GemRB V0.4.0

[lynx]

The GemRB team is proud to announce a new release. Development pace has skyrocketed and a few important milestones have been reached. You can now level up in bg2 (dual classing included), area-of-effect spells are now drawn, ranged attacking works ... Add a bunch of bugfixes and polishing and you get this great release.

 

Full changelog digest:

GemRB V0.4.0 (2009-05-25):
 New features:
- level up support in bg2
- basic party reordering
- bashing of containers and doors
- persistent area effects (cloudkill, stinking cloud, web, etc.)
- item amount window for stack splitting (shift+click or doubleclick)
- depletion of item charges
- opcodes: disable spellcasting, cutscene2 (pocketplane travel), knock,
  clear air, polymorph, disable button
- dynamic scrollbar creation (display of more than 10 kits, 24 spells)
- portrait effect icons
- item ability selection
- character customization

 Improved features:
- fog of war
- party reformation
- iwd and how guiscripts have been merged
- traps
- pst dialogs
- regeneration, hp bonuses, healing
- animations and projectiles
- rewritten MVE player
- ranged combat
- various guiscripts
- bugfixes

 Applied patches:
#2770564 Whiteclone (pst options window bug)
numerous patches from mattinm finishing the level up support
a few patches from ape fixing and extending iwd
#2579743 jbmetz added RPM spec files

[zefklop]

Cool, windows binaries this week-end, if no one manages to compile it by the time.

 

By the way, is there anybody there that manages to compile gemRB on windows?

[Avenger]

I updated the msvc6 project files only.

So msvc7 needs some care.

 

It compiles for me on msvc6.

[myownlittlworld]

Yay!!! Cheers to you guys!