Todo

The official To-do list for Lamiae and Lilim, in no particular order. If you have feature requests DO NOT EDIT THIS PAGE - instead file an enhancement ticket; this is for approved targets only

If you want to contribute and don't have anything in mind, use this list to find yourself something to do. If you find a feature on this page that has been implemented, feel free to remove it.

Lamiae

Core

• Interface
  • Allow renderbackground and renderbackground to be overridden via UI.
  • Refactor menus into data/menus/* and data/rpg/menus/*
    • Allow game specific overrides of UIs; rehash on cleanup.

Beta Milestone

• Projectiles
  • Adjust physics to work better with slow states if gravity is present
• Stealth mechanics
  • Sneaking
    • Light factors (including silhouettes from lighting mismatches against the background)
    • Noise factors
    • State factors (aka, who opened that door)
  • Pick-pocketing
  • Lock-picking
• First-person HUD hands
  • Models
  • Animation playback
  • Particle Attachments
• Thirdperson
  • Projectile spawns, look direction, etc. Make these matchup with the crosshair
  • Animation playback
• Minimap
  • Custom blips
  • More suitable blips for items and interactive objects.
  • Adjust blip visibility based on character stats and awareness of targets
• Friendly-fire Protection
  • 0 - off (done)
  • 1 - self only (done)
  • 2 - faction members
  • 3 - allies
• Items
  • replace chargeflags with multiple multipliers
  • Variation in which the slots field is a list of the possible equip slots, rather than a list of required slots
• AI
  • Allow limited simulation when their map isn't loaded
  • Give them the ability to interact with world objects to accomplish their goals, eg open doors
    • aitags for all world-space entities?
  • Implement all basic directives
• Cutscenes
  • variant that cannot be interrupted by cs_interrupt calls; allow as a main menu background
  • "skip bar" - a countdown of 3000ms (which regenerates at the same speed. When it hits 0, the cutscene is skipped. The idea is to prevent accidental skipping
• Status effects
  • Reflect type
  • Dispel type
  • Stun type (activate ragdolls mode?)
  • Silence type
  • Group basic particle effects
• Interface
  • Refine Journal
  • Refine Status Effects
  • Allow looting of equipped items from the deceased.
• Savegames
  • Save and restore AI directives
• Signals
  • "enter" signal - to be called whenever you enter a specific map.

General

• Triggers
  • Allow defining an arbitrary volume, in which if an entity is detected, a signal will be invoked.
• Platforms
  • Allow the movement target to be explicitly set and queried.
• Status effects
  • Status effect to adjust size
  • Grant certain targets some immunities; eg no polymorphing that crate into a sheep!
• Critters
  • Expose secondary stat curves to script; allow them to be redefined. eg, take level out of the calculation for max HP
  • Allow overriding the amount of EXP a creature gives with a fixed amount
• Worldspace entities
  • Resistance to movement should be based on weight and strength
  • Allow defining a custom bounding box size to use with the base model
• AI
  • Take allies into consideration when attacking.
  • dodge incoming projectiles (if possible) and other traps
  • routines to inspect items and inventory to use the ideal tools
• Items
  • Item degradation
  • Temporary item buffs
• HUD
  • Allow identification of faraway targets
  • Allow multiple, store them in a hashtable; makes it possible to save and restore them for situational enhancements
• Savegames
  • generate a "restore" savegame on exit, for more roguelike gameplay.
• Attacks
  • Delay before weapons/attacks are activated; can sort of be simulated with the charge meter
  • Trace animation path for melee weapons to determine hit arc and reach.
• Sound effects
  • Projectile firing, travel and death
  • Lingering status effects
  • Spell charging
• Particles
  • Support for spawning particles in script
  • Taper spawned particles based on distance
  • Start emitting particles at least some distance away from the player as to avoid blocking his view.

Lilim

Editor

• Always on screen compartments down the right with refactored mini versions of the editing menus; the cursor can switch between locked and free modes with a press of TAB.

Engine

• Add support for airborne/flying objects
• Allow rotation of mapmodels around X and Y axis as well (todo: physics)
• Support right click events for the user interface