Dynamic Nexus #1633
Dynamic Nexus #1633
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This is useful for setting textures that are in global PRPs.
This removes the Nexus's reliance on linking panel objects in the PRP/max file for each Age. Instead, we now replace the texture on the single linking book in game with the correct one. The correct linking panel is searched for by name in the PRPs, so it is dependent on either the Nexus's textures PRP or the GUI PRPs to have the appropriate linking panels.
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I'm marking this as a draft because this change to the Nexus Python will "break" linking panels without the corresponding assets PR. That PR is currently a draft because some work is pending on it. |
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Would it be possible to load pngs from the file directory for the linking panels? It would solve issues with having to have all the linking panels be in the global prps or nexus... |
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It's possible, but then we run into the problem of not knowing which files to distribute. Currently, UruManifest (and other tools) crawl the PRPs to determine which files to include in the manifests. If we allow fetching arbitrary images from the data directory as part of the expected game functionality, we lose the ability to know everything by crawling the PRPs. So that's probably not going to be a workable solution. It might be better for us to have a script that can package the BkBookImages PRP from the images in moul-assets. |
This might be something useful to have for Internal clients for easy testing of linking panels during development. However, in addition to the distribution concerns Hoikas noted, the ability to load arbitrary images from disk poses a security risk, particularly given recent history of image loader libraries being targeted for buffer overflows and remote code execution. |
This ability already exists in the code, its used to load the custom avatar images... https://github.com/H-uru/Plasma/blob/master/Scripts/Python/xDialogStartUp.py#L590 |
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We are aware of that, yes. A long-standing goal of ours has been to remove those in favor of a better preview mechanism. Hopefully this will appear, in time. |
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Requires #1632.
Requires corresponding assets PR H-uru/moul-assets#268.
This will allow us to more easily ingest fan Ages in the game without requiring their information to be mainlined.