The ReSkate menu now has two styles, switched with View / F11 or the buttons in its top bar
and saved with the profile (`ui fullscreen`):
- Window: the mouse menu as before, with a side rail of pages in groups.
- Full screen: made for a controller, in the pause menu's look. Pages across the top (LB / RB),
each page's sections as the ONLINE page's tabs (LT / RT), button prompts at the bottom, the
pause menu's sounds, and the pause menu's own Multiplayer pages as ONLINE.
The pages are regrouped: HOME (quick switches and a tile for each page), MAP, BUILD, SKATER
(freecam, first person, cheats), SANDBOX (once Trainer), ADDONS (drone, Board Break, Road
Rash, Hall of Meat, grind exits, music), ONLINE, PROGRESS, MODS, SETTINGS, DEVELOPER.
Full screen, every shared control is drawn for a pad: switches and option rows changed with
left / right one step a press, sliders as steppers that repeat when held, rows of buttons,
and pages that scroll with the right stick. Search boxes and typed values stay in the window.
A pad press takes the menu's focus back and hides the pointer until the mouse moves.
Also: map pictures in the map picker (official loading screens, a mod's icon) with a search
box in the window, Splash and Tutorial Island left out of it; number boxes beside the
window's sliders; the binds in groups, with an action bind to open the menu (`menu`); a menu
size for each style (`ui scalefull`); the time of day stepping from the one last asked for.
An autopilot flies the real flight model behind the skater while they skate: it
works the sticks a pilot would (angle mode with height hold), reacts a moment late,
eases toward the lie of the ground instead of every ollie, closes gaps no faster than
it can slow down gently, and climbs a little over what blocks the shot. Its camera
sits on a tilt gimbal so leaning to speed up or brake keeps the skater in frame.
Started from FOLLOW ME on the DRONE page or the dronefollow command; it hides the
game's interface like Start flying does. Tests cover straight, turns, hard stops,
ollies and catching up.
Each remote drone's motor is synthesised and played through the game's positioned voice sound,
the one proximity chat uses, so it is placed in the world and muffled behind walls. The throttle
is worked out from how the drone accelerates, so the drone packet and protocol stay the same.
Full volume only within 1.5 m, heard out to 120 m; the DRONE page's sound volume sets the level.
A model is spawned at each other player's flying drone and moved every frame. It is the drone's
own model (FPV Drone by PinaPipe, CC BY 4.0, credited on the DRONE page), built by ReSkate Studio
into a pack that ReSkate.dll carries and unpacks into Mods/.reskate-builtin before the merge.
Without the pack the game's traffic cone stands in. dronemodeltest spawns one in front of you.
Gamepad: the drone flies with a gamepad by default (Xbox or PlayStation,
read directly; with none plugged in, the keyboard and mouse fly it), Mode
2. Its throttle stick springs back and its middle is hover power, so a
resting stick no longer means 50% throttle; the sticks are scaled down
(60%, which in angle mode slows turning only), softened in the middle and
given a round dead zone, and the right stick is inverted by default (up
tips the nose up; padinvert 0 for a radio's way). A arms and disarms, Menu
puts the drone back; while the ReSkate menu is open the pad is the menu's
and the drone holds still. An RC radio is still a choice.
Height hold is a toggle (off by default): the middle of a springing
throttle holds the height, adding throttle as the drone leans; partway it
climbs at the climb speed (20 m/s), and full stick is always full or no
throttle. Angle (self-levelling) mode, leaning 55 degrees, joins acro.
Flight: thrust grows with motor output to the power 1.5, so the hover
throttle sets thrust to weight (22% is about 10:1); the motors spool up
and down and the turn rates catch up with the sticks in about 30 ms.
Drag is quadratic and larger across the props, set by the top speed
setting so flat out settles near it (no more hard cap); inflow, ground
effect and prop wash. Defaults: gravity 9.81, camera tilt 0; the drone
starts level.
Crashes: collisions sweep to the surface met, find its normal with two
more rays, and slide along it; hard hits bounce and tumble the drone,
and one at the crash speed (7 m/s) cuts the motors until it is armed
again, with a warning and a broken-up picture.
- overlay.h: the gamepad reader is declared in the overlay namespace,
where it is defined; nothing could call it before.
- Tests (drone_flight_tests): hover and height hold, full stick past the
hold, thrust, motor and rate lag, top speed, angle mode, wall crash and
re-arm, crashes off, a gentle landing, and the gamepad's sticks.
The drone's own floating window becomes a DRONE page in the ReSkate menu
(Insert), after TRAINER, built from the menu's cards, ON/OFF rows, fields
and option strips like every other page. Its tabs are the window's:
FLY, HANDLING, RATES, DISPLAY, CONTROLLER and LOBBY. `dronemenu` now opens
the menu on that page.
