v0.6.0

Missions of your own: scripted missions with cutscenes, dialogue and voices.

Added

• Missions and modes of your own (mods\missions\<id>\): a mission is a folder with a short Lua script, played on
  the developer map or a custom map with the game's characters or custom ones. Every installed mission is in the main
  menu under Single Player > Custom Missions, on the game's own mission select screen with its pictures,
  character, location and description; also in the debug menu's Missions tab and the debug console (mission <id>). Scripts get the game's own pieces where they can:

  • Cutscenes with the game's letterbox and camera shots (fixed, moving, orbiting, tracking, any lens), skippable
    by the player (A or Start twice, or mission next / F8 while testing). Cutscenes can be played by stand-ins
    (hide), so a scene plays the same every time whatever the fight left the fighters in.
  • Dialogue through the game's own dialogue system and subtitles, with voices from WAV files; the characters'
    own battle cries stay out of cutscenes, and a line being said when a cutscene starts or is skipped stops.
  • Animations from any character (play_anim, borrowed in [Animations]): ranges, loops, held poses, and the
    game's paired kill moves with slow motion; slow motion of its own (slow_motion).
  • Objectives, tips, the boss health bar, timers and counters, force fields ([Fields], any colour), named
    places to walk to ([Markers]), spawning, sides, AI targets, Force powers and sabers (lit or put away, any
    colour), music and sounds.
  • The end: "Mission Complete" or "Mission Failed" over the last shot in the game's message style, then a fade
    (a failed mission starts again).

  See missions and modes.

• Custom characters: a Versus mirror gives player 2 a body and voice of its own (Mesh2=, [Voice2]); any number
  of voice lines, a pack's own dialogue archive, related lines for events a character has none for, and Vader's
  breathing off for his class (Breathing=0). Up to nineteen custom characters on the Versus select screen.

• Debug console: kill makes your character fall at once, to see what a defeat does.

• Custom maps: collision of their own (Brushes=), a sky (Sky=), deadly falls (KillHeight=), point lights and
  the player's own light ([PointLights], PlayerAmbient=), draw distance (FarClip=), and Modes= to offer a map
  only to some modes.

Fixed

• Heroes vs Villains on a custom map crashed now and then (a character set up late).
• Battlefront on custom maps: troopers come back at clear places near their post, and command posts on raised floors
  (bridges, pads) work.
• An ally on your side no longer turns on you when your saber catches it.
• Live character swaps to a mod's character with a missing animation, and loose weapons' attachment points.

Thanks to @firestar300 for the custom character and map fixes
(#60, #61,
#66).

Known issues

• The Custom Missions screen shows a mission's description on one line (about 55 characters), with no briefing
  screen.
• On custom maps the computer's characters have no paths: a mission's fighters can stand still against a wall or a
  doorway, so start them in the open.

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v0.5.0

Characters and maps for the new modes (Darth Maul, Darth Revan, Revan, Luke Skywalker, the Mos Eisley Cantina, Hoth, Geonosis, Kamino, Naboo) are in the SWROTS-PC Jedi Modpack, a separate optional download in Discussions #56. The port works without it.

Heroes vs Villains, Battlefront, Commander Cody and the Droid Commander, and custom characters and maps.

Added

• Heroes vs Villains (main menu: Multi Player > Heroes vs Villains). Teams of heroes against villains, 1 against 1
  up to 5 against 5, with lives, on the developer map or a custom map. Pick each team's fighters on the Versus select
  screen; the fighters line up and play their Versus intros, and the winners stand on a podium at the end. A
  Battlefront-style screen: kill feed, points and killstreaks, assists, the leaderboard (hold Tab / Back), names and
  health over the fighters' heads, markers on your teammates, and a kill camera when you fall. Settings in
  settings.ini [HvV]; more in the debug menu's Heroes vs Villains tab and the console's hvv. See
  how to play it.
• Battlefront (main menu: Multi Player > Battlefront). Clone troopers against battle droids: command posts to take
  and hold, tickets, and heroes bought with points. The computer's troopers attack and defend posts and call their
  own heroes. You play a trooper with a blaster, a roll or duck and a strike. See the
  Battlefront guide.
• Commander Cody, a new Versus fighter made from the game's own files (the cut playable Cody): the 212th's armour
  with his helmet's rangefinder, his voice and bust. A blaster against the sabers: he shoots, rolls instead of
  blocking, and spends his meter on a squad of clones rappelling down or a bombardment. See
  his controls.
• The Droid Commander, Cody's Separatist counterpart: a B1 battle droid commander with a blaster, a duck under
  the saber, droids to help and a bombardment.
• Custom characters (mods\characters\*.ini): new characters with their own Versus select-screen slot, built on a
  game class (its moves) with their own model, textures, pictures, HUD portrait, voice lines, sabers (one, two or
  double-bladed, any colour, own hilt), health, Force powers, intro and outro. Characters on Serra's class can add
  other duelists' moves: Force lightning, Dooku's grapples and a Force Storm. Installing none changes nothing. See
  custom characters.
• Custom maps (mods\maps\<name>\map.ini): a model, collision boxes, lighting and music of their own, playable as
  Versus arenas (Select Arena), in Heroes vs Villains and Battlefront (command posts and starts), and with devmap.
  See custom maps.
• A community mod pack with ready-made characters and maps, as a separate download (see the release notes).
• Keyboard and mouse button prompts: the game's prompts, tips and combat chart show your bound keys as key caps
  after you use the keyboard or mouse, and the Xbox buttons after a controller ([Controls] ButtonPrompts).
• The developer map: an empty, lit floor under the sky (devmap, or the debug menu's Game tab), the ground for
  the modes above.
• The Versus select screen scrolls when it holds more fighters than fit, with arrows at its ends.
• For modders: the character model format and tools/meshes/charmsh.py, level tools (tools/levels), event trees,
  and weapon limits found by modders, in the
  modding docs.

