PlugBase

A plugin system and a set of standard plugins, so that writing a game consists only of writing the game, and the game is easy to make completely moddable.

Features

• A Python console to inspect and manipulate the game's state in real time, and which in time may evolve into an IDE.
• Configuration management

TODO: existing plugins

• console
  • Interpreter %magic
    • Harden %magic commands against wrong commands and similar erroneous input.
    • Improve docstrings.
  • Pull appearance vars from config_manager
  • Integrate pyperclip, checking for import exception.
  • Wait for LUI to catch up, so that these can be implemented
    • Unset focus on input when console hides
    • Implement editing keystrokes (copy, paste, ...)
    • history
      • Track the bottom
      • Should be scrollable by mousewheel
    • "Save selected fields to file"
      • File selection dialogue
      • Flushing items to file
    • Additional tabs
      • Composing and sending events, adding listeners to DirectObjects; base.messenger._getEvents()
      • Managing tasks; base.taskMgr.getTasks()
      • Full list of DirectObjects? (look into Messenger.py for how to get a list)
    • Interpreter: Input
      • If an input was incomplete, caused a syntax error or traceback, it should not be written to history, and the input shouldn't be zeroed.
        • Really? What if the interpreter says that it's complete, but the user says it isn't? Use the "terminate with empty line" thing?
    • integrate jedi
• config_manager
  • @call_on_change should also accept lists of three element tuples.
  • Check plugin default configs for unspecified values (ConfigParser.NoOptionError)
  • Proper exceptions when not finding values
  • What about non-string type values? We've got tuples of floats already!
    • Must be asserted in the setter functions.
• keybindings
  • Well, actually implement this.
  • Optional menu

TODO

• Capabilities checking
  • See GSG API
• Input bindings, mappings and contexts
• Game element flow
• Graphics packages
• Jailed Python Interpreter for game objects
• Scene Loader
  • Assign controllers: findAllMatches("**/=controller"), then instantiate the corresponding classes.
• Procedural geometry generator (akin to tessellation shader)
• Trigger system https://bitbucket.org/crmardix/worldwakers_pyweek16/src/ee8159c3765bb7f40aa95a874a5d0444c682f851/game/trigger.py?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default Basically an action that should happen, or is only able to happen, while the player has triggered something in the environment - eg. is in a certain location, or so. A trigger could cause a checkpoint to be marked off and saved, or a trigger could be near a door indicating that when the player is close enough, he can press E to open the door.
• Logging console
  • Use for regular logging and for debugging / profiling information
  • (Only) Ship logs to server if explicitly requested to do so