Map downloader
- A host or dedicated server now tells joiners which Thunderstore package
its map comes from (the Mods folder name plus manifest.json).
- A player without the map gets a card: icon, name, author, version and
description, with DOWNLOAD and CANCEL. It works with mouse, keyboard and
controller.
- Only packages listed as Maps in the ReSkate community are offered, and
never deprecated, rejected or NSFW ones.
- On yes the package is downloaded, installed into Mods and applied as a
live mod, then the session loads the map. A small card on the right
shows the progress, so the player can keep skating.
- The player stays connected while it downloads: the host gives a player
who says they are fetching the map up to 45 minutes instead of the
usual load time.
- When the server changes map with the player in it, the card says so.
- Protocol version 47: map package on map_offer and world_state, and a
"fetching the map" flag on map_request and world_ready.
Joining
- The pause-menu server browser shows a CONNECTING card over the page
while a join is under way, and a COULDN'T CONNECT card with the reason
when it does not get in.
- The session and voice tabs no longer show before the player is in.
- Leaving without the map (declined or cancelled download) no longer
counts towards the failed-join limit, on servers and player hosts.
Input
- A card that asks something holds the game's input until the buttons
are released.
- Steam's overlay hooks XInput in front of ReSkate and answers the game
itself, so a controller reached the game behind menus. ReSkate now
hooks that hook as well.
Mod merging
- Mods are read on several threads, at launch and for live merges. A live
merge runs below the game's priority.
- The paid-cosmetics check reads the game's files and the mods on several
threads.
- A live merge reuses the paid-cosmetics verdicts it already has and
reports its progress and timings.
Launcher
- NSFW mods and their categories are not shown in the mod browser.
After 10 bails the leg of the side that took more of them shows road dust
and a graze, its arm one bail later; at 14 the marks are bigger and the
other side starts; at 20 they are raw wounds and the face is bruised. A
mark never gets smaller until the player heals. The worst wounds bleed,
or are dry and scabbed with the blood switch off.
The marks are cosmetic items of a content mod (tattoo items for the limbs,
moles items for the face, named RoadRash_<Set>_[<design>_]<level>). Road
Rash puts them into the local skater's recipe with the game's own recipe
copy, after the validation the multiplayer code runs on a peer's outfit.
Nothing is written to the outfit or the profile's skater, and without the
item pack nothing shows and nothing is changed.
A bail is the physics state selector choosing Wipeout (No Bail's watch).
Its side comes from the ragdoll's contacts through Hall of Meat's reader:
impact and slide of the arm and leg bodies that touch something other than
the skater's own board, summed per side while the body is a ragdoll.
Outfit menus. The game feeds a skater's items either from the player's
outfit or from a recipe of the skater's own: after the recipe copy the
skater in the world no longer gets what the player changes in the menus.
So the skater is given back to the game while a game menu is up, with
nothing to show, on healing, when a switch changes and when switched off:
the four words of the item component the copy had changed go back to what
they were and the component is told its feed changed, and the game puts
the outfit's own items back and feeds the skater again. The marks go back
on, over the outfit as it is by then, a second after the menu has gone.
Whose recipe a skater wears is read from the skater at every look: a
respawn hands over the same skater, items and all, as if it were new.
The player's own tattoos and moles stay unless roadrashtattoos is on, and
come back the same way.
The recipe handed to the copy names no item, only hashes, like the game's
own for the local skater: the game changes that skater's items where they
lie, and a name left beside one would stop every later read of the
recipe, the multiplayer code's too.
Console: roadrash, roadrashblood, roadrashtattoos, roadrash heal,
roadrash bails <count>. Menus: Road Rash, Road Rash blood and Heal Road
Rash beside Hall of Meat (Mod Options > Player, the overlay's skater page,
the native tools view). The three choices are saved with the profile.
No new hooks. The rules (side of a fall, levels per count, item names,
decal placement, comparing parameters the game has rounded) are in
road_rash_model.h with their own test target,
DINGOSDK_BUILD_ROAD_RASH_TESTS. Notes and what is not tried yet:
contrib/road-rash.md.
In the skater's item grids (Apparel, Accessories, Board, Gestures) F favorites
the highlighted item, - (or Ctrl+F) opens a search box that filters as you
type, and X steps a filter (All, Favorites, Mods, Game items). Favorites sit
right after the worn item, carry the game's star where the tile shows its
rarity icon, and are kept in ReSkate.favorites.json beside Skate.exe.
