Cockatrice, ein plattformübergreifendes Open-Source-Programm für virtuelle Kartenspiele, wurde in der Version 3.1.0 “Reality Check” veröffentlicht.

Die Version bringt 285 Pull Requests mit unter anderem Playmats, einem Einrichtungsassistenten, echten Einladungen, Deck-Sharing, lokalisierten Karten und einem Binär-Cache für die Kartendatenbank, der den Start auf etwa 0,5 Sekunden verkürzt. Die Einstellungen wurden auf mehrere Dateien aufgeteilt, ein Downgrade setzt sie daher zurück.

Cockatrice 3.1 continues the modernization effort started in 3.0 with a wave of gameplay polish, quality-of-life improvements, and under-the-hood work that makes the client faster and more resilient.

Highlights

• Playmats: set a card image as your personal table background, with global, per-deck, and fallback configurations and direct-manipulation cropping
• Onboarding wizard: a guided six-step setup that walks new users from “just installed” to “ready to play”
• Custom deck zones: add sub-zones beneath Mainboard/Sideboard/Maybeboard for organizational purposes, including a dedicated maybeboard
• Animated arrows and life counter changes: arrows now draw themselves with a highlight, and life counters flash red or green on manipulation
• Card search autocomplete: type [[ in chat or use search fields to get card name suggestions from the database
• Game link sharing: clickable cockatrice://joingame links in chat, plus a copy-game-link action in the game menu
• Inviting players: a searchable invite dialog, a per-game “Invite to Game” context menu, and invite buttons on the user list and on not-yet-started games
• Deck sharing and public decks: generate a temporary share link for a deck or a whole selection of decks, or publish decks to your profile so other players can browse them
• Reporting users and moderation queue: in-client user reporting stored in a database for moderator review
• Binary card database cache: a cold start that used to take 3 to 14 seconds now warms in about half a second
• Searchable settings: find any setting by name, description, or tooltip
• Commander bracket estimation via CommanderSpellbook.com
• Unified user list: friends, online, and ignored users in one searchable list with section dividers
• Card names, rules text, and art in your language: localized card rendering throughout, and card search in that language too
• Custom card art overrides: install your own image file for any printing
• Palette editor: build a complete color scheme from one accent color, then fine-tune any individual role
• Light and dark theme variants: a single theme can now serve -light/-dark assets, and the bundled image themes ship curated identity palettes
• Faster, more talkative Oracle: card database imports use a fraction of their former memory and finally show real progress

Your settings have moved from a single global.ini file into one file per settings group. That migration ran automatically, and before it ran Cockatrice copied your whole settings folder to a timestamped backup next to it (settings-backup-<date>). Settings migrations only run forwards. If you ever downgrade to an older Cockatrice, that version will not read the new per-group files and will start from default settings.

This release contains 285 pull requests, spread across usability, performance and maintainability.

Quelle: GitHub