Devlog update (2014-09-16) Manual, tab completion, 1.7 and SC3

[ExHunter]

Hello Soldaters!

This week we did stuff again!

Falcon began working on the new soldat manual.

skoskav worked on:
- Improved the nickname tab completion when chatting so it works anywhere in the text if it's preceeded by a space, and can cycle through all nicknames matching a substring.
- Fixed with me the movement asymmetry.
- Made the roll animation immediately transition into crouch instead up being in the standing position inbetween.

Shoozza started porting some libs which he plans to use for soldat 1.7 and also worked on the secret stuff he still has to reveal (srsly we keep continuing to mention this?).
He also fixed some complains people had with the soldat.pl website (http://bugs.soldat.pl/view.php?id=579)

If you want to help us to make the site better you might want to look at the soldat screenshot thread (http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=43703)

I worked on:
- Fixed #578 /recompile <script> hangs up admin client
- Fixed #395 Strange RayCast values when walking "into" the wall.
- Fixed #166 Throwing The flag close to polygons.
- Added SC3 event TActivePlayer.OnFlagDrop(Player: TActivePlayer; Flag: TActiveFlag; Team: Byte; Thrown: Boolean)
- Added SC3 class TActiveMapBullet (accessible over global Byte array "Map.Bullets")
- Added SC3 property TActiveMapBullet.ID (read only - Byte)
- Added SC3 property TActiveMapBullet.Active (read only - Boolean)
- Added SC3 property TActiveMapBullet.X (read only - Single)
- Added SC3 property TActiveMapBullet.Y (read only - Single)
- Modified SC3 procedure name TActivePlayer.Forward altered to TActivePlayer.ForwardTo (Forward is a reserved pascal word)

That's it cya next week!

[Bistoufly]

Hello,

Thanks for the devlog.

I have a question regarding one of the bugfix mentioned:

- Fixed with me the movement asymmetry.

Does this mean the inverse cannon ball special move will be pointless? Or will it still be slightly faster to land and jump facing forward?

Inverse cannonball:


Thank you.

[Blacksheepboy]

The whole website looks like a mobile version , can you possibly stretch it to fullscreen on the width? You could place much more content then.

I personally like the thinner website, makes it look less bloated or something, because it doesn't seem that there is enough content to spread it out..

www.taleworlds.com

[duz]

Nice to see something changing in the website.
Secret stuff? C'mon Shoozza. It's something about the graphics?

You could create a script or something to randomize the video area adding 5 videos for example. The same sv| video for years and years it's like "meh :/".
I think that those "Latest News" and "Popular downloads" (1.5 is the top popular download, lol) boxes seems unnecessary right now.


Three different suggestions to the screenshots session:

[L[0ne]R]

"Secret stuff" is probably something 1.7 related, so I wouldn't expect it anytime soon.

 Nice to see progress being made with scriptcore, but is anyone actually taking advantage of any of the new additions? I haven't played Soldat in a long time so I don't know how many modded servers are still there, let alone vanilla servers.

[Zakumy]

Soldat 1.7 will be reveal in 2015. I hope so 😍

[15th_account]

Does this mean the inverse cannon ball special move will be pointless? Or will it still be slightly faster to land and jump facing forward?

I don't think we broke that. Though I'm not able to verify, so you'll have to do it in the pending beta.

[Mighty]

... pending beta.

Any rough estimations on when you plan to launch a beta?

[15th_account]

Not sure. I said this week, but Shoozza told me to fuck off, basically. So maybe near the end of September.

[Mittsu]

skoskav worked on:
- Improved the nickname tab completion when chatting so it works anywhere in the text if it's preceeded by a space, and can cycle through all nicknames matching a substring.

finally!

keep it up and Storm2D will be pretty much pointless

[darDar]

skoskav worked on:
- Improved the nickname tab completion when chatting so it works anywhere in the text if it's preceeded by a space, and can cycle through all nicknames matching a substring.

finally!

keep it up and Storm2D will be pretty much pointless

Your way of thinking is pointless and dumb.

ontopic:

It seems the progress is going well lately, nice to see that!

[Bistoufly]

Does this mean the inverse cannon ball special move will be pointless? Or will it still be slightly faster to land and jump facing forward?

I don't think we broke that. Though I'm not able to verify, so you'll have to do it in the pending beta.

Good news. Still working as it should in 1.6.8b1. Verified using the beta runmode server. 

[15th_account]

Phew.

[Bistoufly]

Phew.

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or genuinely relieved.

[15th_account]

Sometimes I'm not sure either.

[ZdzichU]

Falcon began working on the new soldat manual.

YEEEEEEEEEY ;3
This is i was waiting for.