2013/02/04 - Blockland r1808

Blockland r1808

Speed Kart Game Mode:

This is a kart racing game mode originally designed by the community that I have implemented and refined.
It uses some community created add-ons that are now part of the game:

Modular Terrain Bricks
SpeedKarts - modified to only work from GameMode_SpeedKart, if you want to use them in a custom game, download the original
Blood and Gore - modified to only apply when you are run over or impact a wall (and renamed Script_VehicleGore)

Gameplay notes:

Click the letter bricks to choose a car
Suicide (ctrl+k) while in a vehicle => vehicle burns, explodes after 4 seconds (does not work within 8 seconds of start of race)
Suicide while in a burning vehicle => vehicle explodes immediately (does not work within 8 seconds of start of race)
Touching the water = instant death
Vehicles left in the spawn point will explode
Players who stay at the starting point after the round starts are killed automatically
You must touch the gold brick at the end of the race to win

Commands and settings:

/trackList
/nextTrack
/setTrack <number> - get the track number from /trackList
$Pref::SpeedKart::RoundLimit - number of races before a track change, defaults to 15

Adding tracks:

   You can add tracks add your own tracks to the rotation by creating an add-on zip file named SpeedKart_YourTrackNameHere.z ip.
   The game mode automatically adds all tracks to the rotation.
   See the included SpeedKart_Lighthouse.zip and SpeedKart_Sand_Castle.zip for examples
   The zip file should contain the following files:

save.bls - A save file of your track, including the starting gates and win brick. Saving ownership or not does not matter, since the game mode will load the bricks as public.
environment.txt - Environmental settings, skybox, lighting, etc. To create this file, adjust your environment settings manually, then use the console function saveEnvironment(<filename>);
credits.txt - When the track is loaded it says "Now loading <your track name>, created by: <credits.txt contents>" in the chat. Credits list is limited to one line and control characters are removed.

Here is a save file containing just the starting gates and a win brick. http://blockland.us/files/SpeedKart-Starting-Line.bls

Other fixes, additions and improvements:

Borderless window mode - lets you go "full screen" and still be able to alt+tab easily.
onMiniGameReset event (admin only) added to base
setVehiclePowered event added to base
Event_Camera_Control add-on, implements setCameraBrick, setCameraNormal events on both client and minigame.
usage is setCameraBrick <name of camera position brick> <name of camera target brick>
this is the event used for the victory camera in gamemode_speedkart
Input events can now individually be made admin only, so the usage of registerInputEvent is now: registerInputEvent(%class, %eventName, %targetList, %adminOnly)
Fixed "wheel index out of bounds" errors showing garbage data for number of hubs
Fixed /clearvehicles command not resetting vehicle count
Fixed memory corruption related to certain cases of control objects being deleted
Minigame respawn time can now be set to -1 (do not respawn), last man standing mode is implied
Minigame timelimit (settable in game modes) - minigame resets after time limit is reached
Fixed issue where if you are using mouse steering (ie strafe steering off) and hold the freelook key, strafe keys suddenly becomes turn again instead of roll
Fixed third person vehicle camera colliding transparent bricks
Fixed issue where bricks would not load if their uiname started with a space
When a minigame is reset it now cancels all events started by people in the minigame
Various restrictions lifted on event ownership to make autonomous event driven game modes (like speedkart) work. This may have dire consequences.
If minigame has respawn time of -1, dead players are put in observer mode. Press space to change between orbit camera and free camera. Left click/right click to go to previous and next players. Living players get a bottom print message telling them how many people are observing them with orbit cam.
Fixed gamemode capitalization in server list when gamemode is launched from command line
Removed /UsePrintGun command
Minimum vehicle remount time increased from 1 second to 2 seconds
Functions from script_clearspam are now part of the base game code
Changed a bunch of game critical schedules from being on the globalQuota object to being on no quota so that they cannot be accidentally canceled
Formatting improved on listclients(); console command
Fixed console error about wrong number of arguments for connectArranged()
When you die and press F8, the "click to respawn" text is now removed
Player smoke trail effect (from burning) is now removed on entering water
Fixed memory potential corruption related
Orbit camera now has a fixed vertical offset so your view doesn't spaz out when the person you're observing crouches/uncrouches rapidly
Fixed issue where if you start a game mode, quit to main menu, then start a custom game, it loads the game mode save
Fixed improper usage of messageClient in some wrench errors
IP addresses are no longer prefixed by "IP:", hopefully this doesn't break everything
Minor flood protection added to /light command
Fixed unintialized values causing intermittent crash after "Activating package: CanvasCursor"