Maintainer Meeting (21 Oct 2023)

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Time: 21 Oct 2023 18:00 UTC

Attendees:

  • DrSmugleaf
  • EmoGarbage
  • ElectroSR
  • KeronSHB
  • PJB
  • Visne
  • Jezithyr
  • Chief_Engineer
  • notafet
  • TheQuietOne
  • faint

Audioparams refactor | Sloth

  • Take a component with a default variation for example, you can’t have any inheritors also use it so you have to manually set it every time which is a pita, or alternatively just do it in code and bulldoze the existing audioparams on the component.
  • Ideally we’d be able to specify volume / pitch or whatever on the audio file but also have a global way of setting variation or the likes
  • One possible solution is removing audioparams from soundspecifier and leaving volume / pitch on it maybe?

Cinematic trailer | Jezithyr

  • Thread number one (#progress-report-writing): https://discord.com/channels/310555209753690112/1036668046623903815/1044457700026761216
  • Thread number two (#maintainers-office): https://discord.com/channels/310555209753690112/1151546015330082867/1155994231417090069
  • Thread number three (#contributors): https://discord.com/channels/310555209753690112/1164636218051543060/1164641450563227719
  • Do we make a cinematic or gameplay trailer
    • Gameplay trailer, cinematic trailer would be nice
  • GitHub issue for trailers
  • Have somewhere for people to submit replays and timestamps

UIControllers and UI reloading | Jezithyr

  • UIController docs
  • Right now UIControllers listen to an event on the system
  • Full state reloading is a pain in the ass, slower and clunkier than just UI
  • Do we move UI code to a separate assembly
    • Yes eventually
  • Try making them EntitySystems

Medical and surgery | Jezithyr

  • Wounds, damage is taken by DamageableComponent and handled by other components.
  • New items/chemicals for medical should be frozen (any new ones would be removed once the refactor is done, specially around bleeding).

Generic Entity<T> monologue | DrSmugleaf

if (!Resolve(uid, ref comp))
    return;
    
Entity<BuckleComponent?, TransformComponent, PhysicsComponent?> ent;
var (uid, buckle, transform, physics) = ent;
if (!Resolve(ent, ref buckle, ref physics))
    return;

Entity<BuckleComponent> ent1;
Entity<BuckleComponent?> ent2 = (ent1, ent1.Comp);

Entity relations | DrSmugleaf

  • Some components have EntityUid fields that may hold deleted entities or entities without the required component anymore
  • Entity relations or having a way to register these fields with a delegate would fix this
  • How to handle dangling entity references held in components
  • idk

Admin logs archival and current round replays | DrSmugleaf

  • Make archival part of SS14.Admin
  • Partition by date (for persistent forks otherwise we would do by round id)
  • Sending replays through lidgren requires tcp window scaling
  • Easy way is open a link on the browser and then open the replay on the launcher

UI styling tweaks | EmoGarbage

  • Hud redesign
  • Some things are ugly, don’t fit how the game looks
  • Action bar being on the side is slightly annoying
  • Having clothing right above the hands gets in the way of putting storage there
  • The whole UI theme is very blue which doesn’t fit the theme of the resto f the game
  • The font is very generic
  • Just do it get an UI designer

Early Access Roadmap

  • nothing on this roadmap matters except early access trailer.
  • A trailer for Steam
  • gamemodes/antags
  • The game runs like shit how do people play this
    • “IDK but maybe when I fix the watchdog you can figure it out easier” | 09/09/2023
    • “I only played VRChat since last time and VRChat runs like shit so I don’t know how people play this” | 23/09/2023
    • “” | 21/10/2023

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

  • Crashes the server reliably.
  • Something that bricks your client often (needs a client restart).
    • Example: Blackscreens the client until you reconnect.
  • If something ruins the round and is disabled because of it.
    • Example: Communal lung bug. => till next time like and subscribe smash that button did you know only 6% of contribs join this meeting? According to YouTube’s statistics,

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