#Game Master Enhanced

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calm ridge
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Will it support saving entity states and properties as well? What about modded entities?

surreal seal
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Saving process happens through the underlying prefab of the entity therefore whatever state and properties the original prefab has will be the one the loaded entity gets when the session is loaded. For modded entites, as long as the saved modded entity exists on both the saving and loading clients, it will work just fine 🙂

calm ridge
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By states and properties I mean things like fuel, ammo, inventory, which are edited at runtime

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But even saving prefabs and their positions is a big help for mission creators

surreal seal
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At this time the save system doesn't serialize those but it's something I'm really looking forward to implement

calm ridge
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What about sharing on xbox?

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So many questions! Very exciting

surreal seal
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I don't own an XBOX but if it supports file sharing players can easily share their save files there as well

calm ridge
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I doubt they can access the file system of the game on xbox

surreal seal
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Than the easiest solution I can thing of implementing HTTP download for XBOX players where they can download save files from Google Drive etc.

calm ridge
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Maybe serverside save then? Then they can grab it

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Well, server owners at least

surreal seal
calm ridge
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Will a client in GM mode be able to load on a server?

surreal seal
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A client can download the file and tell the server to instantiate prefabs and set their properties accordingly. At that point Client acts as a intermediary, it owns the save file and tells server what to do with it.

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It's how it works already

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The server never downloads the save file. It's the client who has it. It just tells the server, spawn this prefab and set it's properties to these.

calm ridge
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Sure, that makes sense

surreal seal
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Might also implement an option to make it server only as well for people who want an extra layer of safety

ornate nacelle
calm ridge
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oh that's good news

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I'm hoping for a save browser in the interface, not just 1 file

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and instead of "mark for save" a simple save/load button on the bottom toolbar, and just save all editable entities except players

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also I'm totally going to fiddle with the json files making some things upside down

gilded schooner
calm ridge
gilded schooner
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I forgot if i put it there but there is some videos around if you look around here

native shuttle
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Will Game Master Enhanced have something like a garrison module to quickly place units inside a building assuming that "Garrision Points" exist within buildings in Reforger.

surreal seal
mint frost
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When is this hitting the workbench?

surreal seal
calm ridge
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very cool to see GMs gonna be able to set lights on etc

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will lights on also save?

surreal seal
# surreal seal most likely this week

With the latest update I've just posted on the #enf_showroom I'll stop implementing new features and start working on polishing. As you all can see from the videos I've shared, UX pretty much sucks at the current state 😄 I want to polish the UI and UX a little bit before putting it on Workshop 🙂

surreal seal
# calm ridge will lights on also save?

At this state, not really. Saving system is very isolated from rest of the mod or the game itself. I wanted to make it as universal as possible. I'm planning to implement some interfaces for custom saving though. Custom behaviors for various stuffs such as lights, npcs, weapon crates etc. This way it will be possible for modders to extend the system without breaking it

calm ridge
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gotcha

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any clue if there's going to be a button to save everything instead of marking things?

surreal seal
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That's how it was initially implemented but the problem was during saving, entities that are part of the map also got saved and when loaded there was duplicates for those. The marking method was how I managed to work around it but I'm still looking for a better way to solve that. I've been very limited on my free time lately but once I get more, that's definitely on the list of "Things to improve" 🙂

calm ridge
surreal seal
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There are a lot of map entities with the editable component :/

calm ridge
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wow

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interesting, but I guess it makes sense

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so would have to be only ones that are registered

clear sage
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I cannot wait for this mod to drop. Even knowing I’m on console really excited to see it. Definitely gonna test it on our server when it drops. Keep it up bro.

surreal seal
# calm ridge interesting, but I guess it makes sense

I can actually mod the editable components itself to make them self aware if they have been created through the map or by the Game Master. I am keeping it as the last resort though. Since my goal is to keep the system isolated and make it as universally compatible as possible, a solution without modding a game class would be the preferred way of handling it

calm ridge
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doesn't this get you all game master managed entities?

surreal seal
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Will look into it once I get home. Thanks for the tip!

surreal seal
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Anybody can create custom Save Handles for certain prefabs. That way you can personalize the saving/loading process of any prefab.

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That way the system now can be expanded to properly save and load brand new entities that doesn't even exist in the base game.

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I'm going to record a tutorial tomorrow on how to extend the Saving Framework of GME. It's actually very simple and only consists of two steps