Bejitt's Gundam Universe dev .plan

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Read from top of day down to see how my day/thoughts/code/bs progressed (hopefully :)

              July 05, 2003
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+ FINALLY got around to fixing the crosshair. it is now displayed as a bitmap on the screen, as opposed to the 3D sprite it's been for a while now =x


              July 05, 2003
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+ booster effect now 'flares up' for a half a second when it starts
+ forgot to compensate for the dodging
+ you -used- to be able to still boost even after you died


              July 02, 2003
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* Life and school are fun. really.
+ some stuff i can't remember
+ enabled killing of rockets
+ rockets blew each other up when they got shot, so now your own rockets cant hurt each other
+ fixed some issues with drawing hakai:  guns had muzzle flash when firing missiles, guns werent doing muzzle flashes on both barrels


              September 03, 2002
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* FUN
+ fixed unisol's locational damage code
    players were invulnerable - still slightly present..
+ added tons of weapon firing functions
+ went through a large bug list >_> - http://planetquake.com/gundamuniverse/1_4_1_bugs.txt
+ hakai double gats were firing too low
    discovered that aiming things based on the angles of the head was bad ;x
+ beam rifles aren't railgun copies anymore
    beam shots have a speed now ^^
+ decided to stop bs'ing boost and limit the max speed of players
- multiplayer boost is fricking choppy... must move more code into pmove
+ cloaked players, when viewed from another player, were flashing and doing 'weird' animations
+ dodging (double-tapping) now works when in the air
+ added various sounds
+ <stuff i cant remember>


              July 07, 2002
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* ee..life..job..fun..yea..
+ <stuff i cant remember>
+ played with ui a bit...we really need to pick a fucking design..
+ added UNiSOL's stuff in
    screen shakes when rockets hit stuff
    improved locational damage
+ something in the new locational damage code caused the game to exit
    falling damage go bye-bye :o


              May 07, 2002
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+ _finally_ got BG_FindSuitForName to recognize suit/skin model names (omfg i was stupud >_<)
+ un-globalized bg_suits and bg_modelInfo
+ added new bg_weaponInfo array
    holds weapon bounds and tag_ info (keep bounds part?)
+ using beam rifle's tag_flash as an actual muzzle point works
    doesnt go where aiming, though...
- update viewheight?


              May 04-05, 2002
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+ reformatted tagDump's output for tag_s
    also made it more streamlined
+ Deathscythe and GP01Fb are back in (back by popular demand!)
- GP01Fb needs more energy...


              May 02-03, 2002
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+ rx78 hyper bazooka in-game (gogo 1-liners)
* decided not to use the bounds data just yet :)
    un-fucked pmove
* removed 'certain' code redundancies. smaller files == good
+ all player model parts attached via new GU_PositionRotatedEntityOnTag
    ensures correct client/server representation
    uses home-brewed lerping ^^
* *reformats the tagDump output*
* i'm thinking of releasing the source to the md3 dumping program....


              April 30, 2002
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* got bored and md3 exported rx78's hyper bazooka
- hyper hammer exporting/code (until other issues are taken care of)


              April 28, 2002
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+ anim frames now calculated in both cgame and game
* cg.time = serverTime; // WTF I THOUGHT.... >_<
+ anims werent lerping
+ legs bounds being used as "player's" bounds
   bugs: jerky since mins changes a lot; get stuck on the sides of walls
  

              April 26, 2002
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+ WEEE GATS IN GAME~~~ </insanity>
* cleaned up the weapon draw code
    support for 2 barrels added


              April 16, 2002
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* started putting bounding data in pmove, but discovered frame numbers are not available there
   moved model information to own file: bg_modelInfo.c
     model info must be in same order as suit info (at least same as the psuit_t enum)
   still read animation info from files? (would have to be read on both server and client)
   or make animation info hard-coded? (could make 'minimod' to read for animation testing purposes)


              April 15, 2002
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* bounds data seems to be ok so far
- negate min[1] and max[1] to make sure max=forward_right_up and min=back_left_down
* i wish there was a good "draw 3d line" function in q3 :\
* used al to get complete visual confirmation of the boxes


