* canUseTopic now uses TRUE/FALSE instead of defines that just say TRUE
The most idiotic thing I've seen is canUseTopic's defines, they literally just define TRUE, you can use it however you want, it doesn't matter, it just means TRUE. You can mix and match the args and it will set that arg to true, despite the name.
It's so idiotic I decided to remove it, so now I can reclaim a little bit of my sanity.
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
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About The Pull Request
Gives the ORM a light on either side showing which is the input and which is the output, blue for input, red for output.
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Why It's Good For The Game
Useful for if anyone decides to move the ORM.
Changelog
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qol: The ORM now has color-coded lights showing which side is the input and output. Blue for input, red for output.
/cl
This PR focuses on cleaning up two procs - updateDialog and updateUsrDialog. Both of which are/were used updating for old HTML UIs. As these UIs got converted to TGUI over time, these old code fragments started to pile up, often due to coders simply overlooking them. This resulted in them being dead code doing nothing when called, or randomly opening up windows when they shouldnt, for example when a vending machine is screwdrivered and UI cannot even be interacted with.
However, there were also some desirable uses - like opening a window when an ID is inserted into civilian bounty console, which you are then gonna obviously use to pick a bounty. I kept these uses and replaced them with proper ui_interact, so they now always work, instead of them working only when you had them set as a currently used machine on mob. The list of these changes is:
Civilian Bounty Console will now always bring up its UI when you insert the ID.
Air Alarm and APC will now always bring up its UI when you unlock their controls.
Portable Chem Mixer, Chem Dispenser, Chem Heater, Improvised Chem Heater, Chem Spectometer and Chem Master will now always bring up their UI when you add or replace beaker to them.
Two old /Topic calls were cleaned up as well, as they were no longer relevant.
Removes dead or outdated code, adds sensible UX when working with certain UIs.
I'll do more in the future but I'll limit myself to this because I'm tired, bored, and don't want to make so many PRs touching the same things that I have to deal with conflicts each time one is merged.
Just as an example, screwdriver's gotta be done as well, does the exact same thing wrenches do, I believe.
Standardizes (and touches) each time default_unfasten_wrench is used.
Fixes tool logs, since it relies on tool acts to exist, I'm trying to move as many tool acts to its proper proc. Like a spiritual successor to the tool superpack PRs.
Co-authored-by: Luc <89928798+lewcc@users.noreply.github.com>
About The Pull Request
Converts more inputs to TGUI. Possibly all user-facing input lists in the game.
Did any surrounding text/number inputs as well
Added null choice support so users can press cancel.
Added some misc TGUI input fixes
Fixed custom vendors while I was there
I refactored a lot of code while just poking around.
Primarily, usage of .len in files where I was already working on lists.
Some code was just awful - look at guardian.dm and its non use of early returns
If there are any disputes, I can revert it just fine, those changes are not integral to the PR.
Why It's Good For The Game
Fixes#63629Fixes#63307
Fixes custom vendors /again/
Text input is more performant.
Part of a long series of TGUI conversion to make the game more visually appealing
Changelog
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refactor: The majority of user facing input lists have been converted to TGUI.
refactor: Tgui text inputs now scale with entered input.
fix: Many inputs now properly accept cancelling out of the menu.
fix: Fixes an edge case where users could not press enter on number inputs.
fix: Custom vendor bluescreen.
fix: You can now press ENTER on text inputs without an entry to cancel.
/cl
Enter(), Entered(), Exit() and Exited() all passed the old loc forward, but everything except a single a case cared about the direction of the movement more than about the specific source.
Since moving multi-tile objects will have multiple sources of movement but a single direction, this change makes it easier to track their movement.
Cleaned up a lot of code around and made proc inputs compatible.
I'll add opacity support for multi-tile objects in a different PR after this is merged, as this has grown large enough and I don't want to compromise the reviewability.
Tested this locally and as expected it didn't impair movement nor produced any runtimes.
Converts most spans into span procs. Mostly used regex for this and sorted out any compile time errors afterwards so there could be some bugs.
Was initially going to do defines, but ninja said to make it into a proc, and if there's any overhead, they can easily be changed to defines.