The grids stay the game's own: their tile rows are reordered and filtered
through the native model functions, as the music screen's Mods shelf does.
Nothing is hooked for it and no file of the game or of a mod is changed.
See contrib/native-item-browser.md for how it works and what is not tried yet.
This is the Item Favorites mod done natively, so it no longer needs a DLL
loaded through a custom script.
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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.
Settings has five more pages, under "SKATE. SETTINGS" in the rail, for the
settings the game saves per PC:
- GRAPHICS: window mode, resolution, HDR, brightness, UI brightness, HUD
display, then the game's graphics options (frame rate limit, VSync,
dynamic resolution, upscaler and its quality, antialiasing, textures,
lighting, shadows, mesh, effects, post processing, global illumination,
ambient occlusion, depth of field, motion blur) with buttons that set
every low-to-ultra option at once.
- AUDIO: volumes, voice chat, text and voice language, subtitles, party
menu narration.
- CAMERA: sensitivity, and the on board, off board and climbing options.
- CONTROLS: vibration, trigger force feedback, show controller on HUD,
highlight indicator, the experimental toggles.
- REPLAY: editor speeds and sensitivity, effects, first-person keyframes.
They are written straight into the game's save containers under
%LOCALAPPDATA%\ReSkate\Game\Skate\data (game_settings.h): a DATA file of
sections and an INDEX naming them, the body one binary object of named
values. Only the values changed are rewritten, in both of the game's
copies; every other byte is kept. A container that cannot be walked whole
is left alone. The first change copies the untouched files to
%LOCALAPPDATA%\ReSkate\game-settings-backup.
Keys, kinds, ranges, steps and choices are the game's own
(DingoUISettingAsset in its data, build 20260929). The labels are ours.
Resolution is saved by the game as a place in the PC's list of display
sizes; the launcher lists Windows' sizes smallest first, which matches the
one PC it was checked on.
A change is stored once the control is let go. The pages are disabled while
a game this launcher started is running, and say so when the game has not
saved its settings on the PC yet.
Not offered: refresh rate, fullscreen monitor and audio devices (places in
lists the game builds at run time), the mobile-only settings, and settings
the game saves to the account rather than the PC.
Changelogs. The launcher's main screen has a CHANGELOGS tile in the
bottom-left corner. It opens a panel with the newest GitHub release: its
tag, title, date and notes. The notes are the release's description, read
as markdown and drawn like a mod's README (headings, bullets, code, rules).
A release published without a description shows what its GitHub page shows,
the tagged commit's message, taken from the releases feed. Fetched once,
the first time the panel opens; "Open on GitHub" goes to the releases page.
Download total. On GET MODS, the bar for ticked mods now gives the size of
what installing them downloads: "3 mods selected / 1.27 GB to download".
It is the sum of each mod's newest version as Thunderstore lists it.
Discord joins. The command the game registers for Discord to start ReSkate
now passes --no-gui, so pressing Join with the game closed goes straight
into the game instead of stopping at the launcher window.
--no-gui with no other launch flags now starts the game with the launcher's
saved settings (window size, menu and console keys, loose files, GPU
diagnostics, Discord status, offline, log level, extra launch options), as
pressing PLAY does. With flags of its own it behaves as before.
Mod Options. The pause menu's "Custom Stuff" page is renamed "Mod Options",
in the menu, the READMEs and the comments.
Not tested in game: the Discord join with the game closed, and the renamed
page. The changelog panel has only been seen with the earlier API-only
fetch.
Installing or updating a list of mods from Thunderstore stopped at the
first one that failed, so everything queued after it was never tried.
Each mod is its own download: a failure is now skipped and the rest
carry on.
The message at the end says how many could not be installed and how
many were, and names the first three with their reasons; the log has
every one. Cancelling still stops the whole list, and a single install
reports its error as before.
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.
The game shows on the player's Discord profile where they are skating.
It talks to the Discord app on the same PC over its local pipe, with no
SDK; without Discord running nothing happens.
- Solo: "On <map>", "Solo skating", and how long they have been in.
- In a session: "On <map>", "Server: <name>" or "Lobby: <name>", the
player count, and how long since they joined. A session with a
password shows "Private server" or "Private lobby" and no name.
