Maintainer Meeting (5 Feb 2022)

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Time: 5 Feb 2022 16:00 UTC

Attendees:
DrSmugleaf
Vera
PJB
Paul
ElectroSR
ShadowCommander
moony
Silver

Improving the usability of animations in code | metalgearsloth

For example, an easy way to play a state then go to another.
Animations big suck
- Hard to play, keep track of and synchronize (need sync with animation timing)
In most game engines (Godot/Unreal) you have a state machine with the animations, based on some state
Should be part of visualizers
Not having a GUI to define them kinda sucks.

Subnautica button
- S 👏 u 👏 b 👏 n 👏 a 👏 u 👏 t 👏 i 👏 c 👏 a 👏 👏 b 👏 u 👏 t 👏 t 👏 o 👏 n
- GDC talk
Have a /vg/-like button to create issues on GitHub on a separate repo, so the main one is not spammed
- In-game window
- Make sure it has feedback so we dont get duplicate bug reports
- What do we grab:
  - Round information
  - Commit the server is at
- How do we fix it not leaking current-round information?
  - Only send at end of round.
  - Cache the reports into local SQLite DB (game server) while the round is going on in case the server crashes, then send them through the server, not the watchdog.

Fund it
Conflicts (multiple inheritance/diamond problem)
- based on imported order, like python
Prototype load ordering
- Push composition on the mapping level, not on the created objects
- Gets rid of deserialization results
- Makes it possible to do it in order
- load all mappings at once, then serialize them in one method call

Opt-in vs opt-out
- If its automatic instead of a prompt sloth dies
- Opt-in
Doing it with batches of players (so it doesn’t balance 1 at a time)
- Yes
- Have a threshold of players that need to have clicked yes for the autobalance to actually happen.
  - Check the other server’s pop, if it’s over an amount transfer anyway.
  - Needs inter-server communication.
What about ping?
- Show the ping to the person, maybe a ping comparison between the current server and the other one?
Popup midround?
- If we do it, don’t do it for alive players, only ghosts
Endround popup?
- Yes
Need to have it be per group of servers
Control players counts with player caps, tell players they can move
Prompt on the server full deny screen to connect to another server, indicate this with the launcher
Have a queue that shows you can join to other servers
Servers having different versions? Paul issue
- They will usually be the same version + delta updates + ratio

PRs are better for downstreams specially when conflicts arise. Working directly with PRs is easier (bots that mirror upstream PRs).
- What is easier? Who knows? Where’s moony?
Simple bug fixes can be committed to master
PJB vs Paul 2 hour discussion on whether to PR or not

emergency shuttle
- auto shuttle movement
gamemodes/antags
- dynamic | mirror
  - nuke ops
    - the nuke is done, nuke ops isn’t yet
    - does not work outside dynamic
  - lings?
  - blob | Remie
  - cult?
    - make it as good as vg for pjb
  - revs
EL BODY SYSTEM | mirror
- some refactors were done by mirror, still some left
- surgery died in the war of 1992
Salvage proc gen | moony
- Cargo Commander
Radiation refactor
- Singularity rebalance
body system but again
body system (get smug to code it)
- Species
  - we need to do non human body parts
ENGINE EDITOR
- could benefit from full state reload
movement refactor
- Client side movement?
  - a smidgen
Tutorial
- In game guides
  - Yes
  - Waiting on pretty labels
  - books/ebooks in pda
    - ebooks preloaded on pda for selected job
    - when rich text gets merged
      - :death:
oldchat + ui refactor
explosion refactor | electrosr
combat refactor
pulling refactor
role bans | ShadowCommander
admin notes | drsmugleaf
Admin traitor/role menu
- Assign people roles
Job playtime requirements
- Playtime tracking
- Per role playtime tracking
experimental science
action ui refactor, like ss13 maybe
change pvs to p/invoke zstd

Bugs: (when are we moving these to GitHub)

turn this section into crashes / critical bugs later
automatically log exceptions shown on grafana
being able to see inside containers
- Need to change PVS to not send all container contents
- Isn’t this a separate issue anyway
  - Seems like PVS queue bugs?
  - Imagine if players could give steps to replicate, insanium
hud disappearing
- cant reproduce yet, status icons keep disappearing
- might be food or thrist related
- Gets fixed when status gets and update (Like buckling or unbuckling)
Singularity pops in. Needs a PVS override.
when the station moves or rotates (rotation is reliable) everyone is unbuckled