## About The Pull Request
Hovering over mobs on the same tile as the commanded mob will no longer
close the command menu, and it will automatically get closed once the
user lets go of the hotkey without having to forcefully time out.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The same tile requirement prevents the menu from fading out if you're
trying to command the mob you're riding, and not closing the menu when
unregistering the hover signal actually prevented you from getting rid
of the menu without waiting for the automatic timeout, which is super
weird and unintuitive.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: Letting go of the pet command hotkey (Shift by default) will
instantly close the menu
fix: Hovering over things on the same tile no longer closes the pet
command menu
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
this fixes a bunch of code incorrectly calling qdel directly on a list,
and adds a stack trace to qdel if someone does pass a list to it
## Why It's Good For The Game
because I'm pretty sure qdel ends up calling fucking `del()` as `/list`
is not a `/datum`
## Changelog
No user-facing changes.
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## About The Pull Request
Fixes#89060 and a few other inconsistencies that I think aren't
reported yet. In particular, these are:
- Ordering the Stargazer to attack a window, machinery, and essentially
anything that isn't a wall or person will result in refusal. This
behavior was different.
- The spell to remotely command the Stargazer doesn't work.
- The shift-hover radial menu is weirdly offset.
I'm still trying to figure out what makes the mob not attack windows
unlike before, so I'll set it as a draft until I fix it.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Summoning an elder god bound to your will would be even better if it was
actually bound to your will.
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fix: The Stargazer, a cosmic heretic's ascension, can be properly
commanded once more.
code: Basic mob pets can now target objects, or objects and walls by
using two new targeting strategies.
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
this PR improves the UX of pet commands a bit. i decided to expand on
their radial menu. You can now hold shift and hover over your pet to
display a menu of commands which you can choose from. alternatively, you
can still type out commands in chat
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9da7f7ea-58a3-4fd6-b040-45cc05cda51d
## Why It's Good For The Game
makes pet commands easier to give out when you're managing more than 1
pet. also fixes the fishing command not working.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: holding shift and hovering over your pet will display a list of
commands you can click from
fix: fixes the fishing pet command not working
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Improved code quality of both so they resemble each other. Some of the
new specs are as follows
1. Moved` COMSIG_CLICK_ALT` & `COMSIG_CLICK_ALT_SECONDARY` up i.e.
before `can_perform_action()` making them pure hooks not bound by any
action checks giving components full control over them
2. Removed range check(`CAN_I_SEE`) & view check(`is_blind()`) out of
the base alt click proc. They now only apply to living mobs and don't
apply to ghosts(ghosts don't get blind & see everything) & revenants
(the range check still applies for revenants though).
This was actually a bug because these 2 checks were only meant to see if
the loot panel could be opened (as stated in
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/83736#discussion_r1628097941)
but because they are at the top of the proc they also apply to all alt
click actions which is not intended. Also, by moving these checks down
to mob subtype levels some of the snowflake checks like this
7579e0e173/code/_onclick/click_alt.dm (L23)
can be removed. We should not check for subtypes within the parent type
proc but instead have subtypes override their parent procs to implement
custom behaviour
3. Removed redundant signals like` COMSIG_XENO_SLIME_CLICK_ALT` in
favour of just `COMSIG_MOB_ALTCLICKON`
4. While looking for alt click signal overrides I found alt click for
style meter was run timing, that's fixed now
## Changelog
🆑
fix: alt click runtime no more when using style meter
code: improved alt & ctrl click code
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Rewrites how alt click works.
Based heavily on #82625. What a cool concept, it flows nicely with
#82533.
Fixes#81242
(tm bugs fixed)
Fixes#82668
<details><summary>More info for devs</summary>
Handy regex used for alt click s&r:
`AltClick\((.*).*\)(\n\t.*\.\.\(\))?`
`click_alt($1)` (yes I am aware this only copies the first arg. there
are no other args!)
### Obj reskins
No reason for obj reskin to check on every single alt click for every
object. It applies to only a few items.
- Moved to obj/item
- Made into signal
- Added screentips
### Ventcrawling
Every single atmospherics machine checked for ventcrawling capability on
alt click despite only 3 objects needing that functionality. This has
been moved down to those individual items.
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
For players:
- Alt clicking should work more logically, not causing double actions
like eject disk and open item window
- Added context menus for reskinnable items
- Removed adjacency restriction on loot panel
For devs:
- Makes alt click interactions easier to work with, no more click chain
nonsense and redundant guard clauses.
- OOP hell reduced
- Pascal Case reduced
- Glorious snake case
## Changelog
🆑
add: The lootpanel now works at range.
add: Screentips for reskinnable items.
fix: Alt click interactions have been refactored, which may lead to
unintentional changes to gameplay. Report any issues, please.
/🆑
Productionizes #80615.
The core optimization is this:
```patch
- var/hint = to_delete.Destroy(arglist(args.Copy(2))) // Let our friend know they're about to get fucked up.
+ var/hint = to_delete.Destroy(force) // Let our friend know they're about to get fucked up.
```
We avoid a heap allocation in the form of copying the args over to a new
list. A/B testing shows this results in 33% better overtime, and in a
real round shaving off a full second of self time and 0.4 seconds of
overtime--both of these would be doubled in the event this is merged as
the new proc was only being run 50% of the time.
## About The Pull Request
Signals were initially only usable with component listeners, which while
no longer the case has lead to outdated documentation, names, and a
similar location in code.
This pr pulls the two apart. Partially because mso thinks we should, but
also because they really aren't directly linked anymore, and having them
in this midstate just confuses people.