Joining: a status carries the session's join code when anyone may walk
in (no password, not full, a dedicated server or a publicly listed
lobby). Discord shows that as "Ask to Join"; the game answers yes for
the player at once, and the other player's game is handed the code and
joins. If their game is not running, Discord starts the ReSkate
launcher, which the game registers for under the player's own
discord-<application id> URL scheme.
Switches: "Discord status" in the launcher's settings (off starts the
game with --no-discord, and the game never opens Discord's pipe), and
the same in the in-game Multiplayer settings, kept in the profile.
The model gains join_code: the code of the session a player is in as
host or guest (invite was a host's only).
A dedicated server with word_warnings set to 0 passed such messages on.
It now never does: at 0 the message is dropped, its player is told it
was not sent, and nobody is warned or kicked. The team's lists are read
on every server for this, including one with use_global_bans off, which
still lets globally banned players in.
The bad-word list now comes from the ReSkate backend's Words page, in
the same /api/v1/steam-ids answer the game and servers already read.
It has two lists: filtered words, and words not allowed in chat at
all. Until the backend has any words the built-in list stays in use;
once it does, its lists replace the built-in one.
Filtered words work as before: masked for players with the chat filter
on, and not allowed in server or lobby names. Words not allowed at all
are filtered the same way, and a chat message with one is not passed
on. Its player is warned each time, and after three warnings the next
one gets them kicked.
Dedicated servers: new players setting word_warnings (default 3, 1 to
10, 0 switches the rule off). The count lasts while the server runs,
so a kicked player who joins again is kicked at their next one. Party
chat and commands are checked too, and each warning and kick is logged
under [words]. The lists are read whenever global bans or word
warnings are on.
Player lobbies: the host's game applies the same rule to its guests,
with three warnings.
With many mods the launcher kept showing "Linking <last mod>" while the
material grid, a live merge's load screens and the asset overrides ran,
since none of them reported a step (#138). Each now does, and the total
is counted again once the superbundles are known: a disabled map that
ships the root level has it merged too, and the first count left it out.
The merge also notes how long each step took. The note is added after
the stamp is written, so a reused patch does not report the times of the
merge that built it.
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The cards drew their text plainly, so ":Catato:" showed as written. The
announcement text, the poll question and each answer now go through the
chat's emote layout (chat_rich.h); text without a known emote is drawn as
before.
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Host bans: the backend's new banned_hosts list (players the team has
stopped from hosting lobbies) is read with the other identity lists.
A listed player's own game refuses to host and stops a lobby already
running. Since that is theirs to change, everyone else's game does the
rest: the lobby browser leaves their lobbies out, and the game will not
join one by code or stay in one. They can still play on servers and in
other players' lobbies. The browser now also leaves out lobbies hosted
by globally banned players.
Server log: "Direct connection asked for by ..." is written once a
minute per player, with a count of the repeats. A player waiting for a
place on a full server asks again about every second, and each ask was
a line.
Each disabled mod was added to the merge fingerprint after a newline, so
the stamp held the fingerprint across several lines and previous_merge,
which reads the stamp a line at a time, compared only the first of them
with the whole fingerprint. They never matched, and every launch with a
mod disabled merged every mod again. A space keeps the fingerprint on one
line.
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- announce-to <player> <text>: the announcement card goes to that player only.
- Announcements are no longer posted in chat, only shown as the card; the
now pointless "card" setting is gone (old files' value is ignored).
- ReSkateServer.json "commands": the owner's own /commands, each with a reply
and/or server commands run as the console ({player}, {map}, {arg}), an
optional admin-only flag, and never listed in /help.
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A hacked client could move its skater's bones anywhere and stretch the
skater across the map for everyone: the server limited a bone's scale
but not its place.
Server: new anti_cheat setting bone_reach_limit, default 1 metre (0.5
to 20, 0 for off; console bone-reach <0.5-20>|off). A body or board
bone further than that from its parent is pulled back before the pose
is passed on. On the game's rig these bones never move (the longest, a
thigh, is 0.44 m). The fourteen skater bones that do move by metres
(they follow the board and the body in a fall) are held to 100 m, and
the board's rig to 5 m from the board.
Client: every pose a game is shown is held to 2 m reach and 8x bone
scale, whoever sent it, which covers servers that have not updated and
sessions without a dedicated server. A client used to accept up to
100x scale.
