I know this doesn't actually change behavior, but it's confusing, and
adds a potential point of failure if someone doesn't realize it can
happen. Let's be consistent
* Creates some new defines for constant values in the Messenger app
* Created a new type of preference, text preferences, with a FeatureShortTextInput TGUI component
* Uses said new preference to re-add a PDA ringtone preference.
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
* Object Window Niceties
Alright. I got bored and polished up the object/alt click window.
It had a few issues:
First, we generated all our images in bulk, as soon as requested
Second, the caching was global, despite only working on a client to
client basis
Third, we only generated up to 10 images. This could be fine, but the
javascript code will continuiously rerender assuming unrendered images
will come eventually, and they well, weren't. This caused MASSIVE
clientside lag
Fourth and finally, I did not like how moving away from the viewed turf
lagged behind, in sync with the stat tab update. Looked bad.
I've resolved all these.
I solved the first three issues by reworking how obj images were
generatated and managed.
Rather then storing a basic cache on the subsystem, and doing all the
image generation at once, we queue up image generation as we like, and
generate images inside a new processing subsystem fire.
This isn't the best solution, since it still eats cpu somewhat, but it's
a whole lot better then the other options, outside either removing the
need to getflat, or somehow predicting what items a client will want to
see
I've started storing three bits of info. First, a list of all the
objects we currently want to display.
Second, a list of atom -> image html
Third, a list of atoms to imageify.
This information is stored on a datum on /client, since I want this to
have a lifetime linked to well, clients.
I've used this datum to solve that fourth bit, using a component I made
for parallax a bit back. This lets me react to our client's mob, and
update the tab linked to that, rather then on a subsystem call by call
basis.
That's about it.
Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
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.
About The Pull Request
Just to be clear, when I refer to time here, I am not talking about cpu time. I'm talking about real time.
This doesn't significantly reduce the amount of work we do, it just removes a lot of the waiting around we need to do for db calls to finish.
Adds queuing support to sql bans, so if an ongoing ban retrieval query is active any successive ban retrieval attempts will wait for the active query to finish
This uses the number/blocking_query_timeout config option, I hope it's still valid
This system will allow us to precache ban info, in parallel (or in batches)
With this, we can avoid needing to setup all uses of is_banned_from to support parallelization or eat the cost of in-series database requests
Clients who join after initialize will now build a ban cache automatically
Those who join before init is done will be gathered by a batch query sent by a new subsystem, SSban_cache.
This means that any post initalize uses of is_banned_from are worst case by NATURE parallel (since the request is already sent, and we're just waiting for the response)
This saves a lot of headache for implementers (users) of the proc, and saves ~0.9 second from roundstart setup for each client (on /tg/station)
There's a lot of in series is_banned_from calls in there, and this nukes them. This should bring down roundstart join times significantly.
It's hard to say exactly how much, since some cases generate the ban cache at other times.
At base tho, we save about 0.9 seconds of real time per client off doing this stuff in parallel.
Why It's Good For The Game
When I use percentages I'm speaking about cost per player
I don't like how slow roundstart feels, this kills about 66% of that. the rest is a lot of misc things. About 11% (it's actually 16%) is general mob placing which is hard to optimize. 22% is manifest generation, most of which is GetFlatIcons which REALLY do not need to be holding up the main thread of execution.
An additional 1 second is constant cost from a db query we make to tell the server we exist, which can be made async to avoid holding the proc chain.
That's it. I'm bullying someone into working on the manifest issue, so that should just leave 16% of mob placing, which is really not that bad compared to what we have now.
Changelog
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code: The time between the round starting and the game like, actually starting has been reduced by 66%
refactor: I've slightly changed how ban caches are generated, admins please let me know if anything goes fuckey
server: I'm using the blocking_query_timeout config. Make sure it's up to date and all.
/cl
* 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
About The Pull Request
Mood was abusing signals and get component pretty badly, so I redid it as a datum to stop this.
Why It's Good For The CODEBASE
Better code pratices, also gives admins easier tools to manage mood
Changelog
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admin: Added two new procs into the VV dropdown menu to add and remove mood events from living mobs.
/cl
This pr goes through: /client/Click(), /client/Topic(), /mob/living/verb/resist(), /mob/verb/quick_equip(), /mob/verb/examinate(), and /mob/verb/mode() and makes them queue their functionality to a subsystem to execute in the next tick if the server is overloaded. To do this a new subsystem is made to handle most verbs called SSverb_manager, if the server is overloaded the verb queues itself in the subsystem and returns, then near the start of the next tick that verb is resumed with the provided callback. The verbs are called directly after SSinput, and the subsystem does not yield until its queue is completely finished.
The exception are clicks from player input since they are extremely important for the feeling of responsiveness. I considered not queuing them but theyre too expensive not to, suffering from a death of a thousand cuts performance wise from many many things in the process adding up. Instead clicks are executed at the very start of the next tick, as the first action that SSinput completes, before player movement is processed even.
