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    Alpha 2 Lua changes and novelties

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    Hi guys, 

     

    Following up the release of the third Alpha 2 DevBlog about Lua, we wanted to develop things further for the most curious, dedicated and skilled among you. The API has changed so you guys will have to redo a certain amount of stuff. This being said, you'll find below some documentation that will allow you to do pretty neat stuff so knock yourselves out!

     

    Thanks to NQ-Arlequin for his help and for writing this! 

     

    How does it work

     

    All ControlUnits (Cockpits, HovercraftSeats and ProgramingBoards) can display information on the screen when activated by the current player. CockpitUnits and PilotingSeats have predefined behavior that should suit most players. However advanced players can edit the ControlUnit LUA script to adapt the display to their needs.

    There are different levels of customization possible:

     

     

    • Intermediate Difficulty: Show/hide the default widget of an element linked to the Control Unit.
    • Advanced Difficulty: Mixing those widgets in custom panels. (New in Alpha 2)
    • Expert Difficulty: Create custom widgets from your own data or existing elements data. (New in Alpha 2)
    • Expert Difficulty: Create your own HTML code to display custom content on your screen. (Modified in Alpha 2)

     

     

    Default behavior

     

    Cockpit view

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    Hovercraft Seat

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    Programing Board

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    Hovercraft Seat and Programming Board widgets do stack:

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    Adding/removing element widgets in Lua

     

    API: 

    slot.show()
slot.hide()

     

    Default Cockpit LUA Script

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    We can instead only show the Core Unit widget, and hide the Control Unit widget (shown by default): 

    core.show()
unit.hide()

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    NEW - Reorganizing Element widgets within panels in Lua

     

    API: 

    system.createWidgetPanel(title) → panelId
system.destroyWidgetPanel(panelId)
system.createWidget(panelId, type) → widgetId
system.destroyWidget(widgetId)
system.addDataToWidget(dataId, widgetId)
system.removeDataFromWidget(dataId, widgetId)
slot.getDataId() → dataId
slot.getWidgetType() → type

     

    Instead of having all the fuel container widgets in different panels, I can create my own panel and add all fuel widgets to this panel: 

    fuelPanel = system.createWidgetPanel("Fuel Tanks")
for i=1,container_size do
    widget = system.createWidget(fuelPanel, container[i].getWidgetType())
    system.addDataToWidget(container[i].getDataId(), widget)
end

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    NEW - Creating custom widgets in Lua

     

    API: 

    system.createData(json) → dataId
system.destroyData(dataId)
system.updateData(dataId, json)
slot.getData() → json

     

    You can finally write your own custom data, and display them using predefined custom widget types. 4 exist for now: text, title, value, and gauge. 

     panel = system.createWidgetPanel("Panel")
    -- Display “Hello World”
widgetText = system.createWidget(panel, "text")
dataText = system.createData('{"text": "Hello World"}')
system.addDataToWidget(dataText, widgetText)

-- Display a title “Title”
widgetTitle = system.createWidget(panel, "title")
dataTitle = system.createData('{"text": "Title"}')
system.addDataToWidget(dataTitle, widgetTitle)
-- Display a gauge filled at 60%

widgetGauge = system.createWidget(panel, "gauge")
dataGauge = system.createData('{"percentage": 60}')
system.addDataToWidget(dataGauge, widgetGauge)
-- Display “Weight  80 kg”
widgetValue = system.createWidget(panel, "value")
dataValue = system.createData('{"label": "Weight", "value": "80", "unit": "kg"}')
system.addDataToWidget(dataValue, widgetValue)

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    You can now combine all those methods to create your own customized panels.

     

     

    CHANGED- Customize screen using html code.

     

    API: 

    system.setScreen(htmlContent)
system.showScreen(1/0)

    You can write your own html code to change the appearance of the control unit screen. It will be displayed below the widgets, so if you want full control: you can hide all widgets.

      

    html = '<div class="monitor_left window">'
html = html .. '<div class="center window">monitor_left</div>'
html = html .. '</div>'
html = html .. '<div class="monitor_right" style="background-color: red;">'
html = html .. '<div class="center window">monitor_right</div>'
html = html .. '</div>'
system.setScreen(html)
system.showScreen(1)

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    Predefined style classes
     

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    class=”monitor_left”         defines the area of the left monitor.
    class=”monitor_right”        defines the area of the right monitor.

     

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    class=”grid”         stacks all its child elements on an invisible wrapping vertical grid.
    class=”center”        positions an element centered to its parent. Can be the viewport.

     

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    class=”window”        applies the Dual Universe background and border.

     

    Well, that's it for this time! We hope you'll enjoy the info here to surprise us ;)

     

    Cheers,

    Nomad

    Inside Novaquark, a Dual Universe Podcast

    in General Discussions

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    Hi guys, 

     

    The idea of making a podcast has been circling in our heads for some time. We wanted to reach out to our community in a new and captivating way, and today you can discover the end result.

     

    We're very excited to bring you some behind the scenes material and invite you to join us while we discuss what's new in DU. If the community's response is positive, we may make a series out of it.

     

    You can listen to this first episode below on YouTube:

     

     

    It's also available on SoundCloud:

     

     

    Happy listening! We'd love to hear your feedback!

     

    Cheers,

    Nomad

    Tech Achievement: 30,000 Concurrent Simulated-Players Milestone Reached!

    in General Discussions

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    Hi guys, 

     

    On March, 6th, we organized a special stress-test with thousands of simulated players. Our objective was to showcase our unique server technology and test it under live conditions! Dozens of human Alpha players were invited and participated as well, as witnesses of the event. You can discover the details on the news here. 

     

    Don't hesitate to comment below!

     

    Cheers,

    The Novaquark Team

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