0.2.8 (beta 3 tagged)

[Luke-Jr]

This thread is for organising version 0.2.8. This post will serve as a summary and be edited according to posts following it, so if something needs to be changed/added/removed, post about it

Completed features:
- Support for shaped arenas (axes and map)
- Resource manager
- Coloured zones: green for win-zone; red for death-zone
- Private messaging -- /msg PLAYER MESSAGE or /team MESSAGE
- PNG screenshots
- Multiple interface support for servers + server ip and port config
- Seperate directory for screenshots (instead of USER_DATA_DIR)
- Remote admin
- Replay capacity of network game (z-man)
- Refactoring of network code (z-man)
- Server bookmarks in browser (nemo, z-man)
- Dynamically determine available display resolutions (Lucifer)
- Centralised resource repository (code support only; Luke-Jr)

Incomplete features:
- New icon
- Mac OS X 10.1 support

(to-be-moved) Other features:
- Configuration rotation -- should this wait for a future version or a special server-only upgrade? (Lucifer?)
- User authentication (Luke-Jr?)

Outstanding bugs:
- "Invisiwalls" (bug ???)
- Jumping (used to be sliding, may not actually be a bug) (bug 1201859 assigned to z-man)
- Going through walls [aka phasing] (bug 1202231 assigned to z-man)
- Lag when there are lots of turns made (for example through double-binding) (bug 1201877 assigned to z-man)
- Bounces replace slides (bug ???)

[Sniperiid]

hahaha so cool

[Your_mom]

im not a programmer but featuress i would like included would be

/msg code
colored alive and dead code
nemos favorite server browser addition
and mabey someone could recruit jonathan to right better bots

links
http://guru3.sytes.net/viewtopic.php?t= ... hlight=msg
http://guru3.sytes.net/viewtopic.php?t=1752
http://guru3.sytes.net/viewtopic.php?t= ... =favorites

[dlh]

im not a programmer but featuress i would like included would be

/msg code
colored alive and dead code
nemos favorite server browser addition
and mabey someone could recruit jonathan to right better bots

links
http://guru3.sytes.net/viewtopic.php?t= ... hlight=msg
http://guru3.sytes.net/viewtopic.php?t=1752
http://guru3.sytes.net/viewtopic.php?t= ... =favorites

1) I've been working on the favorite browser, '+' (really its the = key, but 'shift' + '=' also works). key will add the server to your favorites (had to make connectionName and port public). I haven't looked at the new server browser code, so maybe z-man coded this already.

2) for the colored "Alive" column in tab score view, there actually should be 1 pixel (or 1 unit, since its not really pixel based) between the Player and Alive column, so it needs a little modification.

3) /msg code: still working on string matching, so it will be unnecessary to look up someones netid.

Edit: School is finishing up, though, so I'm really busy.

[Jonathan]

My chatbot isn't smart at all, and I don't know much about AI. My chatbot is a huge improvement over the usual chatbot, but take a look at the source (somewhere near gCycle.cpp:1100). I changed the dir source, replaced the once a sec code (merged some of it back though so enemyInfluence isn't affected by anything other than the slightly different dir) and improved conditions and arithmetic.

[Luke-Jr]

im not a programmer but featuress i would like included would be

/msg code

I think nemo was working on this... is there a reason he's not part of the project? how complete is the code for /msg ?

3) /msg code: still working on string matching, so it will be unnecessary to look up someones netid.

Post here when it's done, so it can be considered for 0.2.8

colored alive and dead code

Added to CVS; not a major feature for the list, tho

2) for the colored "Alive" column in tab score view, there actually should be 1 pixel (or 1 unit, since its not really pixel based) between the Player and Alive column, so it needs a little modification.

Seems to work here...

nemos favorite server browser addition

Maybe? I haven't kept up with this; does it do something that increasing the score on a server doesn't?

1) I've been working on the favorite browser, '+' (really its the = key, but 'shift' + '=' also works). key will add the server to your favorites (had to make connectionName and port public). I haven't looked at the new server browser code, so maybe z-man coded this already.

+ is already used for increasing the "score" on a server...

and mabey someone could recruit jonathan to right better bots

He insists his aren't better or something, IIRC.]

[dlh]

A little OT: Older clients are still able to play on 2.8.0 servers w/ original map, right?

[Luke-Jr]

A little OT: Older clients are still able to play on 2.8.0 servers w/ original map, right?

Right

[dlh]

Player authentication and passwords, possibly? The code for passwords is there already, if I remember correctly.

[Z-Man]

As far as I'm concerned, nemo's favorite server menu and my +/- score bias are different enough to have them both integrated. The bias is for "I'd like to play somewhere on the internet, preferably on swampland, but if nobody's around, I'll settle for something else." and the favorites menu is for "I want to play on swampland, and I want it fast.". It'll be natural to move the favorite server addition to the f key, of course.

