Lix 0.10.30 released

[Blitz]

I like that you announced that it would be coming in November and it just didn't came im Not complaining but i just find it funny

[Silken Healer]

Wait why is the title changed it is Lix 0.10.28 already

[Simon]

Lix 0.10.28 released.

• Allow binding of more than 3 mouse buttons. On Windows, the Win32 API exposes a maximum of 5 buttons only. If you want more mouse buttons on Windows, map them to keyboard keys with external software and bind those keys in Lix.
  
• Show proper names for the keyboard keys F13 through F24. These keys are popular targets for mouse-to-keyboard remapping software. Binding F13 through F24 has always been possible in Lix. Previously, the options menu showed nondescriptive integers, e.g., 145 for F13. Now, it shows F13.
  
• When Lix cannot find important resource files and cannot even start, present an error box on Windows. We still log the problem to logfile. Previously, early errors presented no box; only later errors did.
  
• Skip taking an automatic savestate when the VRAM allocation for that savestate fails. This avoids crashes on Windows when the monitor turns off.
  
• The 2-bar splat ruler obeys the snap distance option. Set the option to 0 to disable snap. Set the option to the default of 126 to get the previously unchangable snap distance of 10 from either end of the ruler. If the option is between 0 and 126, the splat ruler divides the value by 12. If the option is over 126, the splat ruler adds difference to 126 to the old snap distance of 10.
  
• Fix the player count in Pro Boxing.
  
• Fix the symmetry in two-player Bunker Buster.
  

-- Simon

[Silken Healer]

THANK YOU SIMON THIS IS THE BEST XMAS PRESENT EVER                                                                                         
                            

[Silken Healer]

Would you like to play some multiplayer 2p Lix to celebrate?

[Blitz]

Thanks Simon those are features we needed Keep it up! 
And todays is the last day of school Then I also have holidays

[Blitz]

I love that we have such a love and caring programmer That hears our problems and cares about them thanks Simon 

[Silken Healer]

+1

[Simon]

Thanks, and you're welcome!

-- Simon

[Blitz]

I think that I would like to start a lix playthrough or something like that would be fun I never really touched single player...

[Simon]

Lix 0.10.29 released.

• When a digger hits steel and stops, the jackhammer breaks into three pieces that fly away.
  
• After a basher has turned from hitting steel, the shovel flies away.
  
• Observers of a networking match can change the current team: Hover the mouse cursor over the lix of a different team to see that team's skillset and hear that team's sound effects.
  
• In solobattle (= play a multiplayer level from the singleplayer browser), you'll only hear sound effects for the current team. Hover the mouse cursor over the lix of a different team to change the current team.
  
• Update Allegro DLLs in the Windows binary release to Allegro 5.2.10.
  
• Document in ./doc/dev/nuget-dlls.txt how to extract Allegro DLLs from the Allegro 5 NuGet release.
  

-- Simon

[Ramon]

That's a really fun animation for the breaking jackhammer, but I must admit my first thought when seeing it was being worried that it could clutter the screen, especially with many diggers. Additionally, since the parts fly away at high velocity, they attract the player's eyes' attention very quickly, and I feel that *could* make it a bit annoying or exhausting long term when trying to focus on other things. I haven't seen it in real gameplay yet, so I might be too quick to judge.

[Simon]

Yes, I have the same worry. We'll have to see it in practice. Let me know if it's distracting.

Naive fixes: Lower the lifetime of the debris. Or lower the velocity.

People are (too?) tolerant with eye candy and reluctant to report excessive eye candy. E.g., in multiplayer, you see assignment arrows for all enemy actions. Those arrows are good attention-drawing when the opponent hides a saboteur in your crowd. In general, when I think about it outside of play, the arrows feel like excessive design. You can't disable them: No user option exists. But nobody has ever complained about those arrows.

-- Simon

[Simon]

Lix 0.10.30 released.

Download for Windows 64-bit -- recommended
Download for Windows 32-bit -- fallback for ancient machines
Download for Linux 64-bit
Source code
Changelog
Issue tracker

How to update

Quick and dirty: Extract over your old installation. Level moves will then result in duplicate levels that remain in your level tree.

Clean method: Extract to new directory, then copy these directories from old Lix into new Lix:
user/
replays/
...and any levels that you've built yourself or added manually.

• When the mouse hovers over a gadget (hatch, goal, trap, catapult, ...), the panel explains the type of the gadget and some of its properties, e.g., in which direction and how strongly it flings the lix.
  
• Updated Allegro 5 DLLs to the hotfix version 5.2.11-nightly.20250218. This fixes the broken Alt+Tab and broken Winkey from Allegro 5.2.10 on Windows with the Direct3D backend.
  
• A replayed assignment plays its assign sound a quint lower and 2 dB quieter.
  
• Shorten the lifespan of the three flying pieces of debris after a digger has hit steel, to avoid clutter in multiplayer.
  
• Add sidekick mouse cursor. When you can click to cut the replay, a little pair of scissors appears next to the main cursor. When you can insert, a plus sign appears next to the main cursor.
  
• Fix #495: The outcome screen, after playing singleplayer level that generates the warning about huge levels, typesets the warning properly on the level's preview image. Before, the warning bled into the level name.
  
• When an internal image is missing, e.g., the mouse cursor, don't crash, but show fallback text instead of the image.
  
• When a translation string with format specifiers (%d, %s, ...) fails to conform to expectations, log the bad translation only once per program run. Before, the same bad translation could appear several times in the log file.
  

Levels:

• Add 34 new multiplayer levels by Hyperlodge.
  
• NepsterLix: Fix backroute in Miner Preservation Society. Fix typos in Introducing Climbers, Cannonballs in the Air.
  

-- Simon