              April 14, 2002
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* been semi-busy working on program to get model information into q3
* been semi-busy putting model information in q3
+ botlib loading error (only happens with qvm's)
   was cause by some uncommented code in items.c :X
+ hud was fuzzy to some people
   cut up the huds into seperate pics
+ hud value bars werent showing most of the time
   did a 'cheap' fix ;x


              April 05, 2002
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* started at 1am, so you could consider some of this as happening on the 4th
+ adjusted weapon damages according to Al's requests
+ players were almost always gibbing
   made the gib health -200
+ headshots further adjusted
   locational head damage check was being done twice (ando's code + ic3's code)
    reduced to just ando's since it also includes diff. damages for diff. locations


              April 02, 2002
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* vms + new botfiles = bad (continuous error in console)
+ removed showing weapons in first person (for now?)
+ prevented recharge when energy was being used
+ deathscythe hell wasnt uncloaking when it ran out of energy
+ added (temporary?) hyper bazooka
+ added (temporary?) beam rifle
   is a rail copy (al said 'ok' to it ;)
+ beam rifle model was causing q3 to quit out
   was due to the flash texture being a >progressive< jpeg (q3 doesnt like them)
   repacked the model in models/weapons2/beamrifle/rx78*.*
* if we had an icon, this would be our first completely in-game weapon (besides melee crap ;x)
* should we do weapon folders like 'models/weapons/weapon/suit*.*' ?

+ headshots killed the player being hit
   was reduced to just knocking the player's head off
- adding headshot activated 'problems' (screen flash, etc)


              April 01, 2002
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* today is my birthday @_@
* most of this happened over the last month (did ai and crash fix today)

+ COMPLETELY went into using a different weapon number slot..thing
   <whatever>.weapon holds the index into the player's suit's weapon array
     each suit has a set of predefined weapons
       weapons cannot be dropped nor picked up
   this effectively gives a max overall weapon count of 2^16 (65536)
     (unless the bot files wont let us...)
   maximum number of weapons per suit (ever) is 16 (same as q3)
     right now, the max is 8

+ game 'crashed' back to the main ui screen when bots died (prolly some other situations also)
   was due to improperly done code in cgame (woops)
+ bot files were still using old weapon numbers
   had to write my own 'choose best weapon' code, since the trap_ function used the weapon weights (we cant use those anymore)


              March 04, 2002
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* worked through midnight =_=
+ game exited when suit was changed (maybe when the player died, also)
    was suprisingly fixed by taking care of the itemInfo for the head vulcans
* NOT FIXED? >_< . works when changing to GP01Fb from rx78

+ cloak wasnt draining energy
+ suits were recharging twice as fast as they should
+ beamsabers, etc were being used in first person
+ the player couldnt see themself when cloaked.
   using the invis powerup shader when they are cloaked for now (other cloaked people are still invis)

* something seems to make the game exit after extended vulcan usage
+ vulcans made game exit whenever they hit a breakable entity
    this was due to improper placement (on my part) of the function GU_PushTarget (adds extra 'kick' to vulcans)
+ somehow fixed the suit changing bug
    must have been something about dealing damage instead of telling the suit to just die
+ Heavyarms Kai was only holding one gun
    both hands have a seperate gun and barrel time

* realized i havent been commenting everything i've done
    oh well, it's not like a new game source means we have to "port" it over :)

- Heavyarms dual dual-gatling guns support


              March 03, 2002
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* yesterday was pretty much a "sit and stare at the computer" day
+ we were still using all of quake3's weapons
   went through the long (stress that [even more]) proccess of replacing q3a's WP_ enum (weapon_t) with GU's (pweapon_t)
   weapons_t is now used as an index into the player's suit info's weapon array,
- bots still use references to weapon_t
+ cloaking logic was causing the player to disappear
+ totally removed (commented out) PW_INVIS
+ PW_CLOAK didnt cloak the player's weapon
+ added PW_CHARGE to keep track of the time the player started charging (why?)


