Force everyone beyond a certain point to spectate -- spectators get to queue up. In response to me doing a 1v1 match, tons of people wanting to join to watch, and just relying on honor system to prevent mid-joiners. Spectators are prioritized by how long they've been waiting. I'm thinking of hijacking base SRB2's team scramble for a scramble option later.
Also, make SF_RUNONWATER set off majormods. I was under strong pressure to remove it and almost did but honestly it's kind of endearing and I think like one character in Releases uses it..?
- Very slightly less claustrophobic camera defaults
- Changed camera settings are saved
- Camera distance increases relatively with splitscreen & analog mode.
These changes are kind of debatable because them not saving was an intentional decision initially, and the camera being farther out could potentially clip more geometry where it previously didn't... still, thought I'd open this for consideration
This makes it so that if the SPB'd person is passed, then the person who's getting SPB'd won't get the increased item odds for the weird feedback loop.
This fixes two bugs:
- Makes it so that the countdown happens when all the winners are ACTUALLY in instead of the first loser, because exiting timer wasn't set for the last winner in the place this was down before
- Means that the countdown timer can be set on disconnect
So instead of prioritizing a specific track, the person who activated their powerup the latest gets their music. That should be a nicer solution for when multiple players are activating their powerups at the same time.
Also, apply it to being in a zoom tube, too! For extra forwards compatibility with all the terrible SRB2 Riders ports that are almost an inevitability.
* Re-enable the flashing-set thing on attempting to join with the item key. I spoke to Sal privately about this - turns out some keys ALWAYS send key presses instead of only sending one, and shift - what I have item bound to - is one of the problematic ones.
* Make the no-joining-game-after-20-seconds thing happen 20 seconds after the TIMER has started, not the level (ie, take starttime into account)
A couple of the extraneous ones (karma interactions, bumper stealing, lap start notifications) have been removed outright. The rest that I could think of have been changed to use CON_LogMessage, so that they still go into log.txt when rereading a fun chat session but not showing themselves in gameplay. Necessary gameplay prints, such as players being defeated or coming back in Battle, have been kept until there's a suitable replacement for them in the future.
p_inter.c -
Everything to do with setting states for starposts
In SRB2Kart, starposts are invisble. We don't need to loop through all thinkers just to set their states when there's no visible effect of the state-setting. In addition, it has no consequences for gameplay - starposts have long been silent here, and all checking is done regarding their health, not their state.
Remove extremely low-traffic conditionals (MT_FLINGEMERALD collision height extension, for example)
These objects serve no functional purpose during regular SRB2Kart gameplay. Why should every other object have to pay an admittedly minor performance hit just for them?
Disable all mechanisms of damaging bosses or enemies with the player's physical contact
With the exception of Sapphire Coast, no MF_ENEMY objects exist in the entirety of the standard roster. In addition, the conditions for damaging the enemies were impossible to achieve, because they required vanilla SRB2 mechanics such as "jumping", "spindashing", or "super". Therefore, they can be safely commented out.
Disable NiGHTS-related material (excepting bumper, hoop, and wing-emblem objects)
NiGHTS is fundamentally incompatible with regular kart gameplay and I believe was already broken. Therefore, any mechanism which enters, aids, or abets it can be safely disabled.
Comment out Tag mechanisms
Tag is the only vanilla multiplayer gametype which has sufficient gameplay depth and complexity (HEYOOOOOOOOO) to require dedicated thinking in and of itself in order to manage. This thinking is irrelevant to Kart's functioning, and can be neutered easily.
d_clisrv.c
Comment out Tag mechanisms
See p_inter.c
d_netcmd.c
Disable several devmode commands which are irrelevant to SRB2Kart gameplay
When investigating for references to NiGHTS material, I discovered that these remained untouched. In order to present a more coherent game, I have hidden the ones that serve no purpose for us.
Comment out Tag mechanisms
See p_inter.c
g_game.c
Disable NiGHTS-related material
See p_inter.c
Disable some team-related material
Teams are not present in SRB2Kart at present. Obviously we'd want to reconsider for future, but it doesn't need to be run right now.
Everything to do with setting states for starposts
See p_inter.c
m_cheat.c
Disable several devmode commands which are irrelevant to SRB2Kart gameplay
See d_netcmd.c
p_map.c
Remove extremely low-traffic conditionals (MT_EGGSHIELD collision, for example)
See p_inter.c
Disable NiGHTS-related material
See p_inter.c
p_mobj.c
Disable P_EmeraldManager
Power stones, despite their relevance in vanilla Match, are not in SRB2Kart's Battle. No management of nonexistent emeralds is required.
p_setup.c
Everything to do with setting states for starposts
See p_inter.c
p_spec.c
Disable NiGHTS-related material
See p_inter.c
Everything to do with setting states for starposts
See p_inter.c
p_telept.c
Everything to do with setting states for starposts
See p_inter.c
p_tick.c
Disable some team-related material
See g_game.c
Disable P_EmeraldManager
See p_mobj.c
Do not run shields
Shield objects are not run under the vanilla system; the Thunder Shield is a domain-specific recreation using a standard mobjthinker.
Do not run special stages
SRB2Kart does not have special stages.
Comment out Tag mechanisms
See p_inter.c
y_inter.c
Disable some team-related material
See g_game.c
p_user.c
Disable NiGHTS-related material
See p_inter.c
Disable 2d movement for players
2D mode? In a kart racer? :nick:
In offline splitscreen it should now always pick the win theme (the one that's timed with the signpost), and in online splitscreen it should now pick the best ranked local player (previously it'd always play the OK theme, unless if you time over'd)
Will also be extremely relevant for SMK-style cooperative grand prix!
