SAM v2

1942RP Updates

• Updated Organizations addon to no longer store information locally, but exist on the same database alongside other player information.
  • Alongside an entire rewrite of the functions that depended on retrieving information from files locally...
• Fixed Server Loading Screen to now properly display custom CSS.
  • Garry's Mod Awesominum Framework did not enjoy us using Tailwind as our CSS Library which broke 99% of all CSS Content
  • Redesigning with just vanilla CSS seems to fix and actually showcase the CSS properly across both Chromium Branch and Non-Beta branches

Infrastructure Updates

• (little late) Redesign of SAM (web) to be redesigned with componentization in mind when designing the website.
  • Now designed in Tailwind instead of Bootstrap
  • Cleaned up the general aeshtetic of the website
  • Allow for more consistent themeing across the entire web application
• Home Page now loads considerably faster
  • Changed all images to .webp format (Originally 4mb .PNGs/JPGs to ~300kb .webp)
  • Added lazy loading to all images as the page and stored css would load considerably faster then the images stored locally
• Game servers now exist in Docker containers using LinuxGSM
  • Previously using seDIRECTOR on Windows Server made development not as appealing and easy.
• 95% of Web Infrastructure has moved off of our previous paid host (NFOservers)
  • Some services are still dependent on the old host that I have not migrated over yet.

Content Updates

• Reduced Content Pack size from 17GB to little over 12GB
  • Still having issues how to improve first-time users connecting to the server for the first time.
  • Content Pack is split into Factions, Weapons and Miscellaneous/Extras
    • Government Models and Materials still need refining because they lack the custom materials that are used to make the models work.
      • Solution might cost the content pack size to balloon up a bit more.