harpnetstudios / cardboard

An in-house engine for some of our games, like Carmine Impact!

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cardboard's Issues

Increase the amount of maps with open areas

Many of the current maps feel rather cramped with the current movement meta and speed.

Editor can be completely disabled with compiler flag

Needed for systems where direct filesystem access or proper editing flow is not viable or not allowed.

waterrefract bugs out when water is on map boundary

Understandable behavior, but should not happen, maybe add a special check for it.

Quick weapon switch attack doesn't register on other clients

Switching weapon after firing and firing again causes shot packet to be ignored. Potentially fixed in 3052f8d but it still requires testing.

Match Countdown at start of match

Don't start the match immediately after load, wait until all playing clients are loaded and start a countdown. 5 seconds?

New weapon models

Replace the current placeholder models with ones that will be used, or new placeholders.

Certain maps are missing bot waypoints

Some maps do not have corresponding .wpt files or are incomplete.

• cosmic
• duabo
• neo_falls
• precipice
• zigguraut

Add option for disabling texture filtering only for map textures

I hate blurry textures and would rather see pixelated ones, personally. I'd like to make it an option, however, as people have their own personal preferences.

Main menu background is a map

Add the ability to display a map instead of a static image as the main menu background

Allow name changes in offline mode

Restore the functionality of changing your name, but only in offline mode.

Add Soundtrack support for specific events

Gamemode specific binds

They have higher precedence than regular binds.

Command could be gamebind <mode> <key> <command> or something of that nature.

Allow servers to run in offline mode

For hosting LAN parties and whatnot, will not verify identity with account services.

Some skyboxes aren't rotated correctly

I think they might just need to be mirrored?

Async/Threaded cURL Requests

Will prevent hitching when communicating with the backend.

Attempt map download when missing map

Download maps from backend-specified location in fpsgame/client.cpp within changemapserv()

Make ragdoll update time scale with gamespeed

currently jittery if your gamespeed isn't the default

Change blood rendering code to correctly display all colors.

Right now, the closer the color is to white, the less it shows up, with white being completely transparent. This isn't ideal.

Update to GitHub Actions

Start using GitHub Actions for cross-platform CI instead of AppVeyor.

Mouse captured in menus

Ideally this behavior should be changed in some way that doesn't impact the ability to lock the mouse when needed in-game as well as the software mouse.

Add new character models

Health and Ammo drops

To make the game actually playable. Random chance of dropping either health or ammo (based on fraggers current stats?)

Overflow disconnect on Linux

More data is required about this particular bug, @xnicoleisaloser may have something to add.

Add support for FreeType

This is an issue due to 2 factors:

• The font we are using only provides a few accents plus Cyrillic script
• The bitmap font rendering system that is being used is incompatible with higher range Unicode, as well as bitmap fonts being an outdated technology.

The way I propose implementing this is to implement the SDL2_ttf extension. That way, a traditional .TTF font can be used by the game to render all text. This will all improve localization efforts, because with the current system, we would need an incredibly massive amount of bitmap font sheets to cover Asian languages.

Fix discord join functionality

Gameclip destroys projectiles in parkour-based mode

Allows mappers to prevent cheeses.

Per-character sound system

Rewrite README

It's in pretty bad shape right now. Improve build instructions, link to Steam page, etc.

Bots don't know how to double jump to follow waypoints

Bots kinda know how to double jump, but it's hacked together code, it needs to be improved so more maps can be played by bots.

Allow connecting to offline mode servers while offline

Currently, you are restricted from when trying to connect to a server if you are in offline mode. This should not be the case for offline mode servers, as they shouldn't rely on the account services.

`chainsawhudgun` set to zero does not work

disables idle sound, and makes a strange sound instead.

Incorrect rendering of texture edges

This border around the crosshair shouldn't be present, also exists around weapon icons.

Bots get stuck at hill spawns in precipice

There are several spawns and points in the map that aren't connected to the waypoints. This causes the bots to get stuck until they get respawned or pushed close enough to the waypoints.

Create documentation for network protocol

Would be good to have the network protocol documented so that changes and additions can be effectively communicated.

Secondary Fire

Spawn weighting regression

Spawn weighting no longer works as intended, seems to spawn players wherever it feels like.

Rewrite rendering code to be more platform agnostic

Likely will be a two step process, first we gotta rewrite the old fixed pipeline OpenGL code into modern OpenGL spec, and then probably rewrite from there to use bgfx.

This is a long-term project.

Scoreboard team name is offset incorrectly in team modes

The team name should be aligned with the name section. Couldn't figure out how to do it right now, will revisit later, not a high priority

Team-based spawns do not work

Team modes incorrectly spawn players at FFA spawns

Aim down sights

Client state desync on reconnect

Causes health bar to bug out on client side, and server does not acknowledge player position or health.

Rewrite documentation

Current documentation is outdated and ugly, as well as difficult to maintain. Transition to a cleaner solution, maybe something using Jekyll and Markdown, and update the docs to reflect all current changes.

Waypoint particles flicker when too many are rendered at once

Could be some max particle count rendering thing?

Make GitHub Actions only activate on code changes

Right now it activates CI every time a commit is pushed to master, should only be running CI if code changes.

Speedrunning utilities for race modes

Speedrun clock for parkour/race modes, among other features.

• Speedrun clock (starts when start ent is touched)
• Keep track of current checkpoint as static memory
• Add speedrunning options
• Add option to automatically respawn after death
• Minimize frame lag and input lag

Some references:
https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/7dt0rh/gamedev_looking_for_speedrunner_advice/
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/what_features_should_a_developer_put_in_their_game_for_speedrunners.html
https://kb.speeddemosarchive.com/Making_your_game_speedrunner-friendly

Check game authenticity before allowing connection to server

rn you can join a server with infinite health and fire rate in modded client, you should add checks for that

Comply with Cube 2 license.

If you insist on making a standalone game based on Cube 2, do realize that only the sourcecode is yours to use freely (if you abide by the ZLIB license, see below), while the media is not. You can't simply redistribute the entire package with your modified files, as the majority of game media is not yours to use freely (it is made by many authors with a variety of licences and copyright restrictions). Unless you have explicit permission from the authors, or the readme says explicitly "may be used for any purpose" or similar language, it will be illegal to include in your standalone game based on the engine (you may not assume that just because a file has no explicit license, that it is free of copyright). Therefore, if you wish to produce a standalone game, be prepared to make many of the maps, models, textures, sounds etc from scratch yourself.

Missing waypoints on retrograde

The lower part of the stone side on retrograde is missing waypoints in half the section.

Swinging Melee

Replace the current very overpowered melee with a swinging weapon (sword/bat/etc)

Melee shouldn't count towards damage wasted

Code is working as intended, but it seems strange to count melee as wasted damage, as it causes it to balloon to several million in damage if used often.