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April

Wednesday 1st​

  • Finishing up orbital gunnery work from March
    • Moving target assignment components from turret base to gun
      • Gun controls turret, instead of the reverse
    • Splitting up Gun component
      • GunMuzzleVelocity
      • GunBulletDivergence
  • Writing up March notes

Thursday 2nd -> Monday 6th​

  • AFK: Easter Holiday

Tuesday 7th​

  • Updating packages
  • Trying to get GitHub CI building and running edit mode tests
    • Ran out of disk space?
    • Added a build step to free up as much space as possible on the runner (https://github.com/jlumbroso/free-disk-space)
    • Asset importer is crashing
      • Switched to Windows fixed it
    • Access issues with private packages again
  • Continued work on menu
    • Colour theme
    • Settings menu skeleton
  • Investigating how inviting people to play through Steamworks
    • [ImplementationDetails/Multiplayer/Steamworks]

Wednesday 8th​

  • Creating mod config file
  • Setting up mod settings menu skeleton
  • Designing lobby creation flow
    • Need to handle lobby creation failure to allow offline play!
  • Creating GlobalLobby wrapper, which abstracts lobby handling
  • Creating SteamworksAsync, handling the complexity of calling Steamworks methods as a simple async call.
  • Implemented OfflineLobby and SteamworksLobby

Thursday 9th​

  • Steam is problematic for testing - cannot run 2 instances of the game locally.
    • Build a simple lobby service I can run locally, acts as a different backend to the lobby in game
    • Build simple websocket server with similar semantics to Steamworks
      • Using ASP.NET
      • Build client side connection
        • Connect
        • Create lobby
        • Set data
        • Leave lobby
        • Events on data change
    • Json serialization is difficult
      • System.Text.Json can be used with Unity but it pulls in a lot of deps
      • Newtonsoft can be used, but requires a specific version which is a Unity package. Depending on it might conflict
      • (Roll on CoreCLR upgrade, fixing this)
      • Write my own very basic JSON read/writer?
      • Use HandySerialization (already in use for game networking)

Friday 10th​

  • Work on lobby server
    • Serialization
    • More packet types
    • Event handling (informing clients when things change)
    • Publishing protocol package to nuget, common to client and server
  • Splitting up experimental client side code into separate "providers":
    • Unsteam (my testing server)
    • Steam (duh)
    • Offline (fake provider, for when Steam is down)

Sunday 12th​

  • Building a CLI application to interact with test lobby server, handy for testing

Monday 13th​

  • Continuing lobby CLI test app
    • Implementing chat
    • Storing state in client
    • Unit testing
  • Implementing some of the Steam lobby system in main game
  • Implementing "offline" lobby system (always fails to create a lobby)
  • Fixing issues with async Steam call cancellation

Tuesday 14th​

  • Installing uLayout (https://github.com/pokeblokdude/uLayout.git)
    • Having some weird issues with sizing - stale cache?
  • Building mod config panel
    • Scroll views are pain
  • Back to working on lobbies
    • Using https://github.com/endel/NativeWebSocket in Unity
    • Cannot connect It helps if the server is running
    • Hooking up event handlers for creation/join
    • Connect is hanging forever?
      • Seems like the returned task contains an infinite loop (the message pump) and should not be awaited?

Wednesday 15th​

  • Fixing connection hang
  • Implementing other message types for lobby server
    • LobbyCreated
    • LobbyEnter
    • LobbyChatUpdate
    • LobbyDataUpdate
    • LobbyChatMessage
  • Setting up lobby screens in menu
  • Creating a loading spinner modal overlay

Thursday 16th​

  • AFK most of the day
  • Setting up campaign lobby canvas
  • Adding planets to main menu background
    • Configuring camera shots for each planet
  • Menu state management
    • Loading
    • Creating lobby
    • Show lobby
    • Handle failure
      • Add a popup

Friday 17th​

  • Setting up campaign/scenario menu skeleton
    • Title
    • Leave/Ready buttons
    • Main content panel
    • State manager
  • Fixing loading spinner
  • Leaving lobby
    • Steam
      • Add callbacks/events for leaving
    • Unsteam
    • Offline

Monday 20th​

  • Background camera controller for main menu
  • Tweaking postprocessing profile
  • Setting up campaign/scenario menus (lobby browser)
  • Scenario lobby list UI
  • Fetching lobby data
    • Common framework for it
    • Steam
    • Unsteam
      • Server
      • Client
    • Offline
    • Show lobby data in UI

Tuesday 21st​

  • Setting up metadata keys for lobbies
    • Every lobby has a name
  • Lobby list UI
    • Error overlay
    • Loading spinner
    • "No Games" state
    • Prefab per lobby
      • Name
      • Map/Scenario
      • Ping
      • Other flags?
        • Ranked
        • Password
        • Player Count
  • Lobby ping estimation
    • Unsteam
    • Steam

Wednesday 22nd​

  • Auto changing theme colour when planet switches
  • Implementing ping estimation for lobbies
    • Steam
    • Unsteam
  • Lobby list item
    • Match name
    • mode
    • map
    • player count
    • ping
    • Other labels?
  • Add player count to lobby metadata object

Thursday 23rd​

  • Tweaking lobby list item
    • Player count text formatting
    • Error handling
    • Click handler (join on click)
    • Joining modal
      • Password popup
        • Style
        • Submit button
        • Cancel button
        • Submit on enter
        • Join task
          • Switch to event based?
    • Password/Lock icon
  • Fiddling with Jupiter texture quality
    • Compressed 16k source texture enough to use (100MB file size limit)
    • Increased VRAM usage from 128MB to 512MB!
    • Barely noticeable quality difference in scene
    • Reverted to 8k

Friday 24th​

  • Setting up lobby join event handler
  • Updating Unsteam lobby server to handle creation/metadata better
    • HTTP endpoint for create (instead of websocket message)
    • Initial metadata in creation request
    • Return initial metadata in creation response
    • Join endpoint
  • Requiring that lobbies are tagged with certain metadata
  • Collection serialisation for HandySerialization library

Monday 27th​

  • Updating Myriad.ECS version in integration package
  • Updating packages in main project
  • Updating packages in Unsteam server
  • Begun setting up lobby player list
    • Adding way to get player list from lobby
    • Properly sync lobby member data in Unsteam
      • Server
      • Client

Tuesday 28th​

  • Fixing issue with Unsteam lobby membership tracking
  • Retrieving name/avatar from Steamworks
  • Setting up lobby player plate UI
    • Raw ID
    • Name
    • Avatar
    • Rank?
    • Selected fleet?
  • Setting up Steamworks stats tracking
  • Calculating a user rank based on total games played as well as overall win rate

Wednesday 29th​

  • Designing rank calculation algorithm
  • Player panel:
    • Ready indicator
    • Rank badge icon
    • Avatar
  • Designing team panel
    • Title bar
      • Name
      • Player/Slot count
      • Join button
      • Add AI button
      • Total fleet point value (mass/cost)

Thursday 30th​

  • Laying out team panel header
  • Adding ID to Campaign/Scenario objects
  • Spawning team panels from scenario spec file
  • Adding budget (mass and money) to scenarios
  • Showing budget on team panel
  • Creating dropdown selector prefab