Maintainer Meeting (21 January 2023)

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Time: 21 January 2023 19:00 UTC

Attendees:

  • moony
  • AJCM
  • Zoldorf
  • Visne
  • ElectroSR
  • Remie
  • Wrexbe
  • DrSmugleaf
  • Vera
  • mirrorcult
  • PJB

Bumping map count to 15 | metalgearsloth

  • Most of c#10595 is done
  • 15 is too many
  • Bump it up to 12
  • 1 more low pop map, 1 more high pop map

What to do about RSI licensing | metalgearsloth

  • Do we use RGA outside of the folder
    • No, RGAs are for other resources
  • Do we use something else entirely
  • Make the license field a list of licenses interpreted by a script
  • Copyright is freeform interpreted by a human
  • Don’t use RGAs for RSIs

Do we explicitly block Windows 7 | PJB

  • Make the pop-up always show up, not only once
  • Change the text and make closing the pop-up close the launcher too
  • Localize the pop-up message to Russian if the OS is in Russian

Do we mandate guidebook entries for new large features | mirrorcult

  • Yes

How do we distribute replay recordings & clients, and should we hide some data | ElectroSR

  • Should we hide data such as admin aghost positions?
    • No
  • How do we distribute it
    • Tie replays to a version (game/engine), metadata and a link
    • Download the replay and its data should launch the sandboxed client with a specific version
    • Include the commit number in the replay file (any data can be appended to the replay file from content)
    • Content versioning scheme (commit number), download link (if it doesn’t work you download it yourself)

Can we do another stress test trace | mirrorcult

  • Try and say that 10 times fast “stress test trace”
    • Stresst
  • Run it from time to time (ping PJB)
  • Ping tester for it
  • Having links that connect you to a server would be useful

PJB’s renderer ASMR for Jez | PJB

  • Problems with the renderer:
  • We can’t do what Byond can with planes, complex filtering
  • We don’t want planes (they are a bad idea)
  • The alternative is a GOOD API (difficult)
  • We can’t have multiple post-shaders
  • The hard part of a renderer is integrating it into the rest of the game engine (we are 2D)
  • There are no existing rendering APIs we can just take
  • We need a rendering API to:
    • Draw textures, polygons at locations
  • The game’s code:
    • Puts sprites at locations
    • People do funny things (shaders, render targets)
  • Our API has some of this but is unperformant, not very flexible
  • Going from “draw sprite” to “opengl arrays” is just a lot of glue-code, not complicated
  • Clyde is divided internally, only one file takes the sprites and actually draws them with the rest of the API
  • Using a different rendering API to replace Clyde because of the maintenance burden requires it doing everything that Clyde already does
  • We can’t build Clyde on top of another incomplete rendering API because it would be spaghetti
  • When we tried to use Godot we had our own sprite component and tried to build it on top
    • Godot was too high level, too unperformant to integrate with nicely
    • Need something that’s lower level
    • Godot 4 nonwithstanding
  • Maybe something like Monogame but we would need a lot of glue code (replacing all of Clyde and refactoring anything that uses Clyde)
  • PJB transferred from the Clyde mines and into the Monogame mines (we would need to fork it)
  • Any other libraries unknown that don’t need us to half-ass it
  • Not worth the complexity
  • PART 2: Even if you can find a good rendering API
  • There are some good libraries (e.g. BGFX) that make you not need to write separate OpenGL/DirectX/Vulkan backends
  • You would still have your own “Clyde” on top of it
  • We still support very old hardware up to 10 years old, even if you raised this number WebGPU/etc require more modern APIs which would drop older hardware
  • We don’t want to expose the graphics library on Robust
  • PROBLEM 2 (It’s actually 3):
  • We need to support Veldrid
  • PROBLEM 3 (4):
  • Older hardware
  • this is still all just problem 2: “older hardware” she’s just talking in a very roundabout funny manner
  • Don’t worry about it
  • Maybe (maybe) use (maybe) WebGPU which uses the browser which reduces a lot of things you would need to create
  • DirectX 10.1 hardware is what we target
  • Visne left to go party, he is uncool
  • Writing multiple backends: not good
  • PJB is lost and confused, sad
  • Just use Clyde 👍
  • Clyde2.0 When
  • If you want it easy drop OpenGL support
    • Less ass to maintain
  • There are no plug-in rendering APIs
  • Maybe get WebGPU or Vulkan-based, code against that, OpenGL is a fuck

Early Access Roadmap

  • gamemodes/antags
    • dynamic | mirror
      • lings?
        • needs DNA
      • blob | Remie
      • revolutionaries
        • we want a generic antag overlay system
        • loyalty implant
        • faction system
  • EL BODY SYSTEM | jez ![](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/933790288860815380.webp =40x)
    • some refactors were done by mirror, still some left
    • surgery died in the war of 1992
      • Mirror died in the war of 1993
    • limb damage…..
  • Salvage proc gen | moony
    • she did it go port it https://github.com/Citadel-Station-13/space-station-14/tree/master/Content.Server/_Citadel/Worldgen
  • body system but again
  • body system
  • ENGINE EDITOR | PJB
    • could benefit from full state reload
  • movement refactor
    • Client side movement?
      • a smidgen
        • as a treat
        • acruid pls com bak
  • Add more shit to the guidebook
  • combat rework (needs to be bikeshedded)
    • https://github.com/space-wizards/space-station-14/issues/3378
  • ghostrole/antag bans
    • unify ghost roles prototype (mind refactor)
  • experimental science
    • “Science is still a piece of shit” - Vera 28/05/2022
    • “I haven’t played the game in 2 years” - Vera 07/01/2023
  • State mandated Xonotic matches | PJB
    • Please I have severe withdrawal symptoms
    • Replaced by private SS14 playtests
    • Woman down
    • She added Miku to her server (real) now you can play as miku pls play with her
  • The game runs like shit how do people play this
    • still does | PJB 28/05/2022
      • “how do people play this game” (high pitched scream) | PJB 28/05/2022
    • Slightly better | PJB 11/06/2022
    • It’s better but still not as good as I’d like it to be | PJB 25/06/2022
    • I haven’t played the game since | PJB 16/07/2022
    • “Please read the last line of that subsection” | PJB 30/07/2022
    • “Please unread the last line of the previous subsection” | PJB 07/01/2023
    • “I spent the last two weeks coding Rain World” | PJB 21/01/2023
  • A trailer for Steam

Crashes / Critical bugs: (when are we moving these to GitHub)

  • role timers not counting properly => till next time

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