When a plugin mode's flag goes down in a session, the relay offers it to the other players
as that mode's: a new mode message (kind 17) names it, its flag and its player count, and
its offer's series is one older versions do not show. A player whose plugin has the same
mode gets a copy with the mode's own flag mesh and joins it natively; the copies are held
at ten players so none fills and starts a Spot Battle, and the mode's player count decides
who may still join. throwdown_mode events now carry host, leader, player and players: the
host hears joined and left, a player in another's flag hears joined, left, closed and
start, and start names who plays, the leader first. The plugins run the match from there.
A mode can take a stock throwdown's place on the picker (replaces = "skate", "spot_battle"
or "jam"), so his R.E.S.K.A.T.E. sits where S.K.A.T.E. does.
reskate.throwdowns.mode{...} adds a mode to the game's own Throwdowns page: a card on
the picker, the real Spot Battle setup page relabelled with the mode's name, logo,
description, players, timer and rows (sliders, choices, buttons), and the native start
flag. The plugin hears throwdown_mode events (opened, setting, button, placed with the
flag's position and heading, start, leave, cancelled) and runs the mode itself;
release_flag takes the flag down. The flag's queue never starts a Spot Battle: its
waiting card's Start goes to the plugin, MaxPlayers is held at 10 and it is never
relayed as a drop. After SmokeyDawg58's one_up_menu and one_up_placement
(reskate-custom-mods), generalised over a mode registry.
The page is his 4-column logo grid whether or not a plugin has a mode. Its widgets and
grid records, and the game assets it uses that only some levels load, ship in
ReSkate.dll as the throwdown_menu built-in pack, taken from his asset mod's FBMOD
(dingosdk_ebx_pick trims the asset list in place). A mode's logo is a texture path in
its own mod, so no mod edits the shared list. The FPV drone is no longer a built-in pack.
Native menu data: text initialization, change-only writes, retained array publication,
owned-model rollback. Tests: registry and setup helpers, the plugin API, a test plugin
with two modes.
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