Star Citizens: Bugsmashers - Ship Seat Issues

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   [Music] hey everyone welcome to bug Smashers let's smash some bugs bug smashes hey everyone we are here in and the good old pu and there's port allar and there's um Planet Mark Planet Mark is awesome so next to uh Good Old Port allar we have a fun bug where uh when we spawn into a ship in multiplayer um we have this bit of code that the player is informed that he's linked to the seat and he's also linked to we call it the control manager or the

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   vehicle um we link it so that we know internally that hey we're on a vehicle hey we're on a seat seat so some code in different directions could do their thing cuz you know we have to do different things if you're sitting down in a seat uh if you have a gun or something so when you sit down on all the machines this bit of code should hook it up just let everybody know that you are linked correctly and unfortunately uh if I step through here spawn ourselves into an awesome ship let's Spa a cutless Shazam the server is fine it will run through set the vehicle everyone's happy the client on the other hand as

3. 00:01:43

   soon as he gets to this link State he will have an attachable component and as soon as he tries to attach to the EDM Port it ends because well it doesn't know what's happening why well um o we're getting detached now because I think we guys died yep we died uh spawning a ship into another ship but before that what's happening uh well when we have our Network replication uh we make sure that we have a priority thing in the sense that we have the ship the seat and then the player and we make sure the ship spawns before the seat before the player however what's happening is when the seat spawns in it is aware that the this player should be attached to it because it's through our

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   serialization before the seat can attach to the ship it has known that the player should attach to it so it attaches the player so now the player's attached then we attach it to the seat and because of this weird ordering thing um the when the by the time the actor is aware that he's attached to the seat he's not attached to a ship this update only happens once so he never gets informed that now he's attaching to a ship so the fir little bit of fun uh the fix is actually pretty simple uh we have here our little seat code and anytime we detach or attach we need to inform um basically the actor that we are now in uh the seat so we're going to check our seat Flags if we have any

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   Flags es check all the flags we have an N link Shazam did I mistype there we go so now when we've attached the ship onto the vehicle we need to update this function so ha so what am I doing here um so we have this interface where the seat is a where that is attached to something and when we attach the seat we're going to check to see if the seat has a player in it that's what this bit will do and if it does have a player we're going to reinform the player that you're now attached to a seat attached to a vehicle so now everyone should be

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   good to go let's hit the magic recode button and see where this takes us recode recode recode recode recode recode okay all right recode is finished we revived ourselves through the building because why not uh we have Port allar there again we're going to spawn oursel cutless Shazam and it probably would help if I actually set up break point so that we could see that this is happening so we're going to spawn into another cutless so this is the server we know that works wait for the network aha now we are the

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   client and as we step through the first time we're attached to the seat don't have a um vehicle fair enough then now we attach the vehic the seat to the vehicle and then now we have a link woo and the client code is working as intended we are establishing that hey we got a vehicle everyone want should know about it and everyone's good to go continue and Shazam we are in our cut lless watching all the shaders compile because why not there's another cutless there we got our fun UI and I want to be able to shoot him so ha yeah blow up all the things die

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   slow death slow death Beautiful Death screw it it's taking too long we'll Ram now we're inside of the other ship features so now the um the code recognizes that we are in a vehicle everyone's happy all the internal systems know that we're in a vehicle so they can all handle their little B bitty stuff behind the scenes hope you guys enjoyed this one it's a fun one so as you guys saw we had a fun little bug where um we have our seat the player sits in it and then sometime later he gets attached to the vehicle due to the way the network orders all that fun Shenanigans but because of that weird Oddity um the player was informed that he was attached to the seat but he was not informed that he was attached to the

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   vehicle so a lot of weird cat in the back end assumed that we're just attached to a seat not a vehicle and it didn't run right uh so switched the code around so that we inform that we're on a seat and then when we get onto a vehicle we update saying hey we're now on a vehicle everyone's happy everything's good to go hope you guys enjoyed I know the code liked it hope you did too till next time this is bug Smashers thank you for watching so if you want to keep it with the latest and greatest and Star Citizen of Squadron 42's development please follow us on our social media channels see you soon for