Our Next Major Program Update

New Component Model

You may have noticed we haven’t updated in a while. This is because we have spent the summer re-writing and refactoring the entire program to be more efficient and customizable, for both users and developers.

This is a simplified view of our new component model, designed to make 3rd party development around PlanetSide very easy, manageable, and powerful.

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Internally we manage players and events from the PlanetSide API and format it in an easy to navigate object model. The event then passes through our Listener class which will run through any defined 'Game State Methods.' These methods can be looked at as rules which tells our Listener class what to track. We can essentially get any combination of possibilities from the API, track them, and then reset them under any given conditions.

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Trigger conditions are ways to activate user created components. This can be after a method reaches a certain count, the user presses a key, or through a combination of custom variables.

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Interface components are completely abstracted and are a way of creating a Direct X UI from images, our internal data, or custom variables and displaying it in the game.
Here is a video demonstrating: UI Editor


Upgraded Options

This is our new options menu. The end user can choose which components to load creating a completely customized experience. When a component is loaded that displays information, it will then have appropriate options show up under Display. If there is an activation key it will be able to be changed under Key Mapping. Also it's worth noting key-mapping fully supports modifier keys now.

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Existing Achievements Enhanced

This new system also allows us to do some new possibilities with our existing achievements.

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Most data is interchangeable throughout the components and we easily can allow variation.

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What else is there?

Quite a bit, including many more changes to the program as well as new development tools and processes which we want to cover in more detail soon.

I'd go over more now, but there's a lot to cover and SOE live wore me out. >_<

When we do release the next beta update while we are adding capabilities, their is a good chance that things which work perfectly today may be broken. If you're one of those individuals that wouldn't mind if that happens, and are willing to point these things out to us, then thanks! If you are not, then you might want to unselect 'Beta Participation' under options. Everything that works now will have to be retested, so there is no way we'll get everything right the first attempt.

One example, all of the achievements (which are fully hard coded today) need to be rewritten for the new system.

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New ones will be added too.

The current web-site will also be upgraded with something that is hopefully more modern, capable, that flows a bit better. We are looking to do both the client and server software upgrades around the same time.

Looks awesome, cant wait to test.

Also hoping this redesign fixes a minor issue I have with 0.9.2.5 causing DWM.exe (Desktop Window Manager) on Windows 8.1 Pro x64 causing it to maxing out a thread (12.5% cpu on a 8core proc.) and causing a tad bit of FPS drop during the spike. happens randomly. for about 30sec to a min. this is while using the streaming overlay only.

Ill do a bug report if I encounter it after the redesign. I don't see a point in worrying about it till then.