ESM::Cell's getDescription() method was modified by aa5161f99e despite being used heavily by TES3MP. All instances of it in the TES3MP code have now been changed into the newly added getShortDescription() that is identical to the previous getDescription().
Restocking object containers via trading now requires the server to send back an ObjectRestock packet before it can happen.
The unused packet ID ID_SCRIPT_GLOBAL_FLOAT has been replaced with ID_OBJECT_RESTOCK.
ClientScriptGlobal is a new Worldstate packet that handles short, long and float values for global variables in clientside scripts.
Previously, short values were handled by the ScriptGlobalShort packet, while a partially implemented ScriptGlobalFloat packet also existed, but both of those packets were Object packets because they were added near the end of 2016 when only Player and Object packets existed (with the latter actually being called WorldEvent packets at the time). Both ScriptGlobalShort and ScriptGlobalFloat have now been removed.
The serverside script functions previously used to interact with ScriptGlobalShort have, however, been kept so they can be adjusted to work with local variables in clientside scripts instead in a future commit.
Rename the old WorldKillCount that was a Player packet into PlayerPlaceholder. Rename the unused CellCreate that was a Worldstate packet into WorldKillCount. On the server, move kill count-related script functions from QuestFunctions to WorldstateFunctions.
This should be handled in server scripts instead so that servers with respawning NPCs can be have kills shared across parties and witnesses instead of shared across all players on the server.
Dead players will now show up at the correct cell and position for living players, making server scripts that allow players to revive each other much more functional.
This makes it possible to send custom records used by players for their equipment before the hardcoded exchange of equipment packets takes place.
Additionally, remove the check for dead players because it has no real use and can potentially cause problems.
Players can no longer unilaterally use items on themselves in their inventory. When they try to use an item, they send a PlayerItemUse packet to the server with the item's details. A serverside script can then check the item and either send the packet back to make the item use go through or drop it.
Although weather sync was added by Koncord to the rewrite in fd721143e2 in a way that used surprisingly few lines of code, it relied on the server requesting weather states every second from authority players and sending them to non-authority players, while also allowing only very sudden weather transitions across regions, i.e. if there was one player in the Ascadian Isles who had stormy weather, and another player with clear weather in the Bitter Coast Region walked across to the Ascadian Isles, that player was instantly made to have stormy weather with no kind of transition at all.
My approach solves both of those problems. It solves the packet spam by only sending weather updates to the server when weather changes happen or when there are new arrivals to a weather authority's region, and it allows for both sudden weather transitions when players teleport to a region and for soft, gradual transitions when players walk across to a region. It is inspired by my previous actor sync, and uses a WorldRegionAuthority packet to set players as region authorities in a similar way to how ActorAuthority sets players as cell AI authorities. Weather changes are created only by the region authority for a given region, and weather packets are also only sent by that authority.
However, it should be noted that gradual weather transitions are used by default in this implementation. To use sudden weather transitions, the serverside Lua scripts need to forward WorldWeather packets with the forceWeather boolean set to true. That is, however, already handled by our default Lua scripts in situations where it makes sense.
This should clarify the real meaning of the packet and its associated event.
The event itself has been renamed from OnPlayerKillCount to OnWorldKillCount.
Add serverside script functions for determining the killers of both players and actors.
Use unsigned ints for script functions returning an object or actor's refNumIndex or mpNum.
Remove updateDeadState() from LocalPlayer and make its code part of updateStatsDynamic() for simplicity.
ActorDeath packets are sent for dead actors before their StatsDynamic packets. They contain the actor's deathReason in a manner similar to that of PlayerDeath packets.
A future commit will replace the deathReason with a variable named killer which will be an mwmp::Target.
Previously, two players entering the same cell only sent and received their latest changes for dynamic stats, attributes, skills and equipment when they started sharing that cell.
Previously, charGenStage.end was doing double duty as both the variable indicating the number of CharGen stages and – when set to 0 – the variable indicating that CharGen was over. The latter role is now filled by a new boolean.
(cherry picked from commit 926106cf8c)
David Cernat
Koncord