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This is a fork of Ghostknight's repo with a few extra features added, intended for developers and those who want to understand the engine better (edit: or cheat more effectively). After Ghostknight went to the effort to update the logging mechanism, I felt it was wasted on the existing debug interface so I made my own with Dear Imgui.
Edit: scroll to the bottom for the latest Windows and GNU/Linux builds.
Improvements are as follows:
A completely updated debug interface with a visible log and the ability for people to make their own additions,
Improved PNG support without having to do any filename rejigging or sprite resizing,
Turned off some of the annoying mouse capture options,
The OpenGL renderer is inaccessible in favour of the "software" renderer,
get_client_fork() is implemented as per Seth's recommendation and returns 3
Pitfalls and gotchas:
8-bit mode won't work at all,
The editor won't build and will throw linker errors because I didn't do the makefile properly,
The executable it outputs is still called "freedink" so don't do "make install" unless you want to overwrite,
No Windows release unless someone really wants one,
the tile surface isn't cleared upon the screen reloading meaning transparent tiles will overlay upon the previous screen's tiles like in the screenshot,
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2
All the relevant widgets are exposed in debug_imgui.cpp in case you want to add your own features. My dev platform is macOS, but I also gave it some minor testing on Ubuntu, which worked fine. Compilation should be the usual "./bootstrap", "./configure", and "make" sequence. You may have to run "make distclean" or something if it doesn't build, I don't know. Archive here, apologies for no git.
Edit: scroll to the bottom for the latest Windows and GNU/Linux builds.
Improvements are as follows:
A completely updated debug interface with a visible log and the ability for people to make their own additions,
Improved PNG support without having to do any filename rejigging or sprite resizing,
Turned off some of the annoying mouse capture options,
The OpenGL renderer is inaccessible in favour of the "software" renderer,
get_client_fork() is implemented as per Seth's recommendation and returns 3
Pitfalls and gotchas:
8-bit mode won't work at all,
The editor won't build and will throw linker errors because I didn't do the makefile properly,
The executable it outputs is still called "freedink" so don't do "make install" unless you want to overwrite,
No Windows release unless someone really wants one,
the tile surface isn't cleared upon the screen reloading meaning transparent tiles will overlay upon the previous screen's tiles like in the screenshot,
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2
All the relevant widgets are exposed in debug_imgui.cpp in case you want to add your own features. My dev platform is macOS, but I also gave it some minor testing on Ubuntu, which worked fine. Compilation should be the usual "./bootstrap", "./configure", and "make" sequence. You may have to run "make distclean" or something if it doesn't build, I don't know. Archive here, apologies for no git.
