+ features

* bugfixes

====================== 0.9.23 ======================

HIGHLIGHTS:

 + Battalion style

 + Fort mode is now a map type instead of a scheme setting

 + Fort mode now works with more than 2 teams

 + New weapon: rubber duck

 + New theme, map, 3 forts, 3 missions, some hats and graves

 + WxW style allows you to select one of many wall sets

 + Complete HedgeEditor overhaul

 + Greatly improved script parameter support for many styles

 + Improves stats screen of most styles and missions

 + Various improvements for almost all styles

 + AI hedgehogs can now use Bee, Vamprism, and Time Box

 + Campaign page now shows your progress

 + Improved turn timer

 + Improved randomization options in team and multiplayer pages

 + Improved theme customization support

 + Various Lua API additions

 * Fix cursor often jumping around after clicking

 * A huge amount of bugfixes for both campaigns, the missions and styles

 * Video recording functionality is restored

Content:

 + New game-style/mode: Battalion (see https://hedgewars.org/wiki/Battalion )

 + New theme: Beach

 + New theme music for Jungle and Fruit themes

 + Change SD theme music for Halloween and Hoggywood (old tracks)

 + Completely new Cheese map; replaces the old one

 + New forts: Lonely_Island, Octopus, Olympic, Snail

 + Many new random hedgehog and team names

 + Add hats: barrelhider, bishop, jester, leprechaun, pirate_eyepatch, tf_scout, zoo_octopus

 + Add hair-less variants of old hats: beefeaterhat, lambdahat, nursehat, pirate_bandana, pirate_hat, poke_ash_hat, RamboClean, sf_vega_hat, sf_guile_hat, simple_red, simple_yellow, simple_green, thugclean

 * Remove hat: tf_scount (this was a duplicate of tf_demoman)

 * Add graves: Clover, Old_Apple, pi, Simple_reversed, TV, Whisky, Ying_and_Yang

 * Redo flags: cm_pentagram, cm_soviet, armenia, ireland, nepal, suisse, sweden, turkey

Game engine (weapons):

 + New weapon: rubber duck

 + Freezer can now freeze sticky mines (they get disabled and fall into the water)

 + Keep rope / parachute / flying saucer selected when destroyed and secondary ammo selected

 * Gameplay fix: Hammer damage is now rounded down. This means it will cause NO DAMAGE to a hedgehog with less than 3 hp.

 * Fixed air strikes drops being off-center

 * Fixed hedgehogs getting hurt while firing deagle / sniper rifle bullet in certain situations

 * Fixed mine, sticky mine, seduction, resurrector not working correctly across wrap world edge

 * Fixed teleportation being able to teleport in land if you clicked across the wrap or bounce world edge

 * Fixed turn not ending when sticky mine was trapped on rubberband

 * Rope is now destroyed when attempting to shoot it through wrap or bouncy world edge

 * Fixed possible to move rope angle below 0° while having secondary weapon selected

 * Fixed molotov cocktails bouncing vertically off rubber

 * Fixed sniper rifle disabling laser sight utility after using

 * Fixed RC planes being able to collect frozen crates

 * Fixed cake taking over 200 seconds to explode when its stuck and can't move

 * Fixed Birdy descending into water when hog took damage or died before it got picked up

 * Fixed player being able to switch to dying hog

 * Various other fixes

Game engine (gameplay):

 + Fort Mode will now work with more than 2 teams

 + Divided Teams mode will now work with more than 2 teams (Hint: you probably want to set world edges to "wrap" in such games)

 + Frozen hedgehogs can no longer be poisoned

 + AI hedgehogs can now use Bee, Vampirism and Time Box

 + Improved hedgehog spawns on maps that lack land mass or free space

 + Hogs no longer spawn on icy terrain

 + Temporarily suspend Heavy Wind mode while turn timer is not running

 + Engine supports now really gigantic maps

 * Fixed cursor often jumping back to screen center when putting target location while moving cursor

 * Fixed team getting infinite ammo when stockpiling >= 100 ammo (max. finite ammo is now limited to 99)

 * Fixed failure to collect crate across wrap world edge

 * Remove buggy “/finish” chat command

 * Fix key controls not working in ammo menu: ammo menu, placement, camera/cursor movement keys

 * Various other fixes

Game engine (graphics, sounds and texts):

 + Show indicator symbols at bottom right while extra damage or low gravity are active

 + Color coding for the turn timer: green = ready timer, yellow = turn in progress, red = retreat timer, gray = timer paused

 + Play countdown sounds at 1-4 seconds turn time

 + Several new sound effects for weapons and utilities

 + More ticker messages: Hog gets sick, king died, hog was resurrected, hog time travels (and returns), timeout, kamikaze

 + Small visual effects enhancements: Baseball bat, dynamite and more

 + Render graves behind everything else, so that they can't hide mines etc.

