(2024) [Aru/Weylon] Development Log

[Arufonsu]

🚀 Intersect Engine - Current Roadmap 🛠️

This log documents the tasks voluntarily undertaken by @WeylonSantana and @Arufonsu during the 2024 development period. Our focus was on improving the engine with a commitment to enhancing performance, refactoring, fixing bugs, and implementing valuable new features for the community.

Ticked items ([x]) in this log indicate tasks that have been completed and successfully implemented into the engine.
Unticked items ([ ]) represent ongoing or planned tasks that are either in progress or awaiting development.

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🐞 Bug Fixes & Maintenance

• 1. Fix player status timers
• 2. Projectiles refactoring and fixes
• 3. Fix NSE for InstanceType strings
• 4. Gwen control Base - "InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified (during iteration).

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🌟 Features

• 1. Parallel events
• 2. Highlight selected NPC with spawn point in map editor
• 3. Ability to play sounds in animation editor
• 4. Unequip item by slot
• 5. Homing and direct projectiles
• 6. Optional target window
• 7. Configurable range for item drop quantities
• 8. Redesign main menu: minimalist style
• 9. Additional hotbar row for F1-F10 keys. (Toggle visibility button within legacy hotbar + new key settings).
• 10. New dialogue event-command: show multiple options - (A list we can fill with options -> in game scroll control window.)
• 11. Simplified escape menu
• 12. Ability to drag and drop items out from inventory.
• 13. Dynamic cursor handler with enum states: Normal, Hover, Drag, Npc Attack, Player Attack, Resource, Event Interact.

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✨ Enhancements

• 1. Display item quantities in hotbar
• 2. Bind description window to hovered control
• 3. Press enter to select character
• 4. Drop multiple stacks of stackable items
• 5. Input window shared between menu and game
• 6. Extended server statistics on startup
• 7. Player, target, and status window revamp
• 8. Right-click context-menu for players.

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🛠️ QoL Refactoring and Clean-up

• 1. Strings refactoring:
  • 1.1 Intersect Client
  • 1.2 Intersect Server Core
  • 1.3 Intersect Editor
• 2. Remove unused/implicit imports:
  • 2.1 Intersect Core
  • 2.2 Intersect Client
  • 2.3 Intersect Client Framework
  • 2.4 Intersect Editor
  • 2.5 Intersect Network
  • 2.6 Intersect Server Core
• 3. Fix formatting and variable naming conventions (i.e: get rid of mVarNames):
  • 3.1 Intersect Core
  • 3.2 Intersect Client
  • 3.3 Core and Entities
  • 3.4 Intersect Client Framework
  • 3.5 Intersect Editor
  • 3.6 Intersect Network
  • 3.7 Intersect Server Core
• 4. Convert to file-scoped namespaces:
  • 4.1 Intersect Core
  • 4.2 Intersect Client
  • 4.3 Intersect Client Framework
  • 4.4 Intersect Editor
  • 4.5 Intersect Network
  • 4.6 Intersect Server Core
• 5. Entities abstraction: Get rid of massive amounts of this is Player, this is Npc, etc.
• 6. Smoother NPC movement across multiple random tiles instead of a single boring tile per tick. (WIP)

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Note: Only @lodicolo , @WeylonSantana and @Arufonsu are authorized to edit this log.
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