- Added new entries to `.pre-commit-config.yaml`, `cmake-format.yaml`, and `.github/dependabot.yml` to improve code quality checks and dependency updates.
- Enhanced GitHub Actions workflows by adding new steps for testing and build retention.
- Introduced support for the nlohmann_json library in CMake, allowing for conditional inclusion based on the `YAZE_ENABLE_JSON` option.
- Updated CMake configurations to streamline SDL2 and gRPC integration, ensuring proper linking and target management.
Benefits:
- Improves code quality and consistency through automated checks and formatting.
- Enhances dependency management and build reliability across platforms.
- Provides flexibility for users to enable optional features, improving overall functionality.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
