About The Pull Request
I've reworked multiz. This was done because our current implementation of multiz flattens planes down into just the openspace plane. This breaks any effects we attach to plane masters (including lighting), but it also totally kills the SIDE_MAP map format, which we NEED for wallening (A major 3/4ths resprite of all wall and wall adjacent things, making them more then one tile high. Without sidemap we would be unable to display things both in from of and behind objects on map. Stupid.)
This required MASSIVE changes. Both to all uses of the plane var for reasons I'll discuss later, and to a ton of different systems that interact with rendering.
I'll do my best to keep this compact, but there's only so much I can do. Sorry brother.
Core idea
OK: first thing.
vis_contents as it works now squishes the planes of everything inside it down into the plane of the vis_loc.
This is bad. But how to do better?
It's trivially easy to make copies of our existing plane masters but offset, and relay them to the bottom of the plane above. Not a problem. The issue is how to get the actual atoms on the map to "land" on them properly.
We could use FLOAT_PLANE to offset planes based off how they're being seen, in theory this would allow us to create lens for how objects are viewed.
But that's not a stable thing to do, because properly "landing" a plane on a desired plane master would require taking into account every bit of how it's being seen, would inherently break this effect.
Ok so we need to manually edit planes based off "z layer" (IE: what layer of a z stack are you on).
That's the key conceit of this pr. Implementing the plane cube, and ensuring planes are always offset properly.
Everything else is just gravy.
About the Plane Cube
Each plane master (except ones that opt out) is copied down by some constant value equal to the max absolute change between the first and the last plane.
We do this based off the max z stack size detected by SSmapping. This is also where updates come from, and where all our updating logic will live.
As mentioned, plane masters can choose to opt out of being mirrored down. In this case, anything that interacts with them assuming that they'll be offset will instead just get back the valid plane value. This works for render targets too, since I had to work them into the system as well.
Plane masters can also be temporarily hidden from the client's screen. This is done as an attempt at optimization, and applies to anything used in niche cases, or planes only used if there's a z layer below you.
About Plane Master Groups
BYOND supports having different "maps" on screen at once (IE: groups of items/turfs/etc)
Plane masters cannot cover 2 maps at once, since their location is determined by their screen_loc.
So we need to maintain a mirror of each plane for every map we have open.
This was quite messy, so I've refactored it (and maps too) to be a bit more modular.
Rather then storing a list of plane masters, we store a list of plane master group datums.
Each datum is in charge of the plane masters for its particular map, both creating them, and managing them.
Like I mentioned, I also refactored map views. Adding a new mapview is now as simple as newing a /atom/movable/screen/map_view, calling generate_view with the appropriate map id, setting things you want to display in its vis_contents, and then calling display_to on it, passing in the mob to show ourselves to.
Much better then the hardcoded pattern we used to use. So much duplicated code man.
Oh and plane master controllers, that system we have that allows for applying filters to sets of plane masters? I've made it use lookups on plane master groups now, rather then hanging references to all impacted planes. This makes logic easier, and prevents the need to manage references and update the controllers.
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In addition, I've added a debug ui for plane masters.
It allows you to view all of your own plane masters and short descriptions of what they do, alongside tools for editing them and their relays.
It ALSO supports editing someone elses plane masters, AND it supports (in a very fragile and incomplete manner) viewing literally through someone else's eyes, including their plane masters. This is very useful, because it means you can debug "hey my X is yorked" issues yourself, on live.
In order to accomplish this I have needed to add setters for an ungodly amount of visual impacting vars. Sight flags, eye, see_invis, see_in_dark, etc.
It also comes with an info dump about the ui, and plane masters/relays in general.
Sort of on that note. I've documented everything I know that's niche/useful about our visual effects and rendering system. My hope is this will serve to bring people up to speed on what can be done more quickly, alongside making my sin here less horrible.
See https://github.com/LemonInTheDark/tgstation/blob/multiz-hell/.github/guides/VISUALS.md.
"Landing" planes
Ok so I've explained the backend, but how do we actually land planes properly?
Most of the time this is really simple. When a plane var is set, we need to provide some spokesperson for the appearance's z level. We can use this to derive their z layer, and thus what offset to use.
This is just a lot of gruntwork, but it's occasionally more complex.