Makes it easier to control the formatting and prevents typos when creating spans as it'll runtime if you misspell instead of silently failing.
Reduces the code you need to write when writing spans, as you don't need to close the span as that's automatically handled by the proc.
(Note from Lemon: This should be converted to defines once we update the minimum version to 514. Didn't do it now because byond pain and such)
Clears out two deprecated explosions systems (explosion ids and explosion levels)
Refactors a bunch of contents_explosions procs to be maybe slightly faster.
Cleans up a bunch of ex_act code.
Slightly cleaner code
A few less unused vars on /atom and /turf
Creates update_name and update_desc
Creates the wrapper proc update_appearance to batch update_name, update_desc, and update_icon together
Less non-icon handling code in update_icon and friends
Signal hooks for things that want to change names and descriptions
99%+ of the changes in this are just from switching everything over to update_appearance from update_icon
My original intention was just fixing an issue with the Mk-honk banana shoes but, considering I didn't want to add two new variables to a component with already lot of args and lengthy AddComponent() calls in term of text, I had to merge some TRUE/FALSE variable/args into the breakdown_flags bitfield (now named mat_container_flags) in the process.
Implements the ?. operator, replacing code like A && A.B with A?.B
BYOND Ref:
When reading A?.B, it's equivalent to A && A.B except that A is only evaluated once, even if it's a complex expression like a proc call.
Adds and implements alloy materials
Takes several materials that were mostly fluff and converts them into actual usable materials.
Messes with material code a bit to make alloys recycle back into their component materials.
Adds the alloy materials to their in-game stacks.
Materials added:
Plasteel
Plastitanium
Plasmaglass
Titaniumglass
Plastitanium Glass
Alien Alloy
Makes plasteel/plastitanium/plasmaglass and the rest able to have separate properties from their component materials. It doesn't make much sense that the materials used to seal off the supermatter chamber from the rest of the station would be prone to exploding when heated.
Allows for further expansion of materials, possibly including actual functional metallurgy and smelting at some point in the very distant future.
(Lemons note: Adds a regeneration component, used for alien alloy)
All ui_act procs should call parent by default. All procs should preserve the value of the parent proc when it's TRUTHY and pass it down the call stack. No UI should be interactible when its flags or state indicate it should not be, except when explicity overriden by child procs intentionally disregarding parent return values to achieve a specific goal.
* initial
small thing
* improvements
1. Removes loops for picking up items. its now an item by item basis unless there is an ore box involved
2. Removed pickup_rate and ore_buffer var for the ORM, they aren't needed anymore
3. Fixed conveyors not moving items that get created on top of them (New / Initialize), by sending signals when atoms are created.
* renames the registered signal proc name so travis doesn't throw a fit
* signal improvement
* forgot to update other proc names
* ninjanomnom review changes
replace NEVER_PROCESS with START_PROCESSING_MANUALLY
default_unfasten_wrench override for ORM
50 -> 5 SECONDS
I totally didn't mispell anything
* makes a new signal: COMSIG_ATOM_CREATED
* more review changes
* duh
* even more review improvements
* switch >= to >
* reverts conveyors back to using process() for moving stuff
* various touch ups, adds documentation
* rebase to fix map conflicts with forgottenship.dmm
Co-authored-by: SteelSlayer <SteelSlayer@users.noreply.github.com>
* Radio interface
* Ore redemption machine interface
* Remove candystripe because it looks like shit
* Solar tracker interface
* Add more channels, add full color support to Box
* Cleanup README
* conversion guide draft 1
* Update documentation
* Implement an Input component, update component reference
removes materials list from items, uses custom_materials instead. This might introduce some bugs so we should testmerge this for a while (and Ill test stuff locally as much as I can)
this also adds material crafting to sheets. Test case being chairs. In the future we can add stuff like tables, walls, doors etc.
also applies materials to everything, with fixes, which can close#46299
Why It's Good For The Game
No crashes
Changelog
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fix: A universal issue was detected with the interactions of cyborgs and ore redemption machines and we had to block it out with bluespace technology. It was only with claiming points all other functions remain available.
/cl
About The Pull Request
Similar to #46485
Now all relevant uses of power_change() call parent, theres a signal sent when a machine changes the NOPOWER flag, all remaining machines that were using power_change() instead of update_icon() have been fixed.
