Translations are currently by holistic strings, i.e.
no parameterization. This may create some busy
work for translators, but gives them more freedom
to account for differences between languages.
A translation template file is written out to the world
path on game start, so translators have a seed to
work from.
Use interception where possible to modify destintion for items
directly instead of relying on post-hoc inventory rearrangement.
This should resolve the glitches where items appear in the wrong
place in inventory for a flash before being moved.
Players can specify the exact slot they want picked up items to go
into. Items will try to fit into the currently selected slot first
before filling additional slots according to normal rules.
This is experimental and may lead to lost or duplicate items!!
Hopefully this should end up being a lot more intuitive and
immersive than the old sneak-dig hack that only worked for certain
objects. It's consistent across all functionality that causes
items to be added to player invetory (including /give).
Unfortunately it adds yet another globalstep function, and a
fairly complex one at that...
- Eliminate health and breath stat bars.
- Players NO LONGER DIE FROM INJURY.
- Players no longer lose walking speed or mobility.
- Players lose inventory slots in proportion to injury; they're
stuffed with an "injury" item, and items they displace are
ejected. Slots are displaced in random order.
- Healing rate is much faster, so players are usually mildly
inconvenienced by injury, but can soon enough pick up their
stuff and leave.
- Health and breath HUDs are gone. Health is visible based on
number of lost slots, and breath uses a vignette to narrow
tunnel vision for O2 loss.
Overall, the old health system has been more of an immersion-
breaking annoyance than anything. This allows health to get out
of the way of the primary gameplay.
UNFINISHED: Need a replacement for the old "suicide to get unstuck"
mechanic.
Avoid above-grade placement, but randomly allow it, allowing
items that are "stuck" in a pile of leaves to gradually
random-walk their way out into a stable position.
- Inventory screen is now no longer game-interactive, and serves
as purely an "about" screen.
- Move the HUD components out of inv mod and into hud mod.
- Separate player setup mod for static physical limitations like
step height, inv size, etc.