Sometimes we need to cache a list of z layer -> effect, and then use that.
Also a LOT of updating on z move. So much z move shit.
Oh. and in order to make byond darkness work properly, I needed to add SEE_BLACKNESS to all sight flags.
This draws darkness to plane 0, which means I'm able to relay it around and draw it on different z layers as is possible. fun darkness ripple effects incoming someday
I also need to update mob overlays on move.
I do this by realiizing their appearances, mutating their plane, and then readding the overlay in the correct order.
The cost of this is currently 3N. I'm convinced this could be improved, but I've not got to it yet.
It can also occasionally cause overlays to corrupt. This is fixed by laying a protective ward of overlays.Copy in the sand, but that spell makes the compiler confused, so I'll have to bully lummy about fixing it at some point.
Behavior changes
We've had to give up on the already broken gateway "see through" effect. Won't work without managing gateway plane masters or something stupid. Not worth it.
So instead we display the other side as a ui element. It's worse, but not that bad.
Because vis_contents no longer flattens planes (most of the time), some uses of it now have interesting behavior.
The main thing that comes to mind is alert popups that display mobs. They can impact the lighting plane.
I don't really care, but it should be fixable, I think, given elbow grease.
Ah and I've cleaned up layers and plane defines to make them a bit easier to read/reason about, at least I think.
Why It's Good For The Game
<visual candy>
Fixes#65800Fixes#68461
Changelog
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refactor: Refactored... well a lot really. Map views, anything to do with planes, multiz, a shit ton of rendering stuff. Basically if you see anything off visually report it
admin: VV a mob, and hit View/Edit Planes in the dropdown to steal their view, and modify it as you like. You can do the same to yourself using the Edit/Debug Planes verb
/cl
* Removes overlay queuing, saves 6/7 seconds of initialize. Lightly modifies stat tracking macros
So we have this overlay queuing system right? It's build with the assumption
that the "add to overlay list" operation is real expensive, and is
thus useful to queue removals or additions.
It turns out that it just isn't, at least during init. In my testing the
operation of queuing took LONGER then the actual overlay add/remove did.
That's ignoring the cost of the subsystem's work.
I've also modified part of the stat tracking macro, since it took a good
bit of cpu time, and didn't seem to well, do anything. So far as I can
tell it always evaluates to 1
About The Pull Request
Reorganizes the entire icons/mob folder.
Added the following new subfolders:
nonhuman-player (this was initially just called "antag", but then I realized guardians aren't technically antags)
simplemob
silicon
effects (for bloodstains, fire, etc)
simplemob/held-pets (for exactly that -- I wasn't sure if this should go in inhands instead)
species/monkey
Moves the following stuff:
All human parts moved into species, with moth, lizard, monkey, etc parts moved to corresponding subfolders. Previously, there were some moth parts in mob/species/moth, and others just loose in mob. Other species were similar.
icemoon, lavaland, and jungle folders made into subfolders of simplemob
All AI and silicon stuff, as well as Beepsky et al. into the silicon folder, simplemobs into the simplemob folder, aliens into the nonhuman-player folder, etc.
Split up animal_parts.dmi into two bodyparts.dmi which were put in their respective folders (species/alien and species/monkey)
Code changes:
Filepath changes to account for all of this
Adds a check when performing surgery on monkeys and xenos, because we can no longer assume their limbs are in the same file
Turns some hardcoded statues and showcases that were built into maps into objects instead
Things I'd like to do in the future but cant be assed right now:
Remove primarily-antag sprites from simplemob/mob.dmi (Revenant, Morph, etc.) and put them in the nonhuman-player folder
Split up mutant_bodyparts.dmi into different files for Tizirans, Felinids, monkeys, etc and put them in their own folders. Those may have once been meant primarily for mutated humans but that's now how they're being used right now.
* Adds lazyloading to the asset subsystems
This currently applies only to spritesheets because of how monumentally
expensive they are.
If an asset is requested it will immediately be fully loaded, but
otherwise we slowly load them in with a separate subsystem.
This allows us to not hold up initialize with hair stuff. Saves roughly
33% (16 seconds with LOW_MEMORY_MODE) of initialize on my machine
My target is something closer to the 9 second init that had back in
2019, this is a good first step. Lets see how much more we can do yeah
lads?
Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
New preference, like security department, but for prisoners. They can pick why they're in prison, and they'll get a record about it roundstart.
Classified and Other are for people who want to build their own background, that none of the options currently fit.
Current options:
Abhorrent Criminal Negligence = Incompetently risked numerous lives.
Attempted Development of Cloning = Attempted illegal research in the cloning sphere. Cloning, cloning construction, and cloning-related R&D was outlawed in 2560.
Attempted Murder = Attempted to maliciously kill someone.
Classified = Consult Legal.
Corporate Espionage = Conducted espionage against Nanotrasen for commercial purposes.
Counterfeiting = Engaged in widespread fraud.
Enemy of the Corporation = Acted as or knowingly aided an enemy of Nanotrasen.
Grand Sabotage = Engaged in malicious destructive actions seriously threatening Nanotrasen employees and or infrastructure.
Grand Theft = Stole items of high value or sensitive nature.
Identity Theft of High-Ranking Figure = Impersonated a high-ranking figure.
Murder = Maliciously killed someone.
Mutiny = Attempted to overthrow/subvert Chain of Command.
Other = Consult Legal.
Tampering of Artificial Intelligence = Uploaded malicious negligent or otherwise blacklisted directives to an Artificial Intelligence.
Worship of Blacklisted Deities = Practiced worship of blacklisted deities.
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
Hey there,
Ever since November of 2021, I've wanted something where I could simply not get any ghost roles while adminned. Some people also do not want to get any ghost rolls whatsoever when they play, for it is their personal preference. This PR seeks to resolve both of these issues with two new preferences.
The first preference will show up to everyone, Suppress All Ghost Rolls. It will return on the main proc that pops up the window, does the sound, all that. You will not hear a peep of a word out of your game. This is dangerous if you like playing as ghost roles, but if you abhor the thought of it... it's just for you.
The second preference is for admins. You can selectively suppress ghost roles while adminned. This is useful because when you're running an event or doing stuff where you need to offer multiple ghost roles (or you need to focus on a ticket and someone is spamming Xenobiology mob spawns), this is absolutely perfect for suppressing. Same return as the player option, but it checks to see if you are currently adminned via the client.holder variable. This is just because some admins (i'm some admins) don't want to turn in on just in case they forget to turn it off down the line because they actually play the game (lying).
There's probably a much cleaner way to do this code-wise, but I couldn't figure it out. Any help is appreciated. I tested it extensively on my local (even using a guest account), and everything seems to work rather nicely after about an hour of trial-and-error.
Why It's Good For The Game
Players who want to just alt-tab or maybe chill in deadchat (or have an extreme loathing of ghost roles) can just simply not get any of that. Admins who want to focus on tickets and not have windows pop up to interfere in good administrative work (and be the most annoying thing in the world) can also do that. Everyone is happy.
Changelog
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qol: There is now a new preference in Game Preferences, Suppress All Ghost Rolls. If you tick this preference, you will not get a singular window pop-up whenever a Ghost Role is available. Intended for the few who really do need it.
admin: Admins get another additional preference where Suppress All Ghost Roles only works while they are currently in an adminned state. They will still get ghost rolls normally when they are in a deadminned state.
/cl
* Fuck you (refactors ur tails)
* Errors
* Wow. Pain.
* Fixes up probably everything
* finish up here
* Fixes hard del maybe
* original owner hard del
* garbage collection runtime
* suck my peen byond
* Mapped tails
* motherfucker.
* motherrfucker. again.
* Whooopppppsie
* yeah bad idea
* Turns out external organs literally just sat in nullspace forever if their parent was deleted, and didnt Remove() themselves, causing harddels.
* So anyways I repathed all organs
* Fixes
* really.
* unit test... test
* unit test-test but it passes linters this time because im a moh-ron
* I've lost track of what im doing at this point
* Hopefully fixes hard del?
