Changelog

v3.1.15: Sep 6, 2024

• Revert invalid-spell-fix partially to avoid critical bug

v3.0.15: Sep 6, 2024

• Fix symbol creation on load to avoid crash with Gothic Sequel 1.12f
• Fix unrecoverable error of Gothic's loading to safely skip equipped spell items that no longer exist. Details.

v2.9.15: Jun 10, 2024

• Support the latest changes of LeGo

v2.9.14: Jun 5, 2024

• Fix patch flags initialization on loading (hotfix)

v2.9.13: Jun 4, 2024

• Fix basic loader to correctly link Ninja (hotfix)

v2.8.13: Jun 3, 2024

• Port to 1.30 fix (Gothic II Classic) including support for Ikarus and LeGo
• Port to 1.12f (Gothic Sequel) including support for Ikarus and LeGo
• Support the latest changes of Ikarus
• Support the latest changes of LeGo
• Support additional changes in LeGo to fix PerMem initialization for Gothic 1 on new game
• Improve performance of writing patch-specific PermMem save-files
• Purge outdated handles from patch-specific PermMem save-files
• Simplify patch-specific LeGo initialization logic
• Supply patch specific index as Daedalus constant NINJA_ID_{PatchName}
• Update author name in license
• Streamline build pipeline for faster iterations and ensure reproducible builds

v2.7.12: Sep 5, 2021

• Support the latest changes of Ikarus (i.e. hotfix for latest change)

v2.7.11: Sep 5, 2021

• Support the latest changes of Ikarus
• Support the latest changes of LeGo
• Adjust object inheritance checks

v2.6.10: Apr 24, 2021

• Support the latest changes of LeGo
• Improve setting and handling of non-persistent NPC
• Verify VDF more thoroughly

v2.5.09: Feb 26, 2021

• Supply ending divider symbol (analogous to start divider)
• Do not go beyond the patch symbols (ending divider symbol) when manipulating NPC and infos

v2.4.09: Feb 6, 2021

• Support the latest changes of LeGo
• Adjust string count of parsers to avoid inline strings with duplicate names
• Improve performance of writing patch-specific PermMem save-files

v2.3.08: Jan 27, 2021

• Fix script initialization issues in Gothic 1
• Avoid looping on loading re-added patches that contain frame functions

v2.3.07: Jan 11, 2021

• Support the latest changes of LeGo

v2.3.06: Jan 3, 2021

• Support the latest changes of LeGo
• Add checks in parser manipulation to increase compatibility

v2.2.05: Dec 19, 2020

• Support the latest changes of LeGo

v2.2.04: July 20, 2020

• Support the latest changes of LeGo (i.e. hotfix for latest change)

v2.2.03: July 19, 2020

• Support the latest changes of LeGo (i.e. fix hooks of external engine functions)

v2.2.02: June 21, 2020

• Write patch-specific PermMem save-files to support handles (details)
• Do not archive non-persistent logical NPC to ease patch removal
• Update setup to properly detect Union 1.0h if present

v2.1.01: May 20, 2020

• Add workaround for Parser Extender
• Supply index of patch symbols by each patch (details)

v2.0.01: Nov 17, 2019

• Remove Ninja from the patches, into a DLL for compatibility
• Remove dependency on the SystemPack
• Unify Ninja for Gothic and Gothic 2 NotR for inter-game compatible patches
• Make development of patches more intuitive
• Load and apply patches in order of their timestamps
• Allow overwriting and adding output units
• Add console command to view version and build information and loaded patches
• Increase performance by collecting the patches only once at game start
• Allow mods to ignore incompatible patches
• Add strict control over Ikarus and LeGo versions of patches for compatibility
• Supply (but don’t apply) suitably modified versions of Ikarus and LeGo, such as non-persistent PermMem handles for patches, and merging of LeGo flags on consecutive initializations
• Supply Ninja version, current mod name and index of patch symbols to Daedalus
• Log more events in the zSpy
• Detect and enable the zSpy for logging (if open)
• Add cautionary measures for adding NPC with a patch
• Remove invalid NPC objects on game loading
• Introduce minor safety checks to three external functions
• Update cutscene infos on game loading
• Keep removed Daedalus symbols (integer variables) on game loading
• Extended the list of non-overwritable Daedalus symbols

v1.2: Mar 23, 2018

• Fix rare bug in animation ninja

v1.1: Mar 14, 2018

• Ninja for Gothic 1
• Re-implementation of finding files: old VDFS no longer used = more stability and faster loading times
• Minor fixes

v1.0: Mar 7, 2018

• Initial release for Gothic 2