Optimized the selection of random dungeons with weights applied. We now
have a class called WeightedContainer for taping into Minecraft's
weighted selection code without having to extend the WeightedRandomItem
class. Using that, we no longer need to keep a list with duplicate
dungeons to achieve weighted selection, so I removed that variable.
Fixed the bug that caused the dungeon creation tutorial to be listed as
a schematic. We were listing all files in the custom schematic directory
as a schematic, even though that file wasn't. I added filtering so that
we only look at files that end with ".schematic". Also improved dungeon
listing by sorting the name list in alphabetical order. That makes the
list much easier to read through.
Added a workaround so that the dungeon list produced by
CommandAddDungeonRift does not have repeated names. Also cleaned up the
code a bit - it's a mess in there. Part of the rewrite eliminated the
bug that caused some dungeon names to be preceded by a backslash (or
slash). I've noticed a different bug now - the dungeon tutorial file is
being included in the list of dungeons. I'll be fixing that in the next
commit.
Added checks for the material that a gateway is being built upon. Now
gateways no longer generate on top of trees. Combined with multiple
generation attempts, there is a good chance that they will find a gap
between trees to generate at ground level. I also added checks to stop
gateways and rifts from generating on top of the Nether's bedrock.
I fixed a subtle bug in RiftGenerator. The code for picking random
coordinates on the surface of a chunk would subtract a random amount
from the coordinate of the chunk's corner. Unfortunately, subtracting
meant that we would almost always generate coordinates OUTSIDE the
intended chunk. The correct calculation was to add, not subtract. This
meant that if you walked in a direction in which our gateways were
generated outside of existing chunks, then their data would be lost and
no gateways would generate!
To reproduce this bug, max out the chance of generating gateways and fly
in the direction that decreases X and Z. You must fly into new chunks.
After passing the gateways produced when you spawn (if this is a new
world) you'll see that gateways don't generate on the landscape.
However, if you change directions, they'll begin generating again.
In addition to fixing that bug, I also tweaked all the block setting
calls in RiftGenerator so that they'll trigger block updates and send
update packets to the client. I think triggering block updates will
prevent unusual problems with floating sand, gravel, etc.
Added a loop that allows RiftGenerator to retry generating a gateway if
it picks an invalid location for it. It has a limited number of tries
before it gives up and doesn't generate a gateway. I haven't added the
logic for avoiding generating on top of trees, but that'll be easy to
add now.
Overhauled RIftGenerator. The code is significantly more readable now.
It's commented and much more compact. I also removed all fields from
RiftGenerator - they were unnecessary and using them increased the risk
of buggy code. Made the code rely solely on the Random instance provided
by MC, meaning our rifts and gateways will be tied to the world seed.
Tweaked the code slightly so that clusters of rifts and gateways can
never generate in the same chunk. This was previously possible, although
highly unlikely. It's a work of art now. <3
Replaced all instances of Hashtable in our code with HashMap. I had
never given that much thought until Steven mentioned it. HashMap is a
better alternative for our code.
Tweaked the code that copies the dungeon export tutorial. I'm not sure
it worked all the time before. It didn't seem quite right. I've
confirmed it's working better now. Also cleaned up copyfile a little.
Although fields were created in DDProperties for Monolith spawning and
Rift generation, they were mislabeled as reading the "World Rift
Generation Enabled" property. I gave them proper names. I also changed
the fields and names to be more intuitive and rewrote the descriptions.
For instance, "MonolithSpawnDensity" is a misnomer because as density
increases, there should be more Monoliths, not less. Now the properties
clearly state how they affect a feature. I rewrote the conditions that
used each property to correspond with those simplified descriptions and
gave the properties default values that will match the generation rates
seen before.
I also made the rift generation code less cryptic and fixed a bug; there
was a check that compared if a dimension was a pocket dimension by its
name to prevent rift generation. That name check was wrong - it would
never work. Now we check if the provider is an instance of
pocketProvider. That will continue working even if we change the way
that pocket dimensions are named.
Fixed mistakes in the text file that explains how to add new dungeons.