Why It's Good For The Game
code quality, eventually signal stuff. and signal stuff
About The Pull Request
machines and consoles that previously required an inserted ID now check access on worn and inhand ids. They otherwise function identically.
Affected things:
ORM: click claim to claim cash to connected ID (also fixes it)
Mining vendor: uses ID on person or in hand.
medical console: checks worn ID
security records console: checks worn ID
gulag consoles: claim points to worn ID, checks access and point requirements from worn ID
Also some backend refactoring to prisoner management and gulag teleporter consoles
hop console will be next to strip out the shitcode entirely but this at least gets things functional in the mean time, but fully tested this time. It's very late here and I need to sleep. Due to the nature of it it's more elaborate of a rework.
Changelog
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tweak: Medical and Security consoles now check access on worn or inhand ID instead of requiring an inserted ID
tweak: mining vendor now reads from ID in hand or on person instead of requiring an inserted ID
fix: ORM is functional again (for real this time)
tweak: ORM claim points button transfers points to worn/inhand ID instead of to an inserted ID, no longer accepts insertions
tweak: Same for gulag consoles
/cl
* * reworked consoles so you can:
* use attackby to insert id
* use alt-click to eject id
* examine to see if alt-click is available
* moved eject_id and insert_id procs to _computer.dm
* added some sound effects
* * prisoner management console new features: insert id with attackby and eject with altclick
* * prisoner management console can't have multiple prisoner id's inserted
* removed unnecessary src. and changed usr --> user
* made gulag teleporter consistent with attackby, altclick and examine.
simplified attackby on card.dm
* equipment reclaimer station consistent with id attackby, altclick-eject and examine.
point claim console consistent with id attackby, altclick-eject and examine.
* ore redemption machine and mining equipment vendor made consistent with id attackby, altclick-eject and examine.
* * reworked all eject/insert ID copypastacodes into procs in _machinery.dm
* * 0's to FALSE
* hopefully i didnt mess up any more things in the resolve
* everything now uses id_insert-proc and doesn't work.
* compiles but doesn't work
* works
* 1/4 done? maybe?
* more
* stuff
* incremental stuff
* stuff
* stuff & things
* mostly done but not yet
* stuffing
* stuffing 2: electric boogaloo
* Git Commit and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
* make it actually compile
* found more stuff
* fixes
* fix AI laws appearing out of order
* fix windows
* should be the remaining stuff
* this time for real
* i guess it should compile too
* fix sechuds
About The Pull Request
I made a machine board for the PDA message server and added it to the telecomms techweb node. To keep the usefulness of the machine's password, a player built message server won't work until 15 minutes after construction. I've also converted a lot of magic numbers to defines, and changed the departmentType var on request consoles into a bitflag.
I'm open to ideas other than a time gate when it comes to keeping the server password's usefulness.
Why It's Good For The Game
You can't build a Message Server right now. If it's destroyed, PDAs may be knocked out for the rest of the round.
Changelog
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add: You can now build a new PDA messaging server if you lose it.
tweak: Requests console messages no longer work if the messaging server is offline. Emergency alerts will still function in that case as long as the rest of telecomms is online.
/cl
cl Denton
tweak: Most upgradeable machines now show their upgrade status when examined while standing right next to them.
tweak: Added examine messages to teleporter stations that hint at their multitool/wirecutter interactions.
tweak: Renamed teleporter stations from station to teleporter station.
code: Changed the teleporter hub accurate var to accuracy; the old name misled people into thinking that it was a boolean.
/cl
Machines don't really give players feedback about upgrades, aside from machines like the cloner where new functions are unlocked. I'm adding examine descriptions that should help with this:
Yeah yeah I know no opening too many WIP PRs but this one's [ready] and I want to make sure any furthur techweb development doesn't keep using the old reference system which will make refactoring it harder, and this makes it easier for coders to do stuff in theory (at least for me), standardizes getting a node/design, and makes stuff actually GC properly.
* Fixes bluespace crystal memes
* Generalizes refined type check
* generalizes here as well
* Now now, no need to be lazy.
* removes duplicate istype check
