PC Developer Discussions: Alpha 17

[Survager]

That would be awesome and you’d know when your gene died lol

And also the study of buildings will be much scarier and more atmospheric)

 

[Darkfoxx117]

this week stream event right right...?

Probably not

 

[The Gronk]

That's like the third/fourth time somebody has referenced that this weekend. Maybe we should pin it to the fron...
Damn.

If only there was a simple key combination you could use to search the front page for keywords...

 

[HIREDGUN]

You can add a spring to the requirements for crafting a pistol

yup Realistically...

Short pipe

Forged Iron

Spring

Book

Duct Tape

But Mechanical parts makes the gun harder to craft... plus gives incentive to not just scrap metal the TV's and appliances but to wrench them for the other deeper components...

BTW...

PRO tip: Wrench a brass light 2-3 times first for the other components then axe it for the brass.

 

[Chancer0076]

Not sure what optimizing you are talking about but I'll answer your question. "Yes." There is your answer. Any optimizing was done to add more graphics and get more FPS. What exactly did you think the answer would be? "No, we just optimized from boredom. We don't want to add more graphics and hope the FPS goes down anyway."???

..but his question had "or" in the middle so the answer would actually be "both" not "yes/ no" :tickled_pink:

 

[Robbing Zombie]

We got a LAN-party coming up next week, so I have no objections if you would be able to fix all the bugs before thursday next week

 

[ravend]

That would be awesome and you’d know when your gene died lol

Or you about to attacked. Come man, rule 2 in horror.

 

[NBornkilla]

JOEL, Can we ever get a flickering light in the game???

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It's so atmospheric, especially in old buildings.

It's also logical when:

- the fuel in the generator ends

- the generator operates at the power limit

- the powerbank is discharged

- powerbank has poor quality

- the light is old and ♥♥♥♥ed up

i like this idea also when you enter house and see the chimney with the fire it should flash some light as well like a fire

 

[Swiftpaw]

i like this idea also when you enter house and see the chimney with the fire it should flash some light as well like a fire

Yes, some slight brightness variation i.e. "flicker" effects on campfires and torches could be nice if done well, flickering i.e. completely off and on for old lights with connection issues, and dimming for low-power lights could all be awesome to have and to help give better ambience. Each of these are different kinds of light effects, mind you, but all could have their place.

 

[meganoth]

Now that you have a nice list of possibilities you should also know that you can create and modify any new variable you like. These are called CVars and allow you to store a single float value from anywhere to be used anywhere else. These are attached to each entity.

There are also Actions that go along with the events. These come in many flavors showing some below:

*note that [target] can be self, other, self_aoe, and other_aoe, also not that any [value] (including passive effects) can be a number, randomInt(#,#), randomFloat(#,#), or a cvar using '@CvarName'

Spoiler

Animation Actions:

AnimatorSetFloat [target] [property] [value]

AnimatorSetInt [target] [property] [value]

AnimatorSetBool [target] [property] [value]

AnimatorFireTrigger [target] [property] [value]

AnimatorResetTrigger [target] [property] [value]

Buff Actions:

AddBuff [target] [buff]

RemoveBuff [target] [buff]

RemoveAllNegativeBuffs - removes any buff with a damageType

CVar Actions:

ModifyCVar [target] [cvarName] [operation(add,sub,mult,div,set)] [value(#,@cvar,randomInt{#,#},randomFloat{#,#})]

DebugActions:

CVarLogValue [target] [cvarName] - outputs the value of a cvar to console

LogMessage [message] - Logs a message to console

EntityActions:

DoRagdoll [target] [duration]

AttachParticleEffectToEntity [target] [particleName] [parent_transform] [local_offset] [local_rotation]

RemoveParticleFromEntity [target] [particleName]

AttachPrefabToEntity [target] [prefab] [parent_transform] [local_offset] [local_rotation]

ItemActions:

AttachPrefabToHeldItem [target] [prefab] [local_position] [local_rotation]

ScreenEffectActions:

SetScreenEffect [target] [screenEffectName] [intensity]

SoundActions:

PlaySound [target] [sound] [local_only] [play_in_head_only]

StopSound [target] [sound]

FadeOutSound [target] [sound]

StatActions:

ModifyStat [target] [stat] [operation] [value]

Wonderful stuff there, this is THE feature of A17 by a wide margin.

Two questions about CVars:

1) the target "other" means the other in onSelfDamagedOther. But does it also mean the block in onSelfPlaceBlock for example, or the item in onSelfItemGained ?

2) In ModifyCVar you have a target specifier. Can you also specify a target when using the @CvarName as a [value] ? If yes, in the case of multiple targets is that value then the average, the max, min, always 0, just a random one or can it be specified?

 

[NBornkilla]

Yes, some slight brightness variation and flicker effects on campfires and torches could be nice if done well, flickering for old lights with connection issues, and dimming for low-power lights could all be awesome to have and to help give better ambience. Each of these are different kinds of light effects, mind you, but all could have their place.

oh yeah.

 

[unholyjoe]

JOEL, Can we ever get a flickering light in the game???

​

It's so atmospheric, especially in old buildings.

It's also logical when:

- the fuel in the generator ends

- the generator operates at the power limit

- the powerbank is discharged

- powerbank has poor quality

- the light is old and ♥♥♥♥ed up

 

[Genosis]

There, now that's settled. lol.

 

[NBornkilla]

awesome but thats random

 

[NeferPitou]

ohhhhh i wonder in the night how it gonna look like

BTW are we there yet ?

 

[sillls]

i like this idea also when you enter house and see the chimney with the fire it should flash some light as well like a fire

You mean flickering? We have that effect with torches and camp fires.

 

[PurgatoryWolf]

do you think that you need a 2nd post anytime at the a17 history to arrcording all of the timeline??? :chuncky: :chuncky: :chuncky:

Huh?

 

[Survager]

So is it not error??? Cooool )))

But the light does not spoil completely (((

 

[GGPL]

Finaly beter modding

 

[PurgatoryWolf]

There, now that's settled. lol.

yeah, we have "flickering" already, but I hope that the lights we install as players wont do that all the time (without a good reason), hopefully its just pois.