This was part of a bugfix in the ladder for Hazard: The ladder lets the Clonk execute a jump with Clonk.JumpSpeed / 2 at the top. This is useful for extra jumps and other things where you want to force the clonk to jump.
Regarding the ladder: The most of the problems with ladders arise from the OC implementation. Further commits may follow.
This fix might be dangerous, I do not know it. I have no real idea what this line was supposed to do. But it certainly prevented the release use command from getting to the used item in certain corner cases (right between loading and aiming).
I tested a bunch of vehicle and they work fine so far. So maybe this line was useless and harmful after all.
- Crosshair doesn't work with a dpad anymore. Supporting dpads adds
unnecessary complexity, as a gamepad user with dpad will never be
competitive with mouse users.
- Crosshair isn't bound to item usage anymore, but will always show
when the analog stick is outside of a deadzone.
Future planned feature: Also use the actual strength to allow
distance input in addition to direction. This is used heavily by
Knüppeln.c4s.
Otherwise the situation could arise where you used a ControlUseStart object (the wallkit) but noholdingcallbacks was still set to true (because e.g. you used a hammer before). Then you would not be able to move the preview.
This is described in a comment to the referenced bug.
"menu" is an error prone name in one of the most frequently used/overloaded objects of the planet. Actually, there was a bug in some other thing which disappeared now. So I guess something, somewhere uses the name "menu", too.
Anyway, this is more consistent (because the other control stuff is in this.control, too) and less error prone. So it's a good change regardless of whether it actually fixes an existing bug.
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.
This doesn't work for intros, though, because they use simple messages. We should unify the systems to only have one dialogue system that uses new-style-menus and implement required features in those menus..
This means that you start a roll currently with walking left/right and tapping [down]. OR falling a great height and just holding left/right when landing. When you let go of left/right, you will instantly walk again. This reduces the possibility of the players rolling into an abyss.
The clonk opening the menu should always have higher priority so the clonk is predictably selected on the left side even if standing behind e.g. a crate.
Other clonks should be behind because interaction with them is rare but having your fellow players stand in front of a building is very common. Allies also tend to run in front just when you opened that menu.
People have complained that the implicit roll (if you don't know how it worked) could lead to death and severe injury. The roll is now explicit. Always and everywhere.
It doesn't have any other effect though; todo: reduce hit area and/or squash vertices of Clonk during roll
Renamed CreateObject() to CreateObjectAbove() and replaced all occurrences in script files.
Added CreateObject(), the function may need a rewrite though, see comment in code.
Updated documentation
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