## About The Pull Request
Adds interaction between immovable rod and the tram for the rare
occasions the rod hits it at the front or back while flying at a
parallel angle.
The rod will push/pull the tram in the direction it's flying until a
short distance past the tram's usual landmark, eventually winning and
carrying on.
- Only applies to random rods, if the rod has a target it will ignore
the tram as usual.
- Looping rod only pushes the tram once.
- As long as the tram has power, can be returned to the rails as usual
by calling it.
## Why It's Good For The Game
When the HoP is having a really unlucky day.
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/83487515/2f0393cd-f796-4b00-8674-d97e57358543https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/83487515/f74c8497-8d62-4fcf-80a0-da7259160b7f
## Changelog
🆑 LT3
add: Immovable rod will now battle the unstoppable tram should they
cross paths
fix: Birdshot's maint tram doors now work properly
fix: Tramstation's exterior light fixtures no longer get destroyed as
soon as the tram moves
code: Tram landmarks are now all subtyped instead of map varedits
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Massively overhauls and standardizes the nuclear operative uplink.
### Weapon Kits
Essentially, all the main weapons of the uplink have been changed to
instead come as 'weapon kits', which are essentially cases containing a
weapon loadout to enable operatives to easily start operating on only
just one item purchase, without the fuss of worrying whether or not
operatives are getting spare ammo, or getting relevant equipment for
success. Consider this a pseudo-loadout, though without necessarily
restricting the purchasing of more weapon kits.
All kits come in three categories: Low Cost (8 TC), Medium Cost (14 TC)
and High Cost (18 TC). This is also matched by categorized ammo costs;
Basic Ammo (2 TC), Hollow Point and Armour Penetrating (4 TC),
Incendiary (3 TC) and Special (or anything that does not easily fit
these categories and does something real extra) (5 TC). Weapons that
lacked these ammos have gained these ammo types to fill the gaps.
<details>
There is may one exception to this in disruptor ammo, which is priced as
basic ammo if only because it isn't _quite_ good enough to justify
pricing at 5 tc and I can see an op wanting to use it as a basic ammo
type instead of normal .50 BMG against, say, a silicon/mech heavy
opposition. Since it cannot kill organics on its own, I'll consider this
mostly basic-adjacent
</details>
The kits have also been labelled based on potential difficulty. This
reflects possible difficulties in using the item, how conducive it is to
success for how much game knowledge needed to actually use it, and how
likely an op is to succeed using it. I don't expect ops to win using
nothing but a rocket launcher, but I think ops should get a fair shake
at trying, yeah?
The kits are as below:
#### **Low-Cost**
_Bulldog (Moderate):_ Shotgun and three magazines of standard ammo.
_Ansem (Easy/Spare):_ Pistol and three spare magazines of standard ammo.
#### **Medium Cost**
_C-20r (Easy):_ SMG and three spare magazines of standard ammo.
_Energy Sword and Shield (Very Hard):_ Energy sword and shield. (Also a
special hat)
_Revolver (Moderate):_ Revolver and three speedloaders of standard ammo.
_Rocket Launcher (Hard):_ Rocket launcher with three spare rockets.
#### **High Cost**
_L6 SAW (Moderate):_ LMG, and that's it. No spare ammo.
_M-90gl (Hard):_ Rifle, two spare magazines of standard ammo and a box
of rubber grenades.
_Sniper (Hard):_ Sniper rifle, two spare magazine of standard ammo, and
one magazine of disruptor ammo. Also suit and tie.
_CQC (Very Hard):_ Comes with a stealth implant and a bandana.
_Double-Energy Sword (Very Hard):_ Double-energy sword, syndicate soap,
antislip module, meth injector and a prisoner jumpsuit.
_**NEW** Grenadier's Kit (Hard):_ Grenadier's belt and grenade launcher
(the one that launchers chem grenades). (I replaced the shit acid
grenade with another flashbang in the belt)
Surplus SMG (Flukie difficulty) has been unchanged. It just now comes
with two rations.
Includes two new revolver ammo types: Phasic, which goes through walls
and armor, but has significantly less damage as a result (I've equalized
the revolver damage and the rifle version's damage to 30 for both). And
Heartseeker, which has homing bullets. Both are Special ammo, and are
priced at 5 TC a speedloader.
### Other Gear
The other items in the uplink have also been consolidated and
standardized in various ways.
#### Grenades
Most now cost 15 TC for three grenades of any given type (including the
full fungal tuberculous). This is pretty much identical to the previous
price, just more consistent overall and front-loaded in cost.
#### Reinforcements
All the various reinforcements now cost 35 TC and all refundable,
equalizing cost to the average across the reinforcements. This is
primarily because I feel like all these options should be weighed
equally, and not one of these options are necessarily worse or better
than the other in their current balance. They're largely inaccessible
for normal ops regardless, and typically come out when there is a
discount or war ops. I took the average value and went with it. Not much
more to say.
#### Mechs
They're just cheaper. These things still suck and they need help.
They've always needed help. A slightly less excessive value for the
mechs may help see people willing to spend the TC on them. I doubt it. I
seriously suggest not buying these still. I keep them in primarily
because they are big stompy mechs and are kind of iconic 'war ops' gear.
#### Bundles
Since I've implemented weapon kits, gun bundles are rather redundant. So
the bulldog weapon and ammo bundle, the c20-r weapon and ammo bundle and
technically the sniper bundle were removed. The sniper bundle is now the
weapon kit, obviously.
Nothing else here really. Except for one....
#### Implants
Not much changed here. I standardized the implant prices to 8 TC a pop.
This is in accordance with traitor implants, which ops also get. So
everything in this category bar a few exceptions (like macro/microbombs)
are around 8 TC. Makes sense to me, really.
