A mod's reskate-plugin.json can declare "variants" {folder, order, displaces}: each <folder>/<name>/
is a variant, the one chosen (else the first of its order) loads, and every other mod whose layout
lists a displaced bundle is set aside for the run. Choices are kept in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\ReSkate\variants.json. Plugins read and choose their own mod's variants with
reskate.package.variants and reskate.package.choose (permission "variants"), and fit every board
for a deck that is not the game's own with reskate.board.fit {plates, axle}.
The board-break plugin, which ships inside the Board Break deck pack, declares the pack's decks as
variants, picks the deck on its own page and with `boardbreak deck`, reads each deck.ini and fits
the boards. Gone from the SDK: breakable_deck, the deck catalog, the MODS page's deck card, the
boarddeck command and the Board_Break_<Name> folder naming.
Plugins register modes (card, replaces, order, flag, players) and publish documents through
reskate.throwdowns.ui: the setup page, the waiting card, HUD slots themed on the game's HUD_<theme>_*
widgets, the match panel, flags and match restrictions. SmokeyDawg58's native plumbing
(throwdown_menu.cpp and its .inl files) renders them and posts throwdown_ui events back. kit::flag
is the one native flag registration. General services added for it: reskate.files, reskate.ui.dialog,
reskate.skater push/hold/bone_cam, reskate.camera.pad_flight, reskate.physics competition,
reskate.session.world, reskate.tricks feed/gesture, and world entities.
His ten modes are now Lua in his plugin: the rules, referee and wire (td/rules, referee, wire), and
every page and HUD document (td/ui*.lua). Extension/Modes and reskate.modes are gone, along with
every race and 1-UP branch in the SDK. The plugin test drives each mode through kit events.
A native setup page is never written to while it closes into flag placement: its rows are not
republished, the stock page is put back once the exit is over, and the stock Players slider is left
alone while a plugin flag is out. This fixes the crashes on the Deathrace button and on 1-UP's
Confirm.
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.
A card began inside one widget's PushID and ended inside the next card's, so
ImGui reported PopID called too many times and missing. Cards now open and
close between widgets, each with its own id.
Each plugin gets its own page instead of sharing the ADDONS page's PLUGINS
tab: a row per plugin in the window's side rail under PLUGINS, a tab per plugin
full screen. reskate.menu.page(title, build) makes it; the plugin's panels show
as cards under it, and a plugin with panels only gets a page named after it.
A page is built ten times a second, only while the menu shows it.
The menu's own widgets for pages: ui:card(title, subtitle), ui:tabs, ui:note,
ui:warn, ui:info, help text on toggles and dropdowns, a slider's format
("%d%%") and a card's main button. Full-screen screens draw them too.
Road Rash, Board Break, the FPV drone (a tab each for fly, flight, rates,
display and controller), Hall of Meat and grind exits have pages, worded as
their built-in pages were. MUSIC is ADDONS' only addon now.
Hall of Meat (contrib/plugins/hall-of-meat) and grind exit triggers
(contrib/plugins/grind-exits) are Lua plugins: the bail model, its Meat card,
each map's best, the trigger rules, settings, console commands and menu panels
are theirs, with their own checks that dingosdk_plugin_tests runs.
What has to run in the game stays in core as plugin services:
- every physics step of the skater (skater_physics, the physics_step event,
permission events.physics);
- the skater's x-ray (xray, xray_render, xray_skeleton; reskate.skater.xray and
the draw handler's d:skeleton);
- skate.'s bottom left HUD corner (hud_corner; reskate.hud.corner);
- the game's slow motion, never in a session (game_speed; reskate.time.slow and
speed, permission game.speed);
- the side of the next pop out of a grind and pad controls kept from the game
(grind_exit; reskate.skater.grind_exit, the grind_exit event, reskate.input.hide);
- skate.'s own pictures by name (game_images; d:game_image), d:gradient and a
font for drawn text.
Removed: Extension/HallOfMeat, grind_exit_control and its commands, the HALL OF
MEAT and GRIND EXITS add-on pages, home tile, hub and native menu rows, their
menu models, and the hallofmeat and grindexit built-in commands.