A few months ago, before I died I was trying to figure out why games at midpop (40-50 people) had non zero and consistent time dilation without maptick being consistently above 28% (which is when the MC stops yielding for maptick if its overloaded). I found it out, started working on this pr, then promptly died. luckily im a bit less dead now
the current MC has a problem: the cost of verbs is completely and totally invisible to it, it cannot account for them. Why is this bad? because verbs are the last thing to execute in the tick, after the MC and SendMaps have finished executing.
tick diagram2
If the MC is overloaded and uses 100% of the time it allots itself this means that if SendMaps uses the amount its expected to take, verbs have at most 2% of the tick to execute in before they are overtiming and thus delaying the start of the next tick. This is bad, and im 99% sure this is the majority of our overtime.
Take Click() for example. Click isnt listed as a verb but since its called as a result of client commands its executed at the end of the tick like other verbs. in this random 80 pop sybil round profile i had saved on my computer sybil 80 pop (2).txt /client/Click() has an overtime of only 1.8 seconds, which isnt that bad. however it has a self cpu of 2.5 seconds meaning 1.8/2.5 = 72% of its time is overtiming, and it also is calling 80.2 seconds worth of total cpu, which means that more than 57.7 seconds of overtime is attributed to just /client/Click() executing at the very end of a tick. the reason why this isnt obvious is just because the verbs themselves typically dont have high enough self cpu to get high enough on the rankings of overtiming procs to be noticed, all of their overtime is distributed among a ton of procs they call in the chain.
Since i cant guarantee the MC resumes at the very start of the next tick due to other sleeping procs almost always resuming first: I time the duration between clicks being queued up for the next tick and when theyre actually executed. if it exceeds 20 milliseconds of added latency (less than one tenth the average human reaction time) clicks will execute immediately instead of queuing, this should make instances where a player can notice the added latency a vanishingly small minority of cases. still, this should be tm'd
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
About The Pull Request
adds the Refresh TGUI verb to the debug category OOC category, but it isn't locked behind any permissions. i'd put it in OOC, but.. eeeeeeh? there's not real much use for this verb other for debuggers. i put it in the OOC category
Why It's Good For The Game
debug purposes mostly
not player facing lole
* Ports the player ticket panel from skyrat
Adds a player side panel to view active admin tickets, this will make it
easier for players to find previous admin messages, remember what they
said previously etc. This is especially good for the cases that TGchat
drops messages
refactors the status panel to utilize the tgui/byond communication APIs instead of passing along href data, as well as converts the entirety of it into a datum/tgui_window
Co-authored-by: Aleksej Komarov <stylemistake@gmail.com>
* Alright, so I'm optimizing parallax code so I can justify making it do a
bit more work
To that end, lets make the checks it does each process event based.
There's two. One is for a difference in view, which is an easy fix since
I added a view setter like a year back now.
The second is something planets do when you change your z level.
This gets more complicated, because we're "owned" by a client.
So the only real pattern we can use to hook into the client's mob's
movement is something like connect_loc_behalf.
So, I've made connect_mob_behalf. Fuck you.
This saves a proc call and some redundant logic
* Fixes random parallax stuttering
Ok so this is kinda a weird one but hear me out.
Parallax has this concept of "direction" that some areas use, mostly
the shuttle transit ones. Set when you move into a new area.
So of course it has a setter. If you pass it a direction that it doesn't
already have, it'll start up the movement animation, and disable normal
parallax for a bit to give it some time to get going.
This var is typically set to 0.
The problem is we were setting /area/space's direction to null in
shuttle movement code, because of a forgotten proc arg.
Null is of course different then 0, so this would trigger a halt in
parallax processing.
This causes a lot of strange stutters in parallax, mostly when you're
moving between nearspace and space. It looks really bad, and I'm a bit
suprised none noticed.
I've fixed it, and added a default arg to the setter to prevent this
class of issue in future. Things look a good bit nicer this way
* Adds animation back to parallax
Ok so like, I know this was removed and "none could tell" and whatever,
and in fairness this animation method is a bit crummy.
What we really want to do is eliminate "halts" and "jumps" in the
parallax moveemnt. So it should be smooth.
As it is on live now, this just isn't what happens, you get jumping
between offsets. Looks frankly, horrible. Especially on the station.
Just what I've done won't be enough however, because what we need to do
is match our parallax scroll speed with our current glide speed. I need
to figure out how to do this well, and I have a feeling it will involve
some system of managing glide sources.
Anyway for now the animation looks really nice for ghosts with default
(high) settings, since they share the same delay.
I've done some refactoring to how old animation code worked pre (4b04f9012d). Two major
changes tho.
First, instead of doing all the animate checks each time we loop over a
layer, we only do the layer dependant ones. This saves a good bit of
time.
Second, we animate movement on absolute layers too. They're staying in
the same position, but they still move on the screen, so we do the same
gental leaning. This has a very nice visual effect.