* meh
* Update code/datums/dna.dm
* things n stuff
* repath from master pull
* refactor it back to a single organ but with different eye vars
* nOt In A LoOp
* forgot emissive overlay
* remove old obscured var
* quirk
* fine we do it like this, PAIN
* add applying_preference paramter to is_accessible and check for it when applying
* update dummy on quirk change
* client might not exist if we are applying the preference, because unit tests
* unique icon
* lazy webedit review
* revert is_accessible refactor
* mild stupid
* change the way heterochromia is applied
* better handling
* Apply suggestions from code review
* add apply to human behaviour
* hopefully fix that which the merge hooks broke
* Update code/datums/quirks/neutral.dm
* Web commit for shame
* Update code/datums/quirks/neutral.dm
* Update code/datums/quirks/neutral.dm
Co-authored-by: Ryll Ryll <3589655+Ryll-Ryll@users.noreply.github.com>
* Update basic.dm
Co-authored-by: Ryll Ryll <3589655+Ryll-Ryll@users.noreply.github.com>
* Adds MC initialization stages. Earlier stages can fire while later ones init.
Removes TICK_LIMIT_MC_INIT config for barely doing anything to speed up init and being inconvenient to work with if fires and inits can happen at the same time.
Converts PDA functions and applications over to modular tablets and devices, namely the messaging function. HREF data code is quite honestly clunky and difficult to work with, as I've definitely experienced whilst working on this. By moving from this system over the easier to read (and frankly, easier to add to) TGUI system, you get cleaner looking and more user friendly UIs and a greater degree of standardization amongst other UIs.
Co-authored-by: Seth Scherer <supernovaa41@gmx.com>
Co-authored-by: GoldenAlpharex <58045821+GoldenAlpharex@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Aleksej Komarov <stylemistake@gmail.com>
* i wanna go to bed so im pushing this
* It compiles but doesn't work yet
* It works!
* I WANT TO DIE
* Appease linters
* some CI fixes
* Address reviews + oversight
* Limb grower fix
* more icon fixes
* forgot to hit save
* I'm a dumbass
* Removes bodypart parent from unit test
* Fixes monkeys and CI
* Grammar pass
* I hate zombie code so much
* General code cleanup
* THE SHITCODERS ARE COMING FOR MY VARS
* THE UNIT TESTS ARE COMING FOR MY SHITCODE
* Reviews + skirts
* Removes an unused DMI
* Why didn't I do this in the first place?
* HAIR REFACTOR
* Haha whoops
* How did I miss this
* Admin spawned creatures now have their features
* Optimize me harder
* minor fix i need to push to merge master
* Fixes hair (maybe) and a runtime
* Maybe fixes mirrors
* Attempts to fix women
* Fixes hair on dismembered heads and a grammar change
* Caps lock did me dirty
* address reviews
* icon failures fix + missed reviews
* Fixes: Facehuggers and Regenerate_limb
* Fixes ethereal color pref appearance
* How the fuck did this not break everything else horribly?
* JESUS FUCKING CHRIST IM A MORON
* Fixes compile
* I'm not high I swear
* Im a dipshiiiit
* grumble grumble
* Fixes a visual bug with digitigrade legs. Adds \improper to roundstart species names. Added two new clothing-related helper procs. Renamed a couple procs to be more accurate. Adds SHOULD_CALL_PARENT(TRUE) to examine_more. Addresses reviews.
* Forgot this little readability thing.
* Updates CODEOWNERS
* Me when I forget how github works
* mapload me harder
* Last second fixes
About The Pull Request
I noticed a lot of strange and un-intuitive behavior in action buttons, and got stung by the bloat bug. Damn it hug #58027
I'll do my best to explain what I've changed and why, might get a bit long.
If you want a better idea, read the commits. Most of em are pretty solid, if long.
Whelp. Here we go.
How do action buttons currently work
All action buttons are draggable, to any place on the screen. They're held in an actions list on the player's mob.
Their location in this list determines their position on the top of the screen. If one is dragged away from the top, its position in the list is "saved". This looks really bad.
If two buttons are dragged over each other, their positions swap. (inside the actions list too)
If a button is shift clicked, it is brought back to the position it started at.
If the action collapse button that you likely just mentally edit out is alt clicked, it resets the position of all action buttons on the screen.
If an action is ctrl clicked, it is "locked". This prevents any future position changes, and also enables a saving feature. With this saving feature, locked button positions persist between rounds. So your first o2 canister will always start where you saved it, etc.
