Story: Prototype username displays in-game

[6fears7]

Steam allows up to 32 characters, which can be a lot on screen.

One example, perhaps could be toggleable:

Perhaps if someone hits tab, we could show this:

[6fears7]

Working on adding a hook into the OptionsMenu. May need to do IL

[6fears7]

Instead of hooking IL original menu, just created the Remix options menu for Rain Meadow to add a bind key.

Next steps:

1. Determine what layer the username display needs to occur in

2. Grab every player's current position

3. Create some kind of object that can act as a container for the username text

4. If specific key is pressed, draw the usernames on screen above all player heads only for the player who asked. No network syncing.

5. Update the drawn username over each player as they are moving.

6. The username color should be the same as that player's body color.

7. Delete the username text if key is pressed again.

[6fears7]

After hating myself for a bit, I see two paths forward:

1. Make a custom HUD component, hook into main HUD to add it in

2. Hook Jolly's HUD arrow and do some dirty work

TBD

[6fears7]

Definitely not going to hook anything with Jolly. There's too many side effects (like camera hijacking), so I'll just hook the InitSinglePlayerHud setup with a new HUD part to add that uses the code from Jolly without the same exact logic

[6fears7]

On holding food button currently, brings up the playerIcon and username display

TODO:

• Network the player location
• handle players joining / leaving
• Handle the index out of range error for P2 when iterating over the list of participants to add the HUD to

[6fears7]

Nearly to something workable. A few oddities:

• Player 1 needs an update when someone joins
• Player 2 will only see Player 1 when Player 1 has clicked the food button, not when P2 clicks the food button.

The expectation is that Player 2 clicks food button (or whatever button I choose) and then views all players, but DOES NOT draw that data on-screen to the other players.

[6fears7]

Ok, found the section that lets me update when other players join. My most recent commit now adds the username to the second player.

• Player 1 joins, gets an arrow
• Player 2 joins, gets arrows for both itself and Player 1
• Player 1 then hands its arrow over to Player 2
• Player 2 sees its correct name and Player 1 correct name

At this point, I'm convinced that OnlineManager.players.isMe is being shunted to the front of the list which is causing some of the issues.

[6fears7]

Boom, baby.

TODO:

• names are messed up
• if I have names toggled to view for p1, when player 2 comes in it may do inverse toggling