The limits come from two recorded play sessions; the exempt bones are
picked by index for the current build's 395-bone rig. The pose codec
bench now prints each recording's bone reach, and reads recordings made
by earlier versions.
Costume crash: the skater scripts' item:addEsShaderPreset uses the
preset it is handed without checking that it is loaded, and the game
crashed in the material's construction shortly after arriving on a
server's map while wearing a modded costume. The call is now checked
first: an item whose preset is not there is shown without it, and the
log says so.
Stuck close: once the player closes the game, a watch starts. If the
window has gone or stopped answering and the process is still there
8 seconds later, the process is ended. A window that still answers
(the close was turned down) is left alone, and the watch stands down
after two minutes.
Level unload guard: switched off. Skipping the entry that crashed left
its reference registered, so leaving the level never finished and the
game hung with the world unloaded. The crash it covered is back until
the reference is released properly.
Costume crash: the skater scripts' item:addEsShaderPreset uses the
preset it is handed without checking that it is loaded, and the game
crashed in the material's construction shortly after arriving on a
server's map while wearing a modded costume. The call is now checked
first: an item whose preset is not there is shown without it, and the
log says so.
Stuck close: once the player closes the game, a watch starts. If the
window has gone or stopped answering and the process is still there
8 seconds later, the process is ended. A window that still answers
(the close was turned down) is left alone, and the watch stands down
after two minutes.
Level unload guard: switched off. Skipping the entry that crashed left
its reference registered, so leaving the level never finished and the
game hung with the world unloaded. The crash it covered is back until
the reference is released properly.
The console (stdin, mp server, scripts) can now start the real vote and poll
cards instead of faking them with chat lines:
vote <map|kick|tod|<custom vote>> [argument]
poll <question> | <answer> | <answer>... and poll end
poll-run <command with {answer}> | <question> | <answer>...
A server vote keeps every check a player's has (the vote is on, min_players,
one vote at a time, the map pool, the tod list, the custom choices, admins
cannot be kicked) but has no cooldown and no yes of its own; its starter is 0.
A server poll may be asked whatever "polls" says. Chat reads "The server
started a vote to ..." / "The server asks: ...". poll-run runs its command
for a clear winner, as the console, and nothing on a tie or no answers; it
is refused from anywhere but the console.
start_vote, start_poll and end_poll take a Guest * (nullptr: the console)
and return why they did not start; every player message and log line is
unchanged.
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A dedicated server's poll could only be answered by clicking a row on its card
or by typing /1, /2... in chat.
While a poll is running, the top-row number keys 1 to 6 give that answer (as
many keys as the poll has answers). They are read only while a poll is open,
so they stay the game's own the rest of the time, and not while the menu, the
console or the chat box has the keyboard, as with the Yes and No keys.
On the card each row's number is now a white keycap, blue for the player's own
answer, and the hint reads "Press 1 to N on the keyboard, or click an answer."
Clicking and /1, /2... still work.
Not covered: the numpad (the bind system does not read it), controller
buttons, and rebinding; these keys are fixed.
Builds on the 2.0.0 vote card. Protocol 46: a server's vote can now be a
poll, and the roster carries who may start polls, the owner's own votes
and the current announcement.
Custom votes (votes.custom): the server owner defines /vote <name> [choice]
in ReSkateServer.json. When one passes, the server runs its command as the
console; {map} is the current map and {arg} the player's choice, which must
be one of the vote's "choices", so players never put free text into a
command. They show in /help, /vote list and the "/" menu.
Polls: /poll <question> | <answer> | ... with 2 to 6 answers. A poll runs
nothing. Players answer by clicking a row on the vote card or with /1, /2...;
the card shows each answer's count, then the result for a few seconds.
votes.polls says who may start one (off, admins, everyone), poll_seconds how
long it runs, and /poll end ends it early (its starter or an admin).
More vote settings: each vote may have its own seconds, cooldown_seconds and
min_players; starter_votes_yes says whether starting a vote counts as a yes.
The "votes" admin command sets all of them.
Announcements: "announce <text>" posts a chat line and shows a card at the
top of every player's screen. The new "announcements" section holds messages
the server posts in turn every interval_minutes while players are on;
"card": false keeps them to chat. Managed with the "announcements" command.
Older configs gain the new settings with their defaults on first start.
Server/README.txt documents them.
