llamamod/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

0.2.4 – unreleased

• New mod "Developer mode" (Cheats): turns on the game's hidden developer switch. Hold A+S to warp to the developers' warp points, F1 to fly, F2 for a heart and 5 fruit, F3/F11 to count idols and coins up; Space on the river log makes it invincible and fast.

• Debug wireframe: new option "Allowance areas" (off by default). The game counts the llama as standing on a floor even a little outside its edges; at sharp corners this margin becomes a long sliver where the llama can stand in the air. Floating spots marks those places in pink, All edges draws the margin as a thin pink band along every floor edge.

0.2.3 – 2026-11-07

• Editor: flying with the right mouse button + W A S D / Q E now works even when another part of the window (a text field, a dock) still had the keyboard focus.
• Editor: the block, pillar and invisible-box icons sat too low in the toolbars (drawn outside their box); a test now keeps every icon inside its 16 × 16 box.
• Tutorials say where the Objects panel is (the ⊙ tab next to Outliner).

0.2.2 – 2026-11-07

• English game version supported. All exe mods (boot to level, cheats, intro skip, practice tools, free camera) and the base patch now also work with the English groove.exe of 2000-10-17. With any other version LlamaMod warns at start and before the first Apply (nothing is blocked); mods that change groove.exe then stop with a clear message.
• Display diagnostics option renamed and explained. The cheats option is now called "Troubleshooting: write display diagnostics" and warns that the game switches through every screen mode of every monitor at start (screens go black for a while). It stays off by default.

0.2.1 – changes since 0.1.0

The first test release was 0.1.0 (launcher edition). Everything below is new for testers. There are two downloads: full (launcher + level editor) and launcher (mods only).

Launcher

• Clearer texts everywhere. Mod descriptions and options are explained in plain words, directly under each option instead of only in tooltips.
• Setup wizard
  • Wrong files, truncated ISO downloads and too little disk space are caught when you pick the source, not after you click Set up.
  • Copy progress shows megabytes ("123 of 568 MB").
  • Cancel tells you what happened.
• Play
  • While the game runs, Play becomes Quit game, so a hung game can be stopped from LlamaMod.
  • A crash now says "The game crashed" with advice, instead of only "The game has ended".
  • Wine: a too-old Wine version gives a warning, and a wrong Wine command is explained.
• Safer applying
  • Two LlamaMod windows (or the command line) can no longer break each other's apply.
  • If LlamaMod is closed in the middle of applying mods, it finishes or rolls back the apply on the next start and tells you.
  • Settings changed in one window show up in the other.
  • Old cached mod results are rebuilt after an update.
• Mods
  • Mirror mode: pick the worlds with check boxes.
  • Practice and Free camera: if two hotkeys use the same key, Apply refuses and says which ones clash.
  • Boot to level: a custom start position belongs to its level and no longer breaks other levels.
  • Intro skip and Boot to level can now be used together.
  • Test World: a new gallery with all 253 characters, enemies, animals and objects of the game, standing still on pedestals (the animal pen is gone).
  • New levels and the Alligator Arena only use TestLevel chapters 1 and 32–49. On other chapters the game stored the level's coins over your progress and other game data (chapter 9 broke the world map). Levels and settings on old chapters move to a free one automatically. The game itself is fixed too: picking an empty TestLevel chapter on the world map (or in Boot to level) no longer damages your progress.
  • The level tally shows the real coin and secret totals of new levels, the Test World and the arena instead of the Village's "55".
  • New: Alligator Arena – a minigame on a TestLevel chapter (default 49): alligators come in waves into a walled pit; every hit costs one of their lives and coins pop out, their bite costs your energy; beat every wave and the exit opens. Lives, waves, energy and coins per hit can be set.
  • New: Llama Coaster – a roller-coaster ride on a TestLevel chapter (default 48), with the cart from the Catacombs: drops, climbs, boost arrows, a jump and a spin pad. Two tracks, 1–3 laps, three speeds.
• Save games
  • Backups can no longer overwrite each other.
  • Import… opens in the backups folder.
  • The table fits small (1280×720) screens.
• Layout: works on small and laptop screens; the dark theme is easier to read.

Level editor (full edition)

• Play-test
  • Shows "Game running" and a Stop game button.
  • Shift+F5 shows a crosshair where the llama will start.
  • Play-test copies are removed when the game ends, and your mod selection comes back.
• Readable names. "Coin 3", "Floor 2", "Waypoint 4" instead of internal ids, in the outliner, inspector, status bar and messages; the outliner filter finds them.
• Error messages. Damaged files give one plain sentence with optional details.
• Geometry
  • Painting or erasing tiles in one drag is one undo step.
  • New tile option No collision (walk-through decoration).
• Meshes and export
  • Export level as glTF/GLB (textures, vertex colours; optionally only the selection, or collision as a separate mesh).
  • Imported and exported models are no longer mirrored compared to Blender. Meshes in older projects keep their look; switch them to "right" handedness in the inspector to fix them.
• Objects
  • Guards and alligators need a waypoint box around them, or the game removes them. The editor now sets this up automatically and warns when it is wrong. It also says which objects can trigger a guard's event bit.
  • The start camera no longer starts inside the llama's head on some base levels. Moving the player start moves its camera and intro fly-by too.
  • Snap to floor follows the game's own rule.
• Object scripts
  • Custom object types can be edited and deleted (with undo).
  • Script language with compiler: if/else, loops, switch, events, named parameters.
  • The script view is much easier to read.
  • Opcodes have checked descriptions.
• Narrow docks, small windows and long labels wrap instead of being cut off.

Documentation

• New guide for building your own levels, a reference of the game's file formats and engine limits, and a chapter on object scripts (strats) with the arena and the coaster as worked examples: start at docs/README.md.

Known limits

• Tested on Linux (Wine) and in a Windows VM. Real Windows hardware is not tested yet.
• The game draws objects only within about 12 units of the llama.
• Four music tracks of the game have no file on the CD (GAMEOVER, TALLY, PUZZLE2, PLATFORM); the editor marks them.