Structures can use the definition call ConstructionPreview(Previewer Object, Overlay, Direction) to add any overlay to the previewer. It will be coloured accordingly.
The player interface is now similar to how picking up works. This should increase acceptance. Also it was pretty fucked up before. The action bar is gone.
The script logic is now outsourced into a new library similar to the other stuff.
Objects can overload the selector for the new interaction (see "call elevator case").
Additional issues hit and resolved when working on this:
Shifting a cursor did not cancel certain actions (and there was no callback for that). This is now solved by adding two new callbacks.
Issues hit and not resolved:
Certain interactions (calling an elevator case, flipping a construction) are in some control library. They should be in the respective objects (and shown via callbacks etc.). Meh.
The internal interface (declaring interactions etc) has a few places where proplists are just translated because the properties are called differently. This is also a fuckup (i.e. a.interaction_object = b.Object) where the properties should just have been called the same in all places from the beginning.
The name "Action Bar" is pretty misleading now as it is no bar. But that's not something visible to the players. todo: cleanup.
The production menu was used for showing information. Now the sawmill is no producer anymore and thus has no production menu. Instead, the sawmill adds the hint manually now.
This was hacky to begin with and often caused problems. Lately it made the saw blade spin down after each piece of wood was cut which was something I had fixed before. This won't happen anymore.
I also made the sawing a little bit nicer by adding an engine sound. I WILL MOVE THIS TO SOUND.OCG WHEN ITS DONE
The sawmill splits up objects on Collection(). That means you could put trees into the sawmill and even without power could you then take out the wood (that was yet to be ejected).
This is solved by this commit as you cannot take objects out of the sawmill manually anymore. The sawmill still displays the wood that is to be produced (because I found that cool).
Also move all object sounds to global Sound.ocg so they are still played.
This is to prevent naming collisions. All sounds are moved because otherwise all scripts would have to be adjusted. Also, the distinction between sounds in definitions and sounds in Sound.ocg was rather arbitrary.
It will also ensure most sounds are reloaded when sound is turned off temporarily, although that should better be fixed properly.
Objects that prevent interaction just in some situations (hostility, dead Clonks, ..) should always be shown in the interaction menu (because otherwise players might suspect bugs) and TELL the player WHY they want no interaction.
For that, they might need to specify own error messages.
Known issues:
* The "OnOpen" callback is done even if interaction is disallowed, however just simply removing the callback might not be sufficient, because we might get a callback disbalance if objects change their attitude while the menu is opened and the menu is closed again.
* Some objects (which should) do not include the Library_Ownable. However, we have no base melees atm and since this might introduce new errors, postpone it to 8.0.
The idol was once just a temporary placeholder that was to be replaced immediately. But apparently, we won't replace it anytime soon.
So we should at least give it a basic texture for the next release...
The pump is rather complex. This should allow for (new) players to figure out faster whether e.g. the drain pipe is clogged (as opposed to them doing anything wrong).
OnContentMenuOpen is not used anymore.
There is a small issue: the callback is also done when the object can actually not be interacted with (e.g. because it's hostile / unfinished). Gotta think about that. But this should solve all our issues for now.
The chest is a pretty important object and something a player sees over and over again. This patch adds some detail to the mesh which should look better with the new lighting we have. Additionally, the texture's resolution has been bumped up a little.
Maikel de Vries