 * Video recording functionality is restored

 * Fixed screenshots being too bright if taken in quick succession

 * Fixed hedgehog voices missing a response type (Justyouwait/"You're gonna pay for that") on some platforms (e.g. GNU/Linux)

 * Fixed SD flakes of themes not working if regular flakes were disabled

 * Fixed Seduction's "Yoohoo!" sound not playing

 * Fixed hedgehogs saying “Missed” when drowning enemy without dealing damage

 * Fixed enemy saying "Missed” when giving poison without direct damage

 * Fixed hedgehogs not saying “Stupid” and not displaying announcer message for inflicting self-harm

 * Fixed incorrect time box tooltip when in Sudden Death

 * Fixed short sound effect breakdown right after using a time box

 * Fixed sticky mine sound sometimes playing when shooting portable portal device when a sticky mine is placed on terrain

 * Fixed hedgehog holding nothing in hand when napalm or piano strike got selected

 * Fixed excessive water splashes sometimes caused by mines

Highlander:

 + Show collected weapons after kill and play sound

 + Mission panel now shows all game modifiers (e.g. mines time, vampirism, etc.)

 + Loyal Highlander (optional): With “loyal=true” in script param, you only get weapons for enemy kills (clan kills don't count)

 * Removed "Freezer"/IceGun from the default Highlander weaponset

Construction Mode:

 + Added script parameter support:

  + initialenergy: Amount of energy at start

  + energyperround: New energy per round

  + maxenergy: Maximum allowed energy

  + cratesperround: Maximum placable crates per round

 + Completely reworked all in-game texts and descriptions

 * Fix rubber being placable inside land

 * Fix invalid girder placement costing energy

 * Special tools like structure placer now have their own proper descriptions (instead of Air Attack description, etc.)

 * Costs for weapon and utility crates were all equal

 * Remove airplane cursor

 * Fix Lua errors when hog goes to time travel while any filter is in map

 * Many other fixes and tweaks

Racer and TechRacer:

 + Allow to only place 2 waypoints in Racer

 + Allow to remove Racer waypoints with precise key

 + New script parameters for Racer:

  + rounds: Number of rounds to play

  + waypointradius: Size of waypoints

  + maxwaypoints: Maximum allowed number of waypoints

 + Show correct ranking and times in stats screen of Racer and TechRacer

 * Fix description and icon of waypoint placement tool in Racer

 * Remove airplane cursor in Racer

 * Fixed waypoint message in TechRacer and Racer overwriting current weapon selection message

 * Fixed TechRacer not recording finish if time was >= 100s

WxW:

 + Support for multiple sets of walls per map

 + Add optional “Crate Before Attack” rule

 + Add optional “All But Last” rule

 + Add optional “Kill The Leader” rule

 + Script parameter support (see Lua file comment for documentation)

 + Possible to set max. number of weapons in game (script parameter only)

 + Menu can be disabled (with script parameter “menu=false”) for insant game start

 + Possible to set number of crates per turn

 + Ropes, ShoppaKing, ShoppaHell and ShoppaNeon can now be played with the classic left and right walls

 + Allows almost all game modifiers to be changed, the only exception is crate probabilities

 + New wall sets for Ropes, ShoppaNeon, ShoppaDesert, ShoppaWild, ShoppaKing and ShoppaHell.

