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[Blomquistador]

Thanks Markavian for working so hard on the back end of things for this project.

Here's an update for what I'm currently working on with the viewer and what the future might hold.

In Progress

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• Refactor display code to make the "zoomTo" function more trivial.
• Create an interface for querying current zoom information (For creating POIs)

ToDo

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• Overhaul input to allow "keyboard only" control.
• Implement "side" and "front" view.
• Add HUD buttons for mobile viewing.

Potential Added Features

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• Isometric View
• Zone POI (Select a "block" of tiles for a POI instead of just a single tile)
• Etc. (Open to suggestions)

Other Side Projects

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• An Online Map compressor
• A new file format that incorporates more information from DFHack
  
  • Entity Information
  • Water Flow
  • Jobs
  • The possibilites are endless

Let me know if you have any suggestions for features/projects that might help grow the DFMA.

[lethosor]

https://github.com/BenLubar/cmvjs is a pure-JS CMV renderer (if nothing else, the tile-rendering logic might be useful). I believe BenLubar was using it for some df-ai streams at some point.

[Markavian]

https://github.com/BenLubar/cmvjs is a pure-JS CMV renderer (if nothing else, the tile-rendering logic might be useful). I believe BenLubar was using it for some df-ai streams at some point.

Can definitely make us of this; I'll see if I can get in touch with Ben before integrating it with DFMA - but the MIT license checks out - so should be able to do that so long as I link to the repo/license from the website.

Thanks @Blomquistador for sharing the update. I'm back to linting PHP this morning after a busy week at work; and waiting on that zoomTo feature for the map viewer MVP

[Blomquistador]

UPDATE

I won't be able to spend as much time as I have been on this. My brother has had a near-fatal accident and is in intensive care. Family comes first, you know how it is.

I've been currently just working on this in my free time at work. Once I go back to work I'll be able to work on the viewer a bit more.
Right now there is a "Zoom To" function but it is currently not functional.

Thanks everyone!

[Blomquistador]

UPDATE 2

Looks like my brother will make a full recovery. All is well that ends well, as they say.

Anyway, I've updated the viewer and there is now keyboard-only input.
Use the 8.6.4.2 keys on the numpad to move one tile at a time. The 'z' key is a modifier which will cause it to move 10 at a time.
(I couldn't use shift due to the way HTML5 Canvas works with the DOM).

I've also added a "ZoomTo" function in preparation to implementing the POI system.

See it live at https://blomquist.xyz/dfma

[Markavian]

Looks like my brother will make a full recovery. All is well that ends well, as they say.

Thanks for the update Jacob; I wish your brother the best for his recovery.

I've managed to finish linting the DFMA code base; 106 files, 16,692 lines (up from 14,074 lines)... and am now in a position to put some basic tests around page generation. I've also found and fixed a few SQL bugs that I found while reading through everything line by line.

I think I'm now in a place to start surfacing the data and writing an integration with Jacob's viewer.

[Markavian]

Update after a slow week(s)

Managed to get functional tests in place, supported by github actions... so the website now has some basic test coverage for surface level user journeys. It was very painful setting up mysql to run on a docker image using github actions; but I figured it out... so now I can spin up a version of the website and run tests against it as part of a continuous integration pipeline.

Meanwhile, a bit quiet from Jacob - I'm going to fork the viewer and rewrite the interface to make it easier to integrate with DFMA;
- Need a way to specify the map file (url) before load (customise the preload function)
- Need a way to navigate to a specific point on the map (using the zoomTo function)
- Need a way to customise key config to support a wider combination of keys (wasd, up,down,left,right, etc.)

[Markavian]

Progress
- See: https://mkv25.net/dfma/xdfmadev/parcel/index.html
- Source: https://github.com/df-map-archive/dfma-html5-map-viewer

[Uthimienure]

Progress
- See: https://mkv25.net/dfma/xdfmadev/parcel/index.html
- Source: https://github.com/df-map-archive/dfma-html5-map-viewer

Now that's cool.  Thanks for what you're doing 

[Fleeting Frames]

Drag and drop: Nice ease-of-use feature; I imagine that's going to be useful with mass-selecting and dropping a gallery.

Also found a "bug": xy remains constant: cue confusion with dropping 1x1 fort that was entirely out of viewrange.

[Loud Whispers]

posting to watch this noble endeavour

[Markavian]

Done since last update:
- Fixed the NaN bug when loading starting PoI - turned out to be the canvas width that hadn't loaded yet; switched to fix value
- Created an architecture diagram for the viewer - outlines plans for different components within codebase

In progress:
- Restructure file structure to match architecture diagram - made some good progress here, got separate 'Drag & Drop' and 'User Input', giving the 'Renderer' a clearly defined viewState... simpler code split across different files - missing some basic tests around new files

Do next:
- Support rendering front and side views

Code base is in a really healthy place; finding it easy to sit down and chip away and issues on the board now. Getting the infrastructure setup after 10 years of "its all in my head" helps a lot.

[Blomquistador]

I'm Back.
I've created a new branch and PR on the repo to start work on front and side view as well as UI improvements.

Here's how it will work:

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There will be some javascript objects within the "MapData"

Horizontals and Verticals
Both will be JSON Arrays of "layers". The horizontals will hold horizontal "slices" of the terrain and the verticals likewise.
Each entry in the arrays will have:

• A positional indicator
  • "xOffset" for verticals and "yOffset" for Horizontals
• "loaded" boolean
  
  • Whether the image for this layer has been rendered.
• "Tiles" - array
  • Array containing the indices of referenced tiles from the "tiles" object. These are in row major order starting in the upper left.
• "Image" - P5Image object
  • Should be present if "Loaded" is true, undefined otherwise.
  • Contains the rendered P5Image ready to display.

Upon parsing of the archive file, the parser will populate the "tiles" array within each entry of the
horizontals and verticals arrays.

These will then be rendered as needed and cached for later use.

[Markavian]

Right... I'm back too.

Long story; short version - successfully completed on a house purchase, moved in, got my new office set up.
Once house move settles down I'l be back into code - my focus is still fixing up the DFMA - so back to the project page to figure out what's next:

• Implement Side and Front views in viewer - need to catch up with Jacob
• Deploy bundled map viewer to an agreed location that can be used by the DFMA PHP Website
• Use bundled map viewer with the DFMA Map Viewer behind a hidden feature toggle

Got this diagram to explain the new architecture before I moved house:


So in a good place; but had to take a break to move house <3 🏡

[Fleeting Frames]

Encouraging to see activity!

PS: Control layer or somewhere might want to include "Make POIs" & other such <add new map functionality>.