[Renames comp_lookup to listen_lookup, since that's what it
does](102b79694f)
[Moves signal procs over to their own
file](33d07d01fd)
[Renames the PREQDELETING and QDELETING comsigs to drop the parent bit
since they can hook to more then just comps
now](335ea4ad08)
[Does something similar to the attackby comsigs (PARENT ->
ATOM)](210e57051d)
[And finally passes over the examine
signals](65917658fb)
## Why It's Good For The Game
Code makes more sense, things are better teased apart, s just good imo
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Pulled apart the last vestiges of names/docs directly linking
signals to components
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Now the stargazer does more damage to people in the area and prioritizes
mobs attacking them instead of random circuit bots 7 tiles away. It will
also slowly heal you. Makes some abilities create more carpet fields
when ascending. Increases combo times when ascending. Also makes the
Star Gazer die only when the owner dies. Star Gazer will explode when it
does die. Star Gazer has a damage aura that does heal the owner.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I have seen a lot of people complaining that the cosmic ascension isn't
good and not worth getting so I thought I would make it a little better.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Star Gazer now explodes when it dies.
balance: Star Gazer will only die when the owner dies.
balance: Star Gazer will attack the most recent enemy that attacked him
when on autopilot.
balance: Star Gazer has an aura that slowly damages people and heals the
owner.
balance: Cosmic Ascension now buffs some spells.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Replaces weakref usage in AI blackboards with deleting signals
All blackboard var setting must go through setters rather than directly
## Why It's Good For The Game
This both makes it a ton easier to develop AI for, and also makes it
harder for hard deletes to sneak in, as has been seen with recent 515
prs showing hard deletes in AI blackboards
(To quantify "making it easier to develop AI", I found multiple bugs in
existing AI code due to the usage of weakrefs.)
I'm looking for `@Jacquerel` `@tralezab` 's opinions on the matter, also
maybe `@LemonInTheDark` if they're interested
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Mob ai refactored once again
/🆑
About The Pull Request
Chiefly this refactors dogs to use the newer component/datum system for "pet which follows instructions". It also refactors it a little bit because I had better ideas while working on this than I had last week. Specifically, instead of passing around keys we just stick a weakref to our currently active behaviour in the blackboard. Basically the same but skipping an unecessary step.
Additionally it adds a component for the previous "befriending a mob by clicking it repeatedly" behaviour which hopefully we won't use too much because it's not very exciting (I am planning on replacing it for dogs some time after Christmas).
The biggest effort in here was making the Fetch command more generic, which includes multiple behaviours (which might be used on their own?) and another component (for holding an item without hands).
Additionally I noticed that dogs would keep following my instructions after they died.
This seems unideal, and would be unideal for virtually any AI controller, so I added it as an AI_flag just in case there's some circumstance where you do want to process AI on a dead mob.
Finally this should replicate all behaviour Ian already had plus "follow" (from rats) and a new bonus easter egg reaction, however I noticed that the fetch command is supposed to have Ian eat any food that you try to get him to fetch.
This has been broken for some time and I will be away from my desk for a couple weeks pretty soon, so I wrote the behaviour for this but left it unused. I will come back to this in the future, once I figure out a way to implement it which does not require adding the "you can hit this" flag to every edible item.
Also I had to refit the recent addition of dogs barking at felinids to fit into this, with a side effect that now dogs won't get mad at a Felinid they are friends with. This... feels like intended behaviour anyway?
Why It's Good For The Game
It's good for these to work the same way instead of reimplementing the same behaviour in multiple files.
Being able to have Ian (or other dogs) follow you around the station is both fun and cute, and also makes him significantly more vulnerable to being murdered.
Changelog
cl
add: Ian has learned some new tricks, tell him what a good boy he is!
add: Ian will come on a walk with you, if you are his friend.
refactor: Ian's tricks work the same way as some other mobs' tricks and should be extendable to future mobs.
fix: Dogs no longer run at the maximum possible speed for a mob at all times.
add: When Ian gets old, he also slows down. Poor little guy.
add: Dogs will no longer dislike the presence of Felinids who have taken the time to befriend them.
/cl
## About The Pull Request
Another atomisation of #71421 but I had a fun idea while I was testing
it.
This adds a component based on the existing system for giving
instructions to tamed carp or dogs, but hopefully more modular.
It also gives it to the rat minions of a regal rat.
The basic function allows the mob to listen and react to spoken
commands, which passes things to its AI blackboard. Additionally if you
alt-click a commandable mob it will show a radial menu which both allows
you to select a command, and also contains tooltips explaining what they
do and what audible words trigger it.
<details>
<summary>Video</summary>
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7483112/204308693-0eccebec-75c9-411c-81c5-5aa0d682d1a5.mp4
</details>
Now if you riot some rats, you can alt click on them individually to
give them specific orders (more useful for other creatures than rats),
or you can speak out loud to command your legion.
Rats aren't very smart so you can't give them many instructions, but
this is expandable for other creatures.
Additional change: Mice don't squeak if stepped on by other mice because
this made an absolutely unholy noise and I am not sure there's a way to
get non-dense mobs to spread out.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Allows for giving more mobs the ability to be tamed and instructable by
their owner, without copy/pasting code which lives inside a specific
mob.
Yelling at your rats to give them commands is funny. It also adds the
possibility of telling your rats to stop biting someone if they have
agreed to your demands, allowing for more courtly roleplay.
When Regal Rat is converted to a basic mob its AI can also give other
AIs instructions by yelling at them which I think is a good feature.
## Changelog
🆑
add: The followers of Regal Rats will now respond to simple
instructions, if given by their rightful lord. Except frogs. They're too
busy licking themselves and watching the colours.
/🆑
