Delver News

• Option for always show crosshair
  
• Make player hand lag optional
  
• Adding Discord button to main menu
  

• Adding a status effect that can speed up or slow down time for the world or for the player or both
  
• Adding spell support to guns
  
• Making when a monster flees configurable
  
• Delay for breakables
  
• Updating inkle to v1.0.0
  
• Adding an ambush flag for monsters
  

• Bug fix for critters moving too far away from their start positions
  
• Adjusting pause menu layout + fixing incorrect string table usage
  
• Some levels crash the editor
  
• Doors not updating mesh orientation in editor when turning right
  
• Mods button on main menu now translatable
  
• Fixing resizing of properties panel
  
• Bumping year on splash screen
  

• Saved keybinds correctly load on launch of game.
  

• Monsters pathing has been fixed and they will more intelligently navigate the level.
  
• Bombs have chance to spawn lit. There was a bug that prevented this from happening.
  
• Fix arrows passing through enemies when enemies are close to a wall.
  
• Broken shaders will now show as magenta.
  
• Cleaned up JSON of data files.
  
• Fix npc/group entities not showing correctly in levels generated in editor.
  
• Adding missing translation strings.
  
• Fixing sprite scales when using scaled atlases.
  
• Attached entities show correctly in editor.
  
• Fixed cases where monsters with custom projectiles could shoot themselves.
  
• Fix for not being able to select water surfaces in the editor.
  
• Editor defaults to `.bin` extension when saving.
  
• Editor hides selection outline when out-of-bounds.
  
• Emissive shader emission driven correctly by alpha channel.
  
• Pasting in editor places entity on floor.
  
• Editor right click menu will close when it loses focus.
  
• Fixed animated vertex shader for Mac.
  
• Fixed crash when no texture atlas can be loaded.
  

• Editor can now generate levels from custom mod levels.
  
• Items can be marked as pickup items and will behave like traditional FPS pickups.
  
• Editor live reload now watches subdirectories.
  
• Made halo configurable for MagicMissileProjectile.
  
• Added an animation action that can spawn projectiles.
  
• Put monsters in the right-click Entities menu for placement and visualization.
  
• Editor supports copy + paste of plain text JSON.
  
• Tile elevators.
  
• Breakable entities can now be marked as pushable.
  
• Physics force area entity.
  
• Text entity re-written to support unicode.
  
• Text entities can be triggered.
  
• Entites are now rotated with ctrl + left/right arrow key.
  
• Editor load legacy map formats are now behind a toggle.
  
• Editor camera can now be panned with shift + right click.
  

After only recently being released on itch.io, it seems the team behind the chunky-pixel first-person dungeon crawler Delver aren't done.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/09/first-person-dungeon-crawler-delver-properly-open-source-again-pulls-in-lots-of-updates

• Improved mesh picking in editor.
  
• Prevent player from repeatedly bouncing on spikes.
  
• Fixed bug where dropped items would spin forever.
  
• Fixed how hitscan guns select their targets.
  
• Fix for platform discrepancies for setting cursor position in editor.
  
• Dynamic lights in editor now respect whether lighting is enabled or not.
  
• Fixing broken hotkeys after Ctrl+N to create a new level.
  
• Don't show Mac editor shortcuts on non-Mac environments.
  
• Fixed skybox placeholder texture showing for some levels.
  
• Fixing some cases of static meshes not updating in the editor.
  
• Fix flatten tiles and control points not refreshing.
  
• Fixed simulation toggle camera.
  
• Don't show upper walls for skyboxes in editor.
  
• Fix incorrect X-axis movement in editor.
  
• Don't make a dynamic light for the player if their torch color is black.
  
• Fix for attack animations not resetting when done.
  
• Fixed word wrap problem in tooltips.
  
• Fix for static meshes not drawing sometimes.
  
• Fix for the character and inventory screen buttons disappearing when interacted with.
  
• Fixed position bug for teleport.
  
• Adjusted the padding of UI elements to make sure they fit within the window when not in full-screen mode.
  
• Fix for fire causing a crash if a particle emitter can't be spawned.
  
• Fixing monster spawner check offset when looking for room to spawn.
  

• Basic Inkle Ink scripting language integration.
  
• Textures can now be emissive. (Driven through alpha channel).
  
• Added LevelSwapTrigger. Dynamically replace level geometry with triggers.
  
• Added Elevator trigger. Dynamically raise and lower level geometry with triggers.
  
• Player eye height and head bob are now properties on the player now ("eyeHeight", "headBobSpeed", and "headBobHeight" properties).
  
• Wall textures can spread over multiple tiles. ("scale" property).
  
• Texture atlases can use a different height scale now. ("rowScale" property).
  
• Improved lighting for outdoor areas at higher graphics detail levels.
  
• Upgraded to the latest version of libGdx.
  
• Texture atlases can specify a shader by name now.
  
• Support for working with larger levels in editor.
  
• Added a live reload feature. Changes to assets will be detected and refreshed.
  
• Support for hierarchical categories. No more crazy long right click menu. Use slashes for categories. ("Example/my/prefab")
  
• You can scrub float values by their label.
  
• Editor will prompt to save the level when dirty.
  
• Added flood fill feature for painting tiles.
  
• Lights in groups and prefabs preview correctly.
  
• Editor camera can focus on current selection (press spacebar).
  
• Editor camera can orbit around selection (ctrl + alt + drag right mouse).
  
• Support for copy and paste between multiple editor windows.
  
• UI has been reordered to a more standard layout.
  
• Added a Gizmo system for drawing relevant info about entities.
  
• File menu tracks recently opened files.
  
• Delete key now actually deletes.
  
• Fixes to surface painter.
  
• Added shortcuts for move tiles up and down. (shift + Q and E).
  
• Added shortcuts for moving selected tiles / entities (arrow keys with an active selection).
  
• Correctly update lights when a light is deleted.
  
• Add change texture option to right-click menu.
  
• Escape button closes right-click menu.
  
• Update camera controls to first person fly through.
  
• Display Engine version on main menu screen.