The three features are Lua plugins in contrib/plugins (fpv-drone, board-break,
road-rash), built on what this adds to the plugin API: flight input, gamepad and
joystick reads with input capture, a rolled camera, a package's own sounds and a
synthesised motor (plugin_sound, plugin_wave, motor_synth), the skater's physics
events (skater_events), items worn over the outfit (outfit_overlay, skater_items),
the board's bones (board_pose), skater animation (anim_core), plugin images,
throwdowns started for chosen players, and server copies of plugins on a lobby
host and the dedicated server (server_plugins).
Removed from core: Extension/RoadRash, Extension/BoardBreak, the drone's flight,
radio, follow, OSD, beacon, outfit and sound code, its prop models (native_prop),
the DRONE, BOARD BREAK and ROAD RASH menu pages, home tiles and native menu rows,
their console commands, the drone follow debug action, the drone marker packet
(kind 36 stays unused; the roster keeps its byte) and the server's drones setting.
Kept in core, since every board needs it whichever plugins run: the breakable
deck packs (breakable_deck: which deck, its label and wheel spacing, the
boarddeck command and the BREAKABLE DECK card on the Mods page), and board_pose
keeping a deck pack's stretches out of sight, the baseplates on the deck and the
wheels at the deck's spacing on every board.
- Skater: skater.state() and the skater_state and bail events (events.skater); noclip and boosts
through the console's own queue, under the host's rules (skater.control); a save point of the
plugin's own (trainer); the game's HUD hidden while any plugin asks (hud).
- World: park editor objects listed, placed, moved and removed through the editor's own edits and
the session's object rules (world.objects); time of day, world controls and park rotation as
the World menu sets them, refused where the host chooses (world.environment); fast travel and
levels, refused for guests (travel); AI skaters, outside sessions only (world.ai).
- Session: other players' skaters as last heard (session.skaters, a feed the session publishes
each frame, plugin_session_feed.h); a plugin's tag above a player's nametag (session.nametags);
voice volume (voice.control); chat lines as events (chat.read) and sending one, one every 3 s
(chat.send); throwdown state and events (throwdowns).
- Music from outside players (music), progress (progression.read) and game settings
(settings.read), read only; named actions on keys or pad combos, pressed while the game has the
input (input); full-screen screens with the input, closed by Esc (ui.screen).
- Libraries and events between plugins: expose, require_plugin, emit, on_plugin; plain data is
copied across VMs and a plugin in a call cannot be called back into.
- net.http: HTTPS to the hosts reskate-plugin.json's new "domains" lists; no redirects, cookies
or Windows sign-in; private and local addresses refused; 10 a minute, 4 waiting, 1 MB back.
- Left for engine work (listed in the design doc): respawn and freeze, manuals, the camera, trick
animations, replays, starting throwdowns, the game's own soundtrack, overlay images, rebinding
plugin keys in the Binds page, local-only chat lines.
- reskate-test has a wider module (ptest noclip, boost, hidehud, object, night, day, ai, screen,
bind, music, chat, web by hand); reskate-hostile has chat-spam, edit-spam, travel-spam,
web-elsewhere, bind-spam and screen-loop.
All host tests pass; not yet tried in game.
- overlay: reskate.on("draw", function(d) ...) each tick, with text, rect, line, circle, poly
and world_text, world_line, world_circle (projected through the camera as the frame draws),
size and world_to_screen; 4000 shapes a frame. reskate.ui.toast through ReSkate's notices, three
in 5 s. Images are left for later: they need texture slots in the overlay's renderer.
- menu: reskate.menu.panel(title, build) on a new PLUGINS tab of the ADDONS page, with heading,
label, separator, button, toggle, slider and dropdown, built ten times a second while it shows.
- audio.ui: the game's menu sounds by name, ten a second. mods.read: installed(name) and list(),
from the discovery thread's scan.
- session.read: active, is_dedicated, players, me, host, and player_joined / player_left.
net.session: send(to, message) to the same plugin on other games (by its manifest.json name) in
the session's throwdown packets, tagged 0xD1 (plugin_wire.h); 4 KB each, 16 KB a second.
- The overlay and the host share plugin_ui.h (shapes, panels, actions) and plugin_camera.h.
- Fixed: the overlay asked ImGui for the window's size before its context existed, which crashed
on the first frames; it now reads the size from the context.
- reskate-test has overlay (ptest hud), menu, audio, mods and session (ptest ping) modules;
reskate-hostile has draw-flood, toast-spam, sound-spam, message-flood and panel-loop.
