It's been awhile let's see what I've been cooking up lately. (Hint: not a lot), been pretty busy with metal health and depression stuff and just recently getting to a better place with everything so I decided to break out the old IDE (vscode actually...) and make a couple things that I may find useful for my future projects and... Your projects!, after a very long debate with myself I've decided to publicly release these plugins that I'm making. Some of them are infact unfinished however I will be doing my best to finish them up and release them soon enough. I may be a little bit technical in this post but I'll try to break most things down in layman's terms.
Rappelling (Released Free, Click Here)
We'll start with something not visually impressive but only took about an hour to get the finished result:
So you're probably asking why is this something I decided to display here?, doesn't seem like anything special right? Well you'd be partially correct the plugin itself is not a complex or large plugin however sometimes simplicity is special. The rappel gear can add a layer of versatility to movement and getting around. The sounds are located in HL2, Episode 1 so that is required to be mounted clientside atleast for the sounds.
The movement should be entirely predicted (the same math is run on client and server) so I wouldn't expect any lag or unsynced movements server-client wise.
Holding ALT while dropping off a ledge will start the rappelling and holding ALT while descending will slow you down.
I believe Nebulous also has rappelling and that isn't exactly where I took inspiration from, I mainly just thought of HL2 Rappelling CP's.
Registry (Unfinished $10, 65%)
Now the registry is interesting, and unfinished. It's probably reminiscent of the Nebulous Datafile however I actually didn't realize that until about halfway done with the UI.
So what's left?
Registry Searching/Dynamic Loading, currently EVERY datafile gets loaded and replicated to clients on join. This is not good. It could end up being 100's of megabytes and networking that takes A LOT of time and resources. I plan on making it load/network datafiles as you search for them or access them directly via /registry command. Also need to finish the sorting/filtering system for search results, easy.
Finish permissions system. Different factions, different classes, different civil statues will have different permissions when it comes to what you can and cannot do inside the datafile. (Toggle BOL, Set Designations, Civil Statuses, Make Entries, Delete Entries, etc...)
Start and finish Data entries themselves. Currently the biggest missing feature is the missing Data entries on each datafile, currently nothing has been started on this front and will take the longest to finish although not too long because I've got a lot of backend systems already working.
Speaking of backend systems let's talk about my "replicated objects" plugin which will release free alongside the registry plugin. It does a couple important things for the registry plugin firstly it creates a new class that is able to be subclassed (think inheritance in most programming languages) but that's not all it gives me easily created SQL tables with helper functions to set persistent values (variables that save between restarts) and the functions also replicate to clients on change. (replication meaning they will be sent from the server realm to client realm whenever needed).
And that's not the only important backend in place I also have a dynamic pagination UI system with auto updating between multiple panels and pages.
I love my old comments, very useful. "?? figure it out"
Scanners (Unfinished $5, 75%)
This is the greatest scanner of all time.
You're probably thinking, wait a second Helix already has a HL2RP scanner and that is FREE, why on earth would I want this?, I'll tell you why this is actually something special.
Firstly this plugin is extremely simple to use, there are no factions, no classes, no complexity. Set the players model and they're a scanner. They will respawn as scanner, they will fly as scanner. They are scanner.
Secondly this plugin does away with hacky solutions to scanners I.E. controlling a fake NPC Scanner, or controlling a flying Prop around. The scanner you see flying around is an actual player, they are not invisible they are THE scanner model- also means no teleporting the player around a fake scanner entity. Also good for performance reasons, not having extra entities is always a good thing.
So it sounds great right?, what's not finished though? I'll tell you.
Currently taking pictures with the city scanner and the claw scanner hopper mines functionality is not done just yet, however spotlights and flying are 100% done. I'm thinking of making more gameplay mechanics for pictures and mines however to justify the price already more than I have.
"Consulcast" (Released Free, Click Here)
Currently only supporting rp_industrial17_v1 however it can be expanded upon sort of easily.
Simple plugin doesn't need much explanation simply plays audio out of speakers and puts in matching text into the chatbox.
