[PATCH] Show graphs in the summary screen

[elexis]

Concept We should have some charts in the summary screen, so that the advancement of the game can be understood. The particular score should be plotted on the Y-axis with time on the X-axis. We should show the same categories that we already display for the end of the game. Implementation Saving stats over time: As seen in leaveGame() in session.js, we would only need to capture Engine.GuiInterfaceCall("GetExtendedSimulationState").players every N minutes and pass it to the summary screen. It currently contains the following data per player:

{
    "unitsTrained": {
        "Infantry": 0,
        "Worker": 0,
        "Female": 0,
        "Cavalry": 0,
        "Champion": 0,
        "Hero": 0,
        "Ship": 0,
        "Trader": 0,
        "total": 0
    },
    "unitsLost": {
        "Infantry": 0,
        "Worker": 0,
        "Female": 0,
        "Cavalry": 0,
        "Champion": 0,
        "Hero": 0,
        "Ship": 0,
        "Trader": 0,
        "total": 0
    },
    "unitsLostValue": 0,
    "enemyUnitsKilled": {
        "Infantry": 0,
        "Worker": 0,
        "Female": 0,
        "Cavalry": 0,
        "Champion": 0,
        "Hero": 0,
        "Ship": 0,
        "Trader": 0,
        "total": 0
    },
    "enemyUnitsKilledValue": 0,
    "buildingsConstructed": {
        "House": 0,
        "Economic": 0,
        "Outpost": 0,
        "Military": 0,
        "Fortress": 0,
        "CivCentre": 0,
        "Wonder": 0,
        "total": 0
    },
    "buildingsLost": {
        "House": 0,
        "Economic": 0,
        "Outpost": 0,
        "Military": 0,
        "Fortress": 0,
        "CivCentre": 0,
        "Wonder": 0,
        "total": 0
    },
    "buildingsLostValue": 0,
    "enemyBuildingsDestroyed": {
        "House": 0,
        "Economic": 0,
        "Outpost": 0,
        "Military": 0,
        "Fortress": 0,
        "CivCentre": 0,
        "Wonder": 0,
        "total": 0
    },
    "enemyBuildingsDestroyedValue": 0,
    "resourcesGathered": {
        "food": 0,
        "wood": 0,
        "metal": 0,
        "stone": 0,
        "vegetarianFood": 0
    },
    "resourcesUsed": {
        "food": 0,
        "wood": 0,
        "metal": 0,
        "stone": 0
    },
    "resourcesSold": {
        "food": 0,
        "wood": 0,
        "metal": 0,
        "stone": 0
    },
    "resourcesBought": {
        "food": 0,
        "wood": 0,
        "metal": 0,
        "stone": 0
    },
    "tributesSent": 0,
    "tributesReceived": 0,
    "tradeIncome": 0,
    "treasuresCollected": 0,
    "lootCollected": 0,
    "percentMapExplored": 16,
    "teamPercentMapExplored": 16,
    "percentMapControlled": 12,
    "teamPercentMapControlled": 12,
    "peakPercentMapControlled": 0,
    "teamPeakPercentMapControlled": 0
}

This takes about 10kb space for 8 players. So saving a state every minute would cost roughly 1MB memory every 2 hours. In case #3258 will be implemented, it should save those states using zip compression, reducing the file size by maybe 90%. Displaying the charts: We could have a checkbox somewhere (for example besides the button) to toggle between charts and numbers. This way you can switch between tabs and correlate the graphs of the different tabs.

[elexis]

There has been a charts mod out there, see: ​http://wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18763&page=2 (version 17 & 18) ​https://github.com/agentx-cgn/Mod-Chart (version 17)

But it has some flaws:

• outdated (r15952)
• it renders the graphs by printing png images containing colored dots - I hope we can render actual lines.
• it only tracks buildings, units and resources.

[s0600204]

I've taken the liberty of forking and updating the charts-mod elexis mentioned so it now works with the current SVN state. The updated mod may be acquired from ​https://github.com/0ADMods/summary-charts.

It would be nice to have a better way of doing the GUI stuff however, and perhaps some thought could be given as to specifics after A19 ships.

[Stan]

The following patch was made by AgentX and modified by s0600204 to be compatible, I just made the patch. Note that you will probably have to copy the png files as the patch don't support binary well.

[elexis]

Interested.

The c++ GUI part might become somewhat tedious.

[leper]

Given that the original mod isn't under any specified license and the modifications do not change that (how could they), this cannot be included as it is.

Also unless there is some work on having the actual graph drawing done in C++ (or at least not by using a hack on top of the gui repeat code) this is unlikely to be included.

[Stan]

I'm going to ask AgentX about the license.

[Stan]

AgentX is going to put it under the M.I.T. License.

About the hack he replied that's how he was told to do it on the forums when he started it.