Fixed

• A spawned Palpatine crashed the game a few seconds into a fight.

Known issues

• Characters made on Serra's class with a single saber can turn the saber the wrong way in a saber lock.
• Now and then a custom character's intro or outro may not play.
• On custom maps the computer's fighters have no paths: one that cannot get through to its target or post is moved
  near it.

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v0.4.0

Two-player co-op in the story missions.

Added

• Co-op. A second player joins the story missions and the single-player bonus missions as soon as a
  controller is there for them, no button needed. They play the mission's companion (Obi-Wan beside
  Anakin), or a character of their own on player 1's side where there is none, with the game's own
  second HUD and player 1's health and Force. One controller is enough: the keyboard and mouse are then
  player 1. Turn it on in the pause menu's new Cooperative Mod screen; more in settings.ini
  ([Coop]) and the debug console's coop. Co-op is off by default, and the game is unchanged with it
  off. See the co-op guide, with its
  known issues.
  • A shared camera keeps both players in the picture (or follows player 1 alone, Camera=1).
  • Staying together: a player 2 left out of the picture, far behind or falling into the void is
    brought back beside player 1.
  • Dying: a fatal hit brings player 2 back beside player 1, or with Respawn Player 2 off
    (Player2Death=1) ends the mission as player 1's death does.
  • Boss fights (Dooku, Grievous, Mace Windu, the Mustafar duels...): player 2 plays the boss, as in
    Versus, or with Player 2 As Boss off fights it beside player 1 (a Jedi or a 501st clone trooper,
    by the boss's side).
  • A clone trooper player 2 shoots as the computer's clones do while heavy attack is held (attack is
    the rifle butt), and player 2 never loses a limb to a saber.
  • Friendly fire (FriendlyFire=1): the players' blows hurt each other; they stay allies.
  • Versus and the bonus missions made for two players are unchanged.
• Music modding (by @anakinfan8, #27):
  a guide to
  replacing the game's music through mods\, and tools/audio/hwx.py to convert tracks to WAV and back,
  fitted to a track's length.
• A hang watchdog: if the game stops responding for 20 seconds, the log says where it is stuck, and a
  game caught in its own error handler is named once instead of filling the log.

Fixed

• Dialogue in the movies played in the left ear only (and their low bass in the right): the movies'
  surround sound comes as three stereo streams, and the centre one, which carries the voices, went to the
  left speaker. Each channel now goes where the game sends it.
• The game restarted in a new window when a mission ended right as a movie began (after the Mace
  Windu and Mustafar duels): returning to the menu could not stop the movie player, and the game
  restarted its process instead.
• despawn in the debug console could crash the game a moment later: clearing what pointed at the
  removed characters also cleared their own weapons' link back to them.
• Log lines with folder names in other alphabets (Cyrillic, for example) came out empty.

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v0.3.1

Characters keep their own sounds in other levels, the duel camera follows a character change again,
and bug reports' logs tell more.

Added

• screenshot [name] in the debug console saves the game's picture, without the debug menu, to
  screenshots\.
• More in the log, for bug reports: logs\swrots.log now starts with the SWROTS-PC version, the system
  (Windows, or Wine/Proton and the Linux or macOS under it), the CPU, the GPU and its driver, and the sound
  output's channels and speaker layout. Every 30 seconds it notes the average frame rate, the slowest frame
  and how many frames took long enough to stutter.

