Invader changelog

This is used for recording Invader's changes. This changelog is based on Keep a Changelog.

0.54.2 - 2024-08-05

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed misleading error message when a model part is missing the correct vertex type
invader-font: Fixed unrendered font characters being added as characters if character < 32
invader-font: Fixed some whitespace characters not being rendered correctly

Changed

invader-build: Changed extended limit of font characters from 32000 to 32767
invader-font: Renamed latin1 to --8-bit/-8

0.54.1 - 2024-08-01

Fixed

invader-font: Raised the 16k character limit to 65536 and fixed unused characters being rendered, drastically lowering font sizes

0.54.0 - 2024-06-28

Fixed

invader-build: Physics tag compilation now accounts for the "old physics" calculation that is enabled by setting the base radius field to anything above zero.
invader-build: Physics tags now have a check to make sure moment scale is non-zero.
invader-build: Fixed checking the wrong sequence index for the health panel background in unit_hud_interface tags.

0.53.8 - 2024-06-25

Added

invader-edit-qt: Added --high-precision-floats

Fixed

invader: Physics tags' center of mass and mass point density/mass are now calculated on build and are cache-only.
invader-edit-qt: Text fields where the text would overflow now have the start of the text appearing instead of the end

0.53.7 - 2024-06-16

Fixed

invader-build: Clamp particle animation rate the same way as tool.exe
invader-build: Fixed detail_object_collection's global z offset being ignored (it is highly recommended you update)
invader-extract: Fixed detail_object_collection's global z offset being ignored (it is highly recommended you update)

Changed

invader-edit-qt: Fast mode is now the default mode again. Use -L to use recursive mode.

0.53.6 - 2024-05-20

Fixed

invader: Fixed color issues on macOS terminals.
invader-build: Fix defaulting decal values.

Changed

invader-edit-qt: Recursive mode is now the default mode. Use -L to use fast mode.
invader-edit-qt: Fixed dark theme support on macOS.

0.53.5 - 2024-05-12

Fixed

invader-build: Change field default behavior to better match tool.exe.

0.53.4 - 2024-02-08

Fixed

invader: Add extra bounds checks to tag definitions.
invader: Enable long file paths in the Windows executable manifest.

0.53.3 - 2023-07-25

Fixed

invader-build: Fix defaulting model filthy part indices.

Changed

invader-build: bitmap sequence index is now checked in more places.
invader-build: particle system tags are now checked to make sure an extra bitmap sequence is available after the one referenced when using the "rotational" complex sprite render mode.
invader-edit-qt: grenade_hud_interface field naming has been made clearer.

0.53.2 - 2023-07-20

Fixed

invader-resource: Fix creating resource maps for MCC CEA with BC7 bitmap tags in them.

0.53.1 - 2023-07-19

Changed

invader: rename use variant 2 for calculation bump attention flag to use alternate bump attenuation
invader-build: Do not compile BC7 bitmap tags into cache files for older engines.
invader-build: Warn when using use highres scale flag in HUD tags on MCC as the scale change does not seem to be applied by the game.

0.53.0 - 2023-07-12

Changed

invader: Tag and Script definitions have been updated for the MCC July 2023 update.
invader-edit-qt: Support viewing BC7 bitmap tags.

0.52.4 - 2023-05-19

Changed

invader-build: Do not require the globals rasterizer test fields to have a bitmap referenced.

Fixed

invader: Fix world units per tick limit in the actor tag.
invader-archive: Fix overwrite not working when copying tags on windows builds.

0.52.3 - 2023-03-03

Changed

invader-build: Now errors if item_collection tags have no items or has too high of a weight, as this can crash the game.
invader-build: Now errors if compressed bitmaps have dimensions that are not divisible by 4 and the target engine does not support it.

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed the format being set incorrectly creating non-power of two bitmaps that are compressed.
invader-compare: Fix resource maps not being loaded when comparing cache files.

0.52.2 - 2022-12-20

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed bounds check that was preventing maps with compressed model_animations from compiling.

0.52.1 - 2022-12-17

Fixed

invader-extract: Fixed extracting model_animations tags that were oddly compiled by tool.exe

0.52.0 - 2022-12-13

Changed

invader: Tag and Script definitions have been updated for the MCC December 2022 update.

Fixed

invader-script and invader-build will nolonger allow sv_maxplayers in gbx-demo scripts as this crashes the game.

0.51.5 - 2022-11-29

Changed

invader-dependency now returns status code 197 if it fails to open a tag due to it being invalid

Fixed

invader-build and invader-extract will now correctly load resource maps for MCC targets.

0.51.4 - 2022-11-15

RIAT: Fixed inequality operator not working on game_difficulty and team parameters.
invader-build: Materials in the globals tag are now checked for having a minimum of 32 blocks rather than exactly 32.

0.51.3 - 2022-10-06

Changed

RIAT: Updated to silence spammy warning about mixed case tokens.

0.51.2 - 2022-09-06

Fixed

Fixed script parameters not being added to scripts.
invader-sound: Fixed 16-bit PCM not having the correct buffer size set on creation.

0.51.1 - 2022-09-05

Changed

Implemented the limits for Custom Edition and CEA.
Fixed "custom control name" not having a name for scenario tag control spawns

Fixed

Fixed Xbox model compression/decompression normals being off if negative.

0.51.0 - 2022-09-01

Added

Added support for CEA's new definitions in the August 2022 Update.
Added support for compiling and decompiling scenarios with script parameters for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary.

0.50.5 - 2022-08-14

Added

Added continuous_damage_effect.
invader-bludgeon: Added -T missing-bitmap-sequences.

Fixed

Set maximum count of unit camera track references to 2.
Made some flags read-only in model_animations.
invader-build: Fixed some empty sequences being put in maps for sprites

0.50.4 - 2022-06-01

Fixed

invader-archive: Fix for the previous fix of fixing Windows path separators being used instead of portable UNIX path separators when making .7z files.
invader-script: "default" is now correctly supported as a team name.

0.50.3 - 2022-05-18

Changed

Change camera_track definition to omit an unused flag

Fixed

invader-sound: Fixed mouth data not being saved on tag creation
invader-sound: Fixed importing 8-bit wave files
invader-sound: Fixed importing sounds with mixed case file extensions

0.50.2 - 2022-04-30

Changed

invader-build: Errors if there are no bitmap sequences or bitmap sequences are invalid for bitmap tags. Not having sequences causes crashes in some cases.
invader-compare: Made map comparison more tolerant if no resource map is used when performing a comparison.
invader-script: Added support for the MCC scripting functions and globals added in the April 2022 update.

0.50.1 - 2022-04-20

Changed

invader-recover: Changed text output slightly

Fixed

invader-recover: Fixed %crouch being extracted as %zoom and vice versa
invader-string: Fixed an exception error when generating hud_message_text tags
invader-string: Fixed %crouch being treated as %zoom and vice versa

0.50.0 - 2022-04-20

Added

invader-build: Added --script-source (can be tags or data) which specifies where to read script source data from.
invader-recover: Added support for recovering hud_message_text tags.
invader-string: Added support for making hud_message_text tags.

Changed

invader-build: The default script source location is now the data folder. Use -S tags to use the old method.
invader-extract: If a scenario tags' source data could not be extracted, it will no longer try to save the scenario tag without script data.
invader-string: Changed --format to --type

Fixed

Rewrote the script parser, improving accuracy and fixing a bug with desyncing on co-op on Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

0.49.1 - 2022-04-12

Changed

Added definitions for the April 2022 update of CEA.
invader-extract: Rewrote the script decompiler. Scripts are now split on every 256 KiB, a header is included in each script, and code output is more optimal.

Fixed

invader-dependency: Fixed having to recompile scripts
invader-edit-qt: Fixed alternating color background not working on blocks
invader-extract: Fixed top-level begin blocks being added
invader-recover: Fixed null terminator being included in recovered script hsc

0.49.0 - 2022-03-22

Added

Added INVADER_FORCE_COLORS as an environment variable which can be used to force colors on ("1") or off ("0")
invader-convert: Added -b/-e for batching
invader-convert: Added object-to-object conversion (you can convert any object type into another with varying results)
invader-edit: Added -b/-e for batching
invader-recover: Added -b/-e for batching

Changed

invader-convert: Tag groups now have to be explicitly set with --groups rather than --type (sorry if some groups are really long; this is important though!)
invader-edit: --set now takes more complex expressions, with "n" now taking the place of what "~" was. For example, --set "-2n+1" now multiplies the value by -2 and then adds 1. This is incompatible with older --set inputs, thus values for vectors must now be separated with commas instead of whitespace. For example, "-2,-5,2" instead of "-2 -5 2". Whitespace is ignored.
invader-edit: --get on vectors are now comma-separated instead of with whitespace (due to the new expression parser)
invader-edit-qt: Upgraded Qt5 to Qt6
invader-edit-qt: Changed the audio backend to use SDL2
invader-edit-qt: Holding shift when clicking "Open..." on a tag reference will now close the current window before opening the referenced tag
invader-refactor: --class/-c was renamed to --groups/-g

Fixed

Fixed MinGW builds expanding wildcards to filenames preventing * from being used in arguments like --batch
invader-bitmap: Fixed the enable diffusion dithering flag not being respected on bitmap creation.
invader-script: Fixed projectiles not being searched.

Removed

invader-bitmap: Removed the option to dither the alpha channel and color channels separately as this can not be preserved by the enable diffusion dithering flag.
invader-convert: Removed --all
invader-convert: Removed --type (use --groups)
invader-edit: Removed --fs-path
invader-recover: Removed --fs-path

0.48.0 - 2022-03-13

Added

invader-bludgeon: Readded --fs-path
invader-script: Using explicit extensions is now supported. Note that this is not presently supported in any stock tools
invader-script: Using "none" is now supported for tag paths. Note that this is not presently supported in any stock tools
invader-strip: Readded --fs-path

Changed

invader-edit: Simple expressions are now supported in --set. Use ~+n to add n to the value, ~-n to subtract n from the value, ~*n to multiply the value by n, ~/n to divide the value by n, and ~ to not change the value.

