This restores an old visual scale from the extremely early days
of NodeCore. That style was removed to syncrhonize the scale of
stack nodes with item ents. The syncrhonization can work the
other way, too, though.
This was triggered by wanting to make loose item ents more
visually distinct at a glance from settled stack nodes, by making
loose item ent rotation faster. Since we were going to change the
properties either way, given that, then we might as well use the
better visual.
Since making stack nodes have a full-size collision hull, it was
distracting having the items inside be so mismatched in scale.
Also, the "pointing around stacks" thing becomes less important
in long-run gameplay with shelves in play, which do not allow
pointing around/through anyway.
It was superseded effectively by the new inventory management
system. To split stacks, count out the items to transfer onto the
ground using sneak-drop, select the destination slot and pick them
back up.
- Clean up registered_* usage patterns.
- Reduce tendancy of leaves to create stack nodes.
Now they tend to stack up properly in-world more often.
- Tweak damage system to create "headroom" where minor
damage doesn't cost inv slots immediately.
- Make player hand skin color match model skin.
- Cleanup/unify grass abm logic.
- Start installing new sounds by MagikEh
Sound source:
https://github.com/MagikEh/SoundsOfWarr
- 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.
Rotation is now fixed, non-moving, and deterministic. This fits
in better with the rest of the visuals in the game being
stationary when in steady-state, i.e. only things actually changing
are actually moving.
Instead of rotation speed indicating a full stack, rotation angle
now does; non-full stacks will always be off significantly from
orthogonal, while full ones will be perfectly square.
This is allows you to split a stack by throwing individual items
with sneak-drop, letting them settle into a single stack, and
then sneak-digging the stack to keep it separate in your inventory.
This makes it possible to split stacks into arbitrary quantities
without having to use the inventory GUI.
- Defined nodes, slabs, and prills of lode.
- Heating lode ore releases hot lode prills.
- Lode things in stack can air-cool to anneal or water-quench to
harden/temper. Cooling of placed nodes/slabs is planned.
- Hot items cannot be carried; picking them up causes damage and
causes player to drop them.
- Random initial rotation.
- When stackable items represent a complete full stack, rotate
about 1/3 as fast as normal. This subtle cue helps organizing
storage by finding available space, but you still need to pick
up the stack if you want an EXACT count.
Try to standardize the way we handle tools, materials, digtimes.
- Levels start at 1 and work upwards.
- Level 1 is for "hand" or "primitive" tools.
- Levels 2+ are wood, stone, metal, etc.
- Link dig times, tool levels, and durability together.
- Material groups now define standard "base dig times" which
are the main thing that makes e.g. stone harder to dig than dirt.
The speed of digging almost everything will probably have changed,
in some cases not for the better; much testing will be needed.
