S&D Drone Systems

0.3.4

RECON TABLET
- Two games to play on the tablet. Knot Again: a fibre-optic take on snake. Air Mail: fly a dropper along the top of the screen and lead your parcels onto a convoy on the road below. Your best scores are saved.
- The tablet's keys are now the arrow keys: Down for next, Up for previous, Right for select. There is a new key bind for previous. Controller is unchanged.
- In a game the arrows steer, Right starts, Left goes back and Esc pauses. Air Mail drops with Enter. On a controller the left stick steers, the right trigger drops and Menu pauses.
- The arrow keys no longer walk your character while the tablet is in your hand.
- U and I go back to the radio beep and the worn jammer's switch.

BALANCE
- Buildable jammers are cut down on every band: the static station now reaches about 300 m and the sector jammer about 600 m. A station protects the base it is built in instead of reaching the next town.
- Fibre is much harder to break. Your own props rarely cut it, people and vehicles are far less likely to snap it, and it takes a much harder pull to part it. Another drone's props and cutting it by hand still work.

IN VEHICLES
- The feed interceptor now works from a vehicle seat.
- A worn backpack jammer keeps working when you sit in a vehicle.

FOR MODDERS
- Add-on mods can now add more radio bands and their own GPS behaviour. Nothing changes in play without one.

0.3.3

NEW GEAR
- Recon tablet: watch your side's recon drone feeds live on a rugged tablet with a 90s-style screen, a menu and a drone map showing where each friendly drone is, its heading and where its camera is looking. Keys: U for next and I for menu or select. Raise it and it stays in front of your eyes wherever you look.

FLYING
- Droppers and thermite drones can zoom up to 4x (Numpad + / -). Hold Left Alt or RB to aim the camera with the mouse or the sticks.

BALANCE
- The backpack jammer now only reaches about 150 m. It still stops a drone flying at you, but no longer cuts drones a kilometre or more away.

FEED INTERCEPTOR
- No more rifle scope reticle on its picture, and the picture is no longer too dark outdoors.

WORKBENCH
- With a BM-24 on the workbench stand, the workbench menu has a Pick up drone button.

0.3.2

BACKPACK JAMMER
- Completely new look, with two whip antennas and redone straps.
- Now comes in US, Russian and green versions. Each side's arsenal sells its own.
- You can now hear its cooling fans when it's switched on.

FLYING
- New JAMMED warning on the OSD.
- Redone targeting view on the tracking camera.
- Fibre doesn't cut as easily.
- The picture goes black behind menus while flying, so they no longer give a clear view through the drone.
- Recon drones show ten figure grids and have a steadier camera.

CONTROLLER
- You can now put the throttle on a trigger.
- The d-pad and quickslots no longer end your flight.
- Fixes to the tracking camera and camera controls.

NEW GEAR
- Field antenna: set it up on the ground and your drone reaches about twice as far.

BALANCE
- Thermite takes about 6 seconds under a vehicle to set it alight.
- Jammer stations no longer jam video and GPS across the whole map.

FEED INTERCEPTOR
- New boot screen, and clearer messages when there's no picture.
- Takes one inventory slot instead of two.

INVENTORY
- FPV drones and the fibre box fit in any vanilla bag, one drone per bag.
- Fibre spools take up less room, and mortar racks, the RKG-3 and the printed bomb fit in normal bags.

OTHER
- A workbench built outside the main base now works for the side that built it.
- New arsenal and Game Master pictures.
- New settings for modders and server owners: thermite burn time and jammer range. The eight empty SDS_ArsenalPack files are gone, so use Configs/SDS/Arsenal/Packs/ instead.

0.3.1

0.3.0

S&D Drone Systems 0.3.0

DRONE OSD
- New Drone OSD settings tab: move, hide and restyle everything with a live preview
- Ten fonts, 14 centre marks, HD colours, four profiles and share codes
- Boot screen the first time a drone flies (you can turn it off)

SOUND
- While flying you hear your motor and voice chat, with gunfire and explosions turned right down
- Optional S&D Drone Sound Gate addon silences gunfire and explosions completely
- Motors now react to flips and stick moves, and critical warnings sound a buzzer

FLYING
- Coloured tape on the arms and battery shows a drone's side: US blue, USSR red, FIA green
- The Fly key always tells you why a flight can't start
- Disarming in the air now asks for a second press
- A knocked-out pilot stops flying, and the drone hovers if it can