              March 01, 2002
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* spent a little time this morning going over the logic on the combo system
   i plan on making this a little more easier to add 'combos' to :)
+ fixed radar blinking problem while trying to figure out why the cmd spams the server
+ current player was showing up on radar (2 line fix)
+ fixed multiplayer error where when a client connected, they were immediately disconnected due to cmd flooding
    replaced build1_2 with this compile


             Febuary 28, 2002
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+ were no burner effects when dodge boost was used
+ cg_draw2D didnt affect thirdPerson crosshairs
+ running was enabled
+ thirdperson crosshairs started at the old player viewheight
    they now start at where the head attaches to torso
+ "last player to hit you" was being drawn
+ score box was being drawn
+ boosting too fast caused the suits to 'fold' into themselves
+ "electricity" shader wasnt being put on suits when they died
+ had forgotten to copy over headshot and explosion instead of gib code from ic3's
+ renamed skill levels. only has to be changed in ui_local.h instead of in 3 different files

* it seems that the 'puffs' coming out of the map origin are caused by weapon shots hitting the ground
+ fixed this (was a mis-call to CG_Particles)

* set the viewheight every frame to be the same as the middle of the drawn head ?
* hud bars arent being drawn when you look at certain locations and/or do certain things.
    could this be q3 limiting number of polygons? or is it something with trap_R_setColor ?


             Febuary 27, 2002
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+ add support for GP01Fb's back thrusters
+ game was still loading bots.txt
+ "commented out" weapon dropping (used an #if 0)
+ crosshairs were being drawn in zoom hud
+ were too many crosshairs in first person view
+ adjusted ice's hud picking logic. first person non-cockpit works


             Febuary 26, 2002
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* why the fuck does the radar blink..
+ started using class-specific weapons code
+ dropped the boosting time on the boost jumps to 1/4 a second
+ beam saber/scythe animation times were too short; the anims were getting cut off
+ changed suit model path to models/guplayers (96 different lines of code changed -_-)
+ removed rocket flyby sound (was too loud to hear rocket firing sound)
+ new bot loading file: gubots.txt
+ new map loading file: guarenas.txt
- GP01Fb back burners


             Febuary 25, 2002
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+ finished bringing over ic3's code
+ adjusted boost flight to change directions faster
+ boost jumps implemented. boost for 1 second after hitting jump


             Febuary 19, 2002
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* surprised i did anything, considering i'm sick :\
   also was apprehensive to do anything after sending ic3 my code for build1
+ added support for the following animations:
    leg boost
    blocking with shield
    attacks 1-5 (using q3 weapons to test)
- adding boost to jumping


             Febuary 18, 2002
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+ up to 4 thrusters supported on a suit
+ (delayed on purpose) got code + files from UNiSOL for:
    spark effects for: when hit, when life is low and explosions
    swirly missiles
    key buffering for 'combos' ( double-tap direction to get a quick burst in that direction)
    prettied up missile explosions (sphere+sparks)
    bullets hitting ground creates a quick smoke puff
    missiles trails are thicker and thinner
    (if i forgot anything, someone slap me. tks)
+ deathscythe hell kai wing model support


             Febuary 17, 2002
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+ (finally) put suit Info in cgame
+ made a function that attempts to put a model on a tag,
    if the tag isnt there, the model isnt drawn
+ heavyarms kai chest and shoulder flaps model support ( after 3 hours of procrastination :)
+ suit-specific thruster support (started)


             Febuary 16, 2002
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+ modified homing missile swirling.
    swirls less the closer it gets to its target


 <dont remember date;not all on same day>
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* created gu_weapon.c for gu-specific server weapon code
+ homing missile lockon
    .8 seconds to lock onto player in crosshair
+ different crosshair
    like "oni" :)
    remove "disappearing" into walls?
+ homing missile functions
    fires either type of homing missile
      finds target for non-lockon missiles
      fires any number of missiles
    missiles unlock after 4.5 seconds
* head vulcans
    gets its own button
    offhand weapon - not in weapon selection
    pushes hit players a bit
    muzzle flash - using machinegun flash (needs its own model?)
    .1 seconds between each shot (same as machinegun)