Editor

• Gameplay Condition Editor polished
• Gameplay Action Editor polished
• Some concepts were renamed
• CAT Condition : Gameplay Condition
• CAT Commands = Gameplay Action
• Input Commands = Virtual Input Device

Editor

• Remove the first action makes the editor crash.
• Input Command Gameplay Condition description is not updated when TBI is modified.

Website

• New Documentation SimulationMode
• New Tutorials
• Tutorial 1 : Create a new project.
• Tutorial 2 : Create character actions state machine.
• Tutorial 3 : Design animation tree.
• Tutorial 4 : Simulate your character.

Editor

• Possibility to slow down playback time was added.
• A panel summarizing the detail of root bone position calculation in step by step mode.
• A system of virtual input device was added.
• Control Automaton was removed.
• New simulation mode with possibility to create a pseudo gameplay FSM.
• Testable conditions for pseudo gameplay FSM.
• A Condition that is always true.
• A Condition that check for CAT Command message.
• A Condition that check for Input Command state or event.
• A Condition that is true the first time it is evaluated then always false.
• A Condition that checks for way event.
• A Condition that checks for the state of a way.
• Executable commands for pseudo gameplay FSM.
  • A command to translate the character on 1 axis.
  • A command to rotate the character around 1 axis.
  • A command to move the character on the horizontal plane relatively to the camera.
  • A command to set an integer adjuster.
  • A command to set a float adjuster.
  • A command to snap a character on a reference plane.
  • A command to generate targeting messages.

Editor & Runtime

• Driver and viewer Ogre 1.8.
• More irp states were added (XY and YZ).

Chemical

• An accessor to Chemical::Debug::IPrinterManager interface was added.
• A log system was added.
• A math function to clamp a value between 2 limits was added.

Editor

• Log window was refactored (merge with EventWatcher + performance improved).
• Demo project gathered into one unique file.

Runtime

• Upgrade projects to chemical 2.2.

Chemical

• Unit tests refactored.
• CHEMICAL_MAJOR replaced with CHEMICAL_VERSION_MAJOR (idem for MINOR and FIX).
• CHEMICAL_COMPILER_ANY_VC flag was added to avoid recurrent heavy preprocessor test.

Editor & Runtime

• Possible crash of editor viewer if too much events occurs in one frame.
• Bounding box cannot be deactivated once activated.
• SynchTo has been broken in the previous version.

Editor

• Position are accumulated in simulation mode.

Editor|Runtime

• Random Node added.

Chemical

• Chemical passes to version 2.1.0
• fmod wrapper added.
• AsciiToInt and AsciiToReal deprecated and replaced by ParseAsInt and ParseAsReal.
• A Random function that returns integer was added.

Editor

• Message box added to Batch enable/disable CADGraph node transition to prevent unwanted manipulation.
• Runtime Event Watcher has options to activate/deactivate tracking of some kind of events.
• Selector’s Random mode is now deprecated.

Runtime

• Tests of the middlewares versions were added.

Chemical

• The way CHEMICAL_DEBUG and CHEMICAL_RELEASE are defined has changed (see remarks).

Editor

• Animation node border do not turn to red when the node is selected.

Runtime

• Solver time counter in the runtime accumulated an error if the animation was played for a long time, the error leads to possible visual problem.
• Animation are reset when Character Action FSM is restarted.

Notice that chemical passed in version 2.1.0, take care to remove the following preprocessor definition from your project.

CHEMICAL_DEBUG
CHEMICAL_RELEASE

Now these two definitions are made automatically and control the availalble options.
You can control which chemical options are available in each of these two configurations in Chemical/ForwardDeclaration.h

editor

• A bug in the project file writer leads certain computers to produce the error “Input string was not in the correct format” when trying to reopen the project.

runtime

• Sequence node with only one way connected tries to engage a transition before reactivating to the first way.

To fix your project file follow this procedure :

• under the replace all the parameters left=”double value” with left=”int value”
• under the replace all the parameters top=”double value” with top=”int value”

editor | runtime

• Possibility to export single tree files, single tree file have extension .amt (for Alien Motion Tree)
• Possibility to disable transition in CADGraphNode. This feature has been added to better see what has been explicitly set and what has not and also to allow to CADGraphNode in blend out ways to not be affected by character actions.

editor

• Step by Step mode is a real step by step mode. Each time Step Forward is called one and only one update occurs.

runtime

• signalWayActivated and signalWayEnded have a new parameter WayId.
• “AlienMotion/ForwardDeclaration.h” offers some defines to activate/deactivate feature that were previously activated by CHEMICAL_DEBUG define.Give possibility to CRuntime::Update to update animation before Ogre update.
• New signal signalDisplacementReferenceReset. This signal is fired when a position breakage occurs between two animations in Inplace mode.

editor | runtime

• Export file do not use wide strings anymore, every string in .amt and.amtl file are encoded in utf8.
• Sequence nodes skip empty or dangling ways.

editor

• Selector parameter name was changed from “Activated State” to “Activated Way”.
• EventWatcher track Selector transition event.

runtime

• EndedEvent and ActivatedEvent logic send an empty event if its checkbox is checked with no event.
• Reset displacement reference when an animation is looping.
• Anonimous access to runtime adjusters and tree elements.

editor | runtime

• Possible problem if an animation node is part of a sequence and is synched on a looping animation.

editor

• Removing a way in CADGraph node does not modify the transitions that references this way.
• It was impossible to put assets in the same directory than project file.
• Control Automaton crash when trying to add a transition.
• Bounding boxes are incorrectly hidden when swapping between trees.

runtime

• Problem in calculation of root bone position with irp in a specific case.
• Bounding box was sticked on the floor on inplace mode.

• .ame have been renamed .amtl (Alien Motion Tree Library)
• Project file format format has changed, you must add an attribute enabled=”true” to all elements.
• A side effect of adding the possibility to disable a CADGraphNode transition is that you may have some transition disabled when you load a project saved by an older version of AM. if it is the case you must enable all transitions of all CADGraphNode manually.
• You should have compile error since LoadBlueprints do not exist anymore, use LoadAnimationTreeLibrary instead.
• You should have compile error since signalWayActivated and signalWayEnded have a new parameter.
• CRuntime::Update has one additonal parameter to update entity animation without waiting for ogre update.
• You will have export your project again to make it work with the latest runtime.