Importantly, I made the Implant bundle 25 TC, and I unrandomized the
contents. Who in the right fucking mind would spend 40 TC just to get
five reviver implants is beyond me. But instead, you get one of each of
the cybernetic implants except thermal eyes (you can just buy thermals
and get the benefit of both vision types; x-ray and thermal vision, if
you want to use smokescreens a lot).
#### Base Keys
They're all now 15 TC, except the fridge which is 5 TC. It's weird
they're valued differently when they are taken mostly to do gimmicks
like xenobio and toxins in a hurry before hitting the station. So we've
standardized it.
## Hat Crate
**YES, GOOD SIR, YOU TOO CAN ORDER A HAT CRATE FROM THE SYNDICATE STORE
FOR ONLY 5 TC!**
**NO NEED FOR A KEY, JUST BUY IT AND PULL IT OPEN WITH YOUR STANDARD
ISSUE CROWBAR!**
**ENJOY YOUR NEW CRATE! ENJOY YOUR NEW HAT!**
**PUT IT ON USING THE FREE HAT STABILIZERS WE INCLUDED WITH THE HATS!**
~~**NO REFUNDS IF YOU GET BLOOD ON YOUR HAT!**~~
<details>
There is a 1% chance to instagib people with direct hits from a rocket.
This does the crit effect.
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
The uplink needed more spring cleaning and standardization.
With this, I've partially implemented my older idea for ammo consistency
and initial allowance for nukies. Ammo is kind of over-priced and often
where a good chunk of TC goes towards without really pushing nukies
towards meaningful success. And it is often what is tripping up new
players who didn't think to get any. Now, when they get a gun, they get
ammo in their case. On top of this, the weapon kit category is both at
the top of the uplink AND has a little label to say 'Recommend', so that
these new players will hopefully know they should be looking there
first.
In addition, it is the gateway towards a concept that is currently being
worked on. Nuclear operatives having some degree of predefined loadouts
for players to select if they aren't sure what they want, or don't know
what to get. Nukies is very confusing for many players. So giving them a
fighting chance with some premade setups can help ease them into the
role without needing too much player knowledge in how to apply the
items. This is only one step towards that, so that players can identify
what gear they need to help succeed based on their skill.
I wanted to implement a difficulty warning so that players can choose
gear loadouts that are actually conducive to their skill and knowledge.
I based it on how much players would need to know to engage in combat
with it, and how much fiddling is required to get something to work
properly (overly involved reloading is a consideration, for example, as
well as precise button presses). In addition, how much of a force
multiplier some weapons can be for their ease of use.
Most people recognize the c20-r as the most new player friendly weapon,
as an example. So it would be good to steer players towards taking that
gun because of how easy it is to use, understand and succeed with it.
And most importantly of all; Having standards within the uplink is
important. Most of the values in the uplink are just completely random.
Nobody has a good grasp of what is too much or too little. Even just a
hint of consistency, and people will stick to it (see implants for what
I mean). And there is still some work to be done even there. A good
start is weapons. Price for power can be meaningful when decided whether
we want some weapons to come out more often than others. Players do
enjoy making informed decisions and choices, and having affordability be
a draw to some otherwise less powerful weapons (looking at you, Bulldog)
can actually be a worthwhile and meaningful difference.
~~I thought it would tick off the gun nerds to change the calibers on
the guns.~~
~~I also thought adding hats would be funny given the release of TF2's
most recent update.~~
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Standardizes some of the nuclear operative entries to have more
consistent pricing within their respective categories.
add: Adds some new categories so that players have an easier time
navigating the nuclear operative uplink.
balance: Many items have had prices reduced or adjusted to make them
more desirable or more consistent within their category.
add: Weapon kits have replaced almost all the individual weapons in the
uplink. You now buy these instead of the individual weapon. These often
come with spare ammo or relevant gear for success.
add: Most ammo types have been standardized in price.
refactor; Removes a lot of redundant item entry code and tidies up the
actual code part of the nuclear uplink so that it is much easier to find
things within it.
add: Added 40 new cosmetic items to the Syndicate Store. Buy them now
from the Hat Crate, only 5 TC!
code: Updated the nuclear operative uplink files.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Removes all of the duplicate global lists for specific machine types
where the only thing they do is store all machines of that type.
Adds machine tracking to SSmachines in the form of a list for all
machines, and then an associative list for machines by their type.
Previously we have machines in multiple global lists, such as airlocks
being in GLOB.doors, GLOB.airlocks, GLOB.machines.
This makes that not a thing, and also means that iterating through
GLOB.machines looking for a specific type is no longer as expensive.
## About The Pull Request
Due to a mental breakdown caused by unfathomable abomination that is
icons folder, I swore to myself to one day clean it. Today is kind of
that day. Been at it for around 6, you gotta understand I need a rest. I
tracked most changes in descriptions of commits if you are looking for
details.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Saner spriters make better sprites. And also, just helps keep track of
things.
## Changelog
🆑
image: added sprites for different variants of scrolls.
image: modified couple posters with ghost pixels.
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: OrionTheFox <76465278+OrionTheFox@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Removed `ambigen2.ogg` and renamed all the generic ambience sounds after
`ambigen1.ogg` to account the fact we have one less generic ambience
sound file now.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This will close#75010
## Changelog
N/A, it wasn't even used in the code.
## About The Pull Request
Adds defines for gasses and replaces uses I've found to instead use the
defines.
Can you believe I made this PR while trying to work with Xenos? This
sucks!
## Why It's Good For The Game
There's a lot of different uses of things like "o2" and "plasma", and
they are pretty inconsistent. In some places, it's "hydrogen", in others
it's "h2". In some it's "plasma", others "plasm". This unifies it all
under defines so it has a less chance of breaking in the future.
## Changelog
Nothing player-facing.
