-TCommsat machines no longer use their Z level to check if they can receive the signal or not. Instead, they use listening_level. It defaults to 0 for machines that don't change the value. If it is 0 when the telecomms machine's New() is called it will set itself to it's Z level.
-This allows you to manually change the value to other Z levels. I call this an off-site relay. I've added an off-site relay on the satelitte for the station and removed the one in the communications room.
-Players can create an offsite relay with two receivers, two broadcasters and, if necessary, a relay. Why two receivers and broadcasters? Otherwise any player can go to the Ruskie/Mining relays and turn them into off-site relays for the station! It would harm the TCommsat's usefulness. Instead, you will have to setup another broadcaster and receiver if you want to do that. Though it may be pointless, if someone sabotages the Commsat they would have destroyed/depowered the other machines there too.
-About the option to have an offsite relay, there is only a single Z level that you can lock onto at the moment and that's the station. Gameplay wise, the TCommsat is orbiting the station and if we do get the away missions then it would not make sense for the TCommsat's broadcaster/receiver signal to be able to pickup there. More sense if the Receivers and Broadcasters from there
are sent here... maybe. I don't know, seems more fun this way.
-Fixed an issue that doesn't let the Engineer Borg (or Borgs with multitools) be able to link machines with their multitool module.
-All-In-Ones do not have a Z level restriction. They can pick up ALL signals and send ALL signals (to Z levels 1-10)
-Fixed an issue with the player being unable to remove frequencies from the filter.
-Added support for additional interaction options for certain machines. To use it, create a new Options_Menu() and Options_Topic(href, href_list) for your machine.
-Added EMP_ACT to Telecommunication Machines. I've also added an event called "telecommunications_blackout()", it will loop through all telecomm machines, in telecomms_list, and EMP_ACT them. The EMP will last 2 minutes. Currently only admins can use it.
-Fixed issue 831
-Changed the map. The station no longer has the station relay, it is now on the Satellite. There's an empty room now, it should be used for something after the feature freeze.
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I've cleared out most of the .dm files in code/game/objects/ and put it into appropriate files/folders. The stuff I've left is stuff I believe may conflict with carn's work and some code for stuff that does not have a home yet.
TODO:
- Files that were left in code/game/objects that may conflict with carns work
- Go through all the files in all the subfolders of code/game/objects.
- Move all the defines from /defines/ to their proper spots
Not much right?
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Removed some pointless, unused objects. (i'm looking at you, rubber chicken without a sprite)
Added a few new "features"- lighting cigs with igniters, and toggle-able bedsheets.
Slightly improved the cow gib sprite because if I don't commit it now I'll revert it.
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Committing this early to allow pete to commit something involving the .dme file which would probably conflict otherwise.
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There are many files, folders and chunks of code in areas that make absolutely no sense and thanks to the defines being located mostly in a completely separate file, it can be damn-near impossible to find something. Before moving defines to where the rest of their code is located; I'm going to move some code around into places that actually make sense to begin with. I'll mainly be focusing on the code/game/objects folder.
This commit mainly lays the groundwork for the work I'll be doing by adding in the effects, structures, decals and turfs folders. I'll slowly be moving appropriate files and code into these folders. I may end up moving machinery into 'objects' and mech stuff into its own module folder but I'll ask for some opinions on coderbus before doing that.
I've also gotten rid of the /magic/ folder. I've moved the library stuff into its own folder in modules/library, the cult stuff is now in gamemode/cult with the rest of it and musician.dm is now in objects/structures since the piano is a structure apparently.
I think I've got the hang of how DM and SVN handles folders and files but it's quite possible that something will break simply by svn committing it oddly. Please let me know if that's the case!
Remember to clean compile.
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A proper fix for teleport data-cards. Instead of just doing player.loc = landmark.loc it now properly uses the teleporter datum. It sets a new 'one time use' variable which means that only one person or object can pass through the teleporter before it looses the coordinates. This is also in place to prevent hand-teles from opening portals to the clown planet.
Players will not really notice any change except that when they insert the clown-coordinates, they must then walk through the teleporter.
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- Increased the mining satchel capacity from 30 to 50
- Fixed the issue where picking up all the items from a tile would display the pick-up message as many times as there were items to pick up.
- Fixed the problem which made ores sometimes stay on your screen after being inserted into an ore box.
- Restored the ability to empty satchels, and any other storage item that has the 'empty contents' verb, by just using them on themselves.
