
- Enhances the functionality of the screen editor, providing users with tools to edit title screens and manage inventory icons effectively.
- Improves user experience by ensuring robust error handling and visual feedback during inventory management.
- Added support for .gitignore patterns to the build_cleaner script, allowing it to respect ignored files during maintenance tasks.
- Implemented auto-discovery of CMake libraries marked for auto-maintenance, improving the automation of source list updates.
- Introduced functions for extracting includes and symbols from source files to suggest missing headers based on usage.
- Updated README to reflect new features and usage instructions.
Benefits:
- Streamlines the build process by automating maintenance tasks and ensuring proper header management.
- Enhances code organization and maintainability by integrating with existing project structures.
- Updated include paths for various GUI-related headers to improve organization and clarity.
- Introduced new components for better modularity, including PaletteEditorWidget and EditorCardManager.
- Refactored existing code to utilize the new components, ensuring consistency across the GUI subsystem.
Benefits:
- Enhances maintainability and readability of the GUI code.
- Facilitates future enhancements and optimizations within the GUI subsystem.
- Updated include paths for various graphics-related headers to improve organization and clarity.
- Introduced new types for SNES color, palette, and tile management, enhancing the structure of the graphics subsystem.
- Refactored existing code to utilize the new types, ensuring consistency across the codebase.
Benefits:
- Improves maintainability and readability of the graphics code.
- Facilitates future enhancements and optimizations within the graphics subsystem.
- Introduced methods to determine if an editor is card-based and to retrieve its category.
- Implemented a sidebar toggle shortcut (Ctrl+B) for managing card visibility.
- Added functionality to hide current editor cards when switching editors.
- Updated editor initialization to register global shortcuts for activating specific editors.
- Enhanced the Update method to draw a sidebar for the current category editor.
Benefits:
- Improved user experience by organizing editor cards and providing quick access to editor categories.
- Streamlined editor management, making it easier to switch between different editing contexts.
