SCP:FS Devlog #18

Overview

Hello SCP-lovers!
So- we took a break and then we went to an event immediately when we got back. This devlog might be the shortest. Ever. But next week will probably be a little bigger.

(Ultra) TL;DR: Save-system and code refactoring.

What progress has been made on the SCP Game?

UI Menu System – Max

Overview
To make it simpler calculating whether or not build-mode is active, build-mode will be active when the build-UI is visible and inactive whenever it is not – very much a ‘duh’ solution. Previously, the menu-system handled opening and closing menus in a poor way – force closing all menus when opening a new menu. Therefore, with this system, changing tabs in the build-UI caused the menu to flicker between on and off which in turn would make build-mode turn on and off. To fix this I decided to simply rework the menu-system.

Build System – Isak

Overview
I started digging into some code behind the build system so the player can save- & load their facility. I added a few new features and methods that refresh the data and got everything working. I’m still encountering a bug where you can’t load twice but other then that- it works!

Smaller saving
For the build system I converted the savefile into a “smaller” format due to the sheer amount of structures that need to be saved. For context: a single structure needs to store its ID, position & rotation. So instead of the save files looking like this:

But instead it looks like this:

To break it down – the values in a new structure are as follows: “0 (ID)| -23.5 (x position) | 0 (y position) | -12.5 (z position) | 0 (rotation)“. This will make the save files significantly smaller.