Implementation Gooey's Quests

[Rostyslav Zatserkovnyi]

Finally got around to trying this out, and The Thing @Florian just mentioned is definitely worth looking at
The last commit message for the GooeysQuests repository kind of spoils The Thing - I didn't look at the repo until after checking out the module, but still something worth considering.

Overall the module looks fun so far!
No breaking issues on my end, one medium-priority problem: in ~25% of generated worlds Gooey wouldn't spawn in the dungeon entrance. Might just be cliff availability issues - these particular worlds seemed somewhat flat around the spawn area.

 

[Florian]

@Rostyslav Zatserkovnyi Nice to hear that you like it.

I pushed a new version up, that contains however mostly internal changes:

• When a dungeon gets spawned particles are shown at the entrance (as suggested by @Cervator)
• The rooms (entrance door & cooridor) are now defined in prefabs. This includes both block placement and the check if the spawn location is correct. (There is some already some code for converting a region into the important part of the prefab format, but it lacks proper UI to be exposed to the user. I used that code for generating the new format from a structure generated by the old code)

 

[Florian]

I worked mostly on creating some tools that assist at the creation of structure templates.

Change Log:

• It is now possible to create items that spawn structures. For example you could create a item that spawns a part of a wall and then use it over and over again to spawn a complete wall:
  
• How the structure looks, gets defined with a "structure template editor" item. The "structure template editor" item allow you to select a region with a building and then create any numbers of "structure spawn items" from it. While you hold a "structure template editor item" an outline is shown of the region that gets copied. Right clicking opens a minimasic UI:
  
• To get "structure template editor" items you can use a new "structure template generator" item. When you right click a block with a structure template generator item, a "structure template editor" item gets created that has its origin at the clicked location.

I plan to move this functionality soon it it's own module.

 

[Cervator]

Neat! Very cool to see it get into structures

I wonder how hard it would be to make an external editor like VoxelShop (pinging @flux!) take a voxelated structure from the drawing program and create a .prefab or custom asset you could then use in-game to load up such an object placer.

 

[Florian]

I pushed up a new version to the master branch:

Change log:

• The item for placing structures shows now a preview via region outlines.
  

I also worked on adding the possibility to have the structures face the direction the player is looking at, but it it is not fully done yet.

 

[Florian]

I pushed up a new version to the master branch.

Change log:

• This module depends now on the structure template module. The structure template code has been moved to it.
• The dungeon entrance spawns now at all sides of a mountain

 

[Florian]

I pushed up a new version to the master branch:

Change log:

• The dungeon is now generated randomly based on entrance + 3 room types (right turn, corridor, reward place holder room)
• The dungeon entrance spawner can now also be obtained as item via (giveItem dungeonEntranceSpawner) to test out the dungeon spawning more easily.
• The system allows you to define rooms via prefabs and how they are connected.

I am not fully happy with the current way of how rooms connections can be defined and will probably change that aspect again.

 

[Cervator]

Coincidentally I just ran across this article - thought maybe it could provide some inspiration

http://ctrl500.com/tech/handcrafted-feel-dungeon-generation-unexplored-explores-cyclic-dungeon-generation/

Checked out a new dungeon, neat!

 

[Florian]

I pushed a new version to the repository.

Change log:

• Fixed a bug that prevented gooey from spawning properly until you walked to a different place
• Migrated the module to use the new version of the StructureTemplates module that supports now spawn conditions. (See big post in other thread!)

 

[Florian]

I pushed a new version to the repository.

Change log:

• The module uses now the components from the StructureTemplates module in order to specify the chain of structure spawning.
• Dungeon entrances spawn can spawn now at more locations. A bit of teraforming gets applied to make entrances now also fit in flatter hills.
  
• A few very basic dungeon rooms have been added
  Spoiler: added rooms

  Cooridor with right door option. Corridor making left turn, small storage room. In addition to that chests spawn now at locations where dungeon corridors extensions are allowed.
  

  Spoiler: image of storage room

  
• The particle spawning has been generalized and can now be specified via prefab. As a result particle get now also shown when you spawn a dungeon entrance via item. To try this out, get yourself a dungeon entrance spawner via:
  

  giveItem dungeonEntranceViaMountain

  .

 

[Cervator]

Looking good Thanks for the multiplayer fix, merged it!

