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dhkatz 18 Jul, 2018 @ 8:46pm
Introduction to New Features
Hey everyone,

Just wanted to give everyone a quick overview of the current new features and new way of doing certain things, as well as some of the planned features that were requested by some of you and the community.

You can assume everything from the old base is already there (and probably improved).

Design Philosophy

I want the base to be as configurable as possible. Because of this, most functions now accept a table in order to parse optional data. Anywhere a table is passed to a function as a paramter, you can assume all the table values are optional and will be set to defaults if you do not override them.

For example when adding a seat you might see something like this:

self:AddSeat("Back", Vector(255, 0, 85), self:GetAngles() + Angle(0, 90, 0), { visible = false, exitpos = Vector(0, 35, -20), weapons = {"Back"} })

That last parameter is a table, the values inside of it are all the optional things you can set to configure the seat even more.

Because all the table values have defaults, you could in theory leave it out of the function call and it will still work:

self:AddSeat("Back", Vector(255, 0, 85), self:GetAngles() + Angle(0, 90, 0))

Currently Added Features

Ship Scaling

Ever felt like your ship was too big or too small? Don't want to recompile your entire model just to change the size? Now you don't have to!

Due to the nice way I have setup positioning, I was able to add drop in support for model scaling. This means that you can call
self:SetModelScale()
at the beginning of
ENT:Initialize()
to set a scale for all positioning involving the ship.

This means that you can scale the ship, all weapons, engine effects, etc. just with one line. Currently there may be some issues with view scaling but that should get ironed out. It's kinda fun to fly your ship around at 0.05 scale and feel like an RC plane.

Shield System

Probably one of my most requested features. Optional to use with ships. Haven't fully implemented recharging yet but it will be soon.

Here[my.mixtape.moe] is a quick video showing the effect. Currently using a generic shield sounding hit until I can get a better.

Improved HUD

The HUD will now draw for each passenger inside of ship, not just the pilot. This means passengers will have a better idea of the status of the ship they are in.

Separate weapon cooldowns are also now supported for other seats. That means that firing weapons as a gunner will also display your own cooldown under the main reticle.

Here[my.mixtape.moe] is an example showing off the addition of the HUD to passengers and their own weapon cooldowns

Clientside Sound System

Sometimes you only want the people in the ship to hear something, this is best accomplished by only playing the sounds on the clients that need to hear it. As a result of this need, ships support a new AddSound method client side.

If you want to do something such as adding background radio chatter, this can easily be accomplished with the new AddSound method:

self:AddSound("Chatter", "vehicles/starviper/chatter/attack1.wav", { once = false, cooldown = 5 })

But this is boring, you only have one sound file! Luckily AddSound supports tables to.

self:AddSound("Chatter", { "vehicles/starviper/chatter/attack1.wav", "vehicles/starviper/chatter/formation2.wav", "vehicles/starviper/chatter/moving5.wav", "vehicles/starviper/chatter/rightaway.wav" }, { once = false, cooldown = 5 })

By passing a table instead of a string, a random path will automatically be chosen each time the sound is played.

Note: This method is best used for sounds you want to play on intervals or only once during the lifetime of the ship. If you need a more complex sound condition, please see the information about events.

WIP, will finish this post later.
Last edited by dhkatz; 19 Jul, 2018 @ 4:57pm
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Syphadias 19 Jul, 2018 @ 5:04am 
I love the shield system preview! The sound plays for everyone and not just the driver? Just making sure because it could be a confirmed hit sound basically as well as the effect :)
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Oninoni 19 Jul, 2018 @ 5:28am 
So do you guys need help coding this? Wanted to do sth like this anyways :P
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Syphadias 19 Jul, 2018 @ 6:26am 
I had an idea with the scaling system, is it possible to add an Admin only feature to change ship scale for all via the Q menu? Sort of like the admin panel for Atmos or StormFox? Would make it so the server can choose their ships scale? Just a thought since theyd have to physically edit the addon themselves to do that if they "knew" it was there... Or we could just have a preset "scaled" section with a pre-determined size that makes sense. With a pre-determined we could do SSD finally at the scale of other ships to show how massive it is!
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dhkatz 19 Jul, 2018 @ 9:50am 
Originally posted by Syphadias:
I had an idea with the scaling system, is it possible to add an Admin only feature to change ship scale for all via the Q menu? Sort of like the admin panel for Atmos or StormFox? Would make it so the server can choose their ships scale? Just a thought since theyd have to physically edit the addon themselves to do that if they "knew" it was there... Or we could just have a preset "scaled" section with a pre-determined size that makes sense. With a pre-determined we could do SSD finally at the scale of other ships to show how massive it is!

A global scale could potentially work, however live scaling isn't implemented. Which means changing the global scale means you have to respawn every vehicle or issues may occur. I don't really have plans to implement live scaling as that can cause a whole load of other issues on its own.
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dhkatz 19 Jul, 2018 @ 4:38pm 
Updated post with information on HUD changes.
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Jakob | KingPommes 20 Jul, 2018 @ 3:10am 
Originally posted by Syphadias:
I had an idea with the scaling system, is it possible to add an Admin only feature to change ship scale for all via the Q menu? Sort of like the admin panel for Atmos or StormFox? Would make it so the server can choose their ships scale? Just a thought since theyd have to physically edit the addon themselves to do that if they "knew" it was there... Or we could just have a preset "scaled" section with a pre-determined size that makes sense. With a pre-determined we could do SSD finally at the scale of other ships to show how massive it is!
Issue that I see with this is that vehicles that have 3D interiors wont work %100 anymore. for example I made sure the Ties joysticks line up with the players hands perfectly. But true unaccurate ships such as the falcon might benefit from this (although those vehicles should be remade anyways XD).
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Jakob | KingPommes 20 Jul, 2018 @ 4:39am 
Id like to propose the usage of npc_launcher as a weapon. its basically the rocket from the rpg but you can choose its model and sounds. dont know how that entity can be used in lua but its a great thing as you can set it to home in on targets. recently picked up a commission job for the hailfire droid. The rockets would work perfectly here.
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dhkatz 20 Jul, 2018 @ 12:46pm 
Originally posted by KingPommes:
Id like to propose the usage of npc_launcher as a weapon. its basically the rocket from the rpg but you can choose its model and sounds. dont know how that entity can be used in lua but its a great thing as you can set it to home in on targets. recently picked up a commission job for the hailfire droid. The rockets would work perfectly here.

Do you have any examples of such usage you've done? Would make it way easier to integrate if I don't have to do the thinking you've already done.
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Jakob | KingPommes 20 Jul, 2018 @ 2:54pm 
Originally posted by Doctor Jew:
Do you have any examples of such usage you've done? Would make it way easier to integrate if I don't have to do the thinking you've already done.
I can upload a .bsp of what Im talking about however I havent used this together with lua. Ill get on making an example map tho
EDIT: download[drive.google.com]
I havent quite figured out how to get the homing to work nicely but heres for a rough idea
Last edited by Jakob | KingPommes; 20 Jul, 2018 @ 3:34pm
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