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A full server (about 120 players) slowed down at random until everyone lagged:
one pass a second, each taking over six seconds, 115% busy, and whole poses
going out by the thousand.
Why it stuck. After any stall the next pass had everything that arrived
meanwhile to pass on, to every player, so it took longer still. By then the
poses each update would have built on had gone stale, so poses went out whole,
ten times the size and more work again. Each pass carried the whole of the
last one's arrivals and the server never caught up.
Shedding. A pass normally reads one or two poses from each player. When more
than three of one player's are waiting, only the newest is passed on. Contact
effects are held to two packets a player a pass. Each pass then has a bounded
amount to do whatever the backlog, so the server catches up; players see the
others at a lower rate for a moment. The log says when it happens (at most
every 30 s) and `net` has a "shed while behind" count.
Threads. Building each player's update of everyone else was 80% of a pass. It
reads the other players and writes only that player's own state, so it is now
done for several players at once (worker_pool.h); the server's own counts and
the marks on whole poses are added up afterwards, and sends into the transport
are made one at a time. New setting network.threads: 0 (default) is one thread
for each processor but one, up to 8; 1 is the single thread as before. The
server says how many it uses when it starts.
Load test. Server/Test/server_load_tests.cpp drives the host with simulated
players over a transport that is not Steam's (built with the multiplayer tests
on Windows, not run by ctest). With 120 players at 20 TPS and 27 MB/s out, the
loop's share of one core went from about 50% on one thread to 26% on four and
22% on eight, and every player was sent byte for byte the same on 1, 2, 4 and
8 threads. A simulated 3 s stall shed about 7,000 poses, took one 169 ms pass
to recover and lost nobody.
The test's transport has none of Steam's send cost, so a real server's loop
sits higher than these figures. Receiving, choosing who is sent which pose and
the sends themselves still run on one thread.
Another player's skater starts as a copy of this player's own and their outfit
is put on after. An outfit that is refused leaves them as that copy: a player
reported everyone on a server looking like their own character.
Nothing was written when that happened. The reason only showed as the
"Cosmetics:" line in the multiplayer menu's player details, so a report had
nothing to go on. A refused outfit now logs a warning with the reason, three
times per reason and then every 200th: "a player's outfit could not be shown,
so they look like you (N so far): ...". Waiting for a player's actors, the
ordinary start of every player, is not logged.
The cause of the report is not known yet. The likeliest is a mod on that
player's side that changes the skater's customization layout, which makes
every other player's outfit fail the layout check.
Leaving a level could crash the game: an access violation in Skate.exe at
+0x3f5fc52, on one of its worker threads, with no ReSkate code on the stack.
Three reports from one PC show the same crash at the same address (two on
2.0.0, one on 1.1.8), each about half a second after leaving Skate3Improved on
a server of 81 to 101 players.
While a level unloads, a job walks each unloading object's table of 0x30-byte
entries and reads a number at +0xc8 of the asset each entry points to. An entry
whose asset never resolved holds null there, and the game reads it unchecked.
The loop is rewritten in place at startup so such an entry is skipped. The
2-byte nop before the loop makes room for a jz straight after the pointer is
masked, the two moves it displaced follow it, and the loop's jump back is
retargeted to the new start. Everything from the read on stays where it was;
nothing else in the function jumps into the rewritten bytes.
The patch is applied only when the game's 50 bytes are exactly what it was
written for. Otherwise the game runs as shipped and the log says why; startup
goes on either way. The log shows "Level unload crash guard: ready" when it is
in.
Not known: which asset is unresolved (the map's, or something another player
had equipped), and why it only happens some of the time. The reports hold
stacks only.
Linux and Steam Deck. 2.0.0 did not start under Proton: the launcher said
"ReSkate could not attach to Skate". The block on EA's online services hooks
five of Windows' name lookups and took any failure as fatal, and Wine's ws2_32
has no GetAddrInfoExA. Only getaddrinfo, the one Skate.exe resolves names
through, is required now. The other four are extra cover for anything else in
the process: one that is missing or cannot be hooked is left as it is, with a
line in the log. A function the system does not have cannot be called, so
nothing is left unblocked. On Windows all five are hooked as before.
Vote card. It sat on top of chat and looked like neither the menu nor the
notices. It is now on the middle of the screen's right edge, whatever chat is
doing, as a flat dark tile with a strip of colour down its left: blue while
running, green passed, red failed, grey cancelled. The question is in the
heading font, the bar is under it with the tally below, and Yes and No are
menu tiles with their binds on white keycaps. The server's line that starts a
vote says "the card at the right of your screen".