The example provided in the file was still wrong since the last time I
posted about it. >_< I also noticed that since we only check if the file
is present, and not if it's different from the one in our latest
release, old copies with mistakes will stick around anyway. I'll tweak
our code for that once other issues have been resolved.
Separated exportDungeon() from registerCustomDungeon() - exporting a
dungeon no longer automatically registers it. Also changed
exportDungeon() so that it returns a boolean indicating success or
failure, instead of an instance of DungeonGenerator that was never being
used. I modified CommandEndDungeonCreation so that it can warn you if
exporting the dungeon failed (if exportDungeon() returned false), and
also, to register the dungeon after it's exported since it's no longer
automatic.
Fixed problems in mcmod.info. Changed modid and version to match the
@Mod Java annotations. If these annotations don't match the information
in the file, the file is ignored! So previous versions did not have
their mod info or logo appear under the mod menu in Minecraft.
The credits line is too long, unfortunately. It runs off my screen and
there is no attempt to wrap it back. Our best bet would be to place the
credits in the description instead. I tried placing newlines but they're
not rendered properly on the client.
Removed a line in CommandEndDungeonCreation that inserted a new dungeon
directly into DungeonHelper.customDungeons. This had a chance of causing
a duplicate listing. registerCustomDungeon() was already being invoked
before and if reading tags from the file name failed, the dungeon would
get added twice. This could explain some of the buggy dungeon listing
that would appear during testing.
Changed the function to use a Hashtable mapping dungeon types to their
respective lists so that it wouldn't be necessary to hardcode a
condition for each type. The code is much shorter now and we can add new
types with ease. The next stage will be to remove
weightedDungeonGetList, if possible, so that we don't have to construct
a list with duplicates just to have weights. The loop that repeatedly
inserted dungeons into that list has been removed anyway, but it
shouldn't affect anything since custom dungeon integration was broken
and weights were being ignored.
I changed the name filter for schematic names from
CommandEndDungeonCreation to DungeonHelper, and renamed it to
NamePattern. I also rewrote most of registerCustomDungeon() to be much
more concise. The changes are incomplete but I'm making an intermediate
commit. The aim is to change DungeonHelper into a proper singleton and
to eliminate the clunky sections that manually map dungeon categories to
their corresponding lists. Instead, I'll use data structures to
implement that far more efficiently.
Set various lists of DungeonGenerators to private - there was no need to
make them public fields. While cleaning up the code before, I
accidentally erased the default constructor, which handled loading a
reference to DDProperties. I've put the code back in so that the class
works correctly.
I was able to infer that HashMap schematic should have generic
parameters <String, Tag> and changed the declaration accordingly. All
generic collections in DungeonHelper are now parameterized properly.
Cleaned up the indentation and empty lines in DungeonHelper. Set
metadataFlipList and metadataNextList to have generic type Integer,
since they're used to store block IDs. Whenever possible, we should
always be using parameterized collections instead of leaving their types
unspecified. I'd like to fix up the schematic HashMap in the future -
unless it's necessary, we shouldn't be storing values of various types
in that collection. Strongly typed variables or a class with the
appropriate fields would be much cleaner.
Changed the formatting in DungeonGenerator. Autocorrected indentation
and removed extra empty lines to improve readability. None of the
variables were changed since that would break compability with previous
serialized instances.
Changed SchematicLoader to use DDLoot.DungeonChestInfo instead of
requesting a reference to the same data through ChestGenHooks. Exactly
the same data is being retrieved, but ChestGenHooks retrieves it by
performing a lookup on a map relating loot categories to loot info, so
it's slightly slower. No point in doing that if we have access to the
reference directly.
Decreased the weight of DD items very slightly to make them a little
more rare. Added a section to DDLoot.mergeCategories() that searches for
the enchanted book loot and fixes its weight to 3 (instead of the usual
1). This makes enchanted books slightly more common. I confirmed that
books are actually spawning in loot chests. There is the possibility
that there is a built-in chance of an enchanted book taking up a chest
slot but not actually generating anything.