Fixed

invader-bludgeon: A tag path OR --batch is now required
invader-bludgeon: Fixed --batch narrowing searches instead of broadening them
invader-bludgeon: Renamed --search to --batch
invader-bitmap: Fixed extra tall unrolled cubemaps not being accepted
invader-compare: Fixed -s narrowing searches instead of broadening them
invader-extract: Fixed -s narrowing searches instead of broadening them
invader-script: Fixed a few instances of warning messages not having .hsc as the path
invader-strip: Fixed -s narrowing searches instead of broadening them
invader-strip: Renamed --search to --batch
invader-strip: A tag path OR --batch is now required

Removed

invader-bitmap: Removed specifying data paths with --fs-path
invader-font: Removed specifying data paths with --fs-path
invader-sound: Removed specifying data paths with --fs-path

0.47.1 - 2022-03-07

Changed

invader-script: Clearing script data now deletes string and syntax data and does not require a build target anymore

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed tag ID not being put in tag definition fields in scripts, causing some tag definition usages to not work properly
invader-extract: Fixed extension being missing from extracted tags
invader-script: Fixed object_name not being convertible to object_list or object
invader-script: Fixed globals for object definitions not being recognized

0.47.0 - 2022-03-06

Added

invader-bludgeon: Added -T mismatched-sound-enums
invader-bludgeon: Added --search and --search-exclude
invader-info: Added -T protection_issues which lists the reasons why the map
invader-info: Added -T internal_bitmaps, -T internal_sounds, -T internal_bitmaps, and -T internal_sounds_count which list all tags that are partially internal
invader-strip: Added --search and --search-exclude

Changed

VT100 colors are now used on win32 builds. This may fix a few error messages being formatted/colored improperly as well as improve performance.
"terminator" is no longer marked as invalid, thus icefields.scenario no longer needs bludgeoned
Null terminated scripts are now allowed as official tools do this, thus various scenario tags no longer need bludgeoned
Trigger volumes are better defined now.
invader-archive: Verbose comparisons are now shown in an inverted tree, making it easier for collapsing in text editors
invader-build: Reduced --extend-file-limits from 4 GiB to 2 GiB
invader-build: Bitmap type is now checked for shaders
invader-build: Added warnings for out-of-bounds pickup messages (which is no longer an error but may cause unintended behavior)
invader-build: Added warnings for null references in effect tags (except for damage_effect which is an error)
invader-build: Predicted resources for scenario_structure_bsp clusters are now calculated
invader-compare: Verbose comparisons are now shown in an inverted tree, making it easier for collapsing in text editors
invader-compare: Verbose comparisons can now be threaded
invader-edit-qt: Changed default sizing of the main window to be larger
invader-info: Renamed a number of options to be consistent
invader-strip: Clean tags are no longer stripped and are skipped instead

Fixed

Absolute paths or paths with '..' path components are now explicitly banned in tag paths (note: file paths may still use this). This fixes a vulnerability.
invader-build: Fixed a number of scripting issues on MCC. This fixes an issue with the banshees not attacking the player on the level Halo.
invader-build: Fixed cutscene title up time not being correct
invader-build: Fixed recharge rate being set to infinite if a collision model has no recharge time set (it should be set to 1)
invader-build: Fixed crouch camera speed being set to infinite if a biped has no camera crouch transition time set (it should be set to 1)
invader-build: Fixed pelvis/head indices being inverted
invader-build: Fixed centroid primary/secondary nodes not resolving local node
invader-build: Fixed particle size not factoring in sequence index
invader-extract: Fixed cutscene title up time not being correct
invader-info: Fixed retail Halo PC maps not showing external tags
invader-recover: Fixed null terminators being included in recovered script source data
invader-script: Fixed vehicles not being allowed to be converted into units
invader-script: Tag paths in scripts are now validated
invader-script: Scripts with forward slashes in path separators are no longer allowed as expected

Removed

invader-bludgeon: Removed -T null-terminated-scripts
invader-bludgeon: Nulled indices are no longer listed
invader-bludgeon: Removed -P and singular tag path bludgeoning (use -s)
invader-strip: Removed -P and singular tag path stripping (use -s)

0.46.3 - 2022-02-08

Fixed

invader-edit-qt: Fixed play button in audio player being available if no pitch ranges are present
invader-edit-qt: Fixed stop button in audio player being available if no audio is being played
invader-extract: Fixed audio pitch ranges being cleared on extraction if from a Custom Edition map

0.46.2 - 2022-02-07

Added

invader-bitmap: Added --allow-non-power-of-two

Changed

invader-edit: --set on a tag reference with an empty string will now clear the reference (it is equivalent to --set ".group" where "group" is the file extension of the current tag reference if --get was used)

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed issues with generating non-power-of-two DXT bitmaps
invader-build: Now warns if using a non-power-of-two non-interface bitmap tag on MCC AND once again errors if on Xbox
invader-build: Fixed Xbox maps not having the correct effect flag set, as the flags were changed between the Xbox Halo and Gearbox Halo PC releases
invader-edit: Fixed allowing tag references that have a disallowed group (for example, referencing a light tag where a shader is expected)
invader-edit-qt: Fixed issues with previewing non-power-of-two DXT bitmaps

0.46.1 - 2022-02-06

Added

invader-compare: Added --search and --search-exclude which allows you to include and exclude tags that match a given expression. You can use these individually or together, and excluding always takes precedence.
invader-extract: Added --search-exclude which allows you to exclude tags that match a given expression. You can use this with or without --search, and excluding always takes precedence.

Changed

invader-build: Now errors on invalid filthy part indices and warn if you try to use a filthy part index of 0 (since this gets defaulted)
invader-build: Tags with CRC32 of 0xFFFFFFFF reported by the header no longer trip the checksum check. This warning is no longer a pedantic warning.

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed various scripting commands not working when using uppercase strings (uppercase strings are now currently only allowed for print commands)
invader-compare: Fixed -t not being stackable

Removed

invader-compare: Removed --class (you can use --search instead e.g. --search "*.biped") and --exclude-class (use --search-exclude instead e.g. --search-exclude "*.scenario_structure_bsp")

0.46.0 - 2022-01-31

Changed

Now uses the vorbisfile API to query sample count from Ogg Vorbis. This will drastically reduce invader-build's build time (+221% speed improvement on d40 on an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 system running Arch Linux) and the time required for invader-bludgeon -T invalid-sound-buffer
invader-compare: Differences with --verbose are now shown in more detail
invader-compare: Added whitespace indenting to --verbose

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Color plates with a dimension larger than 32767 (INT16_MAX) will no longer be stored in a bitmap tag, as this produces a bitmap that is technically impossible to regenerate due to how the dimensions are stored
invader-build: Fixed minimum velocity and potential and not being divided by tick rate
invader-build: Fixed subpermutations not using the main permutation's gain
invader-build: Fixed wind period in fog tags not defaulting to 1-1
invader-build: Fixed light tags' falloff/cutoff angle not clamping correctly
invader-build: Fixed particle radius animation not defaulting correctly
invader-build: Fixed particle_system radius multiplier not defaulting in particle system states and particle system particle states
invader-build: Fixed lightning count not being defaulted to 1
invader-build: Fixed light volume frame exponents not being defaulted to 1
invader-build: Fixed leaf maps and leaf map portals not being purged from scenario_structure_bsp tags
invader-extract: Fixed minimum velocity and potential and not being multiplied by tick rate

[0.45.1] - 2022-01-28

Added

invader-bludgeon: Added -T broken-lens-flare-function-scale
invader-build: Readded --tag-space

Changed

invader-build: Now warns on 360 radian rotation function scales in lens flares
invader-build: Now errors on mismatched checksums and warns if the tag was set to 0 to bypass this check
invader-build: Now errors on mismatched collision models
invader-script: Changed default node count (if -g is unspecified) to match CEA's node count

Fixed

invader-archive: Fixed Windows path separators being used instead of portable UNIX path separators when making .7z files
invader-bludgeon: Fixed invader-bludgeon reporting it "Bludgeoned" tags even when no fixes were requested (and thus it did not change anything)
invader-build: Fixed incorrect animation index being stored when merging child scenarios in command lists
invader-build: Fixed player starting locations being merged when merging scenarios (this is actually not supposed to happen and broke c40!)
invader-build: Fixed pathfinding surfaces not being generated for BSP tags that are missing them due to no baked lightmaps (which caused a crash in the original game)

0.45.0 - 2022-01-25

Added

New tool: invader-script - Compiles scripts
invader: Added support for the MCC: CEA map format
invader-archive: Added --verbose which will print whether or not a tag was omitted as well as doing verbose comparisons.
invader-bitmap: Added auto to --format which will default to the smallest, lossless output (i.e. monochrome if input is monochrome, 16-bit if it fits in a 16-bit color space, 32-bit otherwise)
invader-bitmap: Added --reg-point-hack which sets the filthy sprite bug fix flag
invader-bitmap: Added --alpha-bias which sets alpha bias
invader-build: Added mcc-cea as a build target
invader-build: Added --resource-path which can specify a different path to load resource maps from
invader-build: Added --resource-usage which can specify the behavior for using resource maps. By default, resource maps are not used.
invader-build: Added --anniversary-mode which specifies if anniversary assets should be used
invader-edit: Added --no-safeguards which allows writing read-only data
invader-edit: Added --verify-checksum which prints "matched" if the checksum in the header is correct or "mismatched" if not
invader-edit: Added --checksum which calculates the checksum of the tag and prints it
invader-edit-qt: Added viewing color plates in the bitmap previewer
invader-info: Added tag_order_match which checks if a map has the same tag order as stock and, if not, whether it may (probably) be network compatible

Changed

invader: Definitions were updated to support MCC CEA season 8
invader-archive: Tags that are excluded are now printed
invader-bitmap: Changed the default format to auto
invader-bitmap: If usage is set to alpha blend, bitmaps are now cropped if an edge has zero alpha and a warning will be displayed. If the resulting bitmap is non-power-of-two, then it will fail to generate a bitmap tag (unless the bitmap type is interface or sprites)
invader-bitmap: Changed A8 to alpha-on-white instead of alpha-on-black to match the rendering output of the game
invader-bitmap: Improved sprite generation to better match tool.exe (while still allowing sprites that exceed the limit with padding enabled but meet it with padding disabled)
invader-build: --auto-forge-target no longer takes a parameter (it forges based on the input of --game-engine)
invader-build: Scenarios with no scripts or globals now have their syntax and string data initialized
invader-build: Changed --build-version to --build-string
invader-build: Scripts are now compiled on build. Maps with scripts are now fully supported.
invader-compare: Fixed -p still mismatching small discrepencies
invader-edit-qt: Clicking "Find" and "Save As" for a tag now expands all directories to the tag's current directory
invader-edit-qt: Changed listing mode to always be "fast" by default. This drastically improves performance on WSL
invader-model: "Legacy" mode is now the only option as, while it's not very sane, the workflow of making a map currently fully depends on it. -L was also removed.
invader-recover: Changed model recovery to follow the (formerly) legacy directory structure
invader-recover: global_scripts are now extracted to the data folder root
invader-sound: The default vorbis quality is now 0.8 and the default encoding is now 16-bit PCM.

Fixed

invader: Fixed a few fields in the actor tag not being shown in radians
invader: Fixed an issue with symbolic links being followed through, resulting in errors
invader: Fixed duplicate tags across multiple tags directories being considered in some programs
invader: Fixed invalid enums not being properly detected if they're valid for HEK but marked as invalid for the game
invader: Fixed iterating through directories with trailing slashes
invader-archive: Fixed child scenarios not being included
invader-archive: Fixed ignoring floating point numbers for mismatched values
invader-archive: Fixed creating empty archives if all tags were excluded
invader-bitmap: Fixed first bitmap index not being a valid bitmap
invader-bitmap: Fixed an infinite loop with -P
invader-bitmap: Fixed fade-to-gray unevenly being applied on semitransparent pixels
invader-bitmap: Fixed fade-to-gray being applied on non-detail maps
invader-build: Fixed sound min/max distances not being defaulted properly
invader-build: Fix model size reading as 0 MiB when building Xbox maps
invader-build: Fixed lighting issues for environment shaders on CEA maps
invader-compare: Fixed precision checking ignoring floating point numbers
invader-edit-qt: Fixed "forced shader permutation" and "hud text message" being defaulted to -1. It is no longer allowed to set these to -1, either, as they are known to cause unexpected crashes.
invader-edit-qt: Fixed a crashing issue for fast loading mode if a directory was present on one tags directory but not the other (if multiple tags directories are used)
invader-edit-qt: Fixed switching between monochrome and RGB bitmaps in the bitmap previewer breaking the colors menu
invader-edit-qt: Fixed an out-of-bounds crash that occurs on newer Arch Linux installations (this issue always existed but was never caught until recently!)
invader-model: Fixed "unnamed" not being renamed to "__unnamed". This probably did not do anything useful, but tool.exe does this, so we have to as well.
invader-model: Fixed an incorrect region index being set for some models
invader-model: Fixed triangles being corrupt for models with more than 65535 vertices total
invader-recover: Fixed alpha channel not being tagged correctly as an extra sample when making TIFFs

