[v1.0.0-1.1.0+] ZOmnibus Addon Pack/ZOmnibus Lite

[Zizzo]

Finally found the 1.7.0 beta release announcement (didn't those use to be announced here on the forum?), so I can start working on the massive job of porting what in retrospect seems like way too many addons — especially with the new localization functionality (which is probably gonna break a lot of the sneaky tricks I was pulling to edit talent descriptions and the like on the fly…). And because I'm clearly a masochist of some sort, I figure a non-backward-compatible major version change like this is an opportune time to merge new addons into ZOmnibus and/or ZOmnibus Lite, so I'm soliciting input to see if there's anything anyone would really like to see added.

Currently I have… [counts] 70 released and active addons that are not already a component of either ZOmnibus or ZOmnibus Lite (and, of course, are not themselves ZOmnibus or ZOmnibus Lite); as before, I've categorized them roughly as follows:

Ha Ha, No:

Addons that are fairly obviously too "questionable" to include in either:

• Slightly More Adventurous
• Ambush Escape
• Stop Hitting Yourself!
• Ignore Campaign/Difficulty Locks
• Ignore Race/Class Locks
• Pride Goeth
• Nur Kit
• Proper Possession
• 50 by the Sanctum
• Utility Supplies
• Worms Don't Walk
• Actually Usable Damage Reduction
• Actually Usable Bathe in Light
• Hedge Clipper
• Rod of Dissipation
• Classic Talents

Transient:

Addons fixing bugs that I expect/hope to be officially fixed in a future release, or adding features that have been promised to be included in a future release (like Visibly Looted Stalls was), and which thus would have to be clawed back out of ZOmnibus when I eventually deprecated them:

• Golem Can Pass
• Of Trolls and Dead Maggots
• SideKick Level Catchu;

Embers Only:

Addons that require one of the DLCs (Embers of Rage or Forbidden Cults), and thus can't be merged into either without making them DLC-dependent (or without a fair amount of integration effort):

• Ruined Cave Floor Sort
• Drake-Infused Forgiveness
• Prophecy Management
• Actually Useful Artifact Steamguns
• Tinker Tinkering
• Interact with the Worm
• Interact with the Mech
• Schematic Recycling
• Kruk Pride Tool Shop

In Too Deep:

Addons that make low-level structural or environmental changes that aren't really amenable to enabling or disabling via game option, and are probably too much of a change to go into ZOmnibus without that:

• Melinda on the Map
• Merchant on the Map
• Escort Rescheduling
• No Escort Quests
• Requiescat In Pace
• Invasion Portal Rain Check
• Lumberjack on the Map
• Schrödinger's Lore (Mark 2)
• Sword-n-Boardin'
• Plot Disarming
• TK Mindstars are Weapons
• Let There Be Light
• Retro Kit

Maybe Too Tweaky:

My various "class tweaks" addons, which might be too much of a change for ZOmnibus and definitely couldn't go into ZOmnibus Lite:

• Arcane Combat Tweaks
• Classic Berzerker Remix
• Sun Paladin Tweaks
• Possessor Tweaks
• Temporal Warden Tweaks
• Mindstar Mindslayer

Questionable:

Addons that I'm not sure about; they could maybe go into ZOmnibus (though it would be a stretch for some), but definitely not ZOmnibus Lite:

• Auto-Usable Wards
• Use Alchemist Gems From Inventory
• Golem Speed Lock
• Staff Infusion
• Worm that Walks as Fast as You

Gameplay Altering:

Addons that qualify under some of the reasons for omitting addons from ZOmnibus Lite, like "protection from not paying attention" or "otherwise unavailable information"; they could maybe go into ZOmnibus, but definitely not ZOmnibus Lite:

• Cloak Reminder
• Don't Summon While Meditating
• Auto-Rotate Auras/Shields

Ooh, Tough Call:

Addons that might be suitable for ZOmnibus or ZOmnibus Lite, but would probably need a game option to turn their effect on/off:

• Rage Quit
• Roguelike Chat Guard
• Alchemist Notifications
• Herald of the Herald

Sure, Why Not?

Addons that strike me as purely cosmetic or quality-of-life, and/or have game options to turn off their functionality for anyone who doesn't want it, and so should be perfectly fine in both ZOmnibus and ZOmnibus Lite:

• Displacement Tracking
• Examine Floor Stack
• Semi-Roguelike Mode
• Reflected Golem
• Roguelike Keybindings
• Golem Gender
• Tooltip Cleanup
• Verbose Crystal Resonance
• Self-Portrait Over Grass
• Curse Levels
• Menu Keys

So. Any requests?