 + Basic support for a bunch of Shoppa maps

 + Fully functional even without a map border

 + More sound effects

 + More helpful mission display after configuration has been accepted

 + Hide “Surf Before Crate” setting if surfing is disabled for this map, or the bottom is active and water never rises

 + Hide walls setting if script does not provide walls for map yet

 + Freeze crates at turn start if Walls Before Crate or Surf Before Crate is enabled (they unfreeze if you met requirements)

 + Allow toggling the radar with Switch Hog key while roping or rope selected

 * No smoke when hog is near near a WxW wall but walls need not to be touched

 * Fix other player being able to change the menu config in the short period before the first turn

Tumbler:

 + Script parameter support:

  + spawnbarrels: New barrels per turn

  + spawnmines: New mines per turn

  + ammoflamer: Initial Flamer fuel

  + ammobarrel: Initial Barrel Launcher ammo

  + ammomine: Initial Mine Deployer ammo

  + minetimerplaced: Mine timer (ms) of mines dropped from Mine Deployer

  + bonustime: Bonus time (s) in utility crates

  + bonusflames: Bonus Flamer fuel in ammo crates

  + chanceammo: Per-turn % chance of an ammo crate drop

  + chancetime: Per-turn % chance of an utility crate (extra time) drop

 + Alternative weapon selection with slot keys (F1, F2, F3)

 + Add mine/barrel launch sounds

 + Add countdown sounds

 + Rewrote mission description and captions

 + Sound and message when trying to fire empty weapon

 * Permanently disable some game modifiers which won't work together with this

Space Invasion:

 + Show actual scores in stats screen, and a proper graph

 + Show a couple of “awards” (snarky comments) in stats screen

 + Remove bonuses “Boom!”, “BOOM!” and “BOOM!! BOOM!! BOOM!!” for balancing reasons

 + Script parameter support:

  + rounds: Number of rounds

  + shield: Initial shield

  + barrels: Initial barrel ammo

  + pings: Available radar pings

  + timebonus: Time bonus for red drones

  + barrelbonus: Ammo bonus for green invaders

  + shieldbonus: Shield bonus for purple invaders

  + forcetheme: Set to “true” to use the selected theme instead of EarthRise

 + Complete rewrite of almost all messages and the mission panel

 + More event messages

 + Show current score in HUD (white number)

 + Stop overwriting most game scheme’s parameters

 + Disable weapon scheme

 + More sounds: Empty ammo, countdown, throw, kamikaze, radar ping, explosion

 * Fix explosion being drawn twice when colliding with invader

HedgeEditor:

 + Dud mine placement mode

 + Allow to select frames in sprite placement mode

 + New placable sprite: sprTargetBee

 + Complete rewrite of all help texts

 + Allow to add and subtract health

 + Add more convenient start values (e.g. for health)

 + Allow to set timer of sticky mines

 + Health crates can now have 0 health

 + Hog and team names (from identity modes) are now translatable

 + Show health/timer above health crates, barrels, mines, sticky mines and air mines

 + Allow to toggle health/timer display with Precise+3

 + Allow to toggle main help at any time with Precise+1

 * Add proper description and name for the gear placement tool (no more fake air attack)

 * Fix many issues with exported files

 * Fix placement mode being changable when gear placement tool is not selected

 * Make land gun spawn in utility crates instead of weapon crates

 * Stop aggressively showing the mission panel after any button press

 * Fix placement modes sometimes showing “nil” in caption

 * Fix girder sprite being displayed at top left for no reason

 * Ammo names are not hardcoded anymore (no more double work for translators)

 * Fix many missing or poor-quality texts for translation

 * Fix error when trying to set ShoppaBalance rank without anything selected

 * Don't show misleading circle when placing girder/rubber

 * Disable timer keys 2-4 in rubber placement mode

 * Fix incorrect weapon crate preview of air attack, drill strike and napalm

Other styles and schemes:

 + The Specialists: Saints get low gravity

 + Capture The Flag: Setting number of captures with script parameter “captures=<number>”

 + Mutant: Show appropriate ranking and graph in stats screen

 + Shoppa: Don't place air mines

 * Capture the Flag: Fix flag of first team spawning at second hog instead of first

 * Gravity: Using the low gravity *utility* had no effect. Now it halves the base gravity of the style

 * Disable Sudden Death for good in Shoppa game scheme, some game styles and mission maps

A Classic Fairytale:

 + Mission 4: Add infinite skip

 + Mission 5: Spare traitor's life with Skip instead of Precise

 + Mission 6: Add alternate dialogues when killing cyborgs before collecting the crates

 + Mission 6: Give hero only a portal gun at the final portal seqment, remove the large amount of crate drops

