General development questions

C009 · December 20, 2023, 5:55pm

I named this thread like that because I don’t know if it deserves a new thread. Let me know if I should change something

I wanted to try to implement filters for save manager (for regular saves, autosaves and quicksaves) and couldn’t find a way to get the save type of each save in list. Should I dive deeper into the more hard coded things or just not continue the work?

Also how should I name the regular saves filter? Right now I made placeholder “regular” but I think it needs a better name.

hhyyrylainen · December 20, 2023, 8:50pm

The special save types (versus manual, this term is already displayed to the user in the save load menu) are determined based on the filename. It’s detected with a regex here:

github.com

Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/blob/fef8d6c242965fc3d808ddcd03f4cdf6f1fa3526/simulation_parameters/Constants.cs#L1527


      
          {
              OS.HasFeature("standalone") ?
                  Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(OS.GetExecutablePath()) ??
                      throw new InvalidOperationException("no current executable path"), "mods") :
                  ProjectSettings.GlobalizePath("res://mods"),
              "user://mods",
          };
          
          // Regex expressions to categorize different file types.
          public static readonly Regex BackupRegex = new(@"^.*\.backup\." + SAVE_EXTENSION + "$");
          public static readonly Regex AutoSaveRegex = new(@"^auto_save_\d+\." + SAVE_EXTENSION + "$");
          public static readonly Regex QuickSaveRegex = new(@"^quick_save_\d+\." + SAVE_EXTENSION + "$");
          
          /// <summary>
          ///   When any action is triggered matching any of these, input method change is prevented.
          ///   This is used to allow taking screenshots with the keyboard while playing with a controller, for example.
          /// </summary>
          public static readonly IReadOnlyCollection<string> ActionsThatDoNotChangeInputMethod = new[]
          {
              "screenshot",
              "toggle_FPS",

The actual save type is stored inside the file in the save info section JSON. That variable is of type SaveType.SaveInformation

C009 · December 21, 2023, 6:53pm

Ok so I kinda got stuck when it comes to refreshing save list with showing only specified type saves, but you don’t need to help me unless you want to.

Edit:

I kinda got it working, but I have feeling the code is kinda messy. I’ll show it here anyways.

(I’ll change regular button text to manual)

(It is working with other filters aswell)

hhyyrylainen · February 21, 2024, 7:27am

3 posts were merged into an existing topic: Quick Question Thread

C009 · April 28, 2024, 3:39pm

If someone want to volunteer, you can help with:

Make cell chunks emit more compounds (related to combat and scavenging balancing)
General combat balancing
Potential knockback for offensive pili (this item can probably be removed with the cooldown being added now)

and maybe

Try to fix Pilus should block being engulfed more often

from the Roadmap.

Something like:

floating organelles should release more compounds

or

smaller microbes should be slower

something like that - not a list of new features or something but more like just tweaks.