QOL Features

[willjallen]

There are a number of low-hanging quality-of-life improvements that mostly affect the UI and not core gameplay. I will keep this issue as a living list for these types of features, and mark them off as they are completed.

Simulation Parameters:

• Sliders should show current, original and game default values as a visual cue.

Zones:

• Name zones (Better zones UI #95)
• Reorder zone tabs (Better zones UI #95)
• Disable/enable them (instead of deleting)
• Select, move and resize zones with mouse
• Duplicate selected zones with ctrl+c, ctrl+v (also in simulation parameters window)

Radiation Sources:

• Name sources
• Disable/enable them (instead of deleting)
• Select, move and resize sources with mouse
• Duplicate selected sources with ctrl+c, ctrl+v (also in radiation sources window)
• Adjust relative contribution of source from total incoming energy

Genome Editor:

• Genome names should appear in Genome Editor

Browser:

• Locks up the game when performing actions, this should be offloaded to another thread
• Rearrange files inside folder by dragging and dropping
• Ability to update existing simulation instead of deleting and reuploading (01bf355)
• Symbols such as -> < > get converted to &gt etc.

CLI:

• API for inter-process communication (allows varying parameters programmatically in Realtime without saving and reloading)
• Webui or other display server for remote viewing

General:

• Built-in support for creating timelapses

[chrxh]

Thanks for the list! There are some new features haven't thought about that (mentioned in Zones/Radiation Sources). Updating existing sims and an asynchronous network communication are already on my todo list.
I have postponed the latter point because the effort involved exceeds the benefit (in my opinion). However, in the long-term, I'm considering introducing preview images for simulations. But then at the latest it would be necessary to use an asynchronous communication.

[willjallen]

Sounds great! I'll see if I can knock out a few of the easier ones like names sometime soon.