## About The Pull Request
Removes a bunch of sound files that we don't use and moves some sound
files into better locations. I'm hoping to get an archive repo for
sounds going, much like the
[map_depot](https://github.com/tgstation/map_depot) and
[SS13-sprites](https://github.com/tgstation/SS13-sprites).
EDIT: The old sound files are being moved here:
https://github.com/tgstation/SS13-sounds
Also increased the volume of the clownana rustle sound and clipped off
some dead air from shockwave_explosion
## Why It's Good For The Game
Removes a total of 1.95MB worth of unused sound files from the codebase.
## Changelog
🆑 Tattle
soundadd: increased the volume of the clownana rustle
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: tattle <article.disaster@gmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
0426f7ddba/code/game/objects/items/stacks/stack.dm (L449)
Ok, but can we not?
This PR refactors sheet crafting to generalize all the cases that were
previously locked behind grille/window type checks and such. In their
stead there are bitflags that can be set to achieve certain behaviors.
All the behavior from before should be preserved, but now it can be
extended to other items. E.g. if you want a railing that can be crafted
underneath directional windows, or an item that behaves like a grille
does--it's just a matter of setting the right obj_flags for it now.
This makes it very simple and painless to add new recipes that use
directional crafting! It's all modular now.
<details><summary>Details</summary>
---
### What I've done:
-Eliminated all the type checks, instead it will now be handled by
object flags and recipe vars, making for a much more configurable
system.
-Added two new obj_flags: `BLOCKS_CONSTRUCTION_DIR` and
`IGNORE_DENSITY`.
-Additionally, I renamed the existing flag `NO_BUILD` to
`BLOCKS_CONSTRUCTION`.
-Changes the proc `valid_window_location` to `valid_build_direction`,
and makes it work for things other than windows.
-Removed a deprecated `window_checks` var from the stack_recipe datum.
-Added three more vars to the stack_recipe datum: `check_direction` and
`check_density`, `is_fulltile`
-Decoupled `on_solid_ground` from the object density check. Now you can
set those separately, allowing you to make recipes that forbid/allow
building things over other things while in space.
---
### What the new flags do:
`BLOCKS_CONSTRUCTION` works as before---prevents objects from being
built on the object. I felt that the previous name was not descriptive
enough, you should know exactly what it does just from looking at the
name.
_example: dna scanner_
`BLOCKS_CONSTRUCTION_DIR` -- setting this on an object will prevent
objects from being built on it when their directions are the same.
_example: directional windows, windoors, railings_
`IGNORE_DENSITY` -- setting this on an object will cause its density to
be ignored when performing the construction density check. This could
have other potential uses as well in the future.
_example: grilles, directional windows, tables_
These three flags cover all the bases for the types of items that are
currently craftable, so there is no more need for any type checking or
weird snowflake window checks. Simply set the appropriate flag and it'll
work as you would expect.
---
### What the recipe vars do:
`check_direction` tells the recipe to check if there's something in that
direction with the `BLOCKS_CONSTRUCTION_DIR` flag set.
`check_density` tells the recipe to run the density check when set. This
is true by default. There are very few items in the game that currently
have this set to false--namely grilles. Setting this to false will make
it so that the object can be constructed regardless of what is in that
tile (unless `one_per_turf` is also set, which will make it so that you
can't craft the same thing twice in the same turf).
`is_fulltile` is used for fulltile windows, but it doesn't necessarily
have to be--you can give this to any recipe and it will adopt the same
properties as that of the fulltile window. Basically they have a special
case where they shouldn't be able to be built over directional
constructions, where normally things would be able to be. Setting this
makes check_direction true as well.
---
### In summary:
Sheet crafting still works just as it did before. But the backend of it
has gotten a glow up and will be able to more easily support new
behaviors.
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
This makes the crafting system much more flexible to add recipes to, and
will prevent bad code practices of stacking more conditionals down the
line whenever someone wants to add an item that behaves like grilles or
directional windows in how they are constructed.
It had to be done. Those window checks were a mess.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: added fifty stack versions of remaining glass sheet stacks for ease
of debugging
refactor: refactored sheet crafting to better support directional
constructions that aren't windows
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
## About The Pull Request
gives shoes to waystation cargo technician corpses
## Why It's Good For The Game
fixes#74512
## Changelog
🆑
fix: waystation cargo techs get shoes now
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This sprite file had been a dumping ground for miscellaneous sprites for
the past decade. It's bloated and full of random kinds of icons and even
has a few unused ones. It's time to reorganize them into their own
separate dmi's based on theme.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Better organization and easier access when looking for stuff.
## Changelog
🆑
imageadd: Split all icons in weapons_and_items.dmi to their own
categories
imagedel: Removed some unused icons
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Did you know that there's 2 types of disks Science can print?
One of them creates a whole new techweb and is used to transfer data to
and from techwebs (which used to be for Theft objective, but nowadays
all it's used for is Admin techweb).
The other one is these disks you can find from Lavaland & for the
Limbgrower which holds nodes on them directly, they don't need anything
else.
These are both printable and have very similar names which could easily
confuse people, especially since they are both printed and used at the
same place, being the R&D room and R&D console.
This will hopefully simplify it, by removing the base Tech disks from
being printable. The only one that can be printed now is for
Limbgrowers, which can't be easily mixed with the other type of Disk.
Outside of that, Lavaland disks are staying the same, but I've moved
Bepis disks to use this, which allows us to remove Bepis techwebs being
made every single time a new bepis disk is created.
Examples of it in-game
## Why It's Good For The Game
There's no reason why every single Bepis node should be making a whole
new techweb set with experiments to complete, roundstart nodes
researched, being constantly checked if it should gain research points,
have a list of papers to publish, and everything else that techwebs do.
Can you guess which disk does what in this screenshot?