- Fixed an ages-old desync bug which happened when you used the a crossbow on a storage item.
- Fixed a potential problem which caused removed item's layers to not get updated properly.
- Fixes issue 819
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All credits to the author for this handy little script.
I Committed the modified python script to tool directory. Although it needs to be in the root folder of your repo to work.
To notice the improved compile times, in dreammaker go to Build > Preferences > and untick "automatically set file_dir for subfolders"
If this commit inteferes with any large projects just revert it, do your thing, then rerun the script. Easy-peasy.
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- Fixed it being possible to drag-drop any storage item to either hand from.. anywhere... You can now only do that if the backpack is somewhere on you.
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- Moved update_icon() calls from storage/fancy to all storage items, whenever an item is added or removed from the storage item. Also renamed updateIcon() to update_icon(), since that's the obj-wide proc.
- Part of fixing issue u
- Removed crayon and crayonbox snowflake code
- Removed bible snowflake code
- Made the click-drag to move to l_hand or r_hand thing something that works on all storage items.
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- Adds logging for throwing. Pulling and grabbing does not need to be logged in detail, since kill-intent grabbing is logged already.
- Something broke throwing, which made it runtime. This also fixes that.
- Fixes the problem of applying wires to a stack of glass, which only contains one piece of glass using wires, deleting the glass piece and not spawning a light tile. A call of the glass' use(1) was misplaced, which had the chance of deleting the object, thus stopping the proc, before it spawned the light tile.
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Fixes Issue 765
-It is now possible to weld secure lockers shut
-Lockers now have a welded overlay (Expect in some cases, such as cabinets)
Thanks to Pete for the sprite
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Boxes affected:
- Donut boxes
- Egg cartons
- Candle packs
- Match boxes
- Snap pop boxes
- Monkey cube boxes
Items I didn't merge:
- Pizza boxes
- Cigarette packs
Pizza boxes are a whole new kind of 'special snowflake code' that is best left the way it is. Cigarette packs involve some stuff I'm unfamiliar with so that can wait until I learn what I need to learn.
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New variables:
var/use_to_pickup = if 1, the storage item also works like satchels, which means you can use it on something else to pick it up.
var/display_contents_with_number = if 1, the items in the storage item are grouped by type with the number of items being displayed. See the screenshot.
var/allow_quick_empty = if 1 on creation, it adds a verb that allows you to empty the item with one click
var/allow_quick_gather = if 1 on creation, it adds a verb which allows you to switch between pick-up methods. one-per-click or all-on-tile. Same as satchels worked. use_to_pickup must be 1 for any of that to matter.
var/collection_mode = 1; //0 = pick one at a time, 1 = pick all on tile
New procs:
/obj/item/weapon/storage/proc/can_be_inserted(obj/item/W as obj, stop_messages = 0)
- Returns 0 or 1, depending on whether the item W can be inserted
/obj/item/weapon/storage/proc/handle_item_insertion(obj/item/W as obj)
- Inserts the item into the storage item and calls all the procs it needs to. Doesn't check whether the item can fit tho, tha'ts what can_be_inserted() is for.
/obj/item/weapon/storage/proc/remove_from_storage(obj/item/W as obj, atom/new_location)
- Removes item W from the storage object and sets it's loc to new_location or get_turf(src) if one is not provided.
/obj/item/proc/on_exit_storage(obj/item/weapon/storage/S as obj)
- Called after the object has been removed from the storage item S. The object's loc is already set to the new one.
/obj/item/proc/on_enter_storage(obj/item/weapon/storage/S as obj)
- Called after the object has been inserted into the storage item S. The object's loc is already set to S.
I made satchels work on this new code. The rest will be added to it soon. See the screenshot.
Screenshot:
http://www.kamletos.si/new%20satchels.png
This is yet another big change and it is very possible that bugs will come from it. Please report them to me or on the tracker.
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I changed how uplinks worked. Instead of there being a duplicate item which would switch out when it activates, there's an item called "obj/item/device/uplink/hidden". It is a hidden uplink which you can place in any obj/item. In "hidden" is where it will generate menus, check for triggers to show the menu and etc.. No need to switch out with duplicate items or add the menu onto the PDA's notes.
How to create a new uplink item in 3 easy steps!
1. All obj/item 's have a hidden_uplink var. By default it's null. Give the item one with "new(src)", it must be in it's contents. Feel free to add/remove "uses".
