AFK Auto-Pause 1.2

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Edited April 26, 2016 by Neskau

Hey, I think this is a great start!

One issue I noticed is that OnClick() currently appears to be triggered (unpausing the game) in response to any mouse movement, not just clicks.  It should probably only be triggered by actual clicks. (Fixed)

Edited May 2, 2016 by Elestan

10 hours ago, Elestan said:

Hey, I think this is a great start!

One issue I noticed is that OnClick() currently appears to be triggered (unpausing the game) in response to any mouse movement, not just clicks.  It should probably only be triggered by actual clicks.

This must be an issue with the line I added last-minute. I removed it for now.

On 4/27/2016 at 0:20 PM, Mobbstar said:

This must be an issue with the line I added last-minute. I removed it for now.

Yep, that fixed the mouse movement.  Cool!  I've done some further testing, and found some more issues:

1. Most keyboard shortcuts do not work while paused.  I think Q/E (Rotate) should work but not unpause, and the walk keys should unpause. (fixed in 1.2)
2. TAB-ing to the world map and back currently unpauses; I don't think it should.
3. Mouse wheel zoom does not work while paused. (fixed in 1.2)
4. If you use CapsLock to pull out the crafting tool bar, the game will not pause until you close it.
5. Currently, the pause can occur while Wilson is in the middle of doing something (anything other than walking).  For example, with a low enough timeout (I added 1 second to the options), I can click on a distant sapling, and Wilson walks to it, and then as soon as he stops walking, the game pauses before he can pick it.  Is there a way to ask the API what Wilson's current activity is?  I think that it should wait until Wilson is idle before starting the pause countdown. (fixed in 1.2)

Edited May 3, 2016 by Elestan

Glad to see the update!

I've tested the new version, and it's working much better.  There are still the world map and crafting bar issues, but as you mentioned to me, those may be hard to do anything about.

I did find a couple more minor issues that are more in the nature of polish; the mod is functional without them, but they would make it look better:

1. While the game is paused (Freeze time), the item highlight and tooltip (e.g. "Examine Rock") are also frozen.  It would be better if those UI features could work normally while time was frozen.
2. Sprites with multiple "sides" have their images locked while time is frozen, so they do not update properly when the view is rotated.  To demonstrate this, let time freeze with an animal such as a bird, snake, or beefalo on screen, facing left or right (let's use left for this example).  Now rotate the view 180 degrees so that you are looking from the opposite side of Wilson.  The animals will still be facing to the left, even though they should now be facing to the right.  If you now un-freeze time, they will all suddenly turn around.  Ideally, rotatable graphics would be properly rotated even while time is frozen.
3. I think that changing a worn item (body/hand/head) should trigger an unpause, because that is actually a meaningful change.  Also, changing those slots while paused causes weird things like torches that are equipped but not lit.

I also had a thought about the way the mod is implemented.  Currently, the mod looks at the locomotor, and looks for bufferedactions.  In SGWilson.lua, it looks like there is an "idle" state that is active when Wilson is not doing anything.  I was wondering if it would work to just check the state machine with:

inst.sg:HasStateTag("idle")

...and/or maybe hook into the onenter and onexit (and probably ontimeout) for Wilson's idle state?  You might not even need to keep your own timer; you could just look at the idle state's timeinstate value.

Edited May 3, 2016 by Elestan