Happy new year!

This release was focused on improving the global performance, so now the game is about 20% faster. Aside from that now the game has shadows maps, light maps, a new enemy Turret and a generic Laser.

Found binaries at OneDrive, here is the what's new:

HBF)

• New element explosive barrel
• Rope now ends with a circle
• Observer Update() takes into account type of message 
• Now heroes are spawned first so that they are aware about all other sprite coordinates
• Cardride was broken since some releases...
• Cable sparks now excite any mechanic enemy
• Now sprites can be wake up
• New GameServices.WakeUp(area)
• New Crane entity 
• Replaced MOD with AND when possible
• Bomb, Titan and Worm can now sleep 
• New trigger WakeUpEntity()
• New IEmitter interface 
• Solid layer is calculated when assigned the GameServices as .Layer, so GameServices.GetLayer(SOLID_LAYER) is no longer needed
• New Compass shop item
• New class TGameService for classes that need GameServices interface
• New property TGameSprite.DefaultHorizontalSpeed
• Now menu key can be set in hbf.ini
• Net keys data moved to TSession
• All input (local, remote and impersonate) goes to new class TKeysHelper
• Some Z definition changes
• Files clean up
• New enemy RollingBox 
• New inventory item Dynamite 
• Collision grid is now 128x128 rather than 64x64
• When an entity dies all his loop sounds are stopped
• Entity sound emission center is also updated continuously
• Sound code improved
• Sound 3d is calculated more accurately
• THBF now inherits from TObservableObject
• New hero can duck
• New element Darkness, darkness maps are only applied to background layers
• New element Fluorescence
• Now Explosions emit light
• Now Nuclear emits light
• Elements with no gravity are not affected by platforms (like boomerang)
• New sound effects to be used: timeout, pitch, attenuation
• Now sound system reuses a sound if same key and distance is lower
• Too far away sounds are discarded
• Playing a bit with sound occlusion
• Now sounds can sleep and fade 
• Now there is a generic way to store already taken objects
• New TAchievementsHelper, all achievements code went there
• Gamma is stored in config 
• When Gatashi gets stuck then too many task calls to Bezier are made and music is interrupted, improved
• Now enemies roar from time to time (playing with 3d sounds...)
• Now lights are supported in the background layer 
• Some solid blocks were disappearing  a frame before before being converted into an item
• New element generic laser
• Now shadows casting into walls are more optimized
• New achievement "kill a fly"
• New enemy turret 
• Minimap refactored
• Shadow diameter can be now set in realtime
• New decorators in front layer (glass)
• New interface IMinimap 
• When a NPC is on a platform it goes away jumping

BB)

• TSprite.Blit() reordered to do less IF/THEN/ELSE
• Faster Blur() method
• New TDummySprite.Move(x,y)
• New TDummySprite.CollisionAt() it simulates a collision at X/Y 
• Script property values are written using rtti
• New property TSound.IsStarted 
• TSurface2Poly optimized 
• Improving the code that calls _intfclear
• Using last version of BASS
• New TLayer.CleanAttributes() and TLayer.CleanTiles()
• New TVectorEx.Avg()
• TAnimationSprite.Tick() and TDummySprite.Draw() improved a bit
• New TObservableObject
• TDummySprite now inherits from TObservableObject
• New TSuperSprite helps to composite sprites 
• New TAnimation.FileName
• New TSound.Flags
• TBasicCamera.Rotate() performance improved
• TCollision performance improved
• TSpriteEngine.Render performance improved
• All single comparisons changed to TSingle(x).AsInt
• TCollision hash key is no longer composed by strings but integers
• TCollision minor performance improvements
• TSprite minor performance improvements
• New TCamera.ProjectVertexW when 1/Z is already calculated
• Now TSprite caches W=1/Z, big performance
• Quad effects and filter are done in the setter
• TGraphicDriver.InView() performance improved
• TGraphicDriver.DrawQuad() performance improved
• Now TSprite.Z is TSprite.Priority and TSprite.DirectZ is TSprite.Z, both are combined to create the final Z
• Sprite rotation coordinates are cached 
• Now a MMX version of Fill32() is used
• New TGraphicDriver.SetGammaRamp() to apply gamma (only fullscreen)
• New fast Utils.Percent75
• New THashMap<K,V>
• New hashes for generic, 8, 32 and 64 bits sizes
• Maps can now have blur
• Events can be now grouped
• Many float divisions changed to inverse mutiplications
• Particles, float divisions avoided when possible
• TScreen.DrawShape() improved not using FCapacity dictionary
• New Cast<T>.Cast() 
• New THashEx.Pack_Four()
• Better performance in the D3D handling of buffers
• New TMath.SinCos(), used when possible
• Now maps can load extras that share same properties as [from..to]
• Layer XShadow and YShadow are now floats