Oh and I cleaned up some of the code slightly.
* 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>
* makes hud images only apply by z level
* makes some of the atom_hud procs have better names
* fixes warning with the hud_user list and adds better documentation
* better docs for hud_images
* removes TODOs
* docs for hud_list
* adds support for linked z levels so mobs can see lower ones
* fixes merge conflict and shittily makes only shocked airlocks get added
* adds support for setting images in the hud as active and inactive
* gets rid of unatomic spatial grid change
* maybe i should actually try COMPILING my changes
* fixes merge skew and makes it compile again
* fixes huds refusing to remove from users who changed z level
* improves z level and registration logic
* fixes antag huds not appearing
* Fixes antag huds not properly setting. We now use hud_list in init, so it needs to be set before the new call, not after. Not sure why the use of appearance key was split like this, but none else knows either so none can stop me
* Ensures that hiding a basic appearance also hides the atom's active list too
* Fixes antag huds going poof
Ensures that remove_atom_from_hud will return false if the passed atom
isn't managed by it
This fixes antag huds disappearing randomly, since they assumed that if
the parent call of remove_atom_from_hud returned true, we should delete
ourselves. This is a safe assumption for them to make, since they should
only ever have one atom.
Does kinda bork if we call remove_atom_from_hud in a way that is unsure
if the passed atom is actually in that list. We were forced into doing
this by how atom huds use the qdeleting signal.
* makes basic alternate_appearance's only update themselves when setting their hud image to active and makes them not add themselves to the global huds_by_category list
* fixes mistake with hud_users list being set non associatively (bad)
* as anything in bot path loops
* Fixes merge skew problems
* Makes bot paths non global
This way they can show themselves to only the bot that "owns" them, ya
feel me?
* Fixes huds not showing up sometimes, cleans up some code
Post Kapu's limb refactor, we were calling prepare_huds twice in a human
init call chain. What was happening was this:
call prepare_huds() // Human
I gained a new hud image
I set active hud icons to mirror it
call prepare_huds() // Living
I overwrote the new hud image
I attempted to set active hud icons, which failed because it assumes
this can never happen
*cries*
* Renames add_hud_to_atom to show_to
My hope is this will make understanding hud code a bit easier, by tying
the behavior to a "verb" more closely. Also renamed a few vars
* remove_hud_from_mob -> hide_from
* Nitpicks a few comments
* Whoops/fuck/shit/damn it all/hhhhhhhhhhhh
* Moves check down, improves stack trace a bit
Co-authored-by: KylerAce <kylerlumpkin1@gmail.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
* Removes an unused var from /client
`inprefs` isn't used anywhere, i checked to when it was added (~5 years
ago) and it wasn't even really used then. I think it used to be used to
track topic calls / slowdown some href issues but it isn't any more.
Byebye!!
* Removes some unused mob verbs + client var
`canface` and `east/west/north/southface` used to be used to set
direction but these are no longer used and are thus taking up
unnecessary space
About The Pull Request
Moves the Help menu to the end of the menu bar, like every app that has ever had a Help menu.
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Makes Hotkeys Help actually do something, given the verb that menu item calls was removed 3 years ago.
It now show all of your hotkeys, as set in preferences, in a TGUI table. They're in Binding sort order, as opposed to the preferences window, which may be of use to people.
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Why It's Good For The Game
halp how do i standup
Changelog
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add: Re-added the Hotkeys-Help verb, and linked the Hotkeys menu item to it.
qol: Move Help menu to the end of the menu bar.
/cl
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.
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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.
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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...
* Fit Viewport cleanup
Changes how Fit Viewport works slightly.
From what I understand, the verb was created with the goal of
eliminating the pixel hunting required to get rid of letterboxing.
This works fine for stretch to fit, but ever since the command bar got
nuked it's ended up creating a lot of blackspace for targeted zoom
modes.
I've changed how it decides on its optimal width slightly, if the client
has a non stretch to fit zoom mode, we use it, the world icon size and
the clients view size to figure out the exact width we want.
The bars on the left and right have been bugging me forever. Want them
gone.
In light of this, I'm also making changing your zoom amount attempt to
fit the viewport, if you have the pref enabled.
Oh and I'm trying something with auto fit viewport stuff.
It currently waits a second between view change and fitting. The comment
implies this is to avoid winget strangeness from Login calls. When I
blamed it, I found a commit from antruk talking about client dropping,
and this being a potential fix.
Unfortunately none wrote down what dropping means, and anturk's
forgotten.
I'm making the assumption that it's related to attempting the related
winsets before an inital login is over.
I might be wrong about this, if I am we'll know what went wrong I
suppose.
* Whoops, this needs to be invoke async
* Ensures client safety, autodocs code, adds proper cleanup
* Makes deadchat control inputs bypass automute.
It's slightly annoying when you get muted because you spent a minute trying to get the supermatter to move down.
