[Announce] H-World 0.1.9

Hi,

H-World 0.1.8 unfortunately had a lot of bugs, including some
very nasty problems (i.e. the help system didn't work). Thus a
quick update became neccesary. The 0.1.9 is now available at:

http://h-world.simugraph.com/download.html


This are the release notes for H-World 0.1.9


There is one major new feature: dungeon features like walls, stairs
teleporters, trees, columes etc. got their own configuration file:
./data/features.sects

Currently there are only image configurations in there, but this is
quite important because this allows users to exchange the images
with their own images (similar like items and monsters can get user
defined images).

In long term all attributes of dungeon features will be defined in
./data/features.sects - currently there is just nothing but the
images to define.


Other than this change mostly bugfixes and configuration cleanups
have been done. Particularly the classic 'rooms and corridors'
dungeon generator frequently crashed during dungeon generation. I
hope all of those bugs are fixed now. Also marketplaces now should
always have at least one of each type of trader, but at most 6
traders in total. I hope this will create more sensible marketplaces.

Last but not least, the HTML based help system should now work again.
In 0.1.8 all the hyperlinks didn't work.


For more info, please read the readme.txt file and the old release
notes.


**
Chronological list of changes since the last release:


31-Aug-03: NEW: new item: steel helm (first helm type item)
           NEW: new overlay image for spiked clubs
           FIX: fixed a lot of minor flaws in item descriptions
           FIX: value of magic items is now hidden until they get
                identified.
           FIX: delays of attacks are now shown in item attributes
                display
           FIX: fixed a bug in the help system that blocked all
                hyperlinks (this bug was introduced with some changes
                in 0.1.8)
           CHANGE: chairs are always items now
           CHANGE: marketplace generator tries harder to create two
                   trader of each type per marketplace

30-Aug-03: NEW: all dungeon features except doors and fountains can
                now get user defined images
           NEW: new overlay image for daggers
           FIX: fixed a few bugs in dungeon generation code

29-Aug-03: NEW: started to work on dungeon feature configuration
                -> this allows to use user defined images for
                dungeon features.
                - teleporters, stairs
                - forest trees
                - walls, columns


written by Hansjörg Malthaner, Aug. 2003
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