- Fixed rocket sneaker tripwire state not activating
- Exposed sneaker boost variables to lua
- Made bots at least aware of the new sneaker boost type...? Probably.
More tripwire leniency after invinc + fixed netgame crash caused by rocketsneaker boost type separation
See merge request kart-krew-dev/ring-racers-internal!2609
Previously the overshield you got from sneaker boosts could stack up to nonsensical amounts of overshield. This revises the behavior as follows:
- Sneakers give you 25 tics of overshield, but will never stack
- Rocket sneakers give you 1/2 second of overshield, but will never stack
- Sneaker panels extend your existing overshield for 1/3 seconds, but cap at 1 full second
- Only works in Match Race and Online level selects
- Shows in-progress state on Pause and Cup Grid, but no direct influence available on those screens
- Z to queue current highlighted map
- Pending until you press A, then sent to server
- When done online, tries to send one at a time to avoid overloading connection
- C to clear
- Removes one from pending first
- If you're out of pending maps, prompts whether you want to clear server's queue
Now that TA wipes are their intended length, holding Respawn during Time Attack for more than a single frame repeatedly restarts the run. This is not ideal, and frankly wasteful of CPU. Here is the specified replacement for this case:
- Holding gc_respawn will hold on a black(/white) screen before mapload.
- Allows for taking a conscious breather (or opportunity to curse) in the middle of long Time Attack sessions.
- Ticcmdbuilder will not interpret gc_respawn into BT_ constants in Time Attack contexts at all.
- Fixes the occasionally visible E-Brake when coming out of this breather state.
A lot of messy, copypasted boilerplate has been bundled together into a single function.
Programmers can now fire up a Match Race, the most basic type of gameplay, from menu code in only four steps (other modes take a little more attention):
- **M_MenuToLevelPreamble(UINT8 - splitscreen players #, boolean - false to extend wipe/true for short wipe)**
- set restoremenu
- D_MapChange(...)
- M_ClearMenus(...)
Includes the following fixes:
- Encore no longer has over-long wipes when started from menu, only standard-length
- "Boss Intro" and Encore start-of-round sounds will always play, even if no Title Card is drawn
- No long wipe when restarting a Time Attack run
- Auto Encore and Auto Gamespeed are no longer accidentially forced if you've manually changed them to Off and Gear 2 before starting netgame
A chunk of P_LoadLevel, extracted.
Calling it in D_ClearState should clear up some of the straggling pointers that might cause Laz' reported issue.
With any luck, it should also significantly reduce the amount of memory the menu uses.
- Built off g_fast_forward to utilise a lot of existing structure
- Only does steps of 5 seconds and therefore isn't precise, but that's better than having to rewatch/fastforward through the entire thing
- No single frame step back or general in-motion rewind preview, but that was all overkill
- Demos/Ghosts that end before ticking once are now correctly ignored. (ResolvesKartKrew/RingRacers#168)
- There was code for discovering it on read! It was just placed slightly too early, probably due to the conversion for netreplays! I'm very mad!
- As a preventative measure, demos *recorded* before ticking will simply not save in the first place.
- This was also a frustratingly easy fix for the amount of headache it's caused us.
- Reduced the amount of copypasted boilerplate by simplifying the places where DEMOMARKER can be written (and therefore read).
- Previously, like half the write functions tried to guess their own output size and potentially end the demo at any point.
- At best, this will grant us a few tics of reprireve for large netgames and MAYBE a handful of seconds for time attack, The Mode In Which The Aim Is To Go Fast.
- Instead, double the size of the deadspace buffer extension and just check to see if we've crossed into that territory.