 + All missions: Clarify mine timers

 * Mission 1: Leap of faith: Hog was able to walk to the right and get stuck

 * Mission 1: Leap of faith: Teleport player back to mole when failing

 * Mission 2: Fix crash when trying to open ammo menu in opening sequence

 * Mission 2: Fix game sometimes getting stuck after walking back to Leaks A Lot

 * Mission 2: Fix breakages when heroes died before a new sequence, or together with enemies

 * Mission 2: Remove restart option when cooperating with cyborg; it messed up things too much

 * Mission 3: Fix various Lua errors when playing with 2 hogs and one of them dies

 * Mission 3: Fix broken end sequence after killing cyborg or princess

 * Mission 3: Fix broken sequence of princess being caged

 * Mission 3: All girder crates now have 3 girders each

 * Mission 5: Fix crash when skipping animation while the cyborg talks before the 3rd wave of cannibals starts

 * Mission 5: Make sure the player can only play with one hog after the cyborg imprisoned the other natives

 * Mission 5: Fix final animation being stuck if cyborg's way to the left is blocked

 * Mission 6: Block off left cave entrance to stop player to just rope all the way around

 * Mission 6: Fix mines not being able to get triggered in first turn

 * Mission 8: Fix Lua error message at the very beginning and error spam in intro sequence

 * Mission 10: Fix mission becoming unplayable when all hogs except the traitor died

 * All missions: Add missing texts for translation

 * All missions: Fix incorrect crate types

 * All missions: Rewrite mission texts to state missions more clearly

 * Fix swapped mission preview images of missions 2 and 3

A Space Adventure:

 + Side missions save and show your personal best successes (e.g. fastest finish in Hard Flying)

 + Spacetrip: Show 2 flowers over fully completed planets (with side missions)

 + All missions: Add skip where it doesn't hurt

 + All missions: Clarify mine timers

 + All missions: Improve displaying behaviour of mission panel

 + All missions: Change team colors

 + Side missions: Remove or shorten intro sequences

 + Side missions: Generous ready time to give more time to read the mission panel

 + Getting to the device: Put device part in a real crate, improve some dialogues

 + Final mission: Add outro sequence instead of instantly quitting

 + Bad timing: Improve messaging and choice dialog

 * Spacetrip: Fix various bugs and logic flaws in the initial mission

 * A frozen adventure: Fix bazooka and excess freezers (>6) not retained over checkpoints

 * A frozen adventure: Fix and improve poorly written messages

 * Getting to the device: Add real crate and correct message for collecting device part

 * Getting to the device: Remove checkpoints. There was a good chance for these missions to become unwinnable

 * Searching in the dust: Remove checkpoints. See above.

 * Searching in the dust: Fix Hog Solo dropping straight down when roping near smuggler

 * Searching in the dust: Fix incorrect messages after collecting device part

 * Precise flying: Fix victory not being recognized, also wait for flames to settle before losing

 * Hard Flying: Fix ending in a Lua error

 * The First Stop: Fix stats screen showing teams twice

 * Fruit planet: Fix “Precise shooting” disappearing directly after completing “Bad timing”

 * Fruit planet: Fix “Getting to the device” not visible when landing on fruit planet with first main mission completed only

 * Killing The Specialists: Fix killing hog with Deagle gave you chance to use another weapon in same turn

 * Fix weird behaviour when walking right before the first animation in most missions

 * Fix a couple of texts being untranslatable

 * Fix a variety of minor logic flaws in the story

 * Fix typos

 * All missions: Fix incorrect crate types

Missions:

 + New scenario: Teamwork 2

 + New scenario: Big Armory

 + New training: Basic Flying Saucer Training

 + Rope-Knocking Challenge was improved (now awards score based on kills and time; taunts for knocking out hedgehogs)

 + Rewrote some help texts in basic rope training

 + Graphical effect (black bars) while in cut scenes

 + Change description and icon for baseball bat in Knockball mission map

 + Sniper rifle target practice: Dynamite blows up quicker, can also skip with precise key

 * Fixed mistakes and bad wording of strings in several missions, scripts and campaigns

 * TrophyRace: Fix hedgehogs not being eliminated anymore after one hog skipped or ran out of time

 * Portal Mind Challenge was cleaned up and reworked (especially less awful wording)