I was able to join a server and have Gooey spawn a few times, even placing a dungeon myself with the tool. Then on trying to place another (after once having had the tool reject a placement) I managed to crash the game. Log snippet below:

Spoiler: log

...
23:04:15.276 [main] ERROR o.t.l.debug.ChunkEventErrorLogger - Multiple loads of chunk (-5, -2, -5)
23:04:15.326 [main] ERROR o.t.l.debug.ChunkEventErrorLogger - Multiple loads of chunk (-5, 2, -5)
23:04:16.326 [main] ERROR o.t.l.debug.ChunkEventErrorLogger - Multiple loads of chunk (-6, 0, -5)
23:04:16.334 [main] INFO o.t.network.internal.ServerImpl - Destroying entity: EntityRef{id = 9435, netId = 117, prefab = 'GooeysQuests:gooey'}
23:04:16.334 [main] INFO o.t.network.internal.ServerImpl - Destroying entity: EntityRef{id = 0}
23:04:16.721 [main] ERROR o.t.l.debug.ChunkEventErrorLogger - Multiple loads of chunk (-6, -1, -5)
23:04:21.935 [main] ERROR o.t.l.debug.ChunkEventErrorLogger - Multiple loads of chunk (-6, 1, -5)
23:04:22.435 [main] ERROR o.t.l.debug.ChunkEventErrorLogger - Multiple loads of chunk (-6, -2, -5)
23:04:22.535 [main] ERROR o.t.l.debug.ChunkEventErrorLogger - Multiple loads of chunk (-6, 2, -5)
23:04:25.830 [main] INFO o.t.network.internal.ServerImpl - Destroying entity: EntityRef{id = 15788, netId = 120}
23:041.916 [main] ERROR o.terasology.engine.TerasologyEngine - Uncaught exception, attempting clean game shutdown
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.mathTypes.Vector3iTypeHandler.deserialize(Vector3iTypeHandler.java:41)
at org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.mathTypes.Vector3iTypeHandler.deserialize(Vector3iTypeHandler.java:28)
at org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.protobuf.ProtobufDeserializationContext.deserializeAs(ProtobufDeserializationContext.java:44)
at org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.mathTypes.Region3iTypeHandler.deserialize(Region3iTypeHandler.java:54)
at org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.mathTypes.Region3iTypeHandler.deserialize(Region3iTypeHandler.java3)
at org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.Serializer.deserializeOnto(Serializer.java:97)
at org.terasology.persistence.serializers.NetworkEntitySerializer.deserializeOnto(NetworkEntitySerializer.java:237)
at org.terasology.persistence.serializers.NetworkEntitySerializer.deserializeOnto(NetworkEntitySerializer.java:206)
at org.terasology.network.internal.ServerImpl.updateEntity(ServerImpl.java75)
at org.terasology.network.internal.ServerImpl$$Lambda$216/1282899579.accept(Unknown Source)
at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1249)
at java.util.Collections$UnmodifiableCollection.forEach(Collections.java:1080)
at org.terasology.network.internal.ServerImpl.processMessages(ServerImpl.java:273)
at org.terasology.network.internal.ServerImpl.update(ServerImpl.java:187)
at org.terasology.network.internal.NetworkSystemImpl.update(NetworkSystemImpl.java17)
at org.terasology.engine.subsystem.common.NetworkSubsystem.preUpdate(NetworkSubsystem.java:46)
at org.terasology.engine.TerasologyEngine.mainLoop(TerasologyEngine.java:407)
at org.terasology.engine.TerasologyEngine.run(TerasologyEngine.java69)
at org.terasology.engine.Terasology.main(Terasology.java:150)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)
23:041.917 [main] INFO o.terasology.engine.TerasologyEngine - Shutting down Terasology...
23:041.995 [main] INFO o.t.n.internal.NetworkSystemImpl - Network shutdown
23:045.307 [main] WARN o.t.rendering.nui.skin.UISkinFormat - Failed to resolve UIWidget class UIInputBindButton, skipping style information
23:045.318 [main] WARN o.t.rendering.nui.asset.UIFormat - Field 'emptyIcon' not recognized for interface org.terasology.rendering.nui.UIWidget in {"type":"UIIconBar","id":"breathBar","icon":"engine:icons#bubble","family":"breathBar","emptyIcon":"engine:icons#burstBubble","halfIconMode":"shrink","spacing":2,"maxIcons":10,"layoutInfo":{"use-content-width":true,"use-content-height":true,"position-left":{"target":"CENTER"},"position-right":{"target":"RIGHT","widget":"healthBar"},"position-bottom":{"target":"TOP","widget":"healthBar","offset":1}}}
23:045.319 [main] WARN o.t.rendering.nui.asset.UIFormat - Field 'crosshairIcon' not recognized for interface org.terasology.rendering.nui.UIWidget in {"type":"UICrosshair","id":"crosshair","crosshairIcon":"engine:gui#crosshair","layoutInfo":{"use-content-width":true,"use-content-height":true,"position-horizontal-center":{},"position-vertical-center":{}}}
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.mathTypes.Vector3iTypeHandler.deserialize(Vector3iTypeHandler.java:41)
at org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.mathTypes.Vector3iTypeHandler.deserialize(Vector3iTypeHandler.java:28)
at org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.protobuf.ProtobufDeserializationContext.deserializeAs(ProtobufDeserializationContext.java:44)
at org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.mathTypes.Region3iTypeHandler.deserialize(Region3iTypeHandler.java:54)
at org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.mathTypes.Region3iTypeHandler.deserialize(Region3iTypeHandler.java3)
at org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.Serializer.deserializeOnto(Serializer.java:97)
at org.terasology.persistence.serializers.NetworkEntitySerializer.deserializeOnto(NetworkEntitySerializer.java:237)
at org.terasology.persistence.serializers.NetworkEntitySerializer.deserializeOnto(NetworkEntitySerializer.java:206)
at org.terasology.network.internal.ServerImpl.updateEntity(ServerImpl.java75)
at org.terasology.network.internal.ServerImpl$$Lambda$216/1282899579.accept(Unknown Source)
at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1249)
at java.util.Collections$UnmodifiableCollection.forEach(Collections.java:1080)
at org.terasology.network.internal.ServerImpl.processMessages(ServerImpl.java:273)
at org.terasology.network.internal.ServerImpl.update(ServerImpl.java:187)
at org.terasology.network.internal.NetworkSystemImpl.update(NetworkSystemImpl.java17)
at org.terasology.engine.subsystem.common.NetworkSubsystem.preUpdate(NetworkSubsystem.java:46)
at org.terasology.engine.TerasologyEngine.mainLoop(TerasologyEngine.java:407)
at org.terasology.engine.TerasologyEngine.run(TerasologyEngine.java69)
at org.terasology.engine.Terasology.main(Terasology.java:150)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)
For more details, see the log files in J:\Dev\Terasology\Git\integrate\Terasology\logs\2016-07-10_22-53-09

