Angband 4.2.1

[Nick]

Angband 4.2.1 is now available for Windows, macOS and as source. It can be downloaded from Github or rephial.org, and played at angband.live.

This version is maybe best described as consolidating the big changes made in version 4.2.0. Again, there are too many individual changes to list, so this is a summary.

• percentage combat is refined to become an actually playable option
• improvements to throwing
• update to town generation
• a major update to the new blackguard class
• several tweaks to the other new classes
• many improvements to the MacOS front-end particularly, but also others
• improvements to tiles
• addition of fancy color-cycling of monsters
• configurability of character sheet
• inclusion of some new, rare level types
• experimental Windows curses and SDL2 console ports added
• many small bugs fixed and quality-of-life improvements made

Thanks to everyone who helped in getting this version done. Enjoy!

[DavidMedley]

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

[DavidMedley]

How do you configure the character sheet?

[DavidMedley]

Angband.live doesn't have 4.2.1 listed as an option yet

[Kusunose]

rephial.org is not updated yet as well.

[Nick]

How do you configure the character sheet?

There are some instructions in ui_entry.txt; it's quite complicated.

Angband.live doesn't have 4.2.1 listed as an option yet

True.

rephial.org is not updated yet as well.

Also true.

[Sky]

Darkmode tiles?

[Nick]

Darkmode tiles?

Yes indeed

[Cuboideb]

Yesterday I noticed a couple of things about the Shockbolt tileset. Mithril Bolts are invisible.

Makar and Measse tiles are cut. I think this one is difficult to fix, because their tiles are outside the zone of the double size tiles, mixed with single size tiles.

[Bill Peterson]

Are the Shockbolt Darkmode lovers really happy with floor tiles being dead black? I've long favored the Gervais tiles but I do admire the extra realism and detail of the Shockbolt tiles and would like to give them a fair try. Lightmode, particularly the floor, looks like desert and doesn't give me an Angbandy feeling. Darkmode looks better except for the floor tiles, I would think that a darker version of the Lightmode tiles, or a gray, would be better.

[mrfy]

http://rephial.org/release/ is still showing 4.2.0 as the last released version.

[spara]

Are the Shockbolt Darkmode lovers really happy with floor tiles being dead black? I've long favored the Gervais tiles but I do admire the extra realism and detail of the Shockbolt tiles and would like to give them a fair try. Lightmode, particularly the floor, looks like desert and doesn't give me an Angbandy feeling. Darkmode looks better except for the floor tiles, I would think that a darker version of the Lightmode tiles, or a gray, would be better.

Hardly dead black, unless your screen is unusually dark. The dark mode is basically the old walls and floors and the light set is the new floors and walls. I'm not really a Shockbolt user, I just love the details. It's a shame the set occupies too much screen to be playable on my setup. Anyway, there is the gray version of the new set in the sheet, if you want to see if it's better. In my opinion it's a bit too close to the light set to be "dark set", but then again, I don't actually play with Shockbolt tiles.

[spara]

Did some quick testing with different floors for the dark mode and they look like this.

Original (current):


New gray floor:


New gray floor with same lit and dark:


I think the second one is too bright, but the last one is more clear than the original, yet it still looks nice and gloomy.

There are three shades for floor and in the definition there is "open floor:dark". When is that used? Or is it used at all? The last test above uses the following definition, which only uses two shades for the floor.

feat:open floor:torch:0x99:0xEF
feat:open floor:los:0x99:0xEF
feat:open floor:lit:0x99:0xF0
feat:open floor:dark:0x99:0xF0

[Nick]

There are three shades for floor and in the definition there is "open floor:dark". When is that used? Or is it used at all?

The dark shade is only used for Necromancers' "dark radius", where they can see around themselves in the absence of light.

Thanks for following this up.

[Nick]

http://rephial.org/release/ is still showing 4.2.0 as the last released version.

Yes, I'm not sure what's happened there. The Github release page is correct.