drone

Small player controlled fixer-upper

The maintenace drone is a ghost role with the objective to repair and maintain the station.

Featuring two dexterous hands, and a built in toolbox stocked with tools.

They have laws to prevent them from doing anything else.

Vars
alarms	List of active alarms. See /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/proc/triggerAlarm and /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/proc/cancelAlarm
colour	Stored drone color, restored when unhacked
default_hatmask	Default /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/var/head item
default_storage	Default /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/var/internal_storage item
flavortext	Flavor text announced to drones on /mob/proc/Login
hacked	Hacked state, see /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/proc/update_drone_hack
head	Headwear slot
heavy_emp_damage	Amount of damage sustained if hit by a heavy EMP pulse
internal_storage	Internal storage slot. Fits any item
laws	Drone laws announced on spawn
picked	`TRUE` if we have picked our visual appearance, `FALSE` otherwise (default)
visualAppearance	icon_state of drone from icons/mobs/drone.dmi
Procs
alert_drones	Wraps /proc/_alert_drones with defaults
cancelAlarm	Clears alarm and alerts drones
check_laws	Echoes drone laws to the user
check_menu	check_menu: Checks if we are allowed to interact with a radial menu
drone_chat	Wraps /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/proc/alert_drones as a Drone Chat
drone_ping	Creates an alert to drones in the same network
freeCamera	This isn't currently needed since drones do jack shit with cameras. I hate this code so much
liberate
pickVisualAppearance	Prompt for usr to pick /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/var/visualAppearance
triggerAlarm	Alerts drones about different priorities of alarms
try_reactivate	Called when a drone attempts to reactivate a dead drone
update_drone_hack	Hack or unhack a drone
update_drone_icon_hacked	Changes the icon state to a hacked version

Var Details

var
alarms
–

List of active alarms. See /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/proc/triggerAlarm and /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/proc/cancelAlarm

var
colour
–

Stored drone color, restored when unhacked

var
default_hatmask
– /obj/item

Default /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/var/head item

var
default_storage
– /obj/item

Default /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/var/internal_storage item

var
flavortext
–

Flavor text announced to drones on /mob/proc/Login

var
hacked
–

Hacked state, see /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/proc/update_drone_hack

var
head
– /obj/item

Headwear slot

var
heavy_emp_damage
–

Amount of damage sustained if hit by a heavy EMP pulse

var
internal_storage
– /obj/item

Internal storage slot. Fits any item

var
laws
–

Drone laws announced on spawn

var
picked
–

TRUE if we have picked our visual appearance, FALSE otherwise (default)

var
visualAppearance
–

icon_state of drone from icons/mobs/drone.dmi

Possible states are:

Proc Details

proc
alert_drones
(msg, dead_can_hear)

Wraps /proc/_alert_drones with defaults

source - src
faction_check_mob - src
dead_can_hear - TRUE

proc
cancelAlarm
(class, /area/A, /obj/origin)

Clears alarm and alerts drones

Arguments:

class - One of the keys listed in /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/var/alarms
A - /area the alarm occurs
alarmsource - /atom source of the alarm

verb
check_laws
()

Echoes drone laws to the user

See /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/var/laws

proc
check_menu
()

check_menu: Checks if we are allowed to interact with a radial menu

proc
drone_chat
(msg)

Wraps /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/proc/alert_drones as a Drone Chat

Shares the same radio code with binary

verb
drone_ping
()

Creates an alert to drones in the same network

Prompts user for alert level of:

Low
Medium
High
Critical

Attaches area name to message

proc
freeCamera
(/area/home, /obj/machinery/camera/cam)

This isn't currently needed since drones do jack shit with cameras. I hate this code so much

proc
liberate
()

F R E E D R O N EREEDRONE

proc
pickVisualAppearance
()

Prompt for usr to pick /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/var/visualAppearance

Does nothing if there is no usr

Called on /mob/proc/Login

proc
triggerAlarm
(class, /area/home, cameras, /obj/source)

Alerts drones about different priorities of alarms

Arguments:

class - One of the keys listed in /mob/living/simple_animal/drone/var/alarms
A - /area the alarm occurs
O - unused argument, see [/mob/living/silicon/robot/triggerAlarm]
alarmsource - /atom source of the alarm

proc
try_reactivate
(/mob/living/user)

Called when a drone attempts to reactivate a dead drone

If the owner is still ghosted, will notify them. If the owner cannot be found, fails with an error message.

Arguments:

user - The /mob/living attempting to reactivate the drone

proc
update_drone_hack
(hack)

Hack or unhack a drone

This changes the drone's laws to destroy the station or resets them to normal.

Some debuffs are applied like slowing the drone down and disabling vent crawling

Arguments

hack - Boolean if the drone is being hacked or unhacked

proc
update_drone_icon_hacked
()

Changes the icon state to a hacked version

Maintenance Drone /mob/living/simple_animal/drone

Vars

Procs

Var Details

var alarms –

var colour –

var default_hatmask – /obj/item

var default_storage – /obj/item

var flavortext –

var hacked –

var head – /obj/item

var heavy_emp_damage –

var internal_storage – /obj/item

var laws –

var picked –

var visualAppearance –

Proc Details

proc alert_drones(msg, dead_can_hear)

proc cancelAlarm(class, /area/A, /obj/origin)

verb check_laws()

proc check_menu()

proc drone_chat(msg)

verb drone_ping()

proc freeCamera(/area/home, /obj/machinery/camera/cam)

proc liberate()

proc pickVisualAppearance()

proc triggerAlarm(class, /area/home, cameras, /obj/source)

proc try_reactivate(/mob/living/user)

proc update_drone_hack(hack)

proc update_drone_icon_hacked()

Maintenance Drone
/mob/living/simple_animal/drone

var
alarms
–

var
colour
–

var
default_hatmask
– /obj/item

var
default_storage
– /obj/item

var
flavortext
–

var
hacked
–

var
head
– /obj/item

var
heavy_emp_damage
–

var
internal_storage
– /obj/item

var
laws
–

var
picked
–

var
visualAppearance
–

proc
alert_drones
(msg, dead_can_hear)

proc
cancelAlarm
(class, /area/A, /obj/origin)

verb
check_laws
()

proc
check_menu
()

proc
drone_chat
(msg)

verb
drone_ping
()

proc
freeCamera
(/area/home, /obj/machinery/camera/cam)

proc
liberate
()

proc
pickVisualAppearance
()

proc
triggerAlarm
(class, /area/home, cameras, /obj/source)

proc
try_reactivate
(/mob/living/user)

proc
update_drone_hack
(hack)

proc
update_drone_icon_hacked
()