Post by Lap on Apr 2, 2009 11:38:41 GMT -5
I decided to split the update thread into its own category. The main advantage of this is that all board members can now post comments about each specific update. There are often changes that you might disagree with or want tweaked, but are too small on their own to really warrant a thread. Now you can post right in the update thread itself.
I will likely be including some questions in the updates to get opinions from everyone as well.
I've done some minor changes in the last couple of days disabling some more wire tools and trying to track down a crash bug.
Most of my time has been spent trying to prepare the transfer over from new barracks/factory system to the new one. Most difficult has been trying to figure out the best way to incorporate a Load/Unload option for APC's, factories, and barracks. Doing this in a player and code friendly way is really difficult especially since so many keys are already used for various hotkeys. In addition to the numpad keys you can use for many other GMOD tools I'll also let you use wire and the radial stance menu to toggle loading and unloading.
Aside from that I've been experimenting with making tools noob friendlier again. I also have a new help bar that will appear in the top right that shows what F1-F4 do since idiots can't seem to remember. Veterans can turn this off with a button in the player menu.
I kinda fixed something that's been nagging me for a long time. I have it so that if you pull up the camera and press whatever key you use to chat, then all the messages on your screen will be cleared. Time for some clean screenshots.
In short:
-Camera can wipe text from screen.
-New help bar added
-Outposts cannot be built within 1500 units of an uplink (about 1.5x the maximum build radius).
-Outposts most be 25% further from resource nodes than before.
I will likely be including some questions in the updates to get opinions from everyone as well.
I've done some minor changes in the last couple of days disabling some more wire tools and trying to track down a crash bug.
Most of my time has been spent trying to prepare the transfer over from new barracks/factory system to the new one. Most difficult has been trying to figure out the best way to incorporate a Load/Unload option for APC's, factories, and barracks. Doing this in a player and code friendly way is really difficult especially since so many keys are already used for various hotkeys. In addition to the numpad keys you can use for many other GMOD tools I'll also let you use wire and the radial stance menu to toggle loading and unloading.
Aside from that I've been experimenting with making tools noob friendlier again. I also have a new help bar that will appear in the top right that shows what F1-F4 do since idiots can't seem to remember. Veterans can turn this off with a button in the player menu.
I kinda fixed something that's been nagging me for a long time. I have it so that if you pull up the camera and press whatever key you use to chat, then all the messages on your screen will be cleared. Time for some clean screenshots.
In short:
-Camera can wipe text from screen.
-New help bar added
-Outposts cannot be built within 1500 units of an uplink (about 1.5x the maximum build radius).
-Outposts most be 25% further from resource nodes than before.