The Changelog

1 December 2018

✨ New Features

• ⚡ WebGL Renderer
• ⚡ Ctrl+S and autosave/recovery feature
• ⚡ Additional fields for backgrounds: movement, shifting, parallax and scaling

💄 UI Improvements

• ⚡ Show axis in graph editor
• ⚡ Make graphic selection in type and room editors for backgrounds cancellable

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix memory leak when updating room with opened backgrounds tab
• Fix memory leak on room switch in ct.place
• Fix color pickers not returing their intermediate values to editors

🍱 Demos and Stuff

• Update example projects to v1.0-next-1

🔥 Removed

• Remove ct.draw.patch, ct.canvas

📝 Docs

• Add a migration guide
• Add a note about tearing backgrounds when they are not marked as "Tiled"
• Update Space Shooter tutorial
• Update Platformer tutorial
• 💥 Write docs for new ct.styles

📄 License

• Add nw-builder license notice (3rd party)

💬 Misc

• ✏️ Add 'A' to the font editor
• ✏️ Fixing minor issues in Russian localization file
• 💥 Changing ct.styles API to work with Pixi.js
• 💥 Repurpose styles editor to making pixi's TextStyle

⚡ General Improvements

• Ctrl+S and autosave/recovery feature

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix fonts with spaces in their path not working correctly inside the editor
• Fix memory leak in room editor with opened background editor
• Fix memory leak on room switch in ct.place
• Fix color pickers not returing their intermediate values to editors

💄 UI Improvements

• ⚡ Make graphic selection in type and room editors for backgrounds cancellable
• Show axis in graph editor

💬 Misc

• ✏ Fix minor issues in Russian localization file
• ✏ Add 'A' to the font editor

📄 License

• Add nw-builder license notice (3rd-party)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix autocompletion being triggered on ; and line end
• Fix project update for older versions not working
• Fix ct.place.tile moving copies around by itself

🍱 Demos

• Update tutorials' project version

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix missing fields in newly created projects.

⚡ General Improvements

• Add a /*%commented%*/ format for modules' configurable fields, as an alternative to the %standard% one.
• Improvements to ct.place: greatly improve speed for ct.place.occupied, ct.place.free, ct.place.meet, ct.place.tile. Make x and y parameters in most functions optional. The new variant is now preferred (e.g. ct.place.occupied(this, 'Solid'); )
• Little optimizatons of ct.place
• Little performance optimizations for drawing
• Make a small transition to a prototype-based system. Introduce this.draw, this.move and this.addSpeed calls on copies.
• More zoom levels in the room editor
• Refactor ct.types, move actual types to ct.types.templates
• Reuse of metadata in ct.js and exported projects

✨ New Features

• Add a font manager
• Add a Reimport button to imported graphics assets
• Add ct.js autocompletions for code editors
• Add ct.u.deltaDir, ct.u.lerp, ct.u.unlerp, ct.u.clamp, and ct.u.inspect
• Add multi-selection for tiles

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix ct.place.nearest and ct.place.furthest
• Fix drawing copies with graphics offsets in the room editor
• Fix incorrect export of tilesets with non-square grids

📝 Docs

• Add a notice about location of catmods' docs
• Visually better tips in tutorials and minor changes

⚗ Experimental

• Add ct.eqs and ct.victoria catmods
• Project exporter

💬 Other

• Add a link to Patreon
• Add links to Twitter, Discord and VK to the starting screen

⚡ General Improvements

• A better error message from ct.tween when switching to a new room.
• Add a search/sort panel to the graphic selector
• Add an option to ct.touch to disable default events prevention on touches,…
• ct.rooms.make now returns an array of created copies.

✨ New Features

• Add a ct.draw.patch module
• Add an 'Isometrify' button to the graphics editor
• Add ct.u.wait method
• Resize copies and set their precise coords while in room editor

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix ct.canvas.drawTileExt
• Fix graphics sometimes unavailable at room editor

💄 UI Improvements

• Better QR code legibility on dark themes
• Move all thumbnails to the left side

Docs

• Add a link to the Discord server to the docs
• Add a tutorial about localStorage and game saves

⚡ General Improvements

• Add a room's name to its properties in the exported project
• Add a Shift modifier to place multiple copies or tiles at a room at once
• Add conversion to ES5
• Add QR codes and local addresses to the preview window
• Add tile culling
• Disable scaling and set proper width on mobile devices. Combine it with ct.fittoscreen to make your games mobile-ready (graphically)
• More consistent and intuitive tile and copy placement on grids in room editor
• More consistent behavior of ct.fittoscreen
• Move room templates to a JS object ct.rooms.templates
• Reorder room creation process to allow modifying room's view by copies' On Create code
• Set ct as a JavaScript object, move the canvas tag and all its properties to ct.HTMLCanvas