Actions and buttons are a one to one link. While there is functionality to share action buttons between two players, this means showing the same object to both. So one player can move a button on another's screen. Horrendous.
This also makes code that modifies properties of the screen object itself very clunky.
Why is this bad
A: None knew pretty much any of this information. It is actually documented, just in a horribly formatted screen tip on the collapse button, you know the one we all mentally delete from the hud.
B: None of this is intuitive. Dragging buttons makes the hud look much worse, and you get no feedback that you even can drag them. Depressing
C: We use actions to make new options clear to the player. This means players can have a lot of action buttons on the hud. This gets cluttery
D: The collapse button is useless. It lets you clear your screen if someone like me fucks up and gives you 2000 actions, but outside of that it just hides all information from you. You never want to see none of your action buttons, just a filtered list of them.
E: On a technical level, they're quite messy, and not fully functionally complete. This is depressing.
What I've done
Assuming the above to be true, how do we fix them?
Well first I'm going to go over everything I changed, including links to major commits. I'll then describe the finished product, and why I made the decisions I did.
Oh and I've moved some of the more niche or technical discussion to dropdowns. Hopefully this makes finding the major functional changes easier
Adds helper procs for turning screen_loc strings into more manageable arrays. This doesn't fully support all of the screen_loc spec, but it's enough for what I'm doing. (f54865f)
Uses these helper procs to improve existing code (6273b93)
Fixes an issue with tooltip code itself. If you tried to hold down a mouse button while dragging onto a tooltip enabled object, it would silently fail. The js made assumptions about the order args came in, which broke when buttons were held down (e0e42f6)
Adds a signal linked to /client/Click(). Surprised we didn't have this before honestly (c491a4a)
Makes /client/MouseDrag() return parent. If we don't do this, any overrides of MouseDrag will never actually be called (2190b2a)
Refactors how action buttons work under the hood (53ccce2)
Basically, rather then generating one button per action, we generate one button per viewer
Starts to change button behavior, more cleanup
Changes the mouse cursor when an action button is dragged. Hopefully
this makes moving things feel less like an accident, and makes you doing
it more clear
Removes the moved and locked vars. This will be more relevant later, but
for now:
Moved exists as a sort of budget "We've been dragged" variable. We can
handle this more cleanly, and the movable type doesn't care about it
Locked is a very old variable that is also not something that the
movable type "owns". It's more an action button thing that's been moved
down.
It exists so an action can be locked in place, and in that locking, be
treated as a "saved location"
(21e20fc)
Because I've nuked move, we don't need to directly set our button's
position. We can use the default_button_position var instead. This is
quite handy.
Please ignore position_action, I will explain that later
(83e265e)
Removes the buttons locked pref
It was another obscure part of action buttons, basically do buttons
start "locked" or not. See previous discussion of locked
(b58b1bd)
Major rework starts here
Alright. Sorry for this, this is where me not commiting regularly starts
to suck. I'll do my best though.
Rather then figuring out an action button's position via a combination
of the moved and ordered vars, we use a separate location var to store
one of a few defines. This makes life later much easier.
Adds tooltip support for dragging action buttons. The way the tooltip
just froze in place when dragging really bugged me, and lead to some
nasty visual artifacts.
This is a bit messy because the drag procs are horrible, but it's
workable
Dropping a button on another button will no longer swap their positions
Behavior instead depends on the target button.
If it's a part of a group (A concept I will explain later) the dragged
button is simply inserted before it in the group's list.
If it's floating on the general hud, we instead position the dragged
button to its right. There's extra logic here to ensure buttons will
never overflow the screen, but I'll get into that later.
Alright. That's most of the refactoring. Time for the larger behavior
changes.
Adds a button palette. This is a separate dropdown that renders
underneath buttons.
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The idea is to allow for a conceptual separation between "important"
buttons and the ones that end up cluttering the screen.
You can click on the dropdown to open it, then any later clicks that
don't involve actions in some way will autoclose it.
My goal is to come up with an alternative for the action button that
just acted as a way to hide all buttons on screen. Not convinced it saw
much use.
As a side effect of removing that, I've moved its tooltip stuff to the
palette. I've properly formatted it, so hopefully it's easier to read
then the jumble that we used to have.
