ameliorate / buildstation-client

Client for the BuildStation game. Probably needs a new name, but that will be decided later. Based moderately off the BYOND game Space Station 13.

BuildStation-Client

Client for the BuildStation game. Probably needs a new name, but that will be decided later. Based moderately off the BYOND game Space Station 13.

THIS WILL NOT BE UPDATED ANYMORE!

Look at https://github.com/Ameliorate/Buildstation-3 for the newest reposatory.

buildstation-client's Issues

Free Framework

I broke down after I saw how little progress you guys were making and decided to contribute my attempt at making a framework in C#.

Check out the repo I made Shared.

It has a lot of good code you guys could use with your projects. It is incomplete and has a lot of extra garbage but the network part and custom entity/component system I made is particularly useful.

Move most simulation to methods to allow easy networking

Tiles should add themselves to the first available Z slot if a Z pos isn't given

Allow the creation of a physical object by inheriting a class

Also, allow objects to easily discover each other using a map array.

Make rendering engine request tiles

Basically if there is no tile at Z 0, it will request the tile from the server.

Implement getting the state of tiles after the game has connected

Move methods to using the new coordinate type

The waituntill method of the finished handler waits forever

Move to networking systems

Almost finished, but there is still some work that needs done.

Crash on startup

Upon calling the GetSprite method from anything in the object array, the game crashes.

Game crashes if renderer tries to render something more than 15 tiles away from the origin

Create names of objects to be referred to while rendering and inside the map array

It should end up giving names such as WallAB, FloorAE1, or SpaceASG1DSGR5. They should be nonrandom and assign objects in a predictable order. by going where the first wall generated would be WallA, second WallB, and so on until WallZ, then Wall1, eventually it would be WallAA, WallAB, eventually WallAZ, WallBA. I expect the point has been conveyed enough now.

I am partially finished so far but getting the actual name generation down is way to time consuming, so the names are just random numbers for now.

Allow the association of a spritestate with a texture 2d

Preferably this should allow making no changes to any other class besides the one making the tile by using methods.

Create a new thread that connects to a server and allows the server to send it information regarding new and old tiles

Map array causes multiple errors when assigning.

Error 1 Invalid token '[' in class, struct, or interface member declaration
Error 2 Invalid token '=' in class, struct, or interface member declaration
Error 3 Type expected
Error 4 Invalid token ';' in class, struct, or interface member declaration
Error 6 'Buildstation_Client2.Class.PhysicalObject.XPos' is a 'field' but is used like a 'type'
Error 7 The type or namespace name 'XPosAttribute' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
Error 8 'Buildstation_Client2.Class.PhysicalObject.YPos' is a 'field' but is used like a 'type'
Error 9 The type or namespace name 'YPosAttribute' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
Error 10 'Buildstation_Client2.Class.PhysicalObject.ZPos' is a 'field' but is used like a 'type'
Error 11 The type or namespace name 'ZPosAttribute' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
Error 12 'Buildstation_Client2.Class.PhysicalObject.ObjectName' is a 'field' but is used like a 'type'

Found on line 41 of Class/PhysicalObject.cs

The array is defined in a different file but it doesn't work either if the array is defined in a different file.

Rename all uses of object to tile

This will improve readability.

Add a tileupdate network handler

Data comes in as TileUpdate;[UpdateData].

The network thread receives no traffic

This is the cause of issue #23.

Tiles do not assign a spot in the map array according to their name

This is the underlying cause of the errors in the rendering engine.

Creating a 14*14 square of simple tiles takes ~14 minutes or more

May have to scrap whole code as a physical object is built upon being a coding object.

Fill the game map with space tiles on Z level 0

Rendering, and how it should work

Basically, the render looks through the map array and gets the names of the objects to interface with. Then it asks the class for the sprite it has and a bit of information on things like rotation and size. After that, it temporarily stores that information in a few variables and the sprite in a buffer texture2d. After putting the necessary information in a spritebatch call, it moves onto the next tile.

Create a Network Handler for the creation of tiles

Modify rendering engine to allow for rotation of sprites

Allow the simple creation of objects during runtime

Preferably, it should take only the intended coordinates and the intended objectname, but passing it a graphicsmanager may also be necessary.

Creating objects on the fly with automatically generated names

I have no idea how. Google searches yield no meaningful results.
Activator.CreateInstance() Yields something, but I can't really make sense of how to use it or if it ts the right thing I want.
Also Reflection.

Add a new spritestate type that keeps track of data related to appearance.

Things like rotation, the actual sprite it is using, and color overlays.