Release Eldiron v0.9.7 · markusmoenig/Eldiron

New Features

Added the new brush-based Organic Tool workflow for painting surface detail directly onto map surfaces, replacing the older graph-driven organic authoring direction.
Added a dedicated Organic dock with a live brush preview, visual brush-shape presets, and compact controls for Base, Border, Noise, Brush Size, Border Size, Noise Amount, and Opacity.
Added Organic toolbar controls for Free / Locked, Clear, and Active / Deactive, plus a 3D brush-footprint preview for organic painting in place of the generic hover marker.
Added renderer style and post-processing controls for a less shiny retro RPG look, including style = "clean" | "retro" | "grimy" and post controls for grit, posterize, palette_bias, shadow_lift, and edge_soften.
Applied the stylized post-processing controls to Raster 2D as well as Raster 3D, so 2D and 3D views can share the same authored color treatment.

Added the ensure_active NPC sequence step so scripted routes can enforce stateful interactions such as opening a door only if needed and closing it again afterward.
Added hold_speed for grid-based held movement, so characters can use a fast first-tile speed while keeping sustained held movement smooth and continuous.
Added configurable [game] simulation pacing with simulation_mode = "realtime" | "turn_based" | "hybrid" and turn_timeout_ms, so projects can choose between continuous simulation, fully player-driven turns, or Ultima-style idle turn stepping.
Added multiple_choice(entity, prompt, choice_attribute) for script-defined choice menus using labels authored as character attributes. Selecting an option sends both {choice_attribute} and {choice_attribute}:{index} back to the offering character.
Added the new dialog(entity, node) system for TOML-authored nested dialogs, including node transitions, continue-style choices, choice events, simple if / unless conditions, localization/substitution support, and visual scripting support.

Added Organic Tool documentation covering the new brush-based workflow, dock layout, toolbar controls, and 3D brush preview behavior.
Added configuration docs for the new renderer style and stylized post-processing settings, including their runtime world.post.* / region.post.* override fields.
Clarified the say(...) command documentation to show both the default one-argument form and the optional category-color form.
Moved new say(...) presentation documentation from global game config to game widget [say] settings.
Added documentation for script-defined multiple-choice menus and TOML-authored nested dialogs, including localization-key usage and message-widget filtering.

Fixed Organic tool undo / redo and related dock-state restore behavior so brush painting no longer bounces the UI back into the tile picker workflow during restore.
Improved Organic brush editing so presets are shape-only, thumbnails reuse the current brush colors, and noise is exposed as an actual adjustable paint contribution instead of only a preview accent.
Fixed project render settings sync so loading a project and editing project settings now apply the same renderer/post/daylight defaults instead of changing the visible sun-shadow state after the first settings edit.

Softened Raster 3D sun-shadow sampling and increased default shadow biasing in the shader to reduce hard shadow acne seams.
Fixed two-sided 3D lighting so sun shadows and direct lights use light-facing normals instead of camera-facing normals, preventing surfaces from changing lit state when the iso camera moves.
Added exact compile-time layout checks for the Raster 3D uniform block to guard against backend-sensitive WGSL/Rust alignment mismatches.

Fixed grid-based player movement so the character speed attribute now actually affects direct tile stepping, instead of being hardcoded to 1.0.
Fixed Eldrin compilation of say("Text") so the optional category parameter is truly optional, matching the runtime handler and documentation.

Fixed 2D game widgets so say(...) speech bubbles render above characters and items like they already do in 3D views.
Game widgets now prefer their own [say] section for speech bubble duration, text colors, and background styling, with legacy global [say] config kept as a fallback.
Messages widgets can now use handles = [...] to split regular messages, dialogs, script multiple-choice menus, and inventory offers across different widget placements.
Messages widgets can optionally draw sender portraits from portrait_tile_id with portrait = true, portrait_size, and portrait_gap.
Fixed bottom-up Messages widget rendering for very long wrapped messages so the newest/lower lines remain visible instead of the message being culled when its first lines overflow above the widget.