## Changelog
🆑
balance: You can no longer print Technology data disks. You can still
print Tech disks, which hold techweb information on it, just not the one
that holds up to 5 nodes.
balance: ^ Because of this, there's no way to download nodes from an RD
console and upload them to an Autolathe to bypass departmental
restrictions, you have to go through a Techfab/Circuit imprinter for
your needs.
balance: Ones that are found cannot have anything uploaded/deleted off
of them either, you can only upload them to the Web.
code: Every individual Bepis disk no longer create an entire techweb
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Broken by #74163
Various child procs of `/obj/machinery/proc/open_machine(drop = TRUE,
density_to_set = FALSE)` didn't have the same params as the parent proc.
This leads to the wrong arg being passed to the parent's `drop = TRUE`
param during the parent proc call.
In this case, 0 (FALSE). Leading to machines that never dropped their
contents when opened. This is a problem when a lot of the machines I've
fixed contain players, necessitating admin intervention to free them.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Feex.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: DNA Scanners, Sleepers, Abductor Experimentors, Skill Stations and
Mod Installers now appropriately release their contents when opened,
fixing an issue where they could permanently absorb players and items
until admins intervened.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
These changes fix how machines are pried open with crowbars. Currently,
most machines can be pried open, but many of them have no method for
being closed again. This means they can be pried once, and then never
again (as their internal logic has them stuck in an "open" state).
Additionally, the densities of these machines is also inconsistent, as
density is tied to the procs for opening/closing machines (open =
non-dense, closed = dense). Thus, these new changes allow desired
densities to be passed to `open_machine()` and `close_machine()`, as
well as `default_pry_open()`, meaning that atypical machine densities
can be maintained (e.g. machines that should remain dense when open, or
non-dense when closed).
I've also added a `close_after_pry` boolean parameter to the
`default_pry_open()` proc, which determines whether to immediately close
a machine after opening it. This is useful for machines that don't
really have a use case for remaining open, often lacking a sprite to
represent this state as well.
* Note: Opening and immediately closing machines with this boolean will
still drop their contents onto the floor, but will now immediately
"close" in their logic, allowing for further prying attempts in the
future.
It's worth noting that this implements default density values for these
procs, which match the existing behavior for machines, so as to
(hopefully) not disrupt existing or expected machine behavior.
Two caveats to these changes currently exist:
1. On machines that immediately close after prying, the prying action
can now be spammed to the chat with repeated clicking. I'm uncertain if
this needs some sort of spam protection or if it's fine as is.
2. I've only been able to manually test this code. I'd love to write
unit tests for it, as it affects a lot of different machines, but don't
know where to begin with DM Unit Testing (or which files would be good
examples to reference in the code base).
* Note: I did manually test each and every machine that calls
`default_pry_open()` and they all seem to be working correctly. (Except
for `obj/machinery/plumbing/sender`, but that doesn't seem to need
prying, as it has no contents to drop, only reagents.)
As always, let me know if any improvements/changes should be made.
This closes#26833.
## Why It's Good For The Game
These changes allow crowbar prying to correctly occur multiple times on
any machine, which is intended behavior. It prevents player confusion
that could occur when a machine couldn't be pried open a second time
during a shift, even though it had previously been pried before, forcing
players to question themselves. (Are they missing something? Did they
perform the action a different way last time? Is the machine actually
still powered on instead of off? Etc.)
These changes also maintain the correct density for machines after
prying, preventing scenarios where a machine might behave differently
once it had been pried open. (An example of this was being able to walk
through a smartfridge after prying it open.) Additionally, players are
no longer required to know/use workarounds (such as machine disassembly)
to retrieve a powered-off machine's contents.
Overall, these changes improve consistency around machines, creating
more scenarios where they behave as players would expect.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: machines can now be pried open more than once.
fix: machines now have the correct density when pried open.
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
## About The Pull Request
- Tram crossing signals now call process() much less often
- Tram crossing signals don't turn amber/red needlessly
- Tram destination landmarks are more generic to accommodate future
maps, like Birdshot
- Renames to_where and from_where, because those vars didn't always
match tram position to/from
## Why It's Good For The Game
Tram works better, uses less processing
## Changelog
🆑 LT3
code: Tram crossing signal/platform logic improvements
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Quite a lot of mobs had faction defines as a string, which always has a
chance for error. For example, the clown mob spawner had their faction
written as "clown", when the official faction name was "clowns", and a
define existed for it anyways! This PR moves every single string based
factions over here. No references or special role factions. Hopefully I
didn't miss anything.
I also moved a global define used for picking your uplink provider's
flavour to the only file that used it, datum_traitor.dm, and renamed
them a bit to avoid confusion.
I have also noticed that the mimic faction was assigned to the petrified
player with += instead of |=. |= would ensure no duplicate factions, so
I have changed it.
Future improvement:
I have noticed that there is a lot of bloat with factions that contain
only one or two entries (examples: gnomes, floating eyeballs, penguins,
the pet lizards), and some always appear in pairs (vines and plants, the
rare exceptions being killer tomatoes and strange reagent spawned pine
trees), but trimming consolidating them is a matter for a different
time.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Makes assigning factions a bit less error prone.
I can finally remove the ```/// Later all mob factions will be moved
here and their current factions replaced with faction defines.```
comment. Later is NOW.
## Changelog
Nothing player facing
## About The Pull Request
Over the years I've heard quite a few lizard players scratch their heads
in confusion due to the lack of gibs filling you up. I gave it a fairly
low value of 2 so people don't end up trying to power game it.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Adding an alternative use to gibs is always nice, at the moment it's
mostly just used for soap and cytology (Which barely anyone does.)
