The following entities can now be banned in a random map template
definition:
- Hero
- Artifact
- Spell
- Secondary skill
The ban follows the same rules as banning via the map settings in the
map editor.
It is also now possible to bypass dependencies and access identifiers
from mods that are not dependencies when defining:
- Banned entities in random map templates
- the chance of a hero class appearing in a tavern of a specific faction
- the chance of a spell appearing in a mage guild of a specific faction
- the chance of a hero class receiving a secondary skill
For this to work, the identifier must be specified in full, e.g.
`modName:objectName`. If the specified mod is not active, the game will
silently ignore this entry.
This behaviour is not affected by mod load order. It is possible to use
this format to access a mod that has not yet been loaded.
- `disposedHeroes` is now in map header, for use in map selection
- heroes that are marked as unavailable for player will now be hidden
from starting hero selection
All save compatibility checks targeting 1.4 saves have now been removed.
Saves from 1.5 can still be loaded in 1.6
Implemeted few TODO's in serialization that were postponed to avoid
breaking save compatibility in MP for 1.5.X releases.
Fixed missed case for loading black market object from 1.5 saves
All text processing code is now located in lib/texts.
No changes other than code being moved around and adjustment of includes
Moved without changes:
Languages.h -> texts/Languages.h
MetaString.* -> texts/MetaString.*
TextOperations.* -> texts/TextOperations.*
Split into parts:
CGeneralTextHandler.* -> texts/CGeneralTextHandler.*
-> texts/CLegacyConfigParser.*
-> texts/TextLocalizationContainer.*
-> texts/TextIdentifier.h
- Removed 'version' field from serialize() method
- Handler classes - Binary(De)Serializer now have 'version' field
- Serialization versioning now uses named enum
Save compatibility with 1.4.X saves should be intact
- campaign header now contains text container and stores campaign texts
- map header now contains text container instead of inheriting it
- moved text container registration logic to a wraper class
- fixed registration of copied text containers (from copied map header)
- Constructor of Identifier from integer is now explicit
- Lobby hero/town selection now uses Identifiers instead of int's
- Removed serialization workaround for hero portraits
- Added dummy objects for custom heroes portraits for ID resolver to use
- HeroInstance now stores portrait ID only in case of custom portrait
- Fixed loading of campaign heroes portraits on RoE maps
- IdentifierStorage is now a separate handler in VLC
- Renamed ModHandler::Incompatibility exception to ModIncompatibility
- Extracted ModScope namespace from ModHandler
- Extracted ModUtilities namespace from ModHandler
- Split CModHandler.cpp on per-class basis
- Replaced some direct members with unique_ptr to reduce header includes