Removed

invader: Removed support for "custom_" prefixed resource maps
invader: Removed all invader_ tag classes
invader: Removed invader-compress
invader: Removed support for compressed Gearbox maps
invader-build: Removed -a (always index) and -n (no external assets) in favor of -r (use resource maps)
invader-build: Removed -u (uncompressed) and -c (compressed)
invader-build: Removed -T (tag space)
invader-strip: Removed -p (preprocessing) since invader-compare has been able to do this anyway

0.44.0 - 2021-04-07

Added

invader-build: Added -A which specifies whether to forge/index against a specific target versus automatically doing it.
invader-build: Added -T which can specify tag space
invader-compare: Added -j which can let you specify the number of threads to do comparison. Note that doing this is a balancing act: more threads can help, but if I/O becomes the bottleneck (as is the case with many small tags), then more threads can also degrade performance. Smaller tagsets will not benefit from extra threads as much as larger tagsets, thus this setting is defaulted to 1 thread for the most consistent performance.
invader-recover: Added -O to overwrite data rather than overwriting by default
invader-refactor: Added -R which can replace strings in paths. For example, using invader-refactor -R warthog puma -M move replaces all instances of warthog with puma

Changed

invader: Re-enabled unused6, unused7, unused8, unused9 teams
invader-build: Automatic forging and indexing now has to be manually invoked with -A
invader-build: Unit HUD interface sequences are now checked
invader-build: Using the high resolution scaling flag on Xbox is now treated as an error, as this functionality does not exist on the Xbox version
invader-build: Some fatal errors have been reduced to errors since they are technically valid tag data and can be handled, but not valid for the target engine
invader-build: Changed the valid parameters for -g to make it more consistent. All PC build targets are prefixed with pc-, and all Xbox build targets use the build version (i.e. xbox-2276 for English, xbox-0009 for Japanese, and xbox-0135 for Taiwanese)
invader-edit-qt: The tags directories are now listed in the title bar of the main window
invader-edit-qt: Model node counts for the various LoDs are now hidden since these values are always overridden on build

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed an issue with -O resulting in Halo crashing
invader-compare: Fixed a performance issue when comparing large tagsets
invader-model: Fixed node list checksum not being copied
invader-model: Fixed "base" permutation not being renamed to "__base"
invader-model: Fixed marker, region, and node names not being lowercased
invader-model: Fixed empty regions not being removed
invader-model: Fixed some markers and triangles not being set to the correct region (or sometimes any region at all)
invader-model: Fixed some triangles with -1 (null) as the shader not being set to shader #0, resulting in an error
invader-model: Fixed regions starting with a tilde (~) not having the flag "cannot be chosen randomly" set
invader-recover: Fixed node list checksum not being copied

Removed

invader-build: Dropped MCC build targets

0.43.0 - 2021-03-16

Added

New tool: invader-model - Compiles model tags
New tool: invader-recover - Recover source data from bitmaps (if color plate data is present), models, string lists, tag collections, and scenario scripts
invader-build: Added --stock-resource-bounds which, when building Custom Edition maps, only indexes a tag if the tag's index in the resource mapis the same on the equivalent stock resource map
invader-edit: Added --list-values
invader-resource: Added --concatenate which can concatenate an existing resource map's data

Changed

invader: Now uses long distance matching for Zstandard. This slightly improves compression ratio.
invader-build: Changed --build-version's shorthand letter to -B
invader-edit: Changed --list to instead show the entire structure in a TREE /F style. Note that this requires the terminal to support UTF-8.
invader-edit: Changed --list to use -l (lowercase L) instead of -L which is used by --list-values
invader-edit: Angles are now automatically converted to and from degrees.

Fixed

invader: Fixed alphabetical order for shader_transparent_chicago(_extended) tags
invader-build: Fixed not defaulting pathfinding spheres for vehicles
invader-build: Fixed -w not erroring if the index file couldn't be opened
invader-edit-qt: Fixed tag subwindows (e.g. Preview bitmap") not being brought to front if they were already open
invader-resource: Fixed defaulting to bitmaps and made specifying the type actually required.

Removed

invader: Removed the spheroid definitions as well as support for extracting and building maps with spheroid tags.

Removed

invader-resource: Removed --padding. Use --concatenate instead.

0.42.2 - 2021-02-10

Fixed

invader-edit: Fixed --list not working with arrays

0.42.1 - 2021-02-10

Added

invader-edit: Added --save-as (-O) which uses a tag path, where --output (-o) now uses a file path

Fixed

invader: Readded --fs-path. Oops.

0.42.0 - 2021-02-10

Added

New tool: invader-edit - Command-line tool for editing tags (primarily made for scripting)
invader-compare: Added shorthand for the conversion types. g2m can be used in place of gbxmodel-to-model, m2g in place of model-to-gbxmodel, and x2c in place of chicago-extended-to-chicago

Changed

invader-bitmap: Optimized sprite placement if no budgeting is used
invader-bitmap: Sprite sheets with multiple sprites in it now add margins to the sprites. We recognize that this is completely and utterly stupid due to how unreliable it is, but not having it breaks stock tags.
invader-build: Bitmaps are now checked if they are supported by the target engine
invader-collection: Changed input format from .tag_indices to .txt
invader-edit-qt: Sprite count is now shown when viewing sprite sequences
invader-edit-qt: Sprite size is now shown when viewing sprites
invader-extract: Now uses the map type in the scenario tag for determining if a map is singleplayer, multiplayer, etc.

Fixed

invader: Fixed an exception error on some Windows shells
invader: Fixed an issue with -P not working with multiple tags directories for tools with this option
invader: Fixed compressed demo maps not working
invader-bitmap: Fixed size being inaccurate in output
invader-bitmap: Fixed sprites with double multiply usage having black borders
invader-bitmap: Fixed regeneration error implying a bitmap tag exists if one does not
invader-build: Fixed file size not being saved in the header
invader-edit-qt: Fixed "Copy virtual path" not appearing for directories
invader-info: Extended dirty check to check file size and type mismatching

0.41.4 - 2021-01-24

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed single sprites sometimes resulting in too large of page sizes
invader-bitmap: Fixed bitmap tags with multiple bitmaps breaking
invader-sound: Fixed popping in split Xbox ADPCM sounds

0.41.3 - 2021-01-24

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed sprite generation failing if no mipmap count is set
invader-bitmap: Fixed sprite generation resulting in large sprites

0.41.2 - 2021-01-24

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed an issue where some sprites would have a black border
invader-bitmap: Fixed compressed flag not being set for DXT5 bitmaps
invader-bitmap: Fixed encoding A8 - bitmap should be all black, not all white
invader-build: Fixed defaulting map u/v scaling for shader_transparent_generic and shader_transparent_chicago maps
invader-edit-qt: Fixed tag_collection tags not being editable if fast listing mode is on
invader-edit-qt: Disabled Insert New if there are no items in an array (fixes a crash)
invader-edit-qt: Fixed A8 bitmaps being displayed as an alpha blend of white instead of black

0.41.1 - 2021-01-20

Fixed

invader-convert: Fixed missing parameters in -h

0.41.0 - 2021-01-16

Added

New tool: invader-convert - Converts between various tag types (gbxmodel to model, model to gbxmodel, shader_transparent_chicago_extended to shader_transparent_chicago)
invader-archive: Added -e and -E which check if a tag exists in a a specified directory (multiple directories can be specified). Using -E instead of -e does a functional comparison, too.
invader-archive: Added -O to overwrite existing tags if --copy is used
invader-build: Added -g mcc-retail which targets retail MCC (intended for CEA).
invader-build: Added -g xbox-tw and -g xbox-jp which targets the Taiwanese and Japanese versions, respectively. These have a slightly higher tag space than the original English version and use a different build string by default. They also use fewer hardcoded strings.
invader-edit-qt: Added -L which lets you specify recursive or fast list modes. Recursive listing is the old behavior which recursively scans all tags directories for tags, while fast listing results in the tag tree only listing tags when a directory is opened. The default setting is recursive unless you are on win32, which then it is fast. Also, filtering is only enabled while recursive listing is enabled.
invader-edit-qt: Added alpha support to DXT1 decoding

Changed

invader: Switched DXT compression/decompression to libsquish. DXTn quality should be a bit better now!
invader-build: -E now bumps the maximum file size of Xbox maps to 4 GiB. Take care that if your version of the game does not support your map's file size, it will crash if you try to load it.
invader-build: Invalid text indices for item pickups and unit names/seats are now checked and reported as an error if invalid.
invader-build: Using -g mcc-retail or -g mcc-custom targets 31 MiB of tag space
invader-edit-qt: Optimized filtering a bit

Fixed

invader-archived: Fixed a segmentation fault when passing either -g retail or -g demo

0.40.1 - 2020-12-31

Added

invader-build: Added support for uses demo ui

Changed

invader-bitmap: Uses a new compression library for DXT compression, which adds color key transparency for DXT1 bitmaps
invader-extract: Now generates mipmaps for dropped mipmaps from Xbox-extracted DXTn bitmap tags

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed sub-4x4 mipmaps not being generated
invader-build: Fixed sawtooth count (affects the strobing effect of the doors in the levels "Truth and Reconciliation" and "Keyes")

Removed

invader-bitmap: Removed dithering for DXTn bitmaps (the compression library doesn't support it sadly!)

0.40.0 - 2020-12-31

Added

invader-archive: Added -g to specify game target (now required if not archiving single tags)
invader-build: Added -g xbox engine target
invader-build: Added -E to use the maximum theoretical size for the given cache file (4 GiB for PC, 278 MiB for Xbox due to cache partition sizes). Doing so may result in the cache file requiring a mod to be loaded.
invader-build: Added -b to set the build version (used for Xbox maps).
invader-bludgeon: Added -j for specifying thread count when using --all. On an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 with a tags directory of over 10000 tags, this reduced the bludgeon time from 29 seconds to 4 seconds, making it over 7x faster.
invader-bludgeon: Added -T invalid-uppercase-references which detects and lowercases all references that contain uppercase characters
invader-bludgeon: Added -T excessive-script-nodes which detects and removes script node tables that exceed 19001 (tags that do this potentially crash stock Halo PC)
invader-extract: Added support for 3D and cube map Xbox bitmap tag extraction
invader-index: Added feedback for if the command was successful
invader-resource: Added feedback for if the command was successful

Changed

invader: Fixed segfault when querying dependencies for various tools
invader-archive: Error checking is now (mostly) disabled when archiving a map
invader-bitmap: Dithering can now be used on regular bitmap tags, and so can sprite budgets above 512x512, but you will be warned that they will not save.
invader-build: Font tags with alternative styles references will no longer be indexed
invader-build: CRC32s must now start with 0x
invader-build: All errors with tag data are reported as fatal errors now
invader-build: All stock HEK limits are checked when building for all PC versions of Halo
invader-build: All original file size limits are now checked when building for all PC versions of Halo (except MCC). Use -E to use the old behavior's higher limits.
invader-compress: Changed compression level minimum to 0. On Deflate, this effectively stores the original data uncompressed and simply adds a zlib header, so it will always be larger than the original size, but it's nearly instant.
invader-info: CRC32s are now output starting with 0x
invader-sound: Now uses CPU thread count by default instead of 1

Fixed

invader: Removed the upper bound from heat loss per second in weapon triggers; this will allow weapons that take less than a second to cool down to build
invader: Fixed error reporting not checking the result on ioctl on Linux-based operating systems (this resulted in the line length being undefined if it failed)
invader: Dropped support for uncompressed Xbox maps
invader-bitmap: Fixed the sharpening filter being twice as powerful
invader-bitmap: Fixed blurring being slightly more powerful than it should be
invader-archive: Fixed errors regarding maps not being able to be read when not using single tag archival
invader-build: Fixed -n not working as expected
invader-build: Fixed word wrapping using the wrong length
invader-build: Fixed manually specified BSPs for command lists and encounters being warned as BSP #65535 if they are completely outside of the BSP
invader-build: Fixed warning on command lists that have zero points being outside of the BSP
invader-edit-qt: Fixed subwindows always being above of the main window
invader-info: Fixed -h not listing every option correctly

Removed

invader-bitmap: Removed -x
invader-sound: Removed -x

0.39.0 - 2020-12-07

Added

invader-build: Added -g mcc-custom which builds a Custom Edition map but compressed and indexed for MCC while generating a .fmeta file alongside it
invader-refactor: Added --unsafe (-U) which can be used to do a no-move refactor where the destination tags do not exist. This does not affect class refactoring.