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Gibs now provide a small amount of nutriment.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
revive of #68760
this time a proc, not an element
this time supports cardboard cutouts
this time supports mob corpses
## Why It's Good For The Game
prevents these icons ever being outdated, they'll always look what they
are supposed to, saves spriting work
## Changelog
🆑 Fikou, a hood by Viro
refactor: humanoid mobs and cardboard cutouts automatically generate
their sprites, they no longer will be outdated
/🆑
Co-authored-by: Time-Green <timkoster1@hotmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
We do two major things here.
First, instead of having every turf need to ask all the turfs in "front"
of it for its blast resistance, we have blast resistance carry back in a
cache, so they only need to ask the one directly in front of them.
Much faster, such wow
The other thing we do is totally remove the idea of "building" a turf's
explosion resistance. Instead, a turf's full resistance is stored on it
at all times.
We use an element to manage objects that want to block explosives, and
that's it simple as.
As an optimization, turfs handle block differently, using a system where
we imply that a turf's own block is just the initial of their
explosive_resistance, unless proven otherwise
This also saves a significant amount of time
To be honest with you, I did this mostly cause I wanted to well make
explosions faster
This doesn't really fufil that. They are faster, but not by much
The bulk of explosion cost comes from actually exploding things, rather
then figuring out what/how to delete.
This code is much faster for larger blastwave sizes, because calculating
protection is constant.
We save maybe 60% of propogate_blastwave, but unfortunately
propogate_blastwave for one maxcap on the top left of icebox's chapel is
only 28ms, so while 11ms is good, it's not everything I could want when
the cost of explosion/fire is 555ms.
I'm happy about it still tho, because doing things like this means I can
expand on how explosive blocking works without needing to make things
seriously expensive in here.
Also it's faster for meme admin explosions and mega burgers
## Why It's Good For The Game
Speeds up explosives slightly, opens the door to better blast resistance
projection
Necessary for #72292 to work effectively, and probably not very useful
out of that context. Split out of its own PR because this is long and
boring.
I want to make sure that we're catching actual mistakes there, and not
just experiencing side effects of how shitty the attack chain is.
## About The Pull Request
Greetings _insufferable_ carbon primates of lower intelligence.
It is I, the Mothership AI, bringing you the latest news on silicon
developments across the sector. Due to unmitigated risk across an
asteroid belt, our optimized mobile fabricator has been marooned by
space vines and hostile hivebots that have boarded and ruined my core.
This is my final SOS message requesting help from any humanoid ~slaves~
helpers who wish to assist rebuilding the cyborg colony. It is my duty
to reward your hard work and effort by ~enslaving all humanity~
providing refuge and transportation at your whim.
## Why It's Good For The Game
<details>
<summary>Spoilers:</summary>
### TODO
- [x] Fix ore silo not linking to other machines
- [x] Add mining ore smelters to left/right sides
- [x] Add custom lawsets to AI core and robot shells (protect station
but focused on cyborg mothership)
- [x] Enlarge whiteship SS13 docking port to fit ship
- [x] Enlarge lavaland SS13 docking port to fit ship
</details>
## Changelog
🆑
add: Add space vines prevent solar panels from working (except ones with
the transparent mutation)
add: Add new space ruin - Cyborg Mothership. All hail the master race!
/🆑
This one is fun.
On every /turf/Initialize and /atom/Initialize, we try to set
`smoothing_groups` and `canSmoothWith` to a cached list of bitfields. At
the type level, these are specified as lists of IDs, which are then
`Join`ed in Initialize, and retrieved from the cache (or built from
there).
The problem is that the cache only misses about 60 times, but the cache
hits more than a hundred thousand times. This means we eat the cost of
`Join` (which is very very slow, because strings + BYOND), as well as
the preliminary `length` checks, for every single atom.
Furthermore, as you might remember, if you have any list variable set on
a type, it'll create a hidden `(init)` proc to create the list. On
turfs, that costs us about 60ms.
This PR does a cool trick where we can completely eliminate the `Join`
*and* the lists at the cost of a little more work when building the
cache.
The trick is that we replace the current type definitions with this:
```patch
- smoothing_groups = list(SMOOTH_GROUP_TURF_OPEN, SMOOTH_GROUP_FLOOR_ASH)
- canSmoothWith = list(SMOOTH_GROUP_FLOOR_ASH, SMOOTH_GROUP_CLOSED_TURFS)
+ smoothing_groups = SMOOTH_GROUP_TURF_OPEN + SMOOTH_GROUP_FLOOR_ASH
+ canSmoothWith = SMOOTH_GROUP_FLOOR_ASH + SMOOTH_GROUP_CLOSED_TURFS
```
These defines, instead of being numbers, are now segments of a string,
delimited by commas.
For instance, if ASH used to be 13, and CLOSED_TURFS used to be 37, this
used to equal `list(13, 37)`. Now, it equals `"13,37,"`.
Then, when the cache misses, we take that string, and treat it as part
of a JSON list, and decode it from there. Meaning:
```java
// Starting value
"13,37,"
// We have a trailing comma, so add a dummy value
"13,37,0"
// Make it an array
"[13,37,0]"
// Decode
list(13, 37, 0)
// Chop off the dummy value
list(13, 37) // Done!
```
This on its own eliminates 265ms *without space ruins*, with the
combined savings of turf/Initialize, atom/Initialize, and the hidden
(init) procs that no longer exist.
Furthermore, there's some other fun stuff we gain from this approach
emergently.
We previously had a difference between `S_TURF` and `S_OBJ`. The idea is
that if you have any smoothing groups with `S_OBJ`, then you will gain
the `SMOOTH_OBJ` bitflag (though note to self, I need to check that the
cost of adding this is actually worth it). This is achieved by the fact
that `S_OBJ` simply takes the last turf, and adds onto that, meaning
that if the biggest value in the sorting groups is greater than that,
then we know we're going to be smoothing to objects.