Checked in game: ptest all 62 passed, 0 failed; the test HUD, the PLUGINS tab and its panel; every
hostile attack stopped or refused, trick-loop and panel-loop included. Not yet: ptest ping with a
second player.
- With events.tricks a plugin hears the local skater's tricks: trick_started (where), trick_landed
(points, multiplier, where it started and landed, how long it took) and line_broken (a slam or
a wipeout); reskate.score.current() is the score HUD's line, multiplier and whether a trick is
going on. Without the permission the events cannot be registered.
- The score HUD is read into the trick watch (Extension/Skater/score_hud.h, trick_watch.h) on the
client tick only while a running plugin has events.tricks; a new level starts a new line.
plugins::start takes the image base for it.
- reskate-test has a tricks module (skipped until a trick lands) and ptest trick, which waits 30 s
for one and prints what its events said; reskate-hostile has trick-loop.
Not yet checked against real tricks in game.
- skater.read: reskate.skater.get() (position, heading, speed, vertical speed, airborne, air
time) and position, heading, speed and on_ground on their own; nil without a skater. From the
trainer's telemetry. The heading is radians, -pi to pi: 0 faces +Z, pi/2 faces +X, and a higher
heading is turned to the skater's left (checked in game).
- skater.teleport: reskate.skater.teleport(at, heading?) through teleport_local_skater_heading;
false and why when the host has turned teleporting off (as the console's tp), there is no
skater, or it is asked more than twice a second. Positions must be finite and within 100 km.
- world.raycast: reskate.world.raycast(from, to) is where the line first meets the world's
collision (local_surface_hit), or nil; 64 a tick, 1000 m at most.
- The host passes the game to plugins through Environment, so the tests fake a skater and flat
ground. reskate-test has a skater module (skipped without a skater; the harness counts skips)
and ptest tp; reskate-hostile has teleport-spam and raycast-flood.
Checked in game: teleporting, the two-a-second cap and the raycast cap. ptest skater's heading
check failed there (0 to 2 pi from the trainer) and is fixed, not yet rerun in game.
The console answered every command missing from ReSkate's own list itself, as unknown, so a
plugin's command (ptest) never reached the plugins on the game thread. Now only ReSkate's local
commands run there; anything else is queued, and the game thread tries the plugins first and
answers unknown as before when none has it. Checked in game: ptest all, 45 passed, 0 failed.
- contrib/plugins/reskate-test calls every plugin API and says what worked: ptest all, ptest
<module>, ptest list. Its 45 checks cover the base set, timers, the level, package files, JSON,
require, the console, storage and the sandbox. It is the example to copy for a plugin.
- contrib/plugins/reskate-hostile attacks the sandbox, one attack per command (hostile list):
loops, memory and buffer bombs, caught errors, error and log floods, timers, recursion, an
unload that never ends, and 17 ways out. Each must end stopped or refused.
- dingosdk_plugin_tests runs both from the repository: every reskate-test check passes, and every
hostile attack is stopped or refused with nothing escaping.
- Taken from Domination (PR 279) for the plugin API to use: the trick watch (when a trick starts,
lands and what it scored, or a slam breaks it; Domination's spots left out) in
Extension/Skater/trick_watch.h with its tests, the score HUD reader in score_hud.h, and
teleport_local_skater_heading, whose hunks are the PR's own. Neither is wired to anything yet.
A mod with a reskate-plugin.json is a plugin: Luau scripts that run in their own VM, with only
the reskate API ReSkate registers for them. Luau 0.741 is vendored in External/luau (the VM and
compiler only: no native code generation, no loadstring, io or C modules).
- Limits: 64 MB of memory, 50 ms a call, 2 ms a tick on average (over it for 3 s stops it),
more than 5 errors in 10 s stops it, 50 log lines a second. A plugin over a limit cannot catch
it in a pcall and carry on.
- API: reskate.log, on (load, unload, tick, level_loaded, level_unloading), timers, the level,
its own package's files and JSON, require inside the package; console.command and print
("console"); storage get, set, add and keys ("storage"), 1 MB in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\ReSkate\Plugins\<mod>\storage.json.
- Found every 2 s among the mods mods.json leaves on: switching a mod, or changing a plugin's
files, loads, unloads or reloads it without a restart. A package holding a program is refused.
- plugin list, commands, reload, off and on in the console. A plugin cannot take a name of
ReSkate's own commands.
