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My Infinizoom mod uses the zoom API to allow players to zoom in or out as much as the engine allows far beyond what is possible in vanilla 1.1. In 2.0.9 (only 2.x version I've tested) the API no longer allows zooming beyond the vanilla limits.

I can't find anything explicit about this in the change log so it might be an unintended consequence of some other change?

To test compare the results of
/c game.player.zoom = 0.05
in 1.1 and 2.0

While the rendering was pretty broken when approaching the limits of the engine, the functionality still has been useful enough when placing very large blueprints.

Moving to modding interface requests.

I did a quick search on the mod portal and the (undocumented) API-change seems to break about 5-10 mods, though in some cases only partially. Going by download numbers for the "pure" zoom mods, this affects something like 30k users.

Yes, zooming in the game has changed; it's essentially been completely rewritten and moved to game state. Now that 2.0 is released and the features have stabilised, I plan to go back and reintroduce a formal modding API for manipulating player zoom levels and zoom ranges.

StrangePan wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 2:37 pm Yes, zooming in the game has changed; it's essentially been completely rewritten and moved to game state. Now that 2.0 is released and the features have stabilised, I plan to go back and reintroduce a formal modding API for manipulating player zoom levels and zoom ranges.

And reading zoom level, surely? Since it's now part of the game state.

Interesting! I figured there'd be changes brought on by the remote view etc. but not that they were that comprehensive.

I'll look forward to reworked API (or perhaps even configuration?) support for zooming. As I've been hacking around the limitations of the current API since 0.14, I'll try to be patient

This also affects the Jetpack mod.
In 2.0, changing controller resets the zoom. Since LuaPlayer::zoom is write-only, we cannot read the original value to reset the zoom back to how it was before the controller change.

At least to me it would be enough to extend support of some LuaPlayer.set_controller(...) parameters instead of limiting them only to cutscene.

character: start_zoom, chart_mode_cutoff
remote: start_position, start_zoom, chart_mode_cutoff

StrangePan wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 2:37 pm Yes, zooming in the game has changed; it's essentially been completely rewritten and moved to game state. Now that 2.0 is released and the features have stabilised, I plan to go back and reintroduce a formal modding API for manipulating player zoom levels and zoom ranges.

That is good news, thank you.

_and please make LuaPlayer.zoom readable. _
to make things depends on zoom.
- scan area of the field of view
- walking speed
The approach I have had to use for years is somewhat imprecise and there are undesirable side effects.

+1 to having LuaPlayer.zoom readable. Would be very nice for implementing parallax zooming in one of my mods.

StrangePan wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 2:37 pm Yes, zooming in the game has changed; it's essentially been completely rewritten and moved to game state. Now that 2.0 is released and the features have stabilised, I plan to go back and reintroduce a formal modding API for manipulating player zoom levels and zoom ranges.

So, how is the reprogramming coming along. I don't like that when I jump into a jetpack, it changes the zoom level. It is very annoying when combatting biters and the screen zooms in too much. Can it just stay the same as before jumping into a jetpack? When is this expected to be addressed please?

Cyclonut wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2025 5:26 am

StrangePan wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 2:37 pm Yes, zooming in the game has changed; it's essentially been completely rewritten and moved to game state. Now that 2.0 is released and the features have stabilised, I plan to go back and reintroduce a formal modding API for manipulating player zoom levels and zoom ranges.

So, how is the reprogramming coming along. I don't like that when I jump into a jetpack, it changes the zoom level. It is very annoying when combatting biters and the screen zooms in too much. Can it just stay the same as before jumping into a jetpack? When is this expected to be addressed please?

I'm presently focused on other more pressing tasks, but this is still something I plan on addressing before 2.1.

+1

Additionally, could the `chart_mode_cutoff` also be configurable with this new API? Meaning the zoom level at which the chart is drawn. This is currently only possible with the Cutscene Controller.

+1

With the new zoom API I can once again fill the screen with a single pixel, all is well in the world

Thanks for working on this!