[Cathbald]

You know what, i'll make notes on the whole list

Ha Ha, No:
Slightly More Adventurous : why not ? it has no impact outside of adventurers anyway and those aren't made to have any semblance of balance and have multiple total invincibility combo without addons already.
Stop Hitting Yourself! : you can't hit yourself with projectiles since several versions already, does the addon do anything still ?

Rest : agree (though question to "Usable BiL" that i don't get, i like getting 3k shields + 3k heal from my enemies and they have BiL more often than me so this addon is making me weaker !)

Transient:
Agree those should/will most likely be fixed.

Embers Only:
Can't really argue with integration hassle

In Too Deep:
Sword-n-Boardin' : super low impact, imo fits Zomnibus
Plot Disarming : super low impact, imo fits Zomnibus
Rest : yeah, no

Maybe Too Tweaky:
Sun Pally is QoL only so should be included, even in Lite imo
Rest : yeah, no

Questionable:
I wouldn't put any of those in Zomnibus.

Gameplay Altering:
Cloak Reminder : would put in Zomnibus
Don't summon while meditating : on the fence, probably would put
Auto-rotate Aura/Shield : no

Ooh, Tough Call:
Rage Quit : would put in Lite
Roguelike Chat Guard : would put in Zomnibus
Alchemist Notifications : would put in Zomnibus
Herald of the Herald : would put in ZOmnibus

Sure, Why Not?
Lite to all (also, Tooltip cleanup, why did i not know this existed !)

[Pisastrish]

Agree with pretty much all of Cathbald's thoughts, but I think tooltip cleanup should definitely have the option to turn off, and if roguelike chat guard is included it should be off by default. I'm worried I would mess up dialogs with it on and not realize what was happening for a while.

[Sinister Stairs]

I would use Tooltip Cleanup, and the various informational shield displays (displacement shield, retribution) would be nice. (Side request: Can you add a similar absorption status for Temporal Shield?). Seems like those could go in Zomnibus Regular Strength.

EDIT (addendum): It'd be nice to bundle up on the "on the Map" addons as their own (Melinda, Merchant, third one I forgot) instead of separate ones, esp. if you allowed enabling/disabling.

[Zizzo]

You know what, i'll make notes on the whole list

That's the kind of feedback I like to get.

Slightly More Adventurous : why not ? it has no impact outside of adventurers anyway and those aren't made to have any semblance of balance and have multiple total invincibility combo without addons already.

(shrug) I usually consider it to be in the same general category as Ignore Race/Class Locks and Ignore Campaign/Difficulty Locks (and not just because they're all playing around in the same part of the code), as the sort of illicit thing that people would side-eye if you used it.

Stop Hitting Yourself! : you can't hit yourself with projectiles since several versions already, does the addon do anything still ?

Dunno; maybe for Adventurers or characters that buy the Shoot talent in Last Hope without any of the class-specific protection-from-ammo-self-damage talents? If the general consensus is that this addon is no longer needed, I'd probably be inclined to deprecate it.

(though question to "Usable BiL" that i don't get, i like getting 3k shields + 3k heal from my enemies and they have BiL more often than me so this addon is making me weaker !)

Well, that doesn't happen to me as often.

Sun Pally is QoL only so should be included, even in Lite imo

Fair enough. I probably put it under "Maybe Too Tweaky" in anticipation of eventually doing more class-specific stuff with it, like with the other ones.

Sword-n-Boardin' : super low impact, imo fits Zomnibus
Plot Disarming : super low impact, imo fits Zomnibus
[…]
Cloak Reminder : would put in Zomnibus
Don't summon while meditating : on the fence, probably would put
[…]
Rage Quit : would put in Lite
Roguelike Chat Guard : would put in Zomnibus
Alchemist Notifications : would put in Zomnibus
Herald of the Herald : would put in ZOmnibus
[…]
Lite to all

[scratches head] Oh my… how long did we say this beta period was going to be?

(also, Tooltip cleanup, why did i not know this existed !)

(shrug) I don't always make a big deal about addons when I release them.

Agree with pretty much all of Cathbald's thoughts, but I think tooltip cleanup should definitely have the option to turn off, and if roguelike chat guard is included it should be off by default. I'm worried I would mess up dialogs with it on and not realize what was happening for a while.

That brings up another relevant question: would any of the other inclusion candidates need on/off game options? And yes, it should be fairly easy to have those on/off options default to on for the standalone addon and off for ZOmnibus; I already do something similar in Savefile Notes and Wall Clock.

(Side request: Can you add a similar absorption status for Temporal Shield?).