The FLY tab ends with a small credit line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MArBL6UbYZPsp9rMnq2Ks5
An FPV drone flown from the free camera: real quad physics (thrust,
gravity, drag, Betaflight "Actual" rates), collisions with the world, and
a goggle-style display. Open it with `dronemenu` (or the drone window's
Start flying).
Flying
- Keyboard and mouse, gamepads, or USB RC radios (EdgeTX etc. in Joystick
mode). "Set up controller" learns each stick and switch by asking for
one at a time, reversed axes and springing gamepad throttles included.
While a controller flies the drone, the game is kept off it, as
freecam's controller mode does.
- Presets (Tinywhoop, Toothpick, 5 inch), arm/disarm, back to takeoff,
and every setting live through `dronetune`, saved in the profile.
- Optional range: the picture breaks up and is lost with distance from
the takeoff point; past it, failsafe cuts the motors.
- OSD, on-screen sticks, an analogue video look, synthesised motor sound.
- Goggles: the pilot's skater wears eyewear from the game's catalog while
flying, and gets their own back on landing (Road Rash aware).
- Start flying hides the game UI, Stop flying brings it back.
Multiplayer
- New packet `drone` (36): where a player's drone is and which way it
faces, 15 times a second, unreliable, relayed like effects. Markers
glide between updates. Protocol version 52.
- FLYING DRONE above the name of a player who is flying.
- Players choose whether to share their drone and whether to see others'.
- Dedicated servers: `sync_drones` (players section) and `drones on|off`.
Off: no drone packets are relayed, and players are told in the roster.
Changes to existing code
- `flyspeed` takes any speed from 0.6 to 1500, not only the seven listed
(the drone's presets and top speed slider use speeds of their own).
- Overlay: begin/end_input_access, so the drone's controller read sees
the device while the game is kept off it.
- Profile: local_surface_hit, the park editor's ray from one point to
another, for the drone's collisions.
Tests: Skater/Test/drone_radio_tests (controller setup), and the drone
packet and roster rule in Multiplayer/Test/protocol_tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MArBL6UbYZPsp9rMnq2Ks5
Binds for first person, the HUD, voice chat, time of day, No Bail, challenges, nametags and dots
Eight more actions can be put on a keyboard key, a chord or a controller
combo, in the binds list beside the others. None is bound until the player
binds it.
- First person, Hide HUD, Voice chat on / off, Next time of day, No Bail,
Show / hide challenges, Player nametags, Player dots.
- Each bind runs the console switch for it, so it follows the same rules as
typing it: No Bail still answers to a server that has it off, and the time
of day goes to the server for an admin where the server sets it.
- They are one table (action_binds): a bind is its name in the profile, the
name "bind <name>" takes, its label and its command.
- "bind firstperson|hidehud|voicechat|tod|nobail|challenges|nametags|
nametagdots <n>" sets one from the console; 0 clears it.
- They are not read while the menu, the console or the chat box is open.
Console, which the binds use and anyone can type:
- Every on/off switch takes "toggle" ("nobail toggle", "hideui toggle").
- "firstperson 0|1", which was only in the menu.
- "tod next": the time of day after the current one.
- "mp voice-chat on|off|toggle": the player's own voice chat, leaving the
rest of their voice settings; it says which way it went in their chat.
Votes on a dedicated server show as a card above chat instead of being
followed through chat lines.
- The card has what is voted on, the Yes and No counts, how many are needed,
a bar of how far Yes has got, and the seconds left. When the vote ends it
shows Passed, Failed or Cancelled for four seconds.
- Yes and No are two buttons, labelled with the player's binds. The answer
given is highlighted and can be changed. They can be clicked whenever the
cursor is free (chat, menu or console open).
- Two new binds, "Vote yes" and "Vote no", in the binds list: F1 and F2
unless changed, to keys or controller combos like the others. They are
read only while a vote is running, and not while typing.
- /yes and /no still work and show on the card. The player a kick vote is
about sees the card and has no vote in it.
- Console: "mp vote yes|no", "bind voteyes <n>", "bind voteno <n>".
Server:
- The roster carries the running vote (id, kind, tally, seconds left,
starter, target, label) and the one just finished with how it ended.
- A chat line is no longer sent for each change of the tally; the lines for
a vote starting and ending stay.
Fix: a dedicated server's roster may list more players than its limit.
The extra slots for reserved players and admins (33 of 32) made a roster the
protocol refused to encode, so with one in use the server logged
"Server error" every pass and stopped part-way through each one until
somebody left. Lobbies hosted by a player are still held to their size.
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