Today, I’m making updates for me. That’s right, it’s the castagne dev experience update, but CASP-side this time.

You know how sometimes you want to make a part of a state easily extensible? Like how I like having WalkF and WalkF-Movement so that you can completely change the movement if you don’t like it? It’s great for the end user, however it’s always annoying to set up: I need to create several states. That’s partially why I added hooks, so that I can “add” these without really doing work, with a simple WalkF-Anim? for example. The issue is that they don’t do anything, therefore if I want to have behavior you can change as opposed to behavior you can add, I still need to go through that process. Introducing:

!WalkF-Movement:
	Move(1000)
endif

As you might expect, it’s just like a hook, except if the hook doesn’t exist it will call on the interior code! That allows these elements to be MUCH cleaner, as all the behavior is in the same state. These have got two particularities:

• You can’t use arguments. If you want arguments, you need to define them and therefore should add them to an actual proper state.
• Call Parent works, HOWEVER it is a tricky one: the parent will ONLY exist for that specific state that calls the default. This means the same function could compile to different code, and that !!? is mandatory. Good enough imo, it’s added as the base parent so overriding the hooked state works as usual, it’s just a tricky integration that most likely won’t come up unless you start calling on hooks from several states or have several defaults.

Another update is that, since the Castagne base files are now embedded inside of the binary, well you can’t really change them. This instantly makes the lock feature of the old editor unneeded since you can’t change it, but that means that I as a dev can’t do that either, which is annoying for development. I’ve therefore added an option where you can give the path to Castagne’s source to load these dynamically!

These updates mostly affect me since I’m the one writing the base CASP files lol. I am making my work environment better so that I can do better work, and I wish to thank me for taking the time to add one of my requested features.