[0.10.6] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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Re: [0.10.4] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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ToxicFrog wrote: Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:31 pm On the plus side, while writing this I had an idea for how to rework Bandoliers: instead of touching the ammo limits at all, instead have it siphon off and store ammo when you're nearly full, and feed the ammo back into your inventory when you run low.
I like Bandoliers, as broken as it may be, but your alternative idea sounded interesting as well. I threw together a very quick and dirty prototype, basically just hardcoded for vanilla "Clip" only, and gave it a whirl. I only got a few maps in, then ran into a backpack related issue, but it feels pretty good so far. I might whip together a test mod for Gun Bonsai to see how it plays in a real playthrough setting.
ToxicFrog wrote: Wed Dec 20, 2023 6:55 pm I've done my best to make it easy for people to write addons for GB, so they can implement cool mod-specific behaviour that can't go into the core mod.
I've made a few personal addons for GB (that I'll probably release sometime in the future when I give it the ole polish), and I can safely say you've made it VERY easy to do so!
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Re: [0.10.4] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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Major Cooke wrote: Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:00 pm Any chance you could introduce service into your mod? Some mods might make use of Score and ScoreItem for different things. Using Service classes will provide seamless integration for others and minimize conflicts.
Oh, yeah, I really should do that and it'd be way better than what I'm doing right now. This is going to delay Indestructable 0.3/GB 0.10.5 some, but the end results will be better for everyone.
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Re: [0.10.4] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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minor thing, but maybe for the built-in health/armor drops consider removing the dynamic light and instead make them fullbright.
in the more chaotic maps (where this mod shines the most) it can really bog down the framerate. (or implement some kind of cleanup/timer for the health drops)
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Re: [0.10.4] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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Glad to hear that, Toxic!
I would also like to recommend recording the exp via a static event handler with a recording class/struct per player. That way it ensures score and scoreitem don't have any conflicts with other mods.
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Re: [0.10.4] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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Major Cooke wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2023 12:17 pm Glad to hear that, Toxic!
I would also like to recommend recording the exp via a static event handler with a recording class/struct per player. That way it ensures score and scoreitem don't have any conflicts with other mods.
Unless I've misunderstood you, that's already what it does -- there's a StaticEventHandler that has an array of PerPlayerStats[MAXPLAYERS] that records all the per-player and per-weapon information. A small PerPlayerStatsProxy item is injected into each player to detect things like incoming damage. This allows for fast lookups by player number and is also how it's able to make death-exit and pistol-start mode optional.

GB itself doesn't do anything with ScoreItems, nor does it touch the player's score; turning on the "XP from score" feature just means that it reads the player's score and grants XP based on that. This is what gives it seamless compatibility with stuff like LazyPoints and Reelism, since those use the existing score field.
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Re: [0.10.4] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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Okay, so I've been working on the ammo reserve upgrade prototype I had mentioned previously, and while using it with Vanilla Doom worked well, and felt good, trying to run it with something like Brutal Doom, which uses the second ammotype for the clip, ended up just being a nightmare, cause it was constantly trying to pull the full clip into the reserve, and I can't for the life of me figure out a way to deal with it, just because there's a bajillion ways to do ammo that isn't standard. I currently have it just read all the ammo in the player's inventory, same as bandoliers. My first attempt used the "onpickup" override from BaseUpgrade, but it didn't work well for getting ammo from weapons or backpacks.

... So long story short, I really like the idea/feel of ammo reserves instead of expanding backpacks, but it's beyond my personal skillset to implement fully.
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Re: [0.10.4] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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Small bug report. There is a typo in LANGUAGE.en-upgrades:

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TFLV_Upgrade_AggressiveDefence_TT = "Attacing an enemy
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Re: [0.10.4] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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I noticed that when weapons get fast, the muzzle flash sprite that's laid over the main gun sprite lingers longer than it should; leading to the cutoff muzzleflash sprite hovering when the weapon itself has already moved. Still a really interesting mod though!

https://imgur.com/a/o8ztfYl
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Re: [0.10.4] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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ToxicFrog wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 11:17 amThis allows for fast lookups by player number and is also how it's able to make death-exit and pistol-start mode optional.
I can't tell you how happy I am to hear this, because there's nothing more dislikeable than forced pistol starting and losing all progress. Glad to see we have similar viewpoints. I don't mind losing the guns, that's fine, but no one can take away my upgrades.
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Re: [0.10.4] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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It's in the options menu under "keep upgrades on death exit/pistol start", added back in version 0.9.
TheVanessii wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 7:40 pm I noticed that when weapons get fast, the muzzle flash sprite that's laid over the main gun sprite lingers longer than it should; leading to the cutoff muzzleflash sprite hovering when the weapon itself has already moved. Still a really interesting mod though!
Oh yeah, Rapid Fire has a bunch of weird visual glitches. I don't realistically think I understand enough about psprite hacking to fix it, although if someone who does wants to submit a patch, I'm all ears. :P

Typo in LANGUAGE lump fixed, RPC service appears to be working based on some quick tests, lzDoom and Hedon compatibility has been restored, I think I'm on track for a christmas release if nothing else comes up at the last minute!
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Bugfix release: 0.10.5

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0.10.5 is out! This is mostly bugfixes for issues reported in the thread or discovered while doing some holiday dooming with my daughter. Two new features were added, however: an RPC service for easier integration with other mods, and a requested feature, the ability to "downlevel" learned upgrades from the status screen to dial back their effects.

As ever, I hope that this will be the last release in the 0.10 series and I can move on to 0.11 after this, but no promises.

Download from github.
Spoiler: Changelog
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Re: [0.10.5] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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"Execution could not continue.

VM execution aborted: Cannot construct play class TFLV_GunBonsaiService from data context"
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Re: [0.10.5] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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I got the same error as Dan_The_Noob.

I noticed when playing on the newest version of GZDoom, the mod works fine, but the newest version of GZDoom doesn't work well on my PC. (OpenGL renderer crashes, Vulkan renderer causes constant flickering) Is it due to the mod requiring the newest GZDoom version, or does it require a new config file possibly?
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Re: [0.10.5] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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That's weird (and annoying). I test on latest gzdoom (4.11.x) on windows and linux, and less rigorously, lzdoom and hdoom on windows. Generally speaking if something works in lzdoom I assume it will also work in old-ish gzdoom. But in this case it looks like it works in lzdoom and in gzdoom 4.11, but not in gzdoom 4.10. My completely wild guess is that this is a problem with service instantiation introduced in gzdoom 4.something and not fixed until 4.11.

It's probably fixable by moving the service from play to data scope and then doing stupid netevent tricks, but it'll require completely reworking the API. :(
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Re: [0.10.5] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

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maybe jus have 0.10.4 available for download on front page for legacy. then note 4.11.x for 10.5

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