Fixed

• Characters' sounds in levels they are not from. A character played in or spawned into a level
  that does not have them now has their own sounds, taken from the levels that do: a Sith's saber
  swings and hits, Force lightning. Levels played as they come are unchanged. Vader's breathing is
  still missing after a live change into him in a level without Vader: it comes with a set of sounds
  the game prepares only while a level loads (a level started as Vader has it).
• The duel camera after a character change. Changing from the level's own character in a duel
  (Obi-Wan on Mustafar) left the camera where it was; it follows the new character again.

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v0.3.0

Play as anyone, spawn anyone, and a free camera.

All of these are in the debug menu ([Debug] DebugMenu=1 in settings.ini, then ~ in game); see
the debug menu guide.

Added

• Play story levels as any character. Pick a class, a costume, a texture set (the 501st clones)
  and a body (any character model on the disc or under mods\) in the Characters tab, or with
  player in the console: Vader in Order 66, Anakin without his robe in the temple, Obi-Wan in a
  stormtrooper's body. The change happens at once, where you stand: the camera, controls, HUD
  portrait and health and Force bars follow the new character, and your health carries over as a
  share. Back to normal returns to the level's own character. When a change cannot be made at
  once, the mission restarts with the new character instead ([Debug] AutoRestart=0: from the next
  level start). Classes the game cut, such as Commander Cody, are refused.
• Duels anywhere. With the debug menu on, every level loads all of its characters' moves (the
  duel moves among them: blocks against a lightsaber, the clashes that lead to a saber lock), so a
  hero fights properly in levels that never had one ([Debug] OptionalMoves).
• Spawn any character in front of you, loaded from other levels if need be: up to 5 at a time
  from the Spawn area, or spawn. Pick their costume, texture set, body and size, and their
  side: Ally (fights the level's enemies with you), Enemy, Neutral (fights no one until
  hit, then riots) or Riot (attacks everyone). Remove spawned (despawn) clears them.
• Free camera (freecam, or the Game tab): fly the view with the mouse and keyboard or a
  controller, also with the game frozen; the game's camera shake and zoom stay off it.
• Game tab: your character's live health, Force and position; god mode, infinite Force,
  refill and maximum health; your size (0.25 to 4 times); your own saber colour (any colour,
  yours only, kept through power-ups and cutscenes); time scale, AI, HUD opacity, difficulty and
  the game's debug displays.
• Console: player, variants, meshes, restart, autorestart, spawn, despawn, scale,
  saber, infiniteforce, memory, characters (every character in the level with its side,
  health and target), and the research commands peek, team and findrefs.
• duelist puts any class in a versus select-screen slot.
• For contributors: SWROTS_COMMANDS, SWROTS_TEST_INPUT and SWROTS_FREECAM for unattended tests
  (contributing); research
  notes on characters
  and the camera.

Fixed

• Crashes in the game's own code with characters in levels not made for them: a move the level did
  not load (now loaded, see above, or else skipped), and a Jedi brute with Anakin's fifth combo
  unlocked (an animation the game never had: a close one stands in).

Known issues

• Playing as or spawning characters works in story levels only, not in Versus.
• A swapped or spawned character can appear at another spot for a moment before it is placed.
• Spawned characters do not follow you yet.
• Some missions expect their own character in cutscenes and scripted moments.
• At large sizes the camera stays where it is for a normal-sized character.

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v0.2.1

A fix for crashes after a level change on some graphics drivers.

Fixed

• Crash after a level change, a new versus match or a return to the menu on some graphics
  drivers, e.g. Windows in Parallels Desktop on a Mac ("A critical graphics error has occurred")
  (#2,
  #3). The game restarts itself for every level,
  creating its graphics device again; two caches of the port's (vertex layouts, used for movies and
  screen-space drawing) were never released, so they kept the old device alive and were handed to
  the new one. Most drivers tolerate that; stricter ones end the game. They are now released with
  their device.

Added

• The log warns when a released graphics device is still in use (Graphics device still referenced).
• For contributors: SWROTS_REBOOT_EVERY=<seconds> restarts the game on a timer, to test restarts
  (contributing).

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v0.2.0

Yoda joins Versus.

