Version 0.20.0

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, despite my being silent for a while, I do still do work on the pink engine.

Mouse-based Movement

This update brings a much-requested feature to the engine: Using a mouse to control your character. You can click on the map to move your player character to that location, or hold your mouse button to move your player character in a certain direction.

Here's how it works under the hood: The pink engine has two different 'states' of mouse movement. Click-based movement uses the go_to_smart algorithm to determine which route your character should take to the given location. So if you click a location, but don't hold the mouse, the PC will pathfind their way to the target square. If you hold the mouse button, it will switch from click-based movement to hold-based movement. In hold-based movement, the PC will move in the direction of the mouse cursor, but will stop moving when you let go.

Under the hood, mouse-based movement is governed by three new variables in pink_config.rpy:

• pink_otm_mouse_click_move: Determines whether there is click-based movement. If you turn this to False, but leave pink_otm_mouse_held_move on True, then every click will be interpreted as a very brief hold, so will not trigger pathfinding.
• pink_otm_mouse_held_move: Determines whether there is hold-based movement. If you turn this to True, but leavepink_otm_mouse_click_move on True, then holding the mouse button will simply change the end-point for the smart movement, and the player character won't stop moving when you let go of the mouse button.
• pink_otm_hold_delay: The time the mouse button needs to be held before switching from click-based movement to hold-based movement.

If you want to disable mouse-based movement, you can set both pink_otm_mouse_click_move and pink_otm_mouse_held_move to False.

Other changes

There have also been a small number of other changes, hotfixes applied on request of users on our discord:

• Smooth zooming near the edge of a large map has been made significantly smoother.
• You can now check in events if a character is currently moving through the is_moving attribute.
• Fixed a bug that would occur when using the pink_otm_movement_wait standard event.