Reading the original data

The original game kept most of its numbers in plain text tables. Those are now in L2:

• Weapons, projectiles, damage and armor
• Player classes: health, walk, run, jump and swim speeds
• Characters and monsters, with each character’s attachment points
• Pickups, spells, treasure and spawns
• Game text, server text and credits

A generator turns each table into code, working out from the values which columns are numbers, true/false values or text. Weapons and players can now read their stats from the original data instead of hand-copied values.

Also in this change

• Crouching shrinks the collision capsule as well as the animation, so you can get under things.
• The project was reorganised: L2’s own scripts moved into their own folder, and every change to the template’s code is now marked in place and listed in a change log, so the template can be updated later without losing track.