WORKBENCH
- Charge batteries from the menu
- Your draft stays when you walk away, and you can order your saved builds
- Menus and messages now come in 9 more languages

CONFLICT
- Shooting down an enemy drone earns XP
- Arsenal ranks now match the workbench, and the server enforces them
- New server settings: workshop-only drones, drone and pilot limits, and turning off HD and 16:9

MODDERS
- Add fonts, tape colours, parts, frames and arsenal items from config, with no script
- Config mistakes now print a warning
- Updated License to APL-SA

CREDITS
- OSD fonts based on DamienG's ZX Origins: https://damieng.com/zx-origins

0.2.8

0.2.7

DRONE OSD
- New Settings tab "Drone OSD", next to "Drone". Move, hide and restyle every part of your drone's OSD while you watch a live preview over a real drone camera picture.
- Text size for the whole OSD (70 to 130 %), and the warning text size, are both in this tab.
- Ten fonts. Five are based on DamienG's ZX Origins collection: CannonFire, Security Concepts, OCR-A, Segment8 and No Step.
- HD mode: pick a colour for each part and a warning colour. Analog stays white, like a real OSD chip.
- Display styles: battery as volts, per cell, % or mAh used; speed in km/h, m/s or mph; altitude in m or ft; distance in m/km or ft/mi.
- Four profiles. Use one for every drone or a different one for each airframe. Share codes copy a layout to a friend.
- Anyone who picks up your drone's video sees your layout, font and colours, like a real analog feed.
- New drones show a short boot screen the first time they are flown: the S&D logo, the mod version and a few hints. The drone flies straight away, and any stick or arming skips it. You can turn it off in Settings > Drone OSD.
- The craft name always shows now. When the top row is full it moves out of the way instead of disappearing. (IN PROGRESS)
- CONNECTION LOST and the other full-screen messages now use your OSD font. (IN PROGRESS)

FOR SERVER OWNERS
- New setting "osdAllowHd" in SDS/ServerSettings.json (default true). Set it to false and every drone OSD draws as analog (white, no colours, no Digital HD font) for every player and on every feed interceptor.
- New setting "osdAllowWide" (default true). Set it to false and no FPV drone gets a 16:9 picture: the wide-angle camera shows 4:3 with the standard view, so it gives no extra field of view.
- Players keep their own HD and 16:9 choices, which come back on servers that allow them. An existing settings file keeps the defaults; add a key to change it.
- Server and players must run this same version.

CREDITS
- OSD font based on CannonFire Bold by DamienG https://damieng.com/zx-origins
- OSD font based on Security Concepts by DamienG https://damieng.com/zx-origins
- OSD font based on ZX OCR-A by DamienG https://damieng.com/zx-origins
- OSD font based on Segment8 by DamienG https://damieng.com/zx-origins
- OSD font based on No Step by DamienG https://damieng.com/zx-origins

0.2.6

0.2.5

FLYING
- New "Fly / exit drone" key in Settings > Keybinds > Drone. It starts on the same key as before, but you can now move it without changing every other gadget.
- A drone left in angle mode now hovers where you left it instead of falling. It holds its spot and height until you fly it again (from any distance), or lands where it is when the battery runs low. Drones in acro mode still drop.
- The R12 and BM-24 recon builds now stay on station when you leave them on a dedicated server.
- Drones can no longer be flown from a vehicle seat, a turret or a mounted weapon such as a mortar.

STRIKES
- Strike drones now detonate when they fly into people. Before, they passed straight through soldiers without going off. A slow bump still does nothing.
- Thermite fires no longer burn for minutes on end and drag the frame rate down. A canister still sets a big fire, but it stops spreading 45 seconds after it catches and burns out within about two minutes. A burning field also draws far fewer lights and smoke clouds.

ELECTRONIC WARFARE AND KIT
- The jammer station (175 supplies) and sector jammer (150 supplies) can now be built in Conflict, in the Support assets tab next to the relay mast.
- The backpack jammer (100 supplies, Corporal) and the feed interceptor (30 supplies, Corporal) are now in the arsenal.
- Removed: the 7-inch and 10-inch drone cases and the field relay kit. Game Master can still place every mast and jammer.

FIXES
- Fixed the mortar's elevation mils going missing after flying a drone from the mortar.
- The HUD now always comes back in full after the drone feed, even if you fly again straight after a strike.
- A fibre ground terminal is no longer deleted by the server's garbage collector while a drone is connected to it.

