## About The Pull Request
As the title says. A standard power cell now only stores 10 KJ and
drains power similar to how it did before the refactor to all power
appliances.
The new standard megacell stock part stores 1 MJ (what cells store right
now). APCs and SMESs have had their power cells replaced with these
megacell stock parts instead. Megacells can only be used in APCs and
SMESs. It shouldn't be possible to use megacells in any typical
appliance.
This shouldn't change anything about how much 'use' you can get out of a
power cell in regular practice. Most should operate the same and you
should still get the same amount of shots out of a laser gun, and we can
look at expanding what can be switched over to megacells, e.g. if we
want mechs to require significantly more power than a typical appliance.
Thanks to Meyhazah for the megacell icon sprites.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Power cell consumption is way too high ever since the power appliance
refactor that converted most things to be in joules. It's a bit
ridiculous for most of our machinery to drain the station's power supply
this early on.
The reason it's like this is because regular appliances (laser guns,
borgs, lights) all have a cell type that is identical to the APC/SMES
cell type. And it means that if we want to provide an easy way to charge
these appliances without making it easy to charge APCs/SMESs through a
power bug exploit, we need to introduce a new cell type to differentiate
between what supplies power and regular appliances that use power. This
is primarily what the megacell stock part does.
This moves us back to what it was originally like before the power
refactor, where recharging power cells wouldn't drain an exorbitant
amount of energy. However, it maintains the goal of the original
refactor which was to prevent people from cheesing power generation to
produce an infinite amount of power, as the power that APCs and SMESs
operate at is drastically different from the power that a regular
appliance uses.
## Changelog
🆑 Watermelon, Mayhazah
balance: Drastically reduces the power consumption and max charge of
power cells
balance: Added a new stock part called the battery, used primarily in
the construction of APCs and SMESs.
add: Suiciding with a cell/battery will shock you and potentially dust
you/shock the people around you if the charge is great enough.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Watermelon914 <3052169-Watermelon914@users.noreply.gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Pickle-Coding <58013024+Pickle-Coding@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
This PR introduces a number of minor quality of life improvements to
already existing circuit components, and adds three new components.
<img width="600" alt="preview"
src="https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/80724828/85d39b6d-b055-430e-8996-0da088616887">
## Why It's Good For The Game
This improves the overall experience for circuits.
### UI changes
<img width="550" alt="grid aligned"
src="https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/80724828/cc7b43b5-292f-4643-beab-e01ae675fb19">
Grid align is now an option for circuit designers. It will round objects
to the nearest 10px units internally, and can be toggled on/off by the
new additional button beside the component menu button. This makes
circuits easier on the eyes as things are pixel perfect aligned.
<img width="814" alt="tooltips"
src="https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/80724828/0d31c98f-3be9-46e0-ab37-20bac3799112">
All three buttons have been given tool tips.
### Tweaked Components
<img width="136" alt="voice activator"
src="https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/80724828/21dd0f65-cb98-4bd5-aeb0-63315e842cb6">
* Adds a on/off flag to the voice activator component
-- This saves power for circuits as you're not forced to use a compare
flag check to turn off voice activation
<img width="136" alt="speech"
src="https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/80724828/9137b76c-3077-4597-8411-2d9694b39e9e">
* Adds a quiet mode flag to speech component
-- This is ideal when you want a device to speak, but don't want other
people to hear. A good example would be a handheld translator that you
only want to hear yourself.
### New Components
<img width="136" alt="ntnet list literal"
src="https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/80724828/657c851b-d442-4a63-8650-410cb8e76089">
* An NTNet Send component that allows everything to be input much like
the list literal component
-- This makes sending stuff over NTNet easier for the user, and use less
power as it won't require an additional list literal component
<img width="136" alt="compare health state"
src="https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/80724828/0bed076c-3aa1-4931-af90-2b9eb8e1ae9a">
* A health comparison component that checks the entity's health state,
and can return true or false depending if the entity is alive, sleeping,
unconscious, critical or dead
-- This could be achieved by using a health sensor and a compare
component, however it lacks the ability to know when a entity is
unconscious or sleeping
<img width="136" alt="toggle"
src="https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/80724828/7017b6bf-937a-42ad-87f3-4f1134853ac3">
* A quick toggle component to allow the switching between a true and
false state
-- This could be achieved by using a logic component and self linking,
however this makes it far easier for newcomers to make something as
simple as an on/off switch (such as a handheld translator which uses the
front button to turn on/off)
## Changelog
🆑
qol: Add tooltips to circuit editor buttons
qol: Add grid alignment mode to circuit editor
add: Added new compare health state component
add: Added new NTNet send list literal component
add: Added new toggle component
qol: Added activity toggle to voice activator component
qol: Added quiet mode to speech component
qol: NTNet send component will not use power/trigger if NTNet is offline
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#82440
This PR just creates a new macro, `LOWER_TEXT()` (yes the irony is not
lost on me) to wrap around all calls of `lowertext()` and ensure that
whatever we input into that proc will be stringified using the `"[]"`
(or `tostring()` for the nerds) operator. very simple.
I also added a linter to enforce this (and prevent all forms of
regression) because I think that machines should do the menial work and
we shouldn't expect maintainers to remember this, let me know if you
disagree. if there is a time when it should be opted out for some
reason, the linter does respect it if you wrap your input with the
`UNLINT()` function.
## About The Pull Request
Removes all arbitrary energy and power units in the codebase. Everything
is replaced with the joule and watt, with 1 = 1 joule, or 1 watt if you
are going to multiply by time. This is a visible change, where all
arbitrary energy units you see in the game will get proper prefixed
units of energy.
With power cells being converted to the joule, charging one joule of a
power cell will require one joule of energy.
The grid will now store energy, instead of power. When an energy usage
is described as using the watt, a power to energy conversion based on
the relevant subsystem's timing (usually multiplying by seconds_per_tick
or applying power_to_energy()) is needed before adding or removing from
the grid. Power usages that are described as the watt is really anything
you would scale by time before applying the load. If it's described as a
joule, no time conversion is needed. Players will still read the grid as
power, having no visible change.
Machines that dynamically use power with the use_power() proc will
directly drain from the grid (and apc cell if there isn't enough)
instead of just tallying it up on the dynamic power usages for the area.
This should be more robust at conserving energy as the surplus is
updated on the go, preventing charging cells from nothing.
APCs no longer consume power for the dynamic power usage channels. APCs
will consume power for static power usages. Because static power usages
are added up without checking surplus, static power consumption will be
applied before any machine processes. This will give a more truthful
surplus for dynamic power consumers.
APCs will display how much power it is using for charging the cell. APC
cell charging applies power in its own channel, which gets added up to
the total. This will prevent invisible power usage you see when looking
at the power monitoring console.
After testing in MetaStation, I found roundstart power consumption to be
around 406kW after all APCs get fully charged. During the roundstart APC
charge rush, the power consumption can get as high as over 2MW (up to
25kW per roundstart APC charging) as long as there's that much
available.
Because of the absurd potential power consumption of charging APCs near
roundstart, I have changed how APCs decide to charge. APCs will now
charge only after all other machines have processed in the machines
processing subsystem. This will make sure APC charging won't disrupt
machines taking from the grid, and should stop APCs getting their power
drained due to others demanding too much power while charging. I have
removed the delays for APC charging too, so they start charging
immediately whenever there's excess power. It also stops them turning
red when a small amount of cell gets drained (airlocks opening and shit
during APC charge rush), as they immediately become fully charged
(unless too much energy got drained somehow) before changing icon.
Engineering SMES now start at 100% charge instead of 75%. I noticed
cells were draining earlier than usual after these changes, so I am
making them start maxed to try and combat that.
These changes will fix all conservation of energy issues relating to
charging powercells.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Closes#73438Closes#75789Closes#80634Closes#82031
Makes it much easier to interface with the power system in the codebase.
It's more intuitive. Removes a bunch of conservation of energy issues,
making energy and power much more meaningful. It will help the
simulation remain immersive as players won't encounter energy
duplication so easily. Arbitrary energy units getting replaced with the
joule will also tell people more meaningful information when reading it.
APC charging will feel more snappy.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Fixes conservation of energy issues relating to charging
powercells.
qol: APCs will display how much power they are using to charge their
cell. This is accounted for in the power monitoring console.
qol: All arbitrary power cell energy units you see are replaced with
prefixed joules.
balance: As a consequence of the conservation of energy issues getting
fixed, the power consumption for charging cells is now very significant.
balance: APCs only use surplus power from the grid after every machine
processes when charging, preventing APCs from causing others to
discharge while charging.
balance: Engineering SMES start at max charge to combat the increased
energy loss due to conservation of energy fixes.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: SyncIt21 <110812394+SyncIt21@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
This PR integrates circuits for modular computers and a good bits of
their programs.
The peculiarity here is that modular computers have no fixed amount of
unremovable components (except the base one with just a couple ports for
now), instead, they're added and removed along with programs. With a few
exceptions (such as the messenger and signaler), for these program
circuits to work, their associated program has to be either open or in
the background.
For a reason or another, not all programs have a circuit associated to
them, still, however the programs with a circuit are still a handful.
They are:
- Nanotrasen Pay System
- Notepad
- SiliConnect
- WireCarp
- MODsuit Control
- Spectre Meter
- Direct Messenger*
- LifeConnect
- Custodial Locator
- Fission360
- Camera
- Status Display
- SignalCommander
*By the by, sending messages has a cooldown, so it shouldn't be as
spammy. If it turns out to not be enough, I can make it so messages from
circuit will be ignored by other messenger circuits.
The PR is no longer WIP.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I believe modular computers could make for some interesting setups with
circuits, since they're fairly flexible and stocked with features unlike
many other appliances, therefore also a speck more abusable, though
limits, cooldowns, logging and sanitization have been implemented to
keep it in check.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Modular Computers now support integrated circuits. What can be done
with them depends on the programs installed and whether they're running
(open or background).
add: Modular Consoles (the machinery) now have a small backup cell they
draw power from if the power goes out.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
I woke up today and thought 'what would be easy thing to do today so I
can say I've done something?'. Then I remembered I saw several gangtool
usages the time I split radio up, and I could remedy those. 7 hours
later, device.dmi is split in a folder of its own, and I've also given
unique sprites to door remotes and landing desginators.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The device.dmi was kind of a mess.
## Changelog
🆑
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Third /icon/ cleansing splinter 1. Comments on commits say all it does
pretty much.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Inhand for walkietalkie was requested in the project, gets rid of some
usecases of old 'gangtool', headset splitoff requested by Fazzie.
Inhands reflecting the items they are supposed to represent is nice.
## Changelog
🆑
image: Following now have unique item sprites: syndicate war declaration
radio, curator and chief beacon's, chaplain beacon.
image: Following now have unique inhand sprites: radio, export scanner,
walkie-talkie, syndicate war declaration radio, curator and chief
beacon's, chaplain beacon.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Further continous organizing and cleaning the Icons folder. There are
still some minior nitpicks left to do, but I reached my daily sanity
expenses limit again, and the faster these get in the less issues for
both me and others later. Also cleans some mess I caused by my blindness
last PR.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Saner spriters = better sprites
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>
fix: Fixed a bunch of missing inhand icons.
fix: Fixed cables in electrical toolboxes not randomizing their colors.
fix: Fixed the wrong colored icon showing when trying to make cable cuffs out of cables.
fix: The collectable SWAT helmet is now using the proper icon again!
refactor: Pipecleaners and power cables now share a unified color system, so they're once again available in ALL the same colors.
imageadd: Updated the screwdriver belt overlay to represent the newer sprite.
imageadd: Added a bunch of new inhand icons. Special thanks to Twaticus for doing the helmets! <3
fix: Wirecutters now have an icon when inside a belt again!
admin: Added a new omnitool subtype that allows you to spawn all items in a typepath!
fix: Explorer gaskmasks now properly reflect their adjusted state when held.
fix: Fixed balaclavas having the wrong icon when pulled up.
fix: Fixed the base energy sword (admin spawn only) being invisible.
fix: The rainbow energy sword is now a little bit more rainbowy!
fix: Fixed an tk exploit with orange handcuffed shoes.
fix: The traitor outfit in the select equipment panel is now actually functional!
The USB connections for air alarms have been improved and now include scrubber control, vent control and the setting of the air alarm mode. Also fixes a bug where the limits were not being properly set.
The scrubber, vent and limit control can be duplicated in the circuit to allow multiple limits/scrubbers/vents to be controlled by one circuit.
Any airlock can be made into a shell during construction by configuring the airlock electronic before insert.
* Refactored fundamental circuit components that have varying inputs. Made the integrated circuit UI slightly better.
* Fixes with UI
* Removes logger
* Ran prettier
* Fixed documentation
* Rebalances drone circuit
* Drones can now charge in chargers
Co-authored-by: Watermelon914 <hidden@hidden.com>
About The Pull Request
Fixes some cases in which actual references were used in trait sources instead of keys (or ref() keys).
This can cause some rare and difficult to find hard deletes.
Trait sources should be a string key relating to the source of it, not an actual reference to what added it. References within trait sources are never handled in Destroy(), because it's not expected behavior, meaning it can cause hanging references.
So, I went through with a regex to find some cases and replaced them.
I used the following and just picked through the few by hand to find erroneous ones.
ADD_TRAIT\(.+, .+, [a-z]+\)
REMOVE_TRAIT_TRAIT\(.+, .+, [a-z]+\)
Why It's Good For The Game
Less hard deletes, probably.
Changelog
cl Melbert
code: Some traits which mistakenly were sourced from a hard reference are no longer.
/cl
I'm adding a circuit component that can print text string on a paper object in a variety of colors and font typefaces (currently only web-safe ones are available, maybe i'll add some fancy ones in the future but they'd need to be imported either through @import of @font-face in a separate CSS not imported by every tgui UI).
It's important to note that because the UI sanitizes new text inputed by users and not what's already written on the paper (so the pen_color and pen_font don't be purged in the process), we can't safely have these strings "printed" into the info variable directly, because of that these values will be stored in two new list variables, one for the text and one for font color, face and the signature. When the paper sheet UI is opened, these will be sanitized and then parsed into the text, so the next time the paper is edited we can clear these two lists.
Obviously better than a hacky byond proc - parsemarkdown() is outdated af -, albeit a bit messy... like the rest of paper code.
Requires #62033.
Components like the MMI one can't be added to circuits more than once since they may register signals with same proctype and similar things which make for some tangled up race conditions if more than one is present.
Unfortunately this safety can be bypassed - with little gain alas, an MMI can't be inserted by attacking the component with it. it needs a shell - by using a module component. That's no good. So I'm adding a flag that can be used to stop certain components from being added to module components.
## About The Pull Request
stop forgetting to include mapload, if you don't include it then every single subtype past it by default doesn't include it
for example, `obj/item` didn't include mapload so every single item by default didn't fill in mapload
## Regex used:
procs without args, not even regex
`/Initialize()`
procs with args
`\/Initialize\((?!mapload)((.)*\w)?`
cleanup of things i didn't want to mapload:
`\/datum\/(.)*\/Initialize\(mapload`
