GemRB V0.5.1 is out

The GemRB team is proud to announce a new “minor” release. A lot more work has been done on projectiles, the scripting system, effects and combat. Combined with the numerous bugfixes, this enabled the first rough, but hackless BG2:SoA runthrough!

Currently only the sources are available.

Full changelog digest:

New features:

• BG2:SoA is roughly completable!
• almost all missing IE’s hardcoded projectiles, spell hit projectiles, projectile trails, projectile failure (spell), projectile effectlists
• auto-reloading of projectile weapons in case the ammo stack runs out
• damage resistance
• sorcerer style spellbooks, reading of iwd2 spellbooks
• target following to other areas
• the null sound plugin is now always loaded last by default; for old installs see the provided configuration example (DelayPlugin)
• intelligence and wisdom dictated lore bonus
• a GUIEnhancements config option (on by default) that enables a few extra controls (for convenience and larger mods)
• PST death counters (don’t anger the Lady)
• initial support for targetting by portrait

Improved features:

• actions, effects and triggers
• pathfinding, feet circles, fog of war and worldmap travel
• combat and spellcasting (especially summoning)
• projectiles
• config and default table value parsing is smarter about spaces
• various guiscripts
• bugfixes

Applied patches:

• various patches from nugrud for bg2 gui enhancements
• fix compilation (with cmake) on OS X, by hanicka