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.
Dedicated servers: roles, with their tags, commands and permissions
A dedicated server had one list of admins who could do everything, and
everyone else could do nothing. It now has roles, kept in
data/roles.json beside the bans: each a name, the tag its players wear
in the game, the server commands it may use, what it may do besides
commands, and a rank.
A server starts with five: player (everyone given no role: chat, votes,
parties, private messages), vip (a reserved slot), moderator (kick, ban,
messages, giving out lower roles), admin (everything) and muted. The
default role is whoever was given none; a role has what the default has
as well as its own unless it says it does not inherit. A reserved slot
is a permission, so a role's players have one without being listed.
Nobody kicks, bans or changes the role of a player whose rank is theirs
or higher, or gives out a role that is; the console is above every role.
"*" is every command but role and reserved, which a role has only when
it lists them.
New commands: role <player or SteamID64> <role>|none, roles, and roles
reload. "admin add|remove" and "admins" are gone: the admins an older
config lists are moved into the admin role the first time the server
starts, and leave the config.
In the game, a player's role tag and colour show in chat and on their
nametag, and each control in the Multiplayer menu, the map, time of
day, world layers and parks follows the command it needs rather than
one admin flag, as do the commands chat offers.
Protocol 48: the roster carries each player's tag, and a new
permissions packet tells a player what their role gives them. Older
games and servers do not connect to newer ones.
Also fixes a name clash that kept the server config tests from
compiling.
Player list. A player on the developer, staff or homie list sees each
player's Steam ID in the overlay's PLAYERS list for the session they are
in, after "Host" / "Guest" and the distance, on their own row too. A click
copies it. The lists are the backend's, the same ones the tags come from;
every client in a session already knew the IDs, so this changes who is
shown them and nothing else.
Custom scripts. Nothing in scripts/Custom is read or run any more, whatever
the launcher's "Loose files" setting says: nothing used them, and a mod was
using the folder to load a DLL into the game (package.loadlib from its
init.lua). The loader is kept behind one switch (custom_scripts_enabled in
custom_script_loader.cpp) for the day they come back.
For that day, the loader now also takes Lua's ways of running native code
away before the first custom script runs: package.loadlib, require through
the two C searchers and package.cpath, os.execute and io.popen. If that
does not hold, no custom script runs.
The overlay's Mods page no longer has the INSTALLED / SCRIPTS tabs; it is
the installed mods. Editing the game's own Lua and config through loose
files is unchanged.
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