(You can alt click the palette button to reset all button positions)
Oh and the palette can scroll, since as you'll see later it has a
limited size.
image
Moving on from that, I've added what amounts to action landing buttons.
These allow buttons to rejoin groups, or be positioned at the end of a
line of buttons.
image
They've got a 32x32 hitbox, and only show up when dragging. Hopefully
this makes the system more clear just by dragging an action.
Oh and I've changed how button position updating works. The old system
of calling update_action_buttons on mob every time an action button
changes position is gone, mostly because I've setup more robust
grouping. Will discuss when I get to huds
(0d1e93f)
Adds the backbone behind action button position changes (94133bd)
Moves hud defines to the global folder, safer this way (7260117)
Adds color changing to the palette button, giving some heads up for buttons being inserted into the palette automatically
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Ensures a landing button is always shown, even if it needs to break the
max row rule
Makes palettes auto contract if they have no buttons inside them
Prevents palettes from being opened if they have no buttons inside them
(f9417f3)
How it looks
2022-02-26.02-30-10.mp4
Why It's Good For The Game
Players have more control over the clutter on their screen.
Buttons are available, but not in the way,
Since any player move of a button saves it, any lack of clarity in the way buttons work will be forced out by buttons not just resetting when a new game starts.
We don't overlap any existing screen elements, unless the upper button list gets really long.
The code is much less crummy (I think, may have made it worse it's hard for me to judge my own work)
If it ends up not being as usable as I'd like, I'll rip out the existing changes and just implement the qol and backend stuff. I think it's worth doing though.
Changelog
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add: Expanded heavily on action buttons
add: Adds an action button dropdown that sits just under the normal list in the top left. You can drag new buttons onto it to insert them. Click on it to show its contents, do what you want to do, then click again anywhere to contract it. Alt click it to reset all button positions
add: Action buttons will now remember their position between rounds. So if you really like your flashlight right next to your player for some reason, we support that now
add: When you start to drag an action button, docking ports will appear in places that it can be inserted into. (Outside of just floating somewhere on your screen of course)
del: Removed action button locking, and the associated preference. I'm reasonably sure literally none uses this, but if you do hit me up
qol: Dragging an action button will now give you an outline of its size around your cursor
fix: You can no longer cause the screen to expand by putting an action button on the edge of widescreen, and then resizing to standard.
refactor: Refactors action and button code significantly. lots of little things.
/cl
* Changes the default ghost lighting, makes it a preference
I think the way ghost lighting looks right now is really crummy.
It's dark enough you can see where the shadows should be, but it's just
bright enough for everything to look like dog poo
A lot of what makes the game look nice is the depth of the lighting
and if we just hide that for observers we're shooting ourselves in the
foot.
I'm also making it a game preference, so if someone wants to have bad
opinions they can easily.
* Restores the Persistant Scars preference
I also had to remove some raw READ_FILE()s because that was now useless. I was thus able to remove the persistent_scars variable from the prefs, as it is now a standalone preference.
* I forgor...
Adds the foundational system for contextual screentips, which will show you what you can do with objects/items, including through context, such as what you are holding.
Provides several helper elements for most use cases, and applies it to a handful of common objects in order to show the full breadth of the system.
Changes screentips preference from on/off to on/off/only with context. Players who originally had it on off will have it migrated to only with context, though can re-disable it.
makes most updating stat panel tabs update once every 4 seconds instead of 4 deciseconds, but switching tabs instantly updates statpanel data for you. also makes examining a turf make flat icons for a maximum of 10 contents instead of 30 because its ridiculous to call getFuckingFlatIcon() wrappers that many times. also makes SSfluids not have SS_TICKER and updates its wait accordingly because theres no reason for it to be a ticker subsystem
the mc tab updates every 2 seconds unless someone has the pref enabled to refresh it quickly because SOME UNILLUMINATED LEMONS absolutely must watch overtime spikes in real time
statpanels can take between 1-3% of masters total processing time at very high pop, which is silly considering theres no need for someone to know any of the data updated accurate to less than half of a second. The only reason it needed to update so fast was because it looked awful when switching tabs, which will only be updated on the next fire. now switching tabs updates data instantly so theres no need to update the rest of the data quickly.
also makes each stat tab update into its own proc so we can tell how much each tab update costs
Preference asset creation, which while consistently created in early assets, can be requested at any time before then and often is, currently takes about 15 to 25 seconds to produce. Because of extremely hard to reproduce BYOND icon bugs, most of this is done on the same tick.
