Changelog.md

Changelog

v1.42

• Fixed bug where server could send packets from players without a defined protocol
• Players connecting with protocols < 4 now defaults to protocol 4
• Some tweaks to entity typing system
• Fixed memory management issues with shared pointers
• Some optimizations with entity and player updating
• Players are no longer updated once disconnected
• Playercells no longer autosplit while force merging
• Settings are now loaded from JSON file #11
• Added leaderboard with game_leaderboardLength config
• Added player_skinNameTags config and removed player_cellRemoveTime config
• Refactored & reduced some of map's methods
• Added methods to Buffer class to read/write UTF8 & Unicode strings without the wstring type
• Added kick command
• Implemented playerbots with MultiOgar AI (for now..)
• Fixed minions having incorrect skin names
• Fixed crash with setname command
• Fixed bug where ejected cells spawned by the replace command were intangible
• Added current game tick and average player score to debug command
• Added clampX & clampY methods to Vec2 class for spectator viewbox
• Added apt update to install_uws.sh
• Added contains method to QuadTree (mostly for debugging purposes)
• Moving entities are now updated in reverse order to reduce cell switching
• Added startup graphics
• Fixed seemingly random crash caused by clearing a buffer that does not exist
• setmass command now sets absolute mass of the player instead of the mass of each cell
• Minions no longer respawn unless their owner is in-game
• Small refactoring to logger
• Added logName, logFolder, logBackupFolder configs
• Added cmake support
• Added pstring command to print debug information about a player
• Added server playerbots config
• Added server minionsperplayer config
• Combined install_uws.bat into compile.bat and made it actually work
• Combined install_uws.sh into compile.sh and made it actually work
• Other optimizations and performance improvements

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v1.07

• Added server_host configuration
• Implemented minions with Q controls
• Replaced doubles with floats where they were more appropriate
• Switched to using flags for entity states rather than multiple booleans
• Reorganized some methods for Entity class
• Added vanilla feature where orphaned playercells snap back to their last coordinate when pushed away
• Fixed bug where food and viruses spawn after one was eaten until the max amount was reached
• Fixed bug where players could sometimes auto split over the max cell amount
• Significantly improved virus explosions
• Fixed crash that would happen when orphaned playercells were split
• Added vanilla feature where playercells under 625 mass cannot grow from playercells at 18 mass or below
• Fixed some memory management issues with entities
• Added vanilla feature where viruses splitting from stationary ejected mass will shoot to the right
• Small refactoring of Game class and added updateTime for monitoring server performance
• Fixed seemingly random crashes from updating playercells
• Cleaned up Map class
• Fixed food being able to spawn near ejected mass
• Removed "An unnamed cell" as the default name for players
• Fixed ghosting caused by updating visible nodes incorrectly
• Added vanilla feature where orphaned playercells remain on the map for all eternity
• Fixed excess newlines in console output on linux
• Fixed crash on server shutdown due to players being deleted before entities
• Refactored and reorganized Commands class
• Added aliases for some commands
• Changed command format from command(args...) to command <args>... and removed case sensitivity
• Added ability to execute player commands on groups of players using -p, -b, and -m flags
• Reformatted help command
• Added pause, minion, setname, setskin, spawnmass, explode, speed, color, split, and replace commands
• Added install_uws.sh to aid in importing the uWebSockets library for linux
• Fixed compiling on Windows #10
• Spelling & grammar corrections
• Other optimizations and performance improvements

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v0.75

• Rewrote and reorganized how packets are handled and interpreted
• Fixed bug where uWS server would never start if it wasn't fast enough
• Rename Vector2 module to Vec2
• Removed 'get' portion of 'getter' function names (I like it better this way)
• Reformatted and reorganized Entity and Player classes
• Implemented merging for playercells along with baseRemergeTime configuration
• Implemented auto-splitting
• Implemented (experimental) virus explosions along with minVirusSplitMass configuration
• Fixed bug where groups of viruses shot from the same virus would collide with each other
• Fixed bug where moving ejected cells would not collide with ones that have stopped moving
• Rewrote collision, move, and eat engines
• Added Entity::toString() method
• Fixed bug where eaten viruses would respawn regardless if the current amount was greater than the start amount
• Fixed bug where eaten playercells would not be removed from their owner's vector
• Implemented playercells freezing after their owner has disconnected, along with cellRemoveTime configuration
• Added the ability to linesplit
• Fixed bug where newly-split playercells would spawn at a random point on the map
• Implemented vanilla feature where newly ejected cells do not collide with their creator until it has stopped moving
• Added configurations to change logger severity and logger colors
• Added Game::startLogger() method for use with new configurations
• Small refactoring to Game constructor
• Added map::spawnUnsafe() method for use with spawning accelerating entities
• Added map::acceleratingEntities variable to store and update all accelerating entities at once
• Write methods in Buffer class now return references to themselves
• Mostly fixed bug where dangling pointers to removed entities were being passed through collision/move/eat engine
• Added kill(), clr(), pop(), and merge() commands
• Added ability for ejected cells to spawn at random velocities and speeds when spawned using the spawn() command
• Refactored how players are updated
• Implemented updating for each player state
• Added ability to spawn from ejected mass, along with chanceToSpawnFromEjected configuration
• Added ability to freeroam, along with maxFreeroamScale and maxFreeroamSpeed configurations
• Added ability to spectate the largest player
• Improved playercell splitting and added collisionIgnoreTime configuration
• Fixed bug where some players would not be removed from list of clients after disconnecting
• Added dot() and round() methods to Vec2 (previously Vector2) class
• Fixed compiling on linux, now using g++-7 for c++17 features
• Other optimizations and performance improvements

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v0.38

• Added support for linux (please note that running this on Linux is still buggy)
• Fixed invalid UpdateNodes packet being sent and added writeStrNull() method to Buffer class, thanks to @B0RYS :)
• Reorganized where files are placed
• Added variadic arguments to logging methods
• Refactored entity class
• Added entity acceleration and deceleration
• Added (experimental) playercell and virus splitting
• Added (experimental) ability to eject mass
• Added (experimental) method for collision resolution between cells
• Added border check for Entitity::setPosition()
• Fixed playercells moving too fast
• Now using pre-loaded configs rather than loading from json
• Switched to using shared_ptr for entities
• Added a few extra settings
• Refactored namespace map
• Minor tweaks to visible node updating
• Reformatted and tweaked playerlist() and spawn() commands
• Moved and renamed Position class from Utils.cpp/hpp to Vector2 in Vector2.cpp/hpp
• Added compile.sh and compile.bat files to aid in compiling this project
• Added Changelog.md

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v0.18

• Rename size to radius
• Added and renamed some configs
• Fixed player viewbox center
• Removed and changed some methods from utilities
• Refactored Commands class to improved how commands are parsed
• Refactored Entity class
• Added flags for each entity type along with canEat, and avoidSpawningOn variables for efficient consumption and safe spawning
• Refactored map to comply with new entity flags