gamingislove

And here it is: release notes

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The next updated will bring (beside lots of bugfixes):

• Weapons, Armors
  Weapons and armors can change the Material of a renderer assigned to the same game object as the Equipment Viewer.
• Finding Objects
  Finding a game object in the scene (e.g. for an event actor, navigation marker or custom main menu choice) can now search for an attached component as well. Finds the first or all game objects with the defined component attached.
• Camera Controls: Mouse
  The built-in Mouse camera control can optionally use a single axis as Zoom Key - use this option if you want to use a scroll wheel.
• GUI Boxes
  You can now have different text formats for the text, info (e.g. use costs, quantity) and title of a choice
• Battle Events
  The Death battle event now uses the combatants who attacked the dying combatant as targets. The dying combatant remains the user.
• Group Targets
  You can now select different group targets for different abilities, ability types, items and item types.
• Individual Targets
  Work like group targets, but are individual for each combatant. You can have multiple targets for different abilities/items (like the new feature for group targets).
• Battle Menus
  Actions (e.g. attacks, abilities and items) can be optionally used on a selected group target of individual target.
• Combatant HUDs
  The new Combatant Origin setting in Combatant type HUD elements (except for shortcuts) allows selecting either the HUD's user, a group/individual target or the last target (of an attack, ability or item) of the user as origin of the status information.
  This enables you to display status informations on selected targets (e.g. name and HP).
• Move AI
  Advanced status requirements are available for hunting and flee conditions.
• Interactions
  Trigger Enter and Trigger Exit interactions can now optionally be started by other game objects than the player.
  If an object can start an interaction is checked by name/tag or added components, or both.
• Damage Types
  The new Damage Types are used to have different animations for damage, critical damage and evasion for abilities and items. Damage types are created in Base/Control and assign the used Animation Types for damage, critical damage and evade (which was previously done in animation types).
  Ability types and item types define the default damage type for all abilities/items of their type, each ability/item can override the default damage type.
• Crafting Recipes
  Play a success or fail audio clip upon creation (or failed creation).
• Custom Controls
  You can optionally search/add for components from an objects root (e.g. when the main camera is a child object of the actual controls).
  Also, custom controls can set fields/properties of the control component.
• Value Checks
  The new not equal check is available throughout the entire framework (e.g. status requirements, distance checks, etc.) :)
• Animations
  The auto move speed parameter settings allow automatically assigning a combatant's horizontal and vertical speed to float parameters of a Mecanim animator.
• Status Effects
  The status conditions will now recalculate the formula each time they change a status value - until now, the calculation had only been done once and the value reused.
  Also, the caster of a status effect (e.g. the user of an ability that applies the effect) is now also used for any following calculations as the user (previously the target that was applied with the effect has been used as user and target).
  

More as it's coming in :)

Kirb

Looking good so far! :D

Griffin

Could you explain the new Battle Event? I'm a little lost as to what it's doing!

Changing the Material is a pretty genius and useful idea! Might be good for Petrification status effects!

JellyPaladin

My guess would be that the new Battle Event is going to allow things like final revenge attacks when a combatant dies, but that's just one guess. =) There might be more uses too.

Griffin

Oh now that you mention it, it does kinda read like that! Thanks. :D

gamingislove

Also coming:

• Group Targets
  You can now select different group targets for different abilities, ability types, items and item types.
• Individual Targets
  Work like group targets, but are individual for each combatant. You can have multiple targets for different abilities/items (like the new feature for group targets).
• Battle Menus
  Actions (e.g. attacks, abilities and items) can be optionally used on a selected group target of individual target.

Juryiel

Good to see the targeting made it in :) Can't wait for this to be released, and thank you very much for implementing entire systems to cover more and more RPG types.

gamingislove

But wait, there's more :D

• Combatant HUDs
  The new Combatant Origin setting in Combatant type HUD elements (except for shortcuts) allows selecting either the HUD's user, a group/individual target or the last target (of an attack, ability or item) of the user as origin of the status information.
  This enables you to display status informations on selected targets (e.g. name and HP).
• Move AI
  Advanced status requirements are available for hunting and flee conditions.

Kirb

Awesome! :D

Would I be correct in thinking that it would allow me to display the name via HUD of the most recently damaged combatant by the player?

gamingislove

No, but I've added an additional Combatant Origin for the last target, so it'll be available in the release :)

Kirb

Woo! Thanks GiL.

gamingislove

Additionally:

• Interactions
  Trigger Enter and Trigger Exit interactions can now optionally be started by other game objects than the player.
  If an object can start an interaction is checked by name/tag or added components, or both.

Kirb

Even better! :D

Can't wait.

Griffin

Well, that's pretty darn useful, my friend. ;]

Shadow_Fire

Agree with the others. That''ll be very useful. Awesome updates, GiL.

gamingislove

Also new:

• Damage Types
  The new Damage Types are used to have different animations for damage, critical damage and evasion for abilities and items. Damage types are created in Base/Control and assign the used Animation Types for damage, critical damage and evade (which was previously done in animation types).
  Ability types and item types define the default damage type for all abilities/items of their type, each ability/item can override the default damage type.

The old damage, critical damage and evade animation types will automatically be loaded into the first damage type when updating, so your previous settings will work out of the box :)