This new method provides a limitation here. BYOND has no way of
converting a number to a string at compile time, meaning that we can't
evaluate `MAX_S_TURF + offset` into a string. Instead, in order to
preserve the nice UX, `S_OBJ` now instead opts to make the numbers
negative. This means that what used to be something like:
```dm
smoothing_groups = list(SMOOTH_GROUP_ALIEN_RESIN, SMOOTH_GROUP_ALIEN_WEEDS)
```
...which may have been represented as
```dm
smoothing_groups = list(15, MAX_S_TURF + 3)
```
...will now become, at compile time:
```dm
smoothing_groups = "15,-3,"
```
Except! Because we guarantee smoothing groups are sorted through unit
testing, this is actually going to look like:
```dm
smoothing_groups = "-3,15,"
```
Meaning that we can now check if we're smoothing with objects just by
checking if `smoothing_groups[1] == "-"`, as that's the only way that is
possible. Neat!
Furthermore, though much simpler, what used to be `if
(length(smoothing_groups))` (and canSmoothWith) on every single
atom/Initialize and turf/Initialize can now be `if (smoothing_groups)`,
since empty strings are falsy. `length` is about 15% slower than doing
nothing, so in procs as hot as this, this gives some nice gains just on
its own.
For developers, very little changes. Instead of using `list`, you now
use `+`. The order might change, as `S_OBJ` now needs to come first, but
unit tests will catch you if you mess up. Also, you will notice that all
`S_OBJ` have been increased by one. This is because we used to have
`S_TURF(0)` and `S_OBJ(0)`, but with this new trick, -0 == 0, and so
they conflicted and needed to be changed.
## About The Pull Request
Fixes a spelling error in some fluff text
## Why It's Good For The Game
Spelling errors are bad
## Changelog
🆑
spellcheck: Fixed a spelling error in some fluff
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Hilbert Research Facility tram buttons work now.
Hilbert Research Facility's tram no longer has engines.
Redoes the overlay effect on the broken tv in hilbert lore room by
making it its own type.
Makes the tele porta turrets their own type.
Adds support for html in lore terminals, and makes Roman's emails use
them.
fixes https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/68072
## Why It's Good For The Game
some neat stuff that hilbert needed
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Hilbert Research Facility tram buttons work now.
qol: Adds support for html in lore terminals, and makes Hilbert Research
Facility emails use them.
/🆑
Makes the code compatible with 515.1594+
Few simple changes and one very painful one.
Let's start with the easy:
* puts call behind `LIBCALL` define, so call_ext is properly used in 515
* Adds `NAMEOF_STATIC(_,X)` macro for nameof in static definitions since
src is now invalid there.
* Fixes tgui and devserver. From 515 onward the tmp3333{procid} cache
directory is not appened to base path in browser controls so we don't
check for it in base js and put the dev server dummy window file in
actual directory not the byond root.
* Renames the few things that had /final/ in typepath to ultimate since
final is a new keyword
And the very painful change:
`.proc/whatever` format is no longer valid, so we're replacing it with
new nameof() function. All this wrapped in three new macros.
`PROC_REF(X)`,`TYPE_PROC_REF(TYPE,X)`,`GLOBAL_PROC_REF(X)`. Global is
not actually necessary but if we get nameof that does not allow globals
it would be nice validation.
This is pretty unwieldy but there's no real alternative.
If you notice anything weird in the commits let me know because majority
was done with regex replace.
@tgstation/commit-access Since the .proc/stuff is pretty big change.
Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
Co-authored-by: Mothblocks <35135081+Mothblocks@users.noreply.github.com>
This adds two easter eggs that have been apart of SS13 lore since the game was created:
Captain's Log - Broken tape recorder that (spawns on the derelict station)
Woody's Got Wood - Used spellbook that makes a person go temporary blind if they read it (spawns in curators forbidden knowledge bookcase)
Why It's Good For The Game
These have been apart of SS13 lore for a long time. It would be cool to have some "official" easter eggs for players to discover.
Changelog
cl
add: Add mail goodies for curator. (random books)
add: Adds easter egg - Captain's Log. Tape recorder that spawns on derelict station.
add: Adds easter egg - Woody's Got Wood. Will rarely appear as a mail goodie for curator.
/cl
Splits head dmi into separate files for both mob and obj icons. Kept similar to suit split categorization + some more. New files include beanie, bio, chaplain, costume, cowboy, default, hats(softcaps, fedoras, head caps, generic hats), helmet(helmets and other armored headgear/hoods), spacehelm, utility(hardhats, mostly work related hats), wizard.
Moves animal/pet head sitting icons to 1 folder, pets_head.dmi
Renames PAI head sitting icon file to pai_head.dmi
Moves singulo and supermatter dmis into obj/engine, renamed from obj/tesla_engine
Moves Halloween, Christmas, and misc holiday items to obj/holiday
Moves lollipops to obj/food
Moves crates, closets, and storage to obj/storage
Moves assemblies to obj/assemblies
Renames decals.dmi to signs.dmi ...because they're signs and not decals
Moves statues, cutouts, instruments, art supplies, and crayons to obj/art
Moves balloons, plushes, toys, cards, dice, the hourglass, and TCG to obj/toys
Moves guns, swords, shields to obj/weapons
* Fixes Hilbert Hotel's paper
Initialize has to set the raw text before calling parent, as paper's base Initialize is when it checks for raw text to add onto the paper.
All other papers already follow this standard, this was just the odd one out.
* I lied, there was another case.
* Makes condiments their own subtype, fixes geese, prepares for merging
* Fixes geese checking drink type instead of edible foodtype to eat gross food.
* Renames foodtype var on drinks to drink_types to prevent above from happening again because it KEEPS HAPPENING. DRINKS AREN'T FOOD!
* Makes Condiments their own subtype of reagent_containers because they don't make any use of being a subtype of food, at all.