- Tests: DINGOSDK_BUILD_PLUGIN_TESTS, including plugins written to break the sandbox.
MY MODS: a table with an animated drag for the load order, a conflicts bar with Check conflicts, and a Resolve popup whose choices are kept. The check runs at startup and after changes; conflicts no longer show as problems, block Play, or hold mod files during an update.
Conflicts: only game EBX that cannot be combined, or Lua scripts with different versions; colourways and same-name additions are not conflicts.
Official mods: installed in Mods/<Namespace-Name> and turned on or off through mods.json, so they show in MY MODS; the old .reskate-official folder is moved over.
Merge: a scan cache (Mods/.reskate-scan.txt) keeps each unchanged mod's repair, mesh and texture scans, so big maps are not re-read every merge.
Launcher: an announcement from the backend shows under STATUS, with HIDE.
The device-removal watcher always runs, and the fatal handler notes a DXGI stop in gpu-breadcrumbs.txt. Crash reports carry a gpu.breadcrumbs tag (protocol 5).
The launcher still reads the list at start and looks up each mod's latest
version, moves in a copy installed from Thunderstore and takes away retired
mods, but it downloads nothing by itself. Each card on the OFFICIAL tab says
NOT INSTALLED, INSTALLED, UPDATE AVAILABLE, DOWNLOADING or UPDATING, with an
INSTALL or UPDATE TO vX button (official_mods::install, on a thread of its
own), OPEN FOLDER once installed, and the On / Off switch beside its pills.
The banner counts how many are installed. Play waits for an install under
way.
Board Break and Road Rash start only when their official mod is installed
and on (mods::official_in_use), and say in the log which it is not; the
menus leave them out otherwise, as when turned off.
The live test (RESKATE_OFFICIAL_LIVE) checks that nothing downloads until
asked, then installs each.
The game's info sign shows on the first of the notice's three reserved
lines, where the mod's icon covered it. The icon, tag, name and details
now take the two lines under it, the icon 40 instead of 46 so it still
ends on the card's bottom text margin.
The OFFICIAL tab has an on/off switch on each mod's card, with an OFF pill
while it is off. The list of those turned off is
Mods/.reskate-official/official-off.txt, one folder name a line, which the
launcher's sync never removes. A mod turned off stays downloaded and kept
up to date, but official_packs() leaves it out, so nothing merges it, no
deck comes from it and the in-game Mods page does not list it.
Board Break and Road Rash do not start while their official mod is off,
and say so in the log. The menu model carries that as `off`, and the side
rail, the addon tabs and tiles, the home tiles, the pause menu's settings
and the native tools menu leave them out without a gap. category_tabs
takes a list built at run time for that.
Tests: an official mod turned off stays in place and is left out, comes
back when turned on, and only a plain folder name is written.
A model made for another player's drone crashed the game a few seconds
later in the per-frame update of its shader sections (Skate.exe+0x505b04b,
2.1.0): 28 of 29 reports there came right after one was made. Real
players' drones show as markers and are heard as before until that is
found; the pretend one from dronemodeltest remote still gets its model.
The warning sign on a mod item's description notice was cleared by writing
an empty IconOverride. The game resolves that override again later in its
UI update and crashed on the empty one (Skate.exe+0x3e897fb, a lookup that
finds nothing): about a quarter of 2.1.0's crash reports, all of them after
the sign was cleared.
The notice now gets the game's own info sign (img_generic_info_64), set the
way the favorites star is. When that texture is not loaded the warning sign
stays and it is looked for again two seconds later; an empty override is
never written. Texture assets are matched by name ignoring case.
The window listed one ADDONS row that opened an overview of tiles, and showed the addons under it
only while that page was open. EXTRAS now lists Drone, Board Break, Road Rash, Hall of Meat, Grind
Exits and Music as rows of their own, always; a window left on the overview (switched from full
screen on ALL ADDONS) shows Drone. Every row of the rail is as tall as fits it without scrolling,
from 28 to 36. Full screen keeps its ADDONS page and ALL ADDONS tab.
The shader expression registry registers a database from a queued job, and builds its per-key item
lists from the database's lookup without a bounds check. A database destroyed before its job ran,
or a lookup index past its items, left the registry holding pointers that crash it later
(Skate.exe+0x3f7cf33, +0x3f7ceed, +0x20960b in Sentry). The guard skips a registration for a
database already destroyed and points an out-of-range index at a valid item of the same key,
logging each.