2. Code in the triggers. Use check_trigger for this, I recommend closing the item's menu with "usr << browse(null, "window=windowname") if it returns true. The var/value is the value that will be compared with the var/target. If they are equal it will activate the menu.
3. If you want the menu to stay until the users locks his uplink, add an active_uplink_check(mob/user as mob) in your interact/attack_hand proc. Then check if it's true, if true return. This will stop the normal menu appearing and will instead show the uplink menu.
I've given the recharge station's verbs a category so they don't create their own tab.
I've added a mob/proc called put_in_any_hand_if_possible. Name speaks for itself. Returns true if successful, false otherwise.
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Changed the path of large beakers, so they're actually a subtype of beaker (wtf)
Moved new_year.dm to unused.
Updated Carn's sequential master controller to not have tension stuff, for potential live testing.
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New defines in setup.dm:
This revision changes the following things:
- Hot is no longer defined as 'higher temperature than 310.15K' but is defined as 'higher temperature than my body temperature'. The opposite applies for cold.
- Removed heat_transfer_coefficient and protective_temperature
- Added heat_protection and cold_protection flag variables to obj/item, which define which areas of your body are protected from heat.
- Added max_heat_protection_temperature and min_cold_protection_temperature which define up to which temperature the item protects when worn (NOTE that it only protects on the locations specified by the heat_protection flags!) and down to which temperature it protects from the cold.
- REMEMBER! hot and cold were redefined to mean 'which way your body temperature should be moving based on the air around you'.
- Each tick, your body now 'corrects' your body temperature towards 310.15K which is the ideal temperature. The correction is max( difference/12, 10 ), so either a twelfth of the difference between your body temperature and 310.15K, or 10K, whichever is higher. This ensures your body temperature stabilizes over time.
- Most notable changes in the amount of protection you get from common items are these: Space suits now ONLY protect from cold and fire suits now ONLY protect from heat. Now what this means is obviously that firesuits will be useless in space, but also that if you find yourself in a fire with a high body temperature and you put a firesuit on, your temperature will no longer stagnate at the high temperature, due to temperature not going up nor down, but rather it will get lower. Instead it will be protected from rising, it will however gradually get lowered by your body's 'auto-correct' attempts, as described in the last point. Additionally, if you wear a fire suit and enter an area with a good temperature (for isntance 290K) and you have a high body temperature, due to just escaping from a fire, the fire suit will not make your body temperature stagnate. Because it does not protect you from cold, and cold being defined as 'colder than your body temperature', you will actually successfully cool down to the optimal temperature.
- The opposite applies to space suits. They protect from cold and don't protect from heat. If you find yourself in space and your temperature drops and put on the space suit with your temperature still low, you will recover over time. If you enter an area with a good temperature, you will recover faster, since the space suit does not protect you from heat.
- In short, space suits are now better at dealing with space and fire suits are better at dealing with fires.
- You will NEED a fire helmet to be protected from heat and you will NEED a space suit helmet to be protected from cold. There is no 'but'. Fire helmets are red or white hardhats, found in all fire closets.
- The 'heat up' coefficients are defined in setup.dm, they are:
- - head = 30%
- - lower and upper torso = 15% each = 30%
- - legs and arms = 7.5% each = 30%
- - feet and hands = 2.5% each = 10%
- Gloves cover hands
- Shoes cover feet
- Space-worthy jumpsuits cover legs, arms, upper and lower torso
- Space suits cover legs, arms, hands, feet, upper and lower torso
- Headgear covers heads
- Removed the HEADSPACE and SUITSPACE flags, due to being moved to the new variables. This frees up the flag value 4.
. The amount of damage heated gas and heated areas do can now be set in human/life.dm. The values are: (The different levels are based on breath temperature or body temperature.)
#define HEAT_DAMAGE_LEVEL_1 2
#define HEAT_DAMAGE_LEVEL_2 4
#define HEAT_DAMAGE_LEVEL_3 8
#define COLD_DAMAGE_LEVEL_1 1
#define COLD_DAMAGE_LEVEL_2 2
#define COLD_DAMAGE_LEVEL_3 4
//Note that gas heat damage is only applied once every FOUR ticks.