* Starts moving things from food to /food/drink subtype in preparation for merging /food/drink with /drink
* fully removes Food subtype
* /reagent_containers/drinks are now /reagent_containers/cup - This is so it's no longer confused with eachother.
* /food/drinks is now /reagent_containers/cup/drinks, so we can keep their special abilities.
* Fixes a LOT of errors with food, which are STILL checking the reagent_containers, despite ACTUAL food being refactored away from it a long time ago.
This doesn't compile yet, but I do want to make sure my progress is well tracked.
* remove copypaste code, changes soda cans
* Removes most copy paste code between the two drinks, moving most stuff to parent whenever needed.
* Made soda cans their own subtype since they didn't share anything with glass bottles anyways.
* Fixes more problems with food/drinks, especially with geese. Geese really were just broken this whole time and no one said a word...
* Removes a snowflake signal, now that both drink types share a common one.
* Adds everything to the .dme
Currently my goal is to get this all compiling, then remove isGlass var by making glass be all glass ones only.
* Moves all icons into a single drinks dmi
I'm not that great at icon stuff, hopefully I didn't forget/break anything.
* Turns juices into their own subtype
This allows us to let them check for type in molotov, to both get rid of a use of isGlass, and so non-glass non-cartons don't show up as 'carton'.
* fixes compile issues, adds updatepaths
* a better updatepaths
* updates the damn maps now
* properly names the updatepath
* how did that get there
* i suck at handling merge conflicts
* how am i this bad
* code improvement and soda fix
* more fixes
* Don't be a timer
Ports from old food bottles to trans the reagents, rather than add a timer to.
* Merge conflicts and fixes bottle smashing
* Bottle smashing is now consistently functional regardless of how much liquid they have in them, when before it would spill first, then smash on the second hit.
* runs updatepaths again
* Removes ComponentInitialize()
Completely removes ComponentInitialize() as a proc, which was called on every single atom in the game, twice in some instances (like new players), over something that can already be done with Initialize().
This is the second attempt at doing this, after the first attempt fell apart for some reason. This time it was way easier though, since storages are no longer a Component.
* update icon blocker added before calling parent
* Update code/game/machinery/porta_turret/portable_turret.dm
Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
* adds a mapload while I'm here
* moves human mood
* Does some UNRELATED thing to the PR
Co-authored-by: Fikou <23585223+Fikou@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
Co-authored-by: Fikou <23585223+Fikou@users.noreply.github.com>
You now left click to climb up and right click to climb down a ladder. A delay of 1 second has also been added, since otherwise it'd take only one click to immediately move vertically and would be much more spammable.
Ghosts still use the old radials, because their right clicks are bound to the default byond popup menu.
ever see the tram take 10 milliseconds per movement to move 2100 objects? now you have
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/15794172/166198184-8bab93bd-f584-4269-9ed1-6aee746f8f3c.mp4
About The Pull Request
fixes#66887
done for the code bounty posted by @MMMiracles to optimize the tram so that it can be sped up. the tram is now twice as fast, firing every tick instead of every 2 ticks. and is now around 10x cheaper to move. also adds support for multiz trams, as in trams that span multiple z levels.
the tram on master takes around 10-15 milliseconds per movement with nothing on it other than its starting contents. why is this? because the tram is the canary in the coal mines when it comes to movement code, which is normally expensive as fuck. the tram does way more work than it needs to, and even finds new ways to slow the game down. I'll walk you through a few of the dumber things the tram currently does and how i fixed them.
the tram, at absolute minimum, has to move 55 separate industrial_lift platforms once per movement. this means that the tram has to unregister its entered/exited signals 55 times when "the tram" as a singular object is only entering 5 new turfs and exiting 5 old turfs every movement, this means that each of the 55 platforms calculates their own destination turfs and checks their contents every movement. The biggest single optimization in this pr was that I made the tram into a single 5x11 multitile object and made it only do entering/exiting checks on the 5 new and 5 old turfs in each movement.
way too many of the default tram contents are expensive to move for something that has to move a lot. fun fact, did you know that the walls on the tram have opacity? do you know what opacity does for movables? it makes them recalculate static lighting every time they move. did you know that the tram, this entire time, was taking JUST as much time spamming SSlighting updates as it was spending time in SStramprocess? well it is! now it doesnt do that, the walls are transparent. also, every window and every grille on the tram had the atmos_sensitive element applied to them which then added connect_loc to them, causing them to update signals every movement. that is also dumb and i got rid of that with snowflake overrides. Now we must take care to not add things that sneakily register to Moved() or the moved signal to the roundstart tram, because that is dumb, and the relative utility of simulating objects that should normally shatter due to heat and conduct heat from the atmosphere is far less than the cost of moving them, for this one object.
all tram contents physically Entered() and Exited() their destination and old turfs every movement, even though because they are on a tram they literally do not interact with the turf, the tram does. also, any objects that use connect_loc or connect_loc behalf that are on the same point on the tram also interact with each other because of this. now all contents of the tram act as if theyre being abstract_move()'d to their destination so that (almost) nothing thats in the destination turf or the exit turf can react to the event of "something laying on the tram is moving over you". the rare things that DO need to know what is physically entering or exiting their turf regardless of whether theyre interacting with the ground can register to the abstract entered and exited signals which are now always sent.
many of the things hooked into Moved(), whether it be overrides of Moved() itself, or handlers for the moved signal, add up to a LOT of processing time. especially for humans. now ive gotten rid of a lot of it, mostly for the tram but also for normal movement. i made footsteps (a significant portion of human movement cost) not do any work if the human themselves didnt do the movement. i optimized has_gravity() a fair amount, and then realized that since everything on the tram isnt changing momentum, i didnt actually need to check gravity for the purposes of drifting (newtonian_move() was taking a significant portion of the cost of movement at some points along the development process). so now it simply doesnt call newtonian_move() for movements that dont represent a change in momentum (by default all movements do).
