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.
Players reported the game hanging for about a second while skating. A
profile showed the memory line in the log walking every heap
(HeapSummary) on the client thread, 0.5 to 2 s every two minutes. An
audit of everything that runs on the game's update and render threads
found more of the same, and Sentry's top crashes had causes of ours.
Freezes:
- Memory log line: no heap walk or thread snapshot; the GPU part and the
write happen on a thread of their own.
- Profile database: synchronous=NORMAL in WAL mode. A save is still kept
when the game crashes; every play event no longer waits for the disk
inside the game's hooks.
- ReSkate's own preferences and values (menu clicks, session sliders,
Discord) are saved by a background writer in order; reads see a value
until it is saved.
- Input: the foreground window and the keyboard are sampled on a thread
of their own (GetAncestor and GetAsyncKeyState stalled the client tick
40-50 ms when another program held Windows' lock); flight input uses
the sample; ClipCursor at most twice a second while a menu has the
pointer.
- Hooks installed while the game runs go in one transaction per place
(HookBatch): throwdowns, remote players, the party, Hall of Meat.
- Off the update thread: the host's map package lookup (one table read in
the background, not the Mods folder per offer), the trainer's map file
and settings save, Board Break's settings save, mod music playlists and
their covers, the Spotify station covers.
- Off the render thread: the Modding page's and the deck card's Mods
folder reads. The overlay's three startup waits share five seconds.
- Less work per frame: Steam names reused while one a frame is asked
again, 2 friends a tick, steam_api64.dll checked once per process,
cosmetic names read in place rather than a system call per character,
an outfit load no longer copies the inventory per slot, the throwdown
type scan runs at background priority over resident memory, the Board
Break deck label is kept a minute.
Crashes:
- Render-resource pool: the metadata fields are written to the state
owner only. The other renderer is 0x2daa00 bytes, and +0x11aae28 is far
past its end (store_field crash; heap corruption in every release).
- Other players' skateboard effects: a stale skateboard component is no
longer followed, and the joint lookup is walked with a bound first (an
endless loop in reused memory ended in GameStall).
- Launcher: Oodle decodes into the buffer it asks for with corrupt data
possible, and its assertions no longer stop the process (heap corruption
in the store-copy scan; a breakpoint in oo2core).
Timings (Send performance timings):
- A frame of half a second or more in a level is sent as game.freeze:
where the time went (ReSkate's tick, the game's frame, or outside it),
whether the renderer kept presenting, and ReSkate's busiest zones.
- Closing the game sends the level session it was in.
Music after a connection drop:
- Spotify device: an account Spotify could not be reached with is kept and
tried again (3 s doubling to a minute); a session that drops is taken
up again. Only an account Spotify refuses is asked for anew.
- YouTube playlist pictures that could not be fetched are tried again,
from 30 s to 10 minutes apart.
The Multiplayer and Custom Stuff pages of the game's pause menu were
built from the game's own menu widgets: a button, a text box and a line
of text, which cannot make a list with columns. The game now keeps only
the frame around each page (top bar, title, Back prompt) and ReSkate
draws everything in it, tabs included. The native page is one empty
body.
Multiplayer
- Server browser: a list with name, map and skaters columns that sort,
search, filters (all, servers, lobbies, friends, hide full, my map),
and a panel for the session pointed at. Pressing a row joins it; the
row says JOIN while pointed at. Join by code is in the panel, and its
own tab is gone.
- Host lobby, as before.
- Current session (only in one): who is here, leave, map, join code,
party.
- Voice chat (only in a session).
- Session settings (only for a lobby's host or a server's admin). They
are sent as explicit values, which a dedicated server needs.
Custom Stuff
- Official maps and Custom maps: pressing a map loads it.
- World: traffic, pedestrians, time of day.
- Parks: a card for each lot with its style, layout and load.
- Player: noclip, no bail, Hall of Meat, board wear, the camera views,
flight speed and the boosts.
- Online: player and nametag distances, nametags, chat, chat bubbles,
Discord status, and showing your tag and items.
- Visuals: camera effects, challenges, shuffle playlists.
- Binds: record or clear the button for each action.
- The player card name is no longer on the page (cardname in the
console still sets it).
Input: the game keeps the mouse and controller while its menu is up,
so the pages only watch them. They have their own focus, moved with
the D-pad or arrow keys and pressed with A or Enter, with LT/RT or Z/C
for tabs; lists remember the row the focus left. Typing in a text box
or recording a bind takes the keyboard and controller for that long,
as chat does. Nothing is taken while the game is not the window in
front, and the overlay's own menu draws on top.
Layout follows the game's menu at any window shape: scaled to fit
whole, 192 units clear at the sides, centred past 4704 units wide.
Sounds: the pages raise the game's own UI one-shot event for moving
the focus, pressing and changing tab.
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