Version 0.0.766 of the Draw Steel Codex is now available!
There are some hot new features this week so put on a hat, sunglasses and sun lotion!
Walls can now have heights set on them. You can fly over walls, or even climb over them if they are set as climbable.
Solid walls have been added. That is, a wall with a floor on top of it. These will be used as building blocks for wall abilities in the future.
Whenever you plan a movement and there is anything "interesting" regarding verticality -- you fly over someone or walk under someone who is flying, you climb a wall, or get pushed off one. Anything at all, you get a cross-section diagram helping you to understand what is going on precisely.
We have reworked the Audio Panel and added a bunch of new features which we hope will make a significant difference to people that use Audio in their games! Sound Categories & the Mixer
Every sound now belongs to a category - Music, Ambience, or Effects - each with its own live volume fader under "Levels" (alongside UI Sounds and Anthem).
Adjust any category mid-session without stopping playback: pull the music down for a dramatic line while your rain loop and combat effects keep going.
The same Levels faders are available in the dock, the Audio Studio, and the top-bar popover.
Search the library by name with matching folders auto-expanding, organise with nested folders, and rename clips inline.
Set per-clip loop, volume, and mute; upload straight into a category or re-categorise later.
Preview any clip on your own ears before the table hears it.
When a hero's anthem plays, the music automatically ducks out of the way and restores when it ends.
Configurable in "Ducking settings": toggle it, set how far the music dips, and set independent fade-in / fade-out times.
Build playlists in the Audio Studio with Shuffle, a Crossfade time, or "Play all tracks together" to layer them as one bed.
Pin a playlist to the dock to fire it in a single tap, and skip ahead with the Next track control.
Bind a playlist to each game mode (Combat, Exploration, Respite, Downtime) so the right music starts automatically when the mode changes
Group interchangeable clips into a Variant Pool so a repeated sound never sounds identical, with Random pick and Pitch variation.
Flip "Loop as ambience" to turn a pool into a living background bed that re-fires at random intervals you control (Min/Max gap, or Dense / Sparse presets), with optional Layer sounds and Fade in/out.
A dock badge shows how many ambient loops are running. Stop ambient loops clears them all while leaving one-shots alone.
Redesigned the soundboard to align with our new themes and pulled management into the Audio Studio.
Edit mode lets you assign clips, clear and reorder pads, and colour-code buttons; a variant pool on a pad plays a fresh variant every tap.
A dedicated Anthems section on the Dock lists every hero's anthem in one place, so you manage them all without hunting through character sheets.
Preview an anthem on your own ears, and adjust its volume on the fly - the change writes straight to that character and adjusts for everyone at the table.
Manage positional audio emitters for the current map directly from the Audio panel - no object panel required - with per-emitter on/off, volume, falloff distance, and wall penetration.
Hover a row to see its falloff ring on the map, or double-click to pan the camera to it.
+ Add map sound drops a new emitter at the centre of your view and opens the clip picker.
Every player gets their own personal levels and mute - they can quiet the music in their own ears without changing what the table hears.
The Director can hand a player the DJ role to let them drive the table's music, and take control back at any time.
The Director's mix can never push a player's audio above that player's own caps.
A new audio indicator in the title bar shows at a glance whether audio is playing, idle, or muted from anywhere in the app.
Click it for a quick mixer: Now Playing, personal Master and mute.
Directors and DJs also get the broadcast Levels, "Mute for everyone", "Stop all audio", and a shortcut to open the Audio Studio.
Audio event log (opt-in, per player): music, mood, anthem, and effect changes appear as muted cards in the action log, so you can see audio you can't hear. This so hard-of-hearing players can get visual feedback and Directors can run audio entirely by sight.
Loudness normalization evens out music and ambience clip loudness so a loud track doesn't jump-scare the table, with per-clip trim for manual control (effects are intentionally excluded).
Category and soundboard colours are always paired with a glyph or label.
Now you can send bug reports and feature requests from right within the Codex! There is a Send Feedback menu option at the top of the screen. It will give you options to easily send a screenshot, your game log, permission for developers to enter your game, and your system specs, allowing us to diagnose your issues as easily as possible.
Made it so that monsters have their own 'implementation status' which shows how implemented they are.
Depreciate Game > Respite rest dialog and shift to using Respite Game Mode.
Some bug fixes and improvements this week but we don't have an exhaustive list