Cables now autoconnect on cardinal directions. All cable placement has been completely stripped out and replaced with simple single cable per tile logic.
Low effort demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXp8s6ORWbA
Yes I am aware that cutting it is not dropping wire, that version was bugged.
Cables no longer need a knot specifically placed to link to power objects. The sprite is automatically changed to represent this.
The only exception to this logic is that on smes units, due to the terminal being next to the output, they will not link there.
On a technical powernet side, this is the same as old cables once actually placed. They still use the existing powernet system, just the placement and connection works differently.
Old cables have been turned into "pipe cleaners" for wire art purposes. they work just like the old ones, just missing all the powernet functionality, and also you can put them on top of the floor.
Why It's Good For The Game
How obnoxious cables were to both map and work with in game has been something that has annoyed me for a really long time now.
This is both easier for new players to learn, and easier for experienced players to work with.
Along with making in game much more intuitive and easier, it makes mapping much easier as well. Mad lad wjohn was able to rip out all the mapping conversion in one day because of how much faster it is to work with.
cl actioninja and wjohn
add: Cables have been completely reworked. Simple per tile connection logic, automatically connects to things above it. Think minecraft redstone.
add: Old cables have been kept as pipe cleaner. They are non-functional in terms of power, but otherwise have the same connection logic. Also can go on top of tiles.
remove: mech cable layer has been removed because it was terrible shitcode nobody used
tweak: (sort of balance) cable stack sized has been reduced to 15.
/cl
* 1/4 done? maybe?
* more
* stuff
* incremental stuff
* stuff
* stuff & things
* mostly done but not yet
* stuffing
* stuffing 2: electric boogaloo
* Git Commit and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
* make it actually compile
* found more stuff
* fixes
* fix AI laws appearing out of order
* fix windows
* should be the remaining stuff
* this time for real
* i guess it should compile too
* fix sechuds
cl Denton
tweak: Most upgradeable machines now show their upgrade status when examined while standing right next to them.
tweak: Added examine messages to teleporter stations that hint at their multitool/wirecutter interactions.
tweak: Renamed teleporter stations from station to teleporter station.
code: Changed the teleporter hub accurate var to accuracy; the old name misled people into thinking that it was a boolean.
/cl
Machines don't really give players feedback about upgrades, aside from machines like the cloner where new functions are unlocked. I'm adding examine descriptions that should help with this:
Attempt 2 at fixing the remaining bugs with orbits
Incorpmove had to be converted to forceMove() to make orbits able to tell when they move. They used loc setting before. This likely breaks some things but I couldn't find any particular issues. We should be overriding forceMove anyway for things that need to handle loc changes like that differently.
fixes#40544fixes#40522
cl ninjanomnom
fix: Orbiting is a little more aggressive about staying in orbit. The wisp as a result now correctly follows you over shuttle moves.
/cl
Goodbye SSorbit you ticking piece of shit
This also gives update_sight a signal so wisp code isn't hardcoded into it.
honestly? i'm a little hurt nobody else did this when @XDTM made the great suggestion. There are a few problems with the tear in the fabric interaction, hoping a maintainer can help out
This is in preparation for step_x support as the default behavior for these procs is necessary for proper functionality.
turf/Enter and atom/movable/Move default code got rewritten to replicate default byond functionality with minor changes.
experimental: Tesla damage has been reworked to structures and objects have been worked with a linear scaling.
experimental: All tesla weapons now no longer need to hit a mob to arc lightning; however, they will no longer stun, and only hit each target once.
tesla_zap vars are now a single bitfield.
* kill BANG_PROTECT_2
* let's put this back in
* dirty
* kill OMNITONGUE_2
This is a write-only variable, probably leftover from some refactor years ago
* kill flags_2
* Tesla Coil path fix
Better to just force a path change to something valid than to 50/50 if it doesn't have a path, because it has a path already. Byond, you so silly.
* reeee construction memes
* Tesla Corona Analyzers
Generate points to make up for no bomb production on maps like Pubby
* Silly me, not Aurora, but Corona
* Adds sprites to the new mode
* new sprites! credit to... me!
* Further sprite tweaks.
* It works, but is it worth it?
* bitfield helpers take 1
* Would this work?
* remove dangling debug code
* rebase & fixes
* vv bitfield stuff, reading
* DNM oceans of shitcode DNM
* honk
* honk2
* plonk
* rebase & fix
* Revert "all this wrapping and it's not even christmas (#33035)"
This reverts commit faaf151580.
* Revert "fuck me for forgetting to graph this one"
This reverts commit 45d7acea2f.
* Revert "defines math"
This reverts commit 2817a1737b.
Also changes New -> Initialize in most of them.
renamed: `code/game/machinery/computer/computer.dm` -> `code/game/machinery/computer/_computer.dm`
renamed: `code/game/machinery/machinery.dm` -> `code/game/machinery/_machinery.dm`
Moved all circuitboards to a new folder at `code/game/objects/items/weapons/circuitboards`
In light of the change of Bump to Collide, this should also be done
as it will make it less confusing for devs in the future
I also ended up changing a bunch of the code in the CollidedWith procs,
things that were assuming types, doing bad loc changes and so forth
This reduces confusion arising from the fact byond already has a built
in byond proc also named Bump.
We used an argument called yes to distinguish our Bump from byond's
builtin bump, but then we failed to make sure everyone of our bumps
properly override it, so a bunch of things have been double bumping
This resolves that issue permanently
I've also removed the second argument as it no longer has a purpose
I also cleaned up the recycler bump as it didn't do anything the
parent procs didn't already do
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