On a dedicated server with object scaling off, a loaded park's scaled objects were resized anyway
(and after a refused resize the pose poll saved 1x over their scale), and a scaled paste, set or
undo ended in a resize the server would not take, so the edit waited on it. The placements now
know whether this game may resize (set by the session from the server's setting and the role, the
host and roles that may always build exempt, allowed outside a session): where it may not, objects
stay 1x in the world, nothing waits on a resize, and the layout keeps their scale for when scaling
is allowed again. A transaction test pastes a scaled object with scaling off.
A light slam had a flat 25% chance to break a board (about 50% worn), a bail with no recorded
force counted as light, and any board could give way on a timer while just riding. Now a slam
under 60% of the breaking force never breaks it and the chance rises smoothly to certain (a new
board: never under 6, half the time at 8, always from 10); a bail of unknown force never breaks it;
and the riding timer is gone: a board that is done (85% worn) gives way on a hard landing instead,
from a big drop as it becomes done down to a curb's when worn out. The player is told when the
board becomes beat and done, and each break's cause is logged at info level.
A rebuild builds one segment per key and each needed every key's slot, so a long replay built
them once per segment: the game's rebuild is hooked too and the slots built for its first segment
are kept for the rest of it (per Behaviour and Subject). The segment player is no longer hooked
(it only counted plays for keysmooth status, every frame). The smoothness is a slider beside the
switch in the overlay (sent when let go, as each change rebuilds the open replay's camera) and
Keyframe smoothness (100, 75, 50, 25%) in the pause menu and Mod Options > Visuals. The startup
line logs on the runtime channel.
A mod's item (or one of the game's own a mod changes) keeps three empty description lines, so
the game's item card, which grows upward from a fixed bottom edge, always has room in the same
place; the overlay draws the mod there: its icon (decoded off the render thread into a fourth
texture slot, the last 32 kept), a MOD or CHANGED BY MOD tag, its name, author, version and how
many items it has. The card is placed as the game places its own, measured at many window sizes:
by the smaller of its scales, a 21:9 frame centred on wider screens (the search bar follows it
too). The warning sign the game's focus script gives any description is taken off that notice
each tick while it shows the reserved lines.
The merge's item list records each mod's version and folder (an older list falls back to the mods
loaded at launch). The item grids now run every client tick instead of at the 500 ms
customization pace, follow the highlight between their 40 ms passes, and let go of a grid as soon
as its screen closes, so the card, the search bar and favorites keep up with the player.
The merge keeps the items the store-copy check reads in every mod and writes them to
Mods/.reskate/reskate-items.json (highest priority first, so an item two mods ship is the one
whose copy the game uses); a live merge keeps the entries of the mods it did not read again, and a
patch built before the file existed is built again once. The game reads it when it builds its
item catalogue: an item a mod adds says "From: <mod> by <author>" under its name, one of the
game's own that a mod changes "Changed by <mod>", unless it has a description of its own.
The pretend drone goes into the beacon as a received one would, so other players' drone models
and markers can be checked without a second player. A drone flying 3 s without its model now logs
what is waited for (the engine, the local skater, or the thread's job context) instead of waiting
silently.
The game plays the replay camera's framing keys as cubic Hermite segments whose speed changes at
every key (the acceleration jumps there, and it brakes where a channel slows or turns back), so a
free-camera shot surges and settles around each key. keysmooth on rewrites each segment as the game
builds it, so that the game's own player plays the natural cubic spline through every key: speed
and acceleration carry on through the keys, and every key is still met exactly, at its time.
- keysmooth on|off (off by default), keysmooth amount 0..1 (1 by default; 0 is the game's curve)
and keysmooth status; kept in %LOCALAPPDATA%\ReSkate\KeySmooth.settings. Only the free camera
(Behaviour 1) is smoothed; the other camera modes keep the game's curve.
- A switch in Mod Options > Visuals and in the overlay's Skater > Freecam.
- The curve apart from the game, with tests (DINGOSDK_BUILD_REPLAY_KEYFRAMES_TESTS); the hooked
functions are fingerprinted, and a build that differs gets no hook.