Changed

invader-build: Script node count is now limited to 19001
invader-compare: Reverted the fix from 0.38.1 because it actually broke things
invader-edit-qt: Surface indices are now marked as cache_only (hidden) for move positions since these are calculated at build time
invader-refactor: The destination tags must exist (unless you use --unsafe) when doing a no-move refactor.

Fixed

invader: Fixed treating Latin-1 characters as protected
invader-build: Fixed allowing null scenario palettes (this actually crashes Halo!)
invader-build: Fixed an ellipsis when too many squad positions are shown that aren't in the BSP
invader-build: Fixed an issue where the wrong death animation would play
invader-build: Fixed move positions' cluster and surface indices not being calculated for squads
invader-build: Fixed some hidden values not being calculated for machines
invader-build: Fixed the pelvis node index not being calculated for bipeds; this only affected biped tags which bip01 pelvis was not the first node, so stock bipeds were largely unaffected
invader-build: Fixed a hidden value not being calculated for actor tags
invader-build: Fixed a hidden value not being calculated for detail_object_collection tags
invader-edit-qt: Leading width is now automatically calculated when previewing font tags
invader-sound: Fixed "Processing sounds" hang on some systems

Removed

invader-build: Removed -d as it isn't necessary, and it produces invalid files anyway

0.38.1 - 2020-10-27

Changed

invader-build: Now deswizzles Xbox bitmaps on build
invader-build: The "leading width" value in font tags can no longer be set manually; it is set to (ascending height + descending_height) / 5 to be in line with what tool.exe does
invader-build: More defaults are now set
invader-build: Now detects if falloff distance is greater than or equal to cutoff distance and both are non-zero (if so, they get set to 0 and a warning is shown)
invader-edit-qt: The relative file path is now shown in the title bar rather than the virtual tag path
invader-sound: No longer sets values that are defaulted when building into a cache file

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed setting "zero gain modifier" to 1 on sound classes that default it to 0
invader-compare: Functional comparisons now match empty tag references

Removed

invader: Removed "use xbox multipurpose channel order" from definitions
invader-edit-qt: Removed editing "leading width" for font tags since this value gets overwritten anyway
invader-extract: Removed deswizzling Xbox bitmaps on extraction

0.38.0 - 2020-10-19

Added

invader-archive: Added -C which copies the tags to a directory instead of creating an archive.
invader-bitmap: Added -R which uses the compressed color plate data of the tag in place of an image file (this will not work with extracted tags)
invader-sound: Added --threads or -j which can be used to parallelize encoding and resampling of sounds with a set number of threads. This can drastically speed up sound tag generation when creating a sound tag with multiple or split permutations.

Changed

invader-bitmap: Height maps have been capped to 0.5 height
invader-bitmap: Generating a height map with 0 or less height no longer generates a height map, and an error will be printed to the console
invader-bitmap: If a color plate has no bitmaps in it, then it is now an error
invader-build: Having model, gbxmodel, or scenario_structure_bsp shaders be set to null now fails to build, as this crashes the game
invader-edit-qt: Mousing over a tag now displays the file size and path of the tag

Fixed

invader-archive: Fixed .model references being converted to .gbxmodel when checking for dependencies
invader-bitmap: Fixed spacing color only working if sequence separator is present
invader-bitmap: Fixed generating too few mipmaps for non-1:1 bitmaps. This was unlikely to cause issues, since the mipmaps missing were all one-dimensional
invader-bitmap: Fixed not setting "disable height map compression" by default
invader-bitmap: Fixed -P not working with -R
invader-bitmap: Fixed an issue with loading some bitmaps
invader-build: Fixed some scenery spawns warning about fullbright when it is not an issue
invader-build: Fixed checking for local nodes when a part did not, in fact, have them
invader-build: Fixed warnings regarding weapon triggers showing the wrong trigger indices
invader-dependency: Fixed .model references being converted to .gbxmodel when checking for dependencies

0.37.1 - 2020-09-15

Added

invader-bitmap: Added light-map as a usage
invader-compare: Added -G which allows you to ignore resource maps for the current input
invader-extract: Added -G which allows you to ignore resource maps

Changed

invader-bitmap: Lightmap bitmaps no longer generate mipmaps, as expected
invader-info: Now reports if a map's tag indices are outside of stock Custom Edition's
invader-info: Changed the outputs of some of the options given

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed mipmaps not generating

0.37.0 - 2020-09-10

Added

invader-bludgeon: Added -T invalid-strings
invader-compare: Added --by-path or -B which sets how paths are compared This can be useful for finding duplicate tags regardless of paths. You can use -B any to match any tags regardless of tag path (useful if inputs are different) or -B different to only match against tags with differing paths (useful if both inputs are the same)
invader-edit-qt: Added a Goto menu to go to top level structs quickly
invader-edit-qt: Added a color picker
invader-edit-qt: Added an option to copy a virtual path without an extension
invader-edit-qt: Added an option to copy a virtual path for a directory
invader-refactor: Added -M copy which copies files without changing any references to the tags being copied except any references within the tags being copied

Changed

invader-bludgeon: Adjusted the threshold for nonnormal-vectors to trip. This will result in more problematic vectors being shown, but it may result in some vectors that are "normal enough" for tool.exe but not actually normal to show up, too.
invader-build: Invalid vectors are now checked against and are considered errors if they are not normalized
invader-build: String list strings that are empty or not null terminated are now errored (also applies to unicode string lists). This typically happens in tags that have been modified rather than generated.
invader-build: Unicode string list strings that have an odd number of bytes are now errored
invader-build: String lists that contain non-CRLF line endings (i.e. single \n or \r line endings) now result in an error. This typically only occurs in string lists that have been modified rather than generated.
invader-edit-qt: Typing in a valid path with an extension into a dependency field will now change the class; this also applies to pasting in paths
invader-edit-qt: A number of unused or invalid flags and enumerators have been hidden
invader-edit-qt: Alphas for colors are no longer previewed by default for anything
invader-refactor: Moved --move and --no-move to -M which is now --mode
invader-string: If the ###END-STRING### line is missing, Invader will error.
invader-string: The format is now automatically determined by checking if the tag exists.

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed not taking rotation into consideration when checking if an object is in the BSP or not
invader-edit-qt: Fixed an issue with editing ColorARGBInt values
invader-edit-qt: Fixed an issue with names missing in arrays
invader-info: Fixed opening protected maps resulting in an exception error

Removed

invader-edit-qt: Removed "mcc actor type"

0.36.1 - 2020-07-22

Changed

invader: Renamed extended_bitmap to invader_bitmap and extended_sound to invader_sound. The bitmap tags can simply be renamed. The sound tags can be renamed if they were made in 0.36.0 or newer; otherwise they have to be remade (as usual).

Fixed

invader: Fixed superclasses (e.g. object) being directly supported as references, since these tags do not actually exist as real tags
invader-edit-qt: Fixed an issue where clicking "Cancel" when prompted whether you want to save in the tag root would still result in saving

0.36.0 - 2020-07-22

Added

invader-build: Added warnings for if you use multiple variants for a slot in a conversation
invader-edit-qt: Added filtering in the Find dialog
invader-edit-qt: Made the filter in the Find dialog and the path in the Save dialog have focus
invader-edit-qt: Added selecting individual pitch ranges
invader-sound: Added -b for constant bitrate for Ogg Vorbis (extended_sound tags will have to be remade - sorry!)

Changed

invader: Decompressing vertices now clears the "zoner" and "uses local nodes" flags since compressed vertices do not use these
invader-bitmap: Improved the accuracy of checking bitmap tags against the tags in the bitmaps.map file when compiling Halo Custom Edition maps. Sprites, sequences, resolution, data format, type, and mipmap count are all checked.
invader-sound: Improved the accuracy of checking sound tags against the sound tags in the sounds.map file when compiling Halo Custom Edition maps. Sample rate, channel count, format, pitch range pitches, pitch range actual permutation count, permutation indices, permutation gains, and skip fractions are now all checked.

Fixed

invader: Fixed decompressing vertices not calculating weight correctly
invader: Fixed compressing vertices using local node indices instead of actual indices (this affects Xbox map compilation support, mainly, which isn't yet implemented)
invader-build: Fixed an issue where participants were set as valid when they shouldn't have (fixes unused dialogue being played in maps like b30 and a50)
invader-edit-qt: Fixed a crash issue with Point2DInt
invader-extract: Fixed sounds from sounds.map being extracted with the wrong sample rate

0.35.1 - 2020-07-18

Added

invader: Re-added checking and erroring on invalid command list indices
invader-refactor: Added class refactoring
invader-resource: Added -M which allows you to specify cache files to create resources

Changed

invader: Added support for the missing tags: continuous_damage_effect, multiplayer_scenario_description, preferences_network_game, and spheroid
invader-build: Implemented "blend shared normals"
invader-edit-qt: Monochrome bitmaps now show "Alpha-Luminance", "Luminance only" and "Alpha only" instead of individual color channels, since those would be meaningless

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed an issue with the intensity of pixels being off-by-1 for truly monochromatic inputs
invader-build: Fixed the maximum distance value not being set correctly for sound_looping tags that have detail sounds
invader-build: Fixed -u and -c being ignored if specified before -g
invader-compare: Fixed -f requiring a tag input
invader-compare: Fixed mismatched tags showing up twice
invader-edit-qt: Fixed "damage upper bound" showing as two separate fields
invader-edit-qt: Fixed 2D and 3D Euler angles not showing up as degrees
invader-refactor: Fixed -M not working

0.35.0 - 2020-07-14

Added

invader-bludgeon: Added -T nonnormal-vectors which can detect and fix potential vectors that tool.exe does not like when building lightmaps
invader-build: Added word wrapping for most error messages when on Linux or Windows
invader-build: Added some minor warnings for weapons
invader-compare: Added -f which will check if tags are functionally identical by compiling the tag beforehand (this will be slower)
invader-edit-qt: Added an error message for if a subdirectory could not be queried
invader-edit-qt: Added a filter option in the View menu to filter out tags that don't match a given expression
invader-edit-qt: Added support for model tags (as opposed to gbxmodel)
invader-edit-qt: Added support for hexadecimal input (integers only)
invader-edit-qt: Added comments for some fields in weapons.
invader-edit-qt: Added an icon courtesy of ST34MF0X
invader-extract: Xbox model tags now extract
invader-extract: Added word wrapping for most error messages when on Linux or Windows
invader-font: Added -l to limit to the first 256 characters
invader-resource: Added -p to specify a number of extra bytes to add after the header when generating resource maps
invader-resource: Added -w to specify resource indices rather than the default Custom Edition resource indices