Nemo: you have not yet posted the code, right? Just do so when it's ready and bump one of the core devs ( and I don't quite know why you're not one of us, either ) to it.

[dlh]

I fixed the game not working with VAR_DIR (or USER_DATA_DIR, both should be set to ->) ~/Library/Application Support/Armagetron/. Heres the code.

in src/macosx/SDLMain.mm, line 116

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/* Called when the internal event loop has just started running */
- (void) applicationDidFinishLaunching: (NSNotification *) note
{
    int status;
	/* Create cfg dir if it doesn't exist yet */
	NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
	// BOOL isDirectory;
	NSString *path = [[[NSString alloc] initWithCString:VAR_DIR] autorelease];
	path = [path stringByExpandingTildeInPath];
	
	if ([fileManager fileExistsAtPath: path] == NO){
		[fileManager createDirectoryAtPath: path attributes: nil];
	}
	
	// Caused some problems - nemostultae
	// BOOL isExists = [fileManager fileExistsAtPath:path isDirectory:&isDirectory];
	/* if (isExists & !isDirectory){
		NSLog(@"path %@ already exists but not a directory", path);
	}
	else if (!isExists){
		if (![fileManager createDirectoryAtPath:path attributes:nil]){
			NSLog(@"can't make directory %@", path);
		}
	} */

#if SDL_USE_NIB_FILE
    /* Set the main menu to contain the real app name instead of "SDL App" */
    [self fixMenu:[NSApp mainMenu] withAppName:[[NSProcessInfo processInfo] processName]];
#endif

    /* Hand off to main application code */
    status = SDL_main (gArgc, gArgv);

    /* We're done, thank you for playing */
    exit(status);
}

Edit: and config.h in src/macosx needs

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#define VAR_DIR "~/Library/Application Support/Armagetron"
#define USER_DATA_DIR "~/Library/Application Support/Armagetron"

[Luke-Jr]

I fixed the game not working with VAR_DIR (or USER_DATA_DIR, both should be set to ->) ~/Library/Application Support/Armagetron/. Heres the code.

in src/macosx/SDLMain.mm, line 116

This looks like just a hack, and not a real solution. Unless I'm reading it wrong, this will break the game on all systems that have never had AA before.

and config.h in src/macosx needs

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#define VAR_DIR "~/Library/Application Support/Armagetron"
#define USER_DATA_DIR "~/Library/Application Support/Armagetron"

Why? var should default to USER_DATA_DIR/var, which is what it should have been from the start.

[dlh]

This looks like just a hack, and not a real solution. Unless I'm reading it wrong, this will break the game on all systems that have never had AA before.

Why would this break the game? It checks to see if the path exists, if it does not, it creates it. The the code that I commented out was just a longer, more confusing version of what I put in.

and config.h in src/macosx needs

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#define VAR_DIR "~/Library/Application Support/Armagetron"
#define USER_DATA_DIR "~/Library/Application Support/Armagetron"

Why? var should default to USER_DATA_DIR/var, which is what it should have been from the start.

Didn't know VAR_DIR automatically defaulted to that. Its not needed then.

Edit: NSString *path = [[[NSString alloc] initWithCString:VAR_DIR] autorelease]; needs to be NSString *path = [[[NSString alloc] initWithCString:USER_DATA_DIR] autorelease];

[Luke-Jr]

This looks like just a hack, and not a real solution. Unless I'm reading it wrong, this will break the game on all systems that have never had AA before.

Why would this break the game? It checks to see if the path exists, if it does not, it creates it. The the code that I commented out was just a longer, more confusing version of what I put in.

Hence the "unless I'm reading it wrong"
Didn't notice any code was added... a diff would have made that clearer (hint hint)

and config.h in src/macosx needs

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#define VAR_DIR "~/Library/Application Support/Armagetron"
#define USER_DATA_DIR "~/Library/Application Support/Armagetron"

Why? var should default to USER_DATA_DIR/var, which is what it should have been from the start.

Didn't know VAR_DIR automatically defaulted to that. Its not needed then.

Edit: NSString *path = [[[NSString alloc] initWithCString:VAR_DIR] autorelease]; needs to be NSString *path = [[[NSString alloc] initWithCString:USER_DATA_DIR] autorelease];

I wonder if I should just rework tDirectories so it created write-directories when they are missing... we have mkdir_recursive now, after all...

[dlh]

Hence the "unless I'm reading it wrong"
Didn't notice any code was added... a diff would have made that clearer (hint hint)

if any one cares, it was the omission of

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path = [path stringByExpandingTildeInPath];

that caused the problem