✨ New features

• Add ct.touch module
• Handling of copy-tile collisions with ct.place.tile
• Integrated debugger
• Show/hide certain tile layers

🍱 Demos

• Add a Platformer tutorial example project and its assets
• Update Catformer demo
• Update Catsteroids demo

🐛 Bugs Fixed

• Clean up logical assets after deleting a type or a graphical asset
• Fix checkboxes on the Settings tab not showing their saved state
• Fix HTML / CSS minification not working
• Fix preloader and random startup errors
• Room editor: Fix Shift and Ctrl modifiers working after a context menu was called.

💄 UI Improvements

• A bit better buttons
• Fix copy palette being visible on room's events screen
• Prevent clipping of sprite sheet settings at graphics editor on smaller screens. Move collision shape show/hide control to the left column.
• Tile editor improvements

📝 Docs

• Add a Platformer tutorial
• Add info about ct.js engine to docs' homepage
• Document ct.place.tile

Other

• 📄 License: Remove edit prohibition for 3rd party libraries
• 💬 Rename 'Graphic' to 'Graphics'
• 🔖 Bump ct.fittoscreen version
• 🚚 🍱 Move SpaceShooter demo to a better location
• 🍱 Add a simple .desktop file for linux

⚡ General Improvements

• Rectangular grids in room editor

✨ New Features

• Support for tilesets! An early version, EXPERIMENTAL

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix a bug preventing picking a background
• Fix a bug preventing to delete a room with a context menu
• Fix FPS input in graph editor not working
• Fix modal dialogues with 'Delete' labels instead of 'Ok'
• Replace JS minifier to support ES6

💄 UI Improvements

• Changes to number fields in style and graphic editors now affect preview panes instantly
• Search and sorting for room editor with minor UI improvements
• Show a warning when using duplicate names in assets

⚡️ General Improvements

• Add ct.draw.img as an alias to ct.draw.image
• Add optional x and y parameters to ct.draw()
• Git-friendly asset identifiers
• Make x and y in ct.types.copy optional
• Pre-initialize ct.types.list with empty arrays for each type
• Support new Keyboard API standard
• Update mouse position each frame; better ct.mouse.inside resolution

✨New Features

• 💄 Dark theme!
• Add a ct.sprite catmod

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Enable code checking in editors
• Fix an error in module.json of ct.canvas module
• Fix bugs when cancelling the an asset's duplicate creation
• Fix flipped orientation in ct.draw.imgext
• Fix pattern drawing with styles
• Fix pixelated render not fully working
• Fix styles' line width not exported correctly
• Fix texture selection in the styles editor
• Room size must be exported as numerical values
• Update the graphic asset in the editor's memory after replacing its source

💄 UI Improvements

• Add a "Copy the name" option to assets' context menus
• Better modal dialogues
• Custom Scrollbars
• Different minor UI improvements
• Open the sound after its creation
• Sort and search fields in resource views
• Wider room thumbnails

📄 License

• Added license.

📝 Docs

• 🐛 Fix minor mistakes in ct.types docs

✨ New features

• 💄 More options for sounds and better UI
• Add custom scripts to your project
• Introduce ct.place.go and ct.place.trace methods
• Launch a static server for exported projects
• "Line — everything" collision detection in ct.place
• New ct.sound.howler module
• New ct.fittoscreen module

⚡ General Improvements

• 🐛 Minor changes to the standart ct.sound
• 📝 Launch docs locally — now the docs for your particular version are bundled with ct.js and are available offline
• Make ct.mouse aware of possible view scrolling and scaling

🐛 Bug fixes

• Export unchecked ‘checkbox’ fields as false, not as an empty string
• Fix a bug in ct.draw.polygon.close, ct.draw.polygon.fill, ct.draw.polygon.stroke
• Fix ct.u.prect function not working with mirrored coordinates
• Fix exporter not copying includes folders of ctlibs
• Fix occasional failures while loading new images
• Fix wrong extensions of exported sounds

💄 UI improvements

• Make docs blue!
• Add a button to return to docs’ homepage
• Better presentation of ‘checkbox’ options of catmods
• Fix list overflow if there are too many resources

📝 Docs

• Add missing file extensions in “Creating your own mods” page
• Remove unexisting config fields of catmods, document the "help" field
• Reflect changes of ct.sound API

🍱 Updated demos

• Update Catformer demo with fullscreen option
• Update Catsteroids with ct.sound.howler

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix the update notice on the home screen