[sound F/X: source diving] Ah, I see; the Time Shield effect from the Temporal Shield and Time Shield talents would benefit from displaying both its remaining strength and its remaining duration in its status icon, a la Damage Shield. It looks like it would be fairly easy to write an addon for that, and I'd probably file that addon under "Sure, Why Not?" alongside Displacement Tracking, so it could even go into ZOmnibus/Lite immediately, if that would suit.

EDIT (addendum): It'd be nice to bundle up on the "on the Map" addons as their own (Melinda, Merchant, third one I forgot) instead of separate ones, esp. if you allowed enabling/disabling.

Lumberjack on the Map is the third one you're thinking of. And that last bit is the tricky bit, and why I listed them all under "In Too Deep"; all of those addons pretty much lock in their effects the first time you step onto the worldmap, after which enabling/disabling them might not even be possible.

[Cathbald]

Dunno; maybe for Adventurers or characters that buy the Shoot talent in Last Hope without any of the class-specific protection-from-ammo-self-damage talents? If the general consensus is that this addon is no longer needed, I'd probably be inclined to deprecate it.

Wouldn't matter, all projectiles are now selffire = false, this is not linked to any talent

[Zizzo]

[sound F/X: source diving] Ah, I see; the Time Shield effect from the Temporal Shield and Time Shield talents would benefit from displaying both its remaining strength and its remaining duration in its status icon, a la Damage Shield.

[sound F/X: testing] Hmm, that actually comes out looking kind of busy:

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Would it be better to use a "fractional clock" display like Displacement Tracking does?

That brings up another relevant question: would any of the other inclusion candidates need on/off game options?

No further feedback on this, so for now I'm improvising. Don't Summon While Meditationg already has an enable/disable option, and so far I've added options for Tooltip Cleanup and Roguelike Chat Guard as requested. Bbased on the presence of an option for Passive Cooldowns, I'm planning on adding options for Displacement Tracking, Curse Levels and Sun Paladin Tweaks, and based on the presence of an option for Store Wish List, I'm planning on adding options for Alchemist Notifications and Herald of the Herald, and possibly Cloak Reminder if I decide to go with it. If anyone has better ideas, speak now, or at least before the 1.7 release.

[Sinister Stairs]

EDIT (addendum): It'd be nice to bundle up on the "on the Map" addons as their own (Melinda, Merchant, third one I forgot) instead of separate ones, esp. if you allowed enabling/disabling.

Lumberjack on the Map is the third one you're thinking of. And that last bit is the tricky bit, and why I listed them all under "In Too Deep"; all of those addons pretty much lock in their effects the first time you step onto the worldmap, after which enabling/disabling them might not even be possible.

I forgot Lumberjack because I haven't used it / personally don't see the need for it. I think Lumberjack is even less iffy than Melinda & Merchant, because all the event does is trigger an informational pop-up that the zone now exists; unlike Merchant which forces you into the lair. Now, instead of a pop-up, there's an NPC -- so IMO I don't see that as much a "cheat" as Merchant, which lets you decide when to enter the lair.

[sound F/X: source diving] Ah, I see; the Time Shield effect from the Temporal Shield and Time Shield talents would benefit from displaying both its remaining strength and its remaining duration in its status icon, a la Damage Shield.

[sound F/X: testing] Hmm, that actually comes out looking kind of busy:

tshield-display.png

Would it be better to use a "fractional clock" display like Displacement Tracking does?

That would be ideal, but what you screenshotted is already an improvement.

That brings up another relevant question: would any of the other inclusion candidates need on/off game options?

Just a thought: Consider moving all the options to their own Zomnibus and/or Zizzo tab in the options menu. You have so many great addons that I use, I no longer know which are standard T-Engine/ToME options, and which are "Zizzo" options.

[Zizzo]

I forgot Lumberjack because I haven't used it / personally don't see the need for it. I think Lumberjack is even less iffy than Melinda & Merchant, because all the event does is trigger an informational pop-up that the zone now exists; unlike Merchant which forces you into the lair. Now, instead of a pop-up, there's an NPC -- so IMO I don't see that as much a "cheat" as Merchant, which lets you decide when to enter the lair.

True; the main reason I wrote it was that wandering around in the area north of Last Hope trying to randomly bump into the invisible lumberjack encounter could get annoying. And yes, of the three, this is the one I'd be mostly likely to add to ZOmnibus, in the spirit of Sword-n-Boardin' or Plot DIsarming.

Would it be better to use a "fractional clock" display like Displacement Tracking does?

That would be ideal, but what you screenshotted is already an improvement.

