Rocks'n'Diamonds

Okie, winter holidays incoming just in weeks, and it's snowing in-game yet again. And the reason I'm bringing this up again is just a curiosity if the flakes are actual sprites or are they procedurely generated in some way? No magic here; the snowflakes are just simple sprites (but not stored as PN...

I think I really should change this!

Just did that, and pushed everything out as a new game version 4.3.8.0! See the release notes for some more details. (Especially most of the quirks and issues with global animations that we discussed the last few days should be fixed now.)

Some details on how to use some of the new global animation features: Regarding "added support for fading in and fading out global animations": To fade global animations in or out, use the attribute ".fade_mode" with value "fade_in" or "fade_out" and the attri...

This new minor release version contains the following additions and fixes: added random push delay for rocks, nuts and bombs to Emerald Mine game engine added support for fading in and fading out global animations added support for setting alpha value for global animations added support for setting ...

... and another one: About the anim, yeah, just noticed that as well, and not only that, pretty much all other anims disappear as soon as you move to another folder in levelset list. I assume the problem might be that game potentially forgets the level number once you move to another folder... Oh wa...

It's strangely specific, but I just noticed how in this levelset the custom pointer I did doesn't 'click' on most of screens for some reason. Well, this one is easy: You have defined a global animation to recolor the screen border for each different level number, and this global animation has the s...

Oh well... after some testing around with your test level set (nice main screen, by the way ;-) ), I know what's going in here. And yes, the observed behaviour in this case is indeed unexpected, and to be honest, it looks like buggy behaviour in most use cases. :( The thing is that the ".draw_o...

I have to check both cases... I think it's both by intention (sort of), but not working as it should. (Global animations probably disabled on level set screen, because loading new artwork here (but should not result in invisible pointer), and clicking pointer style global animations might also be bu...

Well, kinda, I meant with both '.draw_masked: false' and 'draw_masked: true'.

Yes, works with both settings.

Very strange! I cannot reproduce this -- the custom pointer in your level set works as expected for me. That is, I can click everything just as with the unmodified pointer. However, I noticed that it is invisible on some level selection screens (but still can click). Will have to check what's going ...

Just out of curiosity, how well does it work with both '.draw_masked:' parameters?

You mean, using both ".draw_masked" and ".alpha"? Works just as expected!

Indeed this was handled differently in earlier versions: When changing the window size due to custom artwork with different window viewport size, the window was closed and re-opened again, being centered on the desktop again. This had the potentially negative or unwanted side effect that if you plac...

Thanks for reporting this bug which I was easily able to reproduce. In fact, this bug must be quite old, as I could not find an older version where this worked. :shock: Apparently this does not work anymore since I introduced using textures to display the request dialog, which apparently was quite s...

can i get a 2-4 magicians levelsets please? Yeah, you're definitely in the wrong thread here... :D Yeah, but the thing is this is preview area, I feel like I mentioned that before. Ouch, now I understand. Sorry, you did mention it, but for whatever reason I didn't get it and assumed live game playi...

Cool workaround, but I should fix this "the right way".

BTW: Does it really work? The "empty tiles" global animation will cover the laser beam, won't it?