Build 977 - Admin Aid, Scoreboard Improvements, Script Docs and More

This patch brings a few nice admin tools, the rough start of a HTML modding documentation and some minor fixes and gameplay tweaks.

• Quick-Banning
  Sick of fishing through menus for that greifer with the name just like one of your friends? For a one-day ban that you can extend later manually, press f3 while hovering your mouse over the greifer, and then hold B and press f3 again to ban them for a day. That’s F3 to freeze players, B-F3 to ban frozen players.
• Seclevs available from scripts
  This is largely a bonus for modders who can now check the specifics of a players security clearance, but also means makes things like votekicking admins no longer possible.
• Seclev related bugs fixedA few missing convenience features should be available to anyone with a red name on the server.
• Class Icons in TAB Menu
  A long-missed classic feature, you can now see the class of a player and the class make-up of a team from the TAB/Score menu. Especially useful for complaining about the exact number of useless builders you have on your team.
• Fixed “black hole” keys
  All keys should now be able to be successfully rebound, no longer blocked by unused keys. The unused keys are now visible because they are available for modders to use.
• Doors don’t collapse after they have become stableShould help you keep out pesky knights and help in building more “creative” structures. This applies to both doors.
• New Spectator Camera
  Coded by community member Verrazano, the new spectator camera can follow units by clicking on them, scrolls with the keys and does little else, should be a little less confusing to use. Also has help text for those still playing with help popups.
• HTML Documentation
  Available from the Docs folder in your KAG install, the documentation effort is underway, with a large portion of CBlob, some of CMap and a lot of global functionality exposed. We’ll be addressing issues with these soon, adding more documentation and fleshing it out, but we’re keen to have feedback on what’s there already - what you guys would like to see more of, any issues you have with what’s going on, and so on.
• Misc Fixes
  Check the full changelog if you’re curious

There should be another update by Christmas to get some more API functionality in, and perhaps deliver a little bit of holiday cheer to the game :^)

Have fun,

Max/Geti

Full Changelog

[fixed] can't rebind some keys ("black hole" keys on keyboard,
particularly R, sorry Ej)
[added] clear which keys aren't used any more
[added] class icons to scoreboard
[script][added] CBlob::SetScoreboardVars(texture, frame, framesize)
and CBlob::UnsetScoreboardVars()
[added] scripts documentation start (see KAG/Docs/index.html)
[modified] doors won't collapse after becoming "stable"
[added] added name/username sections to scoreboard
[fixed] some console messages with () when same username as character name
[script][fixed] CPlayer::isMod() not taking into account red rcon admins
[script][added] seclev functions (check Manual/interface/Objects.txt for list)
[fixed] server browser game mode list having unaccesible items
[fixed] server browser game modes list having empty items
[added] seclev aware votekick
[added] Quick-Ban feature - hold B and tap F3 over a frozen player to
quickly ban them for 24 hours. This is most useful in combination
with quick-freeze (f3).
[added] new spectator camera (thanks Verra!)
[fixed] guard head not showing

Original DevBlog post.

 

B + F2 should ban all unfrozen people.

 

Coolies :)

But ive found that when an archer walks on his own arrows up a wall they just vanish!?
Shouldn't there be alittle bit of wood flickering off? I know its not really a bug but it does annoy me :P

 

I'm glad to see these changes. I'm sure that will help all admins! Also, I hope that the next update will improve other bugs, because not everything works as it should.

 

Cool beans. Class icons are something I really missed for classic. Only thing I wish was also added back was the taunts

Santa News-Bot. Bringing X-Mas patches for all the good little girls and boys!

 

• i love you

it makes possible to create custom seclev features like can_spawn_bomber, go_wizard, etc

 

Would be nice to have some sort of shortcut to start a kick vote on the selected player.

Anyways, good to see the class icons reappear.

 

All very good! Spectator mode is useful again! And you added what appears to be the healthy middle-ground for doors!
Also allowing admins to be able to do their job easier is another thing I am glad about.

+1

 

I don't actually like the B+F3 hotkey. Very awkward to push. F4 to ban a frozen person on mouse hover would be much more intuitive, IMO. That or maybe CTRL+F3. Still though, better than nothing!

The door fix was an interesting method. I like it.

Class icons yessss!

 

How small are your hands?

 

He's probably around 12, so they're as small as pre-pubertian hands can be.

 

What I would really like to see would be using F3+(letter) for different commands. It would change freeze from being solely a punishment and instead a selection for said commands such as a team swap, class restriction, or VIP/Admin granting.

 

Why does that matter? Also, using any form of combination hotkey that isn't within three keys of each other is generally fairly unintuitive, and can be exponentially more unintuitive the further the keys are apart from each other. In addition, modifier keys like CTRL or ALT +F# keys are the preferred method for this form of thing, because everyone does it. And if everyone does it, that automatically makes it more intuitive.

I've learned that explaining things like this gets you the mark of "lol he was trolled" on this forum. Whatever.

 

It's really late over here so I'm just gonna continue to be off topic and post this, I guess this does make me a troll if that's what you were sayingohwellgoodnight.