#define HEAT_GAS_DAMAGE_LEVEL_1 2
#define HEAT_GAS_DAMAGE_LEVEL_2 4
#define HEAT_GAS_DAMAGE_LEVEL_3 8
#define COLD_GAS_DAMAGE_LEVEL_1 1
#define COLD_GAS_DAMAGE_LEVEL_2 2
#define COLD_GAS_DAMAGE_LEVEL_3 4
The speed at which your body temperature raises or falls can be altered with the following defines:
#define BODYTEMP_AUTORECOVERY_DIVISOR 12
#define BODYTEMP_AUTORECOVERY_MINIMUM 10
#define BODYTEMP_COLD_DIVISOR 6
#define BODYTEMP_HEAT_DIVISOR 6
The divisors determins by how big a difference between your body temperature and the surrounding air (or 310.15 in the case of autorecovery) will your body temperature change. The autorecovery_minimum means what the minimum recovery is, if difference / 12 is less than 10, it will recover by 10.
Was all this needed to fix Issue 44? Yes..... yes... it was... Some things are consequences of decisions made while fixing it, but all of it was necessary to completely fix the issue. I found it did not remain on the tracker for this long for nothing.
I'm sorry for the essay, but there was a lot of work involved and a lot of changes happened, so I had to write a lot...
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-Deleted the old /obj/item/weapon/'grenade', there's standardized stuff now, and the old shit doesn't even work. Waste of space, 0/10 would delete again.
-Fixed clusterbangs. Honk
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Code-wide changes: /mob -level procs:
equip_if_possible() is now known as equip_to_slot_or_del() to prevent confusion with equip_to_slot_if_possible() and to better describe what it does.
equip_to_slot_if_possible(item, slot, del_on_fail, disable_warning, redraw_mob)
equip_to_appropriate_slot() is now a /mob - level proc.
equip_to_slot() is an unsafe proc, which just handles the final step of actually getting an item onto the mob. It has no checks of whether it can or can't do that. Use equip_to_slot_if_possible() for that purpose.
New /obj/item -level proc:
/obj/item/proc/mob_can_equip(M as mob, slot, disable_warning = 0)
This proc can be used to determine whehter a mob can pick up an item from the item's side.
Carn, I'll need you to review code/modules/mob/living/carbon/human/inventory.dm to ensure that I'm not redrawing the mob too many times.
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-Pepper spray fits on sec belts again
-Ion rifle emp_act() was changed so that it is only effected by severity 1, meaning that it won't be EMPed by its own shot any more (Unless someone is able to shoot himself with it)
-The HONK mech panel was updated to be current with the main one, though if someone here is an html wizard they could *probably* do away with having a seperate menu to handle the extra stuff
Fixes Issue 772
Fixes Issue 713
Fixes Issue 781
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Apparently that meteor gun I forgot to comment out had the wrong path in its attack_self(). Instead of the meteor gun shooting meteors, every /obj/item/weapon could shoot them when clicked on.
Here's a pile of runtime fixes to go along with this.
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Fixes issue 505.
Boxing gloves can no longer be used to make stungloves (with descriptive, adventure game style failure message~).
People without savefiles no longer get the "Your save has been deleted" message when they start the game.
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-Fixes horrible chat spam when loading smartfridges up with plant bags.
-Fixes the bug where reishi mushrooms and broken wooden floors had ugly sprites.
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Fixed issue 767.
The fix for issue 767 was to standardise spray bottle code (to some extent). If any issues come up with spray bottles, pepper spray, or chem sprayers, report them to me.
Cyborgs now recharge their pacid and lube, as the size of their bottles was quartered.
Changed the flash item_state to "flashbang", as it looks exactly like a flash.
There's some more grammar and text clean up too, mostly with crates and closets.
Finally, fixed some pipes in virology, and changed the librarian's den so the bookcases are at the top.
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Fixed issue 439.
Relating to the 439 fix, added a new define, TEMPERATURE_DAMAGE_COEFFICIENT. The name is slightly misleading, as it is used in reagents that affect body temperature. Leporazine now functions properly, and you can once again into space with a cup of coffee and a firesuit.
Also did a few grammar changes for newscasters.
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Everything related to clothing should now be defined in modules/clothing. I'm almost certain there's clothing code hidden elsewhere but this should be the vast majority of it finished.
Everything is set up related to the object types themselves (meaning paths.)
So all hats will be in modules/clothing/head, all gloves will be in modules/clothing/gloves, ect...
I've removed 'modules/clothing/random.dm' and 'objects/items/clothing.dm' which both seemed to just be a place where people would put stuff they were too lazy to find a proper home for.
I've also moved files that had no, or very few blocks of code into more catagorized areas.
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Fixes issue 676.
Fixes issue 700.
Fixes issue 753.
Fixes issue 754.
Fixes issue 755.
