Main Menu Update - v0.4.0

0.4.0 - Jun 8 2019

New UI infrastructure, used for the new main menu. Lots of random changes.

Features

• Start of shiny new UI infrastructure, used by main menu and settings

• Moved settings from versus select to settings screen

• Added SFX to UI interaction (only on new infrastructure)

• Throws now scale their speed by the target's weight

• Cursors move faster while angling the right stick

• AI now shakes out of tumble

• Brand new audio loader - much faster, slightly buggier, more portable

• Blastzones render again when approaching them

Netplay

• Clunky in-game chat using the `say`, `me`, and `nick` commands

• Netplay UI now shows more errors

• Can now cancel join and host

• Disconnects happen more nicely

• Fixed some of the bugs with the netplay UI

• Disabled most non-controller menu navigation while connected for netplay, since they currently cause desyncs

Balance

• Wall jumps grant brief intangibility

• 19XX now disables shaking out of tumble

• Every aerial has landing lag reduced by about 25%

• Lag-canceling reduces landing lag by 25% (roughtly the same lag as before), controlled by LAG_CANCEL_MUL constant

• Ledge dropping caps intangibility to 2/3 of maximum

• Boombox blastzones shrunk slightly

Silicon

• Fair and bair adjusted

• Forward-tap rescaled

Training

• Added heatmap overlay

• Added AUTO_LAG_CANCEL game constant

Fixes

• Fixed some frame-dependent input weirdness

• Ignore some keys when connecting a keyboard controller

• Fixed a typo in the default keyboard layout

• Fixed a bug that caused keyboard controllers to not respond if a button was highlighted

• Disabled some buggy behavior in old UI (used in versus select, training menu)

• Character models are now drawn slightly offset to reduce z-fighting

• Fixed Several keyboard controller bugs

• Audio now gets stopped when actually makes sense, instead of every scene change

• Same as previous, but for music starting

• Text rendering looks a little less awful on cursors/droppers

• Fixed micro symbols not rendering

• Fixed some bugs with shields

• Fixed some bugs with netplay connecting

• Fixed blank results screen if quitting happened during a pause

• Fixed other weirdness with results screens and quitting

• Fixed `math` command not writing a newline

• MathVM now supports percents, but modulus is disabled for now

Misc

• Updated Node.js to 12.4.0

• Animations can now play at non-integer speeds (used for some of the other changes)

• Characters can now be scaled to different sizes using the skeletonScale and bubbleScale properties

• Characters can now have all animations sped up or slowed down using the animationSpeed property

• Rectangle borders are more rectangular

• Some improvements to old UI components

• Internationalization packages are now bundled, for future use

• `dbg network` makes more sense to use

• No longer remembers last mode played, but starts in the `startMode` config setting

• Shields look a bit nicer

• TypeScript now targets ESNext instead of ES2017