COMBAT.md

Great Holy Guacamole, Batman!

Yes, that's right, we've got a SKELETON for COMBAT

wut wut

^ srs combat gais, am telling u

Ok so stop flapjacking around and tell us the digs

Here's the skinny on all the diffs:

• There's a new SCENE
  • OMG OMG OM
  • Right, so it's called 'Combat'
    • Whudathunk
  • Click on it in that little "scenes" place where you can put yer grimy mouse finger - you know, that FOLDER inside of the PROJECT panel.
• The old "perspecital movement" scene has been renamed
  • Yes, srsly, that was the name
  • The new name of that scene is 'World'
• I have deleted the 'Dialogue scene'
  • And also replaced the dialogue box assets with something hand-drawn
  • It doesn't look quite as out-of-place now
  • The dialogue system, btw, is terrifying
  • We will need to re-write it
• There are a bunch of new scripts
  • IT'S LIKE FUCKING CHRISTM
  • Anyway, one of them is this new-finagled deal called 'Timer'
  • Timer has two methods
    • (all times are in seconds)
    • Timer.Every(float|int time, Action thingToDo)
    • Timer.After(float|int time, Action thingToDo)
    • It works pretty well
    • Pls use this, hard-coded timers got really hard to keep track of even with only 2-3 of them; that's why I wrote dis
    • DON'T MAKE A NEW TIMER THO
      • It's a singleton
      • It's attached to the 'root' GameObject in the Combat scene
      • (That object, btw, is called 'Combat Controller' ikr so creative)
      • IF you need to use the Timer, and you're like, "but how do I get to there," then either use
        • GameObject.Find to get a reference to Combat Controller
        • OR actually don't, you can probably use GetComponentInParent() to get the Timer directly from Combat Controller
          • Most things are direct children of Combat Controller
        • OR, if you need it from a Unit, you can do:
          • transform.parent.gameObject.GetComponent<UnitGroupController>().Timer
          • there's a public reference to the global Timer inside of the 'Stage,' so you're still using the Combat Controller global
          • There's a straightforward example of this in the Unit script
          • It's broken up across multiple lines for readability, of course
• Did you say UNIT? UWOTM8?!
  • THAT'S RIGHT! COMBAT UNIT!
  • Right now Unit is a stub; it just identifies a unit as being player- or enemy-owned
• And related to Unit
  • There's a CombatHealth script, too
  • It does what it sounds like; it gives the object it is attached to an HP counter
  • You can either heal or damage using it by using the Heal and Damage methods from another script (eg an Attack script, eh? EH?)
  • See? Easy.
• Oh, right, almost forgot
  • There's also a CombatUIController
  • This is one place Timer is currently used in a non-trivial way
  • I implemented a debugging message box for turn timing
    • Right, recall we talked about limiting the number of seconds you have to make move decisions in? That's there, it's just ugly right now.
    • Future: let's make it like a progress bar or something
  • The UIController should be able to be extended to handle any amount of UI complexity, though it will become necessary to adapt it a bit and probably write some UI scripts for new components (this can be used as a bit of a starting point for rewriting modals in a better way, for instance)
• And, of course, Combat Controller has its own script
  • chick it out
  • it basically just keeps track of whose turn it currently is, as of rn
  • this will be a good place to keep reusable singletons for our other scripts

So there's a lot of other shit, too, but that's most of it When we meet up tomorrow we can talk it all over.

Until then! Wop.

-- - EDIT

I've also added a TODO.md to the project. Peruse it at your leisure; we can go over it later today/tomorrow/Thursday/whatever. Time is irrelevant.