For Players:
- All piles in the player tab are expandable and collapsable. Use the arrow buttons on the bottom of each pile to expand or collapse it.
- Expanded piles behave like the hand group. So you can now have multiple hand-like groups displayed.
- A slider is added to expandable groups to change how how close together the cards can become before the pile width increases.
- A new button "Undock Card Preview" is added to the top of the play window. This will pop the card preview window into its own resizable window. Useful for dual-monitors and streaming overlays.
- Added hotkeys to move cards between sections:
- Ctrl+1-0 Move all of a card to section 1-10 on current tab (player/Global)
- Ctrl+Shift+1-0 Move all of a card to section 1-10 on other tab (player/Global)
- Fixed the twitter news feed on the OCTGN login screen.
- OCTGN Options window is a bit better organized.
For Game Developers
- o8build has been upgraded to display warning messages in green text. These are recommended changes to make, but will not block validating the game package.
- o8build no longer enforces a specific sequencing of
<game>child elements within the game definition xml. You can list them in any order now. - The hand group is deprecated in favor of the new expandable piles feature.
- Use
<group viewState="expanded">to have the group behave like the hand group. - OCTGN will automatically convert existing hand groups into the new structure. This provides compatibility for older games.
- A warning is added in o8build if the hand group is still defined.
- Use
- Markers are no longer defined in set xmls. They will now be be defined within the game definition xml.
- See https://github.com/octgn/OCTGN/wiki/definition.xml#markers for more information on defining markers.
- o8build will give a warning if it detects markers in a set xml.
- OCTGN will automatically import and convert set-based markers to the new format, using their GUIDs as the ID property.
- Loosened the restrictions on XML inner text for card properties in the set xml
- both String and RichText properties can use inner text instead of the
valueattribute - RichText properties using the
valueattribute won't have their text parsed for RichText elements
- both String and RichText properties can use inner text instead of the
- Improved inheritance of alternate card properties.
- If the alternate has a defined property but that property's value is null, it will not inherit the property from the base card.
- Python API additions:
card.viewStateget or sets the view state (collapsed, pile, expanded) of the pile.card.select()now accepts a boolean to control if the card is selected. Defaults to True; passing False will deselect the card.clearSelection()will clear all card selections in the game state.card.hasProperty()will return a boolean checking if the specified property exists on the card
For Deck Editor Plugin Developers
- Many updates and enhancements to the Octgn.Core.DataExtensionMethods classes. Most of the public methods for developers now have summary tags to explain what their usage is.
After updating, I opened the Deck Editor and realized that all the images of the "Under the Ash Mountain" expansion of The Lord of the Rings game refer to the same file. As a result, all the images are the same!!!!