[REL] Live Economy Graphs v0.1.3

Hey people,

I've been spending some time on a new mod depicting your economic history graphically. I played a few games with it enabled and it was awesome both in 1p games and shared teamgames.

Now this is still a work in progress but it's very much usable. Try it out!

Video by PAMatches


Screenshot
Default position:

Dragged around:


What you are looking at

Left side

• Blue line: metal income
• Grey area: metal usage

Right side

• Yellow line: energy income
• Grey area: energy usage

The graph right now shows about 2 minutes of gameplay history. The graph range is always from zero to the max usage in the past two minutes.

Incompatibility
There are no known compatibility issues as of v0.1.1.

Plans

• Add economy efficiency/wasted resources to the graph.
• In the future I plan to create extra settings. It's easy to show any statistics available in the game this way but why not make the speed, colors, size and data displayed configurable?

Libraries

• jQuery
• SmoothieCharts

Github
https://github.com/TheMagnificentWerty/wEconomyGraphs

PAMM
Now available on PAMM!

Testing
I probably wont encounter all the bugs/problems that are going to come forward with this mod. If you've used my mod and encountered problems small or big, please post them here to I can look into it.

Nice. I didn't want to go this far because I expected to keep them inside the bar, which would be tiny. Maybe sparklines.

Suggestion: show the net amount as a red or green area between the two lines.

Looks very promissing, I might try this out now...

Doesn't really work on small windows through.

Added to PAMM. Nice mod.

Compatibility with other mods should be easy, you just need to use the floating framework so your graphs can be dragged around.

does it work with Economic efficiency?

He says in the description. It's compatible, but overlaps a little.

Sounds like a pretty nifty mod!

Let me know when it works with Economic Efficiency.

Edit: It's compatible now!

I just performed a mainly cosmetic update on the mod and the charts are now draggable, eliminating compatibility issues. It should be on PAMM as soon as it's accepted.

See the screenshots for it's new look.

This would be awesome, I should look into if thats possible with SmoothieChart.

I wasn't quite as easy as it seemed. Before the mod lived in the 'live_game_econ' view and not in the 'live_game' view because it missed eco data in the model. I had to add said data to the model before I could use it, it works now though (or as soon as it's in PAMM).

When my updates comes through on PAMM it will have no compatibility issues with said mods.

Pull request just got merged.

This looks pretty awesome. I will definitely be looking into using this.

I had to find just the right spot to get metal out from under players, but it worked.

FYI

I will have a look at this, it should be easy to drag them away for users. Thanks for the feedback.

Can you give me link to that discussion about seperation of panels or any other resource? I would like to learn more about that, it's quite interesting.

Click the up-arrow next to the quote author's name. Unfortunately there isn't much beyond what I quoted. From what I can tell, mods should have access to the scene creation (Panel) interface, but I'm not sure how that would work with Floating Framework.

The graphs look awesome, but they break PA Stats.
2 combined problems kill it 100% every time:
1.)
You are using $(document).ready(...) This puts you behind all other mods, so you are loaded last. Don't do this. Usually there is no need to use document ready. Mods are loaded in such a handler already. In fact using the document ready handler will make it impossible for you to do some kinds of knockout binding manipulations.
So just don't do it, run your code directly.

2.) You are doing this with the army handler:

Code:

    handlers.army = function (payload) {
    ....
    }

This overwrites the handler if any other mod has one. Yes PA itself has no handler, but it turns out PA Stats is very interested into that handler as well.
PA Stats however is nicer to other mods and does this:

Code:

var oldHandlerArmy = handlers.army
handlers.army = function(payload) {
if (oldHandlerArmy) {
oldHandlerArmy(payload);
}
};

So if PA Stats would be loaded last nobody would notice. But the document ready puts the graph constantly behind PA Stats, overwriting the handler, resulting in PA Stats never being notified that the game started.

EDIT:
Another thing you might want to think about is putting your mod into the economy subscene of live_game. It's kind of part of that scene.

Thanks for the feedback. PA Stats still seems to work for me strangely. But you have valid points.

I added this while debugging and I forgot to change it back, thanks.

Yeah, this is not done the proper way by me, I will fix this.

You are talking about the "live_game_econ.html" panel right? Because this is how I started out (v0.1.0), but I had a hard time adding the windows to rFloatFrame as mouse clicks did not seem to register so I moved them to the live_game.

Edit: I have applied the fixes and they are now waiting to be pulled (v0.1.3).

I've never used rFloatFrame myself, so dunno. Not a big fan of floating frames in general.

PA Stats monitors other stuff as well and fiddles with far more (i.e. the alerts) things, it cannot be put into the economy scene.

EDIT:
merged your pull request, fixed the updated date and pushed to pamm

Yeah PAStats doesn't have much UI to worry about. I think users would like to be able to drag the graphs around though. rFloatFrame remembers position, does snapping etc. It's a good user experience.

Not a fan in a personal subjective sense. I hate it when I randomly move around stuff without wishing to do so

Ah yeah I don't like that either. rFloatFrame is a great addition to usability though and it brings standardization to the way mods handle their windows and positioning. I love it.