v5.1.0 — Enumeration asset type, asset searchbar, and QoL improvements

Ct.js v5.1.0 is out! 🎉

Enumeration asset type, asset searchbar, and QoL improvements

This release adds a new Enumeration asset type — an asset and a data type that contains a set of named constants: for example, in an RPG, an item can fit either into hand, foot, head or body slot, and in code you can differ them by using enumerations. It can be used to create nice menus in content editors and behavior fields — which is great for designers and just for managing your game’s data. They also compile to TypeScript enumerations, are supported in all three ct.js’ languages, and are quite performant! More info here.

Another improvement to content and behavior fields is that you can now set a field’s data type to a map — meaning that you can define a dictionary that maps one type to another, like resource names to numbers to define the cost of a building in a strategy game.

Another addition is a global asset search — hit the 🔍 icon in the top-right corner of ct.js window or press Ctrl+P to open a quick asset search you can use with just your keyboard. Catnip in-placesearch now supports arrow keys for navigation, too.

Room editor got some love and now has an additional hotkey for placing tiles: holding Ctrl+Shift and dragging mouse will create a rectangular fill of copies or tiles. While placing items in this way, or in a straight line, a counter of these items will also appear. Good when you need that perfect precision in map designs!

Contributors

• @godmar
• @Sarpmanon
• @taxi13245

You can find other improvements in the changelog below ⬇️

Changelog

✨ New Features

• Enumeration asset type to create lists of predefined values for content types, behaviors, and to be used directly in code
• Global asset search accessible with the 🔍 icon in the top-right and the Ctrl+P hotkey
• Map data type in content types and behaviors’ fields
• New random.enumValue method
• Paste textures with Ctrl+V while on the Assets tab
• Pixel-perfect mode for Scrolling Texture base class
• Place filled rectangles of copies or tiles with Shift+Ctrl modifier in a room editor
• Room editor: show a counter when placing copies or tiles in a straight line (with a Shift key)

⚡️ General Improvements

• Allow closing most success/error/warning messages in the bottom-right corner with a click
• Catnip: Add xprev, yprev blocks to the Movement category
• Disable Vulkan support by default due to frequent issues with it on Linux
• Ignore actions on not-yet loaded sounds; improve migration from v3 to v5 (#532 by @godmar)
  • sound actions on sounds that haven’t been loaded are now ignored
  • sound.playing returns false for sounds not yet loaded instead of crashing
  • strip ct from ct.tween during migration
  • delete deprecated mouse catmod on 4.0.1 migration to prevent crash
• Internal: Improve how ct.js exposes base classes and Room to code editors
• Navigate through catnip in-place block search with arrow keys
• Remember last used tileset in an edited room
• Tweak styles of menus a bit so they don’t change the height of a menu item when hovered
• Use fixed port number for in-editor docs and debugger so that localStorage doesn’t vanish on ct.js restart. Also fixes memory leak with lingering web servers after closing a project.
• Use UI theme colors in room editor’s tile picker
• Widen the asset confirmation dialog a bit
• 🌐 Update debug and comments translation files
• 🌐 Update Russian translation files
• 🌐 Update Turkish translation file (by @Sarpmanon)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🍱 Fix sound recorder by replacing microm package with @tscole/mic-recorder-to-mp3
• Add missing translation keys for actions
• Fetch patrons list on devSetup so there’re no cache errors while developing locally
• Fix backgrounds blocking click events on copies and tiles
• Fix ct.transition causing an infinite recursion of room removal in its transitions
• Fix Ctrl+G hotkey in the room editor
• Fix mutators making broken blocks if a new blocks piece was introduced in a target block. Fixes errors with If-Else blocks that were mutated from If blocks
• Fix nested copies not being removed from appended/prepended rooms when a user calls rooms.remove on them.
• Fix not being able to port v3 versions to v5 (fixes incorrect sound conversion)
• Fix UI rooms positioned in reverse coordinate system when using this.x, this.y instead of this.position.x, this.position.y
• Importing a texture from a Buffer must prompt a user for a texture name

🌐 Website

• 🍱 Resolve some npm audit warnings
• 🐛 Fix misaligned icons in the navbar
• ⚡️ Add a Github link to the navbar
• ⚡️ Add a warning about shitty antiviruses and put a GH issue link for users to report about these cases
• ⚡️ Automate the changelog page by fetching the release notes from Github
• ⚡️ Support github issues and users mentions in markdown (for the changelog page)
• ⚡️ Update Japanese translation (by @taxi13245)
  • Clarified ambiguous expressions.
  • Added translations.

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