FOR SERVER OWNERS
- New setting "gmOnly" in SDS/ServerSettings.json (default false). Set it to true and nothing from the mod appears in arsenals or the Conflict build menu, so drones and their kit come only from Game Master. A workbench placed by a Game Master still works.
- New setting "hoverOnExit" (default true). Set it to false and drones drop when their pilot leaves, as before.
- An existing settings file keeps the defaults. Add a key to change it.

0.2.4

FLYING
- New "Fly / exit drone" key in Settings > Keybinds > Drone. It starts on the same key as before, but you can now move it without changing every other gadget.
- A drone left in angle mode now hovers where you left it instead of falling. It holds its spot and height until you fly it again (from any distance), or lands where it is when the battery runs low. Drones in acro mode still drop.
- The R12 and BM-24 recon builds now stay on station when you leave them on a dedicated server. Before, they dropped as soon as you came off the controller.
- Drones can no longer be flown from a vehicle seat, a turret or a mounted weapon such as a mortar.

FIXES
- Fixed the mortar's elevation mils going missing after flying a drone from the mortar.
- The HUD now always comes back in full after the drone feed, even if you fly again straight after a strike.

FOR SERVER OWNERS
- New setting "hoverOnExit" in SDS/ServerSettings.json (default true). Set it to false and drones drop when their pilot leaves, as before. Existing settings files keep the default.

0.2.3

NEW WORKBENCH MENU
- Pick a drone, change its parts, check the full price, then build.
- Building and refitting now take bench time, with a progress bar, time left and each step named. Watch the drone come together on the bench.
- One clear price: parts you carry are used first, anything missing is bought with supplies at arsenal prices.
- Parts you take off go back into your kit.
- Anything you can't fit yet is greyed out with the reason next to it.
- Conflict: bigger drones and payloads now need a higher rank.
- Game Master and free benches still build instantly.

PRINTED PAYLOADS
- New printed releases: VOG, M433, RGD-5, M67, RKG-3 and a printed drop bomb.
- New printed racks: 4 x VOG and 3 x M433.
- Fit them at the workbench like any other payload. They take the rounds you carry, or the bench buys them with supplies.
- RKG-3 and the printed drop bomb are now in the arsenal.

NEW MODELS
- New FPV radio controller.
- Rebuilt thermite dispenser and canister.
- Rebuilt contact prongs on the 7-inch PG-7VL kit.

FLYING
- The throttle readout always shows your stick now. In angle mode the middle of the stick holds your height.
- An FPV radio in angle mode can descend again.
- In first person the motors now sound like they come through the drone's own cheap camera mic: thinner, muffled and quieter.
- New "World sound while flying" setting. Voice chat is never muted while you fly.
- Targeting keys moved so they no longer clash with the game's own keys.
- Key prompts show button icons.
- OSD warnings stay on screen during a committed attack.
- Closing and reopening the goggles mid attack keeps the drone on its target.
- The seeker is lighter on performance.
- Thermal imaging is switched off for now. Recon cameras use day view.

FIXES
- If the server deletes a drone mid flight, the pilot gets their own view back instead of being stuck.
- Drones in the air are no longer removed by the server's clean-up, including recon drones left on station.
- Drone cases and ready-made drones no longer refund more than they cost.
- Emptying a drone case and selling it back no longer gives you a free drone.
- Printed VOG and M433 rounds are charged properly at the workbench.
- Lost-drone beeper and pairing sound fixed.
- Fibre ground terminals: 15 supplies at paid benches, one per player per minute, four per bench.
- BM-24 mortar builds priced properly.
- Throttle expo now updates the settings that depend on it straight away.

FOR SERVER OWNERS
- New settings file in the server profile: SDS/ServerSettings.json. It is made on first start with a note for every value: bench time for new drones and refits (0 = instant), buying missing parts with supplies, removed parts back to the kit or refunded, instant builds at free benches, and rank overrides.
- Drone items now reach the arsenals through config, not script. Any faction built on the game's US, USSR or FIA gets them.

0.2.2

Fixed textures being so big. Mod alot smaller now

0.2.1

0.2.0

0.1.7

0.1.6

0.1.5

0.1.4

0.1.3

0.1.2

0.1.1

0.1.0

0.0.11

0.0.10

0.0.9

0.0.8

0.0.7

0.0.6

0.0.5

0.0.4