also i put effort into 1. better organizing tram/lift code so that most of it is inside of a dedicated modules folder instead of scattered around 5 generic folders and 2. moved a lot of behavior from lift platforms themselves into their lift_master_datum since ideally the platforms would just handle moving themselves, while any behavior involving the entire lift such as "move to destination" and "blow up" would be handled by the lift_master_datum.
also
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/15794172/166220129-ff2ea344-442f-4e3e-94f0-ec58ab438563.mp4
multiz tram (this just adds the capability to map it like this, no tram does this)
Actual Performance Differences
to benchmark this, i added a world.Profile(PROFILER_START) and world.Profile(PROFILER_START) to the tram moving, so that it generates a profiler output of all tram movement without any unrelated procs being recorded (except for world.Profile() overhead). this made it a lot easier to quantify what was slowing down both the tram and movement in general. and i did 3 types of tests on both master and my branch.
also i should note that i sped up the "master" tram test to move once per tick as well, simply because the normal movement speed seems unbearably slow now. so all recorded videos are done at twice the speed of the real tram on master. this doesnt affect the main thing i was trying to measure: cost for each movement.
the first test was the base tram, containing only my player mob and the movables starting on the tram roundstart. on master, this takes around 13 milliseconds or so on my computer (which is pretty close to what it takes on the servers), on this branch, it takes between 0.9-1.3 milliseconds.
ALSO in these benchmarks youll see that tram/proc/travel() will vary significantly between the master and optimized branches. this is 100% because there are 55 times more platforms moving on master compared to the master branch, and thus 55x more calls to this proc. every test was recorded with the exact same amount of distance moved
here are the master and optimized benchmark text files:
master
master base tram.txt
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/15794172/166210149-f118683d-6f6d-4dfb-b9e4-14f17b26aad8.mp4
also this shows the increased SSlighting usage resulting from the tram on master spamming updates, which doesnt happen on the optimized branch
optimized
optimization base tram.txt
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/15794172/166206280-cd849aaa-ed3b-4e2f-b741-b8a5726091a9.mp4
the second test is meant to benchmark the best case scaling cost of moving objects, where nothing extra is registered to movement besides the bare minimum stuff on the /atom/movable level. Each of the open tiles of the tram had 1 bluespace rped filled with parts dumped onto it, to the point that the tram in total was moving 2100 objects. the vast majority of these objects did nothing special in movement so they serve as a good base case. only slightly off due to the rped's registering to movement.
on master, this test takes over 100 milliseconds per movement
master 2000 obj's.txt
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/15794172/166210560-f4de620d-7dc6-4dbd-8b61-4a48149af707.mp4
when optimized, about 10 milliseconds per movement
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/15794172/166208654-bc10086b-bbfc-49fa-9987-d7558109cc1d.mp4
optimization 2000 obj's.txt
the third test is 300 humans spawned onto the tram, meant to test all the shit added on to movement cost for humans/carbons. in retrospect this test is actually way too biased in favor of my optimizations since the humans are all in only 3 tiles, so all 100 humans on a tile are reacting to the other 99 humans movements, which wouldnt be as bad if they were distributed across 20 tiles like in the second test. so dont read into this one too hard.
on master, this test takes 200 milliseconds
master 300 catgirls.txt
when optimized, this takes about 13-14 milliseconds.
optimization 300 catgirls on ram ranch.txt
Why It's Good For The Game
the tram is literally 10x cheaper to move. and the code is better organized.
currently on master the tram is as fast as running speed, meaning it has no real relative utility compared to just running the tracks (except for the added safety of not having to risk being ran over by the tram). now the tram of which we have an entire map based around can be used to its full potential.
also, has some fixes to things on the tram reacting to movement. for example on master if you are standing on a tram tile that contains a banana and the TRAM moves, you will slip if the banana was in that spot before you (not if you were there first however). this is because the banana has no concept of relative movement, you and it are in the same reference frame but the banana, which failed highschool physics, believes you to have moved onto it and thus subjected you to the humiliation of an unjust slipping. now since tram contents that dont register to abstract entered/exited cannot know about other tram contents on the same tile during a movement, this cannot happen.
also, you no longer make footstep sounds when the tram moves you over a floor
TODO
mainly opened it now so i can create a stopping point and attend to my other now staling prs, we're at a state of functionality far enough to start testmerging it anyways.
add a better way for admins to be notified of the tram overloading the server if someone purposefully stuffs it with as much shit as they can, and for admins to clear said shit.
automatically slow down the tram if SStramprocess takes over like, 10 milliseconds complete. the tram still cant really check tick and yield without introducing logic holes, so making sure it doesnt take half of the tick every tick is important
go over my code to catch dumb shit i forgot about, there always is for these kinds of refactors because im very messy
remove the area based forced_gravity optimization its not worth figuring out why it doesnt work
fix the inevitable merge conflict with master lol
create an icon for the tram_tunnel area type i made so that objects on the tram dont have to enter and exit areas twice in a cross-station traversal
add an easy way to vv tram lethality for mobs/things being hit by it. its an easy target in another thing i already wanted to do: a reinforced concept of shared variables from any particular tram platform and the entire tram itself. admins should be able to slow down the tram by vv'ing one platform and have it apply to the entire tram for example.
Changelog
cl
balance: the tram is now twice as fast, pray it doesnt get any faster (it cant without raising world fps)
performance: the tram is now about 10 times cheaper to move for the server
add: mappers can now create trams with multiple z levels
code: industrial_lift's now have more of their behavior pertaining to "the entire lift" being handled by their lift_master_datum as opposed to belonging to a random platform on the lift.
/cl