Hall of Meat. Its row in the Insert overlay now says when No Bail (or noclip,
which includes it) is stopping the bails it scores. The tab it is on,
MOVEMENT, is now GAMEPLAY, and the card FLIGHT & BAILS.
Reject malformed, non-finite, and out-of-range progress values while preserving them as ordinary messages. Add parser regression tests for progress and QR-code output, and register them with CMake.
Overlay. Hall of Meat could only be switched from the game's own menu and the
console. The Insert overlay's skater page now has a "Hall of Meat" switch on
the Movement card, under No Bail. It runs the same "hallofmeat 0|1" command, so
both menus agree and the choice is saved with the profile. It is greyed out
when Hall of Meat did not start.
Server. A player who is not an admin and places more than twice the object
limit plus 100 in a minute (a modified game animating objects by respawning
them) had their objects held as they were for a minute. They are now deleted
for everyone, and nothing that player places is shared for the next minute:
without that their game would upload them again at once. The log names the
player once with their SteamID and how many objects went, and they are told in
chat. After the minute only what they place anew is shared.
The server cannot delete the objects in that one player's own game, so they
still see them there; nobody else does.
The badge a content creator gets before their name, in chat, on their nametag
and on their own tag in the menu, said "Creator". It now says
"Content Creator". Tests and comments that quoted the old text follow.
As in skate. 3: when the local skater bails, the bones it hurt show over
the world through the body, yellow where a hit bruised one and red where
one broke it, with the bail's Meat card in the bottom left corner in the
place of skate.'s own HUD there: its time, hits (head hits double,
vehicles half again), broken bones, road rash, airtime, fall, top speed
and rotations, each scoring, and the map's best. A bone breaking pulses
the screen's edges red and, in single player, slows the game down a
moment. Off until switched on, as in skate.: in skate.'s menu (Custom
Stuff > Player) or with `hallofmeat 0|1`, saved with the profile.
Everything it draws is skate.'s own, read from the installed game: its
skeleton mesh (the Dem Bones costume) posed with the renderer's own
skinning matrices, its scoring icons, the THRASHER wordmark and its UI
brush strokes. Nothing is shipped.
How it works: No Bail already hooks the skeleton response, which runs
once a physics step right after the body contacts; it now hands that step
on, with the local skater it follows, but only while Hall of Meat is on.
Each step reads what every ragdoll body hit and how hard, and whether the
skater is a ragdoll; the bail runs on the game's own clock so slow motion
measures what the body did. The feature's own hooks, on the renderer's
skinned draw packets and main view and on the UI model's write, are
prepared at startup and switched on only with the feature, and off again
once the HUD corner and the game's speed are given back: switched off, the
game never calls them and the physics step pays nothing. The skeleton mesh
is read the first time it is on; only the images are read at startup,
since the overlay builds its atlas once. The renderer's picture of the
skater is read only while a bail shows. The menu's switch reads the
overlay model like the others. Every address is in the build table with a
fingerprint checked before use. Extension/HallOfMeat/README.md describes
the parts; its tests build with DINGOSDK_BUILD_HALL_OF_MEAT_TESTS.
The slow motion changes SimulationTime's rate, frame cap and time scale as
a session override and steps the local skater along, since skate. sets a
skater's step only when it builds its core. It runs the same at every
break, but never faster than the game ran: with the trainer's game speed
below 1 it only takes the part that is slower still. Afterwards it writes
back what it found, each setting only while it still holds what the slow
motion wrote, so the trainer's speed comes back as it was; a setting
changed from elsewhere meanwhile is left as it is and ends that slow
motion. named_setting_value reads a setting's value for it.
Tuned in play: a bruise from 7 m/s and a break from 12 m/s along the
contact normal (raised twice: a hard fall on flat ground broke bones), a
break worth ten of the lightest hits (a heavy bail's hits and breaks
outweighed the rest of the card) and a fall half of skate. 3's rate.
Fix: the overlay now draws in the back buffer's pixels, not the window's,
so it lines up on displays Windows scales (1920x1080 borderless on 4K).
The skater's render hooks, its skeleton and its body maps were first
found by gBGYo's ReSkate fork (github.com/gBGYo/ReSkate).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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