Gyshall fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Feb 14, 2014

• The base sorting system is finished. Items are sorted into containers where the container already holds an item of that type.
  
• The sort-exclusion list is finished.
  
  • Items added to the sort-exclusion list will not be sorted out of your inventory.
    
  • The stocking list has priority over the sort-exclusion list, so items in both lists will be kept stocked and the exclusion status ignored.
    
  • Because the system is binary (items are either excluded or they aren't), it works with all items, including weapons and armor.
    
• The stocking list is finished.
  
  • Items in the stocking list will maintain a certain count in your inventory when you sort. So if you put 50 .357 Magnum rounds into the stocking list, the sorting system will always keep you personally stocked with 50 .357 Magnum rounds, assuming you have enough left in storage.
    
  • Because the entire system works based on what items are already in a container, the stocking list has a [Remove Last Item] option, where you can toggle whether the system will always keep the last item in the stack inside the container, or whether it'll go ahead and take it all.
    
  • The stocking system doesn't work with weapons or armor; this is an engine limitation (or at least NVSE doesn't have the needed functionality yet), because there's simply no method of moving only a certain number of items with information (health and/or mods), and preserving that information. All other items are easy to deal with, because they can be directly added and removed in specific quantities.
    
• Item distribution system is finished. The item distribution system can be toggled on and off, and does just as its name implies. If the system is on, after you sort, the sorting system will automatically redistribute your items between all the containers that contain said item. So if you have 3 containers that all store some .22lr, the system will evenly distribute that .22lr between all 3. Originally this system was something that I thought wasn't even possible without just making it a hard-coded nightmare (and thus wasn't going to add), but I ended up having some inspiration and the script I managed to put together for it is actually simpler than a lot of the rest of the sorting system.
  
  • Does not work with weapons or armor, so they will not be distributed. Again, either an engine limitation or simply a lack of existing NVSE functionality.
    
• The Sort Computator is semi-finished. It's the master sort computer where you can alter filtering lists and options, as well as perform master standard/heuristic sorts across the entire system.
  
  • [Needs Updating] Contains a usage reference on exactly how everything works. The sorting system has a lot of features (as you can see here), so it looks complicated typing it all out, but it's actually really simple to use. Making everything as easy as possible to do is one of my biggest design goals.
    
  • [Not Complete] Allows you to perform a heuristic sort across the entire station (more on this later).
    
  • [Complete] Allows you to perform a standard sort across the entire station. There will be individual clipboards at every section of the storage system (i.e. one for the armory storage, one for the weapon area, etc.), that allow you to sort just the containers in that section. The point of the master sort is when you don't care and just want everything sorted everywhere.
    
  • [Complete] Ability to toggle all of the sorting system options.
    
  • [Complete] Direct filtering list (exclusion and stocking list) editing. For how simple it is, this is really the pride of the sorting system for me. The closest thing I've seen to it is the Portable Tent mod, which has separate options to add or remove items from its exclusion and stocking list (you add items you want to add, but also add items you want to remove), and if you want to see the contents of the list, you need to run a console command where it'll print the list to the console. I knew from the get-go that type of system wouldn't cut it for me; it's just too clunky and hard to use. So I just went with the most natural and used an inaccessible container that represents the content of the list. There's no separate add or remove items from the list command; there's just the singular modify list command, which opens the container. The contents of the container when it's opened is the exact contents of the list, and you simply add or remove items from it as you want. The system is smart enough to know the difference between 'real' and 'representative' items. When you add items to the list and close it, you receive all your items back and the contents of the list are made 'representative' of the real items. If you take items out of the list and close it, they're removed from you because they aren't 'real' items. The system is capable of doing all this while completely preserving the health and mods of your weapons/armor.
    
• [Not Completed] The heuristic sort I mentioned earlier is the last feature yet to be completed, and is what I'm going to work on next. Where the rest of the sorting system is reliant on items already being placed into containers where the player wants them, the heuristic sort tries to find proper places for items based on what it knows about the item and what it knows about the container. The way this system will work is that it'll perform a regular sort first, and then apply the heuristics to any items it doesn't know what to do with. I've already designed how this system will work behind the scenes (it's actually not that complicated), and I'm hoping the end result is something that will look like it's pretty smart (i.e. it just doesn't dump completely unrelated stuff everywhere).
  

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; The preferred item type of this container. Note that this doesn't correlate to the item category values used by the GECK.
; Also note that these are bit flags and multiple types can be set by using LogicalOr to combine them. They can be retrieved 
; by using LogicalAnd with the querried type flag.

; Clothing 			type_clothing
; Light Armor 			type_light_armor
; Medium Armor			type_medium_armor
; Heavy Armor 			type_heavy_armor
; Hand to Hand Melee		type_melee_hand_to_hand
; One Handed Melee Weapon 	type_melee_one_handed
; Two Handed Melee Weapon 	type_melee_two_handed
; Regular Pistol 		type_pistol
; Energy Pistol			type_energy_pistol
; Regular Rifle 		type_rifle
; Automatic Rifle 		type_automatic_rifle
; Energy Rifle	 		type_energy_rifle
; ? 				type_handle_two_handed
; Weapon Launchers 		type_launcher
; Grenades 			type_grenade
; Mines 			type_mine
; Regular Thrown Weapon 	type_thrown
; Weapon Mods	 		type_weapon_mods
; Cartridge Ammo 		type_cartridge_ammo
; Energy Ammo	 		type_energy_ammo
; Heavy Ordinance (Ammo) 	type_heavy_ordinance
; Packaged Ammo 		type_packaged_ammo
; Reloading Components	 	type_reloading_components
; Food	 			type_food
; Chems 			type_chems
; Valuables 			type_valuables
; Books 			type_books
; Misc (Misc)	 		type_misc

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