 

[Florian]

@Cervator something went terribly wrong in the scenario where the crash happend. The log files already begins with "Multiple loads of chunk" errors.

 

[Cervator]

@Cervator something went terribly wrong in the scenario where the crash happend. The log files already begins with "Multiple loads of chunk" errors.

Those are relatively common actually :/

Not that they aren't likely to lead to complications, but I see them on a regular basis in different ways, including when we do multiplayer testing. Most the time the game seems to continue without any apparent issues.

 

[Florian]

I pushed a new version to the repository

Change Log:

• Items have been added to the chests in the dungeon. Two of the added items are from the equipment module

 

[Cervator]

Tried it out! Found a bronze helmet in a chest waaay at the end of a long hallway that turned left once and had several other doorframes on the right side after that leading into little storage rooms

Adding Equipment + PhysicalStats to the module lineup shortly since they're dependencies now. New character screen is working as is equipping gear so that's cool new stuff too! Yay @xtariq !

 

[Florian]

I pushed a new version to the repository

Change Log:

• Added more templates for the dungeon generator to pick from.
  Spoiler

  Mini Town that can have 3 different types of structures (forge, inn, shop) + a big room with stairs and 3 exits. Latter spawns rarely as otherwise the dungeon might get to big.

 

[Cervator]

Checked it out and noted for next release! Found some neat stuff, very cool

Spoiler: super secret

 

[Florian]

I pushed a new version to the repository.

Some new content can be found in the dungeon town.

Spoiler

I added a skeleton to the dungeon town entrance.

I would have liked to polish it a bit more, but since I want it to make it in the multi player test I released it now.

 

[Cervator]

Tested it out - very impressive! I was surprised even reading the spoiler

Little stuck at first but then interesting things happened!

 

[Florian]

I pushed up a new version to the repository:

• Skeletons no longer slow down when they have to turn, but there is still sometimes an issue where they get stuck.
• Skeletons spawn now only for real when the player gets close enough.
• Skeletons are now hopefully no longer initially stuck, as previously they got spawned when there was no pathfinding graph yet for that area.
• Added one new room to the dungeon
  Spoiler

  A bedroom
• Improved the positioning of the skeleton at the dungeon town entrance.
• Skeleton no longer flickers between animations when it can't find a path to the player