 * Fixed Target Practice missions getting stuck when a target dropped into water

 * Climb Home: Fix game getting stuck when a player reached home in multiplayer

 * Climb Home: Fix Lua error messages and broken stats screen

 * Sniper rifle target practice: Fix targets spawning twice in dynamite scenes

 * Sniper rifle target practice: Fix auto-camera generally behaving weird

Frontend:

 + Campaign screen shows which campaigns and missions you've completed so far

 + Training screen now has 3 mission categories: Training (tutorials), Challenge (get a high score), Scenario (complete a task)

 + Replaced the Fort Mode game modifier by adding "Forts" to the map type selection. This makes the mode easier selectable/discoverable. Also the slider can be used to adjust the distance between forts.

 + Menu screens got few new icons and many other tweaks, e.g. larger dropdown lists for easier access

 + Additional button for just randomizing theme that will not change your selected map

 + Randomizing map/theme in online mode will not include DLC content

 + New teams start with a random grave and fort

 + Hedgewars creates 4 human teams and 2 computer teams on its first launch

 + Allow to randomize hog names, hats, team name, flag, grave, voice and fort separately

 + “Random team” button is now able to randomly select from all available hats

 + Creating new game/weapon schemes guarantees unique names

 + Custom maps and styles are now marked with an icon instead of an asterisk

 + Mark custom forts in team editor

 + Room host can delegate room control to other player by rightclick

 + Switch from HTTP to HTTPS where possible

 * Fix flag being selectable for computer players although it had no effect

 * Campaign screen does no longer show AI-controlled teams

 * Campaign names and campaign mission names can now be translated

 * Creating randomized teams now randomizes (almost) every aspect

 * Fixed mostly broken descriptions for multiplayer mission maps

 * Clicking on "New" in weapon scheme editor now creates empty weapon scheme instead of default

 * Fix language names in language list being always in English

 * Prevent starting game with >48 hogs (because engine doesn't support it yet)

 * Fix the key for toggling team bars being incorrectly described

 * Fix caption of stats screen showing only one winner if multiple teams have won

 * Remove broken “Play again” button appearing in stats page after an online game

 * Weapons scheme editor: When leaving, it no longer flickers and the selection is not reset to Default

 * Team editor: Fix old team being retained when renaming a team

 * Team editor: Automatically rename team when leaving team editor page with an already used team name

 * Fix broken cancel button in the login window

Content Creation:

 + Theme objects can now have more than 1 in-land rect specified. You can specify the amount in theme.cfg by adding another number (and a comma) before the first rect

 + Theme objects can now be placed on water (by setting first in-land rectangle to 0,0,0,0)

 + Themes can now use flakes with negative falling speed (rising flakes)

 + Themes can now contain custom sound files: splash.ogg Droplet1.ogg Droplet2.ogg Droplet3.ogg skip.ogg

 + Themes can now have mirrored clouds and flakes: CloudsL.png, SDCloudsL.png, FlakeL.png, SDFlakeL.png

 + Water in themes supports custom animation and flow speed with water-animation and sd-water-animation in theme.cfg

 + Simplified hat format for unanimated hats; a single 32×32 image is enough. For clan hats, use size 64×32, with the color overlay at the right

 + Ammos.png and Ammos_bw.png in HWPs are now overlayed over the base images; use transparent icons to keep them unchanged from the original

 + Custom Sudden Death background tint for themes with sd-tint

 * Default water color was black instead of blue

Translations:

 + Complete translations: German, Polish

 + Major translation updates: Scottish Gaelic, Italian

 + Loading screen can now be translated

 + A few window titles can be translated

 + Campaign names and campaign mission names can be translated

 + A Classic Fairytale, missions 8 and 10 can now be translated

 * Built-in texts from Qt (e.g. “cut”, “paste”, “copy”) in frontend weren't translated

 * Remove text from mission images to make them language-neutral

 * Fix English-only language/country names in language selection

 * Fix very, very broken mission map descriptions

Lua API:

 + New call: SetCinematicMode(enable) -- e.g. for cutscenes etc.