Changed

invader: Help menus will adapt to the user's terminal width if the user is on either Linux or Windows and their terminal width is at least 80 characters
invader: "dark" and "Dark Circlet" have been renamed to "native" and "Invader (native)", respectively
invader: Invalid indices in command lists are no longer considered an error, as "fixing" them can result in unintended consequences on some campaign maps
invader: Maps will no longer load if they contain invalid paths
invader-build: Now warns if scenery and light fixtures were found outside of the BSP, as they won't spawn if they were
invader-build: Maps that error due to multiple objects sharing the same name now list the objects with the name to help you track them down
invader-build: Non-power-of-two bitmaps now result in a pedantic warning instead of an error
invader-build: Now looks for custom_bitmaps.map, custom_sounds.map, and custom_loc.map and uses those if present when building Custom Edition maps
invader-build: The final CRC32 now factors in bitmap/sound data (unless you decide to forge the CRC32)
invader-build: The commit hash is no longer included in cache files due to low space
invader-build: If building a Halo Custom Edition map and tags are detected to not match a tag found in a resource map with the same path, then a minor warning will be emitted (does not apply if using -a or -n)
invader-build: Now warns if shader_transparent_generic tags are used upon building for the Gearbox port
invader-build: Elements in weapon HUD interfaces now set the zoom bit even if no crosshair in the tag is a zoom crosshair and it uses one of the three zoom flags (the respective warning is removed)
invader-compare: Using -s matched or -s mismatched no longer prints the Matched: or Mismatched: prefixes, nor does it show the count matched or mismatched. This should make it useful for piping to a program or text file.
invader-compress: Now shows the compression format used
invader-edit-qt: Indices now default to 65535 on initialization
invader-edit-qt: Null indices now have placeholder text, and null indices can be empty
invader-edit-qt: Changed the name of some fields in triggers for consistency
invader-extract: Now looks for custom_bitmaps.map, custom_sounds.map, and custom_loc.map and uses those if present when extracting Custom Edition maps
invader-extract: No longer attempts to open resource map files when attempting to extract a map that doesn't support them
invader-refactor: -T is now required for refactoring individual tags, but you can use it multiple times in a single invocation
invader-refactor: -D must now be specified with -N or -M
invader-resource: Replace -R with -g which is now required
invader-resource: Custom Edition maps are now prefixed with "custom_" by default for the purpose of extracting both Custom Edition and retail Halo PC maps w/in the same maps directory; use -n to disable this behavior
invader-resource: Building loc files with an index no longer requires an explicit extension in the index, and if one isn't present, then it will search for the tag to find the extension
invader-string: Empty string list tags can no longer be created

Fixed

invader: Added an enum in the actor_variant tags for MCC's scoring
invader: Fixed the ColorARGBInt definition (you do not need to re-extract tags or rebuild maps for this - it effectively only impacted invader-edit-qt)
invader: Fixed a couple issues with compressed vertex generation, including an issue with null part indices as well as an issue with part indices exceeding 42 (so if it exceeds 42, Invader will not attempt to generate compressed vertices)
invader: Fixed Xbox compression not aligning to a 4096-byte boundary. This would result in Halo refusing to load the map.
invader-bitmap: Fixed an issue with DXT3 making some fully opaque bitmaps semi-transparent
invader-bludgeon: Fixed an issue where it would warn about model nodes missing compressed vertices if a part node exceeds 42 (it is impossible to compress vertices with more than 42 parts)
invader-bludgeon: Fixed printing "no issues detected" after printing issues that were detected
invader-build: Fixed an issue where filthy parts were not saved, resulting in the FP needler core not glowing (you will need to re-extract any GBXModel tags that were affected by this issue)
invader-build: Fixed some issues with scenery not spawning on MCC
invader-build: Fixed uncompressed size having the wrong percentage
invader-build: Fixed an issue with rain not appearing in some maps
invader-build: Fixed an issue with detail objects not appearing in some maps
invader-build: Uncompressed bitmaps marked as compressed now error
invader-build: Fixed bend bounds defaulting to 0-1 rather than being based on natural pitch (you will get a pedantic warning if it does this and your bend bounds are not 0)
invader-build: Fixed decal radius upper bound not being defaulted correctly
invader-build: Fixed damage effect maximum intensity and camera shaking wobble period not defaulting to 1
invader-build: If a tag class is unimplemented, a more descriptive error is shown
invader-build: Fixed a crash with some maps that have fog planes such as d40
invader-edit-qt: Fixed crashing if a tag directory contained files that could not be accessed in the filesystem
invader-edit-qt: Fixed 8-bit color being displayed in the wrong order
invader-edit-qt: Fixed 2D rectangle edits crashing
invader-edit-qt: Fixed a segmentation fault when failing to open a tag
invader-edit-qt: Fixed "Cancel" discarding when closing a modified file
invader-edit-qt: Fixed "acceleration time" and "deceleration time" having missing units
invader-extract: Fixed an issue with some sound tags not extracting correctly when extracting from specifically modified Custom Edition maps
invader-index: Fixed not including .bitmap or .sound in bitmaps.map or sounds.map, respectively
invader-resource: Fixed building Custom Edition sounds.map files having partially cut off sounds in sounds with multiple permutations
invader-sound: Fixed an issue with generating split sound tags not setting the actual permutation count correctly as a result of a past optimization

Removed

invader: Removed MCC support
invader-bludgeon: Removed -T invalid-power-of-two
invader-build: Removed automatically converting model references to gbxmodel (required to support Xbox maps and assets which don't use gbxmodel)

0.34.1 - 2020-04-12

Changed

invader-extract: Readded extraction via ipaks for MCC maps

Fixed

invader-extract: Fixed an issue with decompression errors if loading an MCC map with a bitmaps.map file present

0.34.0 - 2020-04-12

Added

invader-build: Added -d which discards all raw data. This will make the map unusable in clients (except MCC), but it can be used for saving space.

Changed

invader: Optimized font rendering to utilize character tables
invader: Improved accuracy for how MCC maps are loaded
invader-build: Building MCC maps now includes all resources in the map again. Use -d to change this behavior to what it was before. This was done for consistency reasons.

Fixed

invader-build: Changed how BSP vertices are stored for MCC maps, fixing how some maps with multiple BSPs are loaded

0.33.4 - 2020-04-11

Added

invader-edit-qt: Added string previewing

Changed

invader: Extraneous begin blocks are now removed on script decompilation

Fixed

invader-build: Object names referenced only by "set new name" are no longer warned for being unused

0.33.3 - 2020-04-07

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed --usage being missing
invader-edit-qt: Fixed hidden, cache-only options being visible in flags

0.33.2 - 2020-04-07

Changed

invader: Unknown flags are now stripped on load
invader-edit-qt: Changed the default text for font previewing

Fixed

invader-edit-qt: Fixed characters not appearing if they're cut off
invader-edit-qt: Fixed font preview not being updated if font tag is modified

0.33.1 - 2020-04-06

Added

invader-edit-qt: Added font previewing

Fixed

invader-compare: Fixed crashing on maps with stubbed or invalid tags

0.33.0 - 2020-04-05

Added

New tool: invader-compare: Compares tags between maps and/or tags directories

Changed

invader-build: More hidden values are now set

Fixed

invader: Fixed color codes being used on Linux if stdout/stderr is not a TTY
invader-build: Fixed a segmentation fault when using certain corrupt bitmaps.map and sounds.map files when building a Custom Edition map without -a
invader-build: Fixed -a rejecting all bitmaps instead of matching them all
invader-resource: Fixed generated Custom Edition bitmaps.map being corrupted
invader-resource: Fixed generating Custom Edition sounds.map segfaulting

Removed

invader-resource: Removed campaign assets from the internal list of tags to put in resource maps

0.32.5 - 2020-04-01

Added

invader-bludgeon: Added -T invalid-indices which nulls various invalid indices. Note that this may result in various Bungie assets working slightly differently, as these have several errors that tool does not check.

Changed

invader-build: Now errors on more invalid indices

0.32.4 - 2020-03-31

Changed

invader: Dependencies with zero-length paths now get defaulted to the default tag class if one is present

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed pathfinding sphere offsets not being set correctly

0.32.3 - 2020-03-30

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed pathfinding spheres not being generated on build for some tags

0.32.2 - 2020-03-28

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed an issue with lightning tags not rendering

0.32.1 - 2020-03-27

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed a segfault issue with 3D firing positions

0.32.0 - 2020-03-27

Added

invader-bludgeon: Added -T missing-script-source which decompiles scripts in scenario tags.
invader-build: Added child scenario merging
invader-edit-qt: Left-clicking an array name replaces the combo box with a spin box so you can type an index in directly

Changed

invader-build: Now checks extension separately from scenario name
invader-build: Maps with script data can no longer be built without source data. This is due to the fact that such scenario tags are going to be broken.
invader-build: Firing positions, squads, and command list points that fall out of BSPs are now listed
invader-compress: --level now applies to MCC/Xbox
invader-extract: Now always decompiles scripts
invader-edit-qt: Invalid values are displayed as red, and missing dependencies are displayed as orange
invader-index: Renamed invader-indexer to invader-index to be more in line with the naming scheme of Invader tools

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed the check for child scenarios; these still don't work
invader-build: Fixed some command lists not working correctly due to the point surface indices not being calculated. This may not fix all of them, so stay tuned for more changes.
invader-build: Greatly improved the accuracy of firing positions so everything (or nearly everything) firing position related works
invader-build: Fixed some AI conversations not playing
invader-edit-qt: Fixed tag count not being updated on the main window if the tags directory is empty
invader-edit-qt: Fixed an unnecessary warning appearing on Windows when saving newly-created tags
invader-edit-qt: Fixed a crash that occurred on creating a tag and directories for the tag failing to be created

0.31.0 - 2020-03-24

Added

invader-bludgeon: Added -T incorrect-sound-buffer which fixes incorrect sound buffer sizes set in the tag (can fix instances of sounds being the incorrect length when played in-game)
invader-bludgeon: Added -T missing-vertices which fixes (un)compressed vertices being missing; not having these present in BSP tags can result in errors when performing lightmap generation
invader-bludgeon: Added -T invalid-reference-classes which nulls references with invalid references; more functionality is planned for this later
invader-bludgeon: Added -T invalid-power-of-two which marks non-power-of-two bitmaps as power-of-two and vice versa
invader-bludgeon: Added -T out-of-range which clamps values that are outside of their respective ranges
invader-build: Added a warning for using -o and outputting a map that does not match the scenario tag (unless building for MCC)

Changed

invader: Changed the internal Dark Circlet map format to use 64-bit offsets
invader: Removed checking for invalid values when compiling a tag outside of invader-build (i.e. recursion in invader-dependency, invader-extract, etc.)
invader-bitmap: extended_bitmap tags now store compressed color plate data in Zstandard
invader-bludgeon: Now counts bludgeoned tags as tags that were changed
invader-bludgeon: No longer shows unaffected tags if using -a
invader-edit-qt: Changed default dimensions of tag windows to scale better with larger tags
invader-edit-qt: Minimums/maximum values are now enforced
invader-edit-qt: Added overflow protection for values
invader-sound: Reduced memory consumption

