AI Multicamera mode

[Cruix]

🆑 Cruix
add: AIs now have an experimental multi-camera mode that allows them to view up to six map areas at the same time, accessible through two new buttons on their HUD.
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The AI is often expected to be keeping an eye on multiple different parts of the station at all times, which usually entails smashing the "show camera list" and "track with camera" buttons for their entire play time. This PR makes it possible for the AI to store several important map locations and be able check on them all with one button press, then switch back and zoom around the map as normal.

Due to the limitations of vis_contents, I had to make a new area with no darkness and no camera static to park the AI's client eye while it looks at the different screens. You can make up to six windows, and they can be resized and moved wherever you want them on your screen. Darkness, camera static, huds, and click interaction all work normally through the windows. Parallax does not, because you cannot see space. AI detection multitools properly detect the different cameras as if they were the AI's primary camera.

All the sprites are, naturally, terrible, but maybe someone will step up and make better-looking ones.

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[Cruix]

I do not know why, but if this is set, you cannot see darkness through the vis_contents of screen objects. This should always be overridden by the darkness plane master (which is set to BLEND_MULTIPLY) anyway, so I have no idea why this is the case.

[MrStonedOne]

@MrPerson

[Kromgar]

https://78.media.tumblr.com/3f5e05860c4c560313a0219163e7edd5/tumblr_nod4rlhr0W1utm8ioo1_500.gif

What is this witchcraft?

[Tlaltecuhtli]

🍋 good pr

[Amelia0010]

I love you cruix

[Iamgoofball]

chance to replace the matrix background after 30 minutes with blondes, brunettes, redheads, etc. when?

[mirrorcult]

WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS SO COOL

[arsserpentarium]

Cool. Amazing thing.

[Partheo]

Holy shit

[MrDoomBringer]

holy fucking shit this is slick!! the fuuck

[deathride58]

You should probably make the room be generated at runtime according to the DEFAULT_VIEW config option, so that servers running non-15x15 resolutions don't have to do a bunch of heavy lifting to get this working properly.

Aside from that, hOLY FUCK MERGE THIS IMMEDIATELY

[Cruix]

It will need a maximum boundary so it does not run into anything else on centcomm, and since there is no reason to not have it fill that boundary it may as well be as big as possible. I suppose it should probably be bigger than it is right now just in case.

[deathride58]

Putting some thought into it, wouldn't it be entirely plausible to make the entire thing be rendered entirely via screen objects? Pretty sure vis_contents works inside screen objects.

[Cruix]

The windows currently are screen objects. The area is only there because darkness and camera static render over them, and because there is no way to change the plane of the objects in vis_contents independently of the objects themselves, the only way to not have them covered is to move the client eye to a place with no static and no darkness.

[GunHog]

That is the best AI update since Freelook! Brilliant, brilliant work!

[PKPenguin321]

if that binary doesnt translate to wgw i will be disappointed

[81Denton]

This is absolutely great! I've found two minor issues:

1. The background doesn't loop smoothly, there is a noticable "jump" when the animation loops.
2. When a camera window border overlaps with a wall-mounted object, the object "pops out" at the edge of the window. This also makes wall-mounted objects visible through static. This might be related to AIs can see wall-mounted objects inside rooms with no cameras #36527
   For example, see the left side of the window:

[ShizCalev]

#2 would infact be #36527's fault.

[Doppeltongue]

The playerbase might need some time to adjust to AIs that can see more than one thing at a time now, but multiple cameras is what playing AI should feel like.

[81Denton]

The playerbase might need some time to adjust to AIs that can see more than one thing at a time now

Yeah, it'll be much harder to sneak into high-security areas and stealthily disable cams now.

[Anonmare]

It'd probably be very disorientating and confusing for a lot of first-timers since splitting your attention 6 ways ain't the easiest thing in the world

[GuppyLaxx]

why is this not merged yet wtf??????????

[optimumtact]

maintainers don't like it

[ExcessiveUseOfCobblestone]

@CosmicScientist the cardborg just makes you look like a default cyborg but there's some issues associated with it on the tracker that reserves it basically for trolling newbie silicons until they get fixed.

@Bawhoppen playing the AI as if you're suppose to be Big Brother and are suppose to "win" by stopping harm (which mainly = btfoing antags as covertly as possible to minimize any sort of reactive counterplay) is not anyone's fault but your own. It SHOULD be a pain in the rear (even if it's just muh UI clicks) to play as all-seeing eye because quite frankly it doesn't improve the gameplay very much when you're selectively playing dumb to validhunt, which is quite frankly the only reason this is to be used (Why do you need constant EVA watch,Beepsky watch, or Bridge watch for Asimov???).

IE. See traitor with non-harmful equipment but still bolt-depower them because antags are harmful!!!!! Yet as soon as they get sent to the "prisoner transfer room" or actually get killed by sec you go "bad sec!" or "hmm how did that happen!" then feed them the next victim.

It's okay to "lose" in the sense of not being able to uphold asimov because of your limited information, just like it is for Sec to lose when someone dies to an antag or when Medical is unable to find that body because the antag disposed of it.

[imtakingabreakdontatme]

@Cyberboss are you satisfied with the code

[Cyprex]

@ExcessiveUseOfCobblestone

Why do you need constant EVA watch,Beepsky watch, or Bridge watch for Asimov???
Beepsky watch isn't possible, as the camera views can't track, to my knowledge.

[ExcessiveUseOfCobblestone]

@Cyprex The screen in OP looks like it is tracking beepsky. If you can't my apologies, don't play AI enough to know for certain.

[cacogen]

ya did good kid

[MrDoomBringer]

NICE

[demonfiren]

madman tbh fam

[81Denton]

this pleases the harmyeller

[nicbn]

oh no

[MrStonedOne]

LummoxJR has rated this as dang thats pretty and glorious.