Lowering the cost of initialization itself is very tricky. Some of it we can theoretically optimize, such as creating humans for antagonists, others we can't, such as the raw cost of icon blending.
Furthermore, adding new icons later down the line would just increase this initialization time even more.
Instead of optimizing the asset creation, which is an uphill battle, this instead chooses to amortize the cost by caching preference assets created per git revision. This means that preference assets will be created, with their long delay, only once whenever the code changes.
This is done on a config, defaulting to on so that production needs no changes, as the whole point of these being made at runtime at all is that it keeps assets/art styles consistent, and PRs making subtle bugs that break preference generation in some way is not uncommon. On development, your git revision will stay the same until you commit, no matter what code changes you make.
About The Pull Request
I have received exemption from the freeze by Oranges.
This PR was originally done for Skyrat-tg, as a bounty. Oranges took interest and Skyrat people approved taking it upstream so I did. (original PR Skyrat-SS13/Skyrat-tg#9912 )
Features:
This PR adds "field of view" mechanics, which by default don't do anything.
Once you pick up and wear a gas mask you'll notice a cone behind you.
That cone will hide all mobs, projectiles and projectile effects.
HOWEVER... hidden things in the cone (or for people who are blind or nearsighted) will play a visual effect.
The fov cone shadow density can be adjusted
Technicalities:
Originally a component, but by Watermelon's advice I have made this a datumized behaviour instead. (semi-component) This way it is faster, less memory use etc. Once again a component
People have native fov, which can be enabled by a config, by default it's off. (or by an admin verb)
People have fov traits, which add the fov impairings to you, gas masks do that now. All clothes have a support for possibly applying them.
Moves all things that should be hidden onto a new plane which is just above GAME_PLANE, that was we can efficiently filter them out of clients views.
Being dead or extending your eye view (xenobio console) will disable the FOV mask.
This PR was brought to you by Skyrat paying me aswell as rotational mathematics
Why It's Good For The Game
Oranges approves so it's good.
Changelog
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add: Gas Masks now limit your field of view
add: Added field of view mechanics. It's darkness can be tweaked by a pref
add: Blind, nearsighted and fov-limited people will now see sounds as visual effects.
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About The Pull Request
Creates the framework for two new TGUI input boxes that can be toggled via game prefs.
This does not convert any actual inputs to TGUI
This does not convert any tgui_list_inputs into being toggleable
Example pictures
Input on a hand labeler. This has a MAX_LENGTH set, so it can be invalidated. Cancel always returns null. Enter button submits, if valid.
text input
(OUTDATED) Multiline input on newscaster. Newer version fills the window with a section, like the others
multiline
Sheets from a stack
number input
Why It's Good For The Game
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So I did...
Much sleeker input boxes
Result should be a in place swap for most occurrences of input
Renders casting as text/num/null obsolete but still doable
Input validation from both sides handled
Prefs toggle if you don't like the look
Changelog
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add: TGUI input boxes are on the way! You can find new preferences in the menu. They will be on by default.
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Removes every job .tsx file, and moves their necessary data over to the job datums themselves. This lowers the burden of both adding and removing jobs, and allows for jobs to be removed without touching any internal code (I'm specifically doing this for events)
Permissions for species change
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About The Pull Request
Goodbye batform
Hello, new preference called vampire status. Outcast vampires act just like normal, Inoculated vampires join their department under a unified "vampire house name" everyone shares.
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Why It's Good For The Game
I've heard people complain about batform for years now, if vampires aren't gone by next halloween we can at least enjoy making them far less griefy (ruining a lot of the fun of halloween as just a dumb grief holiday) and more roleplay oriented. I don't even know why vampires got a griefy spell when they already have their main mechanic encourage randomly attacking people and stealing their blood to stay alive
Changelog
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del: Batform is gone!
add: ...Replaced by vampire houses as a preference. Join your department as a vampire ménage!
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expansion: Nearsighter quirk now lets you pick the look of your prescription glasses from the character preference menu
imageadd: Added thin prescription glasses
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