- contrib/keyframe-smoothing.md: what it does, how, and what was seen in game.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ReSkate page of the pause menu listed the maps as rows of names on two tabs. They are now one
MAPS tab of cards in the page's own style, each with its map's picture (an official map's loading
screen, a custom map's mod icon, from the same pictures as the ReSkate menu's map grid) and its
name: the game's maps, then the custom ones under their own heading. The one pointed at says
LOAD (or why not), the D-pad moves across the grid, and a map that cannot be loaded now is dimmed.
Tutorial Island is left out, and the note on why travel is unavailable sits beside the title.
With what was made (heap type and flags, size, format, flags) and the game code that asked, at
most 40 times. Small buffers and textures took 120 to 170 ms each, two threads at the same moment,
which showed the 5 s stall was the GPU or driver held up by something outside the game, not the
size of what the game made.
Scrolling shirts onto Yudi-Yuddispack's philippleinshirt_ap crashed the game (Skate.exe+0x3dc07ed):
one of the preset's set parameters has a type of 0x0c07010304040502 (null in another crash). The
game type-checks every set parameter when it next applies a preset to a material, reading the
type unchecked, and catching that crash inside addEsShaderPreset was too late: the preset was on
the material already and the next update crashed on it.
addEsShaderPreset's guard now checks the preset first, as that type check reads it: the TypeInfo,
its data, a word at +4. A preset with a parameter whose type cannot be read is left out as a
preset that is not loaded is (the item shows without it), and named in the log once with that
parameter's key. Many of the game's own types are built at run time, so the test is that the
type reads, not that it lies in the game's image.
With "unlock all cosmetics" (and objects) on, the default, ReSkate wrote every installed item into
the profile as owned and never removed one, so every mod a player ever tried stayed in the save:
8765 cosmetics and 520 objects in one profile, past the limit that left a player with no items.
What is owned is now worked out from what is installed (installed_item_owned): a paid store copy
never, every other item while the kind's unlock option is on, and with it off what the profile
saved. The catalog given to the game, the owned list, saved outfits, the player card, the Build
object browser and the park editor all ask it. Nothing per item is saved any more, and a profile
with an option on drops the rows earlier versions saved, once, on the next start.
profile_migration_tests checks that drop on a copy of a real save: the rows stay with the options
off, are gone after a restart with them on, and nothing else in the profile changes.
The profile keeps every cosmetic it has seen, a removed mod's too, and refused to save past
8192 of them (or of Build objects). A player who had tried enough mods passed that, every save
was refused, and the cosmetic catalog failed with it: no items in the customization menu and
no playcard. The saved limit is now 65536 (saved_item_limit), a bound against a damaged file;
the game's own catalog of installed items keeps its 8192.
Also: one item the catalog cannot hold (two items with one identity hash, a record the game
will not read) is left out and named in the log instead of failing the whole catalog, and a
catalog that still fails logs why.
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.
They load from Mods/.reskate-official, outside the Mods folder's list, so
the page took the ones in effect for mods whose folder was gone: "Folder
deleted / APPLY TO UNLOAD", a change pending, and an Apply that reloaded
the level for nothing.
- Each official mod has a tile of its own after the installed mods:
OFFICIAL while in effect, SET ASIDE while Board Break has another deck
in the game, APPLY TO LOAD for one put in place since the game started.
No Enable/Disable: the launcher keeps them.
- live_mods::preview leaves built-in and official content out of what
applying would unload.
In a level, the cracks, the board's metal and the body's hits play through the game's own
positioned sound where the skater is, as the drone's motor does, so the game's mix and echo apply
and a break heard from afar sounds far off. Several still play over each other.
- Each wave file is also made into the 16 kHz mono that sound takes, as it loads (8, 16, 24, 32
bit and float, any rate and channels, averaged down so a crack's highs do not alias).
- A tick on the client thread, beside the drone sounds, streams them in at the skater's root.
- Outside a level, or until the game's sound is ready, they play straight to the speakers as
before.
path::string() uses the ANSI code page and throws on a character it lacks (a Cyrillic folder on
an English Windows). The remaining places it was used now go through path_utf8:
- Mods: a deck folder or a mod folder named outside the code page no longer leaves the Board Break
decks empty, or the Mods folder ignored altogether.
- Game and mod archives: a file under Win32 with such a name is passed over instead of stopping
the read.
- pose-dump no longer ends the multiplayer session when the game folder is not ASCII.
- The item browser's status line and a Board Break warning no longer fail on such a path.
- Launcher: system fonts are named to ImGui in UTF-8, which it reads.
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