Existing construction pyramid from original game is not ideal. We want to improve it mainly to fit buildings underneath it.

Implement proper power management for buildings.

Behavior of power management in original game is described here.

The goal here is to change low power mode to work like this:

• lights of buildings flicker (i.e. black and dark blue colors)
• when the light is on, unit/building production and research advance
• when the light is off, unit/building production and research are halted
• turrets don't flicker, but the movement is jerky and rate of fire is slowed down
• superweapons recharge is also slowed down

All these actions are synced, meaning all low powered buildings:

• flicker at the same time
• unit/building production and research advance/is halted at the same time
• superweapons' recharge timer counts down at the same time

Turrets behave differently, since they work independently of each other. It seems that turrets cannot be controlled when in low power mode (at least UCS Little/Big Eye), i.e. they operate autonomously.

Also, not all buildings switch to low power mode, when state of low power occurs. Only those buildings that cause low power state are switched to low power mode (in ascending order of time when they were constructed) and others work normally.

Tasks:

• powering down low-powered buildings intermittently
• player-controlled toggling of power per building
• indicator of building being powered down by the player

E.g. trees, pipelines

Implement elevator that brings produced unit to the surface. When on surface, unit becomes selectable and targetable.

More information here (including videos from original game): Notes/Original Game (base building).

In the original game, units on minimap are rendered as smaller dots and have slightly lighter colors than buildings.

(enlarged minimap from the original game)

https://github.com/michaeldgg2/OpenE2140/tree/master/packaging/artwork

ED and UCS use slightly different animation for displaying progress of building/unit production.

ProductionPaletteWidget does not allow customizing clock animation per faction. Either create custom widget based on this one that allows customizing or implement customization in OpenRA.

Necessary for #28.

Currently name of spritesheet is fixed:

ucs_vehicles_raptor_es: vehicle_raptor_es.vspr
	icon: SPRI1.MIX
		Start: 129

This needs to be changed so proper icon is used, when the icon is displayed on ED sidebar (and for ED units on UCS sidebar as well).

Issue tracking necessary work for proper support of ED faction.

Work that needs to be done:

• #26
• #27
• #29
• #46

Number of queued buildings/units to produce should be positioned to the right of the unit/building icon.

OpenE2140:

Earth 2140:

Changes to ProductionPaletteWidget in OpenRA are necessary.

Caused by how existing ProductionQueue and ProductionPaletteWidget work.

Incorrect player color and transparency.

I tried to fix it myself, but when I did so, layers for the elevator seemed to be screwed up.

Layers should be like that:
Legs < Turret Shadow < Turret

This has to be done the way it doesn't make it look again bad for the elevator.

Vanilla:

Use temporary art, if necessary

Sprites for terrain objects are stored in SPR0x.MIX sprite sheets. The number needs to be dynamically changed for each tileset (SPRTx.MIX), otherwise sprites like trees won't fit the environment (like trees/palms).

OpenE2140:

Earth 2140:

Create art for ED sidebar with similar structure as UCS one.

Earth 2140:

@Dzierzan

In Earth 2140 actors (probably only mech) use moving animation for turning. However it's not full movement either. I suppose they made it like that to mimic mini steps.

AddFactionSuffixExLogic is assigned to ProductionTypeButtonWidget. Reason currently unknown.

Exception of type `System.InvalidOperationException`: AddFactionSuffixExLogic only supports
IFactionSpecificWidget, ProductionPaletteWidget and ProductionTabsExWidget.Type: OpenRA.Mods.Common.Widgets.ProductionTypeButtonWidget

Replace currently used contrail generated by OpenRA with missile trail created from original game's sprites.

Explore possibility of extracting research data from game EXE.

Strings are in string table at the end of EXE, so a hypothetical table with research data will be more difficult to spot.

Name of researched technologies:

Plasma weapons
Plasma Bomb
Light Plasma Canon
Plasma Canon
Plasma fusion
Nuclear weapons
Ion canon
Light Laser
Laser Cannon
Laser detector
Teleportation
AI mine
Heavy rockets
Rocket engine
Engine
Flying
Fast Repairing
High Medicine
Nuclear engine
Nuclear reactor

Names from E2140.exe from Steam release, SHA256: c7230a9348047093437aeb1b82e3c222b15fb24d5318468247cc09d9517646e9

Move sound of mechs shouldn't get amplified when there are lots of mechs moving on the screen.