Fixed

invader: Fixed a parsing error with child scenarios
invader-bitmap: Fixed non-power-of-two bitmaps being marked as power-of-two
invader-build: Fixed an error message for sound permutations
invader-build: Fixed a deprecation warning with missing source data even when source data was present
invader-build: Fixed BSP sizes not being checked against tag space when building retail/custom/demo maps
invader-build: Fixed some potential segmentation faults when building maps with -g dark
invader-edit-qt: Fixed short sounds not playing in sound previewing
invader-sound: Fixed non-extended sounds being named extended_sound

0.30.1 - 2020-03-15

Fixed

invader-edit-qt: Fixed bitmaps with non-equal height & width being cut off
invader-edit-qt: Fixed "Original" scaling actually being 2x

0.30.0 - 2020-03-15

Added

New tool: invader-bludgeon - Tool that convinces tags to work with Invader
New class: extended_bitmap - Contains all extra features in invader-bitmap that are not present in stock tool.exe (use -x to enable)
New class: extended_sound - Contains all extra features in invader-sound that are not present in stock tool.exe (use -x to enable)
invader-edit-qt: Added two new buttons to arrays: "Insert" and "Delete All". "Insert" now does what "Add" did, and "Delete All" now does what "Clear" did.
invader-edit-qt: Added --no-safeguards to allow editing of any field (don't use this feature)
invader-edit-qt: Added opening tags if a path is given when opening the program
invader-edit-qt: Added the ability to toggle fullscreen for tag editing
invader-edit-qt: Added bitmap previewing, complete with sprite highlighting, color channel viewing, nearest-neighbor upscaling, and linear downscaling
invader-edit-qt: Added sound previewing
invader-edit-qt: Added naming to some arrays
invader-extract: Added MCC CEA bitmap tag extraction

Changed

invader-bitmap: Added support for 16K sprite plates
invader-bitmap: Added support for 1K and 2K budgets for sprites
invader-bitmap: Moved >512x512 sprite budgets, dithering, and nearest-neighbor to extended_bitmap
invader-edit-qt: Improved styling and UX
invader-edit-qt: Bitfields can no longer be highlighted
invader-edit-qt: Limits for certain tags are enforced
invader-edit-qt: Some elements have been marked as read-only. This isn't as restrictive as Guerilla, but there are some elements that, if edited, will likely lead to the tag not working in invader-build or Halo. Use --no-safeguards to override.
invader-edit-qt: The "Clear" button now clears all fields rather than deleting all elements from the array
invader-edit-qt: The "Add" button now appends elements to the bottom of the array similar to what Guerilla does
invader-edit-qt: Opening a file now displays in the status bar
invader-sound: Specifying the format is now required whenever sound data is being put into a map
invader-sound: Moved forcing sample rate and channel count to extended_sound, as well as using FLAC tags or creating sound tags without specifying a format

Fixed

invader: Fixed some issues with outputting text on various installations of Windows
invader-build: MCC maps no longer include bitmap or sound data inside of the cache file since it isn't even used. This should make maps smaller.
invader-edit-qt: Fixed a performance issue on Windows
invader-edit-qt: Fixed out-of-bounds enums crashing. For tags that have invalid enums, you should use invader-bludgeon to resolve them.
invader-edit-qt: Fixed closing modified tags crashing if "Save" was clicked
invader-edit-qt: Fixed memory not being freed when closing a tag until another tag was opened
invader-edit-qt: Fixed an issue where files >2 GiB would not open on Windows; this was due to filesystem::file_size() being bugged in the fs implementation

Removed

invader-bitmap: Removed dithering red, green, and blue channels individually. Instead, you use "a", "rgb", or "argb" for colors.

0.29.0 - 2020-03-04

Added

invader-edit-qt: GUI tool for editing tags
invader-extract: Added partial support for Xbox maps
invader-info: Added partial support for Xbox maps

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed TIFFs without alpha being read as black
invader-build: Fixed incorrect CEA tag space limit being enforced

0.28.1 - 2020-02-25

Changed

invader-build: Halo CEA tag space limits are now enforced (31 MiB tag space, not including BSPs)

Fixed

invader-build: Actually changed anniversary to mcc
invader-build: Fixed sound_scenery references not working in effect tags
invader-build: Fixed some bounds checking issues when compiling invalid collision models or BSP collision
invader-build: Fixed scenery and light fixtures not spawning on MCC maps
invader-extract: Fixed an issue where certain model_animation tags did not extract

0.28.0 - 2020-02-24

Added

New tool: invader-collection - Generates tag collection tags

0.27.1 - 2020-02-24

Added

invader-build: Added --uncompressed for engine targets that default to compressed (i.e. mcc) to be built as uncompressed.

Changed

invader-build: Changed anniversary to mcc for brevity

0.27.0 - 2020-02-24

Added

invader-info: Added -T uncompressed-size
invader-build: Added anniversary as an engine target. If building MCC CEA maps, you will need to modify the .fmeta tag, too

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed maps with stubbed tags being detected as protected in invader-info; note, however, that maps will need to be rebuilt

0.26.1 - 2020-02-21

Added

invader-extract: Can now extract BSP tags from CEA maps.

0.26.0 - 2020-02-21

Added

invader-compress: Can now decompress/compress CEA maps. If decompressed by a tool besides invader-compress, then the engine version in the header will need to be changed from 0x7 (7) to 0x233 (563) to correctly recompress. The value will be set back to the correct value upon compression.
invader-extract: Can now extract tags from CEA maps. If the map is uncompressed from a tool besides invader-compress, then the engine version in the header will need to be changed from 0x7 (7) to 0x233 (563) to correctly load. BSP tags, sounds, and bitmaps do not currently extract.
invader-indexer: Can now index tags from CEA maps. If the map is uncompressed from a tool besides invader-compress, then the engine version in the header will need to be changed from 0x7 (7) to 0x233 (563) to correctly load.
invader-info: Can now query CEA maps. If the map is uncompressed from a tool besides invader-compress, then the engine version in the header will need to be changed from 0x7 (7) to 0x233 (563) to correctly load.

0.25.2 - 2020-02-12

Added

invader-refactor: Added -D which performs the operation without making any actual changes
invader-refactor: Added -s which only writes to a single tag

Changed

invader-build: Now errors if any tag has an animation graph but no model
invader-refactor: Some exceptions are now handled by gracefully closing rather than calling abort() and crashing.

Fixed

invader-archive: Fixed an issue with single tag archival when archiving bitmaps or sounds
invader-extract: Fixed an issue where some hidden values were being stripped unnecessarily
invader-strip: Fixed an issue where some hidden values were being stripped unnecessarily

0.25.1 - 2020-02-12

Changed

invader-build: Now warns if a biped or vehicle is missing an animation graph, and, if not, errors if the tag is missing a model

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed a typo in an error message for weapon_hud_interface tags
invader-build: Fixed showing the wrong indices in weapon_hud_interface errors
invader-build: Fixed non-power-of-two check giving incorrect results when compiling bitmaps
invader-build: Fixed a missing "bip01 head" resulting in a warning

0.25.0 - 2020-02-11

Added

New tool: invader-refactor - Find and replace tag references.
invader-strip: Added -p which runs the tag through Invader's preprocessor (used in invader-build). This is to make tags easier to compare.

Changed

invader: gbxmodel tags that have markers located in the main model struct are now considered invalid
invader: Tags with multiple consecutive path separators are now fixed when run through the tag or map parser

0.24.2 - 2020-02-01

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed ejection port recovery rate being calculated as 1 for some tags

0.24.1 - 2020-01-31

Added

invader-build: Now shows tag space usage on map build and errors if exceeded

Changed

Node count is now capped to a maximum of 255
invader-build: Adds markers in the same order as tool.exe
invader-build: Node indices are now checked
invader-extract: Now recalculates detail node count on extraction
invader-extract: Extracts markers in the reverse order that tool.exe adds them
invader-extract: Removes the blend_shared_normals flag on extraction to prevent generational loss (since tool.exe may change the normals again!)
invader-strip: Default values are no longer automatically set

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed "zoner" gbxmodel tags not having the correct detail node counts
invader-extract: Fixed change color permutation weights being extracted incorrectly. You will need to re-extract your tags!!!
invader-build: Fixed change color permutation weights not being converted to cutoffs.

0.24.0 - 2020-01-22

Added

invader-strip: Added -a which strips the entire tags directory

Changed

invader-dependency: -r and -R no longer show tag errors
invader-extract: -r no longer shows tag errors

0.23.5 - 2020-01-22

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed a bug where negative-scale weapon HUD interface values were NOT defaulted to 1

0.23.4 - 2020-01-22

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed various maps with decals crashing

0.23.3 - 2020-01-21

Changed

invader-build: Detail node counts for gbxmodels are now calculated.
invader-sound: Permutations are now alphabetized. For split sounds, only the "actual" permutations are alphabetized.

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed some weapon HUD interface tags not compiling due to finding an error when there was none
invader-build: Fixed some various division-by-zero issues
invader-extract: Fixed some values being extracted when unnecessary
invader-strip: Fixed some values not being stripped

0.23.2 - 2020-01-21

Changed

invader-strip: Now defaults render bounding radius
invader-strip: Now strips out dependencies from meter tags since they're not used

Fixed

invader-extract: Fixed an issue where certain singleplayer tags' values were not restored to the original HEK values such as pistol.weapon's error angle
invader-extract: Fixed not clearing do_not_cull flag
invader-build: Fixed defaulting height/width scales for interface numbers in weapon HUD interfaces to 1
invader-strip: Fixed defaulting height/width scales for interface numbers in weapon HUD interfaces to 1

0.23.1 - 2020-01-20

Fixed

invader-strip: Fixed an issue with not compiling on Windows due to a difference in the standard library implementation.

0.23.0 - 2020-01-19

Added

New tool: invader-strip - Strips extra hidden data from tags.
invader-build: Added a CRC32 check on tag load. This will drastically increase build time, but it will still be much faster than tool.exe. You can turn this off by turning off pedantic warnings (-H) or reset the CRC32 with invader-strip.

0.22.4 - 2020-01-17

Added

invader-info: Added -T tags-external-bitmap-indices which lists all bitmap tags in a Custom Edition map that use an external index
invader-info: Added -T tags-external-indices which lists all tags in a Custom Edition map that use an external index
invader-info: Added -T tags-external-loc-indices which lists all tags in a Custom Edition map that aren't sounds or bitmaps but use an external index
invader-info: Added -T tags-external-sound-indices which lists all sound tags in a Custom Edition map that use an external index

Changed

invader-sound: Warns if indexed damage effect or object tags are stubbed out

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed decals not being put in the correct cluster on some maps
invader-build: Fixed camera shake wobble period not being converted to ticks
invader-build: Fixed resource bitmap tags with different bitmap data count matching when they shouldn't when building for Halo Custom Edition
invader-extract: Fixed camera shake wobble period not being converted from ticks
invader-resource: Fixed a segmentation fault when building resource maps

0.22.3 - 2020-01-15

Added

invader-build: Minor warnings are now considered "pedantic" and can be hidden with -H. You should probably still fix these warnings, as you may be getting an undesirable result.
invader-build: Added warnings for non-power-of-two bitmaps being incorrectly set as power-of-two and vice versa.
invader-build: Stock multiplayer maps for demo, retail, and Custom Edition are now automatically indexed to prevent crashing when joining with modified maps.
invader-build: Stock multiplayer maps for Custom Edition now have their CRC32 automatically forged to whatever the stock CRC32 is to allow users to join other servers with modified maps.
Added library-wide Ogg Vorbis and FLAC decoding and encoding

Changed

invader-sound: Disabled the creation of split dialogue. This does not work well with the game, anyway.
invader-sound: Older sound tag data is now copied over.
invader-build: Specifying the target engine is now required when building a map.
invader-build: If building a Custom Edition map with a stock scenario name, the following values are set:
- vehicles\rwarthog\rwarthog_gun autoaim angle: 6 degrees
- vehicles\rwarthog\rwarthog_gun deviation angle: 12 degrees
- vehicles\banshee\banshee bolt stun: 0
- vehicles\banshee\banshee bolt max stun: 0
- vehicles\banshee\banshee bolt stun time: 0
- vehicles\ghost\ghost bolt stun: 0
- vehicles\ghost\ghost bolt max stun: 0
- vehicles\ghost\ghost bolt stun time: 0
invader-build: If building a retail or dark map with a stock scenario name, the following values are set:
- vehicles\rwarthog\rwarthog_gun autoaim angle: 1 degree (6 if dark)
- vehicles\rwarthog\rwarthog_gun deviation angle: 1 degree (12 if dark)
- vehicles\banshee\banshee bolt stun: 1
- vehicles\banshee\banshee bolt max stun: 1
- vehicles\banshee\banshee bolt stun time: 0.15
- vehicles\ghost\ghost bolt stun: 1
- vehicles\ghost\ghost bolt max stun: 1
- vehicles\ghost\ghost bolt stun time: 0.15
invader-build: If a value is changed automatically due to the map being a singleplayer or stock map, a warning is now displayed.

Fixed

invader-build: Warning for non-power-of-two was fixed (it warned only if it was an interface bitmap, not only if it was NOT an interface bitmap)
invader-sound: Fixed std::terminate being called on an invalid WAV being used.
invader-sound: Fixed not loading .wav files with fmt subchunks that are larger than standard.

0.22.2 - 2020-01-10

Fixed

invader-extract: Fixed recursive extraction causing segmentation faults with some tags

0.22.1 - 2020-01-10

Added

Added color support for Windows

Changed

invader-build: Improved the accuracy of building
invader-bitmap: Now uses the new parser
invader-font: Now uses the new parser
invader-string: Now uses the new parser
invader-string: Changed "utf-16" to "unicode"
Compiling with -DINVADER_EXTRACT_HIDDEN_VALUES now disables some programs

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed an out-of-bounds issue resulting in undefined behavior

0.22.0 - 2020-01-08

Added

invader-build: Added -O which can reduce tag space usage
invader-build: Added numerous warning and error checks which can be used to spot and report problems with maps
invader-build: Added more helpful text output

Changed

invader-build: Improved the accuracy of encounter firing position location

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed various light tags not working correctly
invader-build: Fixed sound_looping gain not being defaulted to 1

0.21.4 - 2020-01-04

Changed

invader-extract: Tag IDs are now set to FFFFFFFF when extracted. This will make extracted tags more reproducible independent of the map being extracted.
invader-extract: The maps folder the map is in is used if no maps folder is supplied

Fixed

All programs: Fixed an easy-to-reproduce segmentation fault crash on Windows.

0.21.3 - 2019-12-26

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed converting radians to degrees with the lens_flare rotation scale
invader-extract: Fixed converting degrees to radians with the lens_flare rotation scale

0.21.2 - 2019-12-26

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed an issue with some old device_light_fixture tags being treated as device_control tags. This generally did not result in gameplay issues, but it may have resulted in a prompt to "activate" it when the player was close to the object.

0.21.1 - 2019-12-25

Added

invader-sound: Added --channel-count to allow you to specify the channel count. If you specify mono, this will mix down all stereo to mono for you.
invader-sound: Added support for 32-bit float PCM audio

0.21.0 - 2019-12-25

Added

New tool: invader-sound - Generates sound tags
Added colors for various diagnostic messages depending on the user's terminal
invader-info: Added -T external-tags which indicates the number of tags that use external resource maps, including indexed tags
invader-info: Added -T external-bitmaps which indicates the number of bitmap tags that use external resource maps, including indexed tags
invader-info: Added -T external-loc which indicates the number of loc tags that use external resource maps, including indexed tags
invader-info: Added -T external-sounds which indicates the number of sound tags that use external resource maps, including indexed tags
invader-info: Added -T external-bitmap-indices which indicates the number of externally indexed bitmap tags
invader-info: Added -T external-loc-indices which indicates the number of externally indexed loc tags
invader-info: Added -T external-sound-indices which indicates the number of externally indexed sound tags
invader-info: Added -T languages which lists all languages valid for the map separated with spaces
invader-info: Added -T external-pointers which indicates whether the map uses external pointers (sometimes occurs if built from tool.exe due to a bug with indexing raw data)
invader-info: Added -T tags-external-pointers which list tags that have external pointers that were not indexed

Changed

invader-info: Now outputs some details in color on some terminals

0.20.2 - 2019-11-27

Changed

Enabling hidden value extraction now produces unusable tag files to discourage users from using them in cache files
parser.cpp was split up into multiple files to improve compilation time when making using multiple jobs
invader-extract: BSP trigger volumes are now deleted on extraction since they are generated on map build
invader-extract: Dependency and output tag file paths are now made lowercase
invader-build: Index parsing is now case insensitive

Fixed

invader-extract: Fixed unknown tags outputting as 0 byte files

0.20.1 - 2019-11-26

Changed

invader-bitmap: Now fails if the tags directory isn't valid
invader-extract: Now fails if the tags directory isn't valid
invader-font: Now fails if the tags directory isn't valid
invader-string: Now fails if the tags directory isn't valid

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed setting mouth data and subtitle data to 0 size
invader-build: Fixed incorrect footstep sounds being used if not using an MEK-extracted BSP tag

0.20.0 - 2019-11-26

Added

invader-extract: Added --non-mp-globals / -n which is required to extract globals tags from non-multiplayer maps, as there is little value in building cache files with these tags, and you will need to add the missing multiplayer information block, yourself

Changed

invader-build: Strips default data from compressed animations now

Fixed

invader-extract: References are cleared from scenario tags
invader-extract: Fixed an error when extracting compressed animations
invader-extract: Fixed sound tags' song length values not being preserved
invader-extract: Fixed cutscene text fade taking 900x as long as expected
invader-extract: Fixed multiplayer scenario descriptions not being openable
invader-extract: Fixed some BSP trigger volumes not triggering properly
invader-extract: Fixed the Vorbis sample count not being copied correctly
invader-extract: Fixed some animation issues

0.19.2 - 2019-11-24

Added

invader-extract: Added recursive extraction

Changed

invader-extract: There is no longer any default maps folder
invader-extract: Some tags are now reset back to what they are originally if extracting from a single player map:
- weapons\pistol\pistol.bullet
  - Elite energy shield damage modifier set to 1.0
- weapons\pistol\pistol.weapon
  - Error angle set to 0.2° - 2.0° in the first trigger
  - Minimum error set to 0.0° in the first trigger
- weapons\plasma rifle\plasma rifle.weapon
  - Error angle set to 0.5° - 5.0° in the first trigger
invader-extract: Globals tags in non-multiplayer maps are no longer extracted unless you use -s, and this is due to those tags having data stripped out
invader-extract: Tags with with .. and . directories will no longer be extracted as these are potentially dangerous

Deprecated

invader-extract: Hidden values are no longer extracted by default. A compiler flag was added to do this, but it will be removed at a later version.

Removed

invader-extract: Removed -c (--continue), making it always on
invader-extract: Removed -n (--no-external-tags), making it effectively on if you don't specify a maps folder

0.19.1 - 2019-11-23

Changed

invader-extract: Extracting all tags now prints all tags that were extracted
invader-extract: Extracting searched tags now prints the time it took

Fixed

invader-extract: Fixed an issue with extracting internalized sounds
invader-extract: Fixed an issue with extracting uncompressed audio

0.19.0 - 2019-11-23

Added

New tool: invader-extract - Extracts tags from cache files
Added a new tag parser that programs can use

Changed

libTIFF and CMake 3.12 are now required to compile Invader

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed light tag durations not being properly multiplied by 30
invader-build: Fixed some sound tags not working as intended
invader-build: Fixed lens flare rotation scale not being converted properly

0.18.0 - 2019-11-17

Changed

All tag definitions have been converted to .json format .This will allow them to be used for even more purposes than before.

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed -g not erroring if an invalid engine was given
invader-build: Fixed sound looping tags' gain being set to 0
invader-build: Fixed some values in shader_transparent_plasma being set to 0
invader-build: Fixed biped A In, B In, C In, D In being set to 0
invader-build: Fixed some objects' flags being set to 0
invader-build: Fixed an undefined behavior issue with firing positions

0.17.0 - 2019-11-13

Added

invader-indexer: Added --info to invader-indexer to show information about Invader, similar to other Invader programs
invader-font: Added support for .otf files
invader-info: Added -T stub-count
Added slower but lower memory functions for decompression
invader-build: Added --compress which compresses the cache file using level 19 compression; this uses -c which --forge-crc now uses -C

Changed

To prevent people from confusing arguments of different programs, two of the short argument letters were changed:
- invader-bitmap: Changed -m to -M to avoid confusion with maps
- invader-build: Changed -R to -N to avoid confusion with retail
invader-build: 32 byte tag strings are now zeroed out before copying
invader-compress: Names and build strings are zeroed out before copying
invader-build: The number of stubbed tags is now shown next to the tag count
invader-info: The number of stubbed tags is now shown next to the tag count
invader-compress: Levels higher than 19 are no longer allowed, as they take longer to decompress and require significantly more RAM
invader-compress: Now exits more gracefully on failure
invader-bitmap: Changed the default bump height to 0.026
invader-compress: The default compression is now 19
invader-build: The ting sound tag is now determined by the globals tag instead of its tag path when setting the gain based on engine version
zstd's source code is no longer included in the repository

Fixed

invader-font: Fixed -i being used as both info and font size. It is now -z as expected.
invader-bitmap: Fixed -P not working with non-.tif files
invader-build: Fixed indexed sound tag data taking up more space than needed; this should result in a small file size reduction for any Halo Custom Edition maps that have indexed sounds
Addressed some linking errors when building with MinGW

0.16.1 - 2019-11-04

Added

invader-info: Added -T compression-ratio
invader-info: Added -T build
invader-info: Added -T crc32-mismatched

Changed

Using -h or --help no longer outputs an extra newline
invader-build: Accepts forward slashes and backslashes in index files
invader-info: Dirty check is now separate from CRC32 but still checks CRC32
invader-info: Dirty check now checks if the map has been modified by Refinery
invader-info: Dirty check now fails (returns "Dirty") if the map is protected

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Palettized flag is now properly set
invader-info: Fixed detecting stubbed tags as protected. However, this will not apply to maps built before this change.

0.16.0 - 2019-11-04

Added

New tool: invader-info - Displays an overview of a map file but can also show a specific value (-T): compressed, crc32, dirty, engine, map-type, scenario, scenario-path, tag-count, tags
invader-build: Added -R to rename scenarios when building

Changed

Help menus have been rewritten for most programs
invader-build: Shows map type when building
invader-indexer: Changed index format to simply list tag paths with extension
invader-build: Use new indexer - NOTE: Previous index files no longer work

Removed

invader-crc: Removed invader-crc in favor of invader-info. Use -T crc32 or -T dirty to indicate the map CRC32 and whether the map is dirty or not in a scriptable fashion.