 + New call: GetAmmoName(ammoType [, ignoreOverwrite]) -- returns the localized name for the specified ammoType

 + New call: GetVisualGearType(vgUid) -- returns the visual gear type

 + New call: SetAmmoTexts(ammoType, name, caption, description) -- Overwrite displayed name and description of an ammo type

 + New call: SetAmmoDescriptionAppendix(ammoType, descAppend) -- Append a custom text to the description of an ammo type without overwriting it

 + New call: GetHogFort(gearUid) -- Returns the name of the fort of the hog's team

 + New call: PlaceRubber(x, y, frameIdx) -- Places a rubber

 + New call: SendGameResultOff() -- Disable the game automatically setting a game result in the stats screen

 + New call: SendRankingStatsOff() -- Disable the game automatically filling the team rankings in the stats screen

 + New call: SendAchievementsStatsOff() -- Disable the game automatically populating the bullet point list in the “Details” section on the stats screen

 + New call: GetTeamStats(teamname) -- Returns a table of team stats

 + New call: EndTurn([noTaunts]) -- Ends the current turn

 + New hook: onVisualGearAdd(vgUid) -- called when a visual gear is added

 + New hook: onVisualGearDelete(vgUid) -- called when a visual gear is deleted

 + New hook: onUsedAmmo(ammoType) -- called when ammo has been finished using (e.g. after both shotgun shots)

 + New variable: AirMinesNum -- Number of air mines being placed on a medium-sized map

 + New variable: WorldEdge -- World edge type (weNone, weWrap, weBounce, weSea)

 + New variable: AmmoTypeMax -- Maximum ammo type ID (useful to iterate through all ammo types, starting by 0)

 + New variable: ReadyTimeLeft -- Remaining ready time, 0 if turn in progress. Can be set in onNewTurn

 + Locale library: loc_noop -- Mark string for translation but don't translate it

 + Animate library: AnimInit([startAnimating]) -- New parameter startAnimating: if true, will start game in cinematic mode with most controls disabled. Must play an animation after that

 + Animate library: AnimSetInputMask(extraInputMask) -- Set input mask in a manner comptible with the Animate library

 + Animate library: AnimMove(gear, dir, posx, posy, [maxMoveTime]) -- new optional parameter maxMoveTime. If hog did not reach its destination within maxMoveTime milliseconds, animation stops and hog is just teleported there

 + Gear values: “Boom” -- used to modify explosion size and/or damage for most gears

 + 8 overridable custom sprites/sounds: sprCustom1-sprCustom8, sndCustom1-sndCustom8

 * Fixed call: HideHog(gear) -- Fix crash when gear is invalid. Returns true on success or false otherwise

 * Fixed call: SwitchHog(gear) -- Fix new hog being unable to open ammo menu

 * Removed call: SetAmmoStore -- Old undocumented function of questional use, has never been used

 * Fixed variable: Goals -- Fix Goals text being cut off at ca. 255 characters

 * Fix huge numbers having sign errors on 64-bit architectures

====================== 0.9.22 ======================

 + New Weapon / Map object: AirMine (floating mine that will follow nearby hedgehogs)

 + Extensive changes to TechRacer: Variable terrain types, enhanced parameters, hwmap interpreter, fuel limiter, etc. 

 + HedgeEditor - create missions/etc. in-game! see https://hedgewars.org/HedgeEditor

 + Map previews can now take script parameters into account and preview waypoints in TechRacer

 + Added a couple new flags

 + Various tweaks to the interface and in-game chat

 + Divided teams options will now just be ignored when more/less than 2 teams/clans, instead of displaying a fatal error

 + Added 6 TechRacer maps to TechMaps

 + Added 3 SpeedShoppa Challenges: Shoppa Love, Ropes and Crates, The Customer is King

 + Hammer damage is now rounded up. This means it can be used to execute hedgehogs with only 1 hp.

 + Improved "Art" theme.

 * Generated bridges/girders are now connected better to the land mass

 * Fixed rubberband sprite

 * Fixed Wind-Indicator being wrong in certain situations

 * Melon Bomb Pieces now bounce on Rubberband

 * Reduced menu music volume

 * The game will now fallback to default voicepack if a team's voicepack is not locally installed. (Instead of rendering team voiceless)

 * Hammer now does more damage when the Extra-Damage utility is used

 * Many other bug fixes

Lua-API:

 + New map parameter: MapFeatureSize -- numeric representation of detail slider below map preview; use within onGameInit()/onPreviewInit()

 + New functions: SetMaxBuildDistance([ distInPx ]) -- specify how many pixels away a hedgehog can still place girders/etc. set to 0 for no limit; call with no param to reset to default, 

 + New hook: onSuddenDeath() -- called by engine when sudden death begins

 + Parameters are now optional for the generic gear setters.  i.e. - SetVisualGearValues(gear, x, y).  nil values are skipped and not set.

