Hey guys, great progress I've looked at what you've got, and it seems like the swap and config manager should be pretty easy to build. I'm pretty excited because I've really wanted to start digging into empyrion mods for a while (I want to use your game as an RPG platform for my friends) If you put this on github I can submit a PR that takes care of 1a and 1b by Monday.... Or you know, if you just say, "ok" I can put it on github myself
Some audit information. For example, for player deaths, who/what killed them. Modders can use it to generate death stats, kill stats and maybe even a Bounty system.
Look at the Event_Statistics It has a "PlayerDied" type. Here is the explanation to the values: // int1: player entity id, int2: death type(Unknown = 0, Projectile = 1, Explosion = 2, Food = 3, Oxygen = 4, Disease = 5, Drowning = 6, Fall = 7, Suicide = 8), int3 : (optional) other entity involved Only thing missing at the moment is the player who killed him.
Sorry, I'm reading the code, I can't try it. I see it now in the StatisticsType enum. This event occurs when a player dies? Then who killed would be all that is needed. Will there be any complications for the following scenarios? - Player killed by other Player (Hand gun) - Player killed by pilot player (Fixed guns on ship) - Player killed by pilot player (Turrets) - Player killed by Base (No player, no turrets)
Rockin, would you mind adding a readme that specifies a license, preferably Apache 2. (https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) As the initial publisher, this should protect you like, in a bunch of ways, and it also enables me to say, "the only code I write is either for business, or on apache-licensed open source projects" which is awkwardly important to my job
This news makes me very excited for the future of this game and for the loving community that plays it! Hooray! \o/
@Jascha will you be focusing more on the game mod API with Eleon now? Or will you still be maintaining EAH?
I'd imagine modding and EAH are both pretty high priority for Jascha and the team. I would recommend starting up either a new section in the forums' main page for mods, or append one to the Hangar Bay, to include a section for non-modders with ideas to make suggestions and requests. Any thoughts?
I see EAH becoming a mod itself. Perhaps the Hangar bay could be expanded. Code/Game Mods vs Playfield mods.
This sounds like a way to do remote server administration. Is this something where I could for example make a new weapon that behaves like the redeemer in Unreal Tournament? Or add a new NPC type and write its behavior AI?
The last month EAH was used to create the Mod. So we will further develop new functions wih the devs in EAH. But every function we develop is also directly included in this mod (its the same we use). So focus on EAH means focus on mod . Just one thing to the maybe confusing name "Mod". So far its not altering the game itself in the sense of what many asked for. Like designing new items, AI-Behavior or "code/scripting". At the moment the mod can only work with game mechanics or game mechanics to come. So for example it might give you access one day to the block system to problematically create a ship, wall or whatever, without a blueprint. Or you could trigger certain behavior by coordinates or events. So it is a simple mod for now. But still allows you to change quite some things. But maybe one day the mod develops also into the direction of really scripting the game by yourself... but that lays in the future. The devs created the mod so that we can start and bring in our own ideas and allow more variety of server. But they need to focus on the game itself of course. So the mod will be extended bit by bit, but will not make extreme jumps every time (for now). I wrote it down. Thanks.
I understand. Perhaps "Mod" may not be the correct term for this. This is very much an API. Perhaps referring it as the Game API or similar will help people's expectation of what they can do.
Mod creators can and definitely will use this if implemented to utilize a wide variety of stats collected from tracking, in order to create their mod and facilitate its functions properly. An example would be oh, making a custom mission that allows a player to obtain an epic weapon after so many kills with that particular weapon type (i.e. epic sniper awarded to player on reaching 500 kills with either the T1 or T2 sniper rifle, regardless of which is used). Other examples could be had from this and also be used with / for certain Steam achievements etc.
So.. This is like a "tie into game expose an API" for modding kinda kit here? If so Ill jump the train although my C# knowledge is limited. Read through all this.. Has anyone started playing with this? What are the current limitations?... I guess what Im asking is there any documentation at all?
