3.0 Update Overview

3.0 New Features Overview

Revamp of Mod Settings into a full Mods Menu

• New Mods button in the bottom right of the Menu screen, showing total mods and an indicator for mod updates
• Mods Menu lists currently installed Mods. Mods can include Icon, Description, Homepage etc
• Simple enabling and disabling mods from In Game (still requiring restart for now)
• An individual and customizable Mod Settings menu for each mod, with more setting variants like Hotkeys, Categories, File/Folder Picking, etc
• A Mod Browser that lets you download Mods from public GitHub repositories
• Updating mods from within the Menu, seeing release notes
• All designed with a new UI system that modders can use as well to more easily make polished UIs using NK's own graphics

Custom Bloons

• Automatically appear in the Sandbox menu
• Use custom 2d or 3d visuals
• Easily addable to non-sandbox matches via...

Custom Round Sets

• Define a custom set of rounds, with any max number
• Customizable hint popups
• Accessible using a new (toggleable) "Round Set Changer" on the Map Select screen that will let you play any game mode with any Round Set
• Also accessible via...

Custom Game Modes

• A new button added to the Easy, Medium or Hard map difficulty screen
• Use a default or custom roundset
• Add any special rules you want

Standardized Mod Sources Folder for Mod Creators

• In the Mod Helper Settings, you can choose a folder on your computer as your "Mod Sources" folder
• The Mod Helper will keep an updated "btd6.targets" file in that folder that your Mod projects can import to automatically:
  • Get all the correct Melonloader and BTD6 dependencies
  • Include all .png/.bundle files in your project as embedded resources
  • Copy your dll file to the Mods folder on build
• Any mod utilizing "btd6.targets" could be downloaded by anyone into their own Mod Sources folder and have all of the above features automatically, regardless of either modders' BTD6 install location
• There's also an In Game screen where you can create a new empty Mod project in your Mod Sources folder, or upgrade a mod project that's already in there to use the new .csproj format

Other

• A new loading system for mods, allowing long tasks to be added to the games own initial start up tasks
• Internal improvements to resource loading, reducing lag from loading in custom images and models
• A standardized way to use the same byte loading strategy as Ultimate Crosspathing
• Full, automatically generated documentation for all Mod Helper classes, API methods and extensions
• Patches for BloonsMod melons will now be try-catched by default, meaning one patch failing after a BTD6 update won't break your whole mod
• Custom outline colors for your ModDisplays!

Obsolete Things

• The old methods of Mod auto updating.
• The keycode hooks are no longer active, as they have too much overhead when you can now just use a ModSettingHotkey
• Certain previous properties of ModSettings that weren't widely used