 + PlaceSprite can now set land type (bouncy, indestructible, ice etc), colour the sprite, flip the sprite, and place the sprite behind existing land.

 + EraseSprite.  Can flip and selectively erase based on land flags.

 + More of the gear structure values are now accessible in the generic gear getter/setter.

 * Previously missing gear states are now available (gstSubmersible, gstFrozen and gstNoGravity)

 * Fixed OnHogAttack giving the incorrect AmmoType (amNothing) under certain conditions

====================== 0.9.21 ======================

 + New type of randomly generated maps: Perlin Maps.

 + Old Random generated maps are more diverse now.

 + Slider for adjusting land generation detail.

 + Highlander gamemode can now be used with custom weapon schemes (1-8=How probable to get this weapon. 9=All hogs get it)

 + New playable themes: "Hoggywood" and "Cake"

 + New gameplay mode "Construction Mode"

 + New gameplay mode "TechRacer"

 + New game play mode "DiagonalMaze" (generates a simple diagonal maze)

 + Add 7 target practice missions, now with simple scoring

 + Update RC Plane Challenge: Stats screen reworked and shows now several facts, simple ranking system based on used planes, some taunts in the game

 + New training/multiplayer mission: "Climb Home"

 + Game scheme screen has a "Script parameter" field now. This allows to make more customizable scripts/modes.

 + Network game rejoining. Note: Your team(s) will vanish after 3 turns.

 + Visual and gameplay changes to "sea" - world edge, visual change to wrap world edge to allow seeing through the wrap, visual change to bounce worldedge 

 + The map of the Basketball Mission can be selected for regular games again ("BasketballField")

 + New engine command: /togglechat will disable/enable chat display (does not affect chat history display)

 + Change to Racer: first weapon/utility available will be automatically selected on start

 + Added some visual feedback to failed girder placement.

 + Various performance tweaks, especially for very large maps.

 + Allow switching through hogs in reverse order with PRECISE+HOGSWITCH (left shift + tab, by default)

 + Added support for custom Sudden Death music to theme.cfg (e.g. sd-music=hell.ogg ).

 + New Hats: policegirl, fr_tomato, cratehider

 * Fixed drill rockets sometimes exploding on impact.

 * Fixed trainings broken due to indestructable targets/crates.

 * Fixes and tweaks for low qualily rendering.

 * Sinegun won't shoot through -solid- land anymore

 * Many bug fixes and tweaks.

Frontend / Netgame:

 + High resolution previews!

 + Preview for dynamic maps generated by game style scripts (e.g. "ShoppaMap))!

 + Moved room status filter to top left of rooms list.

Lua API:

 + New library: Params, makes parsing of script parameters easier

 + New library: TargetPractice, used to generate target practice missions (the newly added missions use it)

 + More helpful syntax error messages.

 + New hooks:

      onParameters(paramString) -- called when script parameters are configured. the parameter contains the parameter(s) as text string

      onPreviewInit() -- called during map preview initialization

      onGearWaterSkip(gearUid) -- called when a gear skims the water without drowning (when hitting it with high speed at low angle). By checking gearUid you can figure out which gear that was.

 + New functions:

      DismissTeam(teamname) -- removes a team from the game (note: if you used loc() on teamnames, don't forget to the translated teamname here too)

      GetGameFlag(gameflag) -- returns true/false

      PlaceSprite(x, y, sprite, frameIdx [, landFlag, ... ]) -- sprite refers to an id from the TSprite list

      SetWaterLine(waterline) -- moves water level to the specified y. the current value is in read-only global waterline

      SetNextWeapon() -- make current hedgehog switch to next weapon. e.g. use in trainings to preselect weapon

      SetWeapon(ammoType) -- decide which weapon the current hedgehog should equip

 + Map Drawing:

      -- to be used in onGameInit() -- first set MapGen to mgDrawn and then use the commands below

      AddPoint(x, y [, width [, erase] ]) -- takes x,y location, a width (means start of a new line) and erase (if line should erase, not draw)