Also, there should be some sort of limit on how many mech sounds can be active at one moment.

In order to use variant support in sound rules, custom preprocessing need to be done when loading sounds.

Both SMP0.WD and SMP1.WD contains mixture of voices for both factions, notifications are however separate. They're split like this:

• ED: SMP0.WD
• UCS: SMP1.WD

The goal here is to implement this preprocessing and configure variants for sound notifications.

Depends on #5

Radar shows terrain as black.

Workaround is to enable and then disable full visibility using developer mode.

UCS mechs animate their upper body parts, when moving, performing "head-bobbing" animation:

Fog/shroud spritesheet is missing U letter shaped sprites. This causes incorrect rendering of fog/shroud at the edges of visible area.

This is how terrain geometry looks like:

This makes enemy units visible at the very edge of the fog/shroud:

This is how the same situation looks like RA:

RAPTOR ES/AD sprites don't have shadow included, separate sprites are used to render shadow.

OpenE2140:

Earth 2140:

UCS mechs are missing shadows for their turrets:

OpenE2140:

Earth 2140:

SCREAMER generates field around it that disrupts cloaking field generated by SHADOW.

Note: there is another feature of the SCREAMER that is supposed to be in the original game: it also disrupts control signals for UCS faction, so the UCS units become uncontrollable (i.e. behavior controlled purely by their own AI). Unclear, if and how this works in single-player (either playing ED or UCS campaign) and even in multi-player.

SHADOW unit implementation: #9

There are a lot of civilian buildings which are baked in with urban tilesets. I want to free them, so they could be placed on any tileset, allowing mappers for more options.

I've done it for OpenHV and OpenKrush projects so far and it did benefit everyone.

SHADOW unit generates cloaking field around it, which makes all units in it invisible to all enemies of owner. When unit is cloaked, it does produce its moving sound (e.g. RAPTOR ES/AD, mechs, ...) and even projectiles shot by its weapon are visible.

Cloaking field can be countered by SCREAMER unit, which generates its own field that disrupts the cloaking field, and makes hidden units in this disrupting field visible again. Since SHADOW by default cloaks itself, SCREAMER also reveals SHADOW, if gets within range of SCREAMER.

We plan on changing some things from original implementation:

• as both owner and enemy I couldn't see muzzle effect from weapons that produce projectiles with this effect when the unit is cloaked. In the mod, we will make the effect visible
• as owner I see cloaked units shadow outlining cloaked unit's sprite. In the mod cloaked unit will be rendered as as semi-transparent version of original unit's sprite (details TBD)

Things to implement:

• SHADOW unit: core YAML
• unit cloaking on YAML level
• rendering of cloaked units (because of RGBA sprites, paletted cloaking in Cloakable trait won't work)

Temperate (Europe/Great Britain), snow (Norway), sandy (Africa), desert (North America), urban, moon?.

Modify icons for production tabs and power/cash indicators to better match colors of each faction, so they don't have this jarring white color:

@Dzierzan

The goal here is to fix broken MCU deploy and construction pyramid animations and make custom construction animation per each building. This could also be used for building selling feature.

(Disembo)

UCS:

• Production Center
• Heavy Tech
• Robot Factory
• Little/Big Eye
• Teleport
• PB Control
• SDI Defence

Shared:

• Power Plant
• Research Center
• Refinery
• Mine
• Naval Base (including Dock)
• Air Base
• Shelter

ED:

• Construction Center
• Tech House
• Bio-Center
• Defense Tower, Heavy Defense Tower
• BCC
• Pillbox
• Silo
• AN Center

Create art for command bar.

Should use same buttons as command bar in CNC:

First group (commands):

• attack move
• force move
• force attack
• deploy
• scatter
• stop
• waypoint mode

Second group (stances):

• attack anything
• defend
• return fire
• hold fire

@Dzierzan

I will draw it and implement it.

Use 33.smp

OpenE2140:

Earth 2140: