3710 ongoing development thread

[keyser]

Hello everyone,

this thread is meant to give you an overview of what is going on regarding the next game development/bugfix patch.
I will tag all Pull Requests for this patch with the 3710 milestone so you can easily filter and find them here
currently the following changes are merged into the deploy/fafdevelop branch and thus available for public testing via the faf client by playing the FAF Develop game mode:

Spoiler: show

1 - Add allies resources balance to scoreboard - Allow you to view the income of your allies, their storage and their current drain. By ctrl-click you can request mass, energy or engies. By shift-click you can give mass, energy or selected unit to your allies. video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN_3deEmk_k
It doesn't work with the mod supreme score board or ecomanager on, but this change doesn't break the mods.
2 - remove vet bar for unvettable units - It will apply to T1/T3 air scouts, stealth boat, mobile stealth, mobile shields, shield boat, tmd, smd, T1 transports, aeon T3 sonar, drones, mercy, beetle.
3 - update readme
4 - Mounting ui textures from mod directories - essentially mods will be able to change ui textures like the strategic icons.
5 - Improved convenience when using the unit creation menu - spawing will be a bit easier when cheats are on.
6 - Allow transition for 3rd person cam- going to 3rd person view is now sexy. TIP for caster use this code in console after selecting an unit : UI_Lua do ForkThread(function()GetCamera('WorldCamera'):NoseCam(GetSelectedUnits()[1]:GetEntityId(), 0.2, 22, 15, 5)end) end
7 - clean changelog - made the old balance patch-note in lobby more readable.
8 - Fix for AI Base templates - fix/improve AI expansion base template.
9 - AI Patch V6 - use a better pathfinding for AI.
10 - Separate strategic icon for SACUs - SACU were using the ACU strategic icons. They still do with this change but now we can change their strategic icon if someone is willing to make some.
11 - fix select onscreen - select all land on screen was selecting factories also. It won't anymore.
12 - Removed observing after death - when observers option is on, the map will only reveal when all the player of your team are dead. It allows observers (casters/streamers) to be in team-game and watch/cast them without revealing the map for dead players until their team has lost.
13 - Pause facto effect fix - When facto are paused, the beam effect is stopped. Introduce minor fx glitch for seraphim.
14 - Add new optimal / mirrored spawn - it's an optimal balance putting in front of each other players having the most similar rating.
15 - fix half built ML/mega wreck falling under the ground - death animation was triggered even if these exp weren't finished yet, leading to having them fall even if they didn't stand on their feet. Now death animation will happen only when the ML/mega is finished.
16 - Fix acu projectiles - Fix gun fire from sera/uef ACU weren't showing yellow dot when zoomed out. Also fix aeon/cybran projectiles fx that weren't showing at ~160 LOD (intermediate zoom)
17 - Amphibious mode toggle for Salem - By turning the button off, the cybran destroyer won't get onto land by miss-click or bad pathfinding.
18 - make selection of mobile exp/sonar under construction act as building - This allow to select engies over exp and mobile sonar that are under construction.
19 - sera T2 sonar selection priority - Make finished T2 sonar selectable over engies.
20 - Use saved EntityId from the unit - code improvement to reduce the cpu load.
21 - add map to blacklist - prevent a map from being used.

Contributors:

• KionX
• wodzu93
• keyser
• speed2
• Uveso
• Strogo
• Crotalus
• Nojoke
• PhilipJFry

Going to update this post every once in a while with PRs that have been merged.
Feel free to test these changes and provide (constructive) feedback regarding these changes/this patch if you wish.

[keyser]

Updated. Expect a patch in january. Please test the "FAF develop" mod to spot any issues.

[armacham01]

"1 - Add allies resources balance to scoreboard - Allow you to view the income of your allies, their storage and their current drain. By ctrl-click you can request mass, energy or engies. By shift-click you can give mass, energy or selected unit to your allies. . . ."

I had to disable Supreme Score Board to get this to work. (Otherwise, i just saw the normal supreme score board display)

When I did run it with Supreme Score Board disabled, I was able to see this info. Unfortunately, the players were not grouped on the score board according to team. Which is a pretty major drawback. Is there a way to make this compatible with Supreme Score Board or otherwise to add that functionality?

When I hovered my mouse over the numbers, they changed into something completely inaccurate. When I did not have my mouse over the score board, it correctly showed 27 mass per second and 552 power income. When i put my mouse over it, it showed 358 mass income and 13k power.

[keyser]

"1 - Add allies resources balance to scoreboard - Allow you to view the income of your allies, their storage and their current drain. By ctrl-click you can request mass, energy or engies. By shift-click you can give mass, energy or selected unit to your allies. . . ."

I had to disable Supreme Score Board to get this to work. (Otherwise, i just saw the normal supreme score board display)

When I did run it with Supreme Score Board disabled, I was able to see this info. Unfortunately, the players were not grouped on the score board according to team. Which is a pretty major drawback. Is there a way to make this compatible with Supreme Score Board or otherwise to add that functionality?

When I hovered my mouse over the numbers, they changed into something completely inaccurate. When I did not have my mouse over the score board, it correctly showed 27 mass per second and 552 power income. When i put my mouse over it, it showed 358 mass income and 13k power.

it conflict with SSB and ecomanager.

when you get your cursor over you get the information about mass/e in storage

[keyser]

Updated. I will do a patch this week end, please host 1-2 games to be sure everything is working fine.

[Rikai]

First of all, thanks a lot for this patch. Especially Number 1 makes me so happy

10 - Separate strategic icon for SACUs - SACU were using the ACU strategic icons. They still do with this change but now we can change their strategic icon if someone is willing to make some.

While we are at it, can we please do the same thing to Sparkies/T2 Engies?

[wodzu_93]

4 - Mounting ui textures from mod directories - essentially mods will be able to change ui textures like the strategic icons.

This point did not get through with the patch. It was approved and merged on github, but init files do not have the change.

[Plasma_Wolf]

I like the addition to the allies resources to the scoreboard, with the sharing options. But the names are arranged by slot. Could this be changed so they're arranged by team first, then slot? That would improve the overview.

[Sir Prize]

Seems the update broke the scoreboard in replays if you watch from a player's perspective. Obviously it's more important to have the anti-ghosting change and the added functionality in the scoreboard are really good for in-game, but it would be ideal if you could still track the progress of all players when watching replays from a POV. Could the code for the scoreboard change(s) have a new line inserted to only activate when it's not a replay?

[Little Miss Murder]

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, please revert the Salem surf-n-turf toggle. Since they are built with it defaulted to off, after a while you end up with a mix of states and it's infuriating to realise after it's too late why half your boats didn't follow your orders.

Yes yes, noobs blah blah. The fact of the matter is that it increases micromanagement and that is bad in principle.