Boomerangs, sensors and Ears 2

This is Apoli 1.98.0 and Origins 1.46.0.

Things that come back

apoli:fire_projectile has a return object. Give a shot one and it turns around, after hitting something, at max_distance or after a set time in the air, and curves back to whoever threw it, through walls, the way a trident with Loyalty does. speed uses the same scale as Loyalty levels, hit_while_returning lets it strike on the way home, and bientity_action_on_catch runs when you catch it, which is where a boomerang refunds its own cooldown. The details are on Projectile Return.

Reading the world

Six new expression variables turn the surroundings into numbers: biome_temperature, brightness, light, block_light, sky_light and night_vision. An origin that grows stronger in the cold no longer needs a ladder of biome conditions. Feed the temperature into a resource a step at a time and the power ramps smoothly across biome borders.

apoli:night_vision takes an expression for its strength, so darkvision can rise exactly as the light falls, instead of stepping through ten conditioned copies.

attack_charge, as a variable and as the entity condition, now reads the charge of the swing that is landing when it's used inside a hit, instead of the meter the game has already reset.

Voice chat audiences

apoli:action_on_speak gained bientity_action, bientity_action_stop and bientity_condition, which run on everyone close enough to hear you. apoli:modify_speaking_range takes a bientity_condition too, which decides for each listener, so you can mute yourself and then let an entity set of people you pointed at hear you at full range. Both range powers are now listed with the rest of the Simple Voice Chat integration.

Ears 2, and wings

Tinting and hiding single Ears features works with Ears 2 as well as Ears 1.4, and Ears 2's halo and digitigrade legs have body part names of their own. Icarus wings also answer to icarus_right_wing, icarus_left_wing and icarus_wings, the names Figura uses.

Centaurs keep their skin

texture_location on apoli:modify_player_model now only paints the parts a model adds on top of the player, such as the horse half of apoli:centaur, and the player half always wears the player's own skin. Before, it replaced the player's skin as well, so a texture made for the horse wrecked the rider.

This changes packs that used texture_location to re-skin the player with a model such as apoli:four_arms. Move that texture to an apoli:custom_model_render in texture mode next to the model power, and it paints the swapped model, extra limbs included.

Per-world Origins config

Each world has an Origins config at <world>/origins/config.json that switches layers, origins and single powers off for that world alone. It now takes effect as soon as the world starts instead of only after a /reload, a switched-off origin also takes its powers away from players who already had it, and a file with a mistake in it is left alone instead of being overwritten.

Compatibility

Origins 1.46.0 needs Apoli 1.98.0 or newer. Existing packs load and behave as before, apart from the modify_player_model texture change above.