0.15.2 - 2019-10-29

Changed

The zstd library is now static linked (except for libarchive)

Fixed

invader-compress: Fixed a bug where decompressing did not work
invader-dependency: Fixed a bug where reverse and recursive were switched

0.15.1 - 2019-10-29

Changed

invader-compress: Now uses -d instead of -D to decompress
invader-dependency: Now uses -R instead of -r for reverse dependencies
invader-dependency: Now uses -r instead of -R for recursive dependencies

0.15.0 - 2019-10-29

Added

New tool: invader-compress - Compresses cache files using the Zstandard algorithm
invader-resource: Added --retail / -R which will allow you to build retail maps
invader-build: Copying TagString data now checks for string overflow
invader-crc: Works with maps compressed with invader-compress
invader-indexer: Works with maps compressed with invader-compress

Changed

invader-build: Bitmaps and sound data are now shown separately next to their combined total in the diagnostic output
invader-build: The number of tags that could be cached/indexed is now shown
invader-archive: Now handles exceptions instead of calling abort() while either compiling or parsing cache files
C++ header files to include were moved to an include directory
invader-build: No longer errors when orphaned model nodes exist

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed some error messages not being shown using the correct directory separators
invader-build: Fixed indexing tags with retail/demo resources
invader-archive: Fixed some issues with -P
invader-build: Fixed decals with null references crashing the game

0.14.1 - 2019-10-19

Changed

invader-build: The diagnostic messages now show tags using external raw data when building a retail or demo map
invader-build: The BSP path is now shown using the system's preferred path separator
invader-dependency: Tag paths are now shown using the system's preferred path separator

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fully implemented and fixed 3D textures

0.14.0 - 2019-10-18

Added

Added a CONTRIBUTING.md file which specifies guidelines for contributing to Invader
invader-archive: Now accepts filesystem paths for the tag if -P is passed
invader-bitmap: Now accepts filesystem paths for the image input if -P is passed
invader-build: Now accepts filesystem paths for the scenario tag if -P is passed
invader-dependency: Now accepts filesystem paths for the tag if -P is passed
invader-font: Now accepts filesystem paths for the the TTF file if -P is passed
invader-string: Now accepts filesystem paths for the text file if -P is passed
invader-crc: Now prints a warning to stderr if the CRC32 in the cache file header is wrong
invader-crc: Now errors with a useful error message if a resource map is loaded with it
Map parser: Now errors if the internal map name overflows into the build string
invader-build: Halo Demo / Trial maps can now be built (-g demo)
invader-crc: Halo Demo / Trial maps can now be used
invader-build: --no-indexed-tags was renamed to --no-external-tags
invader-build: Building retail and demo maps now uses the resource maps
invader-build: The gain modifier for sound\sfx\impulse\ting\ting.sound is now changed to 0.2 if building for retail or demo and 1.0 otherwise
invader-build: Now shows the target engine of the map

Changed

Replaced the command line arg parser. The new one was made from scratch and uses only functions from the C++ standard library, allowing Invader to compile on more systems provided they support C++17.
Replaced the license header in each source file with a simpler // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only. For more information on this header, go to https://spdx.org/ids-how
invader-archive: Now uses stat() to get the modification date of a file
invader-bitmap: Made detail fade factor closer to tool.exe's output - still needs more work but it's remarkably close

Fixed

invader-dependency: Fixed an issue where it didn't include a null terminator, causing some tags to fail to open
invader-archive: Fixed an issue where some stock HEK .gbxmodel tags tried (and failed) to be archived as .model tags
invader-bitmap: Fixed an issue where sprites spanning the entire width wouldn't be detected
invader-archive: Fixed an issue where the root tag would have its full system path included when using -s

0.13.0 - 2019-10-04

Changed

invader-build: Changed how stubbed tags are created so tag extractors won't try to extract them
invader-bitmap: Errors if the tag contains uppercase characters in its path
invader-build: Errors if any non-stubbed tags contain uppercase characters in their paths
invader-font: Errors if the tag contains uppercase characters in its path
invader-string: Errors if the tag contains uppercase characters in its path

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed not fixing the render bounding radius if it was less than the bounding radius but non-zero.
invader-build: Fixed not setting the weight value for color change permutations in objects.
invader-bitmap: Fixed detail fade factor so it matches tool.exe's detail fade factor more closely if not exactly.
invader-build: Fixed certain sound permutation file offsets not being correctly marked as internal; this should fix some sounds that sounded fine when built with tool.exe but sounded corrupt when built with invader-build

Removed

invader-bitmap: Removed --filter-blur and --filter-sharpen. Tags that have these values set will still have the filter(s) applied. However, for newer tags, you should use an image editor, as you will get similar or better results.
invader-bitmap: Removed --sprite-spacing and used tool.exe's broken functionality, instead.
invader-bitmap: Removed the ability to set sprite budgets below 32 or above 512.

0.12.0 - 2019-09-22

Changed

invader-bitmap: Changed --mipmap-blur and --mipmap-sharpen to --filter-blur and --filter-sharpen. These now only affect the first bitmap even though image editors exist that can do these exact things. Oh well.

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed the help list line breaks

0.11.0 - 2019-09-22

Added

invader-bitmap: Added --mipmap-blur (blur filter size); this won't affect the bitmap unlike what tool.exe does (as Guerilla implies only the mipmaps are affected) - if you want to do this to the bitmap, itself, use an image editor
invader-bitmap: Added --mipmap-sharpen (sharpen amount); this won't affect the bitmap unlike what tool.exe does (as Guerilla implies only the mipmaps are affected) - if you want to do this to the bitmap, itself, use an image editor

Changed

invader-bitmap: Switched to the Xbox P8 palette. This palette is probably worse, but the original Halo Editing Kit as well as Mozzarilla support it, so it's easier to use.
invader-bitmap: Now stores dithering and mipmapping settings in the tag

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed blurring and sharpening values in the tag not being retained

0.10.1 - 2019-09-17

Changed

Modified the project license terms to strictly GPL version 3.

0.10.0 - 2019-09-16

Added

invader-bitmap: Added --usage (default, bumpmap, and detail) and --bump-height parameters
invader-bitmap: Added p8-bump support based on Stubbs the Zombie's palette

Changed

invader-bitmap: Spacing now attempts to sort both vertical and horizontal to see if sprites will fit in a sprite sheet
invader-bitmap: Changed how spacing is stored in the bitmap to effectively match how tool.exe calculates its spacing
invader-bitmap: Double multiply sprites now simply replaces the pixel like tool.exe rather than alpha blend into gray
invader-bitmap: Usage and the p8 compression flag are now preserved
invader-bitmap: Height maps now generate bump maps similar to tool.exe
invader-bitmap: --detail-fade replaces --mipmap-fade and is now only usable on detail maps.
invader-bitmap: --detail-fade now approximately matches how tool.exe does fade to gray
invader-bitmap: Dithering is now available for 16-bit and palettized bitmaps
invader-bitmap: Dithering now takes an argument: <channels>. Channels are letters (i.e. argb).

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed some issues with spacing

0.9.0 - 2019-09-13

Changed

invader-bitmap: Changed detection to first line is blue instead of first pixel for determining when to read a whole image as one bitmap

Removed

invader-bitmap: Removed -O (this is now done by default)
invader-bitmap: Removed the ability to create non 1:1 sprite sheets due to them not working well with particles

0.8.2 - 2019-09-11

Added

A changelog is now used to track changes

Fixed

Fixed zero spacing causing hangs

0.8.1 - 2019-09-11

Added

invader-bitmap: 3D textures are now supported

Changed

invader-bitmap: The cyan pixel is now optional in color plates
invader-bitmap: Alpha is now ignored in color plates
invader-bitmap: Textures that don't utilize blue backgrounds are now detected differently
invader-bitmap: Sprites no longer require valid color plates
invader-bitmap: Sprite spacing now affects the maximum number of mipmaps you can have with sprites

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed certain bitmaps going over the specified budget

0.8.0 - 2019-09-11

Added

invader-bitmap: Added support for bitmaps with color plate data
invader-bitmap: Added support for cubemaps, sprites, and interface bitmaps
invader-bitmap: Added the ability to specify custom spacing for sprites
invader-bitmap: Added the ability to specify bitmap type in the command-line

Changed

invader-bitmap: Non-divisible by 4 bitmaps are no longer compressed
invader-bitmap: Registration point calculation has been changed to better match tool.exe's calculations
invader-bitmap: Alpha is now ignored when checking if a pixel is blue, magenta, or cyan

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed an issue with certain sounds not being played correctly, such as the "Come on! We've got to get the hell out of here!" dialogue at the start of the game

Removed

invader-bitmap: Removed being able to specify negative mipmaps to remove mipmaps

0.7.3 - 2019-09-05

Fixed

invader-string: Fixed cutting the last character of every string

0.7.2 - 2019-09-05

Fixed

invader-string: Fixed doubling the string every line

0.7.1 - 2019-09-05

Fixed

invader-build: unicode_string_list tags' string data is now compared when considering whether to index a tag or not

0.7.0 - 2019-09-04

Added

invader-string: Generates unicode_string_list and string_list tags

Fixed

invader-bitmap: Fixed pixels offset not being set multi-bitmap bitmap tags
invader-build: Fixed CRC32 being displayed even when quiet

0.6.0 - 2019-08-26

Changed

invader-build: Some hidden values are now calculated for machines
invader-build: All multiplayer maps use stock limits for indexed resource, while all singleplayer and UI maps can use the extended Invader resource limits

0.5.0 - 2019-08-24

Changed

invader-build: CRC32 can now be specified when building
invader-build: CRC32 is now calculated in the header when building

Removed

invader-crc: CRC32 can no longer be forged using this tool; use invader-build instead

0.4.3 - 2019-08-23

Changed

invader-build: Encounter firing positions and squad positions are now raycasted for determining the BSP for an encounter
invader-font: The width of the 'X' character is now used for the dot width.

0.4.2 - 2019-08-23

Fixed

invader-font: Fixed the dot being missing when a font is used as a console font
invader-font: Fixed some invisible characters being rendered by mistake

0.4.1 - 2019-08-23

Changed

invader-font: now creates directories when outputting a font tag

Fixed

invader-indexer: Fixed a missing newline in a help message

0.4.0 - 2019-08-22

Added

invader-font: Generates font tags from .ttf files in the data folder

0.3.2 - 2019-08-22

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed only half of the bitmaps and sounds being indexed

0.3.1 - 2019-08-22

Fixed

invader-build: Fixed incorrect limits being used for ui/multiplayer maps

0.3.0 - 2019-08-22

Changed

invader-build: Custom maps now have enforced index limits

0.2.1 - 2019-08-21

Changed

invader-build: Command list BSP locations are now calculated
invader-build: Some warnings were removed

0.2.0 - 2019-08-21

Added

New tool: invader-archive - Archives all tags needed to build a map
New tool: invader-bitmap - Creates bitmap tags (only supports 2D textures without color plate data but also has custom mipmap support)
New tool: invader-build - Builds cache files
New tool: invader-crc - Displays and spoofs CRC32 checksums of cache files; this is useful for using modified multiplayer maps
New tool: invader-dependency - Outputs a list of tags that depend on a given tag
New tool: invader-indexer - Outputs the list of tags in a cache file to a text file to be used with Invader
New tool: invader-resource - Builds resource map files

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