- Added new Project. Mud Designer project will include the GUI elements needed for graphically building a MUD. Due to Environment creation being finalized, work on a GUI based Environment creation can start.
Mud Engine:
- Objects no longer require a path to be supplied when calling Object.Save()
- EditRealm command now edits senses.
- EditRoom now fully supports creating doorways, however editing existing doorways and linking to existing rooms is not implemented. This command only supports creating new doorways for non-existing Rooms (Rooms are generated as needed)
- EditZone Now fully supports senses and implemented.
- Game now supports loading of .ini files when calling Game.Load()
- All objects now include a SavePath properties. Override this to supply a path for where the object needs to be saved. All Environment and BaseCharacter objects override the BaseObject.SavePath to save into ActiveGame.DataPaths.Environemnts and Players respectively.
- ObjectCollection now instanced during ScriptEngine initialization to prevent exceptions during runtime.
- Create command no longer converts all names to lower case.
- Updated the Walk command to execute the Look command in a safe manor without injecting a command into the player Telnet console.
- Realm, Room and Zone editing no longer closes the menu once a task is finished. Use the Exit menu option to close the editing menu
- Revised how the Game checks for existing InitialLocations. If a InitialLocation does not exist, but is created during server runtime, new players will automatically be placed there without the need to restart the server.
- Improved the List command.
- Improvements to the EditRealm command. Bug fixes and tweaks
- EditRealm command now updates All Zones and Rooms within other Realms when its Realm.name is changed instead of only child Zones/Rooms.
- Realms, Zones and Rooms will now append a file extension if no file extension is supplied during GetRealm(), GetZone() and GetRoom() method invokes.
- Realm.InitialZone is no longer read-only
- Zone.InitialRoom is no longer read-only.
- Added EditZone command. Allows for editing pre-existing Zones. Zones can be created via the Create command.
- Added EditRoom command. Allows for editing pre-existing Rooms. Rooms can be created via the Create command.
MudGame:
- Re-organized the Scripts directory. All Admin commands are now placed within a 'AdminCommands' folder while the player based commands are in a 'PlayerCommands' folder. All remaining scripts reside within the Scripts root folder.
- FileManager.GetData() method now checks to ensure that the supplied filename exists prior to attempting to reading data.
- Adjusted Game.AutoSaveInterval to 60 minutes instead of 1 minute.
- Placed all of the File reading code within Game.Load() into a Try/Catch to prevent exceptions if there was an error restoring the game from saved state.
- GameWorld.Load() now places saved Realms that were created at runtime into the Games Realm Collection. This allows for hard-coded and dynamically created Realms to co-exist.
- BaseObject.Filename now appends a file extension to the filename if a filename is set but the user forgets to add the file extension. This affects all classes inheriting from BaseObject
- BaseCharacter updated to invoke commands by instancing a copy of the command and executing it, instead of injecting commands from the player.
- Added EditRealm command. Allows for editing existing Realms properties. Currently has editing of Simple Descriptions, Detailed Descriptions, name and filename fully implemented.
Example: EditRealm MyRealmName
MudGame:
- Removed Cali.Create() call. The MudGame no longer creates a hard-coded world. I want to get away from hard-coded environments all together. They should be built dynamically by admins.
- Fixed FileManager.GetDataSpan Index out of bounds exception.
- Game.Save no long invokes the BaseCharacter.ExecuteCommand("Save"); rather it now just directly invokes BaseCharacter.Save(). This fixes the client typing bug where a new command line was printed to the screen everytime the game world saved.
- GameWorld now supports storing and saving dynamically created Realms.
- Renamed BaseCharacter.GetRoomByFilename() to just GetRoom() as all Get() named Methods require a filename.
- Optimized the loading and saving of Realms, Zones and Rooms some.
- Room now Loads and Saves the RoomLocation property instead of the Room's Zone and Realm properties individually.
- GameWorld.GetRealm(), Realm.GetZone() and Zone.GetRoom() now perform case-insensitive checking when scanning for content.
MudGame:
- Re-wrote the 'Create' command script from the ground up. 50% less code and much better approach to creating content. Now to create content you will use the same formatting as the Room.RoomLocation property.
Example: Creating a Realm is done with 'Create MyRealm'
Example: Creating a Zone is done with 'Create MyRealm>MyZone'
Example: Creating a Room is done with 'Create MyRealm>MyZone>MyRoom'
If the Realm or Zone does not exist when creating a Room or Zone, then the parent will be created automatically for you.