Additionally I slightly cleaned up grenade code and stunglove code, and removed mustardbomb.dm (because it was fucking awful).
THIS BUGFIX TRAIN AIN'T STOPPIN'
Thanks QualityVan for the issue 521 fix, and thanks Nodrak & Tobba for pointing out my dumbness for issues 753 & 754 respectively.
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As such, changelings can now be reported at round-end, even after gibbing. Resolves Issue 251
Changeling power proc_holders are now datums rather than objects.
Condensed all those changeling stings down a bit. This will make fixing issue 351 easier to fix
Replaced changeling fakedeath and a number of checks for the zombiepowder reagent with a bitflag: mob/var/status_flags & FAKEDEATH
setting the FAKEDEATH flag will make the mob appear dead in exactly the same way changeling parasting and parapens worked. I've updated changelings and zombiepowder to work with this flag.
Bug fixes for the staff of change. There was a type mismatch and I typo'd "alien" as "xeno" so xenos were not being randomly picked.
TODO:
changeling purchased verbs could probably be moved to mind/special_verbs. Likewise, other modular antag proc-holders can be merged with the changeling system using the same type of datum. (namely wizards)
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Fixes Issue 229
-Removed the shitty almost-throwing after_attack() for grenades and replaced it with something sane. Now (Like before) when you activate a grenade, it turns throw mode on.
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As a result, cyborg death squads were also removed.
This also fixes meteors and space dust so that they properly take into account the borders of the map. Please do not hardcode numbers when we have defines in place.
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- Syringe overlay layer is no longer above the blackout screen layer
Fixed issue 704
- Shades (and all simple animals) can no longer pick up paper bins/donut boxes with clickdragging (were there any other objects you could pick up with onmousedrop?)
Fixed issue 737
- Dead/unconscious cultists no longer count towards cultist count on rune use (such as sacrifice, nar-sie, etc)
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Minds part2 - Carn loses her mind.
The way datum/mind stuff works has been changed a lot. I really can't explain everything. If you have any questions it'd just be easier if you leave a comment or ask me in coderbus.
Generally, minds now represent IC characters rather than following a client around constantly. Minds can change owners, mobs, (names WIP).
Technical babble:
The var/current and var/original variables of the mind datum must always be of type mob/living (or null). Please do not mind.transfer_to(ghost_mob). If you want to ghost somebody use ghostize()! It will do all the technical stuff for you.
mob/dead/observer/var/corpse was removed. mob/dead/observer/var/mind is now used as a reference to the last mind the player had (so respawning code has something to reference), but also because mind.current is a far more useful way of tracking a corpse. If somebody triggers a mind.transfer_to() call on your corpse, your mind will be tranfered to another mob/living or something...that will then be considered your corpse. This could allow for more interesting mind_transfers. For instance, the "raise corpse" rune ghostizes any player in the corpse to be raised and selectes a random dead player to take possesion of their character! The person possesing them will have all of their memories, objectives, etc. The poor guy who was originally the owner cannot re-enter body if there is another player in his body...but if that player is ghosted he can once again return. Exorcisms anybody?
Changes to cloning and hydroponics. I will likely have to rework these later as they're hacky as hell right now.
A lot of stuff is now handled by Login/Logout rather than in hundreds of different places. One such example, mind datums get their variables updated at Login and Logout.
Fixed a few minor bugs. I'll update the issues manually in a bit because I literally cannot think atm.
TL;DR guide:
-If you want to make somebody a ghost use ghostize(). Or you will need to find a doctor to stitch your bits back on. :)
-You don't have to worry about making minds. Simply doing key="carnwennan" or whatever will either: A) make a new mind and initialise it if there isn't one or B) take possession of the mind currently attached to the mob.
-It's safe to transfer a mind even if a key isn't in-body (e.g. they are ghosted/admin-observing etc!) Minds have an active variable which tracks whether they are currently synced with a key. This is to avoid dragging ghosts back into their bodies when say, a wizard mind_transfers them.
-Transferring a mind whilst var/active=1 will cause the following: mob.key = mind.key. So no need to do that separately (in fact you'll lag things if you do, so don't)
-If you do want to initialize a mind manually, say if you don't have a client to login to the mob yet, simply do new_mob.mind_initialize(). Simple! When someody is logged into that mob they will take ownership of the mind and it will sync up.
NOTE: a lot is probably broken since this is a pretty massive change. Please let me know asap (with actual info! Shouting at me, "IT BORKED HALP", doesn't help)
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