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Today, I updated Unity to the latest version. (Up to this point, I've been building the game in Unity 5.5, now just shy of 2 years out-of-date!)

With the project now reimported for the new version, things are mostly working well, and a few things are actually working better--text, especially, looks noticeably sharper in the new Unity rendering system! A few things did break in the transition, but the only truly significant one seems to be the character sprite animations. Of all the systems for Unity to break, this is actually one of the better ones, as I never actually finished this up (and I've been needing to redo it with a new approach for a while now anyway).

-- fixed the character screen closing function, which Unity broke during the reimportation process for some reason.

-- redid all of the tile textures, as the shaders upon which many of them depended no longer worked the same way (or at all) upon reimportation.

-- the map and cut scene editors now warn you first if you try to exit a map/cut scene without setting the Next Scene property. If you opt not to exit, the editor will take you straight to the field where you set Next Scene.

-- the map editor now supports painting and deleting free-standing point lights on maps.

-- clicking an existing free-standing point light while in New Light mode opens a properties window where you can change the properties of that light.

-- the map editor now successfully loads and saves free-standing point lights in maps.

-- fixed a bug in which the game would not notice unsaved changes from changes made in the Cut Scene Editor's scene settings window.

-- updated the Reserve Supplies screen with tooltips showing character name, class, and level when you mouse over a character's personalized inventory button.

-- the character screen now shows unit morale and explains what it does.

-- added New Scene, Save Scene, and Load Scene hotkeys to the cut scene editor; mousing over the buttons for these now displays the appropriate hotkey in a tooltip.

Focused on further UI improvements today!

-- after a cut scene frame with narration finishes typing out the narration text, the game will now wait a few seconds and then animate some text in the bottom-right of the screen saying "Click to continue." (You would be amazed how many new players need this prompt in order to avoid getting stuck.)

-- after a dialogue window finishes typing out the text for its branch, if there are not multiple reply options, the game will now wait a few seconds and then animate some text in the bottom-right of the dialogue window saying "Click to continue." If there are multiple reply options, the game will now wait a few seconds and then animate some text in the bottom-right of the dialogue window saying "Click a reply."

-- added new hotkeys to the map editor: Shift + S for save, and Shift + L for load.

-- fixed a graphical issue that prevented the action type / reply type from showing up in their respective slots in the Edit Branch window of the dialogue editor on some displays.

-- fixed a bug in which the game would sometimes open the New Map window in the map editor when doing things in the dialogue editor.

-- received the new Clearing background! We now have 6 completed backgrounds; as many as appeared in the entirety of Telepath Tactics.

-- new dialogue/script action supported: LoadConv. This looks for a particular dialogue--if the game finds it, it immediately loads the specified dialogue, abandoning the existing dialogue. This should allow the creation of multiple independent dialogues that can all link to one another in various ways.

One parameter: the Conv ID of the dialogue to load.

-- cut scenes now have a "darkener" image that sits behind narration text to make it easier to read against lighter backgrounds. The game automatically detects if there is any non-white-space text in the current narration frame, and makes the darkener visible if there is; and hides it if there isn't.

-- standardized the UI a bit more between scenes, adding in the info bar from the top-left of the nighttime scene into the shopping and recruitment scenes.

-- updated the info bar with food and aura icons that describe themselves with tooltips upon mouse-over.

-- the shop category buttons now pop up with tooltips on mouseover.

-- added mouse-over tooltips to the Options and Reserve Supplies buttons in the shop and recruitment scenes.

-- fixed a few small UI issues in the character creator.

-- fixed a bug in which the character creator would not clear its "unsaved changes" flag after saving a character.

-- fixed a bug in which characters would be tinted black by default if a battle didn't specify a Global Lighting variable.

-- fixed a bug in which the game would freeze upon trying to run OnLoaded-triggered dialogue in battle. OnLoaded dialogue now triggers just slightly before OnTurn,0 dialogue.

Thank you! I appreciate it.

- gave artist feedback.

- fixed a big in which the game would not save items transferred to characters from the reserve supplies in the shop scene.

- fixed a null error bug I accidentally introduced into the unit loading routine when I implemented unit self-lighting.

Big congrats on a successful campaign. I only wish I knew about it when it was going on. Looking forward to True Messiah!

-- adjusted selfLight values for different lit destructible objects.

-- fixed a bug in which self-lit character and objects would nonetheless get the global lighting tint applied to them (resulting in visual oddities like darkened campfires).

-- fixed a typo in the selfLight attributes for spirits and lit destructible objects.

That's certainly possible! I have so many things I need to do, though, that I'm not sure it rates. I'll add it to the "would be nice at some point in the future" list.