- Fixed a bug in the WorldCalifornia script were it was saving the Hallway Room with a Zone file extension, preventing it from working correctly during restoration.
- Added FileManager.GetDataSpan() method. This allows developers to start at a line and collect the next 'x' number of lines after that starting line.
Example: GetDataSpan("MyFile.txt", 5, "DoorwayArrivalRoom", true);
This seeks MyFile.txt until it finds "DoorwayArrivalRoom" and then it stores that line and the next 4 lines for a total of 5 lines and returns the collection.
The last argument 'true' means that the method will scan the rest of the file after the initial 5 lines and add any other lines that match the "DoorwayArrivalRoom" string as well.
- Deleted CommandResults class as it's no longer used by the script engine.
- Singleplayer and Multiplayer save data paths are now the same paths by default.
- Game.Update() method now checks for auto-saving (instead of MudGame performing this check)
- Saving and restoring of Realms, Zones, Rooms and Doorways now fully implemented.
- GameTime now supports auto-saving
- GameWorld.Update() now calls BaseCharacter.Update() and is ready for future update code.
- GameWorld.AddObject and GameWorld.RemoveObject() have been removed.
- GameWorld.AddRealm() re-added for adding Realms pre-populated with zones/rooms. Note that Zones and Rooms can be added to a Realm even after it has been added to the GameWorld.RealmCollection
- BaseObject now contains a OnStart() event method.
- BaseObject.Save() now saves BaseObject.DetailedDescription collection content.
- Updated BaseCharacter to retrieve Environments by Filename rather than Object name.
- BaseStats.Experience property added.
- Door.RoomTravelType enum added for determining if the room is Arrival or Departure
- Door.SetRoom() method added for restoring a Rooms Doorway link during world restoration.
- Renamed Room.InstallPath to Room.RoomLocation. Contains a MyRealm.Realm>MyZone.Zone>MyRoom.Room path
- Added Room.RoomLocationWithoutExtension property for returning the Rooms location without file extensions. Ex: MyRealm>MyZone>MyRoom
- Room now saves Doorways.
- The GameWorld now restores the link between Rooms once all Environment objects have been instanced and restored from their saved state.
MudGame:
- Minor clean-up with MudGame loop and shutdown.
- Updated scripts to reflect changes made to the engine.
- GameWorld.AddRealm() method replaced with GameWorld.AddObject(). It accepts any Type passed to it. You can now supply a Zone to it (provided the Zone.Realm property is set first) and the method will add the Zone into the appropriate Realm for you.
- Began converting certain enumerated items to LINQ
MudGame:
- Updated scripts to reflect the GameWorld changes.
- Added FileManager.GetDataCollection() Method for getting a collection of values that match the supplied parameter. This is used by environments for restoring saved object collections
- World Restoration is now fully implemented.
- Removed un-needed Log messages
- Added a pushMessage parameter to Log.Write() allowing messages to be sent directly to the console instead of stacking them in a cache. All log messages now push the message by default.
- Converted all Types from C# types to .NET Types (such as bool changed to Boolean, and int changed to Int32).
- Zone no longer gets saved from within GameWorld.Save, but rather in Realm.Save()
- Room no longer gets saved from within GameWorld.Save(), but rather in Zone.Save();
- Added new SaveWorld command that admins only can execute to force save the world. It's not fully implemented at this time.
MudGame:
- began work on command execution from within the server while it's running.
- All Objects now dynamically create their Filenames after the BaseObject.Name has been set. You can re-specify a custom filename, but do so after setting BaseObject.Name's value.
- Added GameWorld.cs. This will manage the game world itself.
- Moved Realm Initialization from Game.Start() into GameWorld.Start()
- Moved Environment saving from Game.Save() to GameWorld.Save(). However, GameWorld.Save gets invoked from Game.Save()
- GameWorld is now responsible for adding Realms to the Game.
- Fixed ScriptEngine not using Both Scripts and Assemblies at the same time.
- Added BaseAI which inherits from baseCharacter. All AI objects will inherit from this object.
MudGame:
- Modified MyGame.cs script for demonstrating the new way to create environments with the implementation of GameWorld.
- Updated Program.cs to compile both Scripts and Assemblies at once.
