Head of Staff announcements (ie the ones made via request consoles) are now "Minor Announcements". While head announcements are unchanged, other in-game notifications have been expanded to use their format, including when the Captain joins the game, and early shuttly launch notifications.
They're basically meant to be big and noticable, but not as annoying and spammy as Priority Announcements.
I wanted to include a sound for them, but I've been unable to find one I was satisfied with.
*Reorganised and commented used procs for better visibility/maintenance
*Redid the PriorityQueue class
*Changed the euclidian distance to the byond one (so that we don't calculate float and square root when it's not necessary)
*Made the AStar algorithm use the closed list instead of just filling it
*Some optimization in the open list sorting : last entered is first in case of f ties, slightly less tiles are checked now
*Changes the order directions are checked when adding adjacents turfs to make for more 'realistic' path (read less 'drunk pathing' with lots of diagonals)
*Fixed some turfs densities not being check for diagonal movement
*Closed firedoors are now correctly seens as blocked by the algorithm
*Cleanbots now only moves in cardinal directions, like other bots.
*Updated the info text at the beginning of the file a bit
*Absolutely unrelated : simplified the turf.Bless() proc
Adds sound notifications for Ninja and Wizard Apprentice spawning -- hopefully means fewer afk antags.
Adds a ghostnotice span class, used in the new notify_ghosts proc. Upon creation, things that require ghostly attention (NarSie, golem runes) give more visible messages to the dead.
Retires the 'moderate' span class, which was only used in tomato throwing? Refactors tomato code (this ended up being the meat of this PR, somehow...)
Reorganizes some item definition/procs.
-RC Announcements now produce news stories, too
-The AI may now make priority announcements via communications console that emulates the automated messages
-Centcom announcement proc merged with generic priority announcement proc
-Re-added the Captain Announces accompanied by a new pleasant sound, instead of the generic priority announcement
-Captain Announcements will automatically generate a newscaster article
-Priority announcements without any defined accompanying sound will play a generic "Attention" soundbyte as an audio cue
-Communications consoles will display who is currently logged in
Your dreams of big part storage and fast machine part exchange came true
14 slot R&D part-only autoseeker/picker/dropper/exchager is in
Added different sprites for better capacitors and scanning modules
Changed the power cell type to be compatible with all this machine
changing faggotry
All sprites here are codersprites so ask nien/WJ for better ones if you
want
Works pretty well. If it can't GC something, it'll just del() it and be done.
Speed is amazing, holy shit.
New procs you should be aware of:
qdel(atom/movable) - sets up an object for garbage collection. Call this rather than del(atom/movable).
atom/movable/Destroy() - called right before the object is GC'd, so it still has a loc. Also called if the object is del()'d.
new controller - garbage.dm has all the details on this. Basically it nulls all references on GC'd objects and force del() them if necessary.
Generally speaking, objects should use Destroy() for behavior prior to deletion rather than Del(). You should also always call the parent so the object gets the right gc_destroyed var set.
ISSUES:
Tries to GC mobs atm. This actually works for new players, not so much for humans/monkies/simple_animals/anything. I'm guessing it needs to clear out their mind and HUD and maybe other things.
Gibbing is really bugged. It works, but the overlays just sit there for awhile and ugh. I'm very tempted just to del() mob/living and mob/camera and call it a day.
qdel() equipment doesn't unequip the item.
Pipes don't generally GC correctly. Debugging suggests they get referenced in many pipenets and that isn't cleared properly. However some do work fine. Need assistance here.
Bots don't GC, probably in the radio controller.
Lots of other shit doesn't GC but it's hard to find them because of the pipe spam.
I think I'm calling Destroy() twice by accident.
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