Chobby Alpha Release

gajop and I are in the process of making a lobby/game menu with Chili directly in Spring. We have reached the point where feedback and testing from a wider pool of people is useful. Really keen people could even switch to Chobby as it can already do basically everything ZKL can do. This is an alpha so quite a few features are not there. The friends, matchmaking and quick start tabs are empty and modoptions cannot be set. However, we have fairly decent local singleplayer.

Download: https://github.com/Spring-Chobby/Chobby/releases/tag/v0a.0.7.0

Fullscreen mode:


Windowed mode:


Here is a more complete list of contributors: https://github.com/Spring-Chobby/Chobby/graphs/contributors

new/bugs regressions: it's an alpha release of a new lobby, how can it have regressions?
crashing takes zk with it: it runs in a separate process for now so that doesn't happen
loblob

I should point out that I haven't had an attempt at making a decent external lobby.

Thanks for the feedback. These are the issues:
- distinguish usernames better: https://github.com/Spring-Chobby/Chobby/issues/228
- map search: https://github.com/Spring-Chobby/Chobby/issues/217
- download not refreshing properly sometimes(?): https://github.com/Spring-Chobby/Chobby/issues/229

on rerun it seem that lobby window state [fullscreen/windowed/fullscreen windowed] are linked to game window state [as expected] and game window state override the chobby window state option.

No. While some of the issues reported here were fixed, there's been far less work on it recently.
The goal of the next milestone is to deal with matchmaking, friends and teams (parties), but that might require some extra work with ZKS, and the plan is to implement it first on uber.

Chobby is not Alpha yet (I guess) so, please, add it to Linux lobbys for Zero-K in http://zero-k.info/Wiki/Download page. SpringLobby is not updated since 2015 (at least for me, 64 bits version) and DOESN'T work for me months ago, but Chobby does.

Thank you

I am not a tech student/professional [I am a nurse by the way]. quite clueless about using Git actually

So if you don't mind making a more detail version of how to compile. Else I'll look into it when I have free time [there's some near the end of the universe].


tried pr-dpwnloader:

C:\Users\Tera Goldenmoon\Documents\My Games\Spring\engine\100.0.1-1136-g1ea4d20>pr-downloader chobby:test "Blank v1"
pr-downloader 0.7-293-gf70d00d
[Info] Using filesystem-writepath: C:\Users\Tera Goldenmoon\Documents\My Games\Spring
[Info] opened C:\Users\Tera Goldenmoon\Documents\My Games\Spring\rapid\repos.springrts.com\repos.gz
[Progress] 0% [ ] 0/0
[Info] Found 25 repos in C:\Users\Tera Goldenmoon\Documents\My Games\Spring\rapid\repos.springrts.com\repos.gz
[Info] opened C:\Users\Tera Goldenmoon\Documents\My Games\Spring\rapid\chobby.repo.springrts.com\versions.gz
[Progress] 100% [==============================] 13192/13192
[Error] ../../tools/pr-downloader/src/main.cpp:188:main(): No file found for Blank v1
[Error] ../../tools/pr-downloader/src/pr-downloader.cpp:68:GetIDownloadByID(): GetIDownloadByID: Couln't find dl 0
[Info] Download complete!


so?

Some changes have been made in the last few weeks. Many of them were layout or usability changes based on this thread. However, there is nothing currently that requires more testing and I don't want tester fatigue. There is a working bee planned this weekend and I hope to get enough changes out of it to make another alpha release.

In the meantime, if you want to test/use latest Chobby you can do the following:

• Download https://github.com/Spring-Chobby/Chobby/releases/tag/v0a.0.7.0
• Delete Chobby.sd7 from the games subfolder.
• Click "Clone or Download" here https://github.com/Spring-Chobby/Chobby/tree/v0a.0.7.0 to get the development version.
• Put the content of the download in games/chobby.sdd. So you should have a file with the path "games/chobby.sdd/modinfo.lua".
• Open script.txt (in the root folder) and change "Chobby v0a.0.7.0" to "Chobby $VERSION".

Downloading as a zip is self explanatory but is not useful for update. With git you can incrementally download updates, make changes and commit them back to development. On windows I like tortiseGit https://tortoisegit.org/

It would be useful to have a few testers with some ability to closely follow updates and make good reports.

Overlapping element seems to be an error and "Minimap not found" is a known issue (needs implementation to load custom minimaps).
I don't want to resize the battleroom status (heading), as I want to leave room for queues, last game/replay, and maybe server status/news/motd/team overview.