Chaoshead v2.28.1

• Fix fancy graphics not working due to CH not finding the Wiki data ("Could not find LH data folder")

Chaoshead v2.28.0

Editor

• Added a button to reset the camera

Misc

• Added path override settings for:
  • steamapps, handles installation folder, and user data folder on Linux
  • the Levelhead executable
• Added warning at start about missing installation folder and executable
• Detect Levelhead executable when it is called Levelhead_Steam.exe
• Improved Linux installation instructions
• Reduced file size by no longer including internal documentation on the executable patch

Chaoshead v2.27.0

Level Editor

• Added new auto-expand script:
  • Supports groups of objects
  • Supports paths (and extrapolates their properties)
  • Supports empty rows/columns between object groups
  • Supports expanding in up to 4 directions
    • Still supports just 1 direction
  • Old auto expand is available as "autoExpandLegacy" just in case
• Show script descriptions in the Sciprint Interface

Misc

• Added Linux AppImage to releases
  • As in: added to the new ones, currewntly only this one
• Moved Chaoshead to https://codeberg.org/tyoeer/Chaoshead
  • The GitHub repository will continue to mirror at least releases for now, for the people that are slow to update
  • The update checker will check Codeberg instead
• Made Chaoshead not crash directly when the Levelhead data path is missing, and give a warning instead
  • It can still crash later though
• Updated building/packaging pipeline:
  • Package scripting documentation
  • Reduce unneccesary files packed into the executables
  • Package README
• For people dealing with the source code:
  • Moved source files into src/
  • Updated error message for missing HTTPS library
  • Added Linux HTTPS library
• Added Linux "installation" instructions about running Chaoshead from the source
• Mentioned LÖVE in the credits

API

• Added that if you start your script with a block comment (--[[), its contents get displayed in Chaoshead
• Added ScriptUi.requestString()
• Turned bold names of other classes into links to those other classes
• Document that you can do world[layer] (thanks @slothybutt)
• Fixed SelectionContents referring to itself as the selection mask

Chaoshead v2.26.2

Fixed MIDI import script not working due to not finding libs/midi due to sudden case sensitivity

Chaoshead v2.26.1

Level Editor

• Properly display errors when there's a problem reading a script file instead of crashing (fixed #181)

Chaoshead v2.26.0

Level Editor

• Fixed property editor popup not properly updating the other tab (of edit/filter) when taking an action (fixed #159)

API

• Added SelectionMask:getBounds() and :getBitplane()
• Improved docs:
  • Added top-level landing page
    • List all documentation pages
    • Some polishing
  • Pushed Grid and OrderedSet up to standards
    • Document how to create them
    • Formatting
    • Some polishing

Chaoshead v2.25.0

Level editor

• Display object size and occupied area

Misc

• Added a WIP built-in MIDI import script
  • Finally found a proper license file for the MIDI library
  • Imports from import.mid in the CH user data folder
  • Doesn't overwrite foreground objects
  • Selects placed objects afterwards
  • Merges Boomboxes that are simple repetitions
  • It still has some issues/quirks:
    • Note duration might outside the range of the LH property
    • Doesn't have a fancy music machine, so spawns a significant amount of boomboxes
• Fixed custom data paths requiring a Levelhead.exe to be considered valid
• Document maintenance status in README
  • Not much active development, but I'm still watching the repository and reachable for questions/etc.

API

• Added Object
  • :getWidth()
  • :getHeight()
  • :getMinX()
  • :getMinY()
  • :getMaxX()
  • :getMaxY()
• Allocator improvements
  • Properly take large objects into accounts in the preScan
  • Added scanBgObjects setting, which can be disabled to not scan background objects

Chaoshead v2.24.0

Level

• Improved the contraption statistics script:
  • Settled on calling the groupings of how many objects send to/receive from a channel "Degree Quantifiers"
    • Same for Rift IDs
  • Fixed channel & rift ID degree quantifiers being reversed
  • Added proper labels the collected statistics
  • Added support for scalepopped Rifts
  • Added proper support for Rifts sending to/receiving from "None"

Misc

• Added support for non-alphanumeric keybindings
• Added the ability to zoom the camera with the + and - keys
• Added new default keybind to also release the hand with escape
• Added additional paths to detect LH stuff at for Linux

API

• Added Object:orNew(), to re-use an existing object or create a new one from a selector
• Added Object:isRootElement(), to easily get the base/root element of scalepopped objects
• Made Allocator:allocateObject() accept manually created objects
• Added Allocator:getTopLeftCorner()
• Added Allocator:getSize()
• Added the ability to pass element selectors to World:add*Object() to create a new object at the specified location.

Chaoshead v2.23.0

Level

• Display more level settings:
  • Levelhead version
  • Mode number
  • Legacy version
  • Published flag
• Allowed placing things after dragging the mouse (closes #74)
  • It can be turned of with the misc.editor.allowMouseDragPlacement setting
• Added a built-in script to display contraption statistics
• Fixed a crash when the game (wiki) data export could not be loaded
• Fixed Ocula being displayed as Scrubbs (fixes #130)
  • Ocula's were internally considered to be scale-popped Scrubbs to safe on having to duplicate their one shared property id.

Misc

• Added limits checks for the savable range of the version settings
• Fixed an edge-case where a modal would get a scrollbar when it could grow instead
• Updated README:
  • Assure about stability and file safety
  • Say CH is in ongoing development rather then WIP
  • Mention palette

Data explorer

• Allow trying different file explorers if a file has no extension
• Updated the Hex Inspector with the new figured out headers

API

• Added the final reverse-engineered stuff
  • Added Settings:setLevelheadVersion()
  • Added Settings:getLevelheadVersion()
  • Added Settings.legacyVersion
  • Added Settings.zoomLevel
  • Added Settings.published
• Deprecated old unknowns:
  • Deprecated Settings.campaignMarker in favor of Settings.published
  • Deprecated Settings.prefix in favor of the versions
• Added selector support to Object:hasProperty()
• Fixed the allocator docs incorrectly saying it always overwrites stuff

Chaoshead v2.22.0

• Added safer lhs writing (closed #127):
  • It first moves the original file to ch-backup-[random number]-[original]
  • It then writes as normal
  • It then verifies the written file has the structure of a valid .lhs file
    • It might not necessarily be a valid level, but it would be valid enough to open in the hex inspector and debug what went wrong and recover data
  • On success: remove the backup
  • On failure: report a verbose error message to the user, including the location of the backup file
• Mention custom LH installation directory setting when patching (closed #125)
• Added a "dismiss" button to the save_data change beeper