[sound F/X: further testing] Yeah, I think this works better:

tshield-display2.png (10.43 KiB) Viewed 18359 times

Just a thought: Consider moving all the options to their own Zomnibus and/or Zizzo tab in the options menu. You have so many great addons that I use, I no longer know which are standard T-Engine/ToME options, and which are "Zizzo" options.

Hmm, I think Nekarcos does that with their Quality of Life addons. Looks like there might be room in the tabs list of the game options dialog for it. What about in the stand-alone component addons of ZOmnibus, though? Should they also put their game options under this [ZOmnibus] tab?

[Cathbald]

Definitely. Easier to find, and would reduce the number of time i see people say "it's in the options" not remembering they have zomnibus and it's a part of it

[Pisastrish]

Yeah, even the base game's option menu is kind of overwhelming for me, I would definitely appreciate a separate tab.

[Pisastrish]

Also looked over the addons again, and the only other one that stands out to me as definitely needing an option is cloak reminder. It seems like it could get annoying when changing zones a lot to test something in dev mode

[Thexare]

Had a nasty case of the blinkies in one of those tentacle trees. I don't know what the cause is but this is the only mod actually mentioned in the errors. I freely admit it could be a compatibility issue with one of my numerous active mods though. Error follows, note that the last one repeated infinitely until I force-quit.

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[LOG]	Insidious Blight from Corrupted mastocytic feeder hits Corrupted acidic digestor for #DARK_GREEN#12 blight#LAST# damage.
Lua Error: /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:1154: bad argument #2 to 'long_desc' (number expected, got nil)
	At [C]:-1 
	At [C]:-1 long_desc
	At /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:1154 handleEffect
	At /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:1369 super_displayBuffs
	At ...addons/zomnibus/superload/mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:244 displayBuffs
	At /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:2013 super_display
	At ...addons/zomnibus/superload/mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:105 display
	At /mod/class/Game.lua:1907 
[target_simple AI]	797778	chitinous spider	selecting NEW TARGET	24	17	796109	corrupted acidic digestor
[improved_talented AI] chooses for	797778	chitinous spider	T_INFUSION:_HEROISM_2
[LOG]	Chitinous spider uses #{bold}##GREEN#Infusion: Heroism.#{normal}##LAST#
Lua Error: /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:1154: bad argument #2 to 'long_desc' (number expected, got nil)
	At [C]:-1 
	At [C]:-1 long_desc
	At /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:1154 handleEffect
	At /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:1369 super_displayBuffs
	At ...addons/zomnibus/superload/mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:244 displayBuffs
	At /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:2013 super_display
	At ...addons/zomnibus/superload/mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:105 display
	At /mod/class/Game.lua:1907 
[target_simple AI]	797778	chitinous spider	selecting NEW TARGET	24	17	796109	corrupted acidic digestor
[improved_talented AI] chooses for	797778	chitinous spider	T_LAY_WEB
[LOG]	#ORCHID##{bold}#Chitinous spider seems to search the ground...#{normal}##LAST#
[LOG]	
Lua Error: /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:1154: bad argument #2 to 'long_desc' (number expected, got nil)
	At [C]:-1 
	At [C]:-1 long_desc
	At /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:1154 handleEffect
	At /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:1369 super_displayBuffs
	At ...addons/zomnibus/superload/mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:244 displayBuffs
	At /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:2013 super_display
	At ...addons/zomnibus/superload/mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:105 display
	At /mod/class/Game.lua:1907 
Lua Error: /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:1154: bad argument #2 to 'long_desc' (number expected, got nil)
	At [C]:-1 
	At [C]:-1 long_desc
	At /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:1154 handleEffect
	At /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:1369 super_displayBuffs
	At ...addons/zomnibus/superload/mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:244 displayBuffs
	At /mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:2013 super_display
	At ...addons/zomnibus/superload/mod/class/uiset/Minimalist.lua:105 display
	At /mod/class/Game.lua:1907 

[Zizzo]

Had a nasty case of the blinkies in one of those tentacle trees. I don't know what the cause is but this is the only mod actually mentioned in the errors. I freely admit it could be a compatibility issue with one of my numerous active mods though. Error follows, note that the last one repeated infinitely until I force-quit.

[sound F/X: source diving] …Well, the two dips into ZOmnibus are pass-throughs to superloaded parent methods, and I've checked both and confirmed that they're passing through all the arguments they're supposed to, so I don't think that's the problem. AFAICT this is being caused by a temporary effect with a bad long_desc() method, but from the stack trace there's no way to tell which one. For reference, is this on the release version or the beta?

[Thexare]

Was on release, specifically testing nsrr's Stalker. I don't think it was anything in that though, with how long it took to happen.