...similar to how loose items are.
- They're emphemeral/air-like anyway
- Prevent exploiting protection areas to make traps to
capture players or their items.
Hints themselves have not been tided up
much, but this makes the project of fixing the
hints for each mod a little more manageable
and breaks up the hard-to-navigate single
monolithic hints file in the old guide mod.
The old guide mod has now been completely
retired. Hints are now a full-fledged API-layer
standard feature.
- Move hint handling down to API layer
- Simplify stat data; old nc_stats counting can
be moved out to a separate mod. We only
need whether the player has seen or not.
- Invert inventory tab responsibility.
- Merge witness system in from crafting.
TODO:
- Redistribute hint registration responsibility
to individual mods.
- Test external mod compat.
- Retire old nc_stats and nc_guide systems.
- Add a way to reset hints.
Optics keep track of path dependency info
used in calculating state. When a node is
added/removed in the path via the mod API
(i.e. not schematics, vmanip, etc.) then the
nodes whose state decisions depended on
paths going through there are automatically
triggered for a recheck.
This should make things like furnace sand
auto-loaders respond snappily.
Granted, memory use with this approach is
a concern, but we will just have to monitor it
under normal usage patterns.
- Players no longer constantly glow in darkness.
- Players can now place light spots by scaling, faster
than actual climbing spots.
- Climbing spots appear if player continues placement
after light appears.
- Floor traversal mechanism is now obsolete.
This allows players to traverse dark caves reasonably
well, still, but only voluntarily, so darkness stealth
mechanics are possible again.
Lots of issues with players being unable to figure out traversal
of dark caves. Total darkness is probably too much of an ostacle
for players who haven't already learned how to avoid those kind
of circumstances.
- Storeboxes are now scalable.
- Standardize touch-hurt operation.
- Touch-hurt damage on scaling.
- Now possible to alter scaling time via scaling_time
group (percent of original scaling time)
- No day/night cycle, no sun/moon.
- Get rid of clouds too.
- Skybox is now 100% texture-packable.
- Natural light diminishes with depth.
Night-time no longer disrupts gameplay topside, but
skylights are no longer useful to an infinite depth and
artificial light is necessary for all deep mining.
This freezes many things that normally happen automatically
in the world, including most ABMs and AISMs, and a few other
custom step logic items like the player "hot potato" logic.
This can be used for "creative mode" purposes to setup a complex
build without it running itself away from you, and for texture
pack authors, to have time to see things that are normally
transient or difficult to observe because of the effects they have
on nearby things or players.
Treat all API mods as a "layer", and use the new
nc_api_all registration to indicate that a mod depends
on the NC API (which ALL NC mods assume they do).
This means that each non-API mod does not need to
worry about which API mods it really needs and which
it does not, nor will they need to be updated for any
internal API restructures.
This is a game, not a modpack, so all mods will be
loaded anyway, and we only care about order. That
means that we don't really need to worry about
having excess dependencies because any mod we
don't actually need will be needed by something that's
loaded anyway. If somebody wants to reuse a
component elsewhere, they're likely to need to do
some work to untangle it anyway, because of the
amount that NodeCore mechanics interact and
interdepend.
This created a ton of dependency inversions, which
necessitated moving a number of API functions up into
higher layers, and restructuring dependency lists for
a number of mods.
BOLO: non-deterministic load errors due to missed
dependencies.
Making hand dig everything broke logic that was
depending on things being "not hand diggable".
Continue to treat things as not-hand-diggable if they
would take a long enough time to dig.
Nodes cannot be scaled only if they are BOTH falling
nodes AND diggable by hand. Mostly this just means
sand cannot be scaled and needs to be dug out
instead.
If watching someone else scaling a cliff from a distance, you will not
see where the handholds are, but if you are nearby, you will be able to
see and share them.
- Prevent downgrading.
Should prevent player from falling when overhangers replaced.
- Allow hanging construction through other scaling nodes.
Should prevent full overhangs from being blocked by wall scaling.
- Repeat/hold place (right-click) with empty hand instead of pummel.
- Otherwise, works similarly to first generation.
- Scaling nodes can overwrite each other now (upgrade wall to ceiling).
- Visuals are now particle-based instead of texture, like Gen 2.
While this makes scaling a little easier to do, it still doesn't
fix the fundamental problem of scaling being distracting and too
easy to trigger accidentally.
The "pummel" version of scaling caused some confusion when one
player accidentally triggered it trying to figure out how to get
lode out of lode ore. The current one triggers accidentally all
the time just from tabbing out of a game with it running (e.g. it
isn't paused in multiplayer) leaving the character staring at a
wall. While such a player WOULD have opportunity to find
handholds in the wall, we aren't differentiating between a player
who's scrutinizing a surface from one staring off into space.
The scaling needs to be made harder to trigger accidentally, like
reinstating the need for an empty hand. Using a right-click
action may also help distinguish it from pummelng recipes.
Removing this from the alpha branch so players don't get too
accustomed to this functionality and then have it change AGAIN.
This reverts commit 943604cf9588a316dce19e0a60a4219b52c4d905.
- Remove pummel recipes. Now find handholds just by
staring at a particular spot. Being closer or better focused
helps.
- Use only particles instead of a facedir node, so facedir
isn't a problem when adjacent to multiple walls/ceilings.
- Automatically upgrade "wall" climbing to "overhang" climbing
when a ceiling is present.
- Make handhold nodes glow, to visually simulate the player
character's now "familarity" with them by feel. We have to
represent it synesthetically because the game only gives us
sight and sound to work with.
- Make floors "scalable" so that they glow, even though they
don't affect maneuverability.
The effect of this is to allow a player who has fallen into a dark
cavern to navigate, slowly, by feel, allowing more extensive
self-rescue possibilities.
- Collapse all nodecore "core" mods in the /mods listing, so it's
easier to find the actual add-on mods.
- Parameterize in-game branding to make renaming derivatives just
a little easier.
Pummel on the face of a wall you can't dig with your bare hands
and eventually you will find handholds there, allowing you to
climb.
This will hopefully provide an immersive alternative to /stuck
for getting out of pits, which will also make players have to
carefully extricate themselves from their situations instead of
just using /stuck to bail and then running home to come back
with supplies.