Added

• Playable Yoda in Versus. His own cell on the select screen, after Random, with the name,
  title and bust the disc kept for him (a fighter the game planned but never finished). He is
  always unlocked, Random can pick him, and he fights in every arena with Anakin's intro and win
  cameras (the disc has none of his own). No settings or debug options needed.
• Sith Yoda. In Yoda against Yoda, player 2 is a dark Yoda with a red saber, as the game's own
  fighters get a different look against themselves. His darker textures are made from the normal
  ones when the duel loads; Yoda looks as always everywhere else.
• Yoda blocks a duelist's blows with his own animation. He was made for fighting clones, and
  fell back to Anakin's blocks, which left him floating. Some of his other reactions can still
  look off.
• Characters a level never had are loaded from the rest of the disc: their model, textures,
  animations and tables come from whichever level has them. This is how Yoda fights in the versus
  arenas.
• unlockprofile in the debug console: the developers' own cheat, left out of the retail
  game, unlocks everything in the signed-in profile (story, fighters, arenas, bonus missions,
  concept art). The game saves it with the profile, so back up saves\ first to keep your
  progress.
• Docs for developers: the versus roster
  (how Yoda was added, with addresses) and
  adding versus fighters.

Known issues

• The menus show Yoda's normal bust for player 2 in Yoda against Yoda, and he has no full-body
  picture on the select screen (the disc has none).

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v0.1.1

A fix for missing audio and frozen cutscenes.

Fixed

• No sound and frozen cutscenes after the first launch on some systems
  (#1). The game's audio needs a Windows
  component (COM) that the port relied on something else to set up. On the first launch the
  installer did, so sound worked; on later launches, on systems where nothing else did, audio
  failed to start (XAudio2 initialisation failed (800401F0) in the log). Cutscenes are timed by
  their sound, so they froze too, e.g. the opening "A long time ago..." of the first mission. The
  port now sets COM up itself before starting audio.
• If audio cannot start at all (no audio device, a broken driver), the game now plays on
  silently: sounds and movies keep time instead of freezing, and the log says
  the game runs without sound. Before, a half-started audio engine made every sound fail.
• A paused sound given a new play position no longer starts playing, as on the Xbox; a sound
  without a voice no longer risks a crash there.

Added

• For contributors: SWROTS_NO_AUDIO=1 runs the game as without an audio device, to test the
  silent path (contributing).

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v0.1.0

The first public release: the game boots, plays its movies and menus, and is playable through
level changes, restarts and saving.

The port

• The game's own code runs natively as a 32-bit Windows program, with no emulation layer. The
  Xbox kernel, Direct3D (to Direct3D 9), audio (to XAudio2) and controller libraries are replaced
  by native Windows code.
• Level changes and mission restarts restart the game in the same window, as the console
  reboots into itself.
• First-run setup from your disc image (.iso / .xiso, or a .7z / .zip / .rar containing
  one): it checks that it is the supported North American release, copies the game files into
  GameData\ and adds a Start menu shortcut (and optionally a desktop one).
• Saves in saves\, temporary files in cache\, a log in logs\swrots.log (the previous run's
  in logs\swrots.previous.log).

Graphics

• Any window size, borderless fullscreen, optional VSync, and a picture scaled to fit the window
  at the right aspect ratio (or stretched, Stretch=1).
• 16:9 widescreen (the game's anamorphic mode) or 4:3.
• Higher internal resolution (ResolutionScale, automatic by default: 2x for 720p, 3x for 1080p
  and 1440p, 5x for 4K), anisotropic filtering up to 16x, the game's bloom on or off, sharp on
  high-DPI displays.
• 30 fps like the original; 60 fps experimental (FpsLimit=60).

Input

• Keyboard and mouse, rebindable in controls.ini, with mouse sensitivity and walk speed.
• Xbox controllers (XInput) and PlayStation controllers (DualShock 4, DualSense) with rumble.

Modding

• Mods as loose files in mods\: textures, models and other game files replace the packed
  copies without rebuilding the level archives; disc files (configs, movies, audio banks) too.
• Asset dumping (DumpResources=1) and resource logging (LogResources=1) to find the files a
  level loads and the paths a mod must use.
• Guides: modding, including a worked character swap.

Developer tools

• A debug menu (DebugMenu=1, opened with ~): the game's own console, which the Xbox release had
  no window for, with its variables and commands, and switches for god mode, AI and the engine's
  hidden debug displays (fps counter, profiler, memory display).
• A flight recorder (the last 3 seconds of frames), Xbox library call tracing and file-open
  tracing, for bug reports and research.

Known issues

• On-screen button prompts and some messages still refer to the Xbox and its controller.
• 60 fps is experimental: some of the game's logic is timed for 30 fps.
• The keyboard and the first controller